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
Dear all,
Most of you would be aware of some of the discussions that have occurred
around Wikipedia in the Norwegian languages. Since the last round of
discussions on this list, there has been a lot of internal debate, as
well as what seems to be a fairly widely accepted agreement following
voting.
This e-mail intends to, after a brief recap on Norwegian language and
wikipedia issues, take those interested through the latest development
and will stake out the road ahead. It is also intended to inform the
international community about the current agreement on no.wikipedia, so
as to prevent misunderstandings in the future.
Finally, we will mention an unfortunate reaction to the vote by a small
number of users at the Norwegian Bokmål/Riksmål (no:) wikipedia who want
to disregard the result of the voting and are planning to create a
_third_ Norwegian wikipedia with the sole mission of mixing the contents
of the two current Norwegian versions.
== A short language history of Norway ==
Spoken Norwegian ("norsk") (ISO 639-2 alpha-2 code "no") is in a fairly
unique situation compared to most other languages of the world in that
it has two widely accepted written standards, Bokmål (ISO 639-2 alpha-2
code "nb") and Nynorsk (ISO 639-2 alpha-2 code "nn"). By national
legislation they are both regarded as official written forms of
Norwegian. In addition, many people still make a distinction between
Bokmål and its precursor which still is in use, Riksmål.
Briefly speaking, Bokmål and Riksmål are descendants of the Danish
written language. Until the 1800s, Danish was the only widely used
written language in Norway as a result of four centuries of union with
Denmark. With increasing independence came a wish to norwegianise the
Danish standard, with Knud Knudsen at the forefront for changing parts
of the vocabulary and orthographics. Thus, Riksmål, and later Bokmål,
resulted. These forms together are today probably used by about 90% of
Norway's population, or somewhere around 3,500,000 people.
Parallel to this development, a new written standard was created by Ivar
Aasen. He travelled extensively throughout Norway, and based his new
language, landsmål, on the grammar and vocabulary of dialect samples
from around the country. This was later renamed Nynorsk. Modern Nynorsk
differs significantly from modern Bokmål, and may be linguistically
looked upon as as different (or as similar if you like) as Swedish is to
Danish. For English or Dutch/German speakers, the differences may be
likened to those between (Lowland) Scots and English or Low German and
Dutch. Today it is estimated that about 500,000-600,000 people have
Nynorsk as their first written language.
More information about the Norwegian language history can be found in
English, German, French, Spanish or Portuguese on the website of the
Norwegian Language Council:
http://www.sprakrad.no/templates/Page.aspx?id=653
== A short history of Wikipedia in Norwegian ==
The first Norwegian wikipedia started 26 November 2001 on the subdomain
no.wikipedia.org. As most wikipedias, its contributor and article count
started really picking up around the end of 2003. At the time, it
accepted all written standards of Norwegian, although the amount of
Nynorsk was minimal. There were already several debates about the
feasibilty and appropriateness of keeping the two languages united on
one Wikipedia. On 31 July 2004 a Wikipedia for Nynorsk was created.
The creation of nn:, however, split the community at no: wikipedia. Many
felt that given that Nynorsk now had its own wikipedia, no: should
become a Bokmål/Riksmål Wikipedia only. Others disapproved and claimed
that there was no need to change and that it should continue its
language policy of accepting all and keep its interwiki link name of
"Norsk".
Nynorsk Wikipedia soon proved a success, as it within the next few
months gathered several people who had felt uncomfortable in the
(mainly) Bokmål environment at no:. The name displayed in interwiki
links became "Norsk (nynorsk)" (languages are not spelt with upper case
in Norwegian). To date it continues to be one of the fastest growing
wikipedias, with a steady article increase, now at over 6000 articles
and >50 editors with more than 10 edits since arrival.
== Votes ==
The issue of no:'s language policy has come up time and again, and a
vote was held in March ([[:no:Wikipedia:Målform]]) as to which policy to
adapt. Independent of the method of the tally (whether or not to include
new contributors etc.) there was a majority for switching to a
Bokmål/Riksmål only language policy (50% for Bokmål/Riksmål, 43.2% for
Bokmål/Riksmål/Nynorsk/Høgnorsk, and 6.8% for the official variants
Bokmål/Nynorsk only).
Following this result, there is now going to be a vote on which
interwiki link name will most appropriately reflect the current language
policy of no:. The result of this vote will most likely be either "Norsk
(bokmål)" or "Norsk (bokmål/riksmål)".
