Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors} - repost

2011-02-02 Thread Carcharoth
about? If Ken's user page makes it obvious, just say that, but I can't immediately remember what you are both talking about here. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors} - repost

2011-02-02 Thread Carcharoth
it down somewhere, as it is all too easy to just let things go until the next such discussion. Carcharoth On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Marc Riddell michaeldavi...@comcast.net wrote: on 2/2/11 2:41 PM, David Goodman at dgge...@gmail.com wrote: Marc, you should know me better than

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors} - repost

2011-02-01 Thread Carcharoth
issues and see them through) Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors} - repost

2011-02-01 Thread Carcharoth
, with nothing being done. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors} - repost

2011-02-01 Thread Carcharoth
as other editors. Goodness, is that an incivil comment? :-) FWIW, I agree with nearly everything DGG wrote. Moving away from what makes Wikipedia different is a step that is fraught with danger. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia status checkers

2011-01-22 Thread Carcharoth
works! :-) But my connection is still not working. :-( I may try hassling my ISP, or I may just go shopping. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia status checkers

2011-01-22 Thread Carcharoth
). It might actually just be a local cache or cookie problem. Let me try something else and see if it helps. Then I'll stop using wiki-en-l as technical support... :-) Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia status checkers

2011-01-22 Thread Carcharoth
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 2:05 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 January 2011 13:53, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: When I try and access en.wikipedia.org, it hangs when it tries to load the CSS things from bits.wikimedia.org (if I wait long enough, it loads

Re: [WikiEN-l] extracting protein target infobox information via page export

2011-01-21 Thread Carcharoth
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Rajarshi Guha rajarshi.g...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Carcharoth wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: I'm curious as well. I'm also curious as to why the user wants to extract

[WikiEN-l] Analysis of 8 years of AfD discussions

2011-01-19 Thread Carcharoth
http://notabilia.net/ It is rather an impressive piece of analysis. Was wondering what others think. I found out about it from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-01-10/In_the_news Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing

[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Comes of Age

2011-01-19 Thread Carcharoth
). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-01-10/In_the_news Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Comes of Age

2011-01-19 Thread Carcharoth
Oops. I see Fred posted this earlier. Sorry! Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] extracting protein target infobox information via page export

2011-01-19 Thread Carcharoth
think the protein infoboxes do, unless they are aggregating from different sources and we are the most convenient marriage of these sources? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit

Re: [WikiEN-l] Long-term searchability of the internet

2011-01-17 Thread Carcharoth
, or is that an unattainable goal? Talking about the true size of the internet, I'm reminded of the concept of the Deep Web: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Web Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing

Re: [WikiEN-l] Hello world! (was Hello world?)

2011-01-17 Thread Carcharoth
the source of the confusion was. No need to accuse anyone of lying, as far as I can see. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Long-term searchability of the internet

2011-01-16 Thread Carcharoth
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Ian Woollard ian.wooll...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/01/2011, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: To take a specific example, I very occasionally come across names of people or topics where it is next-to-impossible to find out anything meaningful about

Re: [WikiEN-l] Hello world! (was Hello world?)

2011-01-14 Thread Carcharoth
bit of trivia, and a nice story. BTW, Jimmy's speech last night was very nice. Have there been any reports yet about that event? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] 10 Media coverage, was Re: Wired: Wikipedia weirdness

2011-01-14 Thread Carcharoth
the coverage of Wikipedia outstripped the ability of Wikipedians to document it - wonder what that says about Wikipedia). In fact, I have a theory that Wikipedia makes only *part* of the Internet not suck. (that should be in a new post). Carcharoth On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Steven Walling

[WikiEN-l] Long-term searchability of the internet

2011-01-14 Thread Carcharoth
to find information about the physicist as opposed to the composer. If I had a birth year, it would be much easier, of course. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] WYSIWTF

2011-01-04 Thread Carcharoth
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:02 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: WYSIWYG? WSYIWTF! OK, what *does* the TF at the end of the second initialism mean? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia is not a dictionary (was: Re: Old Wikipedia backups discovered)

2010-12-28 Thread Carcharoth
This thread seems to have spawned several subthreads, none of which are to do with the original topic - maybe those continuing the discussions might rename the subject line, or is it far too late to do that now? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] Eschatology and Wikipedia

