WikiEN-l May 2003

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forgiveness of bans
by Daniel Mayer 14 May '03

14 May '03

Martin wrote: >I fail to see the benefit of requiring an apology. >Such an apology, given under duress, has no value. >Only a freely given and sincerely meant apology can >aid in healing the wounds of conflicts past. An apology is an admission that a person did something wrong and this is the first step toward learning not to do whatever got them banned again. Without some demonstration that the person plans on working to reform their ways there can be no lifting of a hard ban. Only the most anti-social people get banned to begin with and it is therefore no surprise that we haven't heard many apologies from them. They don't seem to think they did anything wrong and are likely to relapse to their anti-social ways. But even given your criteria 142, Adam, and Micheal would still be hard banned since they often come back and try to sneak edits in. Also anybody who hasn't edited Wikipedia for more than there months (such as Helga, Clutch or TMC) are likely never to return anyway. That said I still think it would be interesting to try your idea on the next ban. If it works we could then expand the program retroactively. -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

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(no subject)
by steven l. rubenstein 14 May '03

14 May '03

There is a new article on the death of John Savage, former premier of Nova Scotia. When I saw the article, my first thought was that the actor John (or is it Jon?) Savage died. Now an administrator, I suppose I am obliged to add the link to the main page under recent deaths. Yet, I do not want to frighten fans of the actor. Yet, we have the article, so maybe... Question: do we post the names of any person who has recently died, if we also have an article -- or are there limits. No disrespect to Canadians, of course. Steve Steven L. Rubenstein Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology Bentley Annex Ohio University Athens, Ohio 45701 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.478 / Virus Database: 275 - Release Date: 5/6/2003

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problems making changes
by steven l. rubenstein 13 May '03

13 May '03

I have been having some problems that I do not understand -- I assume some people here are more experienced and knowledgeable about the technical workings of Wikipedia to figure it out. I recently made an addition to the Supernaturalization talk page. I also made a comment on the Supernatural talk page. When I looked at my own "user contribution" page, next to the list of these most recent contributions was the word "rollback." I went back to the articles and as "most recent changes" it had a deletion of the comments I added, and the user credited for the deletion was me, with the comments "reverted to last edit by Jackerie27" and "reverted to last edit by Mkmcconn. I did not make these changes that are being ascribed to me, and I hope no one else is reverting them. It certainly seems strange that what I add to pages now seems to be deleted automatically, and I am being labeled the deleter. Is HAL 9000 acting up again? Steve Steven L. Rubenstein Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology Bentley Annex Ohio University Athens, Ohio 45701 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.478 / Virus Database: 275 - Release Date: 5/6/2003

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Re: [WikiEN-l] problems making changes
by John Robinson 13 May '03

13 May '03

This has happened to me too, and I don't think it's a local or proxy cache problem because of what happened when I created the [[Whistler's Mother]] article. Initially it wouldn't save, but I kept persevering and finally got it to go; it showed up in Recent Changes -twice-. It still shows up twice in my contributions list and watchlist, once seemingly permanently marked "new" and another version showing the changes that have been made to it since creation. If it makes any difference, that article also starts with ''' as its first characters. -Hephaestos

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Zxcvb is Lir
by Zoe 13 May '03

13 May '03

[[User:Zxcvb]] is Lir. This is evident from Zxcvb's postings on [[User:The Cunctator/Advice for Lir]] in which he answered Cunctator's "advice" as Lir. Zoe __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com

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172's sysop request and some random thoughts
by Daniel Mayer 13 May '03

13 May '03

Andrew Smith wrote: >While we're nominating people for sysop-hood I'd like >to nominate Anthere, from what I've seen she has been >an excellent contributor. In light of the below I'm >not sure if she'd accept but I think it would be >polite to ask. I second that. --mav __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com

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Mailing list weirdness / test message
by Stan Shebs 13 May '03

13 May '03

Hi, I've gotten about three msgs from wikien-l in the past three days, and looking at the archive, it seems there are about a hundred or so that I never received. I did switch over to Moz 1.3 on Sunday, so it's a suspect, although the firehoses of my 40-odd other mailing lists seem not to be affected. The other possibility is changes to Apple's spam filtering, which could explain three messages getting through and not others. Anybody have any thoughts, and could somebody please reply directly to shebs(a)apple.com to see if that makes it? Thanks! Stan

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Sysop nomination: Jtdirl
by Daniel Mayer 13 May '03

13 May '03

tc wrote: >Fred wrote: >> I oppose Jtdirl's nomination for the same reasons >> as Cunctator. Every indication is that like 172 he >> will stongly engage both in historical >> revisionism and abuse of other users. >> >I just want to make it clear I'm not opposing >Jtdirl's nomination. I'm just betting he'll use the >sysop powers abusively. I happen to completely disagree for the reasons I've noted but let's just drop it right now before anybody's feelings get hurt. --mav __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com

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Slrubenstein is now a sysop
by erik_moeller＠gmx.de 13 May '03

13 May '03

Maybe I should just run UPDATE user set user_rights="sysop" where user_name<>"Lir"; ;-) Regards, Erik

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problems making changes & some trivia
by Tony Wilson 13 May '03

13 May '03

I think your idea to add a "disable browser cache" option as an interim measure is an excellent one, Brion. For myself, I'm perfectly happy to hit "reload" now and then, but I'm sure there are plenty of others that it would be a considerable help to. Tony Wilson (Tannin)

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