Understandably, there has also been a debate as to whether the subdomain
should change from "no" to "nb", as this is the correct representation
of Bokmål according to ISO 639-2. However, there is some resentment
towards such a move and currently a general acceptance in letting the
Bokmål wikipedia stay at "no". The alternative some have suggested is a
server-side redirect from "no" to "nb", in the same way that "nb" today
is a server-side redirect to the equivalent page on "no".
== Summary of the problem ==
Unfortunately, a small group of users (who all write Bokmål/Riksmål) are
ignoring the results from the vote, and are claiming they want to
re-establish a wikipedia for all written standards of Norwegian. They
claim they have been in touch with people centrally in Wikimedia
(developers? stewards?) and that they have so far received positive
comments. With this email, we would like to state the fact that there
have been no official decisions about creating a third Norwegian
wikipedia containing both Bokmål and Nynorsk, it is merely an unofficial
initiative from a small group of users which started a sign-on list at
[[:no:Bruker:Norsk_Wikipedia]]. A spontaneous list with signatures
against this activity was immediately created at
[[:no:Wikipedia-diskusjon:Fellesnorsk]]. The process of creating a third
Norwegian wikipedia has not gone through a voting process in any of the
two existing Norwegian wikipedias (no: and nn:) and can not be
considered as a decision by the Norwegian Wikipedia community.
We believe the creation of a third wikipedia under the Wikimedia
foundation would have a serious and unfortunate impact on the existing
wikipedias in Norwegian, no: and nn:, and would undermine Wikipedia's
reputation in Norway. This being said, we are all for extensive co-
operation between the four Scandinavian language wikipedias (including
Swedish and Danish), as evident by the recent creation of
[[:meta:Skanwiki]], the Scandinavian meta-pages, and the use of featured
articles from neighbour wikipedias.
== Conclusion ==
Hopefully, this letter will help people better understand the
complicated language situation of the Norwegian Wikipedia community, so
as to give a background on which discussion can take place on this list
in the future, such as the inevitable debate following a possible
request for a re-establishment of the common (and third!) Norwegian
Wikipedia.
>From the community of no.wikipedia.org and nn.wikipedia.org,
Bjarte Sørensen [[:meta:User:BjarteSorensen]] (Administrator/bureaucrat on nn:)
Lars Alvik [[:no:User:Profoss]] (Administrator/bureaucrat on no:)
Øyvind A. Holm [[:no:User:Sunny256]] (Administrator on no:)
Onar Vikingstad [[:no:User:Vikingstad]] (Administrator on no:)
Jon Harald Søby [[:no:User:Jhs]] (Administrator on no:)
Chris Nyborg [[:no:User:Cnyborg]] (Administrator on no:)
Guttorm Flatabø [[:no:User:Dittaeva]] (Administrator on nn:)
Gunleiv Hadland [[:meta:User:Gunnernett]] (Administrator on nn:)
Jarle Fagerheim [[:nn:User:Jarle]] (Administrator on nn:)
Øyvind Jo Heimdal Eik [[:en:User:Pladask]] (Administrator on nn: and no:)
Kristian André Gallis [[:nn:User:Kristaga]]
Vegard Wærp [[:no:User:Vegardw]]
Nina Aldin Thune [[:no:User:Nina]]
Thor-Rune Hansen [[:no:User:ThorRune]]
Claes Tande [[:no:User:Ctande]]
Arnt-Erik Krokaa [[:no:User:AEK]]
Rune Sattler [[:no:User:Shauni]]
I didn't realize Danny Mayer was a cofounder of Wikipedia. You learn
something new every day!
From: "Adriana Iwashko" <IwashkoA(a)newschool.edu>
To: < artdesignstudies(a)newsite.newschool.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:04:36 -0500
Subject: Open Source- The Vera List Center for Art and Politics
Panel Discussion
"Open Source: On the Line"
Monday, December 4, 2006 - 6:30 p.m.
The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center
55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor
New York City
Admission: $8, free for all students, as well as members of
Rhizome.org<http://rhizome.org/>
and New School faculty, staff and alumni with valid ID
Panelists:
Cory Arcangel, artist
Joy Garnett, artist
Patrick May, Director of Technology, Rhizome.org <http://rhizome.org/>
Daniel Mayer, Co-founder, Wikipedia
Laura Quilter, Founder, Fair Use Network
Moderator:
Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts, The Whitney Museum
of American Art
A panel on the aesthetic and political possibilities afforded by open
source systems, and related debates around copyright and intellectual
property.
