[Commons-l] Commons SumItUp

Fri Aug 18 13:47:05 UTC 2006

I'd like to apologise for my German post to everybody. I didn't check the  
"To:" in my email client and this mailing list is configured to send  
replies to back to the list -- I didn't intend that and would like to  
apologise for it.

Christian

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:39:50 +0100, Christian Richardt <cr333 at cam.ac.uk>  
wrote:

> Hallo Markus,
>
> Das ist eine wirklich gute Idee, die du da umgesetzt hast.
>
> Ich hätte nur eine kleine Anmerkung: Wenn ich dein Tool mit "en:Soup"
> befülle, zeigt es auf der Ergebnisseite "{{de|----}}" an, weil der  
> Artikel
> mit einer Vorlage und einer horizontalen Linie beginnt. Wäre toll, wenn  
> du
> das beheben könntest.
>
>
> Schöne Grüße,
>
> Christian
>
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:07:22 +0100, Magnus Manske <magnus.manske at web.de>
> wrote:
>
>> I've worked some more on my SumIrUp tool [1], which can generate a list
>> of language templates with one-line descriptions for a new article. All
>> it needs is a starting point, namely this article in any language. From
>> there, it will spider all the language links, and gather the initial
>> paragraph/sentence of each article. It then generates a
>> copy-and-paste-ready text, including language links.
>>
>> I was wondering - why not link to this tool in the instructions text for
>> new articles? There could be a link to this tool using the name of the
>> page to be created, and en.wikipedia as default. If an article with that
>> name exists on en.wikipedia, it will generate said list of one-line
>> descriptions which can be copied into that article. As this is exactly
>> what commons articles/categories *should* contain, it might be a huge
>> help.
>>
>> Magnus
>>
>> [1] http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/commons_sumitup.php
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