Re: [WikiEN-l] A definite version of WP:CRYSTAL

2008-11-13 Thread Carcharoth
in the past and are saying now. Carcharoth ___ 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] Suggestion on how referencing system could be improved

2008-12-04 Thread Carcharoth
into flux, the sources often need to be redone or re-examined. Carcharoth ___ 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] Make your students edit Wikipedia for extra credit

2008-12-10 Thread Carcharoth
#Disruptive_school_project.3F I don't understand the problem with assigning editing Wikipedia to a classroom. Why not? See above link. The counter example is the Madness and Mayhem project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Murder_Madness_and_Mayhem Carcharoth

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

2008-12-18 Thread Carcharoth
books. Click the edit this page button up top. And away you go! :-) Carcharoth ___ 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] Subscription idea

2008-12-26 Thread Carcharoth
/ Carcharoth On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: Wtf go look in jstor- they happily assert copyright on hundreds of thousands of pre 1928 pd documents. On 12/25/08, wjhon...@aol.com wjhon...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 12/24/2008 2:46:15 PM Pacific

Re: [WikiEN-l] Subscription idea

2008-12-26 Thread Carcharoth
Yes. Though I'm not the one screaming here. :-) Carcharoth On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 7:30 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: OMG... THIS is what you are screaming about? Silly silly silly boy. They DO have a copyright to the PHOTOGRAPH you bazooka. They do NOT have a copyright to the plain text

Re: [WikiEN-l] Subscription idea

2008-12-26 Thread Carcharoth
wouldn't mention it except I've already had complaints this quicly. It's Christmas. Don't do anything based on what was said to me. :-) Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] NOR contradicts NPOV

2008-12-28 Thread Carcharoth
it, because it's consensus. Have you tried suggesting this change on the talk page and advertising the discussion at various relevant noticeboards and other project talk pages? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe

Re: [WikiEN-l] NOR contradicts NPOV

2008-12-28 Thread Carcharoth
spoiler in the subject line here... Carcharoth ___ 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] NOR contradicts NPOV

2008-12-28 Thread Carcharoth
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:10 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: 2008/12/29 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com: I can point to articles that source statements and claims to Tolkien's letters, or quotes from those letters. The articles should probably, more technically, point

Re: [WikiEN-l] NOR contradicts NPOV

2008-12-28 Thread Carcharoth
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 1:30 AM, The Cunctator cuncta...@gmail.com wrote: There is the problem that Derrida mostly wrote deliberately inscrutable nonsense. What's that sound of ghostly laughter I hear? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Speedy deletion

2008-12-31 Thread Carcharoth
that. Carcharoth ___ 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] NOR contradicts NPOV

2009-01-06 Thread Carcharoth
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:02 AM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: snip An object takes on increased significance, with the number of publications mentioning it. Do we want a work that has a list of the 3 billion known

Re: [WikiEN-l] NOR contradicts NPOV

2009-01-06 Thread Carcharoth
of oblique secondary mentions - but I don't consider those to be sources for the article, and would not include them when I add material. Consider those oblique secondary sources to be notability sources to allow the use of the primary sources. Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] Low citation quality in BLP articles

2009-01-06 Thread Carcharoth
? Or even over there? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Plagiarism#Another_view.2C_and_a_plea_for_guidance Hmm. That talk page needs archiving. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing

Re: [WikiEN-l] Low citation quality in BLP articles

2009-01-07 Thread Carcharoth
that, one of the biographical databases will help. Carcharoth ___ 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] Low citation quality in BLP articles

2009-01-07 Thread Carcharoth
to assess and judge and rank biographical sources for reliability. Carcharoth ___ 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] Low citation quality in BLP articles

2009-01-07 Thread Carcharoth
and inferences made by the editors of those articles. Discuss! :-) Carcharoth ___ 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] From Private Eye

2009-01-08 Thread Carcharoth
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Angela Anuszewski angela.anuszew...@gmail.com wrote: Excuse my ignorance, but excatly what is Private Eye? I looked it up in a handy online encyclopedia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Eye Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rank hath its privileges

2009-01-08 Thread Carcharoth
, and is less chaotic than ANI. At the moment, WT:RFAR is all there is for this is there a problem here pre-RFAR query - see a post made there by Masem on another issue that has garnered little response. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rank hath its privileges

2009-01-08 Thread Carcharoth
to the ArbCom mailing list discussions should probably also stay out of the discussion here. As a sitting arbitrator, I'm going to do exactly that and stop posting in this thread until the matter has been resolved. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] To boldy delete what no one had deleted before!

