Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] infobox growth

2010-04-29 Thread David Gerard
On 29 April 2010 00:16, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: Talking of templates, I recent discussion I raised died a quiet death (due to neglect more than anything else), and I was wondering what people here think of what was said there?

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] infobox growth

2010-04-28 Thread Ray Saintonge
Carcharoth wrote: Eugene van der Pijll wrote: The oldest infoboxes predate [[T:Infobox]], and even templates themselves; they will be very hard to count. The earliest infobox I found was at [[Beryllium]], on 2 Feb 2002. It wasn't called Infobox then, of course, but it certainly was one.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] infobox growth

2010-04-28 Thread David Gerard
On 28 April 2010 06:43, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: Wow. Hard-coded into the wikitext, I presume? The questioner might be asking when the first templates were created, and might not realised that the same thing can be done direct with using templates. When did the template

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] infobox growth

2010-04-28 Thread geni
On 28 April 2010 10:58, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 April 2010 06:43, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: Wow. Hard-coded into the wikitext, I presume? The questioner might be asking when the first templates were created, and might not realised that the same thing

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] infobox growth

2010-04-28 Thread David Gerard
On 28 April 2010 21:48, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 April 2010 10:58, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 April 2010 06:43, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: Wow. Hard-coded into the wikitext, I presume? The questioner might be asking when the first templates were

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] infobox growth

2010-04-28 Thread Carcharoth
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:16 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 April 2010 21:48, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 April 2010 10:58, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 April 2010 06:43, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: Wow. Hard-coded into the wikitext,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] infobox growth

2010-04-27 Thread Eugene van der Pijll
From: Julia Kasmire j.kasm...@tudelft.nl Could you tell me, or tell me how to find, the following: the date of the first infobox on wikipedia? the rate of increase in infoboxes, or at least the number of infoboxes at several points in time and the date that number was measured? These are

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] infobox growth

2010-04-27 Thread Carcharoth
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Eugene van der Pijll eug...@vanderpijll.nl wrote: snip The oldest infoboxes predate [[T:Infobox]], and even templates themselves; they will be very hard to count. The earliest infobox I found was at [[Beryllium]], on 2 Feb 2002. It wasn't called Infobox then,

[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] infobox growth

2010-04-26 Thread David Gerard
Please cc: responses to sender. -- Forwarded message -- From: Julia Kasmire j.kasm...@tudelft.nl Date: 26 April 2010 12:45 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] infobox growth To: wikipedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Dear Wikipedia Mailing list, I am doing some research on the increasing