All;
http://digg.com/security/Stalkers_Haunt_Wikipedia_s_Volunteers
This article has been posted to digg and is rapidly getting hits. I am asking that anyone with a digg account (easy to create, free of charge) go ahead and digg this article. Cyberstalking is a real issue. Regardless of whether or not you agree with the victim's ideology, this can not be allowed to continue. RickK left because his family was threatened. By acting we can stop this menace beofre someone is hurt.
I just went to create a deliberate redlink on a talk page by
linking to [[The weather in London]], and... that page exists now!
WTF?! Were the guardians of the faith all looking the other way
when some cretin managed to create it? Grumpity grump grump.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: effe iets anders <effeietsanders(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2008/6/8
Subject: [Foundation-l] nlwiki has more spoken articles then enwiki
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
although not such a huge mile stone, it is nice to mention that
nlwikipedia is working relatively hard on spoken articles. It has
currently 735 spoken articles, which is more then enwiki with 728!
Finally, we've beaten them with something ;-) Just to let you know :)
Best regards,
Lodewijk
_______________________________________________
foundation-l mailing list
foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
I want to do an analysis of wikipedia
I don't know what has been done before and I was hoping to get
feedback as to what has been done before.
what I want to do:
Each page on wikipedia would be treated as a hyperlink, which would be
treated as an object, and put on a grid.
an arrow would be drawn between two hyperlinks if one referenced the other.
The hyperlinks would be organized such that there would be the
smallest amount of arrow line length between hyperlinks.
(I figure that this would give a crude way of organizing how the pages
connected to each other)
The power of representing pages as hyperlinks and organizing them as
objects on a grid is that you can then get a sense of what an idea
means by how it relates to other ideas.
I figure more important ideas would go towards the center.
You could also search for new ideas by looking at the grid (as opposed
to knowing what you want and typing it in)
If anyone has any suggestions, and if anyone knows if anything like
this has been done before please comment.
Oh and if anyone has suggestions on the best way to make the database of
hyperlinks that reference each other (spidering all of wikipedia, or
is there a better way to do it?)
Sylvan
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Andrew Garrett <andrew(a)epstone.net>
Date: 2008/6/4
Subject: [Wikitech-l] TorBlock extension enabled
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
After working through the code with Tim for a few hours this
afternoon, the TorBlock extension has been enabled on Wikimedia.
The TorBlock extension will override local IP blocks to provide a
consistent treatment of tor. Currently, this involves allowing only
logged-in users to edit, and requiring tor users to have 100 edits,
and a 90-day-old account, prior to being autoconfirmed.
Hopefully, this will provide a balance between allowing users to edit
through tor without the difficult process of granting per-wiki IP
block exemptions, and preventing pagemove vandals (such as the user
known as 'Grawp' on English) from using Tor for vandalism and so on.
I haven't yet implemented this, but I am interested in the prospect of
marking Tor users as such on either CheckUser, or (privacy policy
depending) on Recent Changes.
--
Andrew Garrett
_______________________________________________
Wikitech-l mailing list
Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
One major concern... The next generation would believe that Botpedia
started on 2001 and that Nupedia and Wikipedia lasted no more than a
few days. We have to make sure not to hide facts from them. Let's
document this in The Guinness Book of Records.
Fayssal F.
On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 01:36:44 -0700 (PDT) bobolozo <bobolozo(a)yahoo.com>
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] User:FritzpollBot creating millions of new
> articles
> To: wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Message-ID: <623431.93402.qm(a)web63509.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>
> See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#User:Fr…
>
> A bot has been approved to create articles on every
> place in the world which doesn't have an article yet,
> predicted to be about 2 million new stub articles.
>
> There is some question as to whether or not this is a
> good idea, as it would double our number of articles
> within a few months, perhaps mess up Special:Random,
> and most of the new articles would forever be tiny
> stubs. There are suggestions that perhaps the bot
> could be limited to towns of a certain population
> size, or perhaps the tiny villages could be combined
> into lists instead of each having its own article.
>
> I'm not arguing for or against this, just bringing it
> up here. If there are any concerns, speak now before
> the bot begins.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/04/tech-prentice.html
"The government has been editing Minister of Industry Jim Prentice's
Wikipedia entry, removing mentions of the recent copyright-reform
controversy and hailing the minister as personifying "experience,
confidence and competence, ability and capability." [...]"
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