2009-01-11 Thread Carcharoth
we would have far fewer deletes. You might get arguments over links and redirections to or from or not (as the case may be) this namespace. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit

Re: [WikiEN-l] To boldy delete what no one had deleted before!

2009-01-11 Thread Carcharoth
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Ian Woollard ian.wooll...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/11 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com: That would mess up linking between articles. No, it would create red links, which would help people find the sub-par article and encourage them to improve it. Red

Re: [WikiEN-l] Interesting article on restored copyrights in US works between 1923 and 1964

2009-01-12 Thread Carcharoth
what should be happening with this image? Carcharoth ___ 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] Deletion for its own sake (was MUD history)

2009-01-13 Thread Carcharoth
happened there, though he may be unable to tell you much more. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OTRS Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] Interesting article on restored copyrights in US works between...

2009-01-13 Thread Carcharoth
to various places and people, and various histories being recorded for each separate copy. If the original provenance is lost, it can sometimes appear that a single photo has several different claims of ownership. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Consensus (was To boldy delete what no one had deleted before!)

2009-01-14 Thread Carcharoth
of editing the proposal With many refinements from experiences other people have had of such processes. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [WikiEN-l] To boldy delete what no one had deleted before!

2009-01-14 Thread Carcharoth
ever seen. It has been a long-standing axiom as far as I can remember that AfD is not cleanup. What *can* happen is someone closes as keep or no consensus, and then *adds* their opinion (or that of others) that cleanup is needed. But that is not a close of cleanup. Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] Consensus (was To boldy delete what no one had deleted before!)

2009-01-14 Thread Carcharoth
topics? Yes (why) No (why) No opinion. Better wording is of course welcome. There is a fiction-related questionnaire already by Pixelface (not everyone likes it though): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pixelface/Fiction_Survey_2008_draft Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] To boldy delete what no one had deleted before!

2009-01-14 Thread Carcharoth
survey like this, and finding someone willing to help with some moderate form of statistical analysis. The number of page views is also something that should have more prominence in the debate, in my opinion. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Interesting article on restored copyrights in US works between...

2009-01-16 Thread Carcharoth
as references). But what if there is no museum/library/archive image? Carcharoth ___ 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] Interesting article on restored copyrights in US works between...

2009-01-16 Thread Carcharoth
markets in old stuff. Which leads to hoarding. Carcharoth ___ 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] Announcing Epistemia, a new wiki encyclopedia

2009-01-16 Thread Carcharoth
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Thomas Larsen larsen.thoma...@gmail.com wrote: snip Epistemia aims to provide something better. How did you come up with the name, and what does it mean? :-) Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Announcing Epistemia, a new wiki encyclopedia

2009-01-16 Thread Carcharoth
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/17 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com: On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Thomas Larsen larsen.thoma...@gmail.com wrote: snip Epistemia aims to provide something better. How did you come up

Re: [WikiEN-l] Tracking spam for fun and profit

2009-01-18 Thread Carcharoth
as the application to track how many people view deleted revisions of a deleted page. Just go to a deleted page and plug the URL of the viewdeleted version for the page in question into the stats.grok.se thingy. If non-admins can't work out the URL, ask around and it should be simple to construct. Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] Watch out Wikipedia, here comes Britannica 2.0

2009-01-22 Thread Carcharoth
available in more than 250 languages and attracts about 700 million visitors annually. The English editon alone contains nearly 2.7 million articles. Britannica is 46 million words. Do we know how many *words* Wikipedia is? How many *articles* Britannica is? Carcharoth PS. That's an *awful* picture

Re: [WikiEN-l] BBC article on Flagged Revisions

2009-01-26 Thread Carcharoth
still have to wonder why, of all the photos of Jimbo that exist in the world, they picked the one of him in a dress. I think it is a Chinese top. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] BBC article on Flagged Revisions

2009-01-26 Thread Carcharoth
, but it was a GETTY image! Why not a freely licensed image? :-) A cropped version was used here: http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/biztech/battle-to-outgun-wikipedia-and-google/2009/01/22/1232471469973.html Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] BBC article on Flagged Revisions

2009-01-27 Thread Carcharoth
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changshan Carcharoth ___ 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] BBC article on Flagged Revisions

