Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote in message
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Does this thread have anything to do with this list? Does anyone care
anymore?
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This list is about wikipedia and anything that goes into it or comes out
Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote in message
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On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:37 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
Efforts like the Wikipedia Selection for Schools are important to help
too (and feed into 0.7 and 1.0).
2009/8/9 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com:
So all the biographies of women could be tagged woman? That would
work, but only if the woman tag wasn't applied to other things as
well. Maybe you would have to have woman + biography? Even then,
it might not be exact. And then you would have
2009/8/9 Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com:
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:47 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
The problem being discussed in this thread would be solved by the
feature (much-desired by Commons) of turning categories into tags - so
that e.g. [[Category:Left-handed dead Jewish
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Andrew Grayandrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
2009/8/9 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com:
So all the biographies of women could be tagged woman? That would
work, but only if the woman tag wasn't applied to other things as
well. Maybe you would have to have
Andrew Gray wrote:
2009/8/9 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com:
So all the biographies of women could be tagged woman? That would
work, but only if the woman tag wasn't applied to other things as
well. Maybe you would have to have woman + biography? Even then,
it might not be exact.
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Charles
Matthewscharles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
snip
Nice example there of where en-wiki's classification systems are better.
Some people would, of course, create a K-theory navbox template.
Does de-wiki have those navboxes?
More comprehensibly
2009/8/9 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com:
If anyone could hazard a guess at how many of the 725,635 biographies
we have where there might be a dispute over gender, that would be good
(note that for some reason that figure, from the WikiProject
Biography statistics, includes music
I think Vector is the skin, and Acai is the usability initiative. A
remember reading a blog post where Vector was described as the first element
in Acai. Vector itself has been available as a skin for awhile. It's a neat
skin, I like it, but I find that I rely (as an editor) on the many gadgets
This conversation seems to be getting a little steeped in attack mode,
doesn't it? I mean, if we take a step back, do we verify everything we
read ever period? The fact that you just read this email seems to
suggest no, actually we don't. So my question at this point in the
debate would be
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:53 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/8/9 Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com:
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:47 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
The problem being discussed in this thread would be solved by the
feature (much-desired by Commons) of turning
This conversation seems to be getting a little steeped in attack
mode, doesn't it?
That was an honest, legitimate hypothetical question of mine. I
addressed it primarily to Will, and secondarily to everybody. I never
mean to attack anyone. I wouldn't live with my conscious if I had
Carcharoth wrote:
Tags and categories are different. Ideally, you would have both, or a
clear of idea of what would be primary tags (what we call
categories) and what are descriptive tags.
I asked about flickr tags years ago, but never understood the replies I
got, see:
On Friday 07 August 2009, Charles Matthews wrote:
The story about Kira fills in something Jimbo mentioned before, though.
I gave up a while ago on thinking the early history of WP was something
a historian could completely elucidate. This story adds another layer to
the question of the
Emily Monroe wrote:
This conversation seems to be getting a little steeped in attack
mode, doesn't it?
That was an honest, legitimate hypothetical question of mine. I
addressed it primarily to Will, and secondarily to everybody. I never
mean to attack anyone. I wouldn't live with
I apologise for making it unclear that I was talking about the tone
of the conversation as a whole rather than your comments specifically.
I think you're right. You WERE talking about the conversation as a
whole. However, I interpreted your comments as This whole debate is
in attack mode,
2009/8/10 Nathan nawr...@gmail.com
I think Vector is the skin, and Acai is the usability initiative. A
remember reading a blog post where Vector was described as the first
element
in Acai.
Acai is just the codename for the first release of the usability initiative.
Vector is indeed the skin
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
Is there a summary of what's changed?
Well, it's completely new, so check out the manual link on the page,
and the original requirements, which have been met or exceeded:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Magnus
Manskemagnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/catscan_rewrite.php?
sigh
I've been trying for 10 minutes to get it to locate articles in a
category tree but missing a specific WikiProject tag, but either it's
not working, or I'm
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Magnus
Manskemagnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
snip
It's explained on the manual page - just append |2 to the category
you want to use with a different depth (in this example, 2).
blush
Would you believe I completely missed that link to the manual? :-/
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Magnus
Manskemagnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Is there a summary of what's changed?
Well, it's completely new, so check out the manual link on the page,
and the original
Hey you're right. I suppose I forgot it was there and only noticed it again
because I was actually paying attention to the interface.
Thanks,
Nathan
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Peter Coombe
I particularly like the left-hand navbar links to featured content.
