On 20 December 2013 22:02, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> Can we do anything about it? My SEO skills are about non-existent. A
> Facebook friend suggested changing the title of the Commons file
> File:Wikipedia-logo.png to File:Wikipedia-logo-v1.png and
> File:Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg to File:Wikipedia_log
On 20 December 2013 23:30, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
> Svip, 20/12/2013 23:27:
>
>> Looking at the Google results, the first two are from Wikipedia (and
>> these are the old logo), but from the articles [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia
>> logos]] and [[Logo of Wikipedia]]. Both
On 3 July 2012 00:00, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> Wikipedia is down for me. I suggest we swarm on to IRC in large
> numbers - that always helps!
Indeed! I usually rush in and insult people behind various projects
before asking them for help, that is always a great way to make a good
first impression
On 3 July 2012 10:52, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
> First they deleted Michelle Obama's arms,[1] now they want to get rid of
> Justin Bieber on Twitter.[2] What is the world coming to!
I can't believe _I_ am not the ultimate ruler on what is valuable
enough to get on Wikipedia. It seems most of the del
On 3 July 2012 15:35, Tarc Meridian wrote:
> Same for some politicians, such as every Thanksgiving some poor
> sod gets to stand outside the White House gate and breathlessly
> report what is on the President's table, or at XMas the reports of
> what the First Family bought each other. Reliably
On 4 July 2012 01:38, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
> Well, if I were suddenly named dictator of Wikipedia, I'd probably suggest
> that a "recent event" namespace be created, where popular media were
> acceptable sources, and make them verbotten in mainspace. Mainspace
> articles might have a hatnote
I love it when people who have no idea what they are talking about,
pretend to know what they are talking about, and then even worse, gets
submitted to Slashdot, because apparently they might know what they
are talking about. But they don't know what they are talking about.
Person of ignorance in
On 14 July 2012 16:25, Paul Becherer wrote:
> 2012/7/14 Svip :
>
>> Person of ignorance in question:
>> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/on-the-ugliness-of-wikipedia/259747/
>
> The article was an interesting read, and wasn't just about layo
On 14 July 2012 17:14, Milos Rancic wrote:
> True. BTW, I see strong connection between sentences "Wikipedia is
> not, and has no interest in being, Facebook." and "Britannica is not,
> and has no interest in being, a website" -- having in mind that
> Facebook is another name for "social networki
On 14 July 2012 17:34, Michel Vuijlsteke wrote:
> For me the most important part of the article is this right here:
>
>>So the real ugliness of the site, Gardner notes, isn't cosmetic. It's that
>>Wikipedia has "a built-in bias against design and user-friendliness."
>
> This *is* a real problem,
On 14 July 2012 18:12, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Yesterday I wanted to make a point to a friend. I tried to do it by having
> the facts that are sourced in the Wikipedia article read by the person who
> did not have the information available. Reading the article did not really
> happen because of
On 14 July 2012 19:05, Audrey Abeyta wrote:
> Appearance does affect perceptions of credibility, which should be of
> interest to Wikipedia. Recently, I was talking to someone who doubted
> Wikipedia's validity. When I asked her if it was because the content can be
> edited by anyone, she replied
On 14 July 2012 19:37, Michel Vuijlsteke wrote:
> On 14 July 2012 19:13, Svip wrote:
>
>> And I don't think Wikipedia is ugly or lacks user friendliness, which
>> is the premise of this article. And I speak from a reader's point of
>> view.
>
> In the
On 14 July 2012 19:37, Kirill Lokshin wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Svip wrote:
>
>> It is strange to me, that whenever we talk about Wikipedia edit
>> activity being down, we never discuss the fact that most of the basic
>> human knowledge articles have alr
On 18 April 2012 10:53, Mike Dupont wrote:
> this just in, scary.
>
> Breivik: My Biggest Influence Was Wikipedia
> http://www.businessinsider.com/norwegian-terrorist-anders-breivik-my-biggest-influence-was-wikipedia-2012-4#ixzz1sN3LZci6
Maybe he read the articles during vandalism?
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On 19 April 2012 17:35, Kim Bruning wrote:
> See
> http://imgur.com/gallery/v7RRz
>
> I wonder if someone could make and wear that for real? (Also, we need
> wikipe-tan in that dress, of course!)
Credit, where credit is due, here is the artist:
http://neko-vi.deviantart.com/gallery/2523
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