Wikipedia-l November 2004

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Interview with wikipedians
by John Collison 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

I'm doing a project for an Irish science fair (The Young Scientist Exhibition - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esat_Young_Scientist_Exhibition ) about radically different methods of building online projects, namely a conventional approach and the wiki approach. As part of this I'd like to get a short interview done by email with as many wikipedians as possible. I would contact people this week or at the end of the month. Anybody willing to participate in the interview can contact me at this email address. Cheers, John Collison (AKA Ludraman)

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] Problems on the Kashmiri Wikipedia
by daniwo59＠aol.com 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

I would like to volunteer to mediate with Node and try to come to some sort of resolution of this problem without taking drastic measures. Danny

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List statistics
by Lars Aronsson 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

To help everybody on these two lists (wikitech-l, wikipedia-l) to voluntarily moderate themselves and to chose their fights, here are some statistics. Note that these numbers do not indicate the usefulness of each message, just their numbers. I'm not the moderator, and there is no rule for how much anybody is allowed to post. During October, 349 messages were sent to wikipedia-l by 70 different posters. The following were the most active posters: Posts Sender address (@domain removed) ----- ----------------------------- 30 node.ue 22 2.718281828 18 nsk2 18 anthere9 17 rowan.collins 15 saintonge 15 ropers 14 jwales 12 stirling.newberry 10 david 10 andrew.lih ----- ----------------------------- During September, 741 messages were sent to wikipedia-l by 98 different posters. The following were the most active posters: Posts Sender address (@domain removed) ----- ----------------------------- 91 node.ue 44 anthere9 42 saintonge 40 ropers 35 jwales 25 delirium 23 yann 23 stirling.newberry 19 maveric149 18 gerardm 18 fredbaud 18 chris_mahan 18 andrew.lih 16 yuanml 16 2.718281828 13 share2002nov 12 ts4294967296 12 modean52 10 craig 10 beesley ----- ----------------------------- During October, 560 messages were sent to wikitech-l by 120 different posters. The following were the most active posters: Posts Sender address (@domain removed) ----- ----------------------------- 55 nsk2 50 brion 35 rowan.collins 31 ropers 23 hashar 20 magnus.manske 17 ts4294967296 15 mail(-at-)tgries.de 12 danenberg 11 tomk32 11 gerardm 10 timwi 10 emmanuel ----- ----------------------------- During September, 663 messages were sent to wikitech-l by 108 different posters. The following were the most active posters: Posts Sender address ----- ----------------------------- 65 brion 53 timwi 38 thoane 29 rowan.collins 29 gerardm 22 kissall 22 erik_moeller 19 JeLuF 18 anthere9 17 mail 14 jwales 13 puglisi 13 brion 13 avarab 12 saintonge 12 ropers 11 magnus.manske 11 delirium 10 wmahan_04 ----- ----------------------------- The sum over two lists and two months are: Posts Sender address ----- ----------------------------- 127 brion 121 node.ue 98 ropers 90 rowan.collins 88 anthere9 76 saintonge 73 nsk2 69 timwi 69 jwales 65 gerardm ----- ----------------------------- -- Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

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reports from the projects
by Elisabeth Bauer 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Hello, Inspired by the recent discussions on wikipedia-l, I've started an experimental reports page on Meta-Wiki: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports There are subpages for all the projects: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/October_2004/Wikipedia http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/October_2004/Wiktionary http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/October_2004/Wikibooks http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/October_2004/Wikiquote http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/October_2004/Other_projects The pages are intended for short reports about the projects. Please have a look at them, and if there's no information about your project yet, add a few sentences about the most important developments in your project. Goal is of course to have them as complete as possible - not sure if we'll suceed in this, though, but I would love to see for the first time news of all projects. greetings, elian

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Day and month names
by James R. Johnson 03 Nov '04

03 Nov '04

Hello, I was recently asked on the Anglo-Saxon wiki if we could put the day and month names into Anglo-Saxon, but the only way I know of to do this is through the LanguageAng.php file.is there another way, or do I have to have that file installed by someone? Thanks, James http://ang.wikipedia.org <http://ang.wikipedia.org/>

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Usage Statistics Don't work
by shizhao 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Since October 19, all Usage Statisticses of projects do not work, why? see http://wikimedia.org/stats/zh.wikipedia.org/usage_200410.html [[zh:user:shizhao]]

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Whatever the bad moments, don't forget to have fun on Wikipedia
by Anthere 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Two years ago, the french wikipedia celebrated its upgrading on phase III software. We spent the day hunting bugs, fixing user accounts and generally making everything work again. Two years later, we celebrate a rather happy time. Little vandalism, no conflict, nearly 60 000 articles, new local associations, as well as pumpkins and cooking art on http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recettes_du_mois#Octobre_2004 (for all those complaining, we also celebrate Christmas, end of Ramadan, Carnaval and any other nice special days you can think of) Happy Halloween to Kira as well ;-) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Tracking progress
by James R. Johnson 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

I was wondering if there were some way for the anglo-saxon wiki to have its growth tracked, as it's already gotten 113 articles in about 2 weeks. Thanks, James

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Re: Request for new Wikipedia: Friulian
by Michael Snow 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Mark Williamson wrote: >The difference is is that there is to my knowledge no such thing as a >flying polar bear, yet there are real Friulian people with internet >access. > > >On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 20:06:11 +0800, John Lee <johnleemk(a)gawab.com> wrote: > > >> It's highly unlikely you'll be able to get even half of the educated >>Friulian-speaking population editing Wikipedia. Are they potential? Yes, in >>much the same way that I could potentially be killed by a falling polar bear >>from the sky as I type this. >> >> Actually, when polar bears encroach on human settlements it is a common practice to airlift them back to more appropriate habitat. It seems quite possible that in the history of the world, the number of flying polar bears is larger than the number of websites written in (rather than about) the Friulian language. --Michael Snow

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] Request for new Wikipedia: Friulian
by Alfio Puglisi 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Mark Williamson wrote: >Sardinian is admittedly a dud. Sicilian is still growing steadily, and >I'm sure they'd not appreciate the not-so-nice things you seem to >think of them. > >[..] I checked Sicilian's recent changes: in the last 7 days there are contributions from 1 registered user and two IP addresses. The first is someone from Australia, the other two are from USA providers. It seems that no one from Sicily is editing those pages, and I'm betting that it will continue that way. PS my name is typically sicilian, since my family comes from there. This doesn't mean that I know even how to write a word of Sicilian... read aloud maybe, but not write. Alfio

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