Wikipedia-l July 2005

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Re: Wikipedia-l Digest, Vol 24, Issue 57
by Giuseppe DAngelo 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Message: 2 Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:44:00 +0200 From: Ashar Voultoiz Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Current state of the Wikipedia motivation survey To: wikipedia-l(a)wikipedia.org Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Joachim Schroer wrote: > Dear all, > > as many of you know, we have started a survey on the motivation of > contributors to Wikipedia a week ago. So far, more than 150 participants > from more than 10 countries completed our online survey -- thanks a lot > to everyone! > > The questionnaire will be available until August 3 at: > > http://www.unipark.de/uc/wikipedia/ Done! I love surveys :p -- Ashar Voultoiz - WP++++ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hashar http://www.livejournal.com/community/wikitech/ IM: hashar(a)jabber.org ICQ: 15325080 I'm with you - I love surveys too - can we please have another - I suggest that we need a follow up survey - enquiring into the mental and emotional stability of wikipedians - my guess is that we are all in need of professional help - and fast! Salutamu - pippu d'angelo, canberra --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger: chiamate gratuite in tutto il mondo

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Zhuang wikipedia user Jienji VANG reply
by shizhao 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Zhuang wikipedia user Jienji VANG reply on zh wp: The Zhuang Wikipedia edition I modified was based on the Zhuang dialect of my hometown, Tianyang(田阳县). Since there is a Plattdüütsch Wikipedia project, i supposed that Zhuang Wikipedia could also be devided into many ones. Besides, the Holy Mountain of Ganzhuang(敢壮山), ruin of the earliest ancestor(布洛陀) of the Zhuang people, locates in Tianyang. The dialect in Tianyang has its own character. Because of the incapacity of the present standard Wuming Zhuang(武鸣壮语) in expressing Tianyang Zhuang's actuality, I referred to the Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese) and adopted a new spelling system. In Tianyang, Zhuang is called tǒ. To distinguish it from the verb roar(tô, 哄), I used the word tôô. The word Puutôô means the Zhuang people. I have declared that it's a Tianyang Zhuang edition. Please do never modify it in Wuming Zhuang, ok? As a matter of fact, few people learn to speak Zhuang, and the so-called standard Zhuang(Wuming) is only used in Wuming County, so would you please let me do my own wikipedia alone? See discuss on Chinese wikipedia: http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E8% 81%8A%E5%A4%A9#.E5.A3.AE.E8.AF.ADWikipedia [[zh:user:shizhao]]

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: wapipedia
by Angela 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

On 7/22/05, Anthere <anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Thank you Tim > I wrote at the adress to report the issue. Sorry - I forgot to mention on this list that I'd already done that. The site owner replied to say this was due to some bad scripting, and it was part of his mid-year-break project and he doesn't have time to fix it now since he's working, but he will in future. Angela.

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] Multiple meaning definitions
by Boris Lohnzweiger 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Hi, there's a whole page dealing with that issue (the experts call it "disambiguation") in all major Wikipedias. Here's the English one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation (with links to articles in other languages). I don't really get the second part of your question but the page dealing with redirects will probably help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirects Boris wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org schrieb am 22.07.05 00:59:34: Hello, I signed up for this list, because one my favorite hobbies is contributing to Wikipedia. I am having a problem though with something I want to submit. Multiple meanings--say you have a Taxi as in mode of transportation and Taxi the TV show. How do you put the TV show up? The "Taxi" listing is just an example as I'm sure the TV show listing is up. How do you add a title of a book, movie, or record if the meaning is shared? And what's worse what the title I want to add. The proper definition of the word actually takes you to page of a redirect and not the word itself. So any help would be kindly appreciated. Thanks. :) _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l _________________________________________________________________________ Mit der Gruppen-SMS von WEB.DE FreeMail können Sie eine SMS an alle Freunde gleichzeitig schicken: http://freemail.web.de/features/?mc=021179

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wapipedia
by Anthere 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Anyone heard of Wapipedia ? www.wapipedia.org ? Here is the type of results they give after a search : http://www.wapipedia.org/wikipedia/mobiletopic.aspx?cur_title=Agriculture My problem : the link provided for the wikipedia article is totally broken and seem to lead to random articles. And there is no contact link anywhere on their site. Ant __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Multiple meaning definitions
by janisc＠adelphia.net 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

Hello, I signed up for this list, because one my favorite hobbies is contributing to Wikipedia. I am having a problem though with something I want to submit. Multiple meanings--say you have a Taxi as in mode of transportation and Taxi the TV show. How do you put the TV show up? The "Taxi" listing is just an example as I'm sure the TV show listing is up. How do you add a title of a book, movie, or record if the meaning is shared? And what's worse what the title I want to add. The proper definition of the word actually takes you to page of a redirect and not the word itself. So any help would be kindly appreciated. Thanks. :)

