interpretation of what made the "great contraction" so
severe. It was not the downturn in the business cycle, trade protectionism
or the 1929 stock market crash that plunged the country into deep
depression. It was the collapse of the banking system during three waves of
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Andrew Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/11/11 Carcharoth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > If instead of the template, there was a link to a list, or a link
> > to a category, then "whatlinkshere" would be much cleaner and c
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>> 2008/11/11 Carcharoth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>> > If instead of the template, there was a link
e Foundation and legal stuff, can someone tell me whether
as a US-based 501(c)(3) organization there is any legal requirement for
Wikipedia, as a website, to meet certain minimum accessibility requirements?
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> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Carcharoth
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > While we are on the Foundation and legal stuff, can someone tell me
> whether
> > as a US-based 501(c)(3
to my post on the talk page yet, though.
Anyone know what a riser ring is?
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article about a future scenario, or an alternate history, or an
alternate reality, or a fictional topic, should always be securely grounded
in what people have said in the past and are saying now.
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one have any ideas how to set up a system like that cleanly and get
it working on Wikipedia? The relatively poor spread of Persondata
suggests that it is harder than it looks to get something like this
going.
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what terms should I use to search for previous answers
on this topic?
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But maybe I'm misunderstanding it.
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by vandals).
Such "in-article" disclaimers, if they were ever used, would have to
be carefully monitored. It is much simpler to write and maintain a
general "boilerplate" disclaimer that applies to all articles, even if
no-one reads it.
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o completely misleading statements
disconnected from the original source. Adding references can stablise
or ossify a piece of text, but when that piece of text goes back into
flux, the sources often need to be redone or re-examined.
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y
wrong. It also means that reading the flow of an article is best done
in "preview", but that's not a bad thing, actually, as people should
be encouraged to use preview more. But I dread how many potentially
new editors have clicked "edit this page" and given
ary, a text that surveys the literature and
does the work for us of giving due weight in at least a reasonably
objective fashion. This is usually, but not always, the most recent
such publication, though sometimes years of research and publications
take place before a new overview text emerges.
C
nistrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive491#Disruptive_school_project.3F
> I don't understand the problem with assigning editing Wikipedia to a
> classroom.
> Why not?
See above link.
The counter example is the Madness and Mayhem project:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W
iticism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-structuralism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Criticism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reader-response_criticism
I could go on...
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And away you go! :-)
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e years ago but when I tried to
> submit the pd works to wikisource *you* blew me off Ray. I still
> have them if anyone feels like fighting it out with the wikisource
> community.
RSOL = Royal Society Online?
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On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> Wtf go look in jstor- they happily assert copyright on hundreds of
> thousands of pre 1928 pd documents.
>
>
>
> On 12/25/08, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> In a message dated 12/24/2008 2:46:15 PM P
Yes. Though I'm not the one screaming here. :-)
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On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 7:30 PM, wrote:
> OMG...
> THIS is what you are screaming about?
> Silly silly silly boy.
> They DO have a copyright to the PHOTOGRAPH you bazooka.
> They do NOT have a copyright to the plai
hese two messages are somewhat below
> suitable levels for the list, and I wouldn't mention it except I've
> already had complaints this quicly.
It's Christmas. Don't do anything based on what was said to me. :-)
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#x27;s "consensus."
Have you tried suggesting this change on the talk page and advertising
the discussion at various relevant noticeboards and other project talk
pages?
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r anything.
Can't see the word spoiler in the subject line here...
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On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Ken Arromdee wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Carcharoth wrote:
>> Can't see the word spoiler in the subject line here...
>
> No, it's about a rule abuse which combines the status quo rule with the need
> for consensus to make changes: y
t when the secondary source is giving only one interpretation of
what a letter might mean. And the concern that quoting the letter
directly is original research is also very real. Interpretation of the
meaning of what someone has said can be very tricky.
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> 2008/12/29 Carcharoth :
>
>> I can point to articles that source statements and claims to Tolkien's
>> letters, or quotes from those letters. The articles should probably,
>> more technically, point to seconda
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:32 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> 2008/12/29 Carcharoth :
>> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:10 AM, David Gerard wrote:
>
>>> Please get to WT:NOR promptly.