2009-01-27 Thread Carcharoth
it. But this is getting off-topic. Back to Flagged Revisions. What is the latest news? Carcharoth ___ 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] New technology, new errors

2009-01-29 Thread Carcharoth
, not the reversion. Carcharoth ___ 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] Flagged Revisions: de:wp 99.5% reviewed

2009-02-02 Thread Carcharoth
and good-faith misrepresentation of sources by poor or skewed writing. Carcharoth ___ 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] Flagged Revisions: de:wp 99.5% reviewed

2009-02-03 Thread Carcharoth
Wikipedia or a test wiki (is there one?). Carcharoth ___ 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] Wikipedia, the overly standarised Encyclopedia you wouldn't dare edit

2009-02-07 Thread Carcharoth
in the same article. Log out occasionally and see what the majority of our readers see. It can be quite a shock to have all the customised skins and user preferences taken away. Ditto for DVD and print versions of articles. Carcharoth On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 1:47 AM, White Cat wikipedia.kawaii.n

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged revisions in The Sunday Times

2009-02-08 Thread Carcharoth
Please remember that the archives of this mailing list are available for anyone to read. Carcharoth On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Alvaro García alva...@gmail.com wrote: Hehe great one. On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:20, Giacomo M-Z solebaci...@googlemail.comwrote: I am giving him the bio he so

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged revisions in The Sunday Times

2009-02-08 Thread Carcharoth
. Carcharoth ___ 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] Wikipedia, the overly standarised Encyclopedia you wouldn't dare edit

2009-02-08 Thread Carcharoth
style and define date names as well (eg: 2008-12-25|f=Friday, 25 December 2008|name=Christmas Day (2008)) 2008-12-25|f=Friday, 25 December 2008|name=Christmas Day (2008) That is rather complex. Most editors are not going to want to type that. Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia, the overly standarised Encyclopedia you wouldn't dare edit

2009-02-09 Thread Carcharoth
people started working (or resuming work) on a technical solution, there was too much momentum and the speed of the bot operations almost certainly discouraged those who had been working on technical solutions. Lots of bad-faith assumptions and foot-dragging and forcing solutions through. Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to raise the tone of the wiki

2009-02-09 Thread Carcharoth
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:12 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/2/9 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com: To pick another example. The reference desks (which I think are great) are technically a bit divorced from the encyclopedia building, but I think are a legitimate side

Re: [WikiEN-l] Yet another political alteration...

2009-02-11 Thread Carcharoth
website, and among the most popular stories: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/live_stats/html/map.stm Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] Spoiler-driven plots on movies articles

2009-02-11 Thread Carcharoth
on Wikipedia before buying it, or more likely, reading about the author. But I would, admittedly, be more likely to read a review somewhere, though I *might* come to Wikipedia to find a review through the article. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN

Re: [WikiEN-l] Desysopping

2009-02-11 Thread Carcharoth
statistical analysis or history of Wikipedia? Sorry, got a bit off-topic there! :-) Carcharoth ___ 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] Desysopping

2009-02-13 Thread Carcharoth
(for example), but the level and degree of the resulting problems may vary (and the encyclopedia is so large today that the behaviour is not always consistent across the whole anyway). Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] Desysopping

2009-02-14 Thread Carcharoth
Agree 100% with David (DGG) here. On the other hand, a careful combination of templates with personalised messages can also work. See this essay here for more on this type of approach: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ArielGold/Etiquette2 Carcharoth On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 7:47 PM, David

Re: [WikiEN-l] Short 3RR-like blocks for incivility

2009-02-15 Thread Carcharoth
someone doesn't give them the chance to retract their comments... Carcharoth ___ 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] [Slashdot] The Role of Experts In Wikipedia

2009-02-16 Thread Carcharoth
, the topic, or the environment. Sometimes it is all three. Carcharoth ___ 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] Is Copyrighted Freeware CCbySA?

