I messed up the link (I posted the talk link) - it's actually http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Date_formatting_and_linking_poll
Sorry!
Ryan Postlethwaite
From: ryanpostlethwaite(a)hotmail.com
To: wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [[Wikipedia talk:Date formatting and linking poll]]
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:50:12 +0000
Hello everyone,
This is just a quick email to remind you that [[Wikipedia talk:Date formatting and linking poll]] is now open and the community is invited to participate. If you have time, it would be great to hear your opinions - the greater the turnout the better!
Many thanks,
Ryan Postlethwaite
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Hello everyone,
This is just a quick email to remind you that [[Wikipedia talk:Date formatting and linking poll]] is now open and the community is invited to participate. If you have time, it would be great to hear your opinions - the greater the turnout the better!
Many thanks,
Ryan Postlethwaite
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<<In a message dated 3/31/2009 9:58:16 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
dgerard(a)gmail.com writes:
(In image search, Google and all other search engines still suck.
Here's to tagging coming to Commons.)>>
Somewhere in my hazy memory I remember two projects I'd read about.
There was a guy or a bunch of guys maybe who were trying to teach a computer
how to recognize "large expanses of flesh" so it could find nude pictures I
suppose.
Then there was a human-tagging project where people ranked up points as they
tagged images with whatever. I'm not clear how it worked, and I haven't
heard of it for some years.
There are some tasks that humans will always be better at than machines.
That's probably why Google's image search sucks. But if I search for "Brad
Pitt Nude" I still get several decent hits anyway.
Will Johnson
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The thing that sucked me away from Yahoo and over to Google was that Google
actually crawled the net themselves. They did not rely on people submitting or
knowing how to submit their pages.
So if you just wait long enough, your page shows up. At least in theory.
Remember when we used to "submit" pages to multiple search engines and some
of them had very odd peculiarities about how to submit and how they'd index
them. Bah! I'm fine with waiting to be indexed.
Will Johnson
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<<In a message dated 3/31/2009 10:58:17 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
dgerard(a)gmail.com writes:
The plumbing of templates is horrible, but the actual template
interface is simple. Presumably WYSIWYG editing tools can be tweaked
to make it a fill-in form more accessibly.>>
This would be the BOMB, the absolute frickin ultimate BOMB.
(That means a good thing.)
I hate long templates esp. because I can never remember the component names.
So I tend to just stick to my old way of doing things and let others fancy
it up later. Some templates (to my mind) are just utterly stupid. But if
they came up as a form, that would certainly simplify everything.
Let's start with Tables. They are... a... pain. A royal pain. Not just a
normal commoner pain.
If I want to use a table, I don't even try the Wiki-way, I just use HTML
markup.
Of course that generally means that no one ever updates my tables because
they can't understand them.
Will Johnson
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By "plastic records" do you mean "vinyl" ? Vinyl is what they are made from.
They are still making new vinyl.
You need to *not* go to some uptown shop and instead shop at the hard-code
music stores.
I have no idea why full price shops aren't selling vinyl anymore, but new
vinyl is still coming out of the studios. Usually smaller, independents who
are cutting demos and small runs of a thousand or whatever.
Will Johnson
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You know you're wrong about BASIC.
It still exists, programmers are still, today, coding in BASIC.
It never was a significant part of the market, only for PCs which don't (or
didn't) run organizations, but were for home hobbyists. But for companies,
the majority ran on COBOL. In fact, believe it or don't, there are still
machines today which run on COBOL.
However a form of BASIC was adapted for business, and you can still see ads
looking for programmers in BASIC. I would guess it might be running 10
percent of business even today.
Will Johnson
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7962912.stm
" Primary school pupils should learn how to blog and use internet
sites like Twitter and Wikipedia and spend less time studying history,
it is claimed. A review of the primary school curriculum in England
will be published in a final report next month. "
(from WMUK list via Thomas Dalton)
- d.