Wikipedia-l October 2001

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] who?
by Gareth Owen 06 Oct '01

06 Oct '01

Michel Clasquin <clasqm(a)mweb.co.za> writes: > WHO isnt worried about bandwith, then? <g> > > Good luck getting everything back to normal Amen. So whats going on? Has the load uncovered actual bugs, or does the present-and-basically-correct code just not scale well? Having said that, I have done a fair bit of actual work today :) -- Gareth Owen

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Wikipedia development
by Anders Törlind 05 Oct '01

05 Oct '01

Hi all! As you might have been noticing, the 'pedia is feeling a bit under the weather, so i thought i could help out magnus Manske a bit with the new code. So here comes a couple of questions for Magnus, the reply of which might prove interesting for more people than me i hope :-) 1. How does one go about with the CVS download from Sourceforge? 2. Is there a design specification, so one might get an overview of how the code hangs together? 3. How do you get it up and running on your home installation of Apache? 4. Is there any special area that needs attension? and last but not least 5. Where do I get hold of the best PHP tutorial/documentation on the net :-) Cheers! /Anders Törlind ps. If this topic has already been discussed today, i apologize: I just set my subscription off digest... ds

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who?
by Michel Clasquin 05 Oct '01

05 Oct '01

WHO isnt worried about bandwith, then? <g> Good luck getting everything back to normal -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) clasqm(a)mweb.co.za/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC Help Microsoft stamp out software piracy: give Linux to a friend today..

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Reports?
by lsanger＠nupedia.com 05 Oct '01

05 Oct '01

Hi all, Well, we've got some people on intlwiki-l (subscribe here: http://www.nupedia.com/mailman/listinfo/intlwiki-l ) and I'm hoping that someone can get intlwiki-l moving by giving a report, of any sort, about a non-English Wikipedia with which he or she is familiar. Larry

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intlwiki-l: making Wikipedia fully international
by lsanger＠nupedia.com 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

You might be aware that on Nupedia's interpret-l list there have been discussions afoot to make Nupedia fully international. Efforts in this direction have already begun, I'm happy to say. We also want to support more fully Wikipedia's efforts to write (and/or translate) encyclopedias in a huge variety of languages. Right now, for example, the "French Wikipedia," http://fr.wikipedia.com/ , still has the navigational links in English (words like "Home Page" and "Recent Changes" are in English). We want to change that sort of thing very soon, with your help. We also want to add "Wikipedias" in some other languages that we're now missing--we'd like your input on which ones we need to add. I and I'm sure many others would like also to get reports on how the Wikipedias in non-English languages are proceeding. We'd also like people at work on those wikis to have a place where they can feel free to ask questions and get advice. So, we've set up intlwiki-l as a place where all that business can be conducted. You can subscribe here: http://www.nupedia.com/mailman/listinfo/intlwiki-l Let's get started! Larry

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Fwd: Vertebrate Notes
by lcrocker＠nupedia.com 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

The following mail was sent to me, but seems more appropriate for the list at large. I advised the author that I have forwarded it. ---- Lee: I recently ran across the Wikipedia. Good luck to you. Its a worthwhile project. It also encompasses what I've been doing -- on a much finer scale -- in the vertebrate paleontology area. I will try to remember to write Wik articles as I work on my site, but I'll probably forget. Besides, its hard work. The Wikipedia is written at a generalist level, and I'd have to change the approach completely. I thought I'd at least point out that my site is expressly placed in the public domain (except for most images -- you can use the really bad ones I did myself if you dare!), is moderately well regarded, and parts are suitable for copying or incorporation into your project. I suspect the Glossary (beginning at http://home.houston.rr.com/vnotes/glossary.html) and the Bones essays (beginning at http://home.houston.rr.com/vnotes/Bones/Bones.html) would be most suitable. Unrelated request: I have a friend with a much more suitable site who is running into trouble because he gets too many hits. His ISP is getting annoyed. Would you be interested in contacting him and perhaps working something out? His format is a lot more compatible with the Wikipedia than mine. I don't know what your arrangements are, but you seem not to be worried about bandwidth. A thought, anyway. --Toby White The Vertebrate Notes at: http://home.houston.rr.com/vnotes/index.html 0

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Discussion list for Wikipedias in all languages
by lsanger＠nupedia.com 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

http://www.nupedia.com/mailman/listinfo/intlwiki-l If you're interested in discussing various topics related to the various activities of all the different Wikipedias, please subscribe to INTLWIKI-L at the above address. In particular, I hope *all* the regular participants on the non-English Wikipedias will join that list, as well as some people from the English language Wikipedia, so that we can exchange notes. Among the topics I would like to see raised: * So, just how *are* those non-English language Wikipedias going? * What needs to be done in order to make sure they're fully translated? * What needs to be done to make sure the wikis in Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, etc., are *fully usable*? * Is there something we can do together effectively to help promote these projects? * What sort of inter-Wikipedia policies should we establish--if any? * Different languages represent, necessarily, different *forks* in the overall Wikipedia project. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? To what extent, if any, would it be desirable to *encourage* the wikis to develop quite separately--or, instead, together? --Larry

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Making Wikipedia even more international
by lsanger＠nupedia.com 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

Beginning next Tuesday (when Jason Richey returns from a weekend vacation), we are going to be taking the non-English Wikipedias more seriously: 1. We'll be setting up non-English Wikipedias for all the other major languages (including many we've omitted). 2. We'll be actively seeking out translations of the main text (e.g., the GNU license notice), and uploading the translations. I.e., we will proactively goes to Wikipedia-L, to the individual non-English Wikipedias, and perhaps also to specific individuals, requesting the text and promising to upload it immediately upon receipt. 3. We will soon (probably today) set up a non-English Wikipedia standards mailing list, which would explain set basic standards that we would like all Wikipedias to follow (think of it as the UN). Since the English language Wikipedia should exemplify the same standards, whatever they are, we could very plausibly call this the "international Wikipedia forum" or something like that. Larry

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