2010-12-27 Thread Carcharoth
is and is not possible? Or is th etime better spent improving WMF projects? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Eschatology and Wikipedia - Liquid threads

2010-12-26 Thread Carcharoth
of discussions, though. Merely having good implementations doesn't solve everything. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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

2010-12-23 Thread Carcharoth
templates are incomparably more bogus than LiquidThreads. What do people here think of this method? Might not scale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirror_thread Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from

Re: [WikiEN-l] Eschatology and Wikipedia

2010-12-22 Thread Carcharoth
on some wikis now, from what I can see. Carcharoth On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Tony Sidaway tonysida...@gmail.com wrote: The single best way to improve usability of Wikipedia would be to scale back the use of jargon. if you look at early discussions in those days they were usually held

Re: [WikiEN-l] Eschatology and Wikipedia - Liquid threads

2010-12-22 Thread Carcharoth
after it was originally posted. What happens to page history in a liquid threads environment? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [WikiEN-l] Eschatology and Wikipedia

2010-12-22 Thread Carcharoth
not many people actually read the talk page notes I leave behind, and they end up being more notes for myself to refer back to months or years later. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] Eschatology and Wikipedia

2010-12-22 Thread Carcharoth
don't pay too much attention to it. Pay attention to it when you need to, but at other times just use common sense and ask yourself if what you are doing will improve, or lead to an improvement in, an article or set of articles. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Eschatology and Wikipedia

2010-12-21 Thread Carcharoth
their potential, harnessing the power of the internet rather than being sucked into a churning maw, but you never know. And yes, I do think being a Wikipedia editor is more productive than using Facebook and Twitter. :-) Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] Eschatology and Wikipedia

2010-12-21 Thread Carcharoth
to make an instant edit to correct it! Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Eschatology and Wikipedia

2010-12-21 Thread Carcharoth
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Ian Woollard ian.wooll...@gmail.com wrote: On 21/12/2010, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: I've had similar thoughts, but more general, thinking that the internet in general has more potential for people to waste their time than ever before. How

[WikiEN-l] Strange article title rendering

2010-12-20 Thread Carcharoth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code When I go to the above page, the bit at the top (the title) reads as follows: MediaWiki talk:Morse code I've just checked and it is still there. Anyone have any idea what is going on? Carcharoth PS. I loved this bit here in the article (sadly not cited

Re: [WikiEN-l] CZ fork: Tendrl

2010-12-14 Thread Carcharoth
there are certain types of personalities involved, sometimes the whole internet is not big enough for them. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [WikiEN-l] Anyone noticed this?

2010-12-13 Thread Carcharoth
. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Anyone noticed this?

2010-12-13 Thread Carcharoth
post, not the Nature article - not sure which. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

[WikiEN-l] GLAM Wiki UK 2010

2010-12-08 Thread Carcharoth
appropriate to be subscribed to to get details of things like this? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] GLAM Wiki UK 2010

2010-12-08 Thread Carcharoth
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:45 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 December 2010 11:19, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: Which mailing list would be more appropriate to be subscribed to to get details of things like this? wikimediauk-l usually gets UK-based events

Re: [WikiEN-l] Using Wikipedia as a Marketing Tool

2010-12-07 Thread Carcharoth
5 years later, it probably wasn't worth writing about in the first place, unless it endured for several decades at least or did something that garnered a lot of attention, and maybe not even then. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Using Wikipedia as a Marketing Tool

2010-12-07 Thread Carcharoth
be even more complicated (though rarer). Carcharoth On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: I couldn't disagree more strongly. I have encountered this exact situation many times over (i.e. I've had bosses, coworkers, friends, and relatives all ask me

Re: [WikiEN-l] Using Wikipedia as a Marketing Tool

2010-12-07 Thread Carcharoth
Oh, you can't prevent someone asking (if they know to ask). The key thing is to know how to decline. I presume you are not suggesting ways to prevent being asked, but are saying that it is easier to decline (or explain why you are declining) if you approach things the right way. Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] Amazonified Wikipedia

2010-12-03 Thread Carcharoth
Could you describe what that looks like, for those that avoid Facebook like the plague? Maybe do so in a new thread so this one can stay on topic with the Amazon stuff? Carcharoth On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Facebook also has the community

Re: [WikiEN-l] facebook community pages

2010-12-03 Thread Carcharoth
Goodness. A *real* Wikipedia-killer... (it might be if they let people edit those pages) On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: If you want to know about facebook, just read about it on wikipedia :D April 19, 2010: Facebook introduces Community

Re: [WikiEN-l] What proportion of articles are stubs?

