Actually it happens quite frequently, usually with IPs turning
redirects into articles. Though I've also seen articles that started
by an IP creating the talkpage.
WereSpielChequers
On 11 January 2011 01:57, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> You're right, Gwern. It is not possible at present to create an
> article without registering and logging in. My mistake, thanks for the
> correction.
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Hello,
I'm writing a WYSIWYM editor for MediaWiki, it is a native client
application for Windows.
I'm looking for Wikipedia contributors who are interested in testing
this new application. It is still very incomplete, but it is ready for basic
edition.
Main features:
* History friendly: minimize differences when saving pages.
This is a key feature to allow editing parts of existing pages without
breaking the format of the other parts.
* Stand alone templates such as Infoboxes are edited as tables, making
it easy to edit parameters in a WYSIWYG fashion and taking advantage of
the global Undo. Templates in paragraphs are rendered as raw wikitext.
* Degrades gracefully: unhandled elements such as <gallery>, <source> or
tables with complex CSS are locally rendered as raw wikitext.
* Outlining for easier navigation in big pages.
http://gwennel.com/gwennel-web/
Cheers,
Marc Kerbiquet
http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2011/01/04/what-you-see-is-for-the-win/comme…
Someone suggested this on my blog. It's an *excellent* idea and needs
a button added for it in the present Vector editor.
Jen says:
Wednesday 5th January, 2011 at 10:28 pm (Edit)
Re John Broughton’s idea for “a **single click** way of generating the
standard text/code for a footnote”…
Would there be any way to make a nice little bookmarklet so people
could drag a URL onto the button, and it would copy a wiki-citation to
the clipboard?
- d.
Hi, I wasn't sure whether this was the appropriate mailing list for
this question - if not, pointers to the correct one would be
appreciated.
I would like to retrieve pages that contain, say, a DrugBox. The
following URL lists all pages that contain this info box
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Dr…
What I'd like to do is then do a bulk export of these pages. As far as
I can tell, the Export options require that one provide article
titles. Furthermore, for some other infoboxes I have to page through
the results. Instead I'd like to do this programmatically.
The obvious solution would be to load Wikipedia into a local MySQL DB
and then perform the queries directly. But I'm interested in a rather
small subset of Wikipedia and loading the whole thing locally seems
overkill.
Is there a way I could export the articles containing Drugboxes or do
I need to install Wikipedia locally?
Thanks,
--
Rajarshi Guha
NIH Chemical Genomics Center
http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125899/
January 7, 2011
Wikipedia Comes of Age
By Casper Grathwohl
Casper Grathwohl is vice president and publisher of digital and reference
content for Oxford University Press.
Fred Bauder
To help those readers who are gathering biographical statistics, would
editors please do the research and enter a Place of Birth in the
biographical articles. This is, for the most part, being done. But more and
more I am finding less and less of them. Interestingly enough, this absence
of PoB seems to occur more often in the British bios.
Thanks,
Marc
>Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 08:55:17 -0700 (MST)
>From: "Fred Bauder" <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net>
>From today's newspaper:
>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/01/health/01care.html?ref=todayspaper
>"Creating positive emotional experiences diminishes distress and behavior
>problems."
>
>Fred Bauder
Fred, surely you're not intending to compare Wikipedians with patients with
Alzheimer's? That advice is about how to care for people with dementia, I think
it would be more than a stretch to extrapolate from that to how our editing
community should function.
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
> Interesting. I came to accept the "Wikipedia is not a dictionary"
> guideline/policy pretty soon after reading that page - and much to my
> dismay I find it to be fairly widely ignored when it comes to
> etymology, usage, and profanity. I'm interested in seeing what the
> original and/or newly rewritten language had to say about it.
{{fact}}
"Fairly widely ignored"? I see very few articles that could not be
encyclopaedic. And, like Ian W points out, the policy is probably too
strict anyway: a more seamless transition from encyclopaedia-space to
dictionary-space would probably serve WMF's mission quite well.
Especially when you're talking about the etymology and usage of a
word, there's a bit of a gap between the very terse etymology that
Wikitonary allows, and the more flowing style found at Wikipedia.
However, that more flowing style is only permitted in the context of
*encyclopaedia* articles, so we have nothing like it for pure *word*
articles.
Steve