The panelists will examine sites like Wikipedia and
Digg.com<http://digg.com/>as well as
p2p networks and social networking sites, and the practices and
challenges inherent to each. They will also explore artworks, arts
institutions, and businesses that have sought to adopt open source
models, and touch on current challenges to the continuation of this
ethos such as "net neutrality" legislation.
Organized by Rhizome, in association with the Vera List Center for Art
and Politics.
This event is presented as part of the Vera List Center's program
cycle on "The Public Domain," and on occasion of Rhizome's tenth
anniversary.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Friday, December 1, 2006 - 6:00 and 8:00 p.m.
"AIDS and the Politics of Science"
"Beyond Lament: AIDS and the Arts"
2 panels commemorating World AIDS Day, and the 25th anniversary of
epidemic's beginning, organized by the Wolfson Center for National
Affairs
Wednesday, December 6, - 7:00 p.m.
"Image Ownership and Usage in the Digital Age"
Wednesday, December 6, 2006 - 7:00 p.m.
With Michelle Bogre, Parsons The New School for Design
Richard Ellis, Senior Vice President, Getty Images
Barbara Hoffman, Arts and Intellectual Property Lawyer
Presented as part of the Aperture Foundation's series "Confounding
Expectations: Photography in Context."
Por favor si pueden mandeme la informaciòn en español, aunque leo ingles,
hay algunas palabras que desconozco.
Gracias
_________________________________________________________________
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Hi -- there used to be (as of a month or two ago) a very useful website at
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm that included historical
Wikipedia growth statistics -- very helpful for those of us who are trying
to study the phenomenal growth of this community. Unfortunately, it appears
to have been taken down, or perhaps moved. Does anyone know where I can
access it?
Thanks,
/prc
Mas adelante les mandare un email con los objetivos de nuestra organizaciòn
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I have updated the list at [[meta:Common Interwiki links]], containing the
pages that, according to the English Wikipedia, have a link in many
languages, but not in a given language. In this update, all languages that
had at least 100 of the 200 most common subjects have been included; this
makes 81 languages, up from 53 in the previous version (about two months
ago).
Here the 20 most linked subjects. India is still most linked, and has in
fact increased its lead by several miles, now (according to the article on
en:) having an article in 234 Wikipedia languages.
1. (1) India 233 (+82)
2. (2) True Jesus Church 161 (+10)
3. (--) 2006 150 (+57)
4. (3) Wikipedia 142 (+7)
5. (6) Germany 136 (+10)
6. (4) Spain 132 (+3)
7. (5) Europe 129 (+2)
8. (11) France 128 (+11)
9. (7) Lithuania 128 (+3)
10. (9) Bible 127 (+6)
11. (8) United States 126 (+4)
12. (--) 2005 122 (+26)
13. (12) Russia 120 (+5)
14. (10) Kurów 118 (=)
15. (16) Christianity 116 (+8)
16. (15) Italy 115 (+6)
17. (14) English language 114 (+5)
18. (19) Astronomy 112 (+6)
19. (13) Geography 111 (+1)
20. (--) Africa 111 (+6)
Bubbling under: Biology, Norway, Poland
And because I love statistics and top lists, here again the top 100 persons
deemed most worthy of a Wikipedia article (according to the existence of
articles in various languages). Order where several had the same number
decided by me (note: this is the number of languages, and thus one higher
than what you see on the list, which shows the number of interwiki links)
1. (1) Jesus 110
2. (2) Albert Einstein 88
3. (4) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 85
4. (3) George W. Bush 83
5. (6) Johan Sebastian Bach 83
6. (5) Adolf Hitler 83
7. (7) Pope Benedict XVI 79
8. (8) Ludwig von Beethoven 77
9. (10) Pope John Paul II 75
10. (11) Christopher Columbus 74
11. (9) Leonardo da Vinci 74
