On Sunday 28 July 2002 03:00 am, The Cunctator wrote:
> What are the articles this person has been changing?
For 66.108.155.126:
20:08 Jul 27, 2002 Computer
20:07 Jul 27, 2002 Exploit
20:07 Jul 27, 2002 AOL
20:05 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
20:05 Jul 27, 2002 Leet
20:03 Jul 27, 2002 Root
20:02 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
19:59 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
19:58 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
19:54 Jul 27, 2002 Principle of least astonishment
19:54 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
19:52 Jul 27, 2002 Trance music
19:51 Jul 27, 2002 Trance music
For 208.24.115.6:
20:20 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
For 141.157.232.26:
20:19 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
Most of these were complete replacements with discoherent statements.
Such as "TAP IS THE ABSOLUTE DEFINITION OF THE NOUN HACKER" for Hacker.
For the specifics follow http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Special:Ipblocklist
and look at the contribs.
--mav
So, it seems (if I interpret Jimbo's mail on wikitech and the discussion
here correctly) that most of us would like *some kind* of category
scheme in wikipedia. I do, too! But, we seem to differ on the details
(shocked silence!).
So far, I saw three concepts:
1. Simple categories like "Person", "Event", etc.; about a dozen total.
2. Categories and subcategories, like
"Science/Biology/Biochemistry/Proteomics", which can be "scaled down" to
#1 as well ("Humankind/Person" or something)
3. Complex object structures with machine-readable meta-knowledge
encoded into the articles, which would allow for quite complex
queries/summaries, like "biologists born after 1860".
Pros:
1. Easy to edit (the wiki way!)
2. Still easy to edit, but making wikipedia browseable by category,
fine-tune Recent Changes, etc.
3. Strong improvement in search functions, meta-knowledge available for
data-mining.
Cons:
1. Not much of a help...
2. We'd need to agree on a category scheme, and maintenance might get a
*little* complicated.
3. Quite complex to edit (e.g., "<category type='person'
occupation='biologist' birth_month='5' birth_day='24' birth_year='1874'
birth_place='London' death_month=.....>")
For a wikipedia I'd have to write myself, I'd choose #3, but with
respect to the wiki way, #2 seems more likely to achieve consensus (if
there is such a thing;-)
Magnus
I have been amazed at the passions that were stirred up when I proposed that we distribute free fonts.
There have been two types of reaction: Point to a source that has a partial solution, sometimes for money and bickering about the level of handholding that a user may need.
As there is not one golden solution, it is not simple to say spend $$ and you are ready.
It can also become part of the installation of software that goes with a DVD for of-line use. When having enough fonts is needed for the best wikipedia experience, why wouldn't we give a helping hand to our current users and help them in this way ??
Thanks,
Gerard
The following changes have been made to the Python Wikipediabot
framework since the previous overview of February 6. As always, the
new files can be downloaded at
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/pywikipediabot/pywikipedia/, and
one can of course use a newer version as well. Furthermore, changes
have been done to the Wikimedia software early February, and to the
bot as well. Therefore:
* versions of wikipedia.py older than 1.391 (February 5) do not work any more
* If you use a version of anything from February 6 or later, you
should use a version of everything (more precisely, wikipedia.py,
config.py and the specific bot you are using) from that date or later.
But on to the newer changes. For the bugfixes I will describe which
bot(s) is or are affected, and what goes wrong with older versions.
"int." means that the bug has been introduced in some earlier version.
Bugs both introduced and solved in the current period have not been
mentioned. For all changes the files and versions that are needed are
mentioned.
