Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Renaming Flagged Protections

2010-05-26 Thread phoebe ayers
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@robla.net wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:15 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.comwrote: On further thought... what about Pending edits ? I do like pending as part of the name, especially if this is the name going on the UI for the

Re: [WikiEN-l] Renaming Flagged Protections

2010-05-26 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi everyone, It looks like the discussion on the name is dying down, so I'd like to summarize what I think we've heard here: 1. There's no clear favorite out there. In addition to the two ideas we put forward (Pending Revisions and Double Check), there's been quite a bit of discussion around

Re: [WikiEN-l] declining numbers of EN wiki admins

2010-05-26 Thread Ryan Delaney
Pretty much. That's more or less why I quit the project. On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:51 PM, The Cunctator cuncta...@gmail.com wrote: By all measures, en.wiki has been in decline for years as an active project. It's just the typical death by bureaucracy that most projects like this undergo.

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Renaming Flagged Protections

2010-05-26 Thread Rob Lanphier
Hi Phoebe, Replies inline... On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:12 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Rob Lanphier ro...@robla.net wrote: We're planning to change label of the Pending changes tab to Pending revision, since what people will see when they

Re: [WikiEN-l] declining numbers of EN wiki admins

2010-05-26 Thread David Goodman
Are you saying that a _declining_ number of administrators means a _growth_ in bureaucracy? It would normally mean the opposite, either a loss of control, or that the ordinary members were taking the function upon themselves. What I see is a greater degree of control and uniformity, not driven

Re: [WikiEN-l] declining numbers of EN wiki admins

2010-05-26 Thread MuZemike
We need to remember that correlation does not imply causation here, which I think is what David is slightly hinting at. There are probably many other factors in admin decline as well, including increased popularity of Wikipedia (which leads and has led to a lot more problems, good and bad),

Re: [WikiEN-l] List of Rivers of Egpyt - what to do?

2010-05-26 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: If you do get a developer to do that, can you also ask for the what links here thing to distingush between links provided by template content and links provided by article content (i.e. non-template content)?

Re: [WikiEN-l] List of Rivers of Egpyt - what to do?

2010-05-26 Thread Carcharoth
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:47 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: If you do get a developer to do that, can you also ask for the what links here thing to distingush between links provided by template