On 21 April 2010 05:43, Huib! abi...@forgotten-beauty.com wrote:
Participation announcements for Wiki meet-up
I'm sure there is a Wiki meet-up every weekend around the globe, posting
this information to this list will probably spam. People interested in
joining wiki meet-ups would find it in
On 21 Apr 2010, at 16:08, Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 21 April 2010 05:43, Huib! abi...@forgotten-beauty.com wrote:
Participation announcements for Wiki meet-up
I'm sure there is a Wiki meet-up every weekend around the globe,
posting
this information to this list will probably spam. People
On 21 April 2010 16:54, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote:
P.S. I'm looking forward to the day when we can have geolocated
sitenotices for advertising meetups etc...
As long as you are happy with only logged in users seeing it, it
should be possible to implement rather easily, I'm not sure
Dear world: Help wanted. Plz send a rowboat and a few paddles.
It’s no secret by now that a volcano in Iceland with an
unpronounceable name decided to get cranky this week and stranded
hundreds of thousands of people all over the world.
With that out of the way, Did you know… that half the
At the opposite end of the scale from FA, I often look at links from
articles being proposed for deletion by various processes, and daily
I encounter equally questionable non-notable subjects or very
promotional articles, where sometime dozens of people have made typo
or style corrections, or
Philippe,
Good to know that all are safe and sound. Even better that we are using the
time effectively.
Reading the first line, I thought you guys are stuck without food, cloths
and shelter and we have to request governments/our beloved de
wikimedians/our friends in and around Berlin to send
Correcting articles which shouldn't be there in the first place is probably
a waste of time, but searching for grammatical and technical errors is a
pretty good way to find such articles. I often do it.
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 20:45, David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com wrote:
At the opposite end
Your email is a bit too black and white: There are important articles in
Humanities, not just in exact sciences, and a Bob Dylan album is arguably a
touch more important than a South Park episode.
But in general you make an important point. In the Hebrew Wikipedia several
prominent editors
On Apr 21, 2010, at 8:54 AM, Michael Peel wrote:
On 21 Apr 2010, at 16:08, Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 21 April 2010 05:43, Huib! abi...@forgotten-beauty.com wrote:
Participation announcements for Wiki meet-up
I'm sure there is a Wiki meet-up every weekend around the globe,
posting
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Your email is a bit too black and white: There are important articles in
Humanities, not just in exact sciences, and a Bob Dylan album is arguably a
touch more important than a South Park episode.
But in
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote:
I'm glad to see that the resolved bugs include this one:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23223
Hope you all manage to escape Germany sooner rather than later.
Mike
Clearly not FIXED they are still in
I'm writing this in the proper style, according to MZMcBride.
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Philippe Beaudette
pbeaude...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear world: Help wanted. Plz send a rowboat and a few paddles.
The world respectfully invites you to construct a trans-Atlantic vessel
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Seriously, help Americans find Iceland. Donating to Wikimedia can do that.
Not a joke.
*I can't find the source, but that is a true survey.
--
~Keegan
The miss {world/america} thing when the contestant made the
What's the point of using a phonetic alphabet that 95% of our
readership can't interpret? If the idea is to help readers understand
how a word is pronounced in English, it should actually be useful to
the majority of readers and not largely useless but academically
perfect.
Nathan
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:44 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
The miss {world/america} thing when the contestant made the comment
about the maps a few years ago?
Haha, looks like we have an Amazing Race watcher here. :P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitlin_Upton#Infamous_response
Hoi,
A lot of so called IPA out there is created by Americans for Americans and
expect that certain sounds can be expressed by the ordinary Latin
characters. The consequence is that such polution makes the whole of IPA
hard to use.
Consequently I argue that in order to save the usefulness of IPA
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote:
Hoi,
A lot of so called IPA out there is created by Americans for Americans and
expect that certain sounds can be expressed by the ordinary Latin
characters. The consequence is that such polution makes the whole
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