2009-02-16 Thread Carcharoth
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote: Carcharoth wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Sam Korn smo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/2/16 Alvaro García alva...@gmail.com: Doesn't

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

2009-02-16 Thread Carcharoth
very satisfying to write a new article that has 10 or so incoming links already! :-) Carcharoth ___ 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] [Slashdot] The Role of Experts In Wikipedia

2009-02-17 Thread Carcharoth
) experts tend to prefer to write more limited, specialised articles. Sometimes the subsidiary articles need to be written to a good level before the general article can be tackled. Sometimes it is the other way round. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list

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

2009-02-17 Thread Carcharoth
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:39 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/2/17 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com: If these all count as low-hanging fruit, they may have been picked, but they haven't really ripened yet. Part of the trouble is that truly general, overview articles

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

2009-02-17 Thread Carcharoth
various articles. In this case, there isn't much mention of the medal in other articles, but for other orphaned articles there can be. And I should finish writing the article as well. It's still pretty stubby. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Short 3RR-like blocks for incivility

2009-02-18 Thread Carcharoth
, or they get incensed. Some people see it as no big deal, even if incorrect, as long as the incorrectness is acknowledged. Others get clase about being blocked, not realising that as the block build up, they acquire a reputation (though you can get a reputation without a lock log record). Carcharoth

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

2009-02-19 Thread Carcharoth
. I find examples of that fairly regularly, but am not sure how common it is. Carcharoth ___ 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] [Slashdot] The Role of Experts In Wikipedia

2009-02-20 Thread Carcharoth
). Carcharoth ___ 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] A short article is not a stub.

2009-02-22 Thread Carcharoth
that's been stuck on the bottom of 50 or so articles. Really annoying - categories was (is!) meant to avoid that. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] A short article is not a stub.

2009-02-22 Thread Carcharoth
* on the 4-month-old, but not the 2-year old: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stuart,_Duke_of_Kintyre The template at the bottom of that article seems overkill. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from

Re: [WikiEN-l] A short article is not a stub.

2009-02-23 Thread Carcharoth
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: Carcharoth wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: snip And another thing - I'd resist this in all cases where there was a place for a person

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia as therapy

2009-02-23 Thread Carcharoth
some interesting stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Memory_processes Carcharoth ___ 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] Anyone know a good mirror with indexed talk pages?

2009-02-25 Thread Carcharoth
/Wikipedia:Search_engine_indexing Carcharoth ___ 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] A short article is not a stub.

2009-02-26 Thread Carcharoth
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote 2009/2/23 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bowen It's a great example of maudlinism run rampant.  Why this 2

Re: [WikiEN-l] Start an Epidemic

2009-02-26 Thread Carcharoth
. But there will always be some level of incivility. How do you know when the levels are acceptable once again? When more articles are being written? My theory is that the articles still get written, just slower, and some article writers are lost for good (or never arrive). Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] Start an Epidemic

2009-03-02 Thread Carcharoth
. If the fairway is too broad, then too much slips through. Even if people agree on where the central point should be, what should be done when people disagree on how broad the fairway should be? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] A proposal to de-table Wikipedia infoboxes

2009-03-03 Thread Carcharoth
in the main country infoboxes? Here we go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States The weather articles are similarly stats- and table-heavy. I'm sure they are useful, but do people really use them? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] A proposal to de-table Wikipedia infoboxes

2009-03-03 Thread Carcharoth
is in the first sentence of Moon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon And wonders of wonders, it includes about thirty times the diameter of the Earth - which makes the data accessible and informative. :-) [Both Moon and Earth are featured articles, btw.] Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] History started in 1995

2009-03-04 Thread Carcharoth
of people have checked any particular reference and agreed with it, regardless of whether it is offline or online. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] BBC article on vandalism

2009-03-06 Thread Carcharoth
Obama, the succession boxes are inside a footer template! Barack Obama: 8 succession boxes 16 footer templates 46 categories I'm sure there is record somewhere for the most categories on an article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MostCategories That's out-of-date though. Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] BBC article on vandalism

2009-03-06 Thread Carcharoth
. Carcharoth ___ 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] Automatic death flagging?

2009-03-06 Thread Carcharoth
... Only on Wikipedia would you find something like that! My favourite was assumed room temperature. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [WikiEN-l] The sharpest criticism of a protein-only or genetics hypothesis regarding [[prion]]

2009-03-10 Thread Carcharoth
single sentence of the below, although I do grasp the single words... I'm in a similar position - I think this should be on the talk page where people that have the faintest idea what jenetiks is might be around. It appears to be an alternative spelling for genetics. Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] Plagiarism

2009-03-10 Thread Carcharoth
into a redirect), or people agreeing that something separate is needed to address the complexities of such matters. Carcharoth On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com wrote: That becomes a bit difficult without naming individuals who may not subscribe to this list

