Re: [Wikimedia-l] Happy Magnus Manske Day!

2016-01-25 Thread Steinsplitter Wiki
Magnus moved Wikipedia forward by coding mediawiki. And he is still creating useful tools. Thanks Magnus for your hard work! We can be proud to have Magnus in the Wikimedia movement. --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Magnus_Manske_Day --

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Happy Magnus Manske Day!

2016-01-25 Thread Ricordisamoa
I hereby propose that this year be called the Magnus Manske Year. Il 25/01/2016 13:33, Steinsplitter Wiki ha scritto: Magnus moved Wikipedia forward by coding mediawiki. And he is still creating useful tools. Thanks Magnus for your hard work! We can be proud to have Magnus in the Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Happy Magnus Manske Day!

2016-01-25 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, +1 .. I would love it when 'the man' himself indicates what we would like for a present (realisation of what he thinks is a breakthrough functionality).. Not ask the 'community', not involve paper tigers but hear the roar of 'the man' Thanks, GerardM On 25 January 2016 at 18:50,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Happy Magnus Manske Day!

2016-01-25 Thread Jane Darnell
...which is now added to the Wikipedia page On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Ed Erhart wrote: > Don't forget the Wikimedia Blog's profile of Magnus for Wikipedia's 15th > anniversary! > > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/01/18/fifteen-years-wikipedia-magnus-manske/ > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Happy Magnus Manske Day!

2016-01-25 Thread Jane Darnell
I couldn't agree more, but isn't this missing link going to be filled by the article placeholder? Maybe I am missing something, but it was my understanding that the article placeholder could be used for those redirects that are not alternate spellings for the same person and so forth On Mon, Jan

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Happy Magnus Manske Day!

2016-01-25 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I am in two minds of the "article placeholder" as it is it is certainly not as good as Reasonator. It needs additional effort to make it sing. With examples it may be wonderful but I have not seen anything that inspires. Thanks, GerardM On 25 January 2016 at 09:24, Jane Darnell

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Happy Magnus Manske Day!

2016-01-24 Thread Ed Erhart
Don't forget the Wikimedia Blog's profile of Magnus for Wikipedia's 15th anniversary! https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/01/18/fifteen-years-wikipedia-magnus-manske/ --Ed On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Ricordisamoa wrote: > Il 25/01/2016 00:47, Jane Darnell ha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Happy Magnus Manske Day!

2016-01-24 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, If there is one thing I have learned from Magnus, it is that a single tool is just that. Easily forgotten. The power of his approach is that he thinks about tools as part of a chain. This means that when a new tool is build, it slots in. It gains power by doing so. Being an independent

[Wikimedia-l] Happy Magnus Manske Day!

2016-01-24 Thread Jane Darnell
Hope everybody takes some time today to share what they have learned from using Magnus' tools. It's time to call on all posse members to share their tool tips, because it's ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Magnus_Manske_Day Here are my top links: https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Happy Magnus Manske Day!

2016-01-24 Thread Ricordisamoa
Il 25/01/2016 00:47, Jane Darnell ha scritto: Hope everybody takes some time today to share what they have learned from using Magnus' tools. It's time to call on all posse members to share their tool tips, because it's ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Magnus_Manske_Day Actually it's