Re: [WikiEN-l] Another notability casualty

2010-02-26 Thread Luna
from that issue, though, a Draft namespace does sound like a smoother workflow, as you suggest. If you can't get a canonical namespace in, Wikipedia:Drafts/Page[/Version] might not be a bad naming convention. -- Luna Santin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Luna_Santin

Re: [WikiEN-l] Googley comments

2009-09-02 Thread Luna
that it's only viewed by you on your own searches, if not necessarily as a matter of policy), but I notice the button to submit a comment is labelled Make a public comment; confusing! -Luna ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] When an article is in full protection.

2009-08-18 Thread Luna
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Al Tally majorly.w...@googlemail.comwrote: If there is talk page consensus, does the page really still need to be fully protected? Not all protection is in response to edit warring. First example to come to mind: high-use templates. -Luna

Re: [WikiEN-l] Request to Wikipedians for BBC Documentary

2009-08-18 Thread Luna
a shift from notability to maintainability as a primary inclusion guideline. Lack of suitable sourcing makes maintenance difficult, because it's that much harder for us to be sure of accuracy and NPOV. If nothing else, the two ideas might complement each other well. -Luna

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia approaches its limits - Technology Guardian

2009-08-13 Thread Luna
Maybe we should stop reverting vandalism. It would improve our statistics, after all. -Luna ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Report a Problem hack

2009-08-11 Thread Luna
a project finally giving this a go, and I'm very curious to hear how it works out for them. I wish them good luck. -Luna ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [WikiEN-l] Do experts have a moral obligation to contribute to Wikipedia?

2009-08-03 Thread Luna
to be clear, I didn't say anything in the post about experts having a moral obligation to contribute. The moral part of this conversation came in the form of a comment from a person who dugg the blog post. Thanks for the clarification. -Luna ___ WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Do experts have a moral obligation to contribute to Wikipedia?

2009-08-02 Thread Luna
we so direly need. -Luna ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] someone after non-active admin accounts

2009-08-01 Thread Luna
actually gets you all actions committed *by* a user, not necessarily targeting that user. To get log actions targeting a specific user, the title field needs to be User:Whatever. Like so: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?page=User:Wp_freedom_fighter -Luna

Re: [WikiEN-l] A modest proposal - a recap of resolution-l

2009-07-29 Thread Luna
. Your incessant term is a gross mischaracterization. Interesting that you deny making any personal attacks, and yet you immediately leap to defend specific comments, as if you knew exactly which ones I might be referring to. Hm! Anyway, you seem to have knocked that off lately. Thanks. -Luna

Re: [WikiEN-l] A modest proposal - a recap of resolution-l

2009-07-28 Thread Luna
to? -- are a but off-putting, as well. -Luna ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] If anyone ever says Wikipedia is too deletionist

2009-07-27 Thread Luna
, I believe we generally consider it non-free. Where the clear intent of a photo is to reproduce a given text verbatim, I should think that the original copyright on that text (if any) still applies. Photographing pages of a book doesn't suddenly render the book's copyright moot, for example. -Luna

Re: [WikiEN-l] Does this make any sense?

2009-07-18 Thread Luna
become a significant behavioral issue, without necessarily commenting for or against it. Looks like the block expired two weeks ago, ish. Not that I'm trying to stifle discussion, just hoping to make that clear for perspective. -Luna ___ WikiEN-l mailing

Re: [WikiEN-l] Oversight or RevisionDelete

2009-07-16 Thread Luna
, the majority of cases I see are terribly mundane, Foo is dumb and his phone number is xxx-xxx- types. -Luna ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [WikiEN-l] Nofollow and sister projects

2009-06-24 Thread Luna
, all templates are simply expanded into plain old wikitext on the page to be displayed. -Luna ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] What sparked your interest in Wikipedia? (was Google thinks Wikipedia is a news source)

2009-06-17 Thread Luna
to be part of something greater than oneself, and to aid in the work of so many others, was something I just couldn't pass up. For better or worse, there's never a dull day on the wiki. -Luna ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] I love SEOs

2009-06-16 Thread Luna
help but use our services. -Luna ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Date conditional switching templates

2009-05-12 Thread Luna
date | date}} This might have some problems with page cache, and honestly I'm a bit dubious about its utility, but from a template standpoint it shouldn't be too hard. -Luna On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:41 PM, stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] someone after non-active admin accounts

2009-05-11 Thread Luna
*, the security gained in removing those rights seems questionable. Sanity checks might work in a small community, but assuming a user has been gone for years, I don't see the utility. -Luna ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe

Re: [WikiEN-l] Why infoboxes are good

2009-01-29 Thread Luna
anyone would want to avoid the boxes. It's not just bots that want information in an easily parsed format. -Luna On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.comwrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:52 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger

Re: [WikiEN-l] Why infoboxes are good

2009-01-29 Thread Luna
for ideas. -Luna ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l