Re: [WikiEN-l] Future of this mailing list

2014-12-02 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
I kinda like the separation between cross-project and cross-language issues on Wikimedia-L and the discussion about English Wikipedia, but if nobody is interested in the existence of this list, I won't be very sad if it shut down. I'd shut down Wikipedia-L first, however - that one is really

Re: [WikiEN-l] So who's beta-testing the Visual Editor?

2013-05-11 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2013/5/11 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: This is all the Visual Editor edits in en:wp: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangestagfilter=visualeditor It's not many. So please switch it on (you can still click Edit source to do references and templates) and give it a

Re: [WikiEN-l] Duolingo and translating Wikipedia

2012-06-20 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
And what's even worse, the very different templates used in each language version. 2012/6/20 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com PS. Forgot to say that this claim misses several points about how different language Wikipedias often have very different articles on the same topic (i.e. they

Re: [WikiEN-l] Inclusionists vs deletionists

2012-03-22 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/3/22 Alan Liefting alieft...@ihug.co.nz: Does anyone agree with me that the inclusionists are more numerous than the deletionists around the deletion discussions? If you tell us how you counted, we can try to agree or to disagree. It's pointless to talk about subjective feelings. -- Amir

Re: [WikiEN-l] A Wikipedian asked to write for a paper encyclopedia

2012-01-20 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/1/20 Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net: http://savageminds.org/2012/01/19/wikipedia-encyclopedias/ - d. Note that citing references is forbidden; proof Wikipedia is not a real encyclopedia. Thank you very much for this link, David. I submitted an article for a four-volume paper

Re: [WikiEN-l] A Wikipedian asked to write for a paper encyclopedia

2012-01-20 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/1/20 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com: On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: The biggest difference was in the editorial process - deciding on the scope of the article, finding reviewers, proofreading, communicating with other writers

Re: [WikiEN-l] Eschatology and Wikipedia - talkback templates

2010-12-23 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2010/12/23 WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com: I don't use talkback templates myself, and find them somewhat irritating,  but I can live with them if that keeps liquid threads at bay. Talkback templates are incomparably more bogus than LiquidThreads. Something like LiquidThreads is

Re: [WikiEN-l] MS Word MediaWiki addin

2010-11-03 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:33, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=8e519637-afb0-4134-a91f-7b0ebea8d933 Spotted by Shizhao. Anyone used this and able to report if the wikitext output is any good? I saw this email, i tried to write

Re: [WikiEN-l] 'Wikipedia editing courses launched by Zionist groups'

2010-08-20 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2010/8/20 Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/18/wikipedia-editing-zionist-groups Yesha Council, representing the Jewish settler movement, and the rightwing Israel  Sheli (My I srael) movement, ran their first workshop this week in Jerusalem, teaching

Re: [WikiEN-l] Kicking off the 2010-2011 fundraiser

2010-07-27 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2010/7/27 Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com: On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Philippe Beaudette pbeaude...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'd like to begin a conversation about the 2010-2011 Fundraiser, which isn't slated to launch for a few months, but for which we'd like to get community involvement

Re: [WikiEN-l] Kicking off the 2010-2011 fundraiser

2010-07-27 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2010/7/27 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: On 27 July 2010 11:56, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: A friend of mine woke up in the middle of the night with a belly-ache. He googled it (in Hebrew) and the first result was the Hebrew Wikipedia article about appendicitis

Re: [WikiEN-l] Updated new search interface on the prototype

2010-05-21 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 06:20, Naoko Komura nkom...@wikimedia.org wrote: Just a quick update: Updated search interface was rolled-out to English Wikipedia earlier today. Thank you all for your quick feedback. Thanks for fixing the full-text search. There's a significant change from Monobook

Re: [WikiEN-l] Updated new search interface on the prototype

2010-05-20 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 04:15, Naoko Komura nkom...@wikimedia.org wrote: We have updated the new search interface to address the issues above and it is currently staged on the the prototype [1]. This update addresses the reported issues such as truncation of search queries [2] and the search

Re: [WikiEN-l] full-text searching since the Vector switch in en.wikipedia

2010-05-20 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 17:40, Steve Summit s...@eskimo.com wrote: Carcharoth wrote: I suppose the idea is that most people using that search box want go functionality, Many tech-savvy editors, perhaps, but certainly not most readers. not search functionality, but seeing as Google's