In light of the size of Wikipedia, it's increasingly difficult for people to keep track of significant happenings in the community. I've made a new effort to collect this information by actually writing about it. In other words, I've started a newspaper.
It's called The Wikipedia Signpost, and I'm planning to publish it on a weekly basis. Read it at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost
Many of you probably try to keep track of some of these things, so some of it will be familiar. Still, I would guess that everybody could find some stuff in there that they don't know. And there was even more that I just didn't have time to write up.
People who might want to be reporters are welcome - please contact me if you're interested. This is needed because we've long passed the point where anyone can be everywhere at once.
--Michael Snow
--- Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:
In light of the size of Wikipedia, it's increasingly difficult for people to keep track of significant happenings in the community. I've made a new effort to collect this information by actually writing about it. In other words, I've started a newspaper.
Thank you.
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Christopher Mahan wrote:
--- Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:
In light of the size of Wikipedia, it's increasingly difficult for people to keep track of significant happenings in the community. I've made a new effort to collect this information by actually writing about it. In other words, I've started a newspaper.
Thank you.
Indeed; I find this much more useful than Goings-on, which was just lists. This actually has prose to read; good job so far!
John Lee ([[User:Johnleemk]])
Where do I find it?
Christiaan
On 10 Jan 2005, at 4:03 pm, John Lee wrote:
Christopher Mahan wrote:
--- Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:
In light of the size of Wikipedia, it's increasingly difficult for people to keep track of significant happenings in the community. I've made a new effort to collect this information by actually writing about it. In other words, I've started a newspaper.
Thank you.
Indeed; I find this much more useful than Goings-on, which was just lists. This actually has prose to read; good job so far!
John Lee ([[User:Johnleemk]]) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
It's at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost.
Excellent work, by the way.
Josh Gerdes [[User:JoshG]]
Christiaan Briggs wrote:
Where do I find it?
Christiaan
On 10 Jan 2005, at 4:03 pm, John Lee wrote:
Christopher Mahan wrote:
--- Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:
In light of the size of Wikipedia, it's increasingly difficult for people to keep track of significant happenings in the community. I've made a new effort to collect this information by actually writing about it. In other words, I've started a newspaper.
Thank you.
Indeed; I find this much more useful than Goings-on, which was just lists. This actually has prose to read; good job so far!
John Lee ([[User:Johnleemk]]) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
It's at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost.
Excellent work, by the way.
Josh Gerdes
Agreed.
Hi folks,
I'm fairly new at this and would appreciate your help.
The following block is several days overdue for removal:
02:32, 6 Jan 2005, Hyacinth blocked 155.84.57.253 (expires 02:32, 7 Jan 2005) (contribs) (vandalism to [[List of sexual slurs]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?
The person that placed the block will not respond to my polite enquiries. I don't even know what I allegedly did wrong to deserve the charge of "vandalism". It appears that Hyacinth has a running feud with several other contributors, and he/she? may have confused me for one of them.
Sincere Thanks, your fellow contributor "Can'tStandYa" aka 155.84.57.253
What I believe the block was for was inserting the "i.e. Hilary [sic] Clinton" reference to "bitch", and possibly "usually unattractive" to skank.
To me, this block does seem a little OTT, given that there were no warnings given.
Whatever the reasoning, the block ought to be removed. That it isn't is a result of a fault in the MediaWiki software. If I were an admin, I'd unblock you. Not being so, I can't.
But you ought be a little more careful. Actually, Hyacinth has written some **** on that page as well.
Smoddy
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:25:00 -0600, J Crews ordrestjean@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm fairly new at this and would appreciate your help.
The following block is several days overdue for removal:
02:32, 6 Jan 2005, Hyacinth blocked 155.84.57.253 (expires 02:32, 7 Jan 2005) (contribs) (vandalism to [[List of sexual slurs]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?
The person that placed the block will not respond to my polite enquiries. I don't even know what I allegedly did wrong to deserve the charge of "vandalism". It appears that Hyacinth has a running feud with several other contributors, and he/she? may have confused me for one of them.
Sincere Thanks, your fellow contributor "Can'tStandYa" aka 155.84.57.253
WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Congratulations, I'm much impressed.
Wikipedia has now grown big enough that it needs its own newspaper to keep track of it.
-Matt (User:Morven)