In the german Wikipedia we came accross the article
[[de:The_Flowers_Of_Romance]].
While there was a band of this name in the seventies, the article is being
used to promote a newly founded band from Estonia which does not seem to
have any relation to the original band. Most edits of the article are from
an IP in Estonia.
Interestingly enough the article has been (more or less) translated into
57 languages:
11:55, 26. Jul 2005 Palica K (interwiki Ergänze: tl, lv, ro, th, rm, pl, no,
nn, nl, la, pt, lb, ru, tr, gd, io, ar, ga, ee, gl, id, cs, eo, el, es, eu,
an, ca, it, iu, vi, bn, sh, ur, ast, ks, sl, ku, ms, chr, yi, se, nah, sr,
oc, hi, hu, bs, bg, sk, fi, ang, br, uk, hr, ht)
This seems very fishy and i believe someone is playing a bad game with
Wikipedia and most language version have fallen for it (until now).
At least in the german wikipedia there is also an article about the alleged
front man of the band: [[de:Tony Blackplait]]. It seems that all the facts
mentioned in the article (like films) are fabricated, and when searching for
that name in google all that came up are other Wikis (where the name has for
example been included into an article about Sid Vicious) and mostly wikipedia
copies. You might want to check for similiar fake articles in other
languages.
So i would like to make you aware of this. You might want to check the facts
for yourself and maybe delete the article from the various languages.
As it seems this article has been classified as a hoax (and deleted)
earlier in the englisch wikipedia, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/The_Flowers_Of_Ro…
In the meanwhile the article has been recreated in the english wikipedia,
see [[en:The Flowers of Romance (band 2)]].
Regards
Michael
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Following our discussions on napulitano(a)yahoogroups.com about a possible
wikipedia in Neapolitan language I just added the request here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages#Neapolitan
Supporters and mother tongue speakers are highly welcome :-)
From my side: I speak Neapolitan every day, read it without problems,
but have some problems in writing - so: most of all technical support
and "clean up"-function for me.
Thank you for supporting our project.
Ciao, Sabine
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Hi Milos!
At the German WP we have an arbitration committee for such issues. I don't know if anything similar exists at en: but if so that would surely be worth a try.
As far as I'm concerned I think Wikipedia should not rename ethnic groups at will. If a people designates itself by a certain name others have to respect that name and not change it at random. This holds especially true if that people represents the majority population of a present-day independant nation.
Regards,
Boris
millosh(a)mutualaid.org, wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org schrieb am 29.08.05 14:02:12:
Please, look at articles such as:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonians ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_Slavs ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_denar and similar.
Greek nationalists, supported by one Bulgarian nationalist (just to
say that Bulgarian Wikipedian community is not nationalist) are
forcing naming (modern) Macedonians as "Macedonian Slavs".
Even (some) people on English Wikipedia think that they can vote about
the name of one ethicity/nation. This is a horror. I urge to all of
you to stop that (Greek) nationalist orgy there!
Wikipedia is not the place for nationalist propaganda.
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Hi all,
Is there a site where I can download and run a wiki on my own
computer? Preferably mediawiki, but something that's as easy as Firefox or
Media Player to install.
Thanks,
James
An open Wikimedia meeting will be held on IRC today.
An agenda is at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_agenda#August_week_4 - please
suggest additions on the talk page.
So far, the agenda includes:
# Status of Wikicouncil
# Wikinews: license and Chinese version
# Seed wiki for potential new projects
# Possible wiki closures: Simple, Klingon, Sep11, Others...?
If you are interested in any of these topics, please come and give
your opinion during the meeting.
The meeting will be in #wikimedia-meeting. For anyone without an IRC
client, I've created a temporary CGI gateway at
http://irc.wikicities.com/meeting/
The meeting starts at 20:00 UTC
(<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Timezone_conversion>) and should last
no more than two hours.
Angela.
At least at Swedish Wikipedia, we have noticed that the function "what
links here" doesn't work properly. It misses out lots of links to the
page in question, which is a bit annoying. It has been like this since
the upgrade to MediaWiki 1.5.
Is it like this on all the Wikipedias? Is there info on the progress
on the matter somewhere? Has it been fixed on some Wikipedias, and if
so, is there something we can install at svwiki to make the function
work properly again?
Regards
/Habj
Cormac Lawler wrote:
> Is there a Kate's tools-like way of counting the number of pages that
> link to any given page through the "What links here" function? This
> would be useful to see which policy pages are most often cited, for
> example.
>
> Oh, and I mean a *simple* tool for a technologically simple guy like me.
That's a very interesting idea! I just posted an answer to my blog:
http://wm.sieheauch.de/?p=19
Greetings,
Jakob
please create the wikipedia for the kokborok language.
( the language wikipage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokborok)
please guide me on this subject furthur
thnx
Bonnie
Node, the Ronline proposal was basically a proposal to
*save* the Moldovan Wikipedia with a few compromises.
I don't know why you're saying that the result
"could've tipped the other way". The other way was the
shutting down of the Moldovan Wikipedia. The Ronline
proposal basically enabled the Moldovan Wikipedia to
go forward, which is why it was voted by all the three
users you claim are legitimate (me, you and Dmitriid).
Had Gabix been given the right to vote, I am nearly
certain he would have voted for the Ronline proposal
(instead of the shutting down option).
I have observed your arguments with many people on the
Moldovan language and Romanian language articles on
Wikipedia (and mostly I have chosen not to involve
myself) but I think that you need to understand that
in a case like this, compromise is necessary. The
"chirilica" inclusion *is* necessary and is a
reasonable compromise. The only way to have voted
against that inclusion was to have voted against the
Ronline proposal, in which case the Moldovan Wikipedia
would have been shut down. You had the chance to make
an amendment even, and yet you didn't. Dmitriid made
one (about Wikipedia in romana instead of Wikipedia
Romania, I think) and his was voted in.
However, as I said on the Moldovan Wikipedia, anyone
has the chance to propose a new proposal or call a
vote on the existing proposal or model. So, if you're
unhappy about the chirilica inclusion, then propose an
amendment and put it up for voting. Until that, the
Ronline proposal must be fully implemented, because it
was voted in, and one of the inclusions must be the
chirilica interwiki.
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