Monobook has this as well
Why might it not become as reliable as any other magazine discussing
media? It depends on the quality of the editing.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Ken Arromdeearrom...@rahul.net wrote:
On Sun, 9 Aug 2009
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Magnus
Manskemagnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Is there a summary of what's changed?
Well, it's
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Magnus
Manskemagnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Is there a summary of what's changed?
Well, it's
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Casey Brownli...@caseybrown.org wrote:
Which you can ignore. It's beta-testing, the whole point is to gather
feedback and make things better, so I don't have a problem with it.
:-)
On the subject, when you click beta feedback, one of the questions is:
Steve Bennett wrote:
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Casey Brownli...@caseybrown.org wrote:
Which you can ignore. It's beta-testing, the whole point is to gather
feedback and make things better, so I don't have a problem with it.
:-)
On the subject, when you click beta feedback,
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
Either more accurate assessments, or the article standards are slipping. :-(
Or the definitions of the standards are being raised. It's hard to
tell which is the case though, as there's no obvious way to find out
which
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Magnus
Manskemagnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com
wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Magnus
Manskemagnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:54 PM,
Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com quoted Samuel Clemens in message
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In book called They never said it!, that is identified as apocryphal,
which
Subject-Was: GFDL compliance
Speculative Addressee: webmaster at website in URL.
The photo at the top, of Westminster Abbey? It is not carefully cited
regarding the source. Could I ask you to pull the photo from wikipedia again
to get a more ultimate source? If you click on the photo, then you
Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote in message
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On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Sam Kornsmo...@gmail.com wrote:
(Photo: a
href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Houses_of_Parliament.jpg;Wikipedia/a)
I imagine that would
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Sam Korn wrote:
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Steve Bennett wrote:
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Sam Korn wrote:
(Photo: a
href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Houses_of_Parliament.jpg;Wikipedia/a)
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- Unionhawk unionhawk.site...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, I mean, what difference does it make? I guess it probably should
have a link, but, honestly, with the number of
AGK wiki...@googlemail.com wrote in message
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If not, is there a group of people somewhere who chase up copyvios like
this?
I suppose the Free Software Foundation would be the body responsible for
chasing up copyright
The problem with popups is that even Explorer Six can completely disable
them or enable them for specific sites (my setting approves about ten
sites), so I ask what is wrong with the talk page? Maybe there should be an
Add To Talk Page button or tab on the article, so that you do not need to
stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote in message
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Sorry, thought this was going to foundation-l.
-S
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:14 PM, stevertigostv...@gmail.com wrote:
It occurs to me that when people donate money to something,
wjhon...@aol.com wrote in message news:cd5.55c9d341.37a65...@aol.com...
I know you are trying to be rigorous, but your logic has far too many
assumptions to be so.
Firstly you assume that a property is eternal. Predicate logic would
probably assume that if A exists, than that does not change,
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On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Jay
Litwynbrewh...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote:
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It occurs to me that when people donate money to something, it is to
some degree with an
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Emily Monroebluecalioc...@me.com wrote:
I'd like it. Good for new page patrollers'.
+1 for neat little pop-ups and easy error reporting. Can we also do
something like this to report general interface and software bugs?
SJ
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Erik Moellere...@wikimedia.org wrote:
It clearly requires a lot of maintenance of said error reports page to
pull something like this off, but perhaps it would be worth trying out
for a while?
Definitely. Now, perhaps I'm too old and cynical, but with all these
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Jay Litwyn brewh...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
wrote:
The problem with popups is that even Explorer Six can completely disable
them or enable them for specific sites.
Unlikely, it's not a real popup. They use javascript to float a div which
contains a form on top
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Steve Bennettstevag...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com
wrote:
But still? A local library? I find it useful to look at things in
context with other similar institutions. So, I try and think of famous
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Anthonywikim...@inbox.org wrote:
Is Wales sole founder? I don't think you can come up with a reasonable
definition of founder by which that is true.
I would make the following observations based on my reading:
1) Wales' role in the genesis of Wikipedia is much
Sorry, what? I see that the photo at the top of that URL is the same
as this one:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Houses.of.parliament.overall.arp.jpg
That one is listed as public domain - so they don't even have to
credit it. It says an Adrian Pingstone took the photo in 2005 and
None of this really matters because we all love Jimbo and we don't
like Sanger. I mean, all else aside, Jimbo contributed a huge amount
to Wikipedia basically out of a desire to help the human race. Sanger
made Citizendium out of a desire to piss off Jimbo.
Uh I wouldn't be so fast to assume
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