Re: [WikiEN-l] deployment of the first phase of Wikidata on enwp

2013-02-12 Thread Lydia Pintscher
2013/2/11 Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de: Heya :) We tried to deploy phase 1 on enwp today but ran into issues. We'll have to reschedule. Currently it looks like we'll do this on Wednesday. Sorry folks. We'll do another attempt later today (probably around 17:00 UTC). Cheers

[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] Victorian-era Dictionary of National Biography digitised on Wikisource

2013-02-12 Thread David Gerard
-- Forwarded message -- From: Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com Date: 12 February 2013 08:14 Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Victorian-era Dictionary of National Biography digitised on Wikisource To: UK Wikimedia mailing list wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org On 11

[WikiEN-l] Skin / interface appearance

2013-02-12 Thread Nathan
Anyone else using Chrome notice that the interface looks very 90s right now? Looks fine in Firefox, wonder if its related to something arcane in the banners? ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Skin / interface appearance

2013-02-12 Thread Bob the Wikipedian
I just tested EnWiki in both browsers you mentioned and see nothing that jumps out as odd. Bob the Wikipedian On 2/12/2013 11:03 AM, Nathan wrote: Anyone else using Chrome notice that the interface looks very 90s right now? Looks fine in Firefox, wonder if its related to something arcane in

Re: [WikiEN-l] Skin / interface appearance

2013-02-12 Thread Peter Coombe
I've been noticing problems with bits.wikimedia.org today (where much of the CSS and JavaScript are loaded from). Sounds like the same thing. Pete / the wub On 12 February 2013 17:03, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else using Chrome notice that the interface looks very 90s right now?

Re: [WikiEN-l] Skin / interface appearance

2013-02-12 Thread Matthew Bowker
I'm seeing some lost stylesheets in Firefox Nightly. Is that what you were describing? Matthew Bowker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Matthewrbowker On Feb 12, 2013, at 10:03 AM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else using Chrome notice that the interface looks very 90s right now?

Re: [WikiEN-l] Skin / interface appearance

2013-02-12 Thread David Gerard
On 12 February 2013 17:24, Matthew Bowker matthewrbowker.w...@me.com wrote: I'm seeing some lost stylesheets in Firefox Nightly. Is that what you were describing? Yeah. When the css goes, that'll be bits.wikimedia.org being flaky. - d. ___

[WikiEN-l] If someone gave you the entirety of Wikipedia from 100 years in the future for only 10 minutes, what would you read?

2013-02-12 Thread David Gerard
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/18dcov/if_someone_gave_you_the_entirety_of_wikipedia/ - d. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:

Re: [WikiEN-l] If someone gave you the entirety of Wikipedia from 100 years in the future for only 10 minutes, what would you read?

2013-02-12 Thread Nathan
Probably [[List of 100 most valuable companies]], [[Stock index movements last 100 years]] and [[Treatments to reverse aging]]. On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:09 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [WikiEN-l] deployment of the first phase of Wikidata on enwp

2013-02-12 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Hey, There were unfortunately too many other issues unrelated to Wikidata so we also had to call off this one. Sorry. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin

Re: [WikiEN-l] If someone gave you the entirety of Wikipedia from 100 years in the future for only 10 minutes, what would you read?

2013-02-12 Thread Anthony
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dl Bt (752nd nomination) On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:09 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/18dcov/if_someone_gave_you_the_entirety_of_wikipedia/ - d. ___

Re: [WikiEN-l] If someone gave you the entirety of Wikipedia from 100 years in the future for only 10 minutes, what would you read?

2013-02-12 Thread Newyorkbrad
I would look up my obituary on the [[Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians]] page and see what was listed as my place of death. Then, I would make sure never to go there. Newyorkbrad On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:09 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [WikiEN-l] If someone gave you the entirety of Wikipedia from 100 years in the future for only 10 minutes, what would you read?

2013-02-12 Thread Carcharoth
Yeah, like that would work! Some strange plot device involving disambiguation pages and arriving somewhere on the fatal day and discovering that a town has just changed its name, would lead to the inevitable denouement... (you know, like all those failed 'avoiding death' scenarios in the Final

Re: [WikiEN-l] If someone gave you the entirety of Wikipedia from 100 years in the future for only 10 minutes, what would you read?

2013-02-12 Thread Carcharoth
On 2/12/13, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/18dcov/if_someone_gave_you_the_entirety_of_wikipedia/ On a meta-philosophical point, would you be able in the ten minutes you had available be able to check if what you were reading was in a vandalised

Re: [WikiEN-l] If someone gave you the entirety of Wikipedia from 100 years in the future for only 10 minutes, what would you read?

2013-02-12 Thread David Gerard
On 12 February 2013 23:05, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: PS. You might find that the page(s) you chose to read had been protected for years, or was in the middle of an edit war. Or that the entire encyclopedia had been 'checked' and published and was 'finished'? Would that be

Re: [WikiEN-l] If someone gave you the entirety of Wikipedia from 100 years in the future for only 10 minutes, what would you read?

2013-02-12 Thread Nathan
Some equivalent of random article 100 times fast. But what if Wikipedia 100 years from now is delivered via wireless neural network, in the form of direct memory transfer? Then maybe you would need more than that 10 minute period just to figure out how to work the damn thing. On Tue, Feb 12,

Re: [WikiEN-l] If someone gave you the entirety of Wikipedia from 100 years in the future for only 10 minutes, what would you read?

2013-02-12 Thread Anthony
Place of death: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycenae,_New_York Make sure you stay away from [[Troy, New York]] too. And don't bother predicting its destruction. No one will believe you. On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: Yeah, like that would work!

Re: [WikiEN-l] If someone gave you the entirety of Wikipedia from 100 years in the future for only 10 minutes, what would you r

2013-02-12 Thread Daniel R. Tobias
The debate over the capitalization of the title of the new Star Trek movie of 2113, of course! -- == Dan == Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/

Re: [WikiEN-l] If someone gave you the entirety of Wikipedia from 100 years in the future for only 10 minutes, what would you read?

2013-02-12 Thread geni
On 12 February 2013 23:41, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 February 2013 23:05, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: It's interesting. If you were in 1890, and you got ten minutes' access to an Encyclopedia Britannica from 1990 - what would you look up? gold perhaps in