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I had to do a data collection for a statistics class, so I chose to do it on anonymous vandalism on Wikipedia. I found that 38% (+/- 13.5%) of anonymous edits were considered vandalism by WP:VAN. The confidence interval is 95%. The sampling was done at 19:15 (UTC) on May 4th (a Thursday). The rate of vandalism may change depending on the time of day and day of week, but I didn't need to do that much work for the class project. The sample was the first 50 edits that appeared on the recent changes page (logged-in users hiden). 19 of them were considered vandalism. There were a few edits where my own judgment as to what vandalism is may have influenced the results, but I think the definition, overall, was fairly easy to interpret. On a non-scientific note, I also counted the number of vandalisms that were link spam and the number of vandalisms that were reverted within 20-50 minutes. 5 of the 19 vandalisms were link spam (26.3%), and 11 of the 19 vandalisms were reverted within 20-50 minutes (57.9%). The later statistics did not have a great enough sample size to mean much, but they are still interesting. I know it is a fairly simple study, but I thought some people would be interested, and I had to do it anyway. Does anyone know if there have been other similar studies? I think the amount of vandalism we have to deal with here is quite outrageous. I think further studies on time dependency of vandalism and the rate of vandalism for logged-in users would be interesting. -- Basar 20:44, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
On a related note, a month or two ago I had a discussion on the main page where I demonstrated that 100% of anonymous edits to that day's "Article of the Day" were vandalism, whether malicious or experimental (I do not discriminate between the two). For all the rhetoric about how it's bad to protect the featured article because valuable contributions can be made by new editors, there was not one bit of supporting evidence for that theory in the entire 24 hour period. I'm pretty confident in saying that similar results would be found on almost every day since then. Kafziel 14:43, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
When will it be held? Ingoolemo talk 01:00, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I'm a new reader of wikipedia with poor English; could you someone tell me in which article can I find a map of the universities (or at least the most famous ones) of US, with the states' boundaries? Thanks very much.-- 162.105.248.71 12:09, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm the user asked for help from 162.105.248.71(an IP from P.R.China). It seems that a map easy to see the location of all the colleges and universites is not so easy to get. Mmmm... 4,168 colleges and universities, my god!... maybe my friends and I would try to draw a map of the most famous ones in our(and maybe other Chinese students') opinion, if the time allowed. Just for our own need, and hope it would be useful for more people. Thank you all very much, especially to Bobak for the link of usnews :) -- Neverland 13:46, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I am a registered user of wikipedia. However i dont log in everytime i refer wikipedia [wich is like everyday for everything!]. When i opened an article a few minutes back - i found this - from the page on "The OC" . Is this message meant for me? I have not come across this before and i am sorry i have not taken the time to read all your FAQs and policies. I did not make changes in wikipedia that promote anything i am connected with except pasting a link to the research institute i work at for the article on microfinance - and thats only because it will help people who are researching microfinance/credit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:220.226.40.76&redirect=no User talk:220.226.40.76 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Please do not add commercial links (or links to your own private websites) to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia as we drive for print or DVD publication; see the welcome page to learn more. Thanks. -- Solipsist 02:24, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
I log in via a wireless connection [a G-Tran Reliance India card]. I think my IP address setting is such that it assigns an address automatically and incase it does. I love referring all wiki websites -- sometimes just for fun facts and info -- and would never misuse it. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Krishnanlakshmi ( talk • contribs)
Hi thanks for the response. I just wanted to say that the posting i cited was done in 2005 - so why was this message posted recently? Also the user talk message for me does not cite the article to which the supposed commercial link was added - i would honestly like to know if i have violated any rules so that it does not happen in the future [especially if its something else other than the link i cited]. After the posting of website link in 2005 [i sure dont remember editing the microfinance/credit page after that] and the latest one being - edited contents of article on Bengal Tigers quoting findings/observations from an NGC programme and a book [because that was the reference]. If the following is indeed the violation: what should i do now? Remove the link from the microfinance article? btw its not a commercial organisation [neither are there clickable ads on that website]. The Centre is a part of a larger financial management and research institute - all they [and i admit i belong to this "they"] do is research on microfinance and development & i can honestly say that people will find the website useful - be it for doing research on their own or getting expert information on microcredit(finance) and impact evaluations in India. I cannot make it a part of the contents. Under "General Information" - where i added the link - there are other such websites i refer to in my line of work including CGAP and Microfinance Gateway for research documents and technical articles. So it fits in there.
Just to add to this post: my current IP address is 220.226.18.141 (checked online). The one quoted in the message is different? Lakshmi Krishnan
In the month of April, Thomson gale allowed free access to all their databases to celebrate national library week, or something like that. I used the Times Digital Archive ( 1 2) with brilliant success. I researched my favourite topic of the formation of rugby league. I found many articles of significant value, not only to those who appreciate rugby league but union die hards too.
Has wikipedia ever considered organising something with organisations, such as Thomson and gale who have a massive array of information on many topics, to allow access to wikipedia members? I'd be interested in something like that! POds 12:14, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
What is Wikipedia's view regarding the Peerio "serverless technology" design. Will it be the future's pathway to less hops and less reliance on super nodes delivering better QOS
Within the past couple weeks, I came to wikipedia and it looked compeletely different. I've switched to Cologne Blue as being the closest to what the default style used to be, but I'd really really like the old style back. Can anyone help with that?
I'm confused. Is User:AULDBITCH LOVES YOU a sock puppet of Skyring or not? The User:AULDBITCH LOVES YOU user page says that he is, but JTDirl says on Skyring's talk page that it is acceptted that he is not. Unless that's just JT's opinion? Arno 04:56, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
This is a succession box about alleged heads of a fictitious society (recently publicized again by Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code). It is included in numerous articles about real persons, such as Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, and lots of others. I find it outright stupid and utterly unprofessional to mix fictitious stuff with content about real things or persons. I have removed these boxes once already, but someone seems to believe they were needed. My suggestion for a better way of doing this would be to just use a list of such alleged heads (exists already at Priory of Sion) and to not use a succession box. What do you think? Lupo 18:45, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
After change the interface language to Chinese, I saw an error may be maked in this page. i think the word "点子邮件" in the pink box should be "电子邮件" in simplified Chinese and "電子郵件" in traditional Chinese.
The fair use tag for works of art states that the image is fair use for critical commentary on the work in question, the artistic genre or technique of the work of art or the school to which the artist belongs. Dose this mean that a work of art can not apply as fair use in an article about the artist himself? I find it strange that an image could be fair use for the genre it belongs to but not the artist who created it.
Also, could more than one image be used in an article about the artist provided that they are all famous or relevant examples? Justin Foote 17:07, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
For a college assignment, I was given the following task: write ten lines of iambic pentameter, with some sort of rhyming pattern, on a topic of your choice. Here's my result (I know it's not very good: it's not even perfect I.P.!).
So isn't that nice! Just thought it was worth mentioning!-- Keycard ( talk) 17:46, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
I've noticed that a few types of articles have specific tables associated with them--some communes, comic/manga/anime/cartoon characters, etc. I was just wondering where/how I could make a new table like this; I've been cleaning up articles, and a few are chemicals which could really use a table of characteristics (atomic weight, generic name, pH, boiling point, and so on). Does such a table exist already or what? (Of the form {{Category|Categoryname=Name}} Thanks! Tamarkot 23:27, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Is anyone familiar with Yolo Bypass (and any other important bypasses in Calfornia)? I've created a lot of articles on California rivers and I'm having trouble deciding how rivers should be classified and what their terminuses are, currently and historically. I've gotten conflicting information about Yolo Bypass. Some say it is completely artificial, while others say that it is natural but modified. I'm particularly interested whether Cache Creek and Putah Creek would flow into the Sacramento River if Yolo Bypass had not been built/modified and if the Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel had not been dredged, in Putah Creek's Case. -- Kjkolb 02:47, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
does ne1 no of an online cult i could join?
The 1970s section and mention of the 1970s in other sections is causing adverse comment - http://70struth.blogspot.com/2006/04/wikipedia-inaccurate-1970s-section.html - please can contributors contain their enthusiasm for the 1970s and ensure that all references to the decade are justified?
Hmmm... I think the 70s section is disproportionately large compared to other decades, that's why I gave the link to the "Why I Don't Love The 1970s" blog originally (just before I joined Wikipedia). The odd thing is, people are now waxing lyrical about the 1970s in a similar way to the enthusiasm for the 50s and 60s we experienced in the 70s and 80s. Trouble is, there seemed to be a consensus of opinion that the 50s and 60s were worth the enthusuasm, but there are many who disagree that the 70s are comparable.
