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Is it a copyvio if I copy a picture/photo from a different language wikipedia site. ??? eg. from nl.wikipedia.org to eg.wikipedia.org
"If you find Wikipedia or its sister projects useful, please consider making a donation . Donations are used primarily for purchasing computer equipment and launching new projects."
Should be:
"If you find Wikipedia or its sister projects useful, please consider making a donation. Donations are used primarily for purchasing computer equipment and launching new projects."
Why does this talk about the US?
When I hear "separation of powers" I think first of the French Republic, and secular republics in general, before I think of America. The Main Page makes it sound like a purely American principle. — Chameleon My page/ My talk 21:41, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
July 20th is not the anniversary of Columbia but rather Colombia.. in spanish or english the official name of the country is written Colombia, Columbia is something else, please correct that.
There is a blank line at the top of the main page. Possibly there are 2 right now. Why doesn't this get fixed? Thue | talk 10:57, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I've noticed lately that Wikipedia seems to be slow, and not at any particular time. It just takes forever to load pages, even when it only took a few seconds before. I was wondering if anyone else has this problem. I have a DSL connection and live in Texas, USA, and speed on other sites is not a problem. Is Wikipedia simply outgrowing its bandwidth? I'd just like to know if others are experiencing this, thanks-- naryathegreat 01:32, Jul 11, 2004 (UTC)
The current line on the front page is incorrect. The Marines were established on November 10, 1775 -- they were re-established in 1798. -- Alexwcovington 08:15, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I think saxophone was featured a couple of weeks back. At least I'm sure I saw that picture on the front page. Could someone clarify? Arvindn 09:19, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)
discussion moved to User_talk:Drbalaji_md#Does_wikipedia_represent_the_entire_world.3F
discussion moved to User_talk:Drbalaji_md#Is_Wikipedia_democratic_or_aristocratic.3F
discussion moved to User_talk:Drbalaji_md#What_is_the_future_of_Wikipedia.3F__An_experimental_poll
related trolling also moved to User_talk:Drbalaji_md
Immer höre ich nur Englisch, das ist ja total langweilig, kann hier jemand Deutsch? (ja ich weiß, ich gehöre in die deutsche Wikipedia, aber man kann auch in fremdsprachigen Wikipedias seinen Spaß haben!!!)-- 217.2.41.199 12:56, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Lion Beer is possibly the first brand of beer in Asia. Beer was first brewed in Mesopotamia, and after that in Anatolia, both of which are in Asia. ato 02:10, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
i think this comment should go on the Did you know discussion, not here.-- Zero00 11:49, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
When selecting anniversaries for the front page, please take care to distribute them geographically somewhat. Today's selected anniversaries consisted of 3 american events and 1 british/american event. That's just not appropriate for the front page of an international encyclopaedia. Zocky 11:49, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Is this the new way to resort to beggary? I thougt Bomis makes money with pornographic content - and not with begging?!
PS The red bordered design is real stylish - or better - more than ugly. Shame on you... I would prefer a minimum of 10 pop-under windows and a blinking bold red border:
It isn't begging, it is reminding people that servers are not bought with good will. The burden on Bomis is already huge considering that more than half of their colo bill probably comes from serving Wikimedia projects. Only having the donation link in the sidebar yields (at most) a hundred bucks a day on average. Compare that with the $3,600 we have taken in during the three days that notice was put up. This is only a temporary notice, as will all such notices be during fund drives. Compare the notice with quarterly public TV and radio fund drives. In those case all you see or hear is the fund drive notice for minutes at a time, but with our message all the content is still there all the time. The only alternative to this kind of thing is to;
We will probably need to buy $35,000 of new servers this quarter (1 July to 30 September) alone just to keep up with projected demand (our traffic is growing at an average rate of 90% compounded quarterly). So shame on you for complaining. Or do you have about $20,000 to bring our budget in line? Thought so. -- mav 05:25, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I hope that "open source" does not become a new business plan -- ganesh 18:00, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Offtopic discussion moved to Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style.
