WikiEN-l July 2003

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About copyright violations
by David Grant 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

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... -- David J. Grant Masters Candidate a-Si and Integrated Circuits Lab University of Waterloo Room DC2551A 519-888-4567 x2327 http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~djgrant

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Right Click Editing
by Michael Becker 30 Jul '03

30 Jul '03

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? -- Michael Becker

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vandalism
by Delirium 30 Jul '03

30 Jul '03

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

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Pizza Puzzle
by a.crossman＠blueyonder.co.uk 29 Jul '03

29 Jul '03

> 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 -- Allan Crossman a.crossman(a)blueyonder.co.uk http://dogma.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

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gfdl violation
by Imran Ghory 29 Jul '03

29 Jul '03

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1049 Includes a copy and paste from, http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Staunton Imran -- http://bits.bris.ac.uk/imran

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Pizza Puzzle
by erik_moeller＠gmx.de 29 Jul '03

29 Jul '03

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

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Search function
by Geoff Burling 29 Jul '03

29 Jul '03

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

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morphophonics for wikipedia
by Daniel Ehrenberg 28 Jul '03

28 Jul '03

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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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DOS attack?
by a.crossman＠blueyonder.co.uk 28 Jul '03

28 Jul '03

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? :-) -- Allan Crossman a.crossman(a)blueyonder.co.uk http://dogma.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

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Just a note
by Dante Alighieri 28 Jul '03

28 Jul '03

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. ----- Dante Alighieri 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

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