I note that the blogger is an Englishwoman - I'm English, too, and believe me the amount of 70s "hype" we've had over here is very wearing! I agree with Deco that the 1970s section should be presented as undeniable 1970s occurring facts, and perhaps linked more to the adjacent decades where appropriate. Time is a constant stream. Decades are only human-made measurements of time. Andy Eng
Hello. Today I was reading your fukking marvellous Wikipedia, when somebody called Yamla left a message. I felt offended because he said I was writing nonsense, I wasn't at all.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.93.196.236 ( talk • contribs)
Does some proposals of little promenades in large english-speaking culture exist in Wikipedia? I mean some "experts" of Wikipedia's content suggest (as "Did you know..." does but in a less anednotic way) a journey in general culture for non english-speaking people? I imagine a tour with a thematic sense: we know find interesting suggestions but scaterred in the "Featured articles" sections in the very numerous portals. Has someone an idea or does that already exist? Moonray 08:19, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Hey this is a question i just thought of now. COuld someone please tell me what the point of marriage is? I mean how does life majorly differ if u were single? I mean u still hav sex, u can live together, and u still treat eachother the same way. if anyone has any answer to my question please respond
Germy
I don't follow the village pump enough to know if this has been proposed before, but it would be helpful to make something like {{Redir_from_US_postal_ab}} for Canadian postal codes, and nations with postal abbreviations (I don't know of any others)... it'd more than likely take someone with a bot to do it, and is more than slightly tedious, so I'm just going to propose it here and see if it flies. -- Jjjsixsix (t)/ (c) @ 00:40, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
As I say, this is a rant. It may not be coherant or anything of the sort, I doubt it'll achieve anything, but it's something I **need** to get off my chest, to the point that I was on my way home and turned around and came back to the place I had been using (since my home internet connection's borked) to post it.
Any action other than a simple edit in WP, once done, is almost impossible to reverse within process unless you can class it as "simple vandalism" or muster a hundred established Wikipedians to take your side. Were I to go through, I'd find umpteen examples I've personally encountered alone (Hell, I've **used** this fact on occasion, being honest), but the one that triggers this is what happened at Shikari.
Back in November last year, User:Fastifex made this edit to the page that was there at the time. You'll note not just the bare fact, but the way it was implemented, over several lines, including a horizontal line and with the note that "the present article is limited to fiction". I incorporated the note into the body, then he reverted and posted this reply to my talk page including the line that he was "actually quite accomodating to arrange the disambiguating link the way [he] now restore[d]". I left this note on his talk page and incorportate. He didn't reply, but instead waited two months - at a time when I had become throughouly stressed out with WP and taken a WikiBreak over an unrelated matter (I don't know if he knew this or just thought I wouldn't notice anyway, it being two months since the last communique) and moved the page to Shikari Lonestar (which isn't the character's name, although I admit I'd messed up by mentioning it as if it was at the time - that came of not going back to the original comics since I wasn't making a full page at the time), inserting his Hindi dicdef as the only other (and first) item on the "disambiguation" page
Now, the move wasn't "simple vandalism", though against policy (including but not limited to WP:D). He simply did what amounted to a WP:IAR thing (tho he didn't call it that - note that the current IAR page is not the way the page stood then) and ramrodded through what he wanted to do. As I say, I was on WikiBreak at the time and didn't notice this until months later when an anon added a non-notable band to the page, with a link to the band's website, and this got flagged on my Watchlist. And basically, I was (and am) stuck - there is no other page called Shikari, let alone a notable one. The disambig page doesn't even have a redlink on it. There's a dicdef (with a link to a redirect) and the nn band entry. Having had recent experience of a move request and consulting User:Steve block, who agreed with me on the likely result, I made an AFD which fell as "no consensus" - not entirely unexpected; as I had already said, AFDs rarely achieve anything. And so Fastifex gets his way. Yay consensus. - SoM is currently on enforced WikiBreak due to a malfunctioning internet connection. He doesn't know if he's coming back when it gets fixed. 20:22, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
International pen friends Please note that it is a spam added by an Italian user, domain registrar of the website www.ipf***europe.com (remove ***. not giving him google hits). On the site, you are asked to pay to Andrea d'Ambra, the name of the italian spammer that added this voice on all wikis. AdA, aka "Skugnizzo" is being voted for a ban for spam and vandalism on it.wiki. I am not removing this, 'cause I am occasional contributor and it might look like vandalism. -- Jollyroger 17:46, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
Goog morning. I wrote a page in wikipédia in french about "travail en perruque" [ [3]]. I am looking for a page in en:Wikipedia, about the same subject. I did not find it. I thougth it was "homes", or "government job", but there is nothing talking about personal jobs made by workers during their official labor, with tool machines of their boss, or material and commodities of the company.
Perhaps it is because there is no equivalent in english linguage, or just because people speaking in english dont use to work for themselves, even a little bit, during official job time ? Or because I speak so poor english... Please, answer me, on my talk page, if you understand my question. -- Barbetorte 10:40, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
Is is acceptable/possible to create templates for my own personal use on my user/talk page? For instance, I can create a page underneath my talk page, User_talk:Booyabazooka/Archive... can one do the same thing with a template? ~ Booyabazooka 03:33, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
Ocassionally (in fact, rather frequently), I come across broken "anchor" headings, by which I mean the links using the # character to link to a section within an article. Invariably the link is broken because the section has been renamed, and it can be easily repaired. Usually though, I only discover this by clicking on a link. This "broken" aspect is not apparant when looking at the link. My question is whether there is a way to detect such broken "anchor" links, and whether there is a project to repair them? Carcharoth 23:33, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
A new category, Category:Articles containing how-to sections, a sub-category of Wikipedia:cleanup. The purpose of the category is to keep track of articles that make extensive use of instructions in violation of the official policy, WP:NOT, so that those articles may be edited for style and content.
Should this category be placed somewhere else, too, so that editors could find it and use it? For this category to work, at least some people need to know that they may include how-to articles in this category, and at least some people need to know that they can find how-to articles from this category and edit them.
How should I proceed with this issue? Santtus 14:16, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
I understand that user pages are also part of wikipedia as believed by several users including Mindspillage. Under the circustances, is there any particular reaosn to tolerate use of user pages to position links leading to commercial sites, and so on. In one case, I found to my utter amazement that the user page has a neat announcemnet which is not in order. -- Bhadani 07:57, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
Following banned user Zephram Stark's attempt to rewrite WP:SOCK using two sockpuppet accounts, there is a proposal to limit the editing of policy pages either to admins, or to editors with six months editing experience and 1,000 edits to articles. Please vote and comment at Wikipedia:Editing policy pages. SlimVirgin (talk) 19:10, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
I was thinking of making a group in yahoo related to wikipedia. Do you think it is ok or not. Thanks John R G 22:41, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Metawiki is a graveyard - could somebody please give their opinion on the matter here? Mithridates 16:38, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
There is ongoing debate about a name change at Wikipedia:Community Justice. There is a need for outside views, and input would be appreciated! Info can be found on the project's talk page. -- Osbus 14:52, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
I am at a loss to do anything:
Kindly guide me "properly" in the matter. Regards. -- Bhadani 14:29, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
I don't understand wikipedia's concept of the "wiki community". There doesn't seem to be a congregation point where people discuss topics of interest, except where there's issues of contention and argument in article talk pages.
Is there a Wikipedia user community web-board hidden away somewhere, where we can talk about subjects of interest in a more positive, friendly, and direct manner? This "village pump (misc)" doesn't really seem to provide what I'm talking about.
