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From: Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org
Date: Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:58 PM
Subject: MathJax enabled on mediawiki.org
To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org
MathJax is now enabled as an experimental math rendering mode
We've built a small feature for US citizens that lets you look up your
representatives.
If you can help, please test it here:
http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CongressLookup?zip=yourzipcode
Replace yourzipcode with a ZIP code, e.g. 90210:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:07 PM, priyank bagrecha
bagi.priy...@gmail.com wrote:
Just curious to know, when we say that english wikipedia will be having a
blackout, does that also include the english wikipedia api?
No, except for write access.
We'll post a technical FAQ soon with some more
Ron Unz, a long-time Wikimedia supporter, alerted me to this personal
project that he's been working on for a long time:
http://www.unz.org/
It's an archive of periodicals, books, and videos, some of which
hosted there, some externally.
Examples:
http://www.unz.org/Publication/SaturdayRev
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From: Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org
Date: Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 5:15 PM
Subject: Please test multi-file selection
To: common...@lists.wikimedia.org
Multi-file selection, perhaps the single most requested feature for
UploadWizard, is now ready for testing on a staging wiki. Please
One of my favorite early Wikipedia articles (nerdy as that is) was a
page called Slashdot trolling phenomena which described all the most
common styles of Slashdot trolls. Of course, it was later nuked as
original research with insufficient sourcing, and is preserved only in
user-space:
Hi folks,
we're collecting some categorized examples of WL in use here, to
better understand how it's being used and what the pitfalls may be.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiLove/Stories
So far, we're seeing lots of examples of use exactly in the way it's
intended -- new users thanking each
Hello all,
This is a heads-up that tomorrow, we're planning to deploy the Article
Feedback Tool, which is currently on 3,000 English Wikipedia articles,
to a larger set of 100,000 articles. This initial expansion is
intended to further assess both the value and the performance
characteristics of
2011/3/5 Bob the Wikipedian bobthewikiped...@gmail.com:
Wait-- should this be an instructional video? I can do that, too.
Thanks a lot for your help, Bob! :-) A video more in the style of How
I use Twinkle on a day-to-day basis would be more useful to us than
an instructional video.
Thanks
Hi folks,
is there someone on this list who 1) routinely uses WP:TWINKLE, 2)
would volunteer to create a little screencast recording their everyday
usage of the tool? We're looking at ways those tools are used both for
good and bad, and a video from a regular user's point of view would be
a
2011/1/4 Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com:
WYSIWYG? WSYIWTF!
Nice :-)
Update : WYSIFTW now with auto-collapsed references!
This is a cool demo, thanks for making and sharing it. It's obviously
very buggy, but I think it's the first gadget that actually tries to
create a rich-text
2011/1/4 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
What are their thoughts on the Wikia WYSIWYG editor? I presume Wikia
did usability tests. I don't like the Wikia editor a lot (and find it
opaque), but I can cope with wikitext.
We've both done internal evaluations of the Wikia RTE, and had several
We were not consulted, and are currently fully examining this. It is not
official or endorsed by us.
Erik
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2010/11/9 Howie Fung hf...@wikimedia.org:
While the 2010 United States mid-term elections are behind us, there are
many other types of articles that may fit the bill (e.g., upcoming
movies, other elections, etc.). Right now we're targeting approximately
50 articles:
2010/10/7 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org:
On November 8, the Wikimedia Foundation will re-introduce banner ads.
And you'll see why 2010 won't be like ''2010''. (Cue shot of Erik
Möller staring at a monolith, which suddenly displays the
language-specific version of
Credo Reference ( http://www.credoreference.com/ , formerly Xrefer)
has generously agreed to provide up to 100 free accounts to their
reference library (more than 2 million articles from countless
reference works), for research purposes. If you might find this
useful, please go to
2009/10/27 David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com:
I am a little puzzled a tthe way it is implemented, from an apparent
role account user page. Is Mathias doing this as a personal project,
or an official WMF project?
Mathias has been working with Google on this as a community volunteer;
the
All,
this is a quick note to let you know that we've signed on two people,
William Pietri and Howie Fung, to help us on a contract basis with the
deployment of Flagged Revisions on the English Wikipedia.
William is an IT consultant and systems/software engineer; see his
userpage at
With all due respect to my friends in de.wp and speaking purely as a
community member, there are some valid points in the essay, but a page
title like Be cruel is IMO inherently unhelpful to our objective to
be a friendly and welcoming community.
Erik
2009/9/21 Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu:
It's hard to follow everything that goes on here, but I distinctly remember
when FlaggedRevisions was developed, and per my recollection openness was
not one of the original arguments that caused the foundation to contract its
development. If anyone
2009/8/31 Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org:
On 8/31/09 7:35 AM, Michael Peel wrote:
We've been planning to get a test setup together since conversations at
the Berlin developer meetup in April, but actual implementation of it is
pending coordination with Luca and his team.
My understanding
2009/8/26 Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com:
This post says that the Flagged protection and patrolled revisions
trial will put biographies of living people under flagged protection.
Eek, sorry for that. I've corrected the post and added a note to the
bottom summarizing the correction.
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2009/8/25 Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com:
As far as I can tell from IRC chats with some of the coders hanging
out with Brion at Wikimania, a lot of this is still up in the air but
this is still the closest thing to canon:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/08/26/a-quick-update-on-flagged-revisions/
Please reference if there's any further confusion about this.
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2009/8/20 Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com:
Is there a page to discuss the configuration(s) of ReaderFeedback?
The intent is to set up
http://readerfeedback.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page with a bit
more introductory text and then get the word out to start a
conversation about the
The Polish Wikipedia has hacked together a neat little pop-up tool for
reporting errors in articles. To see it, go to
http://pl.wikipedia.org/
click around, and follow the Zgłoś błąd link in the sidebar. If you
click the middle button, it gives you a form that you can use to
report an error with
2009/4/2 doc doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com:
Erik, or someone who knows, can you outline all the things de.wp does
differently from en.wp - and whether it has less of a problem with
legitimate subject complaints?
I'm mostly a tourist on de.wp, but my impression is that it's a combination of
-
2009/4/1 doc doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com:
Is it perhaps time, that we started to demand that basic sourcing was a
pre-requisite of creating an article on any living person?
Without commenting on this specific proposal, I thought it interesting
that the de.wikipedia.org community implemented a
2008/12/4 Gregory Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Instead I propose: Have javascript mediate the edit box so that inline
references are converted to little red [R] text, moving your cursor
into the [R] area by clicking or arrowkeying causes it to expand to
display the full reference. You can add
I'm sorry for being behind the curve on this, but could someone point
me to a discussion or policy explaining when why the requirement to
be autoconfirmed in order to upload files was created? Doesn't this
just shift whatever problem it tries to solve to Commons, which
doesn't have that
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