WikiEN-l January 2008

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The Internet Party: What Happens When Google's Parents Leave Town for the Weekend?
by Elias Friedman 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

Okay, this is just too funny not to share, and the actress playing Wikipedia's kinda' cute. Though I could've done without the new vocabulary from Urban Dictionary... http://www.cracked.com/article_15825_internet-party-what-happens-when-googl… Or if that's too long for your mail reader: http://tinyurl.com/yvmdoo -- Elias Friedman A.S., EMT-P President Congregation Knesseth Israel http://www.ellingtonshul.org/ elipongo(a)gmail.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Elipongo

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lolwiki
by David Gerard 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lolrollback.jpg - d.

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RevFlag Was New namespace proposal for later
by michael west 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

I can just about cope with admins, but tutored editors and reviewers? what more do we have to put up with. Testing my own flags on QA - who on earth is going to rate them and have the time? The backlog is going to be outta sight. k we start with GA and FA when will editors have time to decide on new GA and FA and when every article above stub who is going to decide and when? misery, misery. On 19/01/2008, Jonathan (Wikipedia) <jonathan.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I think that we might be able to create a Tutorial:* namespace when we > get quite a few more Signpost tutorials. I think that it'd be easier > than having to dig up those tutorials by searching through the Signpost > archives. Thoughts? > > Jonathan > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >

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WikiNews article on the Sandbox "incident"
by Ian A Holton 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

WikiNews has published an article on the "incident": http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Malicious_code_inserted_into_Wikipedia_pages_sp… Ian [[User:Poeloq]] ---- Ian A Holton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Poeloq

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Blocking of School IPs
by Ian A Holton 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

Hi all, wouldn't it be a good idea to start blocking school (not university) IPs indefinitely. I have rarely seen a good edit come from one of these and the time spend on vandal fighting them is just wasted time, really. Ian [[User:Poeloq]]

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Unnecessary Wikipedia languages
by Ian A Holton 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

I'm not sure this is the right list for this, but I've been thinking about this for awhile now. Surely, some languages that Wikipedia is offered in are unnecessary and obsolete. For example Gothic and Allemanisch and many other German dialects. Anybody who can uses Wikipedia in a German dialacet spoken in Germany can also at least read standard German. Why am I against such languages? A) They are an additional cost and Wikipedia isn't exactly swimming in money and B) the contributors of these Wikipedias would be making contributions to the larger more popular and also more necessary standard version of the language. I know this from several cases that good editors switched from Standard German to their local dialect, for "a laugh". Of course, this doesn't apply to all dialects and all dead languages. Latin for example is still used in academic circles and is therefor not dead in my opinion. However, I don't see many people writing in Goth anymore. What is the general opinion on this, am I alone in thinking that this is maybe an issue that needs to be addressed? Ian [[User:Poeloq]], who is running the risk of making some enemies ;-)

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Unsolicited testimonial from Magnus Linklater in The Times
by Sam Blacketer 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/magnus_linklater/articl… "I did a quick test on my own, looking up Nancy Mitford (I'm a fan) and judging the results on time and accuracy. Wikipedia gave me four pages of almost 100 per cent accurate information (I rang her niece, Emma Tennant, who spotted one small error), together with 33 links to related characters and a 16-line bibliography suggesting further reading. I got the whole lot in ten seconds. "The Britannica required a 20-minute trip to my nearest library. It gave me 350 words and a bibliography with one entry (Harold Acton's memoir). The online version offered the chance of signing up to a 30-day free trial, but still required my credit card details, replete with reassurances about taking my privacy "very seriously" - always a worrying sign. The DNB provided by far the best and fullest entry (but so it should). However, a month's subscription costs £29.35, and a year will set you back £195 plus VAT." -- Sam Blacketer