Re: [WikiEN-l] Interesting remark in Guardian blog

2009-03-16 Thread Carcharoth
, I think. Carcharoth ___ 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] Plagiarism

2009-03-22 Thread Carcharoth
not to. But as long as the context makes clear what is happening, it should be OK. In a similar way, some really strange literature uses this as a device to messes with readers' minds, leaving them confused as to who is speaking, and when, to whom. Carcharoth On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 7:56 PM, wjhon

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia isn't just a good idea - it's compulsory

2009-03-25 Thread Carcharoth
the Romans and Victorians from *somewhere*. Maybe it was a form of osmosis from popular culture and museums and references in other books and from TV? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia isn't just a good idea - it's compulsory

2009-03-27 Thread Carcharoth
. Hopefully this hypothetical kid would credit the source behind Wikipedia, and credit Wikipedia only in-so-far as it provided an entry point into reading about the topic. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia isn't just a good idea - it's compulsory

2009-03-28 Thread Carcharoth
-mail, Jonestown, or the Tuskegee Study, etc. Indeed, who would? Does that make the board of education part of the problem? Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia isn't just a good idea - it's compulsory

2009-03-28 Thread Carcharoth
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 1:32 PM, doc doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com wrote: Carcharoth wrote: [Correcting previous post - can't Wikipedia have editable posts?] On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Charlotte Webb

Re: [WikiEN-l] Legal examination

2009-03-28 Thread Carcharoth
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Biographies_of_living_persons/Archive_20#Workflow_and_project_management_proposal Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged revs poll take 2

2009-03-29 Thread Carcharoth
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Alex Sawczynec glasscobr...@gmail.com wrote: With all due respect, this isn't exactly new: it's been open for almost two weeks now. Is there a particular reason it's being posted

Re: [WikiEN-l] Microsoft kills Encarta

2009-03-30 Thread Carcharoth
making a comeback in another form? I liked Encarta - it was the first real encyclopedia I used. So I feel a bit torn here. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] Microsoft kills Encarta

2009-03-30 Thread Carcharoth
making fortune from this Some Wikipedia mirrors seem to be trying to do this already. Carcharoth ___ 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] Microsoft kills Encarta

2009-03-30 Thread Carcharoth
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:15 AM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: snip In fact if I had to put a guess on what will replace wikipedia is will be made to order articles generated on the fly from a wide range

Re: [WikiEN-l] English Wikipedia brief outage today

2009-03-30 Thread Carcharoth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Slakr/TPE On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:50 AM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: Kill the messenger! Does anyone have a mob of peasants with torches standing around handy? -Original Message- From: Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia developers

Re: [WikiEN-l] English Wikipedia brief outage today

2009-03-30 Thread Carcharoth
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Riots On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Slakr/TPE On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:50 AM,  wjhon...@aol.com wrote: Kill the messenger! Does anyone have a mob of peasants

Re: [WikiEN-l] Microsoft kills Encarta

2009-03-31 Thread Carcharoth
it was destroyed! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria#Destruction_of_the_Library Carcharoth ___ 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] Microsoft kills Encarta

2009-03-31 Thread Carcharoth
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.comwrote: Agreed. Though is it annoying when you see people working on things to address this, and then see critics, who inspired some people, carry

Re: [WikiEN-l] Microsoft kills Encarta

2009-03-31 Thread Carcharoth
and recharge itself. Less long sessions editing Wikipedia, and more targeted editing, adding more value-per-click (ugh, I can't believe I just said that). Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] Saying no to new unreferenced BLPs

2009-04-02 Thread Carcharoth
=117 Hopefully it can be tweaked to distinguish between removal and replacement with a death category. And then people can check edits made claiming someone has died, and make sure reliable sources have been provided for such claims. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN

Re: [WikiEN-l] Saying no to new unreferenced BLPs

2009-04-02 Thread Carcharoth
been happening. Carcharoth On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:54 AM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: I did not suggest doc that anyone can review. Review what I said again. I said that established users can review, that it should be an automatic right at a certain point and that admins cannot remove

Re: [WikiEN-l] Saying no to new unreferenced BLPs

2009-04-02 Thread Carcharoth
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Sam Korn smo...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: Hopefully it can be tweaked to distinguish between removal and replacement with a death category. And then people can check edits made claiming

Re: [WikiEN-l] current events in Wikipedia

2009-04-02 Thread Carcharoth
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