I just had a revelation (or a short circuit;-) about what to do about
the multi-language Main Page.
We set up a new variable (like "{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}"); say,
"{{YOURLANGUAGE}}".
We write that into the first line of the www.wikipedia.org Main Page.
*If* your browser settings have a language other than EN as first
preference, this displays a line, saying "There's also a wikipedia in
XXX" (of course, in that language!).
If your browser default settings are EN, it doesn't show anything.
So, the US/UK users won't notice a difference, the Germans, French,
Spanish, and ... will see a line in their language (maybe with a nice
background), guiding the way to "their" wikipedia.
Magnus
On Thursday 23 January 2003 04:00 am, wikipedia-l-request(a)wikipedia.org wrote:
> I just nominated Jimmy (as a representant for our little project) for
> the EFF Pioneer Award. Maybe others like to do the same.
> http://www.eff.org/awards/pioneer.html
>
> Jimmy Wales
> Phone: (+1)-727-527-9776
> Email: jwales(a)bomis.com
>
> Or pick Mav, Brion, KQ, Magnus, Cunc, Axel, ...
>
> I guess they can't give the price to the project as a whole. :-(
>
> Kurt
Please everybody nominate Jimbo instead of me. The way I see it, he is our
Linus Torvalds and should get the credit for the project in the same way as
Torvalds gets credit for the Linux kernel (*cough* sometimes getting credit
for the whole operating system).
Torvalds started the Linux kernel and makes sure things keep running more or
less smoothly and on target even though most of the actual coding work is
really done by hundreds of other people. Torvalds himself readily admits
this. I see many similarities with Jimbo/Wikipedia.
I'm just a highly motivated foot soldier, Jimbo is the General.
-- mav
WikiKarma
Added many events to [[January 23]] and greeted many new users
I just nominated Jimmy (as a representant for our little project) for
the EFF Pioneer Award. Maybe others like to do the same.
http://www.eff.org/awards/pioneer.html
Jimmy Wales
Phone: (+1)-727-527-9776
Email: jwales(a)bomis.com
Or pick Mav, Brion, KQ, Magnus, Cunc, Axel, ...
I guess they can't give the price to the project as a whole. :-(
Kurt
tarquin <tarquin(a)planetunreal.com> writes:
> <br> is deprecated
How might a poet<br>
Wiki-format her haiku<br>
So they look groovy?
--
Gareth Owen
"The best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity"
-- W. B. Yeats forsees the standard of debate on wikipedia-l
On Saturday 18 January 2003 04:00 am, elian wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I restored the test pages for the wikipedia main page (they got deleted
> when I moved my stuff to a new server)
>
> It can be found now at http://djini.de/wikipedia-portal/
>
> The PHP-version is not running correctly (the language guessing
> functionality did not work when I tested), but I have no time to debug at
> the moment.
>
> If you send clear suggestions (like: take these colors, change the text
> here into the following), I will put up new pages with your modifications.
Please shorten the English text to read similar to the new English Main Page:
[[en:Wikipedia | Wikipedia]] is a [[en:multilingual coordination |
multilingual project to create a complete and accurate
[[en:Wikipedia:Copyrights | open content]] encyclopedia. We started on 15
January 2001 and are already working on XXXX articles spread across XX number
of languages. Visit the [[en:help | help page]] and experiment in the
[[en:Wikipedia:Sandbox | sandbox]] to learn how ''you can edit any article
right now''.
Less is more.
BTW, everyone should vote on what to do with www.wikipedia.org over at meta.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
WikiKarma Payment. Have you had your Wiki today?
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_18 (added most of the events)
|I haven't had a change to investigate this yet, I'm just passing it
|along in case others haven't seen it.
|
|----- Forwarded message from Chris Cappuccio <chris(a)nmedia.net> -----
|
|From: Chris Cappuccio <chris(a)nmedia.net>
|Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 01:16:24 -0800
|To: jwales(a)bomis.com
|Subject: wikipedia page
|
|On http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._plan_to_invade_Iraq
|someone changed 'Iraq' to 'penis' all over the page....
Already taken care of: I autoreverted the edit 5 minutes after it was posted.
It would have been less than 2 minutes after but the responsiveness of the
site was very sluggish at that point.
-- mav
WikiKarma
Still on firefighting duty
I haven't had a change to investigate this yet, I'm just passing it
along in case others haven't seen it.
----- Forwarded message from Chris Cappuccio <chris(a)nmedia.net> -----
From: Chris Cappuccio <chris(a)nmedia.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 01:16:24 -0800
To: jwales(a)bomis.com
Subject: wikipedia page
On http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._plan_to_invade_Iraq
someone changed 'Iraq' to 'penis' all over the page....
--
"Thomas Pynchon on bad acid couldn't dream up the paranoid nightmares now
pouring out of Washington." -- John Perry Barlow
----- End forwarded message -----
Just when you thought you would be able to concentrate on upgrading some other
Wikis Brion. ;-)
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/01/22/0258226.shtml?tid=149
Let the firefighting begin.
--Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
Wikikarma
I was one of probably a dozen people who submitted something to Slashdot. Oh
wait - that requires a triple Wikikarma payment: I added a bunch of events to
[[January 21]] and [[January 22]] and also worked on improving [[gene]].
On mer, 2003-01-22 at 02:15, koyaanisqatsi(a)nupedia.com wrote:
> Just a note to give everyone a heads-up: anonymous coward submitted a
> story about our 100,000 article milestone, and we are now slashdotted.
> Bucket brigade at the ready. ;-)
We're still afloat so far. :) I gotta go sleep now, and won't be free
to check in on the site until after 11 am (1900 UTC). So if the site
breaks completely in the mean time, please give a shout to jwales and
jasonr at bomis.com and ask them to give the server a solid kick or two.
As temporary measures, I've:
- Put up a static HTML copy of the main page for people following the
direct link to http://www.wikipedia.org/ . (It won't reflect new edits
or login state.)
- Disabled updates to the page view counters. (They can bunch up when
things are really busy and use all available webserver processes,
stalling new connections.)
- Put the heavy special pages that are disabled part of the day into
disable mode full-time (sorry, will re-enable these tomorrow)
- Re-enabled the Alternative PHP Cache, which should speed up page load
times a little bit by bypassing the PHP script parsing.
- Since APC slightly breaks the current RDF spool generator script, I've
disabled updating of the RDF spools.
This is a newer revision of APC which hopefully won't crash so much as
the old one did. :) If it's problematic, Jimbo or Magnus go ahead and
comment out the APC section at the top of /usr/local/lib/php.ini and
restart apache.
Note that page view counters, main pages, and all special pages remain
enabled on the less-trafficked other languages. Just on the English are
they disabled. APC caching affects all wikis.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
WikiKarma: posts defending our honor at Slashdot:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/22/0258226
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