I'm new to this list, but I read in this beloved book I own that there has been
an ongoing discussion that accounts created at the English Wikipedia will one
day also work for Wiktionary, foreign Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects.
How come that hasn't come yet?
On 21 March 2010 16:25, Tyler programmer...@comcast.net wrote:
I'm new to this list, but I read in this beloved book I own that there has
been an ongoing discussion that accounts created at the English Wikipedia
will one day also work for Wiktionary, foreign Wikipedias and other Wikimedia
For those in the UK who can access the BBC iPlayer, you might be
interested in yesterday's episode of a comedy/debate program called
It's Only a Theory. The show is obscure, but not obscure enough to
not have a Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Only_a_Theory
Episode 7:
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From: Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton...@gmail.com
Date: 2010/3/15
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Trending Topics On Wikipedia
To: Mailing list do Capítulo brasileiro da Wikimedia.
wikimediab...@lists.wikimedia.org, wikipedi...@lists.wikimedia.org
Google has
I got to hand it to that man- to be trolling to that degree, and for
people not to be noticing, and actually paying you money for it, that
right there is top-flight trolling!
On 25/03/2010, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
For those in the UK who can access the BBC iPlayer, you
I believe we had some volunteers standing at the routers shouting
it's right over there!, but to no avail.
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote:
It's good to see that downtime on Wikipedia is sufficiently rare
nowadays that it's a newsworthy event when it does
The number of admins on the English Wikipedia may possibly have
peaked, and the number of active admins is 20% down on its peak of a
couple of years ago.
Dec 2009, Jan 2010 and February 2010 had only 19 successful RFAs
between them, with December and January both equalling the previous
all time
Folks,
From Resource Shelf
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/25/at-university-of-denver-journalism-students-required-to-write-wikipedia-entries/
College students know the online resource of which they dare not speak:
Wikipedia, the voluminous internet encyclopedia demonized by many in higher
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:24 PM, WereSpielChequers
werespielchequ...@googlemail.com wrote:
The number of admins on the English Wikipedia may possibly have
peaked, and the number of active admins is 20% down on its peak of a
couple of years ago.
Dec 2009, Jan 2010 and February 2010 had only 19
WereSpielChequers wrote:
What are the likely results of a dwindling number of admins, and a
growing wikigeneration gap between admins and other editors?
Well, they're not dwindling since admin rights don't get taken away on
inactivity. ;-) But to the general question, because the standard
On 25 March 2010 20:45, Kwan Ting Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote:
Well, they're not dwindling since admin rights don't get taken away on
inactivity. ;-) But to the general question, because the standard expected
of a candidate for RfA has gone up over the years?
And because going through a
By all measures, en.wiki has been in decline for years as an active project.
It's just the typical death by bureaucracy that most projects like this
undergo.
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Kwan Ting Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote:
WereSpielChequers wrote:
What are the likely results of a
On 25 March 2010 20:51, The Cunctator cuncta...@gmail.com wrote:
By all measures, en.wiki has been in decline for years as an active project.
It's just the typical death by bureaucracy that most projects like this
undergo.
I think death is overstating it. Many things show rapid growth
followed
A couple more questions to which I don't know the answer:
1) What is the total administrative workload now compared to previous periods?
2) Is there a mean period of activity for editors, and do we reduce
the number of new administrators (or the period during which new
administrators are active)
On 25 March 2010 21:03, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
A couple more questions to which I don't know the answer:
1) What is the total administrative workload now compared to previous periods?
The peak was probably back when we sorted out the fair use issues. I'd
say that beyond that it's
On 25 March 2010 21:55, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
Typical to what period of time? Presumably the anti-vandal bots,
huggle and the abuse filter cut down on the need for administrators
working in that area, as an example.
Abuse filter perhaps but the others if anything increase the demand
On 25 March 2010 21:55, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:48 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 25 March 2010 21:03, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
A couple more questions to which I don't know the answer:
1) What is the total administrative workload now compared to
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