Apparently we're conspiring with Microsoft.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nike6/3457023387/
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:33 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Apparently we're conspiring with Microsoft.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nike6/3457023387/
Damn, they found out! Quick, grab the money stash, I'll get our
tickets to Vanuatu!
Magnus
Black velvet? Gah, so 2006. You obviously cancelled your Wikipedian
In-Style magazine when you handed in your sysop bit. Further, I'm
afraid the check from Microsoft has long since been spent on paperclips
and cheese fondues at the Secret UK reunion.
Durova wrote:
Magnus: Vanuatu changed its
It seems they spotted our cunning plan. But never fear - that was intended
to be discovered all along! The /real/ cabal's secret plan is Windows 7which
has Wikipedia built in as its preferred search engine. oh the billions
we'll make from those people who just /have/ to see the latest pokemon!
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2009/4/20 FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com:
It seems they spotted our cunning plan. But never fear - that was intended
to be discovered all along! The /real/ cabal's secret plan is Windows 7which
has Wikipedia built in as its preferred search engine. oh the billions
we'll make from
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:14 PM, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote:
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TINC! This must be dragged back on-list!
Yacht?? I feel cheated! Have you seen what microsoft is worth? I want global
rights in perpetuity to the search term [[Small purple blob (insignificant
pokemon object)]] on the
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.comwrote:
TINC! This must be dragged back on-list!
There is no cabal. And this isn't it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globster
Carcharoth
Eek! A potentially better search engine! (Can I buy stock in Carcharoth? :)
)
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:23 PM, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote:
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Eek! A potentially better search engine! (Can I buy stock in Carcharoth? :) )
Vegetable stock or chicken stock?
Carcharoth (feeling peckish)
[In all seriousness, disambiguation pages are a good way to find
obscure topics].
Recently, I've wanted the ability to edit the BBC webpages.
They had a page giving contradictory results at the US Masters after
the playoff. And today they had (may still have when you click on it)
this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/8000555.stm
After a week's rest boss
2009/4/20 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com:
Recently, I've wanted the ability to edit the BBC webpages.
Considering they've fired almost all the subs, they could probably do
with, how you say, crowdsourcing their proofreading.
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OMG, I actually edited the Pokemon article after the weekend. I feel so..
.dirty ;-)
Angela
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:08 PM, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote:
It seems they spotted our cunning plan. But never fear - that was intended
to be discovered all along! The /real/ cabal's secret plan is
That's.. that's worse than... [[Kenny (South Park character|killing Kenny]]
!
[off stage:] You... (all together now!)
FT2
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Angela Anuszewski
angela.anuszew...@gmail.com wrote:
OMG, I actually edited the Pokemon article after the weekend. I feel so..
2009/4/20 Angela Anuszewski angela.anuszew...@gmail.com:
OMG, I actually edited the Pokemon article after the weekend. I feel so..
.dirty ;-)
Don't worry, Windows 7 will fix that! [citation needed]
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Hudong.com is now bigger than us:
http://www.jlmpacificepoch.com/newsstories?id=139049_0_5_0_M
In fact they may have broken 3 million but I can't read
全球最大中文百科由全球1,016,360位网民共同编写而成。共计3,050,203词条，32.7亿文字
and I'm not totally certain their definition of article is the same as
ours. Still I think
I have set up a highly experimental (read: pre-pre-alpha) tool on the
toolserver to search for combinations of key/value pairs in templates.
Like TemplateTiger, but for the live site (one day...)
URL:
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/knights_template.php
(as in Knights Templar, sorry, couldn't
Yeah:
total of 3,050,203 entries, 3,270,000,000 words.
If the translation service I just used is giving me an accurate feel,
it seems a bit more facile than the wikipedia right now, and even less
well referenced and less accurate. But it's got more articles, and
it's still pretty new.
The Alexa
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:51:59 +0200, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
Hudong.com is now bigger than us:
http://www.jlmpacificepoch.com/newsstories?id=139049_0_5_0_M
In fact they may have broken 3 million but I can't read
全球最大中文百科由全球1,016,360位网民共同编写而成。共计3,050,203词条，32.7亿文字
and I'm not totally
I'm not too concerned. Their notability standards seem to be very loose, and
they have few of the trappings that we emphasize: BLP, neutrality, reliable
sourcing, brilliant prose, etc. The software is also much more focused on
social networking. Furthermore, Hudong is not free.
I also wonder
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