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Another question
by lsanger＠nupedia.com 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

I think it would be a great idea to try to get Wikipedia linked to from some really popular websites that don't already link to us. Where is a handy list of URLs (not companies, but URLs) that point to, say, the top 500 Media Metrix sites? Somebody on this list must know. :-) Larry

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Hot e-zines?
by lsanger＠nupedia.com 11 Sep '01

11 Sep '01

That Kuro5hin article I wrote got us a bunch of traffic. What are some other e-zines that I could write for? I'm not sure where to start looking. Any URLs will be gladly explored... Larry

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Re: Wikipedia: Bill_Watterson
by koyaanisqatsi＠nupedia.com 10 Sep '01

10 Sep '01

anyone else notice that linked years disappear from the email's text? they're still there at http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?Bill_Watterson >0

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Re:
by koyaanisqatsi＠nupedia.com 07 Sep '01

07 Sep '01

there's something afoot; now loh has supposedly sent a blank message. You Wrote: >0

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re:
by koyaanisqatsi＠nupedia.com 07 Sep '01

07 Sep '01

very odd. and your message, on the inbox screen, listed as not having an author. On an unrelated note, here's a banner I made for wikipedia. Laugh if you must, just don't tell me about it. ;-) I'm not sure if the concept comes across; I'm not a graphic artist. attachment below KQ You Wrote: >I haven't gotten any such blank e-mails from wikipedia-l. Very strange. >There also isn't anything in the archives: > >http://www.nupedia.com/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2001-September/date.html > >--Larry >0

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Re:
by koyaanisqatsi＠nupedia.com 07 Sep '01

07 Sep '01

this (below) is the second blank email I've gotten, only this time it's supposedly from me. but I didn't send it. anyone have any idea what's going on? You Wrote: >0

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] Restricted speech (was: Wikipedia teamwork and 501c3 status)
by koyaanisqatsi＠nupedia.com 05 Sep '01

05 Sep '01

There was some discussion of this (potentially restricted speech) at [[Wikipedia Cookbook/Talk]]. >[1] BTW, I've now searched for all four terms, and found nothing > concrete. Also, Dr. David Touretzky at carnegie-mellon is knowledgeable about both DeCSS and Adobe encryption and various other first amendment issues ignored by the DMCA (and, it seems, the Church of Scientology); his arguments seem generally lucid and measured; you can visit his page at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/ if you care to. 0

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Re: heim090401
by Jason Richey 05 Sep '01

05 Sep '01

I have set up a wiki for Arabic and Hungarian now. They exist as "http://ar.wikipedia.com", "http://ara.wikipedia.com", "http://oar.wikipedia.com" "http://arabic.wikipedia.com", "http://hu.wikipedia.com", "http://hun.wikipedia.com", and "http://hungarian.wikipedia.com". Let me know if there is anything else needed. Jason Larry Sanger wrote: > Also, Hungarian and Arabic wikis have been requested (see > http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?International_Wikipedia ). I would say > Arabic is higher priority. > > --Larry

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Re: Helga and other Internet kooks
by Daniel Mayer 05 Sep '01

05 Sep '01

On Wednesday 04 September 2002 04:57 am, you wrote: > The Internet is full of kooks. Do they all deserve equal time? Do they all > deserve legitimacy? > > Danny Of course not -- both you and I have deleted or moved to the meta much of this type of hopelessly POV or idiosyncratic material (and have edited the hell out of less POV or idiosyncratic material). The question here is if one particular kook is reformable or is irrevocably stuck in her own POV world and therefore will be a continued drain on user resources. I still haven't seen any evidence other than her joining the list that she can reform. But joining the list is a major first step. -- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia images for chemesitry - bonding convention
by lcrocker＠nupedia.com 04 Sep '01

04 Sep '01

Chemical structure diagrams seems like something there ought to be a specialized free program to generate. If we standardized on such a program, the article source should contain whatever input file to that program was used and we can use its output (in PNG, or EPS rendered in PNG) in the articles themselves. I don't think HTML is adequate for the task. We'll need something similar for mathematical equations as well at some point (though complex HTML with special characters is a possible alternative there). You Wrote: >posted to the Wikipedia-l mailing list at: >http://www.nupedia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l > >>> I was trying to show a triple bond on the >>> http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Acetylene page. How is >>> in normally >>> shown using ascii text to html markup? >> >>There might be something in extended (ISO) character >>set that would work, >>but I'm not terribly familiar with those so far. >> >>A broader question revolves around support for images >>on Wikipedia--many of >>us could probably draw diagrams that would enrich the >>content of pages, like >>the chemistry-related pages, dramatically. We could >>develop them and >>release them under GDFL terms, and it would seem a >>shame to limit their >>availability and redistribution to off-Wiki linking. >> >>I mean, after all, dead-tree encyclopedias and even >>some dictionaries have >>illustrations. It's an interesting challenge, working >>within the confines >>of a primarily-text medium (Lynx is my primary >>browser, after all), but at >>some point, the *pedias should support pictures.0

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