I slapped a few links and logos onto the http://wikimedia.org placeholder page.
I made a temporary logo for Wikibooks out of one of the old proposed Wikipedia logos (http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_suggestions - number 10, by our own Magnus Manske)... I also squarified the Nupedia logo so it fit in better with the others.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion-
I slapped a few links and logos onto the http://wikimedia.org placeholder page.
We should decide what we want to do with Nupedia. All the Nupedia content is in Wikipedia (all 30 articles), so why bother advertising it at all? The only valid use for Nupedia.org I see is a Sifter project, which does not seem to be planned for the near future.
At some point dead projects should be given a decent burial.
Regards,
Erik
Is there a program written yet to chart the topical flow of newsgroup discussions? -- taking into consideration the lulls and the ebbs -- the rate of recurrence of heated debates (on various particular subjects) -- of new readers asking a elementary question about a topic that was only a week ago was discussed to death for three straight weeks? Etc. Etc.
:) -SV (still catching up on the last three days)
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Steve Vertigo wrote:
Is there a program written yet to chart the topical flow of newsgroup discussions? -- taking into consideration the lulls and the ebbs -- the rate of recurrence of heated debates (on various particular subjects) -- of new readers asking a elementary question about a topic that was only a week ago was discussed to death for three straight weeks? Etc. Etc.
:) -SV (still catching up on the last three days)
I just had to catch up with a month's worth of edits! :-P
I wonder if such a suggestion is even possible; but you at least have my sympathy.
The new reader part is not a big bother. These questions are often short and simple, and many can be easily be answered by whoever happens to be available.
Some of the debates are extremely annoying, such as the recent Robert/Jtdirl dispute, and the ones that complain about yet another reincarnation of Lir. Perhaps we could have a whineopedia mailing list (or if our Brits prefer a wingeopedia). A moderator on this list could redirect any qualifying letters to that list. Or perhaps, to save the sanity of the moderator, an anti-spam device could make the diversion. "Lir" and "anti-Semitism" are canditates for words that would trigger the diversion. Anyone who likes receiving this kind of message wuld be free to subscribe to the whineopedia list. :-)
Ec
Ray Saintonge:
The new reader part is not a big bother. These questions are often short and simple, and many can be easily be answered by whoever
happens
to be available.
Some of the debates are extremely annoying, such as the recent Robert/Jtdirl dispute, and the ones that complain about yet another reincarnation of Lir. Perhaps we could have a whineopedia mailing
list
(or if our Brits prefer a wingeopedia). A moderator on this list
could
redirect any qualifying letters to that list. Or perhaps, to save the sanity of the moderator, an anti-spam device could make the diversion. "Lir" and "anti-Semitism" are canditates for words that would trigger the diversion. Anyone who likes receiving this kind of message wuld
be
free to subscribe to the whineopedia list. :-)
Hmm. Maybe a web-based bulletin board which by its nature helps people sort discussions by topic and discourages getting off topic, and which allows for easier reference to the Wikipedia content being discussed?
Just a thought.
EC: Anyone who likes receiving this kind of message wuld be
free to subscribe to the whineopedia list. :-)
Umm.... Would that be eligible for Wikimedia funds? :}
Hmm. Maybe a web-based bulletin board which by its nature helps people sort discussions by topic and discourages getting off topic, and which allows for easier reference to the Wikipedia content being discussed?
Just a thought.
I think it may be getting practical --- there seems to be inclreased traffic on the lists -- I still cant figure out why the Village pump isnt run as some kind of threaded chat page. -- even that would be against the purpose of
-- the digests are miserable due to all the metadata, -- the archives are fairly ok to read from -- aside from plain email -- but theres no return form from archives to answer with, and it has an annoying bug of not wrapping unformatted text -- so that LD's and others messages read as a single very long string...
Forget about the "trend analysis" thing for mail -- its a bit too Psychohistory. There should be an article: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory
:P -S-
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Ray Saintonge wrote:
Some of the debates are extremely annoying, such as the recent Robert/Jtdirl dispute, and the ones that complain about yet another reincarnation of Lir. Perhaps we could have a whineopedia mailing list (or if our Brits prefer a wingeopedia).
I thought it was whinge? Never mind, just a minor w{h}in{g}e
A moderator on this list could redirect any qualifying letters to that list. Or perhaps, to save the sanity of the moderator, an anti-spam device could make the diversion. "Lir" and "anti-Semitism" are canditates for words that would trigger the diversion. Anyone who likes receiving this kind of message wuld be free to subscribe to the whineopedia list. :-)
Oh yeah; then we'll start to see .sig blocks resembling the Carnivore trippers - "Lir Black Widow pro-arab Israel anti-Semitism Zionist" etc.
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