On Sunday 25 August 2002 05:33 pm, you wrote:
What about articles that have copyright violations in their history? I recently found the source for two articles that were copied verbatim from other websites. [[Miyuki]] can go poof, as far as I'm concerned (it's a bead seller's account of a trip to a bead plant, and the article's an orphan), but [[Guru Granth Sahib]] is important. Is there a way to remove the violation from the sikhuence of versions while keeping the rest?
phma
Yes I have mentioned this as a feature request before -- although I can't remember if it is on sourceforge or not.
We are still technically violating copyright law by having this material in the page's history so I say providing an interface for sysops to delete a revision is a fairly high priority.
BTW, would a database query of "copyright violation" bring back all revisions and edit summaries that have this string in it?
PS - I'm also beggining to loose track of all the questions and answers of the various strings on this mailing list. A Slashcode implementation may be better for the mailing list real soon.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
Daniel Mayer wrote:
PS - I'm also beggining to loose track of all the questions and answers of the various strings on this mailing list. A Slashcode implementation may be better for the mailing list real soon.
I have experience with slashcode -- it's sort of a big ugly bear. Also, mailing lists have (like wiki) a lower "threshold of success" than a slashcode site. I can explain further if that doesn't mean something to everyone.
Still, I'm not opposed to the idea of a wikipedia slash or similar, if there's a general clamor for it and it sounds like we have a good idea of what it's for.
--Jimbo
"Jimmy Wales" jwales@bomis.com wrote:
I have experience with slashcode -- it's sort of a big ugly bear. Also, mailing lists have (like wiki) a lower "threshold of success" than a slashcode site. I can explain further if that doesn't mean something to everyone.
Still, I'm not opposed to the idea of a wikipedia slash or similar, if there's a general clamor for it and it sounds like we have a good idea of what it's for.
Instead of a wikipedia slash, what we need to implement is something more like the Yahoo! Groups, where the mailing list has a straightforward bulletin board interface, which should be hooked into the Wikipedia user database.Then we'd start getting somewhere.
The Cunctator wrote:
Instead of a wikipedia slash, what we need to implement is something more like the Yahoo! Groups, where the mailing list has a straightforward bulletin board interface, which should be hooked into the Wikipedia user database.Then we'd start getting somewhere.
That sounds nice. But it's a lot of work.
--- The Cunctator cunctator@kband.com wrote:
Still, I'm not opposed to the idea of a wikipedia
slash or similar, if
there's a general clamor for it and it sounds like
we have a good idea
of what it's for.
Instead of a wikipedia slash, what we need to implement is something more like the Yahoo! Groups, where the mailing list has a straightforward bulletin board interface, which should be hooked into the Wikipedia user database.Then we'd start getting somewhere.
Now you're talking! A while ago I was looking for some open source software that provided Yahoo! Groups functionality. Any suggestions?
Stephen G.
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The Cunctator wrote:
Instead of a wikipedia slash, what we need to implement is something more like the Yahoo! Groups, where the mailing list has a straightforward bulletin board interface, which should be hooked into the Wikipedia user database.Then we'd start getting somewhere.
I would like a threaded interface where replies are automatically fit in. Yes, any good mail reader will provide a threader interface for reading. Any any halfway decent mail reader will provide threading data when posting. But there are still plenty of broken threads here because of missing headers. And a WWW interface gives us the bonus of [[WikiWiki]]!
-- Toby
I'm not in favour of replacing the mailing list with Slashcode or another type of weblog. If people think the general list is getting too clogged, we could just spin off particular topics onto their own lists.
Stephen G.
--- Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com wrote:
Daniel Mayer wrote:
PS - I'm also beggining to loose track of all the
questions and
answers of the various strings on this mailing
list. A Slashcode
implementation may be better for the mailing list
real soon.
I have experience with slashcode -- it's sort of a big ugly bear. Also, mailing lists have (like wiki) a lower "threshold of success" than a slashcode site. I can explain further if that doesn't mean something to everyone.
Still, I'm not opposed to the idea of a wikipedia slash or similar, if there's a general clamor for it and it sounds like we have a good idea of what it's for.
--Jimbo
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