DMahalko 02:18, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
If youve got a particular area of interest you want to discuss and deal with, then look for a wikiproject related to it. thats where a lot of the "community" is. BL Lacertae - kiss the lizard 23:32, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
The project is now too big to have a single central discussion point. Instead it is decentralized. That doesn't make it any less of a community. The community is all the various articles and places where people interact including here. - Taxman Talk 23:42, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
The IRC channels have been mentioned; another good place for Wikipedia discussion is the mailing lists SubSeven 01:43, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello friends, after being here for more than a year serious doubts have begun nagging me. I just want a plain and clear answer to my doubts. Are we building The Free Encyclopedia from a global perspective, which is destined to become The Best Encyclopedia? Or, Are we (for the time being) concentrating in building the Project with more emphasize on topics and matters relating to the English-speaking countries; and the European world? I know that I shall not be decorated with choice terms including being “foolish” and unable to comprehend wikipedia’s policies, “racist”, “nationalist”, “pro-Asian” or “pro-African” for sharing my doubts with my fellow wikipedians. I understand that in its formative years, way back in 1768 and several decades thereafter Encyclopedia Britannica had perhaps a pre-dominant coverage of only those matters to which the Great Britain had got exposed to – this was normal during those times. However, in the present digital age, in case, we restrict our coverage (as indicated above), intentionally and intuitively (including on account of infatuation and cultural divide), we shall be failing in our duty to build the sum total of human knowledge. I believe that we are here to build the Wikipedia, The Best Encyclopedia, from a global perspective. Kindly clear my doubts. Thanks and regards. -- Bhadani 09:10, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
I happened upon the website of the Arizona Daily Wildcat, and was surprized by the favicon that site uses. Looks awfully familiar, but I can't quite remember where I've seen it before...
-- Bhadani 12:56, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Why we find a tendency to resort to bashing of wikipedians from poorer countries like India? Constructive criticism is fine, but criticism to make a point is certainly ridiculous. Why we allow Hindu-bashing if one has a user name of weapon of a Hindu God? -- Bhadani 16:15, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
I thank you for sharing your experience with me - Now, I understand the matter with a better perspective. -- Bhadani 15:34, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
Once again, I found something unusual, and the following edits by me may clarify the position:
I am really feeling sad. I felt it my duty to bring the factual and legal position to the kind attention of our wiki-community. I am feeling more purturbed after reading these news. I was aware of denial of access to wikipedia in China as I had read a message on my talk page sometime back, as also an indication to this effect in User Page. I am afraid that if our Project gets blocked in India also due to the fault of one of us, most of humanity shall be deprive of the Free Encyclopedia. Thanks and regards. -- Bhadani 17:33, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
I have to agree with *Dan T.* here. The messages Bhadani posted were unfounded legal threats. By the way, Bhadani, saying a legal threat is not a legal threat doesn't make it so, and I would support sanctions against you for that. Also, even though you didn't act on this, it is highly inappropriate to make changes to another's userpage without his/her consent simply because you don't like a userbox. Kafziel 13:06, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Regarding: Image:Symbol_support_vote.svg, Image:Symbol_unsupport_vote.png, Image:Symbol_oppose_vote.svg, Image:Symbol_neutral_vote.svg, Image:Symbol_keep_vote.svg, Image:Symbol_delete_vote.svg, Image:Symbol_comment.png, Image:Symbol_comment_vote.png, Image:Symbol_comment_vote.svg, Image:Symbol_question.png ...they're attractive, but what purpose do they serve and why weren't they deleted along with the template they were part of?: See Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/Deleted/June_2005#Template:Support_and_Template:Object_and_Template:Oppose and the deletion log for the template [15] Шизомби 22:14, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
On my User page [ User:Sauvik.Biswas] you can find the list of articles that are related to Tintin. Most of these (except few main articles like Tintin itself) are poorly written/organised. If you wish to be a part of the project, please feel free to contact me on my talk page. [ Click Here to leave me a message.]
A small to-do list and a format has to be chalked out before starting off with editing the pages. I have already prepared a Template and used it to show chronology on the right hand side of each Tintin Book. -- 54UV1K 12:01, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Please help me: This message appears when I try to send messages in #wikipedia
This user Kick me out from MIRC #wikipedia. He is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alkivar User:Alkivar.
This is an agression, because i am from Latin America, He expulse me like an alien.
Please do something, he violeted my rights,
Help me please.
Augusto maguina
05:05, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Why are the Microsoft Office applications such as Excel at pages like Microsoft Office Excel, not Microsoft Excel? The most recent version is labelled Microsoft Excel. If the next one changes the name to MS Office Excel, well that's great, but A) It's not out yet, making the name incorrect, much like changing the Montenegro page to say it is independent is premature, B) I was under the impression we keep articles at the most common name, (eg. Czech Republic (not Czechia), East Timor (not Timor-Leste), and Vietnam (not Viet Nam)). Can anyone shed any light on why the articles are where they are? + Hexagon1 ( t) 06:53, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
I love the colored maps I find when searching different nations and states on Wikipedia I was interested to know if anyone can create or find a way to bring the State of Alaska and the Territory of Yukon together on one map. Kind of a supranational map for topics relating to North America's first-order administrative units. Any help I could receive on the matter would be nice or any with experience using the maping software found on the many places on Wikipedia 209.193.56.228 01:07, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
I found this while working on the orphan article list. Steven M. Newman is a journalist who walked around the world in 1983 and wrote 2 books about it. The only place that links to him is the list of people named Newman. Anyone have a better suggestion? Thatcher131 01:01, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
The link-law could be a new detected law of nature, based on long term observations and calculations from the norwegian wikipedian Friman. It says:
Each red link a wikipedian makes blue, in average will result in two new red links.
The law may result in severe frustrations for contributors, and can induce link-phobias and wiki-myalgia. -- Friman 22:22, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm relatively new to Wikipedia and I hope I'm posting this to the appropriate location. If not, I apologize. I looked for a discussion thread on this at wiki and elsewhere without success. Perhaps it's out there someplace, but I haven't found it.
A couple of weeks ago, I heard a Kim komando radio segment calling Wikipedia a “bad idea” and a "silly idea." [16]
I beg to differ.
I have discovered that Wikipedia articles are more complete and satisfactory on a variety of topics, here than any other place on the web. A quick spot check today confirmed it: not only does Wikipedia have more complete articles, but it also has articles that you can't find anywhere else (at least at the free encyclopedia sites).
It's probably true that ALL of the info at Wikipedia has not been verified, but can anyone say that any encyclopedia's data has been verified 100%? True, I wouldn't want to use Wiki data in a scholarly article without verifying the information first. But I would say that the vast majority of the contents can be trusted, especially if the topic is non-controversial.
It isn't very often that I contribute money to an online site, but I feel strongly enough about Wikipedia that I made a donation during the last fund-raising drive. I plan on coming back often, and when I do, I want it to still be here. -- Leon7 20:17, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello everyone,
The Dutch Wikipedia reached on the 24th of May 2006, with this article the number of 200.000 articles. Congratulations Dutch-Wiki. -- Algont 09:42, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
I read over the History of Wikipedia page and some related ones today. Afterwards, I began to wonder if anyone knows who the first adminstrator selected by the community was (I assume that Jimbo or some such person was the first, but I'd like to know who the first editor to become an admin was.) Does any one know? Cool3 21:53, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
I did just that. Here are the results, where the dates are date/time of first edit and marks indicate whether they continue to be active:
RoseParks, Timshell, and WojPob first edited in January 2001, with RoseParks, a Nupedian like Jimbo, coming earliest ( her first edit, an article creation in the old-fashioned Nupedia naming style). AstroNomer first edited in February 2001. Andre Engels, Jimbo Wales, Lee Daniel Crocker, and Stephen Gilbert first edited in March 2001. I'd give the award for earliest still-acive admin to Stephen Gilbert. I'm pleasantly surprised to see that many of our original admins remain with us today. Thank you to them all for your years of service. Deco 12:45, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
I am not quite sure where to put this, but I have been thinking of possible guidelines to expand articles about smaller communities like towns and villages. If there is already something similar somewhere, I haven't found it. My ideas are here and I think they need further suggestions. - Skysmith 11:59, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
207.250.22.5 appears to love to create senseless links in Wikipedia. Any questions on how common this is?? Georgia guy 20:07, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
I just got done with a very intence history corse, and i would not have been sucessful without this site. I want to thank anyone who has contributed, you always had the most though information I was looking for.
Wikipedia is more than an encyclopedia, and it's experiencing growing pains because of that. It's also not always the right tool for the job. Maybe we need to divide up the problem. Suppose Wikipedia were divided into "Divisions", with somewhat different rules for it.
The intent is that the inclusion standards for popular culture are relatively low - if you can buy the thing, it gets in. The inclusion standards for People remain where they are now, and the inclusion standards for General Knowledge tighten up. This will make life easier for the fan base (fewer "my band is notable" arguments), while lowering the noise level for those working on general knowledge.
