[WikiEN-l] McSweeney's: I Am Locking The Wikipedia Article On Our Sex Life

2009-12-12 Thread David Gerard
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/12/10trotter.html (spotted by mgodwin) - d. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

[WikiEN-l] Extracting main titles from enwiki-latest-all-titles-in-ns0.gz

2009-12-12 Thread Behrang Saeedzadeh
Hi, I have downloaded enwiki-latest-all-titles-in-ns0.gz and I want to extract main titles and store them in another file. For example, some titles have meta information (e.g. disambiguation etc.) and I want these to be removed. Can I remove all the text between parentheses from the titles to

Re: [WikiEN-l] Extracting main titles from enwiki-latest-all-titles-in-ns0.gz

2009-12-12 Thread David Gerard
This is probably not the right place, you would want wikitech-l (where I've cc'ed this reply). - d. 2009/12/11 Behrang Saeedzadeh behran...@gmail.com: Hi, I have downloaded enwiki-latest-all-titles-in-ns0.gz and I want to extract main titles and store them in another file. For example,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Extracting main titles from enwiki-latest-all-titles-in-ns0.gz

2009-12-12 Thread Platonides
2009/12/11 Behrang Saeedzadeh behran...@gmail.com: Hi, I have downloaded enwiki-latest-all-titles-in-ns0.gz and I want to extract main titles and store them in another file. For example, some titles have meta information (e.g. disambiguation etc.) and I want these to be removed. Can I

Re: [WikiEN-l] Extracting main titles from enwiki-latest-all-titles-in-ns0.gz

2009-12-12 Thread Muhammad Abdul-Mageed {محمد عبدالمجيد}
Hi Behrang, I think you should be asking these types of questions on a list where people give advice on how to do things using a certain programming language (e.g., Python, Perl, etc.). For isnatnce, you can find lists related to Python here: http://www.python.org/community/lists/. Best,

[WikiEN-l] Random featured article...

2009-12-12 Thread Bod Notbod
What's the best namespace or place to make a proposal that en:wp have a random *featured* article button? As anyone who uses the random article link knows it often turns up places of small geographical interest. We now have a pretty damn good library of featured content. I'd really enjoy being

Re: [WikiEN-l] Technology Guardian article on global article distribution

2009-12-12 Thread geni
2009/12/3 geni geni...@gmail.com: 2009/12/3 Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/02/wikipedia-known-unknowns-geotagging-knowledge Mark Graham writes. Map of density by geo-tagging round the world, and a sensible comment that broadband

Re: [WikiEN-l] Random featured article...

2009-12-12 Thread altally
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote: What's the best namespace or place to make a proposal that en:wp have a random *featured* article button? As anyone who uses the random article link knows it often turns up places of small geographical interest. We now

Re: [WikiEN-l] Random featured article...

2009-12-12 Thread Amory Meltzer
These two links may be of interest to you: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/random/enwiki-featured.php http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/random/enwiki-good.php As found on [[User:Csörföly D/random featured article]] ~Amory ___ WikiEN-l mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] Random featured article...

2009-12-12 Thread Bod Notbod
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Amory Meltzer amorymelt...@gmail.com wrote: These two links may be of interest to you: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/random/enwiki-featured.php http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/random/enwiki-good.php As found on [[User:Csörföly D/random featured

Re: [WikiEN-l] Random featured article...

2009-12-12 Thread quiddity
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote: What's the best namespace or place to make a proposal that en:wp have a random *featured* article button? It's essentially already there in the sidebar (3rd link down): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Featured_content

Re: [WikiEN-l] Random featured article...

2009-12-12 Thread Carcharoth
As Quiddity pointed out, we have this random featured article feature already. Question is, why is it not obvious? Does it need to made clearer that we already have this? To be fair, I was unaware of the toolserver ones. Is that something different, meaning we have *two* ways to access a random