Hi.
Yesterday I did this little comparison that Jimmy Wales asked me to do,
to see how large our encyclopedia would be if we covered the same topics
as Columbia.
Among other things, the result revealed that about half of their article
titles do not have corresponding titles on Wikipedia.
My question is whether we want to do something about this (create
redirects). I would like to dump the huge list of article titles we
don't have onto some page in the Wikipedia namespace, and have our bulk
of volunteers work through them and create redirects to the relevant
pages, or mark some as "we *really* don't have something about this
topic" if applicable.
Would such an effort be warranted?
Timwi
Editing material which originates in Iran, North Korea, Cuba and other
nations with which most trade is banned without a government license may be
illegal. It is interpreted as aiding the enemy. No corrections of spelling
or grammar would be allowed under this interpretation, only use of camera
ready copy. Theoretically correcting a spelling mistake by Osama ben Ladin
would fall into this category of crime.
This potentially affects us as we can in the routine conduct of business,
without even knowing, accept imput from these nations, from a user who
simply appears to be an ordinary user.
One could interprete this to apply only to input the origin of which is
clearly identified.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/28/national/28PUBL.html?th
New York Times login required
Fred
FYI, the message below was an attempt to send a virus to the listserv:
>Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 09:26:12 -0500
>From: redgum46(a)lycos.com
>Subject: [WikiEN-l] Hi! :-)
>To: WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org
>Message-ID: <syjosdecffykveimgsb(a)lycos.com>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
>Argh, i don't like the plaintext :)
>
>..btw, "22061" is a password for archive
>
Does the GNU Free Documentation License give everyone the right to stick
a frame around the Wikipedia and rename it, as Sterling has done?
What's the difference between hijacking and proper use?
Is Sterling making a mockery of Jimbo's promise not to have ads in
Wikipedia?
Someone explain this to me, please.
Ed Poor (speaking for myself only)
I would like to have a page of article titles which (a) Columbia Concise
has but (b) Wikipedia doesn't. It would stimulate us to find existing
articles or to write new articles.
This would be a good idea in any case. And same goes for a comparison
with Britannica or Americana.
On the other hand, speed is not of the essence. There is no prize for
being quick. My goal is accuracy and thoroughness, not "how fast can we
beat those guys".
Remember, it takes the paid professionals a decade or more to prepare a
new edition. We started with nothing more than Larry's outline!!
Ed Poor, aka Uncle Ed
User ID #188 <=== I am one of the first 200 people to sign up!!!!
I don't like to "ssh" in to the database, especially when it's not the English database. So would Erik or Tim take care of this? (I don't think you have to wait a week...)
----
denny
Maybe this is the wrong place, but I'd like to ask for bureaucratship on the Croatian Wikipedia. The request on the inlwiki-l mailing list, it seems, have not been seen. I have made quite some edits on the English and German Wikipedia, I am here for months, I didn't get into any edit wars, and I have a long history of edits on the Croatian Wikipedia (the only Wikipedia I asked for adminship. It was granted immeadiatly then). I don't ask for bureaucratship because I want the power, but in order to achieve greater autonomy and independence for the Croatian Wikipedia. If this is the wrong place to ask, I kindly ask to be forgiven and to be told, where to ask actually, but I thought, only developers can make anyone a bureaucrat, and well, our developers are not seperated by language, so I can ask here as well (thinking, that the number of Croatian speaking developers is probably pretty small :). --denny vrandečić 16:24, Feb 26, 2004 (UTC)
Support:
--Uncle Ed 18:26, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Denny is the heart and soul of the Croatian Wikipedia. -- Zmaj 07:23, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)
--cprompt 16:57, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)
It doesn't make much sense not to do this :) --Shallot 02:30, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Tally: 4 support, 0 oppose -- ends 16:24, Mar 4, 2004 (UTC)
It is now official! :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Columbia_Encyclopedia_article_titles
If you have a minute of spare time, please take a peek at some of the
links. If Wikipedia articles exist on some of the topics, create
redirects to them and remove them from the list.
If you are certain that a particular topic does not have a corresponding
Wikipedia article, it would probably make sense to mark them somehow -
perhaps move them to the bottom of the page into an extra section.
Thanks!
Timwi
So it's clear, my earlier message was not a cryptic
request (a la Plautus) to launch covert operations. A
virus bounced at my mailbox and then sent that weird
message elsewhere, "spoofing" as though it had come
from me. My apologies. :-)
James Rosenzweig
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