Technically, Music, Movies, Books, Games, and Businesses need a real database, and Atlas needs a map system; they're not just text-based wikis. Entering data into those systems would be form-oriented, where users fill out web forms to get the data into the right slots. (A neat trick would be to develop programs that can take the existing articles on, say, music albums, find the key info, and put the article into the database.)
The first big step would be to get the database for Music and Movies working, then start moving articles over.
Comments?
-- John Nagle 17:16, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
There is already a project to add this kind of database functionality to wikipedia. Semanticwikipedia version 0.4 is already up and running at [ [17]]. Once this is working fully you will be able to annotate links between pages to help computers understand the information there. On the page for a CD a search engine will be able to tell which bit of text is the publisher, which is the musician, which is song title and will be able to search for the info you need. The plan (as I understand it) is to start by automatically converting information in infoboxes. I think this means we can help to make wikipedia semantic web ready by making sure all CDs, books, places, etc. have infoboxes. Later on as the links within articles are tagged it should be possible to automatically generate the infoboxes from the articles tagged links (or maybe not. I'm not an expert in these things.) Filceolaire 12:48, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
I need to write a bibliography and used Wikipedia for a number of things. Who should I put for the author of the site?
Look up "Citing Wikipedia": WP has a page for it. - Tracker 01:31, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
If you go to the toolbox links on the left of the screen on an article page there's one called 'Cite this article' that will give you a bibliographic reference in numerous citation styles (APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, etc.). Ziggurat 02:15, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
It suddenly started working as soon as I clicked save changes
Currently RfA is dominated by people with no particular connections to a candidate that merely vote in a lot of RfAs. To change this, I have begun a campaign to publicize all new RfAs. Any one who wants to help should see user:ShortJason/Publicity. Please join in this effort to improve the proccess. Thanks! ShortJason 19:35, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Custom CSS won't work on my user page, how do you get it to work. I Love Minun 19:35, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Has WP decided to fully justify all of the text? K ilo-Lima| (talk) 12:16, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Don't people get stressed out doing recent changes patrol? -- Username132 ( talk) 17:19, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
I find myself going instictively for the redlinked names. Call 'em redshirts because they'll be gone five minutes after posting their ad/vanity page/conspiracy theory. -- JChap 23:53, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia seems to be known as a place where people can get nonfiction published and college term papers get submitted here. When these are submitted to AfD, they are (rightly) summarily rejected. An editor who submits a term paper is invariably new and not familiar with Wikipedia policy. Some can take the summary rejection of their work quite hard, even where they don't get flamed. My concern: we are driving away talented writers from the project, who might contribute usable encyclopedia articles if they could be persuaded to stick around. We could (and should) contact them to explain what our criteria are for accepting an article. But can we do something more? Maybe we could suggest another place for them to post? I'd be interested in your thoughts. -- JChap 02:17, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
I have an article in mind I want to transfer to Wikipedia. It's on SourceWatch, a site using MediaWiki and the GNU GFDL. Is it OK if I copy the whole article to Wikipedia? It's on something WP does not have an article for. - Tracker 01:29, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
(Moved to WP:VPP) 81.104.165.184 20:31, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
In the "meals" template, the word snack goes to a disambiguation page, not the required article. I dont know how to change that. Anyone want to fill me in - leave a note on my talk page. See Lunch for an example of the template. skorpion 08:45, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
I have recently conducted a survey to estimate the percentage of vandalism on Wikipedia perpetrated by anonymous users. My conclusion thus far is that anon vandalism accounts for 82.2%-92.2% of all Wikipedia vandalism. However, I would like suggestions and comments so that, perhaps, I can design a better study to estimate vandalism statistics. Cool3 01:32, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
In my humble opinion, the community is capable to deal with any sort of vandalism. Simple vandalism by anonymous users are really easy to detect, and easier to deal with. The real problem faced by us, in my assessment, is vandalism of our contents by white-collar vandals, who have penetrated the system and maraud as legitimate editors. Similarly, a number of users think that the user pages personally belong to them, and some of us use the same, which are certainly not in conformity with the spirit of the policies and guidelines of wikipedia. -- Bhadani 16:44, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
I have Interiot to perform a tool server query that should give us all a more accurate figure :-)! Cool3 21:03, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
I do agree with Deco. Perhaps, I mis-communicated, and emphasis shifted to the user pages. Yes, we are more concerned about the disruption of contents of the articles, and such disruption are also being done by white-collar vandals, who have penetrated the system and maraud as legitimate editors. We must also try to check such white-collar vandalism. I also thank Cool3 for undertaking the survey. -- Bhadani 10:33, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to point out that uninformed and controversial edits are also mostly done by anonymous edits. While not technically vandalism, they are often reverted (or re-edited) because these anonymous editors don't even attempt to read or participate in the discussions on the talk pages. This would tend to drive the statistics for the useless anonymous edits even higher.
I personally favor semi-protection for articles we wish to remain stable, such as widely used templates and perhaps feature articles. This would be better than an outright ban, but I recognize that it is still controversial. Ideogram 19:18, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
72.137.223.200 has vandalized PBS idents 3 times by putting a wrong date for one of the idents. Anyone know what to do?? Georgia guy 01:39, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
I realize this is a long shot, but that's why this is in the misc area. The idiot known as Willy on Wheels is currently mounting a vandalism attack on www.wikitravel.org. He's defacing the main page and using the goatse picture liberally. I don't know any admins, but if anyone reads this who does, can you poke them and get them to ban his IP there and lock down the front page? Thanks. Sr.Wombat 00:48, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Have there been any attempts to write computer code using a Wiki interface? Ideogram 05:43, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
For about a week, there has been a big edit war at Talk:Moscow Metro about L1/12. There doesn't appear to be a way it can ever end. Georgia guy 17:19, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
As I'm with AOL I unfortunately share an ISP address *sigh* and can not edit anything even too add a useful link. How do I prevent this?
my contribution page is limited to only the last 500 edits, and I dont see anyway to know which ones U have created? Procrastinating@ talk2me 15:48, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia seems to contain images of low quality. An example would be the images in Hamster a few of which are out of focus and one of them is foggy. In the image for today's featured picture, the sky is clipped. Wikipedia has other images of low quality. Such images bring down the presentation of wikipedia. Maybe wikipedia needs to have standards for posted images? Reub2000 05:43, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
[18] - it's good for a laugh!-- Keycard ( talk) 17:41, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Dear Friends,
I'm confused. I meant to contribute by adding as external link to "Zen" or "Buddhism" the link to www.bodhidharma. it or in the English version "http:// users.libero.it/seza/indexgb. html" The Flower of Bodhidharma
I noticed that the link was systematically removed. Now, it even seems to be blacklisted.
Please note The Flower of Bodhidharma is a web site of an Italian Monastery associated with UBI (Italian Buddhist Union) and linked with many important Temples around the world.
On the web site are available, not only examples of what zen articles are, but also original teachings of our Master Tae Hye sunim, a Korean Zen Monk ordained in Korea and now resident in Italy.
I wonder if I made any mistake in proposing the link, maybe there was a misunderstanding due to my unexperience? In this case I am awfully sorry!
Thank you for your help.
Sergio (Tae Bi)
Hello there! Since 1907 populations really isn't a popular article, I'm asking people to look at the discussion page to give their opinion on the proposed rename. I proposed it instead of going through with it because it's a totally different name and it may cause controversy. Please comment on it! — THIS IS MESSED OCKER (TALK) 11:19, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Can you to block the page about Italian singer Pupo at this history: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Enzo_Ghinazzi&oldid=57683252
It is always vandalized!
-- Denelson 83 04:00, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Putting the politics and economics stubs together indents the second one. Is this attributable to the size of one of the graphics?
RyanEberhart 01:41, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
I don't know whether this is the place for a bit of an impromptu straw poll, so if it isn't please move it to where it is!
Two questions that I'd be interested in hearing people's opinions on:
~~ Happy-melon 07:19, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
On June 7, I launched a WikiProject covering Louisville-related articles. If you're a current or former resident or even if you just have an interest in this fine American city, you're very welcome to join. — Stevie is the man! Talk | Work 19:40, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
Is there any guidance on notability of churches? WP:CORP seems inapplicable to me. Churches are only incidentally incorporated, if they are at all.-- Kchase02 T 05:21, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
I just tried to sign my email with four tildes. Ideogram 19:59, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
You know you've really been editing Wikipedia too long when you set up an outgoing mail filter to fix it. — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 21:57, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
In the norwegian Wikipedia, we have removed the message From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia because some thinks it is to big and unnecessary. What are your thoughts about the case? Should it be removed? How meaningsful is it actually? Sorry for bringing this up, maybe it has been discussed earlier. Have a nice day! NorwegianMarcus 15:44, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Today, I stumbled upon Category:0s, and was baffled by what I discovered.