>
>> Will you and Phil (and others) join me? :-)
>
> Already there, and trying to dis
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:30 AM, The Cunctator wrote:
> There is the problem that Derrida mostly wrote deliberately inscrutable
> nonsense.
What's that sound of ghostly laughter I hear?
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fly die of natural causes.
>
> Perhaps some of this energy can be channeled toward other tasks.
Depends. If those efforts are channelled towards difficult stuff, it
could make things worse. The trick is to find something else ongoing,
backlogged, interesting and simple and rewarding and
density and
> distance from the Earth? It would swamp the entire project. "Random page"
> would
> become worthless.
>
> So we focus on what others have determined to be important, based on the
> number of citations to it.
Have you seen the discussion about tow
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Carcharoth wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:02 AM, wrote:
>
>
>
>> An object takes on increased significance, with the number of publications
>> mentioning it.
>> Do we want a work that has a list of the 3 billion known stars
in having an article for will some sort of
> oblique secondary mentions - but I don't consider those to be sources for
> the article, and would not include them when I add material.
Consider those oblique secondary sources to be "notab
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Carl Beckhorn wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:03:12AM +0000, Carcharoth wrote:
>> Why not both? Wikipedia requires editorial judgment for some things,
>> but selection of primary sources is one of the more tricky ones, and a
>> secondary so
ng interesting, to
see if it in Wikipedia? Sure, it should be put in the right place with
the right sources and the right weight. But that urge is still there
to educate and inform.
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there?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Plagiarism#Another_view.2C_and_a_plea_for_guidance
Hmm. That talk page needs archiving.
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o on, but I think you get the idea. Biographical material for
scientists is out there and normally fairly easy to find, especially
if an obituary was published in one of the leading journals, and
failing that, one of the biographical databases will help.
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Conference on Biogeography and Biodiversity. Institute of Biodiversity
and Environmental Conservation"".
So as you can see, the sources available and the way they are used,
varies depending on the person. People vary greatly in their
notability and fame and the amount that oth
s need to use their own judgment from
that point on.
Or read about how to assess and judge and rank biographical sources
for reliability.
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rces
they use and the way they are constructed from those sources and the
assumptions and inferences made by the editors of those articles.
Discuss! :-)
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about repeating account names here.
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On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Angela Anuszewski
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> Excuse my ignorance, but excatly what is Private Eye?
I looked it up in a handy online encyclopedia...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Eye
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of the ArbCom mailing list, and is less
chaotic than ANI. At the moment, WT:RFAR is all there is for this "is
there a problem here" pre-RFAR query - see a post made there by Masem
on another issue that has garnered little response.
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ns spread over several different venues. At the very least,
the sitting arbitrators should withdraw from this discussion (as they
may be required to arbitrate) and the former arbitrators who are privy
to the ArbCom mailing list discussions should probably also stay out
of the discussion here. As a
have right now; in other words we would have far
> less deletionism, because we would have far fewer deletes.
You might get arguments over links and redirections to or from or not
(as the case may be) this namespace.
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> 2009/1/11 Carcharoth :
>> That would mess up linking between articles.
>
> No, it would create red links, which would help people find the
> sub-par article and encourage them to improve it.
>
> Red links are usually
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Ian Woollard wrote:
> 2009/1/11 Carcharoth :
>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Ian Woollard wrote:
>>> 2009/1/11 Carcharoth :
>>>> That would mess up linking between articles.
>>>
>>> No, it would create red lin
r came back or show
little activity or interest in the rest of Wikipedia (normal behaviour
for most new accounta). Such incidents also show the worst of how
Wikipedia can treat newcomers.
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But a year later we have this:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Image:Max-Planck-und-Albert-Einstein.jpg
Anyone here know what should be happening with this image?
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king the admin involved what happened there, though he
may be unable to tell you much more.
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OTRS
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om an original negative or plate being distributed to various
places and people, and various histories being recorded for each
separate copy. If the original provenance is lost, it can sometimes
appear that a single photo has several different claims of
"ownership".
