It's been know since the 2005 London bombings attacks that Wikipedia is good
when it comes to evolving stories because the Wikipedia article will always
be the most complete and concentrated article about a developing event. It
helps journalists as well. The google link you provide below refer to t
2009/6/15 Fayssal F. :
> It's been know since the 2005 London bombings attacks that Wikipedia is good
> when it comes to evolving stories because the Wikipedia article will always
> be the most complete and concentrated article about a developing event.
I think our first really famous success in
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:08 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/6/15 Fayssal F. :
>
>> It's been know since the 2005 London bombings attacks that Wikipedia is good
>> when it comes to evolving stories because the Wikipedia article will always
>> be the most complete and concentrated article about a dev
2009/6/15 Carcharoth :
> And then I ask what sparked other people's interests in Wikipedia, and
> a really long thread results.
My wife suggested in late 2003 I look something up on "Wikipedia." I
started off in a quiet and noncontroversial manner, first editing
stuff about neo-Nazis then editin
I heard of WP, as of early 2003 I suppose, on MeatBall Wiki. This sort
of thing: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?EnglishWikipedia. Wow,
they deleted 100 pages a day. With their bare hands. StephenGilbert
talking about an IP number vandal, I do recall. I was on Meatball
because a BusStop had
Hey folks,
We just finished some updates that will take care of some compatibility
issues with IE and other non Firefox browsers. If you were hesitant to
use the tool before, now is a good time to give it a try.
Consent form/installer: http://wikipedia.grouplens.org/NICE/consent/
Wikipedia user
A BusStop?
Wow:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TourBusStop
http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?TourBusStop
That's so... nice.
Carcharoth
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Charles
Matthews wrote:
> I heard of WP, as of early 2003 I suppose, on MeatBall Wiki. This sort
> of thing: http://www.usemod.com/c
> 2009/6/15 Carcharoth :
>
>> And then I ask what sparked other people's interests in Wikipedia,
>> and
>> a really long thread results.
>
I was trolling around the internet looking for information on
political candidates. I found the article on Governor Brad Henry on
Wikipedia, and got s
I knew about Wikipedia for ages, but had no idea you could actually edit it.
Then in April 2006, a friend of mine showed me a page they created on
Uncyclopedia. And I thought to myself - I can make a better page! So I did,
and was rather sad that I didn't create an account beforehand, so I could be
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 3:58 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/6/15 Carcharoth :
>
>> And then I ask what sparked other people's interests in Wikipedia, and
>> a really long thread results.
Like most time-consuming hobbies of mine, it started as a form of
procrastination, in this case, when I was sup
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Al Tally wrote:
> What really sucked me in was editing Big Brother articles - these introduced
> me to talk pages, wikiprojects, admins, AFD, RFA... pretty much everything I
> know about Wikipedia stems from those early days on the Big Brother
> articles. Ah, the me
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Charles
Matthews wrote:
> "... encyclopedias have been made better by the advent of the internet,
> but newspapers have been made worse: the cumulative impact of the
> readers’ comments that can now be appended online to almost any article
> tends to diminish most fo
2009/6/16 Steve Bennett :
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Charles
> Matthews wrote:
>> "... encyclopedias have been made better by the advent of the internet,
>> but newspapers have been made worse: the cumulative impact of the
>> readers’ comments that can now be appended online to almost any a
As per the licensing update decision by the community and the Board,
I've updated the site terms on the English Wikipedia (and the WMF
website) today, and posted a reference copy of the site-wide terms of
use to:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use
The Wikimedia Commons licensing tas
David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/6/15 Carcharoth :
>
>
>> And then I ask what sparked other people's interests in Wikipedia, and
>> a really long thread results.
>>
>
>
> My wife suggested in late 2003 I look something up on "Wikipedia." I
> started off in a quiet and noncontroversial manner, fir
I found pseudoscience on Wikipedia and resolved to correct it. Took way too
much of my time..:)
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:58 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/6/15 Carcharoth :
>
> > And then I ask what sparked other people's interests in Wikipedia, and
> > a really long thread results.
>
>
> My w
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