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I am on-board with your recommendation to leave the four paragraphs in the " Counter-examples: non-rolling releases" section and either create a "Non-rolling release" stub article [or eliminate the " List of non-rolling release operating systems and software distributions" content altogether for that matter (it seems more appropriate to a general article on release methodology or some such)]. The list makes for a nice quasi-catch-all as a preventative of erroneous additions, I just don't think it necessarily fits the focus of the article; the list has kind of taken on a life of its own as it has grown. Editing can easily be a "two steps forward, one step back" affair, so this may just be a matter of experimenting with different changes until one stands out as best to your eye. -G.Ceara
Sorry to clutter your talk page, but in reference to " Popularity and adoption statistics: Various changes; Statistics section: added new 1st paragraph (please check accuracy of info)", Reference 57 ( Operating system Family share for 11/2009 | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites) currently produces an error. The URL for the most recent statistics (November 2011) is http://i.top500.org/stats/list/38/osfam, but unfortunately this also currently produces an error. The current statistics can be viewed at http://i.top500.org/stats (select TOP500 Release: November 2011, Stats type: Operating system Family). I'd be surprised if any of the supercomputers are running a rolling release. If you select Stats type: Operating System (URL- http://i.top500.org/stats/list/38/os — again, the TOP500 statistics direct links are currently producing errors) instead of "Operating system Family", you can see that while the largest group is unreported Linux, the known systems tend to be enterprise-grade ( AIX, SLES, CentOS, etc). -G.Ceara — 19:58, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
I read through the Rolling release talk page and someone
questioned the placement of Aurora OS within the article. Quickly scanning through the article, I did notice that Aurora OS was grouped both as a "
partly rolling distribution with a more stable non-rolling fixed core" and as a "
fully rolling distribution based on a rolling...development branch..." – these classifications conflict.
I also wonder if the article is in danger of linkicide. I am not familiar with Wikipedia's style guide, but aesthetically there is a lot of linked text that jumps out at me when I glance at the Rolling release article. For example, by my quick tally, Arch's Wikipedia article is linked to 12 times within the body of the Rolling release article, Wikipedia's "software development model"/Software development process article is linked to 13 times, etc. I wonder if either only first occurrences should be linked (ex. only use a hyperlink with the first occurrence of "Debian unstable", which in this case would be in the first bullet point in the "Full-rolling distributions" subsection), or instead only the clearest indication/explanation/focus of a given item should be linked (such as instead having a hyperlink for Debian unstable only in the first sentence under the "
Debian-related" subsection, where a brief explanation of Debian unstable is given). If the links are pared down, I would probably leave the links for distributions either in the "
List of rolling release software distributions" subsection or the "
Rolling distributions: further details" section, and remove the rest. For any distribution linked in the article, should we include a hyperlink to the home page of its website in the "External Links" section?
PS I don't know if you read the most recent Fedora rolling release discussion (
7 threads in January 2012, and
2 threads in February 2012), but, minus the occasional contentiousness, it contained some interesting opinions and information with regard to rolling releases. -G.Ceara — 20:23, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi Annoyamouse. I saw your request at WP:RM to move the redirect currently at compiled sofware to compiled software. The thing is, unlike articles, redirects should really not be moved. For example, if the relevant article is "A" and "B" redirects to "A", but you think "C" should redirect to "A", it is better to just create "C" as a redirect rather than moving "B", which would create a double redirect (easily fixed, but not a good thing). Anyway, on to your specific request, I have simply restored the redirect at compiled software, so now if anyone searches for that term (or misspells it as "compiled sofware"), they will be taken to the compiler article. As a result, I have removed your request from RM. If you believe that compiled sofware is an improbable typo, you are free to nominate it for deletion at redirects for discussion, but please note that redirects are cheap. If you have any question, please feel free to ask me, either here or on my talk page. Cheers, Jenks24 ( talk) 09:55, 10 November 2011 (UTC
Regarding your second question, I'd be happy to offer you any advice and please do ask if there's anything I can help with. Some great advice when that I got when I was a new editor, though, is to be bold – if there's something you think you can fix or improve, go right ahead. Jenks24 ( talk) 00:18, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello,
I noticed that you are involved with the physics articles on Wikipedia, and I was wondering if you could help me out. Right now, I'm working to bring the article AdS/CFT correspondence to FA status. So far, people have had many good suggestions and many positive things to say about the article, but I'm having trouble getting people to support or oppose the nomination.
