Re: [WikiEN-l] Date conditional switching templates
The thing about the template is that after the date it's useless; it can just be plain text. So, someone will come and remove it, which is just the same as having to update the date manually. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikialarm
Why is this needed when there are already RSS/Atom feeds for every article history? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peloponnesian_Warfeed=rssaction=history That's one, for example. Did they just happen to overlook that? From: Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 1:54:16 PM Subject: [WikiEN-l] Wikialarm Spotted on another mailing list: http://wikialarm.com/ Don't let your company get caught out in a damaging online reputation management situation or even a Wiki Circularity disaster – signup to wikiAlarm today and safeguard your reputation on the Internet’s most popular information channel. http://wikialarm.com/home/why/ http://wikialarm.com/home/how/ They seem to be doing this in a responsible way, providing the following links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Organizations I wonder what their business model is? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
[WikiEN-l] And Wikipedia's best area of coverage is...
Tropical cyclones. Anyone surprised? That's followed by Illinois, and the Simpsons. I made a full list at User:Noble Story/Project stats. Actually, I was surprised at how good the Vital articles coverage was. 16% of the articles are approved, which is eleventh best. Not bad, as opposed to what some have said at WP:FAC recently, about the lack of work on vital articles. Noble Story ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Re: [WikiEN-l] An open letter to Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia says Wikipedia was a complementary project for Nupedia. Citenzendium says Wikipedia was an accidental spin-off of Nupedia. Is there any reason to say that? How can a project be an accidental spin-off of something else? Noble Story From: Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 2:00:37 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] An open letter to Jimmy Wales On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:13 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/10 Jon scr...@nonvocalscream.com: I was scanning the list today so I've not read every message in this thread. What is citizendium? Is there a linky? http://citizendium.org/ It's another attempt to make a wiki-based free content encyclopedia that isn't Wikipedia. We also have an article on it, as well as one on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizendium http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia Citizendium have an article on Wikipedia and also one on Citizendium: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Wikipedia http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Citizendium It's quite interesting reading those four articles and comparing them. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Re: [WikiEN-l] [Slashdot] The Role of Experts In Wikipedia
In general, about article creation, this has obviously slowed quite a lot. However, I think that is a good thing, as that means that article writers now have a chance to catch up to all the new articles. That is why the precentage of articles that are GAs, FAs, or FLs is rising, and will continue to rise. Currently, these 3 categories combined make up about 1 in 277 articles (0.36%). It's better than before, but it obviously could go a lot further. That's why I think the focus during Wikipedia's adolescent should be article improvement, and not so much creation. On a related topic, really the only way to increase in this way is by getting for users. I'm curious, as the growth in Wikipedia has slowed, has the numbers of ACTIVE users slowed as well? Because really, beyond just the policies and long-winded arguments on ANI, there's the fact that you can't watch over all the articles that Wikipedia has without getting more and more editors. Another reason why being nice to newcomers and leaving a good first impression is so crucial. Obviously, as you can read in the Slashdot comments (and many other places), this is not Wikipedia's strength, at all. Mark Nilrad ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
