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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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:
On 1/1/09, David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com wrote:
As for the
Go ahead, don't let me interrupt.
—C.W.
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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.
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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...
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
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.
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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
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.
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
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