[Foundation-l] Ideas from Limburg

phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki at gmail.com
Sat Apr 3 00:22:49 UTC 2010


ha! UTC-time ftw. Your message shows up as arriving on Wed 31 for me,
thus I gave you a serious answer! :)

And your handbook really is great :)

- Phoebe

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Dear Phoebe,
>
> You make my day! Actually, it should have been yesterday, but I am
> afraid most people did not notice my Aprils fool item.
>
> Once I thought translating my Handbook into English, but other things
> gained priority. Especially my textbook I am due to have finished on
> July 1st, and about which I was still going to ask you questions - you
> are more experienced still.
>
> Kind regards
> Ziko
>
>
> 2010/4/2 phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com>:
>> Ziko,
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> When he told me about, I looked up again what I had written about
>>> (small) Wikipedia language editions in my handbook (in German):
>>> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Ziko/Handbuch-Titel . I then, in
>>> 2008, found li.WP relatively good, but there were also some
>>> difficulties, for example the lack of a technical vocabulary.
>>
>> Thanks for reminding us of your book on multilingual Wikipedias! It's
>> amazing. It would be lovely to expand this to all languages, to have a
>> comprehensive Wikipedia handbook!
>>
>>
>>> When I examined the background I found out that most of the
>>> li.Wikipedians indicate their real names and many are women. With
>>> permission, here what Gebroeker:JennySteen wrote to me:
>>
>> wow! This is really unusual and interesting. Do you think it is just
>> because of the effect of having a small community centered around this
>> group of editors?
>>
>> btw I am not seeing the color changes for user pages.. and maybe
>> http://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebroeker:JennySteen edits under a
>> different account?
>>
>> -- phoebe
>>
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> Ziko van Dijk
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