Re: [WikiEN-l] [Wikimedia-l] Offwiki

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 2:59 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Wil Sinclair wrote: Hi all, I've started a new wiki called Offwiki: http://offwiki.org. Our community discusses potential changes to Wikipedia and its Wikimedia sister projects that aren't easily discussed in forums like this

[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] VisualEditor on English Wikipedia

-- Forwarded message -- From: ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com Date: Jun 3, 2014 5:02 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] VisualEditor on English Wikipedia To: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Because VE has repeatedly been mentioned in this list as

[WikiEN-l] Wikipedian identity stronger than U.S. political partisanship, says study

is actually, unlike in the U.S. political blogosphere, not one of the more vicious ones among Wikipedians to begin with, so is in a way an easier case. A guess: a different fault line, like Israel/Palestine, might turn up less positive results. But in any case, it's an interesting read. -Mark

Re: [WikiEN-l] Another WP redesign

illustration. But at larger widths, you can put the side illustrations out in the margin, because there is tons of space. -Mark ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] The new narrowed focus by WMF

in India, with longer histories, have much more knowledge about the sticking points than we do. Plus, decentralization of operations and dissemination of funds to support decentralized operations seems rather in keeping with the general Wikimedia spirit. -Mark On 10/18/12 3:27 PM, David

Re: [WikiEN-l] links to open courses?

, imo it'd be appropriate for [[transformation matrix]] to link it, because that becomes more focused. Best, Mark ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

[WikiEN-l] on citing Wikipedia in U.S. court opinions

by Kawasaki. I guess the OED doesn't have a note on that yet? Or maybe they don't have OED subscriptions over at the court? Alternately, maybe they just liked the way we worded the explanation and wanted to quote it rather than re-explaining the same thing in their own words. -Mark

Re: [WikiEN-l] Otto Middleton (a morality tale)

them as a reliable source that does. Are there any cases where editors should have discretion to delete *actually* solidly verifiable information, like some piece of physics information sourced to multiple well-respected physics review articles? -Mark

Re: [WikiEN-l] Otto Middleton (a morality tale)

junk out of an article, while stopping short of entirely deleting and salting the article? -Mark ___ 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] Tabloid sources (was Wikipedia leadership})

at the list of recent publications by academic presses, there is a whole lot of social activism going on. Not that that's even necessarily bad; academic presses don't serve the same role as an encyclopedia. But it's strange to criticize Wikipedia from that standpoint! -Mark

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors}

even digs at academic opponents if the editors let them get away with it, which is why you can't really read an academic book without *also* reading a few journals' reviews of it. -Mark ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] WIKIPEDIA FOREVER

the sort of propaganda that totalitarian states produce. Throw in a picture of Jimbo giving the Roman salute and you're done. -- Mark ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] Admins can now rename files!

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 13:14, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/file-renaming-enabled-for-admins/ Again? Bets on how long it'll last this time? -- Mark [[User:Carnildo]] ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Featured churn

comprehensive two-paragraph article on an obscure-but-important mediaeval scribe could even be considered a Featured Article, if it was Pure Awesome in all other respects. But, thanks to feature creep ... * '''Oppose''', too short -- Mark Gallagher 0439 704 975 http://formonelane.net/ Even

Re: [WikiEN-l] MediaWiki is getting a new programming language

programming difficult. -- Mark [[User:Carnildo]] ___ 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] Nofollow and sister projects

, it gets nofollow; if it creates a two-bracket link, it doesn't. -- Mark [[User:Carnildo]] ___ 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

The thing about the template is that after the date it's useless; it can just be plain text. So, someone will come and remove it, which is just the same as having to update the date manually. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikialarm

Why is this needed when there are already RSS/Atom feeds for every article history? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peloponnesian_Warfeed=rssaction=history That's one, for example. Did they just happen to overlook that? From: Carcharoth

[WikiEN-l] And Wikipedia's best area of coverage is...

Tropical cyclones. Anyone surprised? That's followed by Illinois, and the Simpsons. I made a full list at User:Noble Story/Project stats. Actually, I was surprised at how good the Vital articles coverage was. 16% of the articles are approved, which is eleventh best. Not bad, as opposed to what

Re: [WikiEN-l] An open letter to Jimmy Wales

Wikipedia says Wikipedia was a complementary project for Nupedia. Citenzendium says Wikipedia was an accidental spin-off of Nupedia. Is there any reason to say that? How can a project be an accidental spin-off of something else? Noble Story From: Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Slashdot] The Role of Experts In Wikipedia

the articles that Wikipedia has without getting more and more editors. Another reason why being nice to newcomers and leaving a good first impression is so crucial. Obviously, as you can read in the Slashdot comments (and many other places), this is not Wikipedia's strength, at all. Mark Nilrad

Re: [WikiEN-l] Why infoboxes are good

and values from you. Cheers, -- Mark Gallagher 0439 704 975 http://formonelane.net/ Even potatoes have their bad days, Igor. --- Count Duckula ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit

Re: [WikiEN-l] Why infoboxes are good

and values from you. Cheers, -- Mark Gallagher 0439 704 975 http://formonelane.net/ Even potatoes have their bad days, Igor. --- Count Duckula ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit

Re: [WikiEN-l] Why infoboxes are good

-- although I suppose this would lead to edit wars over the use of such infoboxes in articles on rappers. -- Mark [[User:Carnildo]] ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Community vs. Scholarly Consensus

on troubled fires. Phil has hinted at it, but the primary reason we should be able to summarise and rephrase the words of humanities experts is that if we don't, our articles won't make any gosh-darned sense ... Cheers, -- Mark Gallagher 0439 704 975 http://formonelane.net/ Even potatoes have