Many of the subcategories included in this category contain very few entries themselves; in fact, some contain one or none.
Why do such categories exist? It turns out that some of these categories are more than two (2) years old. What constructive purpose is served by having empty/lonely categories? -- Folajimi 18:48, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Whilst working on the Category:Establishments by year and its sub cats I have created some of the early establishments by years cats. I've also created a hierarchy of cats - eg 1st millennium establishments, 1st century establishments, 0s establishments, 8 establishments. I've only been working on all years for a couple of months and I have never created empty categories, although they might have become empty. I hope (and suspect) that there is room for growth in these early year categories and I think that they deserve more time before saying that over-categorization has occurred. I agree with the points made above, namely,
I'd like to make two further points. First, there are times in western history when not much has been recorded. However as more world-wide information is being added to the English Wikipedia then more information may be available on previously information-scarce times. Secondly, there are people (such as me) who are very interested in understanding world history in its development year-by-year and the year categories are most useful in this regard. Greenshed 14:11, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
... similar to the German Qualitätssicherung on the English Wikipedia? The Qualitätssicherung is a page where you can post bad articles, no matter if they are too short, POV, un-wikified, need cleanup, may be a copyvio or have another problem - they'll just get better soon because many Wikipedians go to that page very often. I think it'd be a great idea if we had such a page on the English Wikipedia. Sorry if this is the wrong place to post that. TZM T ( de: T) 15:28, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
User:Linuxbeak and I just thought up of a way to solve the problem of user pages with too many userboxes. Why not create a script that randomly selects one userbox from a hidden list the user specifies and displays it on his/her userpage. A different userbox would be displayed each time the userpage is reloaded. I'd say this would be a pretty nifty alternative to delegating a mass of userboxes to a subpage. -- Denelson 83 00:28, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Why are there sooo many articles about minor american 'cities'? Its just annoying when im trying to learn something interesting from a random article but more often than not seem to get a stub on a town with a population less than a tower block listing nothing but its co-ords and some rather pathetic data from the last census. wikipedia has guidelines about bad subjects for articles. why arnt these cities included? i just want to see other peoples opinions on these wastes of space :) Neblet 21:56, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
Recently I created this article in hope of adding to the Resident Evil Template, however I could not and my personal request on the site got ignored. Could someone Please add This to the Resident Evil Template and go over the article whilst their at it? -- John Z. Delorean 8:05 12 June 2006 (BST)
I noticed that a couple talk pages on wikipedia for images on commons were deleted for being "orphan talk pages" [19], [20]. These should not be deleted as there are many of these pages on wikipedia - when you click 'discussion' on an image that is on commons it takes you the talk page for the image on wikipedia, even though it isnt on wikipedia. -- Astrokey 44 02:01, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
Having read the extremely long debate on the inclusion of this image (showing an exposed mildly deformed eyeball) on the Main Page, I became curious about what percentage of viewers actually do find the image unpleasant to look at. Obviously, the talk page discussion is completely useless for determining this, since it's a biased and strongly self-selected sample. However, I'd expect the readers of this page should constitute a reasonably representative sample of Wikipedians, if not of readers in general.
Thus, out of pure curiosity, I'd like to set up an informal poll. Please look at the image (using the link above) and indicate below whether you found it unpleasant to look at. Please don't complain about the lack of options; instead, feel free to specify additional details in your comments. Note that I am emphatically not trying to use this poll as an argument for or against display of such images on Wikipedia, or for any other purpose related to Wikipedia policy whatsoever. I'm just curious about how different people react to this image.
Please add any metadiscussion about the poll here, not in the subsections below. Thank you for indulging me. — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 15:33, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Resonance (MIT). - CrazyRussian talk/ contribs/ email 18:36, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
There's some sort of wikiproject or tag for articles that need to be re-written in non-technical language. I wanted to tag Simplified ray tracing as such, but can't find what I'm looking for. Does anyone know what we do with articles written in dense technical language (in this case, mostly equations)?-- Kchase02 T 03:33, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
There are tons of people on this page which do not have links, which to me indicates that they don't have articles. If they don't have articles, they have failed to establish notability, and should not be on this page. I am proposing deletion of all names from the list that are not linked. User:Zoe| (talk) 21:42, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
As I noted on the talk page before finding out this was being discussed at the Pump,
I don't think that's a very good idea. Presence on Wikipedia is not a criterion for notability. You'd be kicking out these obviously notable folks, among others: ... [list omitted for brevity, see the talk page for details] ... Surely the criteria for notability ought to include Olympic medalists, Academy Award winners, heads of major educational and research institutions, etc. There was a time when most of these were red-linked to encourage the creation of articles, but someone didn't like the "unfinished" look and removed the links a long time ago.
As WP:BIO points out, the criteria for notability include:
Just because there aren't articles on these folks yet doesn't mean they aren't notable. It just means that Wikipedia isn't finished yet. RossPatterson 02:09, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
This makes no sense. Notability is a requirement for an article. Since when is notability a requirement to be mentioned inside an article? WP:BIO refers to guidelines for people to merit their own article, not for mention in another article. If we change the word "notable" in the article to "prominent" or some other word, would that make things more acceptable? I would not be in favor of reducing the list to meet the Wikipedia Notability guidelines. (If there is Wiki policy that concerns "notability" of items inside articles or lists, please post specific links and quotes. Someone above mentioned some items in WP:NOT. Please be more specific). Simon12 02:46, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
Let's talk turkey. Of the 220 names on the list, 83 are linked to articles, 132 are unlinked, and 5 link to non-existant articles. Of the 132 unlinked, I had no problem finding criteria in WP:BIO that support 34 claims to notability, just trolling through the list by eye for about 10 minutes (see my post at Talk:List of Stuyvesant High School people#Proposal for the details). Not being a mathemetician or a hard scientist, I can't tell what might apply to the folks in those categories (38 Math, 13 Physics, 5 Chemistry, 12 Life Sciences), but the math and physics lists were re-worked very carefully by Hillman, who seems qualified to know (see his explanation of his rewrite last September at Talk:List of Stuyvesant High School people#Reorganization). In Technology (which I do know something about), there are 14 unlinked names, and I'd say there are a few that ought to go, but no more than 3 or 4. After that, we're down in the low numbers - the foregoing account for 82 out of 98 unlinked-and-not-obviously-notable names.
If you accept as I do that Hillman knows his stuff, I really think we're only talking about a dozen or so names that may not be "notable" enough to deserve articles of their own. That's 5 to 10% of the list. Even assuming that a high school alumni list must be limited to people who could deserve articles (which is in dispute above), that's a pretty small problem. RossPatterson 02:49, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
I'd greatly appreciate if people would look in at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(biographies)#Nationality_and_ethnicity.2C_redux. Basically, at least one editor is systematically removing mention of people's Jewishness from article leads, citing the manual of style. I think this is inappropriate, and is downright absurd in the case of (for example) prominent figures in Yiddish theatre. Would people please comment there instead of here? Thanks. - Jmabel | Talk 20:23, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
User:Go_for_it! had his talk page disabled (I added a note now). Is this allowed? I cannot actually find a policy on it. ~ Linuxerist A/ C/ E/ P/ S/ T/ Z 18:12, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Anyone know if this is or was a real metal i know there is a page about it on here but it mentions nothing to whether it actually existed or not
Hallo, all, I'm translating a French article on fr:Louis Pauwels. It has relatively little biographical information, and is pretty much a list of all his works (books, published and unpublished; forewords and afterwords; even appearances in films and documentaries) with descriptions for some of them. I'm in the process of translating the quotes and moving them onto wikiquote.org. I've got two questions:
Any input is appreciated! The article is slowly being translated at User:Tamarkot/Louis Pauwels, by the way, if anyone'd like to take a look. Thanks again! Tamarkot 02:32, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
I dunno where else to put this.
Doesn answers.com [21] have permission to copy from Wikipedia? Because it's getting pretty blatant. [22] They don't even edit out terms they don't understand like __TOC__, they just leaves 'em in.