2010-11-30 Thread Carcharoth
atlases and gazeteers, rather than an encyclopedia, and that trying to repackage the information as an article might have been a mistake. I agree that the French article is better, but the pictures are still awful (though the historical one is interesting). Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] What proportion of articles are stubs?

2010-11-29 Thread Carcharoth
of editors always having been uncomfortable with this being apparent, and a stub is frequently more informative to the reader than nothing. But some data, like Charles is asking for, is not an unreasonable request. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] What proportion of articles are stubs?

2010-11-29 Thread Carcharoth
hit random and immediately produced a category error :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanarce One prose sentence! But on the other hand, a demographic table, and a map, and an infobox, and some statistics, and a navbox. Stub or not stub? Stub. The picture is awful, for a start. Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] What proportion of articles are stubs?

2010-11-29 Thread Carcharoth
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Carl (CBM) cbm.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: Is it possible to have a breakdown of the high-end of that? i.e. Number of articles from 10,000 bytes upwards in steps of 5,000 bytes

Re: [WikiEN-l] cleaning up the Kosovo geographic names

2010-11-19 Thread Carcharoth
in the text of the destination article. Carcharoth On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: I would like to point out that the List of mountains in Serbia and List

Re: [WikiEN-l] cleaning up the Kosovo geographic names

2010-11-19 Thread Carcharoth
discussions of content on article talk pages. But don't discuss just the content, discuss how to *present* the content and how to *source* the content. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] The 12 most amazing (and useless) Wikipedia pages in the world

2010-10-22 Thread Carcharoth
be doomed? :-) Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Aliases and the MoS?

2010-10-18 Thread Carcharoth
. Carcharoth On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: Something different to talk about. I have wondered for some time if it is really the case that we have not addressed the issue of alias names, where the point may simply be alternate spellings

Re: [WikiEN-l] Aliases and the MoS?

2010-10-18 Thread Carcharoth
Spooky. We both typed YMMV. :-) ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Building a community or building an encyclopedia?

2010-10-18 Thread Carcharoth
Read this a few days ago, and thought it was really good. Wanted to say that, even if there isn't much more to add. I particularly liked the last bit: We're an educational institution in two senses: we write educational material for the world in general, and we educate each other. Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] Aliases and the MoS?

2010-10-18 Thread Carcharoth
). Trying to work out the names of publishers and authors can be difficult at times. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Number of names in one sentence

2010-10-18 Thread Carcharoth
in the same way again. The river runs through a pipe above the platforms. I kid you not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subterranean_rivers_of_London Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit

Re: [WikiEN-l] Why the Internet dooms universities

2010-10-13 Thread Carcharoth
Library (though I did send it to one of the other libraries listed there). The bulletin in question might even have had an ISSN number. Not sure. Oh well. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

2010-10-06 Thread Carcharoth
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: Maybe a video clip montage of lots of different Wikipedia contributors talking for a very short time? Haha, like http

Re: [WikiEN-l] Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia

2010-10-01 Thread Carcharoth
That looks like the paper I read a preview copy of a few months ago at a wiki-meetup! I remember thinking much the same thing as David (Gerard) at the time, along the lines of this is great stuff!. :-) Carcharoth On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Forwarding

Re: [WikiEN-l] Citizendium charter ratified

2010-09-26 Thread Carcharoth
have heard of us doesn't count. pet peeve I hate initialisms that I don't immediately recognise. That's not a unique selling point (USP), of course. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] Little edits or big edits in the mainspace?

2010-09-17 Thread Carcharoth
it). I wonder how many discrete learnable steps and edits a featured article, or various standard types of articles, can be broken down into? Carcharoth On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:31 PM, MuZemike muzem...@gmail.com wrote: As the title indicates, when working on articles, do you prefer making

Re: [WikiEN-l] “Can you imagine the president of t he American Camellia Society having three stuffed bears in the courthouse?”