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Re: Zhuang Wikipedia is not in Zhuang
by Ros’ Haruo 21 Jul '05

21 Jul '05

When I saw this post, > Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 01:19:02 -0700 > From: Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Zhuang Wikipedia is not in Zhuang > > Hi all, > > I'm not sure what language it is in now, but the Zhuang Wikipedia does > not appear to be in Zhuang. > > A week or so ago, the user "Jienji VANG" started adding this > apparently fraudulent content. > > It appears to be unrelated to any of the major languages of the world. > My freeware language identifier suggests that it is Afrikaans, > Buginese, Kapampangan, or Tagalog although I sincerely doubt this. > > Mark I went to the Zhuang encyclopedia and looked at it. Now, I know no Zhuang, but just off the top of my head what I saw looked to me like a language that stands to Vietnamese in a relation similar to that of Estonian to Finnish. I looked at two or three of the articles that appear to be in what is passing as Zhuang (I can definitely state that they are not in Afrikaans or Tagalog, and I too strongly doubt that they are Buginese or Kapampangan, in fact a language identifier that suggests these is probably not worth using) and I checked out their histories, and I see no striking evidence that the pre-Jienji-VANG versions were in a language different from the Jienji-VANG editions. There do appear to be two languages (or at least two widely divergent dialects with quite different orthographies) going here, though. "Quaangcí / Gvangjsih" to exemplify the contrast. Are you saying the former (much of which seems to predate JV's arrival) is not za: and the latter is? The latter language or variety seems not to use any diacritics, but apparently marks tone through h's and r's (but the former variety seems to have some of that, too, in spite of it's almost vn:-like abundance of accent marks). See the comments by NGUYỄN Xuân Minh at the bottom of my eo: talk page: http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipediista_diskuto:Haruo and his rather persuasive multilingual substitution cypher hypothesis. I must figure out now how to create an index in my user page where people can add their own entries and I can jump down to them. Seems like quite an elaborate hoax. Haruo -- Meet the Whole World Halfway — Learn and Use Esperanto! www.lernu.net My Website : http://www.scn.org/~lilandbr/

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Current state of the Wikipedia motivation survey
by Joachim Schroer 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Dear all, as many of you know, we have started a survey on the motivation of contributors to Wikipedia a week ago. So far, more than 150 participants from more than 10 countries completed our online survey -- thanks a lot to everyone! The questionnaire will be available until August 3 at: http://www.unipark.de/uc/wikipedia/ We would like to invite everybody who is involved in one or more Wikipedia projects as contributors, sysops or in community discussions to answer the survey. This will take about 20 minutes. The questionnaire is in English, but participants from other Wikipedias are especially invited to take part as well. We are also glad that a number of people have linked to our survey from their blogs or set links on prominent Wikipedia pages. We even have a Wikipedia page ourselves now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:University_of_W%C3%BCrzburg_survey%2… To allow for reliable results, we hope that as many contributors as possible complete the questionnaire. You would especially help us if you could link to the survey from visible Wikipedia pages (e.g., community pages or recent changes). We would also be glad if you forward this e-mail to people who don't regularly read this list. The original announcement is available here: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-July/026281.html Our project website is here: http://www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ao/research/wikipedia.php?lang=en Thank you for your time and input, and best wishes from Wuerzburg, Joachim Schroer -- Joachim Schroer, Dipl.-Psych. University of Wuerzburg Department of Psychology II, Industrial and Organizational Psychology Roentgenring 10 97070 Wuerzburg Germany Phone: +49 931 31 6062 Fax: +49 931 31 6063 http://www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/ao/staff/schroer.php

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Zhuang Wikipedia is not in Zhuang
by Mark Williamson 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

Hi all, I'm not sure what language it is in now, but the Zhuang Wikipedia does not appear to be in Zhuang. A week or so ago, the user "Jienji VANG" started adding this apparently fraudulent content. It appears to be unrelated to any of the major languages of the world. My freeware language identifier suggests that it is Afrikaans, Buginese, Kapampangan, or Tagalog although I sincerely doubt this. Mark -- SI HOC LEGERE SCIS NIMIVM ERVDITIONIS HABES QVANTVM MATERIAE MATERIETVR MARMOTA MONAX SI MARMOTA MONAX MATERIAM POSSIT MATERIARI ESTNE VOLVMEN IN TOGA AN SOLVM TIBI LIBET ME VIDERE

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Wikisign sql queries
by Filzstift 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

Announcement: the tool http://www.wikisign.org for doing sql queries supports now several more wikipedias, including the english, japanese, swedish and several others. Filzstift -- www.wikisign.org - SQL-Abfragen durchführen

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