Lysine was complaining in IRC about tables which set the background color but not the font color (which resulted in one case with white on white, depending on browser prefrences), so I inserted several style="color:black;" and equivalent. - Fennec (はさばくのきつね) 19:50, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Some people don't seem to know this so I'll post it here--if you want to edit a redirect, go to any page and click the edit this page button. Then, for instance, look at the web address: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Triangle&action=edit
Replace the title= with the redirect you want to change, say: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Triangles&action=edit and press Enter on your keyboard. You'll be taken to the redirect's edit page. This is a clever tip they don't teach you in school.-- naryathegreat 22:06, Jul 17, 2004 (UTC)
Why would you want to do something as convolute as that? Simply type the name of the redirect. Then click on the "Redirected from" link under the title of the article you reach, and you go to the actual page that you can change through edit. Aris Katsaris 01:10, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hmmm. That has its merits. Never thought of that one before. Thanks-- naryathegreat 01:50, Jul 18, 2004 (UTC)\
LOL! THere's the wrong way, the right way and the eccentric way :) -- Exigentsky
All I see is a black box with no image in it. When I click on where the image should be, it takes me to a large IKHTHUS image, which I assume is what we're supposed to be seeing. Am I the only one having this problem? Rick K 19:55, Jul 18, 2004 (UTC)
The Henson article on the front page .. "most important puppeteer in relevision history" - looks really bad for Wikipedia if we cant notice typos on our face to the world.
Palnu 03:58, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Ah saw that someone fixed it.
Palnu 04:02, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
"Browse by category" should replace "Browse Wikipedia by topic" on the main page. This would make it much easier to browse Wikipedia. Den fjättrade ankan 22:51, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Only for those articles which are associated with Categories. Rick K 22:53, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)
I am the creator of "Browse by category". I originally created it because I was unhappy with the state of Category:Main page. But for the English Wikipedia, there is still not enough category structure yet for it to completly replace the topics. For example there is no Category:State yet. However, I have created a concept Main Page to demonstrate what that main page would be like if categories replaced topics. I am using it to find weaknesses in the category system and to fix them. Krik 10:31, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Wikipedia costs money and it needs money. It receives hundreds of thousands of visitors daily and they need to be aware that while Wikipedia is free, maintaining and improving it is very expensive.
I suggest an unintrusive bolded donation button, perhaps using a slightly darker blue color as well. It is simple, elegant and fits right in with the design since it is the last button in the navigation panel. At the same time it does attract more attention initially. -- Exigentsky
Hasn't "Today's featured article" been changing more than once a day lately? Not that I've been tracking it closely, but that's been my subliminal impression... -- Jmabel 20:36, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)
The sister project images link to the images, not the sister projects. This is poor usability. If you don't believe me, take a look at your logs. I bet you'll see alot of people click the image, then the back button, and then the text link. I would have changed the template but I couldn't wrap my head around the wiki markup enough to do it. Please, someone change it.
Thanks! -Jeff
Brilliant, an unwikified article on the front page!!!. No country either, so must be American. I'd remove it, but I don't know how. jimfbleak 05:44, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I suggest changing the main page graphic design. I'm not a webmaster, and my design contains a lot of technical errors, but I want you to take a look at it and think about it. Actually, it's in Polish, but I think it's pretty obvious, and if not, I can easily prepare an English version. Of course, someone else may do it instead :). You can see my project at main page new layout Agni (Polish Wikipedia)
... members of their respectives parties ... - Brian Kendig 04:28, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
female line of "descend" from a woman - shouldn't this be "descent"? H2O 18:25, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
The picture has been vandalized, showing a closeup of her breast. Not sure if this can be fixed easily. (It's not possible to revert a picture, is it?) Ksheka 00:02, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)
How can I fix the Radar picture? It shows Radar O'Reilly!
The Sook Ching Massacre was in 1942, not 1947 as written on the main page. 1947 was the time of the war crime tribunal investigating the massacre.
Kelvinc 20:23, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Shouldn't this page really be at Main page, in accordance with the manual of style? Right now, Main page is a redirect, while Main Page is the real article. The capitalized 'p' doesn't make sense, especially in the context of the other articles on WP. Also, this maybe the first comment on this talk page actually about this page (and not about a template)... - DropDeadGorgias (talk) 20:42, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)
On the main page; wikipedia in other languages section, I get the series of squares for the languages Khmer and Cherokee. I use Opera 7.53 with encoding set to automatic. The same is visible in IE6 (SP1). It seems to me that there is no script for these languages. Hope this glitch can be rectified. [[User:Nichalp|¶ nichalp | Talk]] 18:48, Jul 31, 2004 (UTC)
Why was the featured article changed from "Gender role" to "typewriter"? I came soon after midnight (the start of July 31st) and it was the former, but then later in the day I visited again and it was different. I was just curious about why/when this can happen.