2010-09-17 Thread Carcharoth
already exist. Failing that, we can search the live text for other fake (or mis-typed as impossible) dates that are in articles at the moment. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia committee member

2010-08-31 Thread Carcharoth
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:43 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 August 2010 13:11, Peter Coombe thewub.w...@googlemail.com wrote: On 30 August 2010 17:58, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: You could even (though this is a bit silly) provide the option for people

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia committee member

2010-08-31 Thread Carcharoth
be done unless there is a good reason. Trouble is, such discussions get bogged down because people look at the extremes and think (rightly in some cases) that even allowing a little bit of flexibility would be starting down a slippery slope. Carcharoth On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Nathan nawr

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia committee member

2010-08-30 Thread Carcharoth
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 6:34 PM, David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com wrote: Carcharoth wrote: Surely if the ending is still described in the article (as I was careful to say), NPOV wouldn't be affected? All I'm saying is that if there was a specific OTRS request that could be verified

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia committee member

2010-08-30 Thread Carcharoth
that would give them the option to select (or omit) bits of the article to create a customised article for them to read. Carcharoth On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Shane Simmons avicenna...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, I'd like to read the article about the play without finding out the ending

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia committee member

2010-08-30 Thread Carcharoth
the massive popularity serves to obscure some things that readers find wrong with Wikipedia). Carcharoth On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Brock Weller brock.wel...@gmail.com wrote: I can't believe this idea is being seriously presented. We are an Encyclopedia. That is one of the Five Pillars ([[WP:5P

Re: [WikiEN-l] New tool: Write before you revert

2010-08-30 Thread Carcharoth
force insincere discussion. Not that this doesn't happen already (sorry, in a cynical mood tonight). Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia committee member

2010-08-29 Thread Carcharoth
as needed). Seem courteous, but can Wikipedia be courteous? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia committee member

2010-08-29 Thread Carcharoth
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 5:43 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 August 2010 17:16, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: Does no-one want to discuss whether the ending of the Mousetrap play This is not an invitation to revive the whole spoiler debate, but this situation

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia committee member

2010-08-29 Thread Carcharoth
as it appears before the ending or identity is revealed). In both cases, there has been independent commentary and coverage of the secrecy aspect of this, so saying within the article that XYZ have objected to the ending/identity being reveled, is a requirement of NPOV. Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia committee member

2010-08-29 Thread Carcharoth
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 6:50 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 August 2010 18:44, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 6:29 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: I ask again: if the case came to you that one side was saying we must do

Re: [WikiEN-l] Replacing admins with a slower less efficient method for blocking vandals and deleting attack pages

2010-08-24 Thread Carcharoth
to this sort of purpose (though obviously with a different name and so on). Carcharoth On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:18 PM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: I appreciate that your suggestion is not to have admins. But aside from the issue that juries will be slower and less efficient

Re: [WikiEN-l] Superusers?

2010-08-21 Thread Carcharoth
such abilities to more users. Carcharoth On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 6:12 PM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Whilst any editor can tag an attack page for deletion or revert a vandalism, at present you need an admin to block a vandal or delete an attack page. When a vandal

Re: [WikiEN-l] Superusers?

2010-08-21 Thread Carcharoth
as well. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Superusers?

2010-08-21 Thread Carcharoth
at RFA, which is five candidates, all at over 97%. Doesn't that mean there is less of a problem than people think? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia:WikiProject Project

2010-08-17 Thread Carcharoth
discussion over Wikiproject: versus WikiProject:? 100 kilobytes? That seems a gross underestimate... Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [WikiEN-l] Destructionism

2010-08-15 Thread Carcharoth
edit warring that becomes more likely as the age of Wikipedia increases and the page versions for any one page increases as well. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] Page loading

2010-08-12 Thread Carcharoth
Seems fine to me (I'm in the UK). Carcharoth On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Alan Liefting alieft...@ihug.co.nz wrote: Pages with 100s of references seem to be slow to load all of the listed references. Is this a server speed thing? Or is it our slow internet in NZ? Try it with http

Re: [WikiEN-l] FBI vs. Wikipedia

2010-08-10 Thread Carcharoth
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:47 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: ... Oh wait, I found a page here: http://www.fbi.gov/priorities/priorities.htm That would be a better source for images, but the images

Re: [WikiEN-l] FBI vs. Wikipedia

2010-08-10 Thread Carcharoth
, but you could link from here to there. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] FBI vs. Wikipedia

2010-08-10 Thread Carcharoth
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: So, is this possible section appropriate or over the top: snip In principle fine, but would be better discussed on the talk page

