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Search database not updated?
by Axel Boldt 22 Sep '01

22 Sep '01

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Germans willing to speak on an academic panel Nupedia and/or Wikipedia?
by lsanger＠nupedia.com 21 Sep '01

21 Sep '01

Hello, Apparently, there's a conference going on in Berlin sometime soon and I was asked to see if there's someone in Germany who could represent Nupedia and, hopefully, also Wikipedia. Expenses are paid. If you're interested, please let me know. It could be fun! Larry

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Re: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Our officially anonymous software
by Daniel Mayer 21 Sep '01

21 Sep '01

On Friday 20 September 2002 12:01 pm, you wrote: > I would be very careful about using any words beginning with "pedia-" or > anything similar. The Greek root for this relates to children, and even > the slightest inadvertant suggestion that the name could have anything > at all to do with kiddy-porn may bring a whole lot of unwanted traffic. > > Ec I thought the root was ped from the Latin pedis which means foot. I'm not sure where "pedophila" came from. "Ped" is the root of many other words. Shall we not use those either? Boy I thought I was paranoid about ultra minor things. I vote for PediaWiki because it has a certain ring to it -- this would just be the name of the software and any ref to it will be a couple levels in from the main page. -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

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Wikipedia approval mechanism
by lsanger＠nupedia.com 21 Sep '01

21 Sep '01

http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Wikipedia_approval_mechanism

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Yahoo now has "Britannica concise"
by lsanger＠nupedia.com 21 Sep '01

21 Sep '01

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/ It seems Britannica has licensed its free content to Yahoo. This makes it all the more important that we set up a review mechanism for Wikipedia. If we could boast 25,000 peer reviewed *complete* articles, Yahoo would very likely use our content for free rather than pay for Britannica's. (Or, at least, they would list both--and we'd get loads of traffic.) Larry

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] 9-11 In Memoriam
by lcrocker＠nupedia.com 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

>Wikipedia can be the perfect environment for the growth of a memorial >to the victims, which will strengthen and grow the general Wikipedia >effort at the same time. A Wiki of some kind certainly is ideal for this purpose, but frankly, I'm not sure Wikipedia is it. Certainly there should be extensive coverage of the event, taking advantage of the fact that Wiki lets us update the descriptions of the events as more news comes out, leaving us with an historical record of unique accuracy. I certainly think a list of victims is not out of place either. But I'm really not sure that a "memorial" per se is an appropriate thing to put in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedias describe people, they don't eulogize them. Sure, we should have an article on, say, David Angell, and it should list the shows he produced and mention how he died, but it shouldn't be just ABOUT how he died, and it shouldn't be different from a page on any other television producer--neutral and factual, not reverent. A memorial should also allow friends and family to say anything, and have those comments left intact. See, for example, the memorial to a friend I put on my own site at http://www.piclab.com/sasha/. It is not at all neutral reportage, because it's not meant to be.

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cnet search not returning Wikipedia results?
by Tim Chambers 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

[Tried sending this Tuesday, but "it was in the queue too long," according to the daemon. Tried searching on "poker" today with same result. - Tim] At http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Encyclopedia there's a link to C|Net's encyclopedia metasearch page. I tried it on a few entries and kept getting no results from Wikipedia. Perhaps something is broken? <>< Tim __________________________________________________ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/

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New York Times article--tomorrow!
by lsanger＠nupedia.com 20 Sep '01

20 Sep '01

Woo-hoo, OK folks, get ready! ''The New York Times'' article on Wikipedia ''should'' be coming out tomorrow. (We're not absolutely sure of this, but that's what we were told.) Hopefully, we'll get huge amounts of traffic and all hell's will break loose--moreover, this is actually pretty likely. So, please, if you can spare the time, be on hand to help guide the new folks into the process! Larry

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9-11 In Memoriam
by The Cunctator 19 Sep '01

19 Sep '01

Hello to the list. I've known about Wikipedia for a while, but started contributing after the Slashdot article reminded me of the site. If you haven't noticed, I've been helping to build the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack entry. Many other Wikipedians have put in immense effort (just look at http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?action=history&id=September_11,_2001_Terr… for one page of edits). My initial effort, and my continuing focus, is on the thousands of victims of this tragedy--as exemplified by http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/September_11,_2001_Terrorist_Attack/In_Memori… Wikipedia can be the perfect environment for the growth of a memorial to the victims, which will strengthen and grow the general Wikipedia effort at the same time. As I discuss in http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Wikipedia_commentary/Please_help_build_911_At… this will take a mass effort. While continuing to edit specific pages, I've been trying to spend my time on figuring out how to make it more likely that lots of people will contribute--which is why I'm writing this. Can we get each Wikipedian to choose a casualty or missing person and create their entry? How can we get more people to help? Have I been doing the right things? Thanks again to all that have contributed and shared in this effort. The people of New York need the support and caring of the entire world if they are to be able to continue on. -- The Cunctator cunctator(a)kband.com www.kband.com www.wikipedia.com/wiki/September_11,_2001_Terrorist_Attack/In_Memoriam

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Ultimate goal
by Magnus Manske 16 Sep '01

16 Sep '01

I downloaded several PD word lists from the web and had them unified and converted into 26 (A-Z) files, containing a total of 304.946 words in more than 5 MB. The words are already formatted in [[Wiki style]]. Even though wikipedia will never be finished, basically this list should be our ultimate goal, right? So, I'd like to know - Is there a list of all (or many) words already somewhere on wikipedia? I couldn't find one. - Should I upload these files to, say, [[List of all words/A]] to [[List of all words/Z]]? Or is it just a waste of memory? Magnus

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