2009/7/10 geni :
> It got 207K pageviews over the day. Previous days featured article
> only got 31.9K. Apparently our readership in general likes 13th
> century British history.
Damn you that was a coffee moment.
- d.
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Just to re-emphasis the point, in the words of the admin who blocked Desiphral:
"at present there's no community consensus to block for commercial editing"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Bad_news
- "Andrew Turvey" wrote:
> From: "Andrew Turvey"
>
Tim Starling wrote:
> But whatever offends you about a feature article choice, regular
> Wikipedians probably know that there's not much point trying to
> convince Raul654 of anything.
>
I did like the bit in the Signpost where he complained that Andrew Lih's
book only mentioned FA twice.
Char
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:31 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> I can hardly believe there was no angst here, of all places, on
> yesterday's featured article. Did someone fail to think of the
> fictional children?
>
> Good discussion on Raul's talk page:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Raul654#T
Fred sent the original post to both this mailing list (wiki-en-l) and
the (closed) functionaries list (where there are checkusers). There
seems to have been some overlap and inadvertent cross-posting. I'd
e-mail John if you want to follow up on this request you have made.
Fred, it might be better
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Charles
Matthews wrote:
> Tim Starling wrote:
>> But whatever offends you about a feature article choice, regular
>> Wikipedians probably know that there's not much point trying to
>> convince Raul654 of anything.
>>
> I did like the bit in the Signpost where he co
Tim Starling wrote:
>
> I suspect frequent editors of Wikipedia have long since become
> desensitized to obscene language, thanks to the constant stream of it
> that gets inserted into articles as vandalism, and written all over
> their user talk pages as revenge for reverting that vanadalism. I fo
Charles Matthews wrote:
> The use of transclusion by section on Wikisource would make it
> technically simple to bring the existing verses (or chapters) together
> on pages for parallel reading. Of course it would be a lot of work ...
> and I suppose it should be done chapter-wise. (Verses are a
Carcharoth wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Charles
> Matthews wrote:
>
>> Tim Starling wrote:
>>
>>> But whatever offends you about a feature article choice, regular
>>> Wikipedians probably know that there's not much point trying to
>>> convince Raul654 of anything.
>>>
>>>
> Andrew Turvey wrote:
>> - "Fred Bauder" wrote:
>>
>>> There is still a problem: He still has friends; there is probably
>>> still
>>> only one computer; and his friends may be interested in writing
>>> Wikipedia
>>> accounts for hire, a legal activity, as he points out. We might have
>>> to
Fred Bauder wrote:
>> And people with shared computers will continue to engage in these minor
>> faults. So what! There is no general need to make such an exaggerated
>> fuss about it.
>>
>> Ec
>>
>
> The fuss is here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#B
Plans for shifting Wikimedia to HTML5, probably starting with en:wp Main Page.
(Simetrical is quite keen on this change, as apart from anything else
it'll cut our served page size *after gzipping* by 5-20%.)
HTML5 is the new HTML standard. It's specifically been written be
backward compatible wit
2009/7/10 David Gerard
> Plans for shifting Wikimedia to HTML5, probably starting with en:wp Main
> Page.
>
> (Simetrical is quite keen on this change, as apart from anything else
> it'll cut our served page size *after gzipping* by 5-20%.)
>
> HTML5 is the new HTML standard. It's specifically be
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Peter Coombe wrote:
> If we can do it, this sounds like a great idea. Forgive my ignorance though,
> but what does "scap" mean?
At a wild guess, following a look at the SCAP disambiguation page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCAP
I'd say "Separation of presenta
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:29 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> Plans for shifting Wikimedia to HTML5, probably starting with en:wp Main Page.
Clarification: the plan is to have MediaWiki output HTML 5 by default,
always. (I.e., it will serve an HTML 5 doctype.) Once it's doing
that, we want to have it b
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Aryeh
Gregor wrote:
> The following errors are caused by the content on the Main Page, and
> *must* be fixed by enwiki sysops:
>
> Attribute cellpadding not allowed on element table at this point.
> Attribute cellspacing not allowed on element table at this point
[[Wikipedia:Paradoxes]] - just some high-level brainstorming about
the basic sillinesses of wanting stuff to be stuff, even while that
stuff is always changing.
-Stevertigo
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David Gerard wrote:
> Plans for shifting Wikimedia to HTML5, probably starting with en:wp Main Page.
>
I have been looking around to see what effect this might have on
rendering of mathematics. Is that potentially good, but only if everyone
agrees to usethe right browsers?
Charles
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If anyone is inspired to try a sequel there was a Mount Whoredom in colonial
Boston. Center left, second hill from the shoreline.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boston,_1775bsmall1.png
-Durova
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:19 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
> Tim Starling wrote:
> >
> > I sus
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Charles
Matthews wrote:
> I have been looking around to see what effect this might have on
> rendering of mathematics. Is that potentially good, but only if everyone
> agrees to usethe right browsers?
It's easier to embed MathML (and SVG) into HTML 5 than into XHTM
"Ray Saintonge" wrote:
> From: "Ray Saintonge"
>
> Andrew Turvey wrote:
> > Per the policy [[WP:NOSHARE]], "Sharing an account – or the password to an
> > account – with others is not permitted, and doing so will result in the
> > account being blocked."
> >
>
> This is worded in su
Wikipedia would be so much better off if we just didn't let people edit the
content.
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Andrew Turvey wrote:
> "Ray Saintonge" wrote:
> > From: "Ray Saintonge"
> >
> > Andrew Turvey wrote:
> > > Per the policy [[WP:NOSHARE]], "Sharing an account – or the pass
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