<Snowspinner> Glad you're not dead. <DavidGerard> i'm glad too! <DavidGerard> i've just come back to irc and see a zillion talk messages and a pile of channels with my name dropped <DavidGerard> all about wikipedia battles to the death for insanely low stakes ... <DavidGerard> makes me want to start a sock just to write articles <Snowspinner> lol <Snowspinner> We have articles now? <DavidGerard> i think so. someone said there were a million of them. <Snowspinner> WTF? <Snowspinner> I thought we just had policy pages and userboxes. <DavidGerard> I can't find [[Wikipedia:Jordanhill railway station]] anywhere <DavidGerard> or [[Template:Jordanhill railway station]] <DavidGerard> I think {{user Jordanhill railway station}} doesn't exist either <DavidGerard> what sort of pissant project is this? that press release will make a laughingstock of our adherence to process
- d.
Well, set your heart at rest, David: [[Wikipedia:Jordanhill commemoration]] was launched this morning. Now all we need is a "This user does not support trains, Scotland, or the number 1,000,000" userbox, and we'll be on our way.
On 3/3/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
<Snowspinner> Glad you're not dead. <DavidGerard> i'm glad too! <DavidGerard> i've just come back to irc and see a zillion talk messages and a pile of channels with my name dropped <DavidGerard> all about wikipedia battles to the death for insanely low stakes ... <DavidGerard> makes me want to start a sock just to write articles <Snowspinner> lol <Snowspinner> We have articles now? <DavidGerard> i think so. someone said there were a million of them. <Snowspinner> WTF? <Snowspinner> I thought we just had policy pages and userboxes. <DavidGerard> I can't find [[Wikipedia:Jordanhill railway station]] anywhere <DavidGerard> or [[Template:Jordanhill railway station]] <DavidGerard> I think {{user Jordanhill railway station}} doesn't exist either <DavidGerard> what sort of pissant project is this? that press release will make a laughingstock of our adherence to process
- d.
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Steve Summit wrote:
Well, set your heart at rest, David: [[Wikipedia:Jordanhill commemoration]] was launched this morning.
I tell you, if I lived in Scotland I would be bold and epoxy some kind of homemade plaque to a wall in that station myself.
Would the plaque be released under the GDFL? If so, could I add one to my house? :)
<Taking you more seriously than you probably intended>If it's developed online, then yes, I suppose it is.</tymstypi> The plaque proposal has evolved slowly through the day and now looks like -- guess what, everybody! -- a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Jordanhill_commemoration* userbox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Jordanhill_commemoration.* Old wiki habits, I guess. I think I preferred the original design, which said "This plaque hereby proclaims that Jordanhill station is pwnd by Jimbo Wales."
On 3/3/06, Steve Block steve.block@myrealbox.com wrote:
Steve Summit wrote:
Well, set your heart at rest, David: [[Wikipedia:Jordanhill
commemoration]]
was launched this morning.
I tell you, if I lived in Scotland I would be bold and epoxy some kind of homemade plaque to a wall in that station myself.
Would the plaque be released under the GDFL? If so, could I add one to my house? :)
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Bel Lowe wrote:
The plaque proposal has evolved slowly through the day and now looks like -- guess what, everybody! -- a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Jordanhill_commemoration
Well, the best suggestion there (by [[User:Cherry blossom tree]]) has been to put up, not an engraved plaque with the wording, but a chalkboard...
Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, what? Aren't we going a little overboard here? This is like putting a plaque in a New York subway station saying "The 500th episode of Law and Order was filmed in this station."
On 3/3/06, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
Bel Lowe wrote:
The plaque proposal has evolved slowly through the day and now looks like -- guess what,
everybody!
-- a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Jordanhill_commemoration
Well, the best suggestion there (by [[User:Cherry blossom tree]]) has been to put up, not an engraved plaque with the wording, but a chalkboard... _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
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On 3/3/06, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
Bel Lowe wrote:
The plaque proposal has evolved slowly through the day and now looks like -- guess what, everybody! -- a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Jordanhill_commemoration
Well, the best suggestion there (by [[User:Cherry blossom tree]]) has been to put up, not an engraved plaque with the wording, but a chalkboard...
Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, what? Aren't we going a little overboard here? This is like putting a plaque in a New York subway station saying "The 500th episode of Law and Order was filmed in this station."
At King's Cross station, there is a plaque showing the "location" of Platform 9-3/4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Cross_station#Harry_Potter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:KingsCrossStationTrolley.JPG ...and apparently they have had people trying to push their trolleys through the wall (this has not been helped by some wag adding a half-trolley as can be seen in that picture :-)