[WikiEN-l] 250th Signpost

2009-12-09 Thread phoebe ayers
A note that this week marks the 250th issue of the English Wikipedia Signpost: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost The weekly newsletter has been going strong for five years now, only rarely missing an issue -- a testament to the dedication of the three editors the Signpost

Re: [WikiEN-l] 250th Signpost

2009-12-09 Thread Charles Matthews
phoebe ayers wrote: A note that this week marks the 250th issue of the English Wikipedia Signpost: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost I rely on WP:POST to stay in some sort of clued-up zone. I imagine hundreds of others would say the same. Charles

[WikiEN-l] Office hours next Friday, December 11

2009-12-09 Thread Cary Bass
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all! Next Thursday's office hours will feature Frank Schulenberg, the Wikimedia Foundation's Head of Public Outreach. If you don't know Frank you can learn all about him at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Frank_Schulenburg. Office hours

Re: [WikiEN-l] Office hours next Friday, December 11

2009-12-09 Thread Cary Bass
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I hope my inability to send these out without one single mistake is amply entertaining. The day is Friday (as indicated in the subject and the second paragraph), not Thursday (as carelessly left in the first line). Cary Cary Bass wrote: Hello all!

[WikiEN-l] Do we try to watch(list) the encyclopedia too much?

2009-12-09 Thread Mike Pruden
Perhaps I'm the only one who finds this a little concerning in my part, but lately I've been feeling that too many users are trying to watch too much of Wikipedia at one time. Let me elaborate a little. It isn't uncommon for the normally active user to have hundreds, if not thousands, of pages

Re: [WikiEN-l] Do we try to watch(list) the encyclopedia too much?

2009-12-09 Thread David Gerard
2009/12/10 Mike Pruden mikepru...@yahoo.com: Personally, I found unloading my watchlist liberating, and I would hope that more would do the same. There's always that steady stream of vandal-fighters to stomp out any clear vandalism that pops up. It's hard to explain, but I think it's a

Re: [WikiEN-l] Do we try to watch(list) the encyclopedia too much?

2009-12-09 Thread Steve Bennett
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Mike Pruden mikepru...@yahoo.com wrote: Perhaps I'm the only one who finds this a little concerning in my part, but lately I've been feeling that too many users are trying to watch too much of Wikipedia at one time. Let me elaborate a little. It isn't

[WikiEN-l] Basic child protection measure

2009-12-09 Thread Jake Wartenberg
This basic software changehttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21808might not be a bad start. --- Jake Wartenberg j...@jakewartenberg.com ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: