WikiEN-l March 2005

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English Wikipedia reaches 500,000 articles
by Sj 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Please take another look at this press release: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Press_releases/March_2005 If you're interested in helping distribute the press release this weekend, please add your name to the list of press-release participants... or chime in on the talk page. -- +sj+

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User Survey
by Sj 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

I would like to draft a general (optional!) user survey, to offer in sections to users who want to fill it out. What do you think? Take a look at the current survey questions and comment. I seem to recall a number of smaller surveys have been run in the past; if you have taken part in (or run) one of these, please link the surveys to one another, or perhaps create a category for them... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sj/Survey/draft (I know it's in my user space, but feel free to edit this page mercilessly.) -- +sj+

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The WikiEN-l Archive
by Alphax 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

I have a couple of major gripes with this. Firstly, the monthly text files are un-compressed; secondly, there is no "Get the entire list" option (which mailman can do). Why not? Will this ever change, or do I just need to import each monthly archive (I used to get things in digests, but they are crappy)? [[en:User:Alphax]]

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Unblock this IP: 217.33.74.20
by Daniel Mayer 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

--- Angela <beesley(a)gmail.com> wrote: > There is currently no requirement for admins on the English Wikipedia > to enable their email. I proposed adding this to the policy almost a > year ago, but there was no support for it. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Blocking_policy#Email_proposal This is such a blindingly obvious thing that I�m shocked there was not more support for it. I will continue to nag admins that don�t do this since so many emails from people who get blocked go to me (since I�m one of the few admins on the admin list that gives an obvious link to my �email this user� form). I�m sure most people don�t even get as far as the admin list. In fact there should be an auto link to �email the admin who blocked you� for block messages. Of course the blocking admin need not respond via email and thus give up their email address to vandals who may spam bomb them and there should be a per IP throttle limit to the number of emails that can be sent using this option (server side virus checks would also be useful). But blocking an IP and not giving any potentially innocent people who also use that IP an easy way to inform somebody about it, is not fair and very unwiki. -- mav __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Unblock this IP: 217.33.74.20
by Daniel Mayer 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

--- Violet/Riga <violetriga(a)gmail.com> wrote: > RickK has banned IP 217.33.74.20 as a "returning vandal". That IP is > used by a school and I have requested on the talk page that misuse > should be reported to me so that I can deal with the people > responsible. There has been no problems at all for over a month and > RickK has not issued any warning on the talk page. I can see nothing > wrong in the contributions so perhaps articles were created (and > subsequently deleted) but other than that there is no indication as to > why he has blocked it. Doesn't RickK have 'email this user' enabled? If not, then he should not be blocking IPs since there is no obvious recourse for wrongly-blocked people to make note of that fact. Same goes for all admins. -- mav __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Unblock this IP: 217.33.74.20
by Violet/Riga 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

RickK has banned IP 217.33.74.20 as a "returning vandal". That IP is used by a school and I have requested on the talk page that misuse should be reported to me so that I can deal with the people responsible. There has been no problems at all for over a month and RickK has not issued any warning on the talk page. I can see nothing wrong in the contributions so perhaps articles were created (and subsequently deleted) but other than that there is no indication as to why he has blocked it. Can someone please unblock it, thanks... ~~~~ Violet/Riga

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Re [WikiEN-l] Abuse of blocking powers (The Recycling Troll)
by Fritz Wuehler 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

Hi, Recycling Troll. Please note that the wikipedia scum are doing the same routine to you as they've done to many before. (Check back over this mailing list.) The wikipedia is not of course an online encyclopedia, there's plenty of real online encyclopedias, (you know, the places where wikipedia steals most of it's stuff from), it's a place where Jimmy Wales and other scum lure people in with a pack of lies and then proceed to do to them what they're starting in on doing to you. Many have tried to opppose their insanity. But you are flogging a dead horse. If you keep trying they'll just have loads of fun at your expense, as they control the system, and in the end carry out a bizarre an un-American great "court case" against you and then ban you. They are pathetic (but nasty) morons. Also did you know that Jimmy Wales is a sick pornograper?:http://www.247news.net/2004/20041211-wikipedia.shtml

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Re: public
by dpbsmith＠verizon.net 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

The people trying to determine whether Australis is a republic should get together with WHEELER, who has expertise in that area. :-)

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Re [WikiEN-l] Abuse of blocking powers (The Recycling Troll)
by debussy＠cyber-rights.net 14 Mar '05

14 Mar '05

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[[Wikipedia:Arbitration policy/Proposed amendment revote]]
by Steven Melenchuk 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

As the old ratification vote for the arbcom policy amendment has degenerated into a fiasco, I am working on initiating a revote. Please visit there and add any significant comments you might have to make. ~Grunt

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