Being a linguist i am often asked how many languages do i speak. I
don't like that question, because that's not exactly what Linguistics
is about.
Being a Wikipedian i am often asked how many articles did i write. I
don't like that question either, because most work on Wikipedia is
about
Дана Sunday 10 April 2011 08:53:58 Amir E. Aharoni написа:
The Hebrew Wikipedia conducts no new articles days every now and
then, where the editors are encouraged - not enforced - to improve
existing articles rather than create new ones; unfortunately, i have
no data about how well it works.
Being a linguist i am often asked how many languages do i speak. I
don't like that question, because that's not exactly what Linguistics
is about.
Being a Wikipedian i am often asked how many articles did i write. I
don't like that question either, because most work on Wikipedia is
about
Personally, I am a Wikipedian who prefers the creation of new articles to
the maintenance of old ones. I'd guess I've created several hundred. It's
not that I don't see the value in improving existing articles, I simply find
it more rewarding to make new ones. And efficient - being a person who
On 10 April 2011 13:14, David Moran fordmadoxfr...@gmail.com wrote:
That being said, I think explicit drives and events that encourage
non-creation and article cleanup are great ideas. How is the community at
large to know about our backlog if we don't try to communicate it to them?
Site
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 8:37 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 10 April 2011 13:14, David Moran fordmadoxfr...@gmail.com wrote:
For that matter, the contents of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikipedia_ads might be nice for
the site notice.
Yes, we should start doing this.
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Samuel Klein sjkl...@hcs.harvard.edu wrote:
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 8:37 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 10 April 2011 13:14, David Moran fordmadoxfr...@gmail.com wrote:
For that matter, the contents of
David Gerard wrote:
For that matter, the contents of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikipedia_ads might be nice for
the
site notice.
As long as they all use class=obnoxious-wikipedia-ad-banner. ;-)
At one point there were anon tips above the tabs in Monobook. These were
text-only
On 10 April 2011 22:56, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
At one point there were anon tips above the tabs in Monobook. These were
text-only snippets that appeared only for logged-out users. For example one
snippet was, Have questions? [[Wikipedia:Questions|Find out how to ask
questions and
David Gerard wrote:
On 10 April 2011 22:56, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
At one point there were anon tips above the tabs in Monobook. These were
text-only snippets that appeared only for logged-out users. For example one
snippet was, Have questions? [[Wikipedia:Questions|Find out how
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