12. (13) Karl Marx 73
13. (12) Charles Darwin 72
14. (19) Vladimir Lenin 71
15. (14) Isaac Newton 71
16. (18) Aristotle 69
17. (16) Mahatma Gandhi 69
18. (15) Plato 67
19. (28) Kofi Annan 67
20. (17) William Shakespeare 67
21. (24) Galileo Galilei 66
22. (**) Che Guevara 66
23. (23) Jacques Chirac 66
24. (26) Vladimir Putin 65
25. (21) Muhammad 64
26. (20) J. R. R. Tolkien 64
27. (31) Alexander the Great 63
28. (49) Ferdinand Magellan 63
29. (25) Pythagoras 63
30. (38) Vincent van Gogh 63
31. (54) Marco Polo 63
32. (29) Tony Blair 63
33. (22) Fidel Castro 63
34. (44) Johann Wolfgang Goethe 62
35. (40) Angela Merkel 62
36. (34) Bill Gates 62
37. (51) Nelson Mandela 62
38. (37) Socrates 61
37. (36) Homer 61
38. (33) Joseph Stalin 61
39. (48) Sigmund Freud 61
40. (27) Sid Vicious 61
41. (35) Marie Curie 61
42. (55) Roald Amundsen 61
43. (39) Winston Churchill 61
44. (32) Julius Caesar 60
45. (30) Napoleon I of France 60
46. (47) Benito Mussolini 60
48. (52) Thomas Edison 60
49. (43) Archimedes 59
50. (41) Genghis Khan 59
51. (60) George Washington 59
52. (56) Immanuel Kant 59
53. (42) Yasser Arafat 59
54. (57) Pablo Picasso 59
55. (46) George Orwell 59
56. (45) Alfred Nobel 59
57. (61) Osama bin Laden 58
58. (50) Nicolaus Copernicus 58
59. (53) Bill Clinton 58
60. (59) Abraham Lincoln 58
61. (58) Linus Torvalds 58
62. (**) James Cook 57
63. (66) Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom 57
64. (76) René Descartes 57
65. (64) Friedrich Nietzsche 56
66. (69) John F. Kennedy 56
67. (62) Alan Turing 56
68. (72) Dante Alighieri 55
69. (71) Gerhard Schröder 52
70. (67) Martin Luther 55
71. (--) Jacques Cartier 55
72. (70) Vasco da Gama 55
73. (65) Richard Wagner 55
74. (68) Richard Stallman 55
75. (63) Thomas Jefferson 55
76. (79) Carolus Linnaeus 54
77. (78) Fyodor Dostoevsky 54
78. (--) Francis Drake 54
79. (77) Ronald Reagan 54
80. (**) Charlemagne 53
81. (83) Ernest Hemingway 53
82. (80) Leon Trotsky 53
83. (--) Noam Chomsky 53
84. (89) Victor Hugo 53
85. (74) Elvis Presley 53
86. (85) John Lennon 53
87. (73) Johannes Gutenberg 53
88. (--) Hernán Cortés 52
89. (84) Joan of Arc 52
90. (--) Franklin D. Roosevelt 52
91. (87) Michelangelo 52
92. (--) Charles de Gaulle 52
93. (81) Albert Camus 52
94. (75) Leonhard Euler 52
95. (--) Isaac Asimov 52
96. (96) Johannes Kepler 52
97. (--) Mao Zedong 51
98. (--) Saddam Hussein 51
99. (--) Jean-Jacques Rousseau 51
100. (--) Indira Gandhi 51
Also 51: Otto von Bismarck, Jimmy Carter, Friedrich Engels, Edmund Hillary,
J. K. Rowling, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ariel Sharon, Harry S. Truman
**: These had been missed by me last time I composed this list. Che Guevara
would have been around position 20, James Cook around 71 and Charlemagne
around 74.
--
Andre Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com
ICQ: 6260644 -- Skype: a_engels
Hello,
To help cleaning the small wikis, people from the Small wikis monitoring
team have thought about asking people from all projects to create a redirect
from [[Template:Delete]] to the local speedy deletion template. The major
wikis have already set this redirect, but it would be very useful on small
projects where sysops don't come very often. Thus they could check the
linked pages/the related category and deal with the pages containing
nonsense or pages remaining after move vandalism.
Please help spreading this request on your projects and forward this message
to people I've forgotten (I haven't found any mailing list for wikiquote,
for example). Thanks a lot.
On 11/14/06, Guillaume Paumier <guillom.pom(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Thanks to Tangotango's great work, there is now a working channel
> monitoring 20 small wikis. People willing to help can join us in
> #wikimedia-swmt on freenode
>
--
Guillaume Paumier
Disciplus Simplex
http://fr.wikipedia.org : Resistance is futile — You will be assimilated.
