[cc'ed from thread on wikien-l to wikitech-l]
On wikien-l, Neil Harris wrote:
>charles matthews wrote:
>> But I think we know all this. To return to Toynbee, it is more a
>> question of how to get Wikipedians to 'feel challenged', on the
>> specifics. Right now, with the site running slow, the main practical
>> challenge seems to be hardward/developers/cash. _I_ mostly feel
>> challenged by the sheer breadth of approach needed.
>At the risk of being tedious,
>article rating
>article rating
>article rating
>article rating
>article rating
Brion, what would it take to get article rating switched on? Is there
any such feature you would allow in, or is it basically off the agenda
and I should stop asking?
- d.
It is possible:
http://www.gtr-tech.com/gtrwiki/Main_Pagehttp://www.350z-tech.com/ztrwiki/Main_Page
Just point them to the same database, but you will have to have the
correct url in your LocalSettings.php for each site.
As far as different navigation links, that could be done manually in the
skin.
-----Original Message-----
From: wikitech-l-bounces(a)wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of John Ky
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 4:06 AM
To: wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikitech-l] One wiki, multiple websites
Hello,
I want to setup up a number of websites which share a single
wiki underneath. The only difference between the websites
will be:
* The URI used to access the website
* The main page
* The navigation links
Is it possible, and how much work is involved in configuring
such a wiki.
Thanks
-John
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Template:Itn on zh.wp, http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Itn
it already protected, but anonymous user however can edit. other protected
pages without this problem.
Otherwise, Blocked anonymous user however can edit Template:Itn.
[[zh:user:shizhao]]
Ray Saintonge wrote:
> Magnus Manske wrote:
>> I still prefer a 0-10 range of ratings. I think a decimal
>> normalization would be easier to work with in any subsequent analysis
>> of results.
>One can set the range for each topic individually.
Mmm. See discussion at [[m:En validation topics]] and its archive -
too many choices of rating is probably a bad thing, because it's hard
to agree what a given value means. The test plan so far includes
probably far more variables than we'd want in any case ...
- d.
As I have reported earlier on wikide-l and wikipedia-l, I
digitized two small encyclopedias in September and early October,
one in German and one in English, and made them available on
Wikisource for proofreading and reference. Every book page has a
wiki subpage of its own, presenting the scanned image and the OCR
text.
Since then I have monitored how fast Google has been to index
these titles. More than half of the German pages were indexed
within a few weeks, which is in line with my experience of how
fast Google can be. But to my surprise, only very few of the
English pages have yet been indexed.
It was only this summer that wikisource.org was split into
language subdomains like de.wikisource.org and en.wikisource.org,
so it is understandable that pages in the new subdomains still
have a low Google rank. However, this is the same for all
languages, and doesn't explain the difference that I see between
the German and the English language subdomain.
Today de.wikisource.org reports to having 2311 articles and 4638
pages. A word that occurs on every page is "letzte" ("recent" in
Recent Changes) and Google gives 770 hits for the search
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ade.wikisource.org+letzte
Of the 4638 pages, 443 are subpages to
http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Meyers_Blitz-Lexikon
and Google finds 418 of them,
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ade.wikisource.org+%22Meyers+Blitz-Lex…
This means 17% of the de.wikisource pages are indexed, but 94% of
the pages from the book I scanned.
En.wikisource.org today has 19,006 articles and 23,780 total
pages. A word that occurs on every page is "recent" and Google
givs 12,500 hits for the query
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aen.wikisource.org+recent
Of the 23,780 pages, 2791 are subpages to
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_Student%27s_Reference_Work
but Google only finds 4 of them,
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aen.wikisource.org+%22The+New+Student%…
This means 53% of en.wikisource.org articles are indexed, but only
0.14 % of the book pages I scanned.
I can understand that some enthusiastic Germans have linked to
"Meyers Blitz-Lexikon" and increased its Google rank. But it also
seems that there is a negative Google rank for "The New Student's
Reference Work". Has it been trapped in some spam filter?
--
Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
With various discussions around Wikipedia of captchas to impede
vandalbots, I was wondering how usable audio captchas actually are for
those who can't see images. Most sites with visual captchas offer an
audio option ... but what's the actual usability of these? Are they a
minor impediment, as a visual captcha is, or a major usability
problem? Is there data on this?
- d.
Forwarded from Wikien-l.
I wonder if it would be useful to have an index of external URLs that
supports throttling of the # of times per day a given base URL can be
added to WP sites...
SJ
PS - this is my favorite part -- "I'm a regular wikipedia user
although i don't have an account here" I wonder how many people
consider themselves 'regular uers' -- and how many of those actually
read user and policy pages...
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Brett Gustafson <brett.gustafson(a)gmail.com>
Date: Nov 2, 2005 7:22 PM
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Shock site bot
To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org
I recently recieved this message from a user:
"I'm a regular wikipedia user although i don't have an account here. I think
this site is great and it really helps me with my college work. But I
recently heard of these people that were talking about wikipedia that they
were all programming a hack for it. So after a little while I found it was a
spider to hunt down all the pages links and change them to shocks site links
or something along those lines. I didn't know who to tell so I just thought
I'd tell an administrator as they might know who to tell or what to do. Just
giving an advanced warning so you might be able to do something to protect
this wonderful resourse. Apparently they permenantly change their ip address
using some thing (a bit beyond me). Something like that. I just didn't know
what to do. I hope I didn't embaress myself here. Thanks for your time."
Brett
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++SJ
Just wanted to notify the Wikimedia community, that [[Requests for bot
status]] on Meta was created a few minutes ago.
Of course, [[Requests for permissions]] is still active - please put
all the requests for sysop/bureaucrat status on that page.
Nothing has changed with the current bot policy besides that. Please
update the local request pages on your Wikis to reflect the page
change on Meta.
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Pozdrawiam,
Dariusz "Datrio" Siedlecki