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Fwd: [Foundation-l] Help needed to fix broken templates
by David Gerard 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Where do our most dedicated parser abusers hang out? They need to know about this. - d. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> Date: 17 Jan 2008 13:34 Subject: [Foundation-l] Help needed to fix broken templates To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org (Cross-posting to wikitech-l and foundation-l, I suggest replying on wikitech-l.) All known bugs in the new preprocessor have been fixed. So it's now time to enable it on Wikimedia. Unfortunately, a lot of articles and templates rely on bugs in the old parser, and ideally they should be fixed before the switchover. We'll be aiming to switch to the new preprocessor on the 24th of January. For technical background information about this project see my first post on this subject: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2007-November/035154.html Over the past few days, Splarka and MZMcBride have been putting in a great deal of work to beta test the new parser, by checking articles on the English Wikipedia and several other wikis for any changes. Between the three of us, we've built up extensive documentation of the commonly-seen differences between the old and new parsers, and we've identified and fixed eight distinct bugs in the new parser. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Migration_to_the_new_preprocessor We'd now like to invite the rest of the community to help. This post is just a brief summary of the wiki page, please go there to find out more. The two most common problems with existing articles are comments after headings, and abuse of bug 5678. Here's a comment after a heading: == Heading ==  This will still make a heading in the new preprocessor, but it won't make a section edit link. In the old parser, it does make a section edit link. This change was done to resolve various incarnations of bug 4899, i.e. mismatches between the section edit link and the section you end up editing. Bug 5678 is a cluster of problems associated with double-parsing of the results of parser functions. It's often reported and causes a great deal of distress. But since the standard way to find out how to write wikitext is to try it and see what works, many people have inadvertently utilised behaviour arising from this bug to do various things. A typical example is misuse of {{!}} to separate template parameters, as in: {{#if:1| {{template{{!}}parameter}} }} In the new preprocessor, {{!}} can never be used to separate parameters. The fact that it was possible in the old parser in certain circumstances was an accident. Please see [[m:Migration to the new preprocessor]] for information about how you can find and fix these problems. I have introduced two cool new parser features to help ease the pain: {{#tag:}} and {{#iferror:}}. #tag allows you to invoke XML-style tags such as <ref> with syntax similar to parser functions, with full access to template parameters. For example: {{#tag:ref|[{{{url}}} {{{text}}}]}} This is equivalent to: <ref>[{{{url}}} {{{text}}}]</ref> except that it works. You can also use #tag to call <imagemap> and <gallery>. #tag is a core parser function with a slightly different syntax to the one used by the TagParser extension. It is intended for use in meta-templates where the simpler XML-style syntax is not sufficiently versatile. #iferror detects error return codes from #time and #expr. It is part of the ParserFunctions extension. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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Fwd: [Wikiquality-l] Current Status
by David Gerard 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

The FlaggedRevs code shudders forward! This is not "happening news" yet, it's sort of pre-news ... but! Progress! :-D Once it's fit for public use, the plan is still to put it on de:wp and see how that goes. (Not sure yet what criteria will be used to decide if the trial is a success, failure or what.) - d. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: P. Birken <pbirken(a)gmail.com> Date: 14 Jan 2008 04:19 Subject: [Wikiquality-l] Current Status To: Wikimedia Quality Discussions <wikiquality-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> A happy new year to everybody. Thanks to Aaron and Tim, the code is now fit for large-scale applications. The next step (large-scale betatest or immediate deployment) is now under discussion, I'll keep you in the loop. The current version of the extension using a set of parameters that shows most features, but will not be used in this form, can be found on test.wikipedia.org and you can give yourself rights by logging in and going to http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Userrights. If you find any bugs or points you want to discuss, right now would be a good time :-) Best, Philipp _______________________________________________ Wikiquality-l mailing list Wikiquality-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiquality-l

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Sysop status
by duffen 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

{{subst:Newdelrev|pg=PAGE_NAME|reason=UNDELETE_REASON}} ~~~~ am i doing this right? sorry to bother you but your site has lost or deleted the page " duffen cory" can you help me recover the page which was posted for historic reasons only I was the subject matter of several famous David Hockney works and I have no idea how to recover from the delete ( that originally said it needed a clean up ) thank you in advance duffen cory

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