Wikipedia-l December 2002

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Wikipedia is down
by Zoe 27 Dec '02

27 Dec '02

When I go to www.wikipedia.org, I get the following error messages: Database error

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Tallini and his 5th World nonsense
by Zoe 26 Dec '02

26 Dec '02

Please see http://groups.msn.com/FifthWorld/the5w.msnw, which Tallini linked to from [[Micronation]]. He has an anti-Wikipedia bias that makes no sense, and it's time that he stop whatever it is he's doing and explain just what is going on. Zoe --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now

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Wiktionary moved to wiktionary.org domain
by Brion Vibber 26 Dec '02

26 Dec '02

Wiktionary is now moved to its own domain at http://wiktionary.org , thanks to maveric149's generous donation! Note that Wiktionary users will have to re-login to transfer their login cookies to the new domain. (Note that mav still technically owns the domain as the non-profit is not set up yet, but has authorized its use for the project in the meantime.) (If anyone has trouble accessing the new URL, your local DNS server may be behind on catching up to updates. It should clear up in a day or two max.) Happy non-denominational winter holiday or festivity or nice, normal day to all! -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] Year in music
by rose.parks＠att.net 26 Dec '02

26 Dec '02

Hi, Having finally checked the Recent Changes last night and read some of the "Year XXXX in music" articles, I agree with Mr. Manske. I think this is not a good idea and foresee this followed by "Year XXXX in painting," "Year XXXX in dance," "Year XXXX in literature." Further, the articles are rather summary, listing publication of songs, performers' highpoints, deaths etc. I would think this information will be incorporated in Wikipedia in some other form eventually, if it isn't already. For me. it is hard to find much meaning in these entries, as events appear out of context. For this reason, I think we should consider whether this is a good idea, before it goes much further. As Ever, Ruth Ifcher -- > Someone's creating articles like "1974 in music".Can't that just go > under [[1974]]? > > Magnus > <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_in_music> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-l mailing list > Wikipedia-l(a)wikipedia.org > http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l

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User 172
by Zoe 24 Dec '02

24 Dec '02

User 172 is continually deleting other people's comments on [[Talk:Soviet Union]], even though he has been asked not to do so. Zoe, not involved in the debate --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now

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Vandalism
by Zoe 24 Dec '02

24 Dec '02

Well, since nobody else seems interested in vandalism, I guess I won't bother to try to revert any that happen in the future. Zoe --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now

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Year in music
by Magnus Manske 22 Dec '02

22 Dec '02

Someone's creating articles like "1974 in music".Can't that just go under [[1974]]? Magnus <http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_in_music>

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LOTR flood
by Magnus Manske 22 Dec '02

22 Dec '02

User 213.123.19.25 has added some articles about parts of the Lord of the Rings story which look - well, enthusiastic, but they don't say "this is located in the LOTR universe" or something. Also, the texts are awfully close to those at http://www.glyphweb.com/arda Someone please come to the rescue ;-) Magnus

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TeX support done
by Tomasz Wegrzanowski 21 Dec '02

21 Dec '02

TeX support done. Code is on http://test.wikipedia.org/ Changes since last version posted to wikitech-l: * texvc judges HTML to be either conservative (renders on most browsers, likely to look good) or liberal (renders on recent Mozilla and probably on other new browsers, should be readable, but no warrancy about how will it look like) * boolean math_conservative column added to math table * There are 4 options in preferences: * Always PNG * Conservative HTML or else PNG (default) * Any HTML or else PNG * Leave as Pseudo-TeX (for text browsers mostly) Thanks to this <math> can be used for both inline (which will usually end as HTML) and displayed (which will usually end as PNG) math. * HTML does italics right, and correctly supports \mathit and \mathrm * Support for other formating options removed in HTML (but maybe \mathbb wouldn't be such a bad idea) * Font size changed from 140 to 120. Criterium of conservativeness is using nothing more than: * ASCII * greek literals * subscripts, superscripts * \mathit (also \it \textit) * \mathrm (also \rm \textrm) * \mbox (also \hbox \vbox) Todo: * add "math" => 1 to default preferences in all language files (done for En and It only now). * add math_conservative column and the rest of math table to default db creation script and add some db upgrade script which adds math table. Please test it.

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Wikipedia is under attack
by Zoe 20 Dec '02

20 Dec '02

Someone with ip addresses beginning with 152.163 is deleting article, vandalizing, modifying, and variously randomly changing whatever articles they happen to encounter. The IP address changes with each change. We need to do something quick. Zoe --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now

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