Impressive piece of work. I agree, it is a lot easier to expand on an article
with a well formatted stub than to create a new one if you are not familiar
with the process. I would like to see this procedure extended to other
Wikipedias, including en: for classes of article for which there is
Many years ago... on en.wp, RamBot created thousands and thousands of
articles about towns and cities in the United States. Controversial at the
time but ultimately successful in 'seeding' the content in exactly the way
that Anders described.
Whenever I go to do some New Pages Patrol on en.wp
The place that you are searching for exists. It is called Uncyclopedia:
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
I'm sure your contributions would be most welcome over there.
On 17 September 2014 07:17, Wil Sinclair w...@wllm.com wrote:
Howdy all,
One thing I've noticed in my short time
On 16 September 2014 21:32, Danny Horn dh...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Diego, that is definitely what we're thinking about for the subscriptions
options -- giving users the ability to choose whether they want to
subscribe to every new thread, or just get a notification that a new thread
has been
Wil Sinclair wrote:
...
I'm wondering if there is a place where the lighter side of
individual Wikimedians ... stuff like funny stats about our
wikiprojects surfaced through clever metrics, the weirdest
of the weird factoids that we uncover in the process of
documenting our universe,
Yeah, uncyclopedia is a good suggestion for one possible form of
content, but what I'm talking about is really much more about having a
good time onwiki by poking fun at ourselves and putting things in to
perspective.
Someone sent me a link to this project privately:
I think this is great news. Can't wait to see what comes out of the Bot
Academy. I love the name too!
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
Many years ago... on en.wp, RamBot created thousands and thousands of
articles about towns and cities in the United
On 17 September 2014 12:46, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Nitpick: If watchlist and notifications remain separated, it makes more
sense to me to call the operation that adds something to watchlist watch
rather than ''subscribe.
Good catch, that makes sense for me too.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Wil Sinclair w...@wllm.com wrote:
Coincidentally, when I eye up the participation levels on this project
and other WP humor projects (there are several more listed near the
bottom of that page) with some rough metrics, activity seems to have
peaked around
Wil Sinclair wrote:
I'm wondering if there is place where the lighter side of individual
Wikimedians and our movement can be shown front and center. What I'm
talking about would leave the controversial issues for wikimedia-l and
other fora, instead presenting stuff like funny stats about our
Why are we talking (once again) about enwp as if it was the only project ?
Isn't there a better place to discuss this, like the village pump ?
Le 17 sept. 2014 15:19, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com a écrit :
Wil Sinclair wrote:
I'm wondering if there is place where the lighter side of individual
Surprising though it may be, many wikimedians enjoy... working on Wikimedia
projects. They sometimes go out to the pub with each other and have fun in
real life. But let us not confuse enjoyment with fun.
Writing WP articles, uploading photos to Commons, transcribing wikisource
articles, working
And here I was, wondering aloud if anyone had thought of something
like this before. :D As it turns out, Wikipedia has a rich history of
not taking itself too seriously.
Adding your link to some others efforts linked to by the Department of
Fun I've got:
As all these ideas seem to be specifically focused on the English
Wikipedia...
Can I suggest that wikien-l might be more appropriate:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Or... the village dump on Uncyclopedia would work too
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Village_Dump
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Hello all,
We have a central storage location for files like photos, videos and
sounds: Commons. But it seems there is no central storage space for KML
script files. Those files are used for templates on various Wikipedias to
show a route of a subject on Google Maps, Bing Maps, etc.
The files
On 17 September 2014 03:36, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se wrote:
Lsjbot
You're doing great work - keep it up!
*lsj will look into using the database used by Swedish
libraries, with info of authors and books. Would it be
feasible to generate articles on authors?
If you're
On 9/17/14, 8:15 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote:
As all these ideas seem to be specifically focused on the English
Wikipedia...
Can I suggest that wikien-l might be more appropriate:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Or... the village dump on Uncyclopedia would work too
Actually
The report on Wikimedia Nederland activities over the summer is now
available:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Nederland/201407
.
It is also included as plain text (no links) below.
*Wikimedia Nederland report over July and August*
*COMMUNITY:
Will, there are several areas within Wikipedia or at least the English language
version where humour exists and is tolerated by most.
Most obviously humour, especially of the self deprecating variety, is welcome
on user pages and in usernames.
April fools day accounts for two more of them.
In the sidebar on Meta you have this nice collection:
https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/
Read more about it here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet_Wikimedia
*Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali*
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0729 - 67 29 48
*Tänk dig en värld där
On 9/16/14, 12:22 AM, Jan Ainali wrote:
2014-09-15 23:54 GMT+02:00 James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com:
In the recent discussion of editor engagement effectiveness on
wiki-research-l, the question of Flow's affect on talk page wikitext
practice arose. I would like to know whether anyone shares my
Thanks for the helpful feedback on my mail:
@Peter an Liam perhaps we should replace the name stubarticles with
seed(ing)articles, at least for these botgenerated ones who have all
the bascis in place
@Jane, and besides a nice name Jan Ainali has also made a wonderful logo
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