I was wondering if you'd be willing to take a look at it and tell us your thoughts at this page. Please note that you do not have to be an expert on the subject. The article has already been checked quite carefully by other reviewers, and at this point, I'm just looking for people who can check that it meets the FA criteria.
Please let me know if you're interested. Thanks. Polytope24 ( talk) 15:36, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
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Hi, Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale! Hi! I was directed to your talk page by the participants list on WikiProject Linux. I've started a discussion whether we can keep it running, or mark it as inactive.– Abuluntu ( talk 05:58, 28 October 2020 (UTC) |
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Please put all messages regarding the
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I am on-board with your recommendation to leave the four paragraphs in the " Counter-examples: non-rolling releases" section and either create a "Non-rolling release" stub article [or eliminate the " List of non-rolling release operating systems and software distributions" content altogether for that matter (it seems more appropriate to a general article on release methodology or some such)]. The list makes for a nice quasi-catch-all as a preventative of erroneous additions, I just don't think it necessarily fits the focus of the article; the list has kind of taken on a life of its own as it has grown. Editing can easily be a "two steps forward, one step back" affair, so this may just be a matter of experimenting with different changes until one stands out as best to your eye. -G.Ceara
Sorry to clutter your talk page, but in reference to " Popularity and adoption statistics: Various changes; Statistics section: added new 1st paragraph (please check accuracy of info)", Reference 57 ( Operating system Family share for 11/2009 | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites) currently produces an error. The URL for the most recent statistics (November 2011) is http://i.top500.org/stats/list/38/osfam, but unfortunately this also currently produces an error. The current statistics can be viewed at http://i.top500.org/stats (select TOP500 Release: November 2011, Stats type: Operating system Family). I'd be surprised if any of the supercomputers are running a rolling release. If you select Stats type: Operating System (URL- http://i.top500.org/stats/list/38/os — again, the TOP500 statistics direct links are currently producing errors) instead of "Operating system Family", you can see that while the largest group is unreported Linux, the known systems tend to be enterprise-grade ( AIX, SLES, CentOS, etc). -G.Ceara — 19:58, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
I read through the Rolling release talk page and someone
questioned the placement of Aurora OS within the article. Quickly scanning through the article, I did notice that Aurora OS was grouped both as a "
partly rolling distribution with a more stable non-rolling fixed core" and as a "
fully rolling distribution based on a rolling...development branch..." – these classifications conflict.
I also wonder if the article is in danger of linkicide. I am not familiar with Wikipedia's style guide, but aesthetically there is a lot of linked text that jumps out at me when I glance at the Rolling release article. For example, by my quick tally, Arch's Wikipedia article is linked to 12 times within the body of the Rolling release article, Wikipedia's "software development model"/Software development process article is linked to 13 times, etc. I wonder if either only first occurrences should be linked (ex. only use a hyperlink with the first occurrence of "Debian unstable", which in this case would be in the first bullet point in the "Full-rolling distributions" subsection), or instead only the clearest indication/explanation/focus of a given item should be linked (such as instead having a hyperlink for Debian unstable only in the first sentence under the "
Debian-related" subsection, where a brief explanation of Debian unstable is given). If the links are pared down, I would probably leave the links for distributions either in the "
List of rolling release software distributions" subsection or the "
Rolling distributions: further details" section, and remove the rest. For any distribution linked in the article, should we include a hyperlink to the home page of its website in the "External Links" section?
