On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
Really, if it's on Central Notice, it doesn't need to be anywhere
else. It was a little difficult to miss.
Since a large majority of users block CN messages because of the large
amount of what some would call spam in
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote:
One can't really complain about not being inform about things if they
choose to block out one of the major channel of public notice
I'm not going to start the whole debate on If CN is a notice service,
what it should be
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
I find it highly unlikely that most people have blocked them. You
don't strengthen your argument by using hyperbole.
I based that comment it on the few hundred Omg how do we get rid of
these notices on the notice
Even with Wikipedia around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death
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On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:19 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
I suspect that the remaining users of the classic skin do not
constitute an obvious and overwhelming veto.
I also suspect that anyone that interested in the classic skin is
going to have to submit patches themselves.
Since
You can try tracerouting it.
In Windows XP:
* Start
* Run
* cmd
* tracert www.wikipedia.org
and that will tell you where your connection is dying.
For example this what the traceroute may return:
C:\Documents and Settings\AAAtracert www.wikipedia.org
Tracing route to text.pmtpa.wikimedia.org
# 18
11:51, Sep 04, Agatha Christie, GB
How dare they reveal the name of the murderer, after the book had only
been available fifty-four years! This is the sort of outrageous
circumstance up with which I *shall not put*.
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So what is the back story to all of this? and can someone do a tldr
version of the first link?
-Peachey
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On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:00 PM, stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote:
I was wondering how you were doing.
By the way, Medcom has a backlog and needs more members. Dispute
resolution seems to be in need of some overhauling again anyway. Might
be a place where some leadership would help.
-SC
I
Limited usage image tags? please expand so people actually know what
your talking about?
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If you mean [[Mediawiki:Bad Image List]] none of those three images
from the last vandal hit are listed on the list.
-Peachey
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On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:01 PM, James Alexander jameso...@gmail.com wrote:
I know this was discussed a little while ago but do we have anything set up
in the way of global notices etc? Obviously a large portion of our userbase
(especially readers) don't see the mailing lists and we probably
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From: Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se
Date: Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:41 AM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Catching the death of living people
To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org
Does anybody have a bot or script that aligns the
categories
Perhaps in future we could send these to the incubator (unless their
BLP or the like) instead of deleting then see if the people want to
work on them?
-Peachey
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I just hope that the banner that recently was captured and displayed
on reddit[1] was a edit/joke because if it wasn't it shows how
pathetic and needy the community is to include that message.
[1]. http://localhostr.com/files/a9e4bc/bXIhj.jpg
- Peachey
Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote:
Any news about when the rest of us might enjoy move functionality for
files and not just articles?
After a testing pahse, it will be up to community discussion for
consensus most likely.
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:17 AM, stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Andrew
Turveyandrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote:
I feel like I've missed half the conversation here:
Motion To Disqualify a Candidate if it supplied misinformation to WP:ANI to
butress an argument with a block.
candidate for what?
Well with the lack of
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Samuel Kleinmeta...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Emily Monroebluecalioc...@me.com wrote:
I'd like it. Good for new page patrollers'.
+1 for neat little pop-ups and easy error reporting. Can we also do
something like this to report general
Wikipedia editors: Coverage of Israel 'problematic'
***
Wikipedia's coverage of Israel-related issues is problematic, leading
Israeli internet researchers claimed Sunday at the Wikipedia Academy 2009
Conference dealing
Are there any graphs/information around showing vandalisim levels
compared to the required number of edits required for autoconfirmed
status?
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Yes, but why *that* picture of Jimmy?
--
Sam
I would say that BBC gets all their photos though Getty Images, and
thats just the image that they had on file when BBC first wanted one
so that became their file photo for jimbo and has never updated it.
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:30 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
By Hakon Wium Lie of Opera:
http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2009/wikipedia/infobox/
What is the likelihood of making as much as possible CSS? How to make
infoboxes degrade gracefully for non-CSS browsers and IE users?
-
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
To be fair, the date preferences-as-wikilinks situation *had* led to
overlinking. I'm fairly liberal in terms of linking and tend to
overlink from the view of many people, but even I see that many of the
date links
All White Cat is saying is that the wikipedia needs markup(s) to
handle dates. And in fact, right now there are multiple markups
available, including American-style ones.
Thats not mark up, what your describing is style/layout. The markup
would be the wikicode surronding it it.
For example it
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Alvaro García alva...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey,
I have a question:
Every time I go to a movie page to know how it is, I read the Plot
section. However, I have realised that 95% of them write about key
twists or scenes and they even tell the ending. I have thought
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:17 PM, White Cat
wikipedia.kawaii.n...@gmail.com wrote:
I know all that. But thats really a minor software issue. We could for
example allow IP's to set such preferences. Or display a default dating
format based on the IP. If the IP is from the US, display the US
hard coded? This is news to me and news to the Manual of Style.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSNUM#Full_date_formatting
Perhaps you could provide some evidence to back up this assertion?
Almost all templates these days are designed to have dates entered in
a certain way and for a hint its
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/1/23 Wilhelm Schnotz wilh...@nixeagle.org:
Ah ok! I figured something was up as we never have polls that end so
fast! Thanks for posting here as I did not know otherwise!
If you've managed to miss the whole
now that it has been successfully tested elsewhere.
Where and what was capacity was the site? i know know about the
backlogs and such it would cause on somewhere huge like en.wiki even
with all the autoconfirmed users being reviewers or whatever the
term that they are using for it is now.
Here is another reason why we need BLP reform very soon: the ongoing edit war
over Rick Warren:
Revision history of Rick Warren:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rick_Warrenaction=history
Talk Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Rick_Warren
AN/I threads:
If it has been posted to the discussion already i'm sorry, heres a link to
the discussion http://www.bathrobecabal.org/bbcinterview.mp3
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On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Michael Bimmler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah... Am I the only one for whom this is slightly less-than-intuitive?
Should we maybe at least include a short hint on top or at the end of
the page (essentially your reply)?
Maybe I'm too much a book person, but when
It's been fixed in r44013 and replaced with a lightbulb!
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16481 although i
think that will still be confusing. you can see a demo of it here
http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Statistics?uselang=en
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