WikiEN-l May 2004

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The proliferation of article series boxes
by David Friedland 04 May '04

04 May '04

There have recently been a proliferation with the article series boxes. This is a sign that we are in dire need of the category system. What is the current state of the category system and what can Nohat do to help? Let there be categories before the Wikipedia is inundated with articles that are 99% article series boxes and 1% content. That is all, Thank you. - David

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Re: Reponse to troll [[The Enforcer]]
by Sheldon Rampton 04 May '04

04 May '04

Jimbo wrote: >3. There are no current plans for salaries for anyone. In the >future, I do intend that as we grow, we will become a large >organization patterned after the National Geographic Society, the >International Red Cross, and so on. This will eventually necessitate >employees, etc. But for now, any suggestion that I am personally >trying to get money from Wikipedia is beyond ludicrous. Even if Jimbo *were* currently drawing a salary from the Wikimedia Foundation, it wouldn't exactly be a scandal. Frankly, I think the Wikimedia Foundation *should* have paid staff, and as soon as possible. A project as substantial as the Wikipedia can't run on volunteer sacrifices forever. -- -------------------------------- | Sheldon Rampton | Editor, PR Watch (www.prwatch.org) | Author of books including: | Friends In Deed: The Story of US-Nicaragua Sister Cities | Toxic Sludge Is Good For You | Mad Cow USA | Trust Us, We're Experts | Weapons of Mass Deception | Banana Republicans (Tarcher/Penguin, May 2004) --------------------------------

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Re: <span>
by David Friedland 04 May '04

04 May '04

Since there have been several requests for <span> tags not only from me over the past several months, but also from other users, most recently twice this week on the Village Pump, I have opened <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Span_tags_poll> to let the people speak on whether or not they want to allow <span> tags. I hope that if there is a consensus to support <span> tags, then the developers will enable them. - David

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Grubby spam mail
by Arno M 03 May '04

03 May '04

Anthere seems to be quite right. As this story demonstrates, http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3344641 , this is indeed a trojan virus-type spam mail. And an ugly one at that. ____________________________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.as…

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Submitting a "print" (linear text) version of Wikipedia to PG?
by Daniel P.B.Smith 02 May '04

02 May '04

Forgive me if this has been discussed umpteen times... has any consideration been given to (periodically) submitting some kind of print-like version of Wikipedia to Project Gutenberg? What brought this to mind was running across Jimbo's statement that "I'd like to distribute cheaply-printed paperback copies of Wikipedia to every school in every country in Africa, in English or French as the local circumstances dictate," and thinking how concordant that was with Michael Hart's visions for Project Gutenberg. BTW, I don't know all the ins and outs but, for the record, although PG has traditionally (in IMHO very, very, VERY wisely) concentrated on "plain vanilla ASCII" format, they do ''not'' limit themselves to that format. So other formats would be negotiable. It would of course be sensible to consult with PG directly on this. I believe they have the Distributed Proofreaders working on the 11th edition of the Britannica, BTW. There might be some issues about reconciling the GFDL with the Project Gutenberg "Fine Print" notice, which they are very, very, VERY picky about. However, PG distributes a few copyrighted items, so there must be a way to work such things out. -- Daniel P. B. Smith, dpbsmith(a)verizon.net alternate: dpbsmith(a)alum.mit.edu "Elinor Goulding Smith's Great Big Messy Book" is now back in print! Sample chapter at http://world.std.com/~dpbsmith/messy.html Buy it at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1403314063/

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Grubby spam mail
by Arno M 01 May '04

01 May '04

Has anyone else been getting messages like the one below in their e-mail accounts? "Just got this from CNN Osama Bin Laden has just been captured! A video and some pictures have been released. Goto the link below for pictures, I will update the page with the video as soon as I can" A link then is then given, which contains the expression God Bless America. However, if you click on it, you'll get a Hungarian porn site showing pictures of silly young women with, well, I don't think that's condensed milk that's been splattered on their faces. The reason why I suspect a connection with this chat site is that it's the only place where my e-mail address appears. Maybe someone who uses it got a virus? Alternately, some spammer found a way of bypassing the user-at-website format. BTW, the e-mail address where this message comes from is phony. It supposedly comes from yahoo, but yahoo says that the address is a spoof one. ____________________________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.as…

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Re: The proliferation of article series boxes
by Mister E 01 May '04

01 May '04

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