Andre Engels
== Dependencies ==
In general, if error messages occur upon downloading a new version of
a bot, getting a new version of wikipedia.py as well would be the
first idea. Versions of wikipedia.py 1.405 and higher need family.py
1.21 (and vice versa)
== Bug fixes ==
* general * wikipedia.py 1.397 (int. 1.392 - does not count number
of bot processes correctly)
* general * wikipedia.py 1.397 (int. 1.392 - cannot edit redirect
pages and cannot create new pages)
* general * wikipedia.py 1.406 (is unable to edit after having been
dormant for some time)
* catall.py * catall.py 1.13 (int. 1.12 - gives an error message
before ending)
* category.py * category.py 1.62 (int. 1.61 - major disfunction)
* category.py (and others) * catlib.py 1.32 (finds at most 200
articles in a category)
* interwiki.py * family.py 1.20 (does not find pages on csb:)
* interwiki.py * family.py 1.21, wikipedia.py 1.406 (does not
recognize [[{xx:PAGENAME}]] interwiki links and a few redirects)
* interwiki.py * interwiki.py 1.135 (crashes when the -continue
option is used with an empty dumpfile)
* interwiki.py * interwiki.py 1.136 (chance of not being removed
from the list of bot processes if stopped *very* soon after being
started)
* interwiki.py * titletranslate.py 1.38 (crashes when a non-existing
language is given as a hint)
* pagefromfile.py * pagefromfile.py 1.7 (int. 1.6 - gives error
message at end and is not removed from the list)
* pagefromfile.py * pagefromfile.py 1.8 (the option "-end" is not recognized)
* redirect.py * redirect.py 1.19 (int 1.18 - major disfunction)
* replace.py * replace.py 1.35 (int. 1.6 - gives error message at
end and is not removed from the list)
== Major changes ==
* interwiki.py can now, when asking for hints, be asked for the text
of the page by typing "?" or adding the "-showpage option *
interwiki.py 1.136
* replace.py and solve_disambiguation.py now give their diffs colored
(Unix only) * replace.py 1.37, solve_disambiguation.py 1.128,
wikipedia.py 1.404
* Two new features of sqldump.py: findr finds regular expressions; the
function of baddisambiguation is not clear to me * sqldump.py 1.17
* interwiki.py uses nb: instead of no: in presence of an nn: link or
on the nn: wiki * interwiki.py 1.139
== Minor changes ==
* Swedish translations for interwiki.py: interwiki.py 1.137
* Change of Icelandic text for category.py: category.py 1.63
* Hawaiian and Chichewa added to known languages (wiktionary only
Hawaiian yet): wikipedia_family.py 1.89, wiktionary_family 1.21
== Cosmetic changes / invisible changes ==
* Multiple alternative redirect texts for one language are supported:
wikipedia.py 1.406
* Special care for zh-cn/zh-tw difference removed: interwiki.py 1.139,
wikipedia.py 1.408
In the grand tradition of actually getting things done on Wikipedia,
Wikipedian KSheka, with some assistance from myself to convert the video
to Theora, has gone ahead and uploaded a video of an "echocardiograph
demonstrating systolic anterior motion of the anterior leaflet of the
mitral value", which, translated, I think means "a video of a beating
heart with a valve that's moving wrongly"
You can see the article with the uploaded video at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertrophic_cardiomyopathy
Now we actually *have* a video in a patent-unencumbered codec uploaded
to Wikipedia, and the ability to make more of them (transcoding to Theora
is pretty straightforward once you've got ffmpeg2theora installed), the
discussion about video I posted at http://meta.wikimedia.org/Video_policy
becomes a little more directly relevant...
>From my point of view, I'd be very interested in people's thoughts on
what we should do to make best use of video (one thing that comes to
mind is that we should always take a still from the video as
illustration, but more thoughts are good)...
Oh, and has there been any progress on implementing code for an approval
process?
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Hey,
Is there any way to alter the alphabetical order used to sort
lists of articles? In the OE wiki, the letter æ (a and e together) should
be alphabetized after a, so that áetan, ániman, æfter show up in that
order, and ð and þ are arranged after d and t, respectively. There are also
accented vowels that should show up in their unaccented versions as well, so
that and, ániman, and ánlíepig are all under the letter A.
James
Dear all:
I would like to request a new Wikipedia for classical Chinese or kanbun(
漢文/文言文) which is the standard form of Chinese for about two thousand
years and was used throughout East Asia as the formal form of writing. Its
importance in East Asia is like that of Latin in Europe. Now that
Wikipedias are running or being started for many of the languages in East
Asia, it seems that the language which is the backbone of these languages
should also have a place.
One problem that might be encountered in writing articles for kanbun
wikipedia is how the foreign loanwords (e.g. from English) should be
phonetically transcribed when there is no corresponding word in kanbun
itself. If they are transcribed using kanji (Chinese characters), there is
the question of which language should be used to read the kanji. Here I
suggest using an alphabet system of East Asia (e.g. Japanese kana or Korean
hangul, or Taiwanese chu-yin) for the transcription and also note the
original word in English (or any other language of origin or the roman
transcription if the language is not written in roman alphabet). This
allows kanbun users speaking different languages to know the original
foreign word.
