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s the change. It's a lot easier to
get a majority in a software deployment vote than it is to build
consensus behind an editorial policy.
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hat sounds more like a network issue, maybe a problem with your ISP.
Could you maybe get on IRC during European business hours, say using
this form:
http://webchat.freenode.net/
Go to channel "#wikimedia-tech" and talk to Mark Bergsma (nickname
"mark&qu
as
previewing. Certain kinds of abuse filter rule also cause a double
parse on save. If it takes more than 3 minutes, then the edit won't go
through.
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s in them as they liked without DoSing the servers.
That's not to say having huge category listings in collapsible boxes
at the end of an article is a good idea, in terms of style and
usability. But it would be nice to separate the performance issue from
the style issue.
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gister links from templates
in the pagelinks table so that when a page is deleted or created, the
HTML caches can be updated so that the link colour will change. With a
schema change and some parser work, it would be possible to flag such
links so that the
one referred to here:
<http://web.archive.org/web/20030425173342/www.nupedia.com/pipermail/nupedia-l/2001-January/000678.html>
It's possible Jimmy's "Hello World" edit was made to that wiki. But we
can be pretty sure that the first edit to the sur
wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=embeddedin&eititle=Template:Drugbox&einamespace=0>
To continue the query, use eicontinue:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=embeddedin&eititle=Template:Drugbox&am
in small batches
(say 10 articles at a time) using Special:Export. This may require a
small amount of scripting.
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On 22/12/10 12:13, Anthony wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
>> In XML 1.1:
>>
>> "Char ::= #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] |
>> [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x1-#x10]/* any Unicode character,
>> excludin
On 22/12/10 11:43, Anthony wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Tim Starling
> wrote:
>> I've uploaded my latest attempt at converting the backup to XML:
>>
>> http://noc.wikimedia.org/~tstarling/wikipedia-2001-08-xml.7z
>>
>> The archive c
id XML file, with control characters filtered.
There's also a log file detailing the outstanding issues. The script
is in Subversion.
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im Shell created about 200 articles on Atlas Shrugged. They were left
as they were until 2003, when Catherine Munro took on the huge task of
cleaning them up and merging them.
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* ComputerSoftware
* TransporT
* NamingConventions
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of
logged-in users public, so the people who made these edits had no
expectation that their IP address would be kept private. That, coupled
with the passage of time, makes me think that no harm to user privacy
can come from releasing these files.
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away and leaving you in peace. Once they've taken what they want, and
have left, then you're safe to make your calls.
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Between this update and the last one, the only commits made to the
FlaggedRevs extension were localisation updates imported from
translatewiki.net. But your language here implies that something
actually happened this week. Could you perhaps be more specific as to
what sort of wor
nd hints of discontent at pages like:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_drop-outs
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hooting and
blowing things up.
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pedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Main_Page is
> there also a barnstar for being a techie who has unintentionally taken the
> whole site down? :-)
We don't make a big deal of it. Unlike deleting the main page,
crashing the site is an easy mistake to make.
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> articles," and "it's horribly sexist and racist!"
>
> I am still trying to figure out what she meant by "village tool"...
> does anyone else know?
That would be tool as in
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tool
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eries.
But whatever offends you about a feature article choice, regular
Wikipedians probably know that there's not much point trying to
convince Raul654 of anything.
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g that looks like a bible verse reference in
plain text, MediaWiki would automatically convert it to a link. For
cultural neutrality it would obviously have to be internationalised
and support a number of other religious texts. Not impossible though.
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publishes it, then there will be a public interest question. But if
the journalist meets you at a local Wikipedia meetup under false
pretences, then follows you back to your house, then finds your name
from your address in public records, then there is no public interest
question since confidence is
re where the second one is. This is at least the third though.
Don't worry folks, if worst comes to worst, we'll just unplug the
servers from the wall. Then for a short time while we fix up any
damage, you'll have to edit Wikipedia by post. We'll have teams
etely for a few years, and re-emerged
a critic once the media started paying attention to it.
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This is not the relevant police department. The relevant police department
is the local police department of the victim, not the attacker. The victim
must file a complaint locally, and then the local police will take the
necessary steps to liase with the jurisdiction of the at
we received of this content as of Friday was the content on
Wikipedia."
I'll assume stupidity rather than malice. "Pragmatic" could mean anything.
If they wanted this to be a test case, why would they have handled it so
ineptly?
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Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Tim Starling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The poor woman clearly didn't know the difference between a URL and a web
>> page. Most likely the same can be said about the IWF staff member who
>> listed thos
r.jpg
> or any other URL for the image itsel on Wikimedia's servers as far as
> I am aware.
The poor woman clearly didn't know the difference between a URL and a web
page. Most likely the same can be said about the IWF staff member who
listed those two pages.
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the purpose of my book is to look at the history
of that fear of the Internet, and try to work out whether in fact we need
to be so afraid. I don't think we do."
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2008/s2383376.htm
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