The Meta-wikipedia says I don't exist, yet my login name is working fine on
most pages.
(Moderator, please kill the earlier variant of this message that I made
from the wrong email address @dramatic.co.nz !)
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Richard Grevers
Ray Saintonge wrote
This sounds like a lot of work! Are you volunteering? :-)
Ec
Yup, I'm volunteering to help out, actually I'd love to!! But there are a whole lot of things that need to be decided - how do we go about it? what file format do we use to make the e-books, html will not suffice for material that needs to be published? And of course advertising the idea so that others will be interested in contributing.
Could the guys running Wiki help out, by starting up such a project under its "sister projects". Please respond back if you've got more ideas.
Having gone (too late) to the voting page I find that I can't log in.
It works okay on the main page (apart from the usual problem of not being
persistent enough).
--
Richard Grevers
Christchurch, NZ.
>I endorse this result.
>
>--Jimbo
Even though every one of my top choices lost I endorse
this vote to. It was fair and I accept the results.
--mav
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>Dear Sir,
>
>I am the wife of David W. Thornton. I logged in to
>Wikipedia.org as "Lucie" on our computer under the
>User name, Black Widow . On my User Page, I clearly
>posted an official notice that I was the wife of
>User:DW.
>
>Today, after posting much hard work, I received the
>following message when I tried to log in:
>
>Your user name or IP address has been blocked by
>Maveric149. The reason given is this: Alias of DW
>
>You may contact Maveric149 or one of the other
>administrators to discuss the block.
>
>Sir, I would like to point out that this person
>calling him or her self Maverick149 has no proof
>or the statement he made as to any alleged alias.
This block was made a day after DW was banned - I had
no idea you even existed at that point.
>I searched your website and could find no official
>legal notice stating that you ban people from
>participating on your website on speculation or
>that you discriminate against wives / partners /
>friends / acquaintances etc. who may use our
computer.
/You/ were not blocked, DW was. Just look at the time
and date of the block - your user account didn't even
exist back then.
>Please advise why you authorized this discrimination.
>Sincerely yours. Christine Thornton, B.A., LL.B.
Now before you throw words like "discrimination"
around perhaps you can actually do a bit of homework
first?
In the future use the "Email this user" feature that
is located on an Admin's user page to ask for a block
removal. If you had visited my user page you would
have seen an easy to use and find shortcut to this
link. If you had visited the Admin page you also would
have seen /another/ such link right next to my user
name in the Admin list. If you had looked on the "IM a
Wikipedian" page you would have seen my AIM nickname.
The reason I'm pointing this out is that I check my
email 5-10 times a day and am usually on AIM while at
my home computer but I get Wikipedia-l in 10-20 email
digests which can take up to 2 days to arrive in my
mailbox (the IP block would probably have been lifted
within an hour if you had emailed me - instead it
looks like it lasted about a day). Another important
piece of information would be your IP address - but I
see you are editing again so everything is OK for now.
Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
WikiKarma
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ramirez (new)
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Wikipedia was down for almost two hours, from 8:36-10:22 UTC.
There was a kernel panic related to the filesystem driver; I'm not
entirely clear how this came about, but once that happens it stops
liking to talk to the disk, which is obviously somewhat problematic. ;)
The machine is rebooted and running smoothly again (big thanks to our
very own Jason Richey!)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
The test suite is coming along nicely, and I'm now to the point of
just filling in each test case. There's one part I'm working on now
that just reads pages, makes sure their HTML parses, and then does a
few simple regular expression matches on the output. Right now it
just looks for things like DOCTYPE, the META ROBOTS tag, the DIVs,
and such, and looks for the absence of things like <FONT and
onclick=.
Help me fill out these two lists with lots of good output tests:
i.e., tell me what you would expect to see on every page, and
what you would not want to see on any page (preferably as a regular
expression, but if you can just describe in words, I can code it).
I'm copying this to the list at large, because I think non-techies
will be able to help here as well.
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are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
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I really need to congratulate the guys who've worked their heads off on wikipedia and allowed people to share what they know best. I'm finding it really useful.
But I felt that the real use of wikipedia only remains for net users and usually deal in detail on smaller topics. That would really not be enough to people who are seriously looking for stuff. Books in libraries would still be the best alternative.
I felt by joining up articles from wiki that cover a certain topic and putting it together in the form of an e-book would be a great idea, with a continuity in thought and with more explanatory matter.
And as and when these e-books improve in quality and content, I'm sure publishers would be keen to publish them as it helps cut on their development costs.
Could the guys at wiki start something like this, it would really be useful!!
----- Forwarded message from Christine Thornton <dwwidow2003(a)yahoo.com> -----
From: Christine Thornton <dwwidow2003(a)yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 09:27:06 -0800 (PST)
To: jwales(a)bomis.com
Subject: Wikipedia
Dear Sir,
I am the wife of David W. Thornton. I logged in to Wikipedia.org as "Lucie" on our computer under the User name, Black Widow . On my User Page, I clearly posted an official notice that I was the wife of User:DW.
Today, after posting much hard work, I received the following message when I tried to log in:
Your user name or IP address has been blocked by Maveric149. The reason given is this:
Alias of DW
You may contact Maveric149 or one of the other administrators to discuss the block.
Sir, I would like to point out that this person calling him or her self Maverick149 has no proof or the statement he made as to any alleged alias. I searched your website and could find no official legal notice stating that you ban people from participating on your website on speculation or that you discriminate against wives / partners / friends / acquaintances etc. who may use our computer. Please advise why you authorized this discrimination. Sincerely yours. Christine Thornton, B.A., LL.B.
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