Re: The wikipedia trolls may win again :-/

Charlie Bell wrote: On 29/12/2009, at 3:44 AM, David Hobby wrote: Alberto-- Wow, I guess it is my place to battle. I've been going back and forth with the "troll", at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Alvin_Hph-wayuo Some of this is because I don't really understand his criteria, or what

Re: The wikipedia trolls may win again :-/

On 12/28/2009 5:18, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Yes, it's a stub, and fortunately so. Another stupid decision made in the English wikipedia was that spoilers are _not_ marked as such. Just take a look a the article about English Wikipedia does provide standard spoiler warning templates, but unlike

Re: SciFi and Fantasy(?) Wiki

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: > > > Just installed ReCaptcha... but it doesn't seem to be working yet. I'll > get that going. > Actually, it is working... I just didn't realize the conditions under which it triggers. Nick ___ ht

Re: SciFi and Fantasy(?) Wiki

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Trent Shipley wrote: > > I had HUGE problems with vandalism, but hardly random vandalism. It was > all in the cause of porn sites and aphrodisiac catalogs trying to > improve their search order on GOOGLE. At the time Mediawiki recommended > using its CAPTCHA plu

Re: SciFi and Fantasy(?) Wiki

Nick Arnett wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Trent Shipley > wrote: > > Nick Arnett wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:58 AM, > > >> wrote: >

Re: SciFi and Fantasy(?) Wiki

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Trent Shipley wrote: > Nick Arnett wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:58 AM, > > wrote: > > > > I did not send the original to the list. Feel free to forward this > > to the list. > > > > I'm partial to MediaWiki

SciFi and Fantasy(?) Wiki

Nick Arnett wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:58 AM, > wrote: > > I did not send the original to the list. Feel free to forward this > to the list. > > I'm partial to MediaWiki. > > > I have installed MediaWiki here: > > http://www.nickarnett.net/sfwik

Re: The wikipedia trolls may win again :-/

On 29/12/2009, at 3:44 AM, David Hobby wrote: > > > Alberto-- > > Wow, I guess it is my place to battle. I've been going > back and forth with the "troll", at: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Alvin_Hph-wayuo > > Some of this is because I don't really understand his > criteria, or what the

Re: The wikipedia trolls may win again :-/

David Hobby wrote: > Alberto Monteiro wrote: >> David Hobby wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Hph-wayuo >>> Alberto-- >>> >>> Hi. I think you can make a good case to keep it, >>> since it involves a major character in a series >>> of popular science fiction novels. >>> >> No, not my

Re: The wikipedia trolls may win again :-/

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: And... anybody have a logo? Nick ___ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: The wikipedia trolls may win again :-/

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:58 AM, wrote: > I did not send the original to the list. Feel free to forward this to the > list. > > I'm partial to MediaWiki. I have installed MediaWiki here: http://www.nickarnett.net/sfwiki/ We can create a domain name for it and point it there when we're ready

Re: The wikipedia trolls may win again :-/

On 28/12/2009, at 11:23 AM, tship...@deru.com wrote: > Let's be more ambitious. I've gone the other way and reduced the scope to just Uplift. It's currently hosted on Wikia, and I've only just started dumping some of the lists (along with the Alvin stub) from Wikipedia to it, so it's not an issue

Re: Avatar

Agreed. Just got back from seeing it. Wow. The movie business just jumped into another dimension with this one. I had two Brin-L related thoughts while watching this movie: 1) Did Brin come up with the name Unobtainium? and 2) Hollywood is definitely ready to do "Startide Rising"! On Sat, De

Re: The wikipedia trolls may win again :-/

Alberto Monteiro wrote: David Hobby wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Hph-wayuo Alberto-- Hi. I think you can make a good case to keep it, since it involves a major character in a series of popular science fiction novels. No, not my language, not my place to battle. I've tried to ke

Re: The wikipedia trolls may win again :-/

David Hobby wrote: > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Hph-wayuo > > Alberto-- > > Hi. I think you can make a good case to keep it, > since it involves a major character in a series > of popular science fiction novels. > No, not my language, not my place to battle. I've tried to keep the Po