They are listed as being in New York, should be easy to get ahold of, legally speaking:
Answers Corporation 237 W 35th St. Suite 1101 New York, NY 10001-1905 US 646-502-4777 fax: 646-502-4778
Technical Contact: Hostmaster, Data Return hostmaster@datareturn.com Data Return, LLC 222 W. Las Colinas Blvd. Suite 350E Irving, TX 75039 US 800-767-1514 fax: - - - 000-000-0000
Sorry if to bug ya if answers.com does have some sort of arrangement with wikipedia. -- Markspace 21:39, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
I do a lot of searching using both Wikipedia's internal search and Google search of Wikipedia's site, and I couldn't help noticing that redirects show up on the internal search and on google. This appears to clutter up both search engines with unwanted duplicates. Surely Wikipedia does not want to spam google or clutter up its own search function. Hasn't anyone already proposed placing <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> tags on redirects or placing them in the wikipedia.org/w/ directory? Why aren't redirects excluded from the internal search? And for that matter why doesn't Wikipedia http redirect? Caveat lector 00:37, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
It appears this isn't the first time this has been proposed: see bugzilla:2798. Also, after further research, I'm no longer so sure if my description of how Google treats the noindex meta tag is correct. I don't know if there is any good solution for this. — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 12:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
A recent dispute have arised over two competing templates for anime episode lists. See: Talk:List_of_Air_episodes#Straw_poll_for_which_episode_table_to_use -- Cat out 16:52, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedia,
Mazel Tov (good luck, congratulations) on a truly great website. Although I am a relative newbe here, I greatly enjoy my visits. What I would like to know is:
How does Wikipedia compare to encyclopedias such as the encyclopedia Brittanica, the Columbia encyclopedia or the World Book encyclopedia?
I am also having trouble finding the Wikipedia mission statement.
Thank you,
Orpheuse
Out of curiosity, why does a search for "ladies' man extraordinaire" turn up Tom Selleck? Isn't this a bit debatable? Could it redirect to me?
Anonymous999 23:55, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
I've started Wikipedia:Sound of the day as a measure to jumpstart the growth of a sound community on Wikipedia, and to advance the day when Wikipedia:Featured sounds will be possible. Please consider adding the box to your user or talk page and getting involved in the selection of sound recordings. Thanks.-- Pharos 13:01, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
I looked and looked but couldn't find the project space page and/or email address for copyright holders wishing to give permission for their material to be used on wiki and/or relicensed under copyleft. Can anyone help?-- Kchase02 T 08:45, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
This Cfd is troubling Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_June_19#Category:Wikipedians_by_politics_and_all_subcategories
Note this category was kept twice as a result of two earlier Cfd debates. January 4 2006 and December 18 2005
There are plans to attack Category:Wikipedians by religion as well. Are they going to attack Category:Wikipedians by lifestyle, Category:Wikipedians by subculture, and Category:Wikipedians by organization too? I'm not sure how this is going to work. Maybe Category:Wikipedians will be deleted in the end. -- Facto 22:43, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
Does anybody here think that it can be statistically proved that wikipedia is better than google at yielding information? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.136.53.51 ( talk • contribs) 16:27, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
Sorry for misbehaving, first post here. Was thinking "better" in terms of "information" ("facts" if you want) vs. "data". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.136.53.51 ( talk • contribs) 20:17, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
A user has been removing additions what appear to be good faith but uncited (and possibly NPOV) edits by another user. This is reasonable to me. What is not reasonable is that the user doing the removals has been calling the edits vandalism reverts. I feel that removing them with the comment "rv vandalism" this is a misleading use of revert. Can someone have a look at this and deal with it appropriately, one way or the other? I've fixed a few of these, but I feel like I've turned over a rock and discovered a mass of squirming parasites under it, and I'm not sure if I should clean it up or just put the rock back where I found it. Someone more experienced than me needs to deal with this. -- Steven Fisher 20:38, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
This seems like the best forum for the feedback that I have in mind.
The Firefox browser has a drop down menu for search engines in the top right corner of their window. When "Wikipedia" is added to this list of search engines, the icon that appears looks more like the "thermal detonator" that Princess Leia used (when she was in disguise claiming the bounty on Chewbacca) than the Wikipedia "puzzle globe" icon. When the puzzle globe icon is miniaturized down to that size, it becomes largely unrecognizable. I recommend that you stick with the "W" for the Firefox search engine icon.
Hope that helps —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 154.20.188.125 ( talk • contribs) 06:53, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
Howdy, I noticed another site which carries Wikipedia content. However, rather than carry the GFDL license, it is labled (C) 2005 QuickSeek.com All rights reserved. Content is unquestionably from Wikipedia, and not the other way around, since everything down to the portals (modified to direct to quickseek's site) is included. The site is Quickseek, which uses ARTICLENAME.quickseek.com as the format. For example, http://newyorkcity.quickseek.com/ is the New York City page. Their terms of use explicitly forbits modification of content. No mention of Wikipedia is made. Is this appropriate/legal? -- TeaDrinker 22:47, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the information, I was unaware of that page. Probably best to avoid vandalizing the pages, if for no other reason that we should try to get them in compliance and it would be a bad idea to burn bridges we haven't even crossed yet. It may be they will alter their copyright notice if someone contacts them, and we wouldn't want to put them off if that were the case. -- TeaDrinker 03:03, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
I have noticed that although there is the navigation box there is no way to browse Wikipedia in general from any random page. I think that if we changed the navigation bar to include a link entitled 'Browse' for instance would make Wikipedia much more usable. I also think that linking to a page such as Portal:Browse would be good (from the Browse link of course). L C @ R S DA T A 19:56, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
I've noticed Google often puts Wikipedia articles at the top of their results. I don't know what algorithm they use to determine this, but in at least two cases ( Ideogram and Relational database) the articles are very poor and the extra attention makes me cringe.
Obviously the solution is to improve these articles, but we probably can't do it for every case. Ideogram 18:24, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Google will put Wikipeida up high because lots of other people like Wikipeida and link to this site. However, maybe it would be worth trying to persuade Google to give less weight to articles which are stubs or labelled as needing to be wikified. -- Mark S ( talk) 19:52, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Round 13 of the Wikifun Wikihunt has started; everyone is invited to compete! -- Eugène van der Pijll 21:10, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Note: The "notice board" page has now been deleted, so this discussion is moot. Derex 19:44, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Not sure I love this: Wikipedia:Conservative_notice_board. Seems like the same concerns Jimbo raised against userboxes applies here. To me this seems different than, say, Wikiproject mathematics, as it's arguably not a subject area per se but an outlook. It's complete with "action items" and the like. Seems to me like this, or any "X notice board", where X is a political outlook, could be a recipe for an organized POV-pushing disaster. Might be fine, but I thought some community input would be timely before it got established. Thoughts? Derex 07:47, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
On creating this noticeboard, Facto spammed over fifty editors whom he had identified, from their edits, statements, userboxes, or categories, as having conservative views, with a message that read:
Thus he revealed that the purpose for which he created the noticeboard was the creation of a biased forum for the purpose of the advancement of partisan political views. -- Tony Sidaway 20:29, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
This discussion seems to be getting increasingly unproductive. I'd suggest taking the noticeboard through the usual channels of deletion review and MfD as necessary. I'm not sure if Wikipedia:WikiProject/List of proposed projects is appropriate for a noticeboard, but if something similar exists, you might take it there.-- Kchase02 T 21:24, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
The image in
Template:Rocket-stub is not showing up for me in either IE or Firefox (it appears as some horizontal vertical lines).
