[Wikimedia-l] speedydeletion.wika.com lauched

Risker risker.wp at gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 05:27:55 UTC 2012


How are you attributing the work and ensuring that the license conditions
are met?

Risker

On 11 June 2012 01:24, Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:

> good question,
> The raw data is not lost : the archive.org will get a snapshot every 30
> minutes of the items that are categorized.
>
> the wikia right now will not be updated: There is not any code for the
> updating of the article, once it is in the wikia.
>
> I would be interesting to get the full history of each article, if it is
> replaced after deletion, i suppose that a new page or subpage would be
> needed if it is deleted again, maybe a fine history would be good enough.
>
>
> In any case if articles last more than 30 minutes in the speedy deletion
> category they will be archived.
>
> mike
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What happens to your system if an article is deleted from Wikipedia, a
> new
> > article is posted again under the same name, and then that one is also
> > deleted?
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Mike Dupont <
> > jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Kirill Lokshin <
> > kirill.lokshin at gmail.com
> > > >wrote:
> > >
> > > > This is where I think things become slightly problematic.  There are,
> > in
> > > > broad terms, two categories of hoaxes: those which are fundamentally
> > > > harmless (these typically being of the "did you know that 'gullible'
> > > isn't
> > > > in the dictionary" variety), and those which have the potential to be
> > > > harmful (including, but not limited to, false statements about drugs,
> > > > crimes, politically explosive issues, etc.).  The speedy deletion
> > system
> > > > makes no real attempt to distinguish between these (with the
> exception
> > of
> > > > blatant attacks on living people, which have their own deletion tag),
> > but
> > > > retaining the second category in a publicly-viewable (and
> > > > publicly-searcheable?) form is probably not desirable.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > I am willing to delete articles from the wikia, they are also archived
> on
> > > archive.org.
> > > it would be nice to work out a detailed tagging system to work out what
> > may
> > > be archived and what not.
> > > We can remove categories and add them.
> > >
> > > But lets look at some of these,
> > > http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Ipod_5.5_generation this looks
> like
> > > someone who is providing infomation in the wrong way, but could be
> valid.
> > > http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Trantlers this is funny and would
> > > like
> > > to keep it and add a picture of it, maybe to a humor section. this one
> > too
> > > http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Trantlas
> > >
> > > http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Willyfor this is strange , but
> > might
> > > be some meme or urban legend. I guess unencylopedia.
> > > http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Like_Dis_Like_Dat same here, this
> > is
> > > also unencylopedia material.
> > >
> > > now this looks like a hoax , and could be deleted, but also
> unencylopedia
> > > stuff.
> > > http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Aman_hadid
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > personally I am interested in non notable articles, my experience with
> > > dealing with encouraging editors and collection creative commons
> licensed
> > > information
> > > on places that are not very notable like villages in kosovo could be
> > helped
> > > with these articles.
> > > if we can find authors who are willing to write about non notable
> topics,
> > > maybe we can collect them and categorize them.
> > > this could be a recruiting mechanism and also provide good basic data
> and
> > > maybe new contributors for wikitravel and openstreetmap.
> > > with a staging system like this speedydeletion wikia you will have a
> way
> > to
> > > demote articles to the speedy deletion purgatory where they might
> redeem
> > > themselves.
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