> Wikipedia can note propose original research itself... but in such a
> undefined field... only one more reference would be worth it...
If I may be so bold:
I think the description on "Open Content" is pretty good - I also think that just because it is difficult to find descriptions already written of "free content", it does not mean wikipedia should not attempt to describe it. Put another way, just because we can't point to a common description does not mean that we don't all know (and generally agree on) what we're talking about.
A Google query for "free content" yields 2.5 millions hits - many of these are actually describing "free as in beer" content, not "free as in freedom", and my 2 cents is that "free content" can mean both, just as it can in "free software".
Wikipedia of course, fits both definitions.
Aerik
whilst playing around with the db I got myself a bit confused.
when we say "100,000 articles on x.wikipedia.org" are we simply
counting the number of entries in the cur table, or just those where
is_cur_redirect=0 ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_is_an_article
suggests that the figure on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics
does not include redirects, but that didn't seem to match with what I
saw from (an admitadly 2 month old) db dump. Hence confusion.
While I'm hear, is any kind soul tracking things like # of stub
articles, # of featured articles, etc? I realise this can be
extrapolated from a DB dump, I'm more wondering if anyone is already
doing so and publishing the stats somewhere?
Hi,
I suffer from not being notified about my account log-in status any
longer, and guess, that many of you feel the same.
Instead of showing the name of the logged-in user, the testwiki and
current CVS HEAD version only shows
"My page my talk preferences ....."
This can easily lead to committing edits as anonymous, because one
forgot to log in and appears to me a big chance in the "look-and-feel"
of MediaWiki.
Can this please be reverted to be compliant with the standard
user-interface, so that one's name is shown again ?
Tom
--- Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> What would the purpose be of this link to our privacy policy be?? How
> would it enhance the "user experience" ?? In my opinion a link to this
> policy on the login/logoff page would be a good place to have this link.
Readers need a privacy policy as well. We could log what pages they visit and
potentially give that info to whoever - something I�m sure most readers would
not want us to do.
-- mav
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I have some questions re. the current user preferences, as can be seen
on testwiki http://test.leuksman.com
The screen layout of some but not all user preferences option pages has
been fully re-arranged by avar so that the options are no longer line by
line, but one after the other.
I think, this format is unclear and wonder, whether there was a decision
to change it in that way.
T.
--- Anthere <anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> Could we envision putting a little link at the bottom of all pages to go
> to our privacy policy ?
Would be real nice to have a contact us link at the bottom of each page as
well. Might be easiest to just have a [[MediaWiki:Footermessage]] page and have
each wiki decide what to put in there (more than one link could be put in, such
as [[Privacy policy]] � [[Contact us]] � [[Terms of use]]).
-- mav
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Just in case, that you do not watch this bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454
The new version adds optional notification on _new_ pages; "(last seen)"
links for watched pages; E-mail address confirmation sends a link with a
token to unconfirmed address; "you have new messages on your user and/or
user_talk page" (new) including "(last seen)" links; new option for
recent changes "show only current revision of pages in Recent view" and
perhaps more I forgot here .... but what is in .....
.... the documentation http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enotif
Euer/your Wikinaut
I kindly asked for code review and to commit everything (which is
admittedly a lot) into CVS HEAD.
On testwiki, I have several pages in my watchlist.
Of course, I _immediately_ receive (only) one e-mail notification on the
first change of this bastard.
Perhaps some of the developers will give ENotif the chance to prove its
value also against vandalism, because IP addresses can be detected
immediately ?
Just another idea of
Wikinaut Tom
(busy with last patches for REL1_5 )
Hi
Could we envision putting a little link at the bottom of all pages to go
to our privacy policy ?
If not, where do you suggest we should put the link to this page ?
Thanks
Ant