http://www.loc.gov/copyright/guide.html might put you on the right
track, but it only has new copyrights and transfers of copyright since
1978. also the interface BLOWS, even for telnet. forget about
backspace, of course, but it does't even display you're typing.
amazing. so no ^H^H^H^H^H for you. I did not find it. it might
help, though, to know if "rouse ball" is his last name or "ball," also
what the "w. w." stands for. (though I *thought* I tried all
permutations.)
You Wrote:
>Can anyone ascertain the copyright status on these biographies
>http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/RBallHist.html ?
>
>They're noted as being based on A Short Account of the History of
Mathematics
>by W. W. Rouse Ball (4th Edition, 1908)
>--
>Gareth Owen
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Can anyone ascertain the copyright status on these biographies
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/RBallHist.html ?
They're noted as being based on A Short Account of the History of Mathematics
by W. W. Rouse Ball (4th Edition, 1908)
--
Gareth Owen
I don't think wikipedia does suffer from slashdotting still, does it?
In other words, any load we see now will not magically get better when
/.ers forget about us.
I've already changed the message on RecentChanges to something which
should be nearer to the truth. The red alert on the "Editing" pages
should be changed (or deleted), too, but I can't do that.
Unless I'm mistaken of course ...
--
Robbe
>My proposition is to start a new page with a link from the Homepage
that would organize teams for work on some subjects.<br>
>I don\'t mean just <b>one</b> article, rather more broad subjects
like existentialism, art nouveau style, or cytology. These issues
require some more thought on design and some planning and some
cross-sectional discussion.<br>
Interesting suggestion. I suppose eventually it might seem necessary,
but I thought the appeal of wikipedia was that it was self-governing.
The suggestion seems a bit like what Nupedia does already. Maybe I
misunderstand you.
>Sometimes we need a collaboration across national Wikipedias. Usually
national Wikipedias take from the English one but Wikipedians from,
for instance, Catalonia can help with entries like
>
A good suggestion, I think, at least until the other wikipedias become
self-sufficient. Many of the other wikipedia don't have much in the
way of entries. How would it be implemented, though? I'm just leery
of suggestions to impose structure on wikipedia.
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Aack. I meant to introduce myself to this list BEFORE sending my suggestion
to Google. My apologies. Hope I wasn't out of line sending the message.
Cheers,
Tim Chambers ><>
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Tbc
To Whom It May Concern:
First I want to say that I've been a fan of Google since your early days. I
originally chose google.com as my search engine because the results were
better and also because I wanted to support a Web site that used Linux. I
continue to use google.com because -- more than any other search engine -- I
simply believe that you have a clue! (In the
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Cluetrain_Manifesto sense of the word. :-)
That URL brings me to the purpose that I'm writing to you. I've watched
google.com evolve over time and am enthused about Google's support for the
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Open_Directory_Project, featured prominently
on your home page. I'm wondering if Google is aware of another ambitious
project: the http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Wikipedia. You can visit the Web
page for details, but in a sentence, it is "a collaborative project to
produce a complete encyclopedia from scratch" (http://www.wikipedia.com/).
It's important to note that Wikipedia is also an open source encyclopedia
project. That is, the content is released under the GNU Free Documentation
License.
Wikipedia tracks its relationship to the Google spider and search engine
(see http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/What_Google_Likes), but I'm writing to
ask if you'd consider something more. Could there be some relationship
similar to what you have to dmoz.org? Could Wikipedia be featured in search
results in a distinctive way?
I, and other members of the Wikipedia discussion list, patiently and
hopefully await your reply.
Respectfully,
Tim Chambers ><>
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Tbc
Hello all,
Wikipedia is naturally collaborative. Probably there are very few other software projects that serve collaboration better. However I think we should think about and discuss implementation of teamwork.
Some Wikpedia entries easily gather around themselves several people that in a relatively short time and without much debate produce quite acceptable Wikipedia
articles. But it is always so smooth.<br>
My proposition is to start a new page with a link from the Homepage that would
organize teams for work on some subjects.<br>
I don\'t mean just <b>one</b> article, rather more broad subjects like existentialism,
art nouveau style, or cytology. These issues require some more thought on design and some planning and some cross-sectional discussion.<br>
Some subjects need such collaboration like heart - I might know something about human heart but
vertebrates have differently built hearts. I know that but not the details. So zoologists might help a lot.<br>
Sometimes we need a collaboration across national Wikipedias. Usually national Wikipedias take from the English one but Wikipedians from, for instance, Catalonia can help with entries like
[[Antonio Gaudi]].
regards,
Kpjas
Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)bomis.com> writes:
> Perhaps we should put a link to that unlock command on the edit lock page.
> We can say "Hey, please wait about a minute and try resubmitting, but if
> that doesn't work, click on the link below to clear the edit lock, which
> will take about a minute."
The error message is getting served as text/plain, so the "Clicking Here" link
doesn't work (you can copy/paste the URL though).
--
Gareth Owen
Yes, that makes sense. I'd forgotten that anyone can unlock pages.
Someone added the "unlock" link to [[Wikipediea bugs]], and I've added
it to my own page so I don't have to search for the unlock command
when I need it. And, interestingly enough (or not), searching for
that web address does not work, but searching for "unlock" turns up a
short list of pages including the one that does have the address.
Perhaps--sometime in the distant future--it might also be useful to
know which pages link to certain external links, esp. if for example
we write up articles with more or more helpful information on Wikipedia.
You Wrote:
>Perhaps we should put a link to that unlock command on the edit lock
page.
>We can say "Hey, please wait about a minute and try resubmitting, but
if that
>doesn't work, click on the link below to clear the edit lock, which
will take
>about a minute."
>
>Does that make some sense as a short-term measure?
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Interesting. But so how would I go about finding all pages containing
an underscore in the text (so that I can change them to spaces if they
are in article titles as a cache-bug fix, so that the term will then
turn up in a search)? Is it currently possible? I'm just curious
because I imagine that most people will search for e.g. "Puerto Rico,"
not "Puerto*Rico."
>Since you can use regulare expressions you might try looking for
>
> John.*MacDonald
>
>The problem with the '_' is that Gareth also searches the titles of the
>articles in the form where the spaces are replaced with underscores.
So the
>result of the search contains also all the articles with a space in the
>title. Perhaps the search should be limited to the body of the
articles? I
>think it would be nice anyway to have a separate search for bodies and
>titles.
>
>Kind regards,
>
>-- Jan Hidders
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