Hey everyone,
I would like the template for every article to be altered, to include
something similar to the following: "This is licensed under GFDL...if
you with to copy this article, go ahead...but you are required to
provide a link to the GFDL... and you are required to link back to the
original article..." That is essence of what needs to be added to the
template for every Wikipedia article. This is in order to stop the
ripping of Wikipedia articles without full copyright/license compliance.
I posted this today on the
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sites_that_use_Wikipedia_for_content
page.
"Jesus, there are two many websites out there in non-compliance. The
template for all pages needs to say explicitly what people are to do if
they wish to copy the text. I mean, here we are advertising "Wikipedia:
The Free Encylopedia" everywhere, and there is a link to GFDL at the
bottom of every wikipedia article. What is the average person to
think??? Of course they will assume they can just rip off the content.
If they have any knowledge of GFDL or GPL, they might think that they
can use it and modify it as long as they put it under the same license.
But how are they supposed to know that they have to link back to the
original article? We should stop the problem at the source and put
explicit instruction on EVERY SINGLE wikipedia article at the bottom or
top of the page so that when people are clicking and dragging their
mouse across the page they will see it. Or if they save the HTML, they
will also see it when they edit that hopefully. Who to talk to about
this? Just my two cents. I'll continue to help out sending letters and
such though, because I think it's a worthy cause. dave
<http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dgrant> 23:28, 29 Jul 2003 (UTC)"
Please CC to david.grant(a)telus.net, or reply all...
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University of Waterloo
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http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~djgrant
I would just like to say, that I really hate the right-click editing.
Mostly because I can no longer right click on headings that are also
links to open them in a new page. Could we make this a feature you can
turn off in the user preferences?
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Michael Becker
Could someone with developer access ban [[User:67.121.169.17 (Michael)]]
-- a logged-in user, not that IP. He's maliciously moving around pages
and it's becoming increasingly difficult to clean up.
-Mark
> Evercat and Daniel Quinlan have collected evidence that PP and Lir
> are identical, as I've already pointed out many weeks ago.
>
> http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Evercat/PP
>
> Regards,
>
> Erik
Yeah. As well as editing the same articles in the same way, I can now
prove that they are both from the same US town of a mere 70,000
people. Quite a coincidence.
Evercat
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Allan Crossman
a.crossman(a)blueyonder.co.uk
http://dogma.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
Evercat and Daniel Quinlan have collected evidence that PP and Lir are
identical, as I've already pointed out many weeks ago.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Evercat/PP
Regards,
Erik
I found an article in desperate need of Wikification (& yes, it's an
article I have no sympathy for, but I'm finding it easy to resist the urge
to add the POV declaration "this topic is bullshit"), when I noticed I am
no longer able to type in a word & ask for a search.
What's up?
]a bit grumpy from the heat[
Geoff
A while ago, there was a discussion of creating a
morphophonic system for use in wikipedia and
wiktionary. I accidentally responded to the letters
around a month late because I was at summer camp for
the past 3 weeks and was in the middle of my
post-summercamp bike trip. On the bike trip (and
previously at summer camp), I worked on a morphophonic
system in my head that is now almost fully functional,
using only lowercased roman alphabet letters and the
characters - ' ". I think that such a system would be
beneficial to Wikipedia and Wiktionary. Here are some
words transliterated into my system, which I'd like to
call the Wikipedia Morphophonic Pronounciation (WPMP):
wikipedia -> w-ek-ep-ed-e"u
wiktionary -> wi-ikshun-ar-e
Daniel Ehrenberg -> Dany-l E'rxnb-rg
unintuitive -> xnint'y-u"itiv
You can't really glean much of how the system works
from those samples, though.
-LittleDan
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Question: if Wikipedia was under a DOS attack of some sort, would we
know about it? I ask because there was an incident of repeated
vandalism today, and just after that was dealt with, Wikipedia became
very (very) slow.
So I just thought a DOS attack was a possibility. Is it? :-)
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Allan Crossman
a.crossman(a)blueyonder.co.uk
http://dogma.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
Just a note letting you all know that because Comcast isn't the best
internet company around, I (and every other Comcast customer) was unable to
access any website hosted by the largest ISP in Asia. Since my personal
website is hosted by a company a few stops downstream from them, I have
also been unable to access my email for the past few days. All those of you
who have sent me email, please don't think I've been ignoring you. Also,
the backlog will take some time to sift through, so please be patient. :)
On a side note, avoid Comcast internet like the plague, and ICDsoft.com is
the best web site hosting company in the known universe.
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dalighieri(a)digitalgrapefruit.com
"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their
neutrality in times of great moral crisis."
-Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321