Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia not responding

2012-03-24 Thread Angela Anuszewski
I couldn't reach it either. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 24, 2012, at 12:28 PM, Darrell Lucus wrote: > No problems here ... > > Darrell (HangingCurve/Blueboy96) > > > > - Original Message - > From: Carcharoth > To: English Wikipedia > Cc: > Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 12:27 PM >

Re: [WikiEN-l] Readers clicking through to talk pages

2011-10-12 Thread Angela Anuszewski
Personally, I've given up on talk pages. The reason is many of them don't have actual "talk". I see a blue talk link and go there and all that is there is a template "this page is part of wiki project xyz". I'd really like it if that kind of information about a page was somewhere other than "t

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to contact the author of a wiki page?

2011-06-17 Thread Angela Anuszewski
If you look at the history on the page, you can see the edits and the editors. You can navigate to the editors talk page and post a message for them there. Angela Sent from my iPhone On Jun 16, 2011, at 21:32, Peng Yu wrote: > Hi, > > I have some questions regarding a wiki page,

Re: [WikiEN-l] List of includipedias

2011-02-18 Thread Angela
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Alternative_outlets has some. Angela ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Amazonified Wikipedia

2010-12-03 Thread Angela Anuszewski
What really bothers me about it is that there is no direct link to the revision history. The authors aren't attributed unless you go to the linked WP page, and there is nothing that even hints at that. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.or

Re: [WikiEN-l] A war on external links? Was: Inside Higher Ed: Does Wikipedia Suck?

2010-03-29 Thread Angela
ussia, marketing, Star Wars, SEO, TVR, medicine, Jewellery, and Tamagotchi): 2010= 48 2009= 46 2008= 40 2007= 50 2006= 81 2005= 51 2004= 50 2003= 10 2002= 2 2001= 2 Angela ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedi

Re: [WikiEN-l] NY Times: Wired Editor Apologizes for Copying from Wikipedia in New Book

2009-06-25 Thread Angela
//en.wikipedia.org/?oldid=6042007 also works. For book purposes, this is already shorter than most URLs, so shouldn't need to be shortened anymore which would remove information about where the link goes. Angela ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wik

Re: [WikiEN-l] GDFL compliance

2009-06-05 Thread Angela
uot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Houses_of_Parliament.jpg";>Wikipedia, > http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html";>GFDL) Angela ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Google's new search options

2009-05-13 Thread Angela Anuszewski
Are they looking to make sure they are poised to compete with Wolfram Alpha? Angela On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Nathan wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8047076.stm > > Options include "Google Squared" which mines for identifiable and related > facts

Re: [WikiEN-l] someone after non-active admin accounts

2009-05-11 Thread Angela Anuszewski
or an expected level of activity once adminship is granted? A de-sysoping for failure to meet this level probably shouldn't be automatic, but I wouldn't have any issue with there being an automatic "call for review" based on it... Angela --

Re: [WikiEN-l] Twitterpedia will win

2009-05-04 Thread Angela
and I've seen a couple of others around as well. With this one, you can post from Twitter by tweeting @peqi Title=Your article text here. For example, http://twitter.com/wikiangela/status/1703672008 becomes http://peqi.wikia.com/wiki/Wikipedia Angela _

Re: [WikiEN-l] Perfection

2009-05-04 Thread Angela Anuszewski
opedic and came here attempting to recruit support for your point of view? Angela On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/5/4 stevertigo : > > Dealing with an issue on [[Talk:Perfect crime]]: > > > > Me: "...which is of course not to say that the concept of &

Re: [WikiEN-l] Politician praises Wikipedia

2009-04-26 Thread Angela Anuszewski
I guess that's the difference of someone actually wanting your content or not... Angela On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 2:45 PM, James Farrar wrote: > Well, in relative terms, anyway: > > > http://www.conservatives.com/News/Speeches/2009/04/The_age_of_austerity_speech_to_the_2009_

Re: [WikiEN-l] Off-topic, but I must share this

2009-04-24 Thread Angela Anuszewski
So, what happens when this site starts profiting off material they lifted from Wikipedia without crediting the original authors and conforming to the GFDL (or whatever license that Wikipedia winds up with?) Angela On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Jay Litwyn wrote: > It looks like Portugu

Re: [WikiEN-l] wow

2009-04-20 Thread Angela Anuszewski
OMG, I actually edited the Pokemon article after the weekend. I feel so.. .dirty ;-) Angela On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:08 PM, FT2 wrote: > It seems they spotted our cunning plan. But never fear - that was intended > to be discovered all along! The /real/ cabal's secret plan is Windo

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia isn't just a good idea - it's compulsory

2009-03-25 Thread Angela Anuszewski
Until the UK decides to block access again because of some album cover art. Then what do the teachers do? Angela -- Wikipedia:[[User:Psu256]] ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] 6 months later: Knol update

2009-02-22 Thread Angela
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Joe Anderson wrote: > Is Knol slightly more popular than Citizendium, then? It's a lot more popular according to compete.com which claims Knol had 448,779 unique visitors in January and Citizendium had 68,461.

Re: [WikiEN-l] From "Private Eye"

2009-01-08 Thread Angela Anuszewski
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Carcharoth wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Angela Anuszewski > wrote: > > Excuse my ignorance, but excatly what is Private Eye? > > I looked it up in a handy online encyclopedia... > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Eye >

Re: [WikiEN-l] From "Private Eye"

2009-01-08 Thread Angela Anuszewski
Excuse my ignorance, but excatly what is Private Eye? Angela -- Wikipedia:[[User:Psu256]] ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Biography of Living persons

2008-12-28 Thread Angela
.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographical_optout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Biographical_optout/Archive_1 Angela ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] help videos about editing?

2008-12-04 Thread Angela
oking to make some > to augment a class about Wikipedia -- no need to reinvent the wheel if > good ones already exist. There are a few listed here: <http://wikiangela.com/wiki/Wiki-related_videos#Tutorials_and_courses> If you know of oth

Re: [WikiEN-l] Donation banner and strongly negative reactions

2008-11-12 Thread Angela Anuszewski
allows you to obtain $250 at face value (+ shipping) will likely increase their use, as collectors will put a few rolls aside and spend the rest. Angela -- Wikipedia:[[User:Psu256]] ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe fr