Re: [WikiEN-l] Short featured articles

2011-09-16 Thread petr skupa
Happy that that finally happened... short, nevertheless still complete, that gives me quite a satisfactory feeling while reading. Petr [[u:Reo On]] On 9/14/11, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: Today's featured article is all of 6 paragraphs long. Discuss.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Get payed $150 for writing an article!

2011-09-16 Thread petr skupa
Seems to be surprisingly common practice there...: http://www.freelancer.com/search/wikipedia/ Petr [[u:Reo_On]] On 9/16/11, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Facepalm?

2011-10-04 Thread petr skupa
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.comwrote: FWIW, I've known the face-palm gesture for ages, and never knew it was in any way related to Star Trek. I suspect our article on the topic may be slightly over-egging things there. I've used and seen the facepalm

Re: [WikiEN-l] Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-07 Thread petr skupa
for a political purpose, but just to say that if the bill gets approved, wikipedia would not be useful anymore, so it would have to die. * With regards Petr Skupa [[User:Reo On]] On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Rob Schnautz bobthewikiped...@gmail.comwrote: Woah. I just checked

Re: [WikiEN-l] Point me to discussions with newcomers about notability?

2011-10-10 Thread petr skupa
to not rise the expectation after few first edits too high) In sum, I believe more in slow start of newbies, because it is going to hurt them less and it is going to let them get more of appreciation of their work. Petr Skupa [[u:Reo On]] On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Ron Ritzman ritz...@gmail.com

Re: [WikiEN-l] Readers clicking through to talk pages

2011-10-12 Thread petr skupa
Not so bad idea, I like the templates and those informations very much. However, if such info could be on some third tab I might be happy. regards Petr Skupa [[u:Reo On]] On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Angela Anuszewski angela.anuszew...@gmail.com wrote: Personally, I've given up on talk

Re: [WikiEN-l] Readers clicking through to talk pages

2011-10-12 Thread petr skupa
Ian Woollard: do You know their motivation? I see this oversensitivity to the external links in czech Wikipedia too. I am not that much hurt by their removal, what is hurting me is that the cleaners are sometimes treating (in my opinion) well-intentioned outsiders as spammers. Reo On Wed, Oct

Re: [WikiEN-l] Point me to discussions with newcomers about notability?

2011-10-12 Thread petr skupa
I don't know of any good way in which to guide newcomers towards that direction, though, especially in a come-and-go-type environment such as this. When I came to Wikipedia, .. years back then.. I really liked the idea of stubs being sorted by the field of interest. I liked it and started to

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Feedback Dashboard launched today

2011-10-30 Thread petr skupa
Really nice idea :). And it seems that the newbies love it! Petr On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:19 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Howie Fung hf...@wikimedia.org Date: 28 October 2011 01:42 Subject: [Foundation-l] Feedback Dashboard

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia holiday decreed: Justin Knapp Day

2012-04-24 Thread petr skupa
Even so, the number is just awesome by itself. 1 000 000 I would never imagine to see such editcount! Amazing. Petr [[u:Reo On]] Skupa On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Phil Nash phn...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: A million? Personally, I prefer quality over quantity. He's not that good. -

Re: [WikiEN-l] Thank you, thank you!

2012-04-26 Thread petr skupa
Dear Audrey I only hope that we have provided you such an quality information on the motivation of Wikipedians, you had expected, given that the readers of this maillist are not necessarily just the most ordinary and so the most representative users :). I wish You good luck with your project and