Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikien - Greatest hits

2009-09-11 Thread Charlotte Webb
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:14 PM, stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway. Libertudian (liberty+ 'tude + -ian + -ism ) concepts in the news brought to mind one particular post, this one from... myself: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-September/054047.html I have other

Re: [WikiEN-l] When an article is in full protection.

2009-08-18 Thread Charlotte Webb
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Lunalunasan...@gmail.com wrote: Not all protection is in response to edit warring. First example to come to mind: high-use templates. FlaggedRevs would work better for that, likewise high-use images, of which flags (in the heraldic sense, i.e. those which swing

Re: [WikiEN-l] Usability testing (Try Beta)

2009-08-11 Thread Charlotte Webb
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Casey Brownli...@caseybrown.org wrote: Which you can ignore.  It's beta-testing, the whole point is to gather feedback and make things better, so I don't have a problem with it. If you mean ignore in the sense of click away from the questionnaire form without

Re: [WikiEN-l] Where does en:wp need most help?

2009-08-11 Thread Charlotte Webb
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Steve Bennettstevag...@gmail.com wrote: Meanwhile, for the autodidacts among us, the 200 core biographies list is a pretty interesting place to start reading. Definitely. I can relate. I mean if I said everything I've ever remembered for more than a month I

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

2009-03-28 Thread Charlotte Webb
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote: Nationalism is a major factor in school social studies curricula, and a great medium for indoctrinating the child with official truth.  Access to Wikipedia and other on-line sources helps him to formulate the questions

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

2009-03-28 Thread Charlotte Webb
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 7:32 AM, doc doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com wrote: I think I'll stay off the koolaid and stick with democracy, professionalism, and expertise - yes it can be, on some occasions, stupid, biased and myopic, but it is still the best system we've got. Well, I know everyone's

Re: [WikiEN-l] User:Faithlessthewonderboy

2009-03-28 Thread Charlotte Webb
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote: Why shouldn't a person making such outrageous deletions be named?  Are you denying that he made them? Well there were others too. You could just as easily complain about RayAYang or Cocktotheface.

Re: [WikiEN-l] History started in 1995

2009-03-09 Thread Charlotte Webb
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: mumble about sensitive eyes and medical condition Just remember glaucoma is the best excuse for everything, Carch. On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Sam Korn smo...@gmail.com wrote: In the unlikely event that my

Re: [WikiEN-l] History started in 1995

2009-03-05 Thread Charlotte Webb
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Oldak Quill oldakqu...@gmail.com wrote: That gives me an idea. Some users live in rural areas far away from large book repositories, with little capacity to check off-line resources, while other users live in metropolitan centres with dozens of vast libraries a

Re: [WikiEN-l] Automatic death flagging?

2009-03-05 Thread Charlotte Webb
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Andrew Gray shimg...@gmail.com wrote: c) [[Category:Living people]] - dead people have the cat removed As far as I know there is no easy way to track category removal. Special:Relatedchanges/Category:Living_people will not show edits which remove the category,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Desysopping

2009-02-11 Thread Charlotte Webb
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Patton 123 patton...@gmail.com wrote: I know a de-admining process is proposed practically every other day, but this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EVula/opining/RfA_overhauldoesn't appear to have had much discussion. What do you think about it? Personally I

Re: [WikiEN-l] Desysopping

2009-02-11 Thread Charlotte Webb
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: That doesn't work for admins that have been around a while - most of the people that contributed to their RFA will have left the project. I wasn't entirely serious and I know it won't be tried, but it would at least

Re: [WikiEN-l] What is an orphan?

2009-02-07 Thread Charlotte Webb
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: But in my view calling an article with two respectable incoming links an orphan is quite misleading. I think the word is used subjectively for any article deemed to need more incoming links because the

Re: [WikiEN-l] What is an orphan?

2009-02-07 Thread Charlotte Webb
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: I certainly think there should be one than one template addressing this issue, and preferably a one or two links template that only adds a category. Don't need multiple templates necessarily. Just

Re: [WikiEN-l] Spoiler-driven plots on movies articles

2009-02-07 Thread Charlotte Webb
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:09 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: That's why *you* do it. It's not why *I* do it. Sometimes years after I've seen a movie, I can't quite recall how it ended, and I'd like to know that without needing to watch it again. Oh there will always be titles you can't find

Re: [WikiEN-l] Why infoboxes are good

2009-02-05 Thread Charlotte Webb
On 2/4/09, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: For anyone interested in this topic, have a look at Freebase: http://www.freebase.com/ For anyone interested in freebasing, please revert as vandalism any attempt to remove this tacky infobox:

Re: [WikiEN-l] flagged revvvs

2009-01-01 Thread Charlotte Webb
On 1/1/09, David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com wrote: As for the Go ahead, don't let me interrupt. —C.W. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Speedy deletion

2008-12-31 Thread Charlotte Webb
Sorry I meant to finish that thought. Perhaps some of this energy can be channeled toward other tasks. Might sic them loose on copyright backlogs or something else where the benefit of the doubt is not the benefit of the project. —C.W. ___ WikiEN-l

[WikiEN-l] flagged revvvs

2008-12-31 Thread Charlotte Webb
I'm still trying to figure out why semi-protection is more widely supported than flaggedrevs, especially after seeing the example given here: http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=22088 [warning: badsite] What would be a reasonable timetable for closing this discussion...

Re: [WikiEN-l] JarlaxleArtemis/Grawp

2008-12-14 Thread Charlotte Webb
On 12/11/08, Fran Rogers f...@nutmeg.ws wrote: But sadly, the story doesn't end there. In mid-2007, he reappeared with a new persona... the move-vandal Grawp. Unlike his ostensible predecessor Willy on Wheels, who at least had a harmless light-hearted flair to him, as Grawp Jarlaxle relished

Re: [WikiEN-l] Has an article in a paper encyclopedia, but it's Not Notable

2008-12-04 Thread Charlotte Webb
On 12/4/08, Thomas Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have more such pages, whether or not we need them is less certain. Only one way to find out (but if anyone asks, it wasn't my idea). —C.W. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to sabotage Wikipedia, for SEO spammers

2008-11-26 Thread Charlotte Webb
On 11/26/08, Gregory Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If WP is #1 or #2 and your spamvertisment is #4 you can increase your income greatly by getting WP delisted even if you can do nothing to improve the position of your site. Yes, especially if WP has an article which describes your goods or

Re: [WikiEN-l] How's our coverage of medications?

2008-11-25 Thread Charlotte Webb
On 11/25/08, Oskar Sigvardsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think it would be a bad thing at all if at the dosage section of an article on drugs we say Consult your physician before taking medication Funny thing, my meds say that right on the label (but damned if I pay it any mind). —C.W.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Avoiding the dates issue

2008-11-16 Thread Charlotte Webb
On 11/16/08, Al Tally [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Archives are indeed searchable (Google is your friend!) There is actually a search function I believe which is in the list archives, but I always use Google to search things from mailing lists. O rly? http://lists.wikimedia.org/robots.txt Maybe