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, so I want to

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] 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 and presents them in a spr

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

2009-05-11 Thread Angela Anuszewski
It does make you wonder... with the extra responsibility associated with having an admin account, there should be some expectation of a certain level of activity. There are certainly guidelines for the amount of activity that should have occured before an RFA, so why aren't there any for an expecte

Re: [WikiEN-l] Perfection

2009-05-04 Thread Angela Anuszewski
I didn't want to seem rude my asking what the point was, but I agree - I don't understand the point you were trying to make. If I had to make a guess, I assume you are in some sort of disagreement on that talk page - I haven't visited it - about what is and isn't encyclopedic and came here attempti

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_Spring_Forum.aspx > > h

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 Portuguese com

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 Windows > 7which

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] 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] Donation banner and strongly negative reactions

2008-11-12 Thread Angela Anuszewski
> > It's about time that the US abandoned $1.00 and $2.00 bills and just > used coins instead. > > The risk is to have a situation such as prevails in Egypt. In the two > weeks that I was there at Wikimania time I only twice received coins in > change, and thsat was from the cashier at official go