Currently, on many projects, we allow three kinds of multimedia content :
1) content in the public domain
2) content available under "free" licenses (with our own definition of
"free"; some people disagree with GFDL being a free license)
3) content available under the "fair use" clause of US copyright law.
1) and 2) are easily reusable by third parties, while 3) is not (each
use of a "fair use" document must be justified).
Clearly, these rules were set with the view of the US law : we put
stringent rules on allowing only "free" content, and then we opened a
whole boulevard with the US-specific "fair use" clause. I might even go
as far as to say that our stringent rules are acceptable only because we
have this "fair use" allowance.
Now, fair use does not exist in the legislation of many countries; or,
rather, it exists in a weaker or different form ("right of citation").
As a consequence, many wikipedias, targetting citizens of countries
other than the US, have decided to prohibit fair use content or at least
severely restrict it.
This proves a problem with some providers of content (companies,
government administrations, etc.) who would gladly provide e.g.
photographs usable for any informational or educational purpose, but
that they do not want to appear in advertisements (especially for
products unrelated to their activities).
An example is the European space agency (ESA) and the French space
agency (CNES) : they would gladly allow their photographs to be used for
any educational or informational purpose (including commercial, e.g.
DVDs, paper encyclopedias, textbooks etc.) but they do not want their
material to appear in e.g. advertisements for supermarkets or, worse,
political advertisements, because in such cases some idea of endorsement
of the product on their part is implied. They cannot use trademark
legislation to fight such abuse, in most cases.
Note that, in the US, NASA, whose photographs are in the public domain,
is protected from abusive by specific US laws prohibiting misuse of some
symbols of the US government, including the NASA logo (the same applies
for e.g. military insignia). The photo may well be termed "public
domain", but they can actually prosecute you if you use it in an
advertisement.
Note also that the Wikimedia Foundation also copyrights its logos in
order to prevent abuse. We should not be hypocrites and deny to others
what we do for the same purpose (especially since the Foundation grants
individual authorizations, not a blanket "for education or information").
In addition, the legislation of some countries may not allow blanket
licenses for any use (considered as clauses abusing the rights of the
authors, and thus null and void).
A solution would be to create a new category of content allowed on
Wikimedia projects :
4) Content available for use for any purpose, commercial or non
commercial, as long as it is informational or educational.
I see only advantages :
* This would enable us to counter systemic bias ; that is, allow content
from some providers from countries where "fair use" does not apply (we
for instance currently totally unbalance the portrayal of space programs
by having 7000 photos from NASA and hardly any from ESA/CNES).
* This would enable us to attract interesting content from providers who
do not want their work to be used in advertisements, for questions of
corporate or institutional image.
* This would be coherent with the goals stated in the bylaws of the
Wikimedia Foundation, that is, distribute informational content.
Common objections are :
* Jimbo said he would not longer allow content restricted to "non
commercial" usage.
=> This does not apply here, since the above mentioned content would be
usable for commercial uses.
(Non-commercial only licenses would be an annoyance for people willing
to distribute DVDs or in case we lack funds and we're forced to put up
advertisements. Neither would be hampered by the above mentioned
conditions.)
* Such content would be "unfree".
=> Then ban all fair use from all projects, since "fair use" content is
considerably more unfree. "Fair use" content is usable for
educational/informational use only for narrow cases, and is only usable
by US residents.
In short, this objection is US-centric. :-)
* ESA and CNES should do like NASA does.
ESA and CNES operate under different laws and rules than NASA. NASA
employs many of its photographers, whose work is in the public domain as
work of US government employees ; ESA and CNES have to buy many
photographs from non-employees, typically under conditions allowing any
educational or informational use but disallowing uses in commercial
advertisements.
Again, US-centric objection. :-)
To summarize my point of view: to be coherent, we should
* either allow such content usable for any educational or informational
uses, including commercial:
* either prohibit "fair use" content from all projects (and perhaps also
content constrained by laws other than copyright, e.g. insignia of US
government administrations).
Regards,
--DM
Hello. I would like to call the attention
of any Wikipedia developer in this mailing
list. I have requested to switch the Wikipedia
logo of Chavacano Wikipedia cbk-zam.wikipedia.org
at the request for logos:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_logos
But it has not been switched since 2 or 3 weeks ago
when I made the request. Is there any developer
here who can switch? Also, I noticed there
are several requests there that have not been
responded by any developer. Sorry, if I have
to request developers attention here.
Thanks!
Weekejames
cbk-zam.wikipedia.org
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