Hi,
I'm new to Wikipedia (great project :-)) and faced the following
problem:
Searching on 'D66' (a dutch political party) gives an error. First
I thought it's because of the 3 chars (the error suggest so) but
searching for 'CDA' (another party) worked. Some looking around
learned me this is probably a MySQL thing. But the MySQL docs
say text searching is possible with both letters and digits.
And indeed '666' works.
Are combi's wrong?
Regards,
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I just put online the paper on wikis that I presented on November 7 at
a conference on electronic publishing in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.
It gives a lot of credit to Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales.
Read it here, http://aronsson.se/wikipaper.html
(This is a static HTML page...)
If you have a pointer to any earlier paper on wikis appearing in a
scholarly/scientific journal or at a conference, I'd like to know.
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I just found [[Open-Site]] listed on orphaned articles. I was about to
delete it, because it looked too much like some newbie trying to
describe (and rename) wikipedia. But, I made a Google-search, and found
a free, categorized encyclopedia. It only contains a few articles, though.
The layout is nice, and they seem to have it organized (more than
wikipedia, that is ;-)
IMHO they're technically too different to merge (categories etc). But
maybe this could merge with Larry's "sifter" project?
Magnus
See
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Coopyrights
Section "Fair Use"
As I understand it, we don't guarantee that the images
and sounds are covered by GNU/FDL, only the text. (But
between a free and a non-free image or sound, the free
one must be prefered).
AstroNomer
P.S. I noticed also there the frase "Wikipedia also
uses text under the fair use doctrine. However, what
is fair for us to use may not be fair for your
intended use of the text. " That troubles me a bit.
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Hello all,
I wanted to know the status of a couple of issues.
First: how is the non-profit going? Will we have
wikipedia foundation this year?
Second: was there any agreement about making
www.wikipedia.org the face of the whole project, not
just
the english wikipedia?
Happy New Year, (just over a week late)
AstroNomer
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On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 10:52:07PM +0100, Lars Aronsson wrote:
<stuff about copyrights acknowledged>
In any case, when discussing the 1911 EB when it first became available
on the net, it quickly became clear that the material from it is
totally unsuited for cut-and-paste into Wikipedia anyway. Obviously
much of it is totally out-of-date (read the article on "Calculating
machines" for amusing speculation on the possibility of a completed
Analytical Engine), the style is archaic, and even the stuff on historical
figures has been invalidated by later research.
Use it for source material (with a good deal of care), but I would strongly
argue *not* to cut-and-paste it in.
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This is an issue for wikipedia-l, not wikitech-l.
There's no need to give sysops the ability to delete posts. Either everyone
should be able to delete posts, or noone.
On 1/7/03 12:13 PM, "Tomasz Wegrzanowski" <taw(a)users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Current talk pages are extremely unfriendly.
> I think they should be abandoned and replaced by
> more "natural" system of posting.
>
> Article would contain: "Comment this article" and "View comments"
> links, with second present only if there are any.
> Occasional readers would be more willing to comment articles that way,
> with interface they are more familiar with.
>
> Every comment would contain posting user name (or "Anonymous"), date,
> and "Reply" post.
>
> Unlike K5, we don't want to keep posts forever, so
> some magic would be necessary to take care of old posts.
> Automatic expiration wouldn't be any good - some issues are
> resolved very quickly, others may stay for months.
>
> I think that posts should have 3 states: current, old and deleted.
> Everyone should be able to move posts between current and old status,
> and sysops should be able to delete and undelete posts.
> Old posts should not be displayed in defalt "View comments",
> (some "Show also old comments" link should be provided), and
> deleted posts should be visible only to sysops.
>
> Markup should be interpretted normally in posts, but
> some extra care should be taken that no formatting bomb
> will be placed in them.
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The "Go" button that is now visible on en.wikipedia.org is my nefarious
creation. It allows you to visit a page directly by typing its name, e.g. "Main
Page"->Go will put you directly on Main Page.
The currently active version is not the latest one. I have recently changed
the behavior of the button to try some capitalization variants, so "main
page" and "MAIN PAGE" work just as well, and to run a normal search if no direct
hit can be found. That improved version should be activated shortly.
What's the use? Well, if you have certain pages you visit frequently, or
jump back and forth a lot, this makes navigation easier. Anyone who has in the
past run a search just to visit a particular page should appreciate this
change.
Regards,
Erik
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