Is it just me? The image is extremely high res, so maybe it's not rendering properly when it's reduced all the way down to 20 pixels. -
Big
Smooth
22:13, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
Wierd - that icon (the one on the template) hasnt been changed for months and its worked fine for me until now (in safari) but its just the two lines now. something screwy going on. BL Lacertae - kiss the lizard 23:39, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
Purged over at Commons and here again and it seems to work now. - Big Smooth 16:00, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
Do we use subst in Cfr?? When I put a template like this on Category:Women I substed, but a few other Cfr's didn't subst. Georgia guy 23:22, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Sometimes, when I enter a Wikipedia page, for a while the links to my user page, talk page, preferences page, watchlist, and contributions page are on the upper right corner, but then they move to the upper left corner after I move the mouse arrow over them. Any way to fix this?? Georgia guy 17:34, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
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I had to do a data collection for a statistics class, so I chose to do it on anonymous vandalism on Wikipedia. I found that 38% (+/- 13.5%) of anonymous edits were considered vandalism by WP:VAN. The confidence interval is 95%. The sampling was done at 19:15 (UTC) on May 4th (a Thursday). The rate of vandalism may change depending on the time of day and day of week, but I didn't need to do that much work for the class project. The sample was the first 50 edits that appeared on the recent changes page (logged-in users hiden). 19 of them were considered vandalism. There were a few edits where my own judgment as to what vandalism is may have influenced the results, but I think the definition, overall, was fairly easy to interpret. On a non-scientific note, I also counted the number of vandalisms that were link spam and the number of vandalisms that were reverted within 20-50 minutes. 5 of the 19 vandalisms were link spam (26.3%), and 11 of the 19 vandalisms were reverted within 20-50 minutes (57.9%). The later statistics did not have a great enough sample size to mean much, but they are still interesting. I know it is a fairly simple study, but I thought some people would be interested, and I had to do it anyway. Does anyone know if there have been other similar studies? I think the amount of vandalism we have to deal with here is quite outrageous. I think further studies on time dependency of vandalism and the rate of vandalism for logged-in users would be interesting. -- Basar 20:44, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
On a related note, a month or two ago I had a discussion on the main page where I demonstrated that 100% of anonymous edits to that day's "Article of the Day" were vandalism, whether malicious or experimental (I do not discriminate between the two). For all the rhetoric about how it's bad to protect the featured article because valuable contributions can be made by new editors, there was not one bit of supporting evidence for that theory in the entire 24 hour period. I'm pretty confident in saying that similar results would be found on almost every day since then. Kafziel 14:43, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
When will it be held? Ingoolemo talk 01:00, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I'm a new reader of wikipedia with poor English; could you someone tell me in which article can I find a map of the universities (or at least the most famous ones) of US, with the states' boundaries? Thanks very much.-- 162.105.248.71 12:09, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm the user asked for help from 162.105.248.71(an IP from P.R.China). It seems that a map easy to see the location of all the colleges and universites is not so easy to get. Mmmm... 4,168 colleges and universities, my god!... maybe my friends and I would try to draw a map of the most famous ones in our(and maybe other Chinese students') opinion, if the time allowed. Just for our own need, and hope it would be useful for more people. Thank you all very much, especially to Bobak for the link of usnews :) -- Neverland 13:46, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I am a registered user of wikipedia. However i dont log in everytime i refer wikipedia [wich is like everyday for everything!]. When i opened an article a few minutes back - i found this - from the page on "The OC" . Is this message meant for me? I have not come across this before and i am sorry i have not taken the time to read all your FAQs and policies. I did not make changes in wikipedia that promote anything i am connected with except pasting a link to the research institute i work at for the article on microfinance - and thats only because it will help people who are researching microfinance/credit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User_talk:220.226.40.76&redirect=no User talk:220.226.40.76 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Please do not add commercial links (or links to your own private websites) to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia as we drive for print or DVD publication; see the welcome page to learn more. Thanks. -- Solipsist 02:24, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
I log in via a wireless connection [a G-Tran Reliance India card]. I think my IP address setting is such that it assigns an address automatically and incase it does. I love referring all wiki websites -- sometimes just for fun facts and info -- and would never misuse it. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Krishnanlakshmi ( talk • contribs)
Hi thanks for the response. I just wanted to say that the posting i cited was done in 2005 - so why was this message posted recently? Also the user talk message for me does not cite the article to which the supposed commercial link was added - i would honestly like to know if i have violated any rules so that it does not happen in the future [especially if its something else other than the link i cited]. After the posting of website link in 2005 [i sure dont remember editing the microfinance/credit page after that] and the latest one being - edited contents of article on Bengal Tigers quoting findings/observations from an NGC programme and a book [because that was the reference]. If the following is indeed the violation: what should i do now? Remove the link from the microfinance article? btw its not a commercial organisation [neither are there clickable ads on that website]. The Centre is a part of a larger financial management and research institute - all they [and i admit i belong to this "they"] do is research on microfinance and development & i can honestly say that people will find the website useful - be it for doing research on their own or getting expert information on microcredit(finance) and impact evaluations in India. I cannot make it a part of the contents. Under "General Information" - where i added the link - there are other such websites i refer to in my line of work including CGAP and Microfinance Gateway for research documents and technical articles. So it fits in there.
Just to add to this post: my current IP address is 220.226.18.141 (checked online). The one quoted in the message is different? Lakshmi Krishnan
In the month of April, Thomson gale allowed free access to all their databases to celebrate national library week, or something like that. I used the Times Digital Archive ( 1 2) with brilliant success. I researched my favourite topic of the formation of rugby league. I found many articles of significant value, not only to those who appreciate rugby league but union die hards too.
Has wikipedia ever considered organising something with organisations, such as Thomson and gale who have a massive array of information on many topics, to allow access to wikipedia members? I'd be interested in something like that! POds 12:14, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
What is Wikipedia's view regarding the Peerio "serverless technology" design. Will it be the future's pathway to less hops and less reliance on super nodes delivering better QOS
Within the past couple weeks, I came to wikipedia and it looked compeletely different. I've switched to Cologne Blue as being the closest to what the default style used to be, but I'd really really like the old style back. Can anyone help with that?
I'm confused. Is User:AULDBITCH LOVES YOU a sock puppet of Skyring or not? The User:AULDBITCH LOVES YOU user page says that he is, but JTDirl says on Skyring's talk page that it is acceptted that he is not. Unless that's just JT's opinion? Arno 04:56, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
This is a succession box about alleged heads of a fictitious society (recently publicized again by Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code). It is included in numerous articles about real persons, such as Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, and lots of others. I find it outright stupid and utterly unprofessional to mix fictitious stuff with content about real things or persons. I have removed these boxes once already, but someone seems to believe they were needed. My suggestion for a better way of doing this would be to just use a list of such alleged heads (exists already at Priory of Sion) and to not use a succession box. What do you think? Lupo 18:45, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
After change the interface language to Chinese, I saw an error may be maked in this page. i think the word "点子邮件" in the pink box should be "电子邮件" in simplified Chinese and "電子郵件" in traditional Chinese.
The fair use tag for works of art states that the image is fair use for critical commentary on the work in question, the artistic genre or technique of the work of art or the school to which the artist belongs. Dose this mean that a work of art can not apply as fair use in an article about the artist himself? I find it strange that an image could be fair use for the genre it belongs to but not the artist who created it.
Also, could more than one image be used in an article about the artist provided that they are all famous or relevant examples? Justin Foote 17:07, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
For a college assignment, I was given the following task: write ten lines of iambic pentameter, with some sort of rhyming pattern, on a topic of your choice. Here's my result (I know it's not very good: it's not even perfect I.P.!).
So isn't that nice! Just thought it was worth mentioning!-- Keycard ( talk) 17:46, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
I've noticed that a few types of articles have specific tables associated with them--some communes, comic/manga/anime/cartoon characters, etc. I was just wondering where/how I could make a new table like this; I've been cleaning up articles, and a few are chemicals which could really use a table of characteristics (atomic weight, generic name, pH, boiling point, and so on). Does such a table exist already or what? (Of the form {{Category|Categoryname=Name}} Thanks! Tamarkot 23:27, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Is anyone familiar with Yolo Bypass (and any other important bypasses in Calfornia)? I've created a lot of articles on California rivers and I'm having trouble deciding how rivers should be classified and what their terminuses are, currently and historically. I've gotten conflicting information about Yolo Bypass. Some say it is completely artificial, while others say that it is natural but modified. I'm particularly interested whether Cache Creek and Putah Creek would flow into the Sacramento River if Yolo Bypass had not been built/modified and if the Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel had not been dredged, in Putah Creek's Case. -- Kjkolb 02:47, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
does ne1 no of an online cult i could join?
The 1970s section and mention of the 1970s in other sections is causing adverse comment - http://70struth.blogspot.com/2006/04/wikipedia-inaccurate-1970s-section.html - please can contributors contain their enthusiasm for the 1970s and ensure that all references to the decade are justified?
Hmmm... I think the 70s section is disproportionately large compared to other decades, that's why I gave the link to the "Why I Don't Love The 1970s" blog originally (just before I joined Wikipedia). The odd thing is, people are now waxing lyrical about the 1970s in a similar way to the enthusiasm for the 50s and 60s we experienced in the 70s and 80s. Trouble is, there seemed to be a consensus of opinion that the 50s and 60s were worth the enthusuasm, but there are many who disagree that the 70s are comparable.
