Anthere sweetly wrote,
> Nathan,
>
> Would you be ever so kind please,
> as to register to the mailing list if
> you are going to post to it
>
> Thank you :-)
>
> Anthere
> The current list admin
>
> (Ed, by the way, ain't you back ?)
I'm back, but since you are doing such a good job of list
administration, I would like to take this opportunity to
sit this one out. May I have the rest of the year off,
please?
Ed Poor
Last year's list admin
RickK wrote:
> At last count, Mr-Natural-Health had made personal attacks
> on 13 people. Is this violation of Wikiquette to be allowed to
> continue forever?
If I had bothered to keep my ssh account current when I changed
computers last year, I would just ban him myself, announce it to the
mailing list, and take my chances on being deluged with complaints for
being autocratic and unilateral.
But I'll leave that to Erik (Eloquence). He's a sufficient judge of
consensus, and he's got his finger on the ban button.
How about it, my eloquent friend? Do we have to put up with MHN, or will
you eliminate this nuisance for us?
Ed Poor, aka Unsolved Equation
I'm really pissed off. I guess I better take a few days off.
I don't want to deal with trolls.
Anyone who calls themselves a troll or hints (however playfully) that
they might be a troll, is like someone who jokes about hijacking a
plane.
If the passenger next to me on a plane said, "I'm thinking of hijacking
this plane," my first impulse would be . . . (well, usage guidelines for
this mailing list don't let me say any more).
Bottom line: I'll be back when there's an agreement that trolls aren't
allowed here.
I mean it: you can have trolls, or you can have me. The choice is yours,
people.
Ed Poor
>* '''Gdańsk''' (formerly '''Danzig''') is a city on the southern coast
of ...
I was just about to say "eh... Poland doesn't have a southern coast (and
neither does Germany)"... But then realized that seas have coasts too
:-)
The people who've figured out the naming conventions for Gdansk (and
other places that have changed names of the years) might like to add
them to [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (places)]] - at the moment that
page is basically devoted to the much-discussed policy on English
counties.. But a more general policy statement, as much as it is
possible, would be useful for the future.
Pete/Pcb21
> I think no one should be short banned without a clear process and global
> agreement upon using this sort of action. Currently, we do not know who
> could decide of such an action, and we do not have any arguments laid
> down. Plus we confuse "short ban" as a mean to cool down the editor,
> "short ban" as a mean to give a break to the group, and "short ban" as a
> way to get around due process.
Or "short ban" as a mean to publicly and wikipedia-globally humiliate
someone and declare that person to be "wrong"?
Short bans are a bad idea.
BL
Hi Jack,
Just wondering who you are on wikipedia - there are several users called
Jack and your email name (an anagram of "is a troll" by the way!)
doesn't give it away.
Pete/User:Pcb21
-----Original Message-----
From: wikien-l-bounces(a)Wikipedia.org
[mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Ira Stoll
Sent: 22 January 2004 10:22
To: wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org
Subject: [WikiEN-l] You guys are great!
>I resisted subscribing to the mailing list....
1. Is there a graph or chart somewhere showing the number of
wikipedia articles at different points in time?
2. Some time ago, I saw where someone had done a comparison of
Britannica versus Wikipedia articles, some 200 articles compared as I
recall. Where is that? How old is it? Have there been other
comparisons done?
3. If you're a prominent Wikipedian in the San Francisco area who
would be interested in being interviewed, please email me and let me
know your contact info so I can pass it along.
--Jimbo
> From: Sean Barrett <sean(a)epoptic.org>
>> This is A1C Chavez from Ft. Hood
> I find it very scary that the Air Force is looking for that kind of
> information in a freely-editable encyclopedia....
Ah, I think Ft. Hood is an Army base, actually (which is why it's called
"Ft." Hood, and not Hood "AFB").
Agree with you about someone in the military looking to *us* for weapons
data, though... :-)
Noel
As of this morning, it looks like Erik is the administrator of the 2
Wikipedia message boards.
Anyone can sign up, with read/write access to both Mediation and
Arbitration. I suppose it will take us around a week to figure out if
either team wants to configure this differently.
The message board software has "usergroups", which could be used to
separate Mediators from Arbitrators, if closed door sessions are needed.
I'm leaning toward an open forum with what I call "eavesdropping", e.g.,
only Mediators will contribute comments to the Mediation message board,
but registered users can read every comment.
Another alternative is to limit read AND write access for each board to
its members. We should discuss this before doing it.
Ed Poor, aka Uncle Ed
Mediation Committee
Charles agreed with Mark's suggestion:
> > I think we should just say something like "German philosopher from
> > Danzig (present-day Gdansk, Poland)", possibly with alternate wording.
> >
> > -Mark
But I deplore the constant mention of alternate names. Why can't whoever writes the sentence include a link? Then we only have to ensure that the reader will see the alternate name immediately upon clicking the link?
* German philosopher from [[Danzig]]
Upon clicking the /Danzig/ link, the user should see:
<H1>Gdansk</H1>
(redirected from <U>Danzig</U>)
* '''Gdańsk''' (formerly '''Danzig''') is a city on the southern coast of ...
For places whose English names are controversial, the first Heading can be something like Origins of its Name
Ed Poor, aka Unsolved Equation