PS I don't know if you read the most recent Fedora rolling release discussion (
7 threads in January 2012, and
2 threads in February 2012), but, minus the occasional contentiousness, it contained some interesting opinions and information with regard to rolling releases. -G.Ceara — 20:23, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
Please put all other messages here:
Hi Annoyamouse. I saw your request at WP:RM to move the redirect currently at compiled sofware to compiled software. The thing is, unlike articles, redirects should really not be moved. For example, if the relevant article is "A" and "B" redirects to "A", but you think "C" should redirect to "A", it is better to just create "C" as a redirect rather than moving "B", which would create a double redirect (easily fixed, but not a good thing). Anyway, on to your specific request, I have simply restored the redirect at compiled software, so now if anyone searches for that term (or misspells it as "compiled sofware"), they will be taken to the compiler article. As a result, I have removed your request from RM. If you believe that compiled sofware is an improbable typo, you are free to nominate it for deletion at redirects for discussion, but please note that redirects are cheap. If you have any question, please feel free to ask me, either here or on my talk page. Cheers, Jenks24 ( talk) 09:55, 10 November 2011 (UTC
Regarding your second question, I'd be happy to offer you any advice and please do ask if there's anything I can help with. Some great advice when that I got when I was a new editor, though, is to be bold – if there's something you think you can fix or improve, go right ahead. Jenks24 ( talk) 00:18, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello,
I noticed that you are involved with the physics articles on Wikipedia, and I was wondering if you could help me out. Right now, I'm working to bring the article AdS/CFT correspondence to FA status. So far, people have had many good suggestions and many positive things to say about the article, but I'm having trouble getting people to support or oppose the nomination.
I was wondering if you'd be willing to take a look at it and tell us your thoughts at this page. Please note that you do not have to be an expert on the subject. The article has already been checked quite carefully by other reviewers, and at this point, I'm just looking for people who can check that it meets the FA criteria.
Please let me know if you're interested. Thanks. Polytope24 ( talk) 15:36, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
What the... Is it a banner? Is it a picture? No: its a (ridiculously over-sized) Super
userbox!
Jay M ( talk) 03:40, 27 March 2014 (UTC) The Pulse ( WP:MED newsletter) June 2014The first edition of The Pulse has been released. The Pulse will be a regular newsletter documenting the goings-on at WPMED, including ongoing collaborations, discussions, articles, and each edition will have a special focus. That newsletter is here. The newsletter has been sent to the talk pages of WP:MED members bearing the {{ User WPMed}} template. To opt-out, please leave a message here or simply remove your name from the mailing list. Because this is the first issue, we are still finding out feet. Things like the layout and content may change in subsequent editions. Please let us know what you think, and if you have any ideas for the future, by leaving a message here. Posted by MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 03:23, 5 June 2014 (UTC) on behalf of WikiProject Medicine. Neat news: BMJ is offering 25 free, full-access accounts to their prestigious medical journal through The Wikipedia Library and Wiki Project Med Foundation (like we did with Cochrane). Please sign up this week: Wikipedia:BMJ --Cheers, Ocaasi via MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 01:14, 10 June 2014 (UTC) ![]() ![]() This is the first of a series of newsletters for Wikiproject Medicine's Translation Task Force. Our goal is to make all the medical knowledge on Wikipedia available to the world, in the language of your choice. note: you will not receive future editions of this newsletter unless you * sign up*; you received this version because you identify as a member of WikiProject MedicineSpotlight - Simplified article translation Wikiproject Medicine started translating simplified articles in February 2014. We now have 45 simplified articles ready for translation, of which the first on African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness has been translated into 46 out of ~100 languages. This list does not include the 33 additional articles that are available in both full and simple versions. Our goal is to eventually translate 1,000 simplified articles. This includes:
We are looking for subject area leads to both create articles and recruit further editors. We need people with basic medical knowledge who are willing to help out. This includes to write, translate and especially integrate medical articles. What's happening?
![]() I've ( CFCF) taken on the role of community organizer for this project, and will be working with this until December. The goals and timeline can be found here, and are focused on getting the project on a firm footing and to enable me to work near full-time over the summer, and part-time during the rest of the year. This means I will be available for questions and ideas, and you can best reach me by mail or on my talk page.
For those going to London in a month's time (or those already nearby) there will be at least one event for all medical editors, on Thursday August 7th. See the event page, which also summarizes medicine-related presentations in the main conference. Please pass the word on to your local medical editors.
There has previously been some resistance against translation into certain languages with strong Wikipedia presence, such as
Dutch,
Polish, and
Swedish.
Integration is the next step after any translation. Despite this it is by no means trivial, and it comes with its own hardships and challenges. Previously each new integrator has needed to dive into the fray with little help from previous integrations. Therefore we are creating guides for specific Wikis that make integration simple and straightforward, with guides for specific languages, and for integrating on small Wikis. Instructions on how to integrate an article may be found here [3] News in short
Hi, Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale! Hi! I was directed to your talk page by the participants list on WikiProject Linux. I've started a discussion whether we can keep it running, or mark it as inactive.– Abuluntu ( talk 05:58, 28 October 2020 (UTC) |