>> Comments? I think Imran has a point.
> How about adding a column img_license to the image table
> and requiring the user to specify a license during upload:
That's precisely what the image's description page is for,
and its already being used for that (or should be wherever
it's not). The Wikipedia:Copyrights page is about as clear
as I can make the muddy situation. Yes, included images
may not be covered by the GFDL. We cannot accept /text/
that is not licensable under the GFDL, but images are
different. They are easy to separate, denying ourselves
"fair use" would be a great hardship, fair use wouuld apply
to most of our licensees anyway (though not all), and using
images does not detract from our goal of creating free text.
I think it /would/ be a mistake to use a non-free image
that the article /depended/ on (say, a diagram). If there
are any cases like that, I think we should replace it with
our own image under GFDL. But images that are just
illustrations to otherwise complete articles (like the
album covers) are fine.
A useful feature to have would be automated list sorting, for instance if
you put some code above/below a list it would automatically sort the list
alphabetically before saving.
Imran
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Brion earlier today deleted several junk entries whose content related to
sexual perversion. Looking at the deletion log, I can't tell whether they are
the same IP address (in which case it's a vandal and should be blocked) or
different ones. If different people delete junks by the same person, no one
knows that he should be blocked. Please, therefore, when deleting junk
entries, list the IP address (or user name, if any) of whoever wrote the junk.
phma
Something odd seems to have happened to the submit action used by Save
and Preview. This only happens on one of my browsers, OmniWeb under
Mac OSX, but since it's my preferred browser . . .
This started today, so some change today must have affected it. The
display is truncated for Review so you don't see the new format and
(sometimes) Save reports an editing conflict when there is none.
Mentions of Wikipedia on usenet seem to be growing fairly fast, in the
past 24 hours an english wikipedia article has been linked to in the
following groups,
alt.slack
sci.crypt
fr.comp.lang.java
rec.arts.tv.uk.eastenders
alt.fan.cecil-adams
de.sci.philosophie
alt.messianic
talk.politics.misc
alt.religion.islam
Wikipedia seems to be getting a lot of readers from a wide range of
groups.
Imran
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Hi,
I've written a small patch that allows you to edit Wikipedia articles by
just double clicking the page. This works in IE, Mozilla and Konqueror with
JavaScript enabled.
To enable it, go to your preferences and check "Edit pages on double click"
(on en.wikipedia.org). Then choose an editable page (not Main Page) and click
twice anywhere on the page. It should have the same effect as "Edit this
page".
Please let me know if you notice any problems or special cases that need to
be considered. Note: I agree it would be neat to place the cursor where you
click, but to my knowledge this isn't possible with JavaScript.
Thanks to Brion VIBBER for applying this patch.
Regards,
Erik
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Tokerboy has uploaded a bunch of record album covers, without permission of
the various copyright holders. I don't have the time or the sysop privileges
to delete them, so can someone else. Cheers
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Gareth Owen
"Wikipedia does rock. By the count on the "brilliant prose" page, there
are 14 not-bad articles so far" -- Larry Sanger (12 Jan 2001)
> Anthere wrote:
> >ah, a postal code is similar to zipcodes in the us, or
> >areacode in England (except those are very very
> >accurate compared to ours). We have 36 679 communes.
>
> >[snip]
>
> >I believe it's probably very similar in the usa. But
> >that means if you put
> >78000 : it is Versailles. You could have a nice
> >article on Versailles maybe ?
> >But 78001 is also Versailles, so what do you put here
> >?
> >And in the 38140, there are several villages
> >concerned...
>
> Ah, but then what would we do when the year 38140 comes around? ;-)
>
By then Wikipedia will have long since become the core of a godlike universal AI,
able to disambiguate queries (which will be expressed not as verbal or written
queries, but as low-level fluctuations in the post-organic brains of individuals)
instantaneously and precisely.
Disambiguation pages are, of course, just a necessity of imperfect technology.
At last report, the new software has been implemented at eo.W.org which is
very nice. I was adding en: links to some of my articles on eo: and they
worked fine. However, the eo: links in the en.W.org wikipedia pointed to the
OLD esperanto page. Check out [[drag queen]] for an example. So: ?
(of course if this has been fixed between yesterday and today I'm gonna wind
up looking like a dufus.)
-Matt (montrealais)
Montreal, Canada
Anthere wrote:
>ah, a postal code is similar to zipcodes in the us, or
>areacode in England (except those are very very
>accurate compared to ours). We have 36 679 communes.
>[snip]
>I believe it's probably very similar in the usa. But
>that means if you put
>78000 : it is Versailles. You could have a nice
>article on Versailles maybe ?
>But 78001 is also Versailles, so what do you put here
>?
>And in the 38140, there are several villages
>concerned...
Ah, but then what would we do when the year 38140 comes around? ;-)
kq