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 20 | Archive 21 | Archive 22 | Archive 23 | Archive 24 | Archive 25 | → | Archive 30 |
Is it a copyvio if I copy a picture/photo from a different language wikipedia site. ??? eg. from nl.wikipedia.org to eg.wikipedia.org
"If you find Wikipedia or its sister projects useful, please consider making a donation . Donations are used primarily for purchasing computer equipment and launching new projects."
Should be:
"If you find Wikipedia or its sister projects useful, please consider making a donation. Donations are used primarily for purchasing computer equipment and launching new projects."
Why does this talk about the US?
When I hear "separation of powers" I think first of the French Republic, and secular republics in general, before I think of America. The Main Page makes it sound like a purely American principle. — Chameleon My page/ My talk 21:41, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)
July 20th is not the anniversary of Columbia but rather Colombia.. in spanish or english the official name of the country is written Colombia, Columbia is something else, please correct that.
There is a blank line at the top of the main page. Possibly there are 2 right now. Why doesn't this get fixed? Thue | talk 10:57, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I've noticed lately that Wikipedia seems to be slow, and not at any particular time. It just takes forever to load pages, even when it only took a few seconds before. I was wondering if anyone else has this problem. I have a DSL connection and live in Texas, USA, and speed on other sites is not a problem. Is Wikipedia simply outgrowing its bandwidth? I'd just like to know if others are experiencing this, thanks-- naryathegreat 01:32, Jul 11, 2004 (UTC)
The current line on the front page is incorrect. The Marines were established on November 10, 1775 -- they were re-established in 1798. -- Alexwcovington 08:15, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I think saxophone was featured a couple of weeks back. At least I'm sure I saw that picture on the front page. Could someone clarify? Arvindn 09:19, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)
discussion moved to User_talk:Drbalaji_md#Does_wikipedia_represent_the_entire_world.3F
discussion moved to User_talk:Drbalaji_md#Is_Wikipedia_democratic_or_aristocratic.3F
discussion moved to User_talk:Drbalaji_md#What_is_the_future_of_Wikipedia.3F__An_experimental_poll
related trolling also moved to User_talk:Drbalaji_md
Immer höre ich nur Englisch, das ist ja total langweilig, kann hier jemand Deutsch? (ja ich weiß, ich gehöre in die deutsche Wikipedia, aber man kann auch in fremdsprachigen Wikipedias seinen Spaß haben!!!)-- 217.2.41.199 12:56, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Lion Beer is possibly the first brand of beer in Asia. Beer was first brewed in Mesopotamia, and after that in Anatolia, both of which are in Asia. ato 02:10, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
i think this comment should go on the Did you know discussion, not here.-- Zero00 11:49, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
When selecting anniversaries for the front page, please take care to distribute them geographically somewhat. Today's selected anniversaries consisted of 3 american events and 1 british/american event. That's just not appropriate for the front page of an international encyclopaedia. Zocky 11:49, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Is this the new way to resort to beggary? I thougt Bomis makes money with pornographic content - and not with begging?!
PS The red bordered design is real stylish - or better - more than ugly. Shame on you... I would prefer a minimum of 10 pop-under windows and a blinking bold red border:
It isn't begging, it is reminding people that servers are not bought with good will. The burden on Bomis is already huge considering that more than half of their colo bill probably comes from serving Wikimedia projects. Only having the donation link in the sidebar yields (at most) a hundred bucks a day on average. Compare that with the $3,600 we have taken in during the three days that notice was put up. This is only a temporary notice, as will all such notices be during fund drives. Compare the notice with quarterly public TV and radio fund drives. In those case all you see or hear is the fund drive notice for minutes at a time, but with our message all the content is still there all the time. The only alternative to this kind of thing is to;
We will probably need to buy $35,000 of new servers this quarter (1 July to 30 September) alone just to keep up with projected demand (our traffic is growing at an average rate of 90% compounded quarterly). So shame on you for complaining. Or do you have about $20,000 to bring our budget in line? Thought so. -- mav 05:25, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I hope that "open source" does not become a new business plan -- ganesh 18:00, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Offtopic discussion moved to Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style.
