On 27 Oct 2004, at 09:05, NSK wrote:
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 04:26, Jens Ropers wrote:
DO you or DON'T you edit?
Define edit.
DO you or DON'T you have an account?
Define account.
You're not actually contributing to the Wikipedia.
Define contributing.
Oh come on. I don't have time* for this.
(* patience, actually)
You've not submitted any code towards MediaWiki development.
No, I haven't. I would be willing to do that, though.
You have however downloaded the MediaWiki software
Yes. Thank you for making available this software.
You've then set up your own website(s) with MediaWiki
Yes. They are NerdyPC.org (Information Technology), Adapedia.org (Computer Science), Jnana.Wikinerds.org (a playground), MaatWorks.Wikinerds.org (software engineering). In the future I will set up wikis on Science Fiction, Biology, Law, OpenSource et cetera.
I have paid money for all that. I can use 80GB of monthly traffic (to be upgraded today).
talked about, like, A LOT in your posts to our Wikimedia-related lists
If you like you can ask me to not talk about my wikis here.
Wikipedia is the largest wiki and I think its mailing lists are useful for general discussion and not only just WP.
You could open a discussion@wikipedia.org mailing list for general wiki discussion.
You have BIG PLANS for your website(s)
Yes.
but as of now little has materialized.
The Wikinerds.org endeavour was started this August. I think I am building it pretty fast!
There don't appear to be much other contributors
There are some people who are interested and some people have user accounts in the Wikinerds Portal (drupal), Jnana and NerdyPC.
Not counting myself:
3 users in portal.wikinerds.org 1 user in nerdypc.org 1 user in jnana.wikinerds.org (plus 1 anon) 1 user in forum.wikinerds.org 0 users in adapedia.org 0 users in maatworks.wikinerds.org 0 users in collab.wikinerds.org 0 ftp users (which means no userpages) 0 email users (we can give free POP emails @wikinerds.org)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/PlotsPngWikipediansContributors.htm
Well, as I said, Wikinerds started in August! It's a new site.
Hm. Lemme think... In Wikipedia's first three months it had gotten 37 contributors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TablesWikipediansContributors.htm
besides yourself
I am currently the only person who contributes content to the Wikinerds Community.
yet you're kinda seeing your efforts as somehow fully equivalent to what has happened "in our corner".
Well, perhaps I need some more sleep (sometimes I don't have sleep for
24h).
I checked some of my previous posts and I think I was a bit wrong in some occasions. Perhaps it would be a good idea to develop an e-mail protocol with a "CANCEL MSG" command.
Certainly, Wikinerds is not as successful as Wikipedia, yet, although it will soon be very successful.
Finally, you've ventured to advise us on what we really are and ought to be
Just sharing ideas. You are free to send me your ideas about my projects, too. I will read them all and reply. I love sharing ideas, even if I disagree with some of them!
(and you've persisted even when people made it very clear that they perceived your advice as running counter to the very principles our projects are founded upon).
I am sorry; my mistake.
Apology accepted. It takes guts to apologize, so that IS respectable. I rest my case.
Imagine some person travelled to the U.S.
Isn't it more beautiful to write US ? I mean, is the point really necessary?
These and other related issues have been, and probably are being discussed ad nauseam in the perpetual British/International English vs. American English face-off. I'm not getting into it here. <flamebait><troll>I mean. We all know the British way is <em>much</em> better. The language is called "English" after all.</troll></flamebait>
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