Hello,
Just in case some other wikipedias are interested, too:
In the german wikipedia we started an experimental web of trust
yesterday. It works by the "what links here functionality". A user who
wants to participate creates a page [[User:Name/trust]] and lists there
all the people he trusts in the form [[User:Otheruser/trust]]. By
visiting a trust page (existing or not) and clicking on "what links
here" you can see which people are trusting this user.
A description in german can be found at
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vertrauensnetz
An example page is at
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Elian/Vertrauen
greetings,
elian
PS: english wikipedia has a page
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Trust_network> with another
proposal.
Hello!
When i talked yesterday on IRC with another wikipedian, we had both the
same opinion that there's a problem with the communication, and staying
up-to-date.
The problem is that people don't know for example, a feature had been
enabled or similar (high priority?) news concerning Wikimedia. Also,
most Wikis aren't up to date: They don't know for example, that it is
also possible to block logged in people using the IP - Ban interface.
Another problem is, that Wikis also couldn't know where they have to do
requests like: Request for Permission, for switching the logo path, for
queries, for updating a LanguageXX.php. Possibly they don't know there
are IRC Channels and Mailing Lists, too. I would purpose two possible
ways to change that, but feel free to purpose other ways :)
1) "Reactivating" the Announce-l Mailinglist. As far, as there are a lot
of changed going on, (creation of language specific wikibooks, quote for
example), it'd be a good idea to have this ML working, as far as
people could post the announces there and people interested in the
changes could suscribe to that list and get informed.
2) Creating a new Special page for all wikis (or similar), called
"Useful_Links" or similar ( I haven't found a good title yet ;) ).
People could read there where they can found the IRC Chat, where they
can found specific mailing lists, and where they can post request (for
permission, logo, query, etc), (Embassies?), etc. As far, people would
have a good reference page and would fastly find a way where they can
report a problem to the community, request and communicate within the
community and with other users.
These are just ideas how to do that. If you have another idea, feel free
to add it :).
--
Important issue about the mailing lists:
Are there regular contributors of zh: (!), ar:, ta:, sv: (!), da: (!),
and pl: who would be interested to do list administrationsfor on of the
language specific mailing lists for their wikis? I would expain them
what and how to do. Please contact me at fire at kopfrechnung.de if you
are interested, thanks!
Sincerly yours,
Ronny
On the Arbitration Committee talk page, Michael Snow pointed out that
there's two unfilled places on the Committee, due to
resignations/places not being taken up in the first place, and
suggested that elections for these be held.
In my opinion, particularly considering the slow rate of proceedings
of late, and that we are now down to seven active arbitrators (two
away, one inactive, as well as these two spots), it would be wise to
attempt to fill these.
-- ambi
Hello.
When accomplishing the requests for switching the logo path, i had to
change it for nl:, but i considered that there was a colored Wiki.png.
The votes on Meta concerning this were 15 for the new logo, 9 against
and 1 abstain.
Do we now accept colored logos or not?
Do 15 vs. 9 voted are enough?
Sincerly yours,
Fire
> Wikipedia by itself: 11,200,000
> Roll over, John Lennon, Wikipedia is more popular than Jesus and the
> Beatles combined.
Mm this is not fair ;-)
Wikipedia pages are of course referring to wikipedia itself...
Let's try:
wikipedia
-> 11,400,000 (hey, +200,000!)
wikipedia -site:wikipedia.org
-> 2,420,000
Phil
PS: sorry if sth similar was already posted on the wikipedia ML,
I'm not member of it, just got a forward.
I learned today the death of a previous wikipedian. He
was special, some of you might remember him, for he
was banned in november 2003, and gave a lot of work to
Tim and several to clean after him. He also is the
reason why a couple of features exist :-)
Still, I appreciated him a lot, and had discussions
with him on meta and offline, which just showed me a
gentle person with a lot of humor and intelligence. He
was a member of the raelien sect. He was essentially a
very unhappy man.
J'ai appris par Ell aujourd'hui, le d�c�s de
Papotages.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=1r710y8t1t2ac%24…
Personnellement, je ressens de la tristesse et du
regret � cette nouvelle. Je ne doute malheureusement
pas d'�tre une exception parmi ceux qui l'ont connu.
C'�tait un homme tortur� et perdu, et je pense que les
actes de vandalisme dont il s'est rendu coupable au
moment de son banissement et apr�s, n'�taient que les
gestes d'un homme d�sesp�r�.
Il m'a �crit parfois, et ces mails rec�laient une
grande gentillesse. Je me souviens d'un jour, le
dernier jour o� il a vandalis� fr. Il �tait environ
6h30 am, et il venait de faire une tirage zantisectes.
J'ai r�vert� en silence toutes ses modifications. Peu
apr�s, je recevais un mail de sa part, s'excusant de
m'avoir impos� ce travail si t�t le matin, et me
faisant la promesse que cela serait la derni�re fois.
Et autant que je sache, ce fut en effet la derni�re
fois.
------------
J'aimerais que toutes les pages de banissement le
concernant soient supprim�es. Elles n'ont plus de
raison d'�tre. S'il vous plait.
Anthere
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Wikiquote now has specific-language subdomains. Instead of creating
wikis for all 150 languages, I made a system where wikis are only
created when they're wanted. To save time during maintenance operations,
it should now be possible to delete unused Wiktionaries and even
Wikipedias until they are required.
Similar conversion of Wikibooks should be a fairly simple thing, I'm now
just waiting for community approval. We can't put subdomains under
wikisource.org because the domain name doesn't point to the right place.
It's owned by Mav and points to a redirect server, redirecting to
quote.wikipedia.org.
-- Tim Starling
Some of us have seen this:
http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/history/
Some have not. It's cool, and it's about us. What's cooler is the
response to my message sent about a few trivial things on the website
and a query or two:
> Thanks for the notes... I am working on updating the web site and will
> incorporate your suggestions. I'm also working on getting clearance to
> release the "history flow" tool!
--
You keep using that word...
I do not think it means what you think it means.
> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:48:29 -0700
> From: "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales" <jwales(a)wikia.com>
> Subject: [Wikipedia-l] A WikiJamSession Fantasy
> .
> .
> .
> So, I had this idea for something we could do as a part of a drive
> towards 1.0. We could get permission from a library or libraries in
> some densely populated centers around the world to gain admission
> during a holiday or weekend that they would normally be closed. We'd
> set up a wireless broadband network and bring together as many people
> as possible to work together day and night in a fun atmosphere to fact
> check articles and process them for final publication in a CD-ROM,
> with an eye towards print as well of course.
I think that this is a really awesome idea. Even more awesome if we
could do this on roughly the same day, in order to get some
grass-roots and formal publicity. Logistics will include getting
locations, getting good amounts of local volunteers to run the event
at each location (and handle the technical details). Perhaps we could
initially try to target some weekend in the November timeframe?
Getting libraries to open on a normal day-off might be a bit tough to
swing, but getting them to help out on a day they're open might be
easier.
-ilya haykinson