Lysine was complaining in IRC about tables which set the background color but not the font color (which resulted in one case with white on white, depending on browser prefrences), so I inserted several style="color:black;" and equivalent. - Fennec (はさばくのきつね) 19:50, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Some people don't seem to know this so I'll post it here--if you want to edit a redirect, go to any page and click the edit this page button. Then, for instance, look at the web address: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Triangle&action=edit
Replace the title= with the redirect you want to change, say: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Triangles&action=edit and press Enter on your keyboard. You'll be taken to the redirect's edit page. This is a clever tip they don't teach you in school.-- naryathegreat 22:06, Jul 17, 2004 (UTC)
Why would you want to do something as convolute as that? Simply type the name of the redirect. Then click on the "Redirected from" link under the title of the article you reach, and you go to the actual page that you can change through edit. Aris Katsaris 01:10, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hmmm. That has its merits. Never thought of that one before. Thanks-- naryathegreat 01:50, Jul 18, 2004 (UTC)\
LOL! THere's the wrong way, the right way and the eccentric way :) -- Exigentsky
All I see is a black box with no image in it. When I click on where the image should be, it takes me to a large IKHTHUS image, which I assume is what we're supposed to be seeing. Am I the only one having this problem? Rick K 19:55, Jul 18, 2004 (UTC)
The Henson article on the front page .. "most important puppeteer in relevision history" - looks really bad for Wikipedia if we cant notice typos on our face to the world.
Palnu 03:58, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Ah saw that someone fixed it.
Palnu 04:02, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
"Browse by category" should replace "Browse Wikipedia by topic" on the main page. This would make it much easier to browse Wikipedia. Den fjättrade ankan 22:51, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Only for those articles which are associated with Categories. Rick K 22:53, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)
I am the creator of "Browse by category". I originally created it because I was unhappy with the state of Category:Main page. But for the English Wikipedia, there is still not enough category structure yet for it to completly replace the topics. For example there is no Category:State yet. However, I have created a concept Main Page to demonstrate what that main page would be like if categories replaced topics. I am using it to find weaknesses in the category system and to fix them. Krik 10:31, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Wikipedia costs money and it needs money. It receives hundreds of thousands of visitors daily and they need to be aware that while Wikipedia is free, maintaining and improving it is very expensive.
I suggest an unintrusive bolded donation button, perhaps using a slightly darker blue color as well. It is simple, elegant and fits right in with the design since it is the last button in the navigation panel. At the same time it does attract more attention initially. -- Exigentsky
Hasn't "Today's featured article" been changing more than once a day lately? Not that I've been tracking it closely, but that's been my subliminal impression... -- Jmabel 20:36, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)
The sister project images link to the images, not the sister projects. This is poor usability. If you don't believe me, take a look at your logs. I bet you'll see alot of people click the image, then the back button, and then the text link. I would have changed the template but I couldn't wrap my head around the wiki markup enough to do it. Please, someone change it.
Thanks! -Jeff
Brilliant, an unwikified article on the front page!!!. No country either, so must be American. I'd remove it, but I don't know how. jimfbleak 05:44, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hi, I suggest changing the main page graphic design. I'm not a webmaster, and my design contains a lot of technical errors, but I want you to take a look at it and think about it. Actually, it's in Polish, but I think it's pretty obvious, and if not, I can easily prepare an English version. Of course, someone else may do it instead :). You can see my project at main page new layout Agni (Polish Wikipedia)
... members of their respectives parties ... - Brian Kendig 04:28, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
female line of "descend" from a woman - shouldn't this be "descent"? H2O 18:25, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)
The picture has been vandalized, showing a closeup of her breast. Not sure if this can be fixed easily. (It's not possible to revert a picture, is it?) Ksheka 00:02, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)
How can I fix the Radar picture? It shows Radar O'Reilly!
The Sook Ching Massacre was in 1942, not 1947 as written on the main page. 1947 was the time of the war crime tribunal investigating the massacre.
Kelvinc 20:23, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Shouldn't this page really be at Main page, in accordance with the manual of style? Right now, Main page is a redirect, while Main Page is the real article. The capitalized 'p' doesn't make sense, especially in the context of the other articles on WP. Also, this maybe the first comment on this talk page actually about this page (and not about a template)... - DropDeadGorgias (talk) 20:42, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)
On the main page; wikipedia in other languages section, I get the series of squares for the languages Khmer and Cherokee. I use Opera 7.53 with encoding set to automatic. The same is visible in IE6 (SP1). It seems to me that there is no script for these languages. Hope this glitch can be rectified. [[User:Nichalp|¶ nichalp | Talk]] 18:48, Jul 31, 2004 (UTC)
Why was the featured article changed from "Gender role" to "typewriter"? I came soon after midnight (the start of July 31st) and it was the former, but then later in the day I visited again and it was different. I was just curious about why/when this can happen.