About two-thirds of the 30 semiprotected talk pages (and in some case
the associated articles) have been unprotected. One of the articles
was reprotected after immediate spamming (to be fair, it *is* called
"poop", so I was obviously very naive there!) The others are still
unprotected.
I've made
2009/9/6 Tony Sidaway :
> On 9/5/09, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>
>> Is there a machine readable version of the protection log anywhere?
>>
>
> You could probably use the MediaWiki API to do this:
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
>
> Alternatively find some of the following regular reports easy to
Only in the context of arbitration cases where some horse's ass took a
stand. Establishing a global standard is inevitably an ugly process, as
in the old saying that compares the crafting of legislation to the making
of sausage.
However, we can strive to maintain a high standard, high enough that
Have you ever read any of the more disputatious Manual of Style talk pages?
Carcharoth
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
> I suppose, as in matters of internet deportment, civility, we must also
> accept the burden of maintaining the standard for English usage, global
> English u
I suppose, as in matters of internet deportment, civility, we must also
accept the burden of maintaining the standard for English usage, global
English usage. It is a grim and dreary business, but I must admit it is
our responsibility.
Fred
> Fred Bauder wrote:
>>> For a change, something on Engl
On 9/5/09, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> Is there a machine readable version of the protection log anywhere?
>
You could probably use the MediaWiki API to do this:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
Alternatively find some of the following regular reports easy to parse:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W
Fred Bauder wrote:
>> For a change, something on English usage. A trawl through some usage
>> books tells me nothing much about "most well known", which I'm convinced
>> is a solecism, and should be "best-known". The hyphenation I think is
>> standard anyway. Sadly Google believes there are 11,000
> For a change, something on English usage. A trawl through some usage
> books tells me nothing much about "most well known", which I'm convinced
> is a solecism, and should be "best-known". The hyphenation I think is
> standard anyway. Sadly Google believes there are 11,000 instances for
> "most w
2009/9/6 geni :
> Of course they have a wiki of their own:
> http://blackhat.wikia.com/wiki/Blackhat_Wiki
w00t! Can't wait for the conspiracy theorists to get hold of that one.
It's *obviously* part of the WMF office space deal.
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2009/9/6 Steve Bennett :
> Just to hijack the thread...Once a site is blacklisted, is there any
> way to link to it? I had the situation recently that I wanted to
> reference a site (squidoo.com from memory) but it was blacklisted.
You could probably spell out the name and not make it a link.
2009/9/6 Charles Matthews :
> David Gerard wrote:
>> I have a Google alert on "Wikipedia".
> JOOI, how many alerts a day?
Several, usually a few hits each. I get news and blog hits (as part of
my self-assigned task to keep up with the blog and media buzz). I get
them in real time, but daily sho
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Charles
Matthews wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
>> I have a Google alert on "Wikipedia".
>>
>>
> JOOI, how many alerts a day?
>
> Charles
My weekly alerts give me about 20 hits. It's an interesting mixture of
very obscure newspapers, reprints & me-toos of big articles
2009/9/6 Risker :
> 2009/9/6 David Gerard
>> What could possibly go wrong?
>> http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/black-hat-seo-tools/115582-wikipedia-linking-tool.html
>> If your life is suffering from inadequate levels of stupid (I know!
>> Whose doesn't?), that looks like just the forum
David Gerard wrote:
> I have a Google alert on "Wikipedia".
>
>
JOOI, how many alerts a day?
Charles
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Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
> Charles Matthews schreef:
>
>> Sadly Google believes there are 11,000 instances for
>> "most well known" on enWP, and I'd prefer none to be in article space.
>>
>
> Yes... I guess there must be a few style guides that allow
> that phrase, but most well known s
Charles Matthews schreef:
> Sadly Google believes there are 11,000 instances for
> "most well known" on enWP, and I'd prefer none to be in article space.
Yes... I guess there must be a few style guides that allow
that phrase, but most well known style guides agree with you.
_
In a message dated 9/6/2009 12:09:41 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
stevag...@gmail.com writes:
>
> Just to hijack the thread...Once a site is blacklisted, is there any
> way to link to it? I had the situation recently that I wanted to
> reference a site (squidoo.com from memory) but it was blacklis
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Risker wrote:
> Amazing how few people realise that we're also perfectly capable of
> blacklisting their websites, and will do so without hesitation should a
> spambot show up. Heck, we give people a hard time for putting in half a
> dozen of the same links.
Just
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