WikiEN-l July 2012

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English Wikipedia crossed 4 million articles milestone
by Tanvir Rahman 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

Just a note, today, English Wikipedia crossed 4 million articles milestone. Stay up forever old buddy! :-D \\o o// \o/ /o\ And today is the second day of Wikimania! Surely they have something new to celebrate and brag about now! :-D Regards, Tanvir -- Tanvir Rahman Wikitanvir

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Self promotion?
by Mike Dupont 09 Jul '12

09 Jul '12

Hi there, Telling a user that I took the effort to archive thier article is considered spam? What if you are the author? Dont you have the right to know? See this : http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:John_doe_london&action=… (cur | prev) 09:10, 8 July 2012‎ Mrmatiko (talk | contribs)‎ . . (4,816 bytes) (-158)‎ . . (Undid revision 501206682 by Mdupont (talk) spam) (undo) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mdupont#Promotional_edits and my message back http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mrmatiko#Spam.3F I have reverted the template to not have a link to the wikia, for now. I would like some support for my project and protection to contact users about the deleted articles. thanks, mike -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3

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Central location for article content queries and requests
by Carcharoth 05 Jul '12

05 Jul '12

Does anyone know of a central location for article content queries and requests? I'm not necessarily talking about emergency fixes or vandalism, but more subtle problems about content that may need discussion but where it can be difficult to find people willing to tackle the request. The reason I'm looking for something like this can be seen in the discussion here (static page version): http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Editor_assistance/Reque… The article talk page is almost certainly the first place to go, followed by additional notes to the article editors and in other locations in case no-one is watching the article. But even then, it would be nice to have a location where such requests can be posted (or automatically listed) to draw more attention to them and to allow people to help answer them (similar to how the edit request template works). Would something like that have any chance of being useful? Carcharoth

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Re: [WikiEN-l] [Wikimedia-l] crazy deletionists!
by John Vandenberg 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

Or a template at the top. 'This article relies on newspaper sources...please contribute better sources or tag with notability if you cant find any better sources.' P.s. This offtopic thread should be on Wikipedia lists as its not about the movement in general. On Jul 4, 2012 6:13 PM, "Svip" <svippy(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On 4 July 2012 01:38, Marc A. Pelletier <marc(a)uberbox.org> wrote: > > > Well, if I were suddenly named dictator of Wikipedia, I'd probably suggest > > that a "recent event" namespace be created, where popular media were > > acceptable sources, and make them verbotten in mainspace. Mainspace > > articles might have a hatnote with a link to the other namespace along the > > lines of "for recent, less authoritative coverage". > > You could avoid the whole namespace issue by simply highlighting > articles or parts of article that are based on popular media. Like > non-canon stuff on fiction wikis. Highlight its background in blue or > something. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

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Arcade screenshot resolutions and fair use
by arromdee＠rahul.net 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

I just stumbled on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Polyplay_menu.png . The screenshot is 511x256. According to the article, the resolution of the screen is 512x256, which means that this is basically a full image. The fair use template requires that images be "web resolution" and there's boilerplate which specifically says that the resolution has been decreased from the original. I don't think trimming 1 pixel from 512 really counts as decreasing the resolution. Checking other video game screenshots shows that the majority of video game screenshots are original resolution. Most of them aren't dumb enough to say that the resolution is decreased when it's not, but still claim that they are "low resolution" because they are web resolution. I would personally just choose to define "web resolution" in a common sense way and say that the original resolution is already low, but I think this is clearly not the intent. I'm not going to go fixing any fair use rationales here, but this may be worth noting as an example of a broken fair use policy.

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Wikipedia as part of a social media strategy for hotels
by David Gerard 03 Jul '12

03 Jul '12

http://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/4056585.html I suspect we may have (how do I put this) an opportunity to be helpful to an influx of newbies with not-so-good articles in need of improvement. (Is there a good place on-wiki to note such endeavours? One of the VPs?) - d.

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