Re: [WikiEN-l] Firefox extension: Smarter Wikipedia

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9825 Anyone used this? - d. It seems to do absolutely nothing. Fred ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fox News on Obama Wikipedia article controversy

Fox News has a story on the controversy regarding Barack Obama's Wikipedia entry: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,507244,00.html Your thoughts? William King (Willking1979) There is probably no reliable source showing a substantive relationship between Bill Ayers and Barack Obama.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Dealing with disappearing online sources

Guilty as charged. http://tinyurl.com/ch3wdf I searched archive.org, webcitation, and a few other (using the firefox resurrect page extension) for an archived version of the link. Found nothing so I removed the dead source and added a {{fact}} tag. On hindsite I should have tried a google

Re: [WikiEN-l] Deletion for its own sake (was MUD history)

Wikipedia's War on Gaming History and Threshold RPG Article by Michael Hartman (4,659 pts ) Published on Jan 10, 2009 Wikipedia is currently dominated by a powerful deletionist movement. MUDs and Gaming History are frequent targets, and Threshold RPG recently found itself in the Wikipedian

Re: [WikiEN-l] MUD history dissolving into the waters of time

Nothing exceptional about this, of course: http://www.massively.com/2009/01/06/mud-history-dissolving-into-the-waters-of-time/ Sigh. http://www.zenofdesign.com/2009/01/06/wikipedia-is-what-it-is/ ___ WikiEN-l mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] MUD history dissolving into the waters of time

The only hit MUD gets on Wikia now is http://dragonheart.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Dragonheart, a MUD created in 1995, but the wiki is completely neglected. I'll go ahead and ask for a Wikia site. Fred A lot of the early internet stuff isn't well documented by today's deletion discussion

Re: [WikiEN-l] MUD history dissolving into the waters of time

The only hit MUD gets on Wikia now is http://dragonheart.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Dragonheart, a MUD created in 1995, but the wiki is completely neglected. I'll go ahead and ask for a Wikia site. Fred http://requests.wikia.com/index.php?title=Mudaction=purge

Re: [WikiEN-l] MUD history dissolving into the waters of time

Wikipedia editors should really have enough knowledge about their subject matter to make choices based on good judgement rather than strict adherence to flawed guidelines. Any guideline, law or contract doesn’t absolve one from using one’s brain — these things are just frameworks for handling

Re: [WikiEN-l] MUD history dissolving into the waters of time

No, it doesn't belong on Wikipedia. It is not notable, just one of the thousands of failed, or infrequently used MUDs on the web. Threshold is quite different. It has, and had, a nice player base and notable characteristics. http://blog.dillfrog.com/?p=46 Fred Hello, When it became clear that

Re: [WikiEN-l] Scientists told publish in Wikipedia or else

2008/12/16 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081216/full/news.2008.1312.html What could possibly go wrong? (Urgent outreach needed from relevant wikiprojects!) Sounds like a fantastic idea. Only problem seems to be that they publish the wikipedia

Re: [WikiEN-l] Anti-intellectualism

Avoiding making this a de facto RFC on a given article... I've been getting into a fairly nasty feud on a popular culture article in which I added an academic criticism section, summarizing articles I could find on the subject. This seems to me well-supported by numerous policies. But it

Re: [WikiEN-l] Ayn Rand and Wikipedia

This is closer to Ayn's own view. My take on her view is an altruist, is someone who gives up something our of their own *needs* (i.e. not their excess) to someone else who has done nothing to deserve it. Ayn was not against giving your excess to charity. Ayn Rand never got to see

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