__________________________________
Let's Celebrate Together!
Yahoo! JAPAN
http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/so2005/
Hi,
I was just wondering why there is no individual de.wikipedia.org
database dump at http://download.wikimedia.org/?
Cheers,
Sebastian
PS: Please CC me in replies as I'm not on the list. Thanks!
Numbers have been updated and corrected.
On Day 4 (Monday 21 February eastern US timezone since PayPal data are not
available in UTC) we made $6,287.52 (USD equivalent) through PayPal (no updates
available for other sources at this time). This is a decrease of -20.23% from
Day 3 but still does represent 18.15% of total funds collected so far
($34,648.06 ; only counting full days) and 8.38% of our goal ($75,000).
Remarkably, the rate of donations were not too adversely affected by the
downtime on Monday. Since the donation forms were not available during a large
part of the downtime, I can only guess that people remembered our PayPal
account name.
Donations did significantly increase soon after a Slashdot story about the
downtime was released (9:28PM, EST on Monday), forcing us to move the backup
donation page once the Slashdot Effect brought down the website hosting it
(http://wikisearch.org ; Sorry about that Angela).
NOTE: Pending transactions are also included in the below numbers (some of them
will likely turn out to be canceled)
Day 4 Day 3 comparison
Breakdown:
PayPal USD equiv USD equiv %change
AUD 29.68 $23.46 $330.90 -92.91%
CAD 750.35 $608.01 $238.93 154.48%
EUR 1410.77 $1,844.16 $2,755.66 -33.08%
GBP 315.19 $598.17 $696.89 -14.17%
JPY 8082 $76.61 $198.96 -61.50%
USD 3137.11 $3,137.11 $3,596.33 -12.77%
PayPal total: $6,287.52 $7,817.66 -19.57%
MoneyBookers
no data $64.00 -100.00%
TOTAL $6,287.52 $7,881.66 -20.23%
Grand totals so far (only counting complete days)
PayPal USD equiv %GrandTotal
AUD 1154.78 $912.85 2.63%
CAD 1685.27 $1,365.57 3.94%
EUR 9390.42 $12,275.16 35.43%
GBP 1637.47 $3,107.59 8.97%
JPY 90304 $855.99 2.47%
USD 15704.20 $15,704.20 45.32%
PayPal total: $34,221.37
Moneybookers:
$426.69 1.23%
GRAND TOTAL $34,648.06 100.00%
% toward goal 46.20%
For the most recent grand total and other details visit
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1
Some selected comments from Day 4:
See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Fund_drives/2005/Q1/Day_4
"I use Wiki - I have to pay for it !" by Immo Wetzel
"You have aided me countless times in my academic pursuits in math, science,
and the humanities. I can't thank you guys enough." by Laura Napolitano
"Wiki is the future!" by Christoph Burschka
"Wikipedia is in my opinion one of the most noble collective human endeavours
underway in the world today. Thank you so much for contributing to society with
your wonderful website. I love it and abide" by Matthew Barba
"Wikimedia Rocks!" by Jasmeet Singh
"I have always had a thirst for knowledge, and this project does more than
quench it. I am happy to donate." by Matthew Gluesenkamp
"Cheaper than cable" by Anonymous
Some of my favorites:
"Spread your Squids around the world. And use cached pages for logged in users
as well. Fix those and I'll be happy as a [[clam]]. Good job so far!!!" by Rami
Lehti
"A small price to pay for a project like this. But get a move on with all those
ambitious plans for paper versions. Most of the world doesn't have computers."
by Anonymous
"The Wikimedia Foundations is an acheivement of great proportions spreading the
one firm truth that information is truly free. Thank you." by Siddharth
Bhansali
"Help preserve the sum total of human knowledge for less than the price of two
Caramel Frappuccinos. Wikipedia is not only fat-free and carbohydrate-free, it
will never go straight to your hips!" by Jonet Greene
"Give Wiki a boost!!" by Kiminori Noma
Daniel Mayer,
Wikimedia CFO
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