Wikipedia-l March 2001

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Encyclopedia entry about the President
by rose.parks＠att.net 31 Mar '01

31 Mar '01

Opinion-he just dumb enough to...:-). Anonymous Coward -- > So, what do you think--will he reply??? > > Waiting on pins and needles, > Larry > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Larry Sanger" <lsanger(a)nupedia.com> > To: <president(a)whitehouse.gov> > Cc: "wikipedia-l" <wikipedia-l(a)nupedia.com> > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 2:20 PM > Subject: Encyclopedia entry about the President > > > > Dear Mr. President, > > > > While I know you are busy, if you have an idle minute or two, we would > > like to invite you to correct any factual errors and otherwise honor > us > > with your presence on our community-built encyclopedia project. You > can > > find our article about you here: > > > > http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/George_W._Bush > > > > (Of course, any person who actually reads this e-mail will be welcome > as > > well.) > > > > Best regards and keep up the good work, > > > > Larry Sanger > > > > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > > Lawrence M. Sanger, Ph.D. || lsanger(a)nupedia.com > > Editor-in-Chief, Nupedia || http://www.nupedia.com > > Ordinary Wikipedian || http://www.wikipedia.com > > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > > > > [Wikipedia-l] > To manage your subscription to this list, please go here: > http://www.nupedia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

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Re: Encyclopedia entry about the President
by Larry Sanger 31 Mar '01

31 Mar '01

So, what do you think--will he reply??? Waiting on pins and needles, Larry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Sanger" <lsanger(a)nupedia.com> To: <president(a)whitehouse.gov> Cc: "wikipedia-l" <wikipedia-l(a)nupedia.com> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 2:20 PM Subject: Encyclopedia entry about the President > Dear Mr. President, > > While I know you are busy, if you have an idle minute or two, we would > like to invite you to correct any factual errors and otherwise honor us > with your presence on our community-built encyclopedia project. You can > find our article about you here: > > http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/George_W._Bush > > (Of course, any person who actually reads this e-mail will be welcome as > well.) > > Best regards and keep up the good work, > > Larry Sanger > > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > Lawrence M. Sanger, Ph.D. || lsanger(a)nupedia.com > Editor-in-Chief, Nupedia || http://www.nupedia.com > Ordinary Wikipedian || http://www.wikipedia.com > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> >

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Encyclopedia entry about the President
by Larry Sanger 31 Mar '01

31 Mar '01

Dear Mr. President, While I know you are busy, if you have an idle minute or two, we would like to invite you to correct any factual errors and otherwise honor us with your presence on our community-built encyclopedia project. You can find our article about you here: http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/George_W._Bush (Of course, any person who actually reads this e-mail will be welcome as well.) Best regards and keep up the good work, Larry Sanger <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Lawrence M. Sanger, Ph.D. || lsanger(a)nupedia.com Editor-in-Chief, Nupedia || http://www.nupedia.com Ordinary Wikipedian || http://www.wikipedia.com <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>

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Everything2
by Larry Sanger 27 Mar '01

27 Mar '01

I have a request. Is there anyone on the list who is on Everything2? If so, could you go talk up Wikipedia on Everything2? I have a feeling we could get a lot of good people from them. Let me know if you do this. If no one else does, I might just have to myself... Larry

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Foreign characters, etc.
by lcrocker＠nupedia.com 27 Mar '01

27 Mar '01

I think there's enough content in my pages on ASCII and its extentions that I can now offer recommendations, and I have done so on the Wikipedia page "Wiki special characters" (to which I have also redirected the now-obsolete "Wiki ASCII codes page"). The server at Bomis does indeed send the header "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1", so we can use those characters as recommended without guilt. The non-ISO characters like punctuation and math symbols and such will perhaps require a bit more research and some policy decisions. --------------------------------------

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Your opinion solicited
by Larry Sanger 24 Mar '01

24 Mar '01

http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Beryllium/Talk

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Fw: Nupedia: system up; Wikipedia started; German and Slashdot invasion
by Larry Sanger 23 Mar '01