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With many refinements from experiences other people have had of such processes.
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not an AfD result I've ever seen. It has been a
long-standing axiom as far as I can remember that AfD is not cleanup.
What *can* happen is someone closes as keep or no consensus, and then
*adds* their opinion (or that of others) that cleanup is needed. But
that is not a close of "cleanup&
e of fiction related topics?
> Yes (why)
> No (why)
> No opinion.
>
> Better wording is of course welcome.
There is a fiction-related questionnaire already by Pixelface (not
everyone likes it though):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pixelface/Fiction_Survey_2008_draft
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der survey like
this, and finding someone willing to help with some moderate form of
statistical analysis. The number of page views is also something that
should have more prominence in the debate, in my opinion.
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hether some of the usernames used today are truly pseudonymous
or not, and get into long and involved arguments about that? And does
it make sense to talk about GFDL works eventually falling into the
public domain, and does it make any difference? :-)
Or to put it another way, is GFDL freer or less-free than PD?
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Total number of articles: 2,698,457
See also the talk page of that index for some more stats.
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page not hidden on the talk
page. But as I said before, that is an editorial rating system, not a
reader rating system.
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image (similar to how people
point to Google Books now to verify books they are using as
references). But what if there is no museum/library/archive image?
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l and are not about to be released
to the public anytime soon. Is this a problem? What can be done about
it?
You talked about capitalism. That creates markets in old stuff. Which
leads to hoarding.
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On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Thomas Larsen
wrote:
> Epistemia aims to provide something better.
How did you come up with the name, and what does it mean? :-)
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On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/1/17 Carcharoth :
>> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Thomas Larsen
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Epistemia aims to provide something better.
>>
>> How did you come up
the application to track how many
people view deleted revisions of a deleted page. Just go to a deleted
page and plug the URL of the "viewdeleted" version for the page in
question into the stats.grok.se thingy. If non-admins can't work out
the URL, ask a
lse completely, the comparison isn't direct:
"Founded in 1994, the Britannica.com's database contains articles
comprising more than 46 million words [...] Founded in 2001, Wikipedia
is now available in more than 250 languages and attracts about 700
million visitors annually. The English ed
pedia world.
Four posts from August 2006? What happened?
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context for the photo, but I still have to wonder
> why, of all the photos of Jimbo that exist in the world, they picked
> the one of him in a dress.
I think it is a Chinese top.
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th, i.e. it really was the first
> picture they found in the pile.
Yeah, but it was a GETTY image! Why not a freely licensed image? :-)
A cropped version was used here:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/biztech/battle-to-outgun-wikipedia-and-google/2009/01/22/1232471469973.html
C
m).
Or maybe the male equivalent?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changshan
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presumably still
use it. But this is getting off-topic. Back to Flagged Revisions.
What is the latest news?
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e extraction of data the way the geographical co-ords
templates are?
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illing the bug, not the reversion.
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On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:20 AM, wrote:
> On another note...
> Oh... my.. god becky!
>
> Thomas you look just like that one guy from Ferris Bueller's day off,
> his sidekick who I don't know what the guy's name was.
Cameron?
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catch obvious vandalism? If that is the case, people need to be more
alert than before (not less) to subtle vandalism and good-faith
misrepresentation of sources by poor or skewed writing.
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hing to do is go to the German Wikipedia or a test
wiki (is there one?).
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>>
>
> Yes, otherwise the article would be incomplete.
There was more to it than that. But please, no rehashing of the
arguments. Could someone point to previous discussion? Unless it's
been long enough since the last discussion.
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metimes in the same article. Log out
occasionally and see what the majority of our readers see. It can be
quite a shock to have all the customised skins and user preferences
taken away. Ditto for DVD and print versions of articles.
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On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 1:47 AM, White Cat
wrote:
>
Please remember that the archives of this mailing list are available
for anyone to read.
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On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Alvaro García wrote:
> Hehe great one.
>
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:20, Giacomo M-Z wrote:
>
>> I am giving him the bio he so deserves
>>
ely miffed.