Re: [WikiEN-l] FBI vs. Wikipedia

2010-08-10 Thread Carcharoth
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: So, is this possible section appropriate or over the top

Re: [WikiEN-l] FBI vs. Wikipedia

2010-08-10 Thread Carcharoth
on this, but I'm not going to discuss it on a mailing list (I don't mind discussing deletion debates, but discussing article editing at this level of detail feels wrong). It really does need to be discussed on-wiki. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] FBI vs. Wikipedia

2010-08-09 Thread Carcharoth
, given that most currencies now use security methods that no high-resolution image will help with when counterfeiting. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Currency#Counterfeiting_tag Carcharoth On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:43 AM, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote: I think the high resolution helps

Re: [WikiEN-l] FBI vs. Wikipedia

2010-08-09 Thread Carcharoth
the years. For all images, you really do want to try and find the most reliable source possible, not some random website. Carcharoth On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: Well, I tried that and quickly found http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FBI_Badge.jpg

Re: [WikiEN-l] FBI vs. Wikipedia

2010-08-09 Thread Carcharoth
stuff makes a difference here (in the US at least), so you need explicit permission from the *photographer* to use the image. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] FBI vs. Wikipedia

2010-08-09 Thread Carcharoth
, but that would likely get swallowed amongst the legal arguments about badge impersonation (and I think Fred is wrong there). Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] FBI vs. Wikipedia

2010-08-09 Thread Carcharoth
of changing design and issuing new badges or identification cards. Please Google the number of sites offering badges for sale. I dread to think how many are sting operations. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from

Re: [WikiEN-l] FBI vs. Wikipedia

2010-08-09 Thread Carcharoth
involved citations of 18 U.S.C. §701, which is one of the statutes being cited here as well. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [WikiEN-l] FBI vs. Wikipedia

2010-08-09 Thread Carcharoth
of Defense Top Secret (TS) clearance and Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information (CNWDI). Remember this all took place when Brad Patrick was WMF lawyer. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] FBI vs. Wikipedia

2010-08-09 Thread Carcharoth
a genuine FBI badge and finding who took this photograph). Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] FBI vs. Wikipedia

2010-08-09 Thread Carcharoth
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Shane Simmons avicenna...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/9/10, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 7:26 PM, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote: What is needed is a way  to find a genuine FBI badge and find someone willing to photograph

Re: [WikiEN-l] FBI vs. Wikipedia

2010-08-09 Thread Carcharoth
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: Actually if the FBI approached me I would know them by their manner, which is quite distinctive, although not impossible to mimic. {{citation needed}} :-) Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] FBI vs. Wikipedia

2010-08-09 Thread Carcharoth
as official images and the photography license are concerned. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] FBI vs. Wikipedia

2010-08-09 Thread Carcharoth
image, in preference to a poor and dubious one, if we keep any. I think all images relating to the FBI should be taken from and sourced to their photo gallery. Seems the most logical thing to do. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] FBI vs. Wikipedia

2010-08-09 Thread Carcharoth
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:37 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 August 2010 20:26, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: I think all images relating to the FBI should be taken from and sourced to their photo gallery. Seems the most logical thing to do. The obvious steps

Re: [WikiEN-l] FBI vs. Wikipedia

2010-08-08 Thread Carcharoth
I would hope we don't have the spectacle of each round of correspondence being published in the New York Times. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] FBI vs. Wikipedia

2010-08-08 Thread Carcharoth
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 2:16 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 August 2010 14:03, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: I agree. Which is why such arguments should be kept private. I'm still mystified as to why this ended up in a national newspaper. The bare facts

Re: [WikiEN-l] FBI vs. Wikipedia

2010-08-08 Thread Carcharoth
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 2:23 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 August 2010 14:22, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 2:16 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Possibly the WMF lawyer and PR person know more about the law and PR than you do

Re: [WikiEN-l] Destructionism

2010-08-07 Thread Carcharoth
(or received wisdom) changes. In that case, I default to the status quo on en-wp, which I think is better than not, as I'm sure most of us do. Maybe Constructionism as an opposite to Destructionism? I think another term used is eventualism. Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] Destructionism

2010-08-07 Thread Carcharoth
integration with the existing articles. I sometimes think getting an article to FA-status too soon can impede its future development. There is a right moment to push for an article to get to FA level, and there is a wrong moment as well. Carcharoth

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