23 Mar '01

Expect an influx of traffic. ----- Original Message ----- From: <system(a)nupedia.com> To: <lsanger(a)nupedia.com> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 10:42 AM Subject: Nupedia: system up; Wikipedia started; German and Slashdot invasion > > March 22, 2000 > > Dear Nupedians, > > It's been quite a long time since our last update (it was last December!)--that's mainly because we've been so busy. But I'll keep this update brief and informal. > > As most of you already know, the much-heralded new web-based system is now up and running: > http://www.nupedia.com/newsystem/member.phtml > To see it operate in its full splendor, you'll have to be logged in. I have promised to add more instructions (where text is underlined) but have always seemed to lack time to finish this task. Meanwhile, the system is simple enough, with enough instructions already in place, for many people to have started using it; others, I'm afraid, might feel they've been left high and dry. My apologies; I'll try to get those instructions written. In the meantime, of course, help is available from many different people. > > A conversation with a friend in early January about the so-called "WikiWiki" software led to the creation of Wikipedia, a new encyclopedia project complementary to Nupedia: > http://www.wikipedia.com/ > Basically, *anyone* can go to any page of that website and, by simply pressing the "edit text" link, edit the text of the page. As of this moment (Thursdy, March 22, 12:57 PM Pacific Time), we have 2,953 (yes, 2,953) pages in Wikipedia. Of these, 1,816 are relatively substantial articles. We started in January, 2001, so we've made incredible progress--even we are surprised. Maybe you think that Wikipedia would end up being a rather low-quality product, since it's open to everyone. But perhaps it's the fact that it is open to everyone that makes a lot of these articles in fact not so bad, and ever-improving. We tend to cater to the highest common denominator--"lower denominators" usually don't touch articles they know nothing about. > > PLEASE note: the editorial processes and policies of Wikipedia and Nupedia are totally separate; Nupedia editors and peer reviewers do not necessarily endorse the Wikipedia project, and Wikipedia contributors do not necessarily endorse the Nupedia project. I personally am working on both projects, as are a number of Nupedia members. I think that the projects might eventually develop a very interesting symbiotic relationship. But nothing along those lines is official, and no changes are anticipated in the near future. Certainly no changes will be made without consulting Advisory-L and Nupedia-L. > > In January and February, we had an enormous influx of traffic due to coverage of Nupedia by the German press agency DPA and by the hugely popular computer programmer website, Slashdot.org (twice!). (This has led, by the way, to my getting far behind in my e-mail--something for which I apologize, but it really couldn't be helped.) > > As a result, we have set up Deutsch-L, a mailing list, ably led by Andreas Flack, which has been producing German translations of various Nupedia pages. See: > http://www.nupedia.com/de/ > And as a result of *that*, we've accepted translations of the home page in French, Italian, and Spanish (as well as German of course). We've set up Interpret-L for general translation issues, and Francais-L, a nascent French language translation project. We might soon set up Espanol-L. See this page for more information: > http://www.nupedia.com/translating.shtml > > Another piece of news is that we have found an able Chief Copyeditor who may be contacted via the following web pages: > http://www.nupedia.com/copyediting.shtml > http://www.nupedia.com/newsystem/copyediting.phtml > > Those, then, are some news highlights. There has been much other news; but I did promise to try to keep this short. If you're curious, you could join Nupedia-L or simply poke around the website to see what you've been missing. > > Kind regards to all, > Larry > > Lawrence M. Sanger, Ph.D. > Nupedia editor-in-chief > lsanger(a)nupedia.com > > ==================================================================== > You've received this mail because you signed up as a Nupedia > member. To stop these announcements, please just go to > http://www.nupedia.com/member/editother.phtml where you can easily > unsubscribe yourself. Log in as "" (your member ID). > ==================================================================== >

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Wikipedia article-a-day
by Larry Sanger 23 Mar '01

23 Mar '01

I think it's time to start a wikipedia article-a-day feature! Every morning, the system could send a Wikipedia article out to whoever wants one. Larry

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] German Wikipedia
by rose.parks＠att.net 19 Mar '01

19 Mar '01

Dear Jimmy, It would seem that this question should go to deutsch-l, or Andreas Flack at sonic(a)arcormail.de who speaks both German and English well, and is the co ordinator of the German translation project. Or, perhaps, it has? It will take less than a minute to come up with an answer. As Ever, Ruth Ifcher -- > Sonic, > > How would one say "This is the German language Wikipedia" in German? > > I can make all of these point to the same place, but we will still > want one of them to be 'canonical'. > > > Larry Sanger wrote: > > > From: Sonic <sonic(a)arcormail.de> > > To: deutsch-l(a)nupedia.com > > Subject: Re: [Deutsch-L]Deutsch Wikipedia > > Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 01:23:42 +0100 > > Reply-To: deutsch-l(a)nupedia.com > > > > Larry Sanger schrieb: > > > > > Please see > > > http://deutsche.wikipedia.com/ > > > > > > Should this be > > > deutsche.wikipedia.com or > > > deutsch.wikipedia.com ? > > > > > > The latter, I thought. Oder? > > > > either the latter or simply de.wikipedia.com (which is the ccTLD and > > used for > > many German divisions of international sites (like de.yahoo.com)). Both > > versions sound funny, because deutsche implies a female gender while > > Wikipedia is no German word and thus has no gender (of course you could > > create one, but it still sounds strange), while "deutsch" has no > > grammatical > > relation to "Wikipedia" at all (in German, two nouns cannot be placed > > next to > > each other). > > > > > > Bye, > > > > A.f. > > > > [Wikipedia-l] > > To manage your subscription to this list, please go here: > > http://www.nupedia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l > > -- > ************************************************* > * http://www.nupedia.com/ * > * The Ever Expanding Free Encyclopedia * > ************************************************* > [Wikipedia-l] > To manage your subscription to this list, please go here: > http://www.nupedia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

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German Wikipedia
by Larry Sanger 19 Mar '01

19 Mar '01

From: Sonic <sonic(a)arcormail.de> To: deutsch-l(a)nupedia.com Subject: Re: [Deutsch-L]Deutsch Wikipedia Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 01:23:42 +0100 Reply-To: deutsch-l(a)nupedia.com Larry Sanger schrieb: > Please see > http://deutsche.wikipedia.com/ > > Should this be > deutsche.wikipedia.com or > deutsch.wikipedia.com ? > > The latter, I thought. Oder? either the latter or simply de.wikipedia.com (which is the ccTLD and used for many German divisions of international sites (like de.yahoo.com)). Both versions sound funny, because deutsche implies a female gender while Wikipedia is no German word and thus has no gender (of course you could create one, but it still sounds strange), while "deutsch" has no grammatical relation to "Wikipedia" at all (in German, two nouns cannot be placed next to each other). Bye, A.f.

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