And even if that was true for the English Wikipedia, it certainly is not for
other large Wikipedias, which seem to have the same trend, according to the
study.
2011/3/29 Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs
On 03/29/2011 11:40 AM, Theo10011 wrote:
The second issue as I see it, we might not be
That's actually a good point.
How can we assess if editors are leaving because they reached the
limit of *their
*knowledge, or for other reasons?
Facebook, for example, has a rather annoying feature that if you try to shut
down your account, it asks you why (and tries to guilt you into staying).
We had a somewhat similar problem recently in the Portuguese Wikipedia with
a user page paroding several users (especially administrators), that was
formatted as a blog[1][2]. Even though we have a clear policy in respect to
the use of user pages, [3][4] deletion was only possible after a second
Just to point out that that Huggle does work in the Portuguese Wikipedia,
although it is not totally localized (
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipédia:Huggle).
I also felt that the letter was very specific to the English Wikipedia,
which makes it hard to transmit the message to other languages.
Dear all,
A CAPTCHA system for all anonymous users was activated at the Portuguese
Wikipedia in January 2008 to fight off some bot attacks we were facing [1].
The system remained in place since then, even after the bot attacks went
away, requiring that every single edit made by anonymous and not
The Protector tool has actually been proposed at pt.wiki at least once (
seehttp://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Esplanada/propostas/Expans%C3%A3o_das_ferramentas_de_prote%C3%A7%C3%A3o_de_artigos_%2828out2010%29)
with mixed reviews at the time. I presume because we were still getting used
to the
In the ptwiki case, members of the group eliminate the page themselves.
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Hi.
At ptwiki, we recently implemented a usergroup to help with the backlog of
requests for speedy deletions, articles for deletion, and others (see
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Eliminadores). This was done to try
to dismistify the admin role, and increase community participation in
