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Request for Adminship in Ladino Wikipedia
by ilooy 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

==== Ladino Wikipedia ==== I request bureaucrat access on lad.wikipedia.org *'''language code''': lad *'''local request page''': [[lad:Wikipedia:Requests for adminship]] *'''My userpage on that wiki''': [[lad:User:ILVI]] Thank you. --[[User:ILVI]] 23:29, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

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RE: Wikipedia-l Digest, Vol 28, Issue 51
by Konstantinos 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Hello, I'm new to the mailing list and I have some questions regarding GFDL. I'm active in Greek wikipedia. Some months ago greek company http://www.magenta.gr/ created a wiki (http://www.live-pedia.gr) importing in it, its previously commercial encyclopedic dictionary http://www.magenta.gr/gr/lexicons/gr_encycl_dictionary.htm (of questionable quality) to create a wikipedia-like encyclopedia, asking from users to contibute. For months there was a notice that all content is GFDL (in fact they had copied the copyrights page (http://www.livepedia.gr/index.php/Live-Pedia.gr:%CE%94%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE %B9%CF%8E%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1) from Greek wikipedia (http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B9%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE% B4%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1:%CE%A0%CE%BD%CE%B5%CF%85%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA% CE%AC_%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B9%CF%8E%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1). During this time, some articles from Live-Pedia were transferred to greek wikipedia and articles from greek wikipedia to Live-Pedia (paying attribution according to the GFDL) Last week the notice to GFDL has change to one that states that the content is under another license (Magenta Documentation License) but that license is not uploaded yet, so we do not know the rules. As I understand: * All content that has been copied while there was a notice that it was under the GFDL continues to be like that, and that means that all articles that were copied to wikipedia before they change the license can stay. * I can still use the articles (the 500 longest articles) I had copied to my computer before they change the license (I'd like to put some in wikipedia). Q1: Are these right? Q2: The articles copied from wikipedia to Live-Pedia should be deleted from Live-Pedia or they can stay with a notice that they are under the GFDL unlike the rest of their articles that they are under another license? Thanks, geraki@elwikipedia

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Brazilian Portuguese
by Marcio - CSP 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Hi, my name is Marcio. I would like to know if there is any project involving the Brazilian Portuguese language. If not, there is a chance of starting one ? Brazilian Portuguese is similar to European and African Portuguese are similar, but there is a lot of differences in writing and meaning of the words that can make the enciclopedia articles tricky. Best regards, Marcio

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] Gollum now in english
by Harald Hanek 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

> In the translation page however the language shows as a possible target > in the list, however when choosing it, there is an error message > saying the language is not known (or something like that, in German) Sorry, now ok.

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] Gollum now in english
by Harald Hanek 22 Nov '05

22 Nov '05

Am Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:15:04 +0100 schriebst du: > uld it be possible to add Walloon (de: Wallonisch, in the language > itself: walon) It's done. Cheers Harald

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Fwd: Google Alert - Wikipedia
by ABCD 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

It seems that the BBC likes us now :-). ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > OPEN media to connect communities > BBC News - UK > ... Wikimedia has emerged from the Wikipedia, the freely-available, editable, > open and collaborative online encyclopaedia set up by Jimmy Wales. ... > <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4450052.stm>

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Notability of web pages and people; and article merging/splitting
by Anthony DiPierro 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

On 11/20/05, Andre Engels <andreengels(a)gmail.com> wrote: > 2005/11/20, Sam Korn <smoddy(a)gmail.com>: > > > > So every webpage is notable? You can get information from the page > > itself > > > and from the Internet Archive. > > > > Only if there is stuff to write about it. If not, it can happily be > > merged into a "list of websites" or some such thing. > > > I was talking of web pages, not websites. And how do you decide if there's > something to write about it? > > -- > Andre Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com > ICQ: 6260644 -- Skype: a_engels Just because something is notable doesn't mean it has to have its own separate article. I'd say most, if not all, information about web pages would be better off merged with something else. The way "you decide" if there's something to write about it is the same way "you decide" whether or not any bit of information improves an article or makes it worse, using a wiki. People, on the other hand, tend to have separate identities from one another, and merging generally isn't a good idea. I especially hate when one person is redirected to another person, and I don't think that should ever be done. "Baby Gary who's 3 months old" might find a better home on a page about his family though, at least for a while. But please not as a separate section unto itself. That's another pet peeve I have - when multiple different articles are "merged" into a single one in a way that puts each article as a separate headline (sometimes even with its own external links and other subsections). I guess this is done as a compromise between those who want to delete the information and those who want to keep it, but it seems like the worst of both worlds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Answers (a redirect to [[List of Google services and tools]]) is an example of where this disgusting technique takes place. I fail to see how this is a better way of organizing things. A list should be a list. An article on Google services and tools should discuss the relationship of the tools and services to one another, and discuss general trends which Google is making, not present a bunch of separate articles stuck together on one page. Anthony

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Gollum now in english
by Harald Hanek 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

Hello, the gollum homepage is now in english available. http://gollum.easycp.de/en/ Have fun with Gollum! Cheers! Harald

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Village pump inside of Navigation bar
by Milos Rancic 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

When I was trying to find what languages use small letter at the beginning of language name, I found that it is very hard to find village pump on bigger Wikipedias. On Serbian Wikipedia, we put village pump as the second link inside of navigation bar and I think that it should be implemented on all Wikipedias. (Not necessary to be the second, but inside of navigation bar.) What do others think?

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Gollum now in english
by Harald Hanek 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

Hello, the gollum homepage is now in english available. http://gollum.easycp.de/en/ Have fun with Gollum! Cheers! Harald

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