Hello,
Last month I was in Qatar and introduced some people to Wikipedia. While
they were creating their accounts, some of them had their initial
suggested username taken, so they had to repeat it a couple of times
until they finally found an available username. One of them had
Hello,
Last month I was in Qatar and introduced some people to Wikipedia.
While
they were creating their accounts, some of them had their initial
suggested username taken, so they had to repeat it a couple of times
until they finally found an available username. One of them had
What does Special:ListUsers =/= list of all users with SUL mean?
I thought the problem was to find account names that are not being used.
If you search for a name you think you might want to use it returns a
list of existing accounts.
What is SUL?
Hello,
Last month I was in Qatar and introduced some people to Wikipedia.
While
they were creating their accounts, some of them had their initial
suggested username taken, so they had to repeat it a couple of times
until they finally found an available username. One of them had
I think it's easier if you write your username in a box and appears early
''sorry, it's already used'' or ''available!''.
Like the e-mail system.
I never liked the suggestions system.
_
MateusNobre
MetalBrasil on Wikimedia projects
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There was a lengthy discussion recently on en:WP at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Featured_article_candidates#FAC_spends_too_much_time_on_trivial_topics
about the fact that many featured articles – at least on en:WP – are about
niche topics, while so-called vital articles (VA),
uh .. you are right ... sometimes one might wonder what
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Education_Program are for if
such basic articles stay in such a state. like one professor for
information technology:
It's hard to write articles about general topics, general principles,
overviews. Just describing a detail, one specific thing, is much
easier and can be done in an assembly line style.
Also, niche topics always seem to be more attractive than the normal
stuff. English Wikipedia nearly has more on
I agree that the discussion about important topics is cruical - but it is
important to read that whole thread to get a balanced view.
The discussion from experienced contributors makes it very clear that:
a) the analysis given in that presentation was hugely flawed and that;
b) peer
Interesting that Theology is not a 'vital article'. As for philosophy, none
of the main philosophical schools (nominalism, realism, scepticism,
empiricism, rationalism, existentialism etc) are mentioned. Why is this?
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On 4 December 2011 17:49, Edward Buckner peter.dam...@btinternet.com wrote:
Interesting that Theology is not a 'vital article'. As for philosophy, none
of the main philosophical schools (nominalism, realism, scepticism,
empiricism, rationalism, existentialism etc) are mentioned. Why is this?
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 15:01:45 +, Andreas K. jayen...@gmail.com
wrote:
There was a lengthy discussion recently on en:WP at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Featured_article_candidates#FAC_spends_too_much_time_on_trivial_topics
about the fact that many featured articles –
Thomas Dalton
There are always going to be disagreements over what should constitute a
vital article.
There are disagreements about whether Theology is a vital article?
Isn't the real answer that no one has actually looked at this list or
revised it for some years (clue, I just checked).
If you look at the '10,000 articles list - it becomes very clear that the
selection is totally arbitrary. ( more actors than painters listed - as a
random example) So far the best suggestion that I have seen for important
articles is that a wikiproject has ranked that article as high or top
You can see all my contributions to en.wikipedia at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ajbp or get an overview at
http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/pcount/index.php?name=Ajbplang=enwiki=wikipedia
Even if I had never contributed to wikipedia in my life however: If you look
at my
Just a reminder that we will be in #wikimedia-office to talk about using
the Feedback Dashboard (Special:FeedbackDashboard) to respond to new
editors on Wikipedia. The feature is currently enabled in Dutch and English.
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On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Just a reminder that we will be in #wikimedia-office to talk about using
the Feedback Dashboard (Special:FeedbackDashboard) to respond to new
editors on Wikipedia. The feature is currently enabled in Dutch and
Wow, this thread went from interesting to pointless bickering in record
time.
Ryan Kaldari
On 12/4/11 11:47 AM, Alasdair wrote:
You can see all my contributions to en.wikipedia at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ajbp or get an overview at
Yes, I got the same idea as Mateus when reading this thread: As you type in
a user name (or tab to the next box), the form should tell you if that
username is taken or not. That will save you a lot of trouble going back to
try a new user name.
2011/12/4 Mateus Nobre mateus.no...@live.co.uk
I
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com wrote:
On 12/3/11 11:33 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
...
Does anyone know where this Jimmy quote comes from? I presume it is
after the WMF board meeting on 5 September 2004 as it quotes from it
On Saturday, December 3, 2011, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Hi everyone,
This is a reminder that in about 20 minutes Geoff Brigham, our General
Counsel, will be in #wikimedia-office to answer your questions.
This is Geoff's first office hours, so please take a moment before
i started improving
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology and i felt somehow
left alone by you native english speakers only writing emails :)
what do you think: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WPRV
prepared by the team around
I think rupert and I perhaps got crossed wires in translation…
getting us back on topic - I am not sure that the defining important argument
is the most cruicial part of the problem (though at a glance it does look like
more work has been done on those than on vital articles) . I think the
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