>
>
> Sorry, Bono has rights to islands in the Caribbean. Jimbo owns Florida
> (except Clearwater, which is owned by Scientology, and the Everglades,
> which are owned by Carl Hiaasen) and we have the Arbitration Committee
> yacht cruising between them.
G
page as well, and also have the ability to force a
> certain style and define date names as well (eg:
> <<2008-12-25|f=Friday, 25 December 2008|name=Christmas Day (2008)>>)
<<2008-12-25|f=Friday, 25 December 2008|name=Christmas Day (20
couraged those who had been working on technical solutions. Lots of
bad-faith assumptions and foot-dragging and forcing "solutions"
through.
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etimes) get improved as a result. It's also legitimate because
some people prefer to ask humans a question and have them look it up,
rather than look things up themselves. The side effect is quite a lot
of chatter around the questions and answers.
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On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:12 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/2/9 Carcharoth :
>
>> To pick another example. The reference desks (which I think are great)
>> are technically a bit divorced from the encyclopedia building, but I
>> think are a legitimate side operation, es
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> 2009/2/9 Carcharoth :
>
>>> (e.g. going down the pub, there's three Wikipedians at the table
>>> talking obscure military history they've picked up in the course of
>>> just hanging around a
ow on the front page of the BBC news website, and
among the most popular stories:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/live_stats/html/map.stm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Holocaust_books
I couldn't rule out looking to see if a book had an article on
Wikipedia before buying it, or more likely, reading about the author.
But I would, admittedly, be more likely to read a review somewhere,
though I *might* come to Wikipedi
many people commented at their RFA
and how many of those people are still around. Are there any "mailing
list" admins still around (in the very old days, admins were given the
bit based on a mailing list discussion)? Of course, many of these old
admins are themselves inactive now.
hen is someone going to do
another statistical analysis or history of Wikipedia?
Sorry, got a bit off-topic there! :-)
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ing in 2009 like they are in the encyclopedia of
2004 (for example), but the level and degree of the resulting problems
may vary (and the encyclopedia is so large today that the behaviour is
not always consistent across the whole anyway).
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Agree 100% with David (DGG) here. On the other hand, a careful
combination of templates with personalised messages can also work. See
this essay here for more on this type of approach:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ArielGold/Etiquette2
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Maybe it
should be more like a slap on the wrist and serve your time, than
either "ignore" or "warn" or "block indefinitely"?
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cking someone doesn't give them the chance to retract
their comments...
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dea.
Better is this:
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=ware
"manufactured goods, goods for sale," O.E. waru ..."
O.E. is Old English.
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So maybe I should have read that draft instead. It would be nice to
know which versions were approved by the three editors above, and at
what stage.
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ing relations is due to the
person, the topic, or the environment. Sometimes it is all three.
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On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
> Carcharoth wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Sam Korn wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Thomas Dalton
>>> wrote:
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>>>> 2009/2/16 Alvaro García :
>>&
examples of
the redlinked article that haven't been linked (some of which should
be, some shouldn't).
It's very satisfying to write a new article that has 10 or so incoming
links already! :-)
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o write well; and (b)
experts tend to prefer to write more limited, specialised articles.
Sometimes the subsidiary articles need to be written to a good level
before the general article can be tackled. Sometimes it is the other
way round.
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:39 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/2/17 Carcharoth :
>
>> If these all count as low-hanging fruit, they may have been picked,
>> but they haven't really ripened yet. Part of the trouble is that truly
>> general, overview articles are: (a) di
dallists linking back to the medal (and adding
sources), and do a search for the various terms (Lister Medal, Lister
Oration), and link them from various articles. In this case, there
isn't much mention of the medal in other articles, but for other
orphaned articles there can
pt it quietly, or they get incensed. Some people see
it as no big deal, even if incorrect, as long as the incorrectness is
acknowledged. Others get clase about being blocked, not realising that
as the block build up, they acquire a reputation (though you can get a
reputation without a loc
nks? It is possible
(but less likely) that the articles exist in both places, but haven't
been linked with an interwiki yet. I find examples of that fairly
regularly, but am not sure how common it is.
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