On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Nathan wrote:
> Article is dated today, and refers to a proposal Jimmy will be making
> tomorrow. Any idea on what this proposal will be?
>
> Nathan
Well, he got wrong whether or not he had an article, the Encyclopedia
Britannica-Wikipedia study conclusions, how W
On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 21:29:29 +, David Gerard wrote:
> 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
> My preference is to use U.S. formats, measurements, currency for U.S.
> articles, and take it from there: use the forms appropriate to the
> subject. If there's no obvious default, then leave it alone, following
> the BC/BCE wars that spawned the Arbcoms's Jguk decision.
ARBCOM hasn't made a deci
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:32 PM, K. Peachey wrote:
>> What is frustrating is the demands from some chauvinists that American
>> dates be used in non-American articles. France uses International
>> format dates (14 July 1789),
> But were not all american so they shouldn't be used, there should be a
> What is frustrating is the demands from some chauvinists that American
> dates be used in non-American articles. France uses International
> format dates (14 July 1789),
But were not all american so they shouldn't be used, there should be a
global accessibable standard.
_
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:58 PM, K. Peachey wrote:
>> All White Cat is saying is that the wikipedia needs markup(s) to
>> handle dates. And in fact, right now there are multiple markups
>> available, including American-style ones.
> Thats not mark up, what your describing is style/layout. The mark
> That is rather complex. Most editors are not going to want to type that.
>
> Carcharoth
In most cases you wouldn't need more than <> which is no
more than linking it currently, the rest was just example(/s) for the
rare cases that people want to force the layout no matter what the end
user settin
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:58 AM, K. Peachey wrote:
>> All White Cat is saying is that the wikipedia needs markup(s) to
>> handle dates. And in fact, right now there are multiple markups
>> available, including American-style ones.
> Thats not mark up, what your describing is style/layout. The marku
> All White Cat is saying is that the wikipedia needs markup(s) to
> handle dates. And in fact, right now there are multiple markups
> available, including American-style ones.
Thats not mark up, what your describing is style/layout. The markup
would be the wikicode surronding it it.
For example i
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Ian Woollard wrote:
> On 08/02/2009, David Gerard wrote:
>> Suggestion posted to AC noticeboard:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee/Noticeboard#How_to_raise_the_tone_of_the_wiki
>>
>> More input needed for the idea, general sup
On 08/02/2009, David Gerard wrote:
> Suggestion posted to AC noticeboard:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee/Noticeboard#How_to_raise_the_tone_of_the_wiki
>
> More input needed for the idea, general support, general revulsion, etc.
I think sniffing helium and sa
The logical course of action is letting the reader decide the style. Making
it modifiable.
When the rule was first drafted we did not even have the ISO conversion
technology (aka [[1956-01-20]] style). Now we do. We should take advantage
of it.
- White Cat
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Ian Wo
Why do you want to force me to see US-style dates? Inches? Fahrenheits?
Ounces?
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Andrew Gray wrote:
> 2009/2/8 White Cat :
> > Hard coded in the context of my message is when dates are typed out. Like
> > January, 20 1956 rather than soft coded [[1956-01-20]].
> > I
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 3:29 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> 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 th
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:29 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/2/8 :
>
>> I'm sick and tired of this back office wheeling and dealing.
>> At our last meeting I am *certain* we had agreed to take over the island of
>> Barbados.
>> Now I hear this. I'm completely miffed.
>
>
> Sorry, Bono has rights t
2009/2/8 :
> I'm sick and tired of this back office wheeling and dealing.
> At our last meeting I am *certain* we had agreed to take over the island of
> Barbados.
> Now I hear this. I'm completely miffed.
Sorry, Bono has rights to islands in the Caribbean. Jimbo owns Florida
(except Clearwate
I'm sick and tired of this back office wheeling and dealing.
At our last meeting I am *certain* we had agreed to take over the island of
Barbados.
Now I hear this. I'm completely miffed.
Will
In a message dated 2/8/2009 10:45:27 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
thomas.dal...@gmail.com writes:
Suggestion posted to AC noticeboard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee/Noticeboard#How_to_raise_the_tone_of_the_wiki
More input needed for the idea, general support, general revulsion, etc.
- d.
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2009/2/8 Ian Woollard :
> On 08/02/2009, Phil Nash wrote:
>> Alvaro García wrote:
Well maybe it said so here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Hattersley
>>
>> Well no, he says "my entry", and a quick look at "Roy Hattersley" (which has
>> fewer than 500 edits), shows nothing in the edit
On 08/02/2009, Phil Nash wrote:
> Alvaro García wrote:
>>> Well maybe it said so here:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Hattersley
>
> Well no, he says "my entry", and a quick look at "Roy Hattersley" (which has
> fewer than 500 edits), shows nothing in the edit summaries for "son",
> "Giles",
2009/2/8 Nathan :
> Article is dated today, and refers to a proposal Jimmy will be making
> tomorrow. Any idea on what this proposal will be?
Revoking [[WP:CRYSTALBALL]]?
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Article is dated today, and refers to a proposal Jimmy will be making
tomorrow. Any idea on what this proposal will be?
Nathan
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Andrew Gray wrote:
> 2009/2/7 Sam Blacketer :
>
>> http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article5682896.ece
>>
>> Slightly confused article headed "The wiki-snobs are taking over" by Giles
>> Hattersley. Misnames 'administrators' as 'arbitrators'. Towards the end the
Please remember that the archives of this mailing list are available
for anyone to read.
Carcharoth
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
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w
Hehe great one.
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:20, Giacomo M-Z wrote:
> I am giving him the bio he so deserves
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Hattersley please leap in fast if any
> of
> my famed spelling or grammatical errors occur!
>
> giano
>
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Alvaro García
2009/2/7 Sam Blacketer :
> http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article5682896.ece
>
> Slightly confused article headed "The wiki-snobs are taking over" by Giles
> Hattersley. Misnames 'administrators' as 'arbitrators'. Towards the end the
> author claims "My entry feat
I am giving him the bio he so deserves
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Hattersley please leap in fast if any of
my famed spelling or grammatical errors occur!
giano
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Alvaro García wrote:
> Oh, I see.
>
> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 21:31, Phil Nash
> wrote:
>
> >
On 08/02/2009, Andrew Gray wrote:
> 2009/2/8 White Cat :
>> Hard coded in the context of my message is when dates are typed out. Like
>> January, 20 1956 rather than soft coded [[1956-01-20]].
>> Ideally all dates should always be soft coded and be modified by users
>> preferences. In reality the
2009/2/8 White Cat :
> Hard coded in the context of my message is when dates are typed out. Like
> January, 20 1956 rather than soft coded [[1956-01-20]].
> Ideally all dates should always be soft coded and be modified by users
> preferences. In reality the exact opposite of this is done.
So your
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Ian Woollard wrote:
> I think there would tend to be problems with caching. Some ISPs/caches
> probably straddle national boundaries,
National boundaries but not the Pond, generally speaking.
—C.W.
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Andrew Gray wrote:
> 2009/2/7 Sage Ross :
>
>
>> But it seems like there may naturally be a significant number of
>> articles that ought to have only one incoming link, just based on the
>> nature of topics and their relationships to each other and on the
>> notion of "preferential attachment",
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