Wikipedia-l September 2006

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] [Foundation-l] Edits by project and country of origin
by daniwo59＠aol.com 04 Sep '06

04 Sep '06

What I find especially interesting is not the native Asutralian languages, which have a handful of speakers only, but the fact that in India, over 99 percent of people prefer to edit in English than in their native languages. It would be interesting to see the results once native languages are included in the sample. Danny

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Lists of book references and external links
by Bogdan Giusca 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

What should we do with these pages? According to our policy, the references should be put in each article, not move them to a new article and these articles could be speedied for no actual content. Articles discussing the historiography of each subject would be OK, but as actual articles, not just as lists of books/links. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_the_Darfur_conflict http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_the_Lord's_Resistance_Army http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_Canadian_History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliography_of_the_Rwandan_Genocide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_(resources) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Railway_Bibliography etc.

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] Lists of book references and external links
by Martin A. Walker 02 Sep '06

02 Sep '06

>David Gerard: >there isn't a central bibliographical reference >base, as some have mooted. If you can code something that will both >work and be sensibly usable by casual editors, I suspect it would be >most welcomed ... Take a look at the Wikicat/Wikicite idea on meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicite http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicat I was told recently that most of the Wikicite code has been written. For the longer term.....at Wikimania we discussed a detailed fact-checking process, possibly using Wikicite, and this would use a separate list of sources, so a user who wants to check a fact in a validated article could find the source for every fact...but that's at least 2 years away, I'd say. I understand that Wikicite/Wikicat would support such a feature. See the link below for more detail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pushing_to_validation Martin A. Walker (User:Walkerma)

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MediaWiki for disability persons
by Milos Rancic 02 Sep '06

02 Sep '06

As an admin on Anarchopedia, one guy asked me to open "disability Anarchopedia". You can see our talk on the page http://eng.anarchopedia.org/index.php/User_talk:Millosh#Dear_Millosh.2C (from this heading to the rest of the page). Hm. There is no problem to open one or more MediaWikis, but the same MediaWiki engine would to nothing. I was thinking about changing of Monobook skin, but it seems that it is not enough. As this is not only Anarchopedia-related question; as well as it should be implemented on Wikimedian projects, too; as well as this is important issue -- I would like to hear is there any good solution for people with disabilities so they can be able to equally contribute to MediaWiki projects? I was thinking about using Emacs (it has wiki interface and I am sure that I found that it has some interfaces for persons with disabilities), but Emacs is too complex... Is there anything else which can be used? If not, is there a people who are willing to work on such issue? If not, may WMF fund a project with aim to solve this problem?

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] Lists of book references and external links
by Virgil Ierubino 02 Sep '06

02 Sep '06

I'm not sure if any issue like this has been raised before anywhere on Wikipedia. Policy says delete, but I think, discuss. Look at the Holocaust one. The information there is valuable, but FAR too much to add to the main article. Should we * Allow bibliographic articles? * Include a MASSIVE reference section at the bottom of the main Holocaust article? * Include it in a {{hidden}} template? * Lose most of that information? * Wikicat/Wikibibliography project? I think this issue merits consideration.

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