See [[User:Tzartzam]]. I did have to redo my watchlist, but that's not too
bad a job.
Sam *
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Because Cunctator would forward it to wikipedia-l anyway, I'm posting this
here directly instead of to wikitech-l (help! he's conditioning me!).
There is a discussion on [[Wikipedia talk:Neutral point of view]] about
whether this particular page should be protected or not. Actually nobody
seems to argue strongly that it should be protected, but right now it
still is.
Brion has brought up an idea from the good folks at MeatballWiki:
http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?FileReplacement
The gist of it, as I think it *should* be implemented, is this:
1) Protected pages have a link called "Editable copy" or something
similar. This is simply a copy of the page, perhaps with some flag in the
database or a modifier in the page title like "(COPY)".
2) This page can be edited freely. After every edit, a timer is reset. The
timer counts down to, say, 2 hours (we may want to define this on a per-
site or per-page basis). Once the time has elapsed, the original version
of the page is replaced with the COPY.
Because the timer is reset any time someone edits the page, regular users
can prevent the page from being substituted with vandalism if no sysop is
near. Similarly, edit wars are given time to "cool" before the page in
question changes.
3) Sysops have the additional privileges of being able to directly replace
the original page with the COPY (so as to say, "this version is good,
gimme this NOW"), and of course, of being able to edit the original page
directly.
Using this system we could get rid of traditional page protection for all
pages, including [[Main Page]] and the sensitive policy pages. As an added
feature, we could wipe the history of the COPY whenever it is copied; this
would save some disk space when we use this mechanism to prevent edit wars
(every "revert" is a full copy of the page in the DB).
The Main Page of all language wikis would benefit greatly from this, as it
could now be updated by everyone without the risk of the goat-man suddenly
appearing on our frontpage.
What do you think? With the possible exception of the timer part, I
believe this would be relatively simple to implement.
Regards,
Erik
The en and de wikipedia have been briefly covered in an article in the
current "c't", likely Germany's most important computer magazine.
The article explains the wiki concept, and hints on how to configure
your own UseModWiki. Wikipedia is mentioned as the largest wiki, with
95000/8000 articles, and as proof that wikis don't end in chaos, despite
the open-edit-policy.
Just letting you know,
Magnus
Somebody has given themselves the nickname "Cumguzzler". What people
do in their spare time is their business (as long as it doesn't take away
time from working on the 'pedia :) but for me this particular nickname
pushes the boundaries of good taste a little too far in the same way that
Mr TMC did, without even the benefit of an attempt at humor.
What do others think?
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Is there a way to put Minor Changes to articles on your Watch List in the Recent Changes page? I know this will be different for every user, but when people like 172 label changes to my watched pages as minor (trying to hide them), it's a pain to have to keep going back to all of the pages on my list to see if he's actually updating the pages.
Zoe
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Wikipedia is down. Attempts to access any links or to bring up a new Main Page from wikipedia.org are all failing.
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Hello,
In the German WP we just had a discussion that a mascot (like Tux the
Linux Penguin) for Wikipedia would be a nice idea.
What do you think? Ideas for animals, names, artwork greatly appreciated
:-)
I thought that an owl would be appropriate: everybody familiar with greek
mythology associates it with wisdom and the artwork, based on old Athenian
coins could be easily done.
greetings,
elian
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UNIX is just like Lego, you can build everything.
NT is just like Duplo, it looks nice but for all
practical purposes it is fucking useless.
My opinion is that:
a)www.wikipedia.org should be a multilingual greeting
page,
with the language recognition used to highlight that
language's wikipedia link (I think I saw an example of
this somewhere).
b)www.wikipedia.org/wiki/something should still point
to
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/something for back compatibility
reasons.
Ok. Now I have to send this only 499 more times.
AstroNomer
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