I note that the blogger is an Englishwoman - I'm English, too, and believe me the amount of 70s "hype" we've had over here is very wearing! I agree with Deco that the 1970s section should be presented as undeniable 1970s occurring facts, and perhaps linked more to the adjacent decades where appropriate. Time is a constant stream. Decades are only human-made measurements of time. Andy Eng
Hello. Today I was reading your fukking marvellous Wikipedia, when somebody called Yamla left a message. I felt offended because he said I was writing nonsense, I wasn't at all.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.93.196.236 ( talk • contribs)
Does some proposals of little promenades in large english-speaking culture exist in Wikipedia? I mean some "experts" of Wikipedia's content suggest (as "Did you know..." does but in a less anednotic way) a journey in general culture for non english-speaking people? I imagine a tour with a thematic sense: we know find interesting suggestions but scaterred in the "Featured articles" sections in the very numerous portals. Has someone an idea or does that already exist? Moonray 08:19, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
Hey this is a question i just thought of now. COuld someone please tell me what the point of marriage is? I mean how does life majorly differ if u were single? I mean u still hav sex, u can live together, and u still treat eachother the same way. if anyone has any answer to my question please respond
Germy
I don't follow the village pump enough to know if this has been proposed before, but it would be helpful to make something like {{Redir_from_US_postal_ab}} for Canadian postal codes, and nations with postal abbreviations (I don't know of any others)... it'd more than likely take someone with a bot to do it, and is more than slightly tedious, so I'm just going to propose it here and see if it flies. -- Jjjsixsix (t)/ (c) @ 00:40, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
As I say, this is a rant. It may not be coherant or anything of the sort, I doubt it'll achieve anything, but it's something I **need** to get off my chest, to the point that I was on my way home and turned around and came back to the place I had been using (since my home internet connection's borked) to post it.
Any action other than a simple edit in WP, once done, is almost impossible to reverse within process unless you can class it as "simple vandalism" or muster a hundred established Wikipedians to take your side. Were I to go through, I'd find umpteen examples I've personally encountered alone (Hell, I've **used** this fact on occasion, being honest), but the one that triggers this is what happened at Shikari.
Back in November last year, User:Fastifex made this edit to the page that was there at the time. You'll note not just the bare fact, but the way it was implemented, over several lines, including a horizontal line and with the note that "the present article is limited to fiction". I incorporated the note into the body, then he reverted and posted this reply to my talk page including the line that he was "actually quite accomodating to arrange the disambiguating link the way [he] now restore[d]". I left this note on his talk page and incorportate. He didn't reply, but instead waited two months - at a time when I had become throughouly stressed out with WP and taken a WikiBreak over an unrelated matter (I don't know if he knew this or just thought I wouldn't notice anyway, it being two months since the last communique) and moved the page to Shikari Lonestar (which isn't the character's name, although I admit I'd messed up by mentioning it as if it was at the time - that came of not going back to the original comics since I wasn't making a full page at the time), inserting his Hindi dicdef as the only other (and first) item on the "disambiguation" page
Now, the move wasn't "simple vandalism", though against policy (including but not limited to WP:D). He simply did what amounted to a WP:IAR thing (tho he didn't call it that - note that the current IAR page is not the way the page stood then) and ramrodded through what he wanted to do. As I say, I was on WikiBreak at the time and didn't notice this until months later when an anon added a non-notable band to the page, with a link to the band's website, and this got flagged on my Watchlist. And basically, I was (and am) stuck - there is no other page called Shikari, let alone a notable one. The disambig page doesn't even have a redlink on it. There's a dicdef (with a link to a redirect) and the nn band entry. Having had recent experience of a move request and consulting User:Steve block, who agreed with me on the likely result, I made an AFD which fell as "no consensus" - not entirely unexpected; as I had already said, AFDs rarely achieve anything. And so Fastifex gets his way. Yay consensus. - SoM is currently on enforced WikiBreak due to a malfunctioning internet connection. He doesn't know if he's coming back when it gets fixed. 20:22, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
International pen friends Please note that it is a spam added by an Italian user, domain registrar of the website www.ipf***europe.com (remove ***. not giving him google hits). On the site, you are asked to pay to Andrea d'Ambra, the name of the italian spammer that added this voice on all wikis. AdA, aka "Skugnizzo" is being voted for a ban for spam and vandalism on it.wiki. I am not removing this, 'cause I am occasional contributor and it might look like vandalism. -- Jollyroger 17:46, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
Goog morning. I wrote a page in wikipédia in french about "travail en perruque" [ [3]]. I am looking for a page in en:Wikipedia, about the same subject. I did not find it. I thougth it was "homes", or "government job", but there is nothing talking about personal jobs made by workers during their official labor, with tool machines of their boss, or material and commodities of the company.
Perhaps it is because there is no equivalent in english linguage, or just because people speaking in english dont use to work for themselves, even a little bit, during official job time ? Or because I speak so poor english... Please, answer me, on my talk page, if you understand my question. -- Barbetorte 10:40, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
Is is acceptable/possible to create templates for my own personal use on my user/talk page? For instance, I can create a page underneath my talk page, User_talk:Booyabazooka/Archive... can one do the same thing with a template? ~ Booyabazooka 03:33, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
Ocassionally (in fact, rather frequently), I come across broken "anchor" headings, by which I mean the links using the # character to link to a section within an article. Invariably the link is broken because the section has been renamed, and it can be easily repaired. Usually though, I only discover this by clicking on a link. This "broken" aspect is not apparant when looking at the link. My question is whether there is a way to detect such broken "anchor" links, and whether there is a project to repair them? Carcharoth 23:33, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
A new category, Category:Articles containing how-to sections, a sub-category of Wikipedia:cleanup. The purpose of the category is to keep track of articles that make extensive use of instructions in violation of the official policy, WP:NOT, so that those articles may be edited for style and content.
Should this category be placed somewhere else, too, so that editors could find it and use it? For this category to work, at least some people need to know that they may include how-to articles in this category, and at least some people need to know that they can find how-to articles from this category and edit them.
How should I proceed with this issue? Santtus 14:16, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
I understand that user pages are also part of wikipedia as believed by several users including Mindspillage. Under the circustances, is there any particular reaosn to tolerate use of user pages to position links leading to commercial sites, and so on. In one case, I found to my utter amazement that the user page has a neat announcemnet which is not in order. -- Bhadani 07:57, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
Following banned user Zephram Stark's attempt to rewrite WP:SOCK using two sockpuppet accounts, there is a proposal to limit the editing of policy pages either to admins, or to editors with six months editing experience and 1,000 edits to articles. Please vote and comment at Wikipedia:Editing policy pages. SlimVirgin (talk) 19:10, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
I was thinking of making a group in yahoo related to wikipedia. Do you think it is ok or not. Thanks John R G 22:41, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
Metawiki is a graveyard - could somebody please give their opinion on the matter here? Mithridates 16:38, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
There is ongoing debate about a name change at Wikipedia:Community Justice. There is a need for outside views, and input would be appreciated! Info can be found on the project's talk page. -- Osbus 14:52, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
I am at a loss to do anything:
Kindly guide me "properly" in the matter. Regards. -- Bhadani 14:29, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
I don't understand wikipedia's concept of the "wiki community". There doesn't seem to be a congregation point where people discuss topics of interest, except where there's issues of contention and argument in article talk pages.
Is there a Wikipedia user community web-board hidden away somewhere, where we can talk about subjects of interest in a more positive, friendly, and direct manner? This "village pump (misc)" doesn't really seem to provide what I'm talking about.
DMahalko 02:18, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
If youve got a particular area of interest you want to discuss and deal with, then look for a wikiproject related to it. thats where a lot of the "community" is. BL Lacertae - kiss the lizard 23:32, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
The project is now too big to have a single central discussion point. Instead it is decentralized. That doesn't make it any less of a community. The community is all the various articles and places where people interact including here. - Taxman Talk 23:42, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
The IRC channels have been mentioned; another good place for Wikipedia discussion is the mailing lists SubSeven 01:43, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello friends, after being here for more than a year serious doubts have begun nagging me. I just want a plain and clear answer to my doubts. Are we building The Free Encyclopedia from a global perspective, which is destined to become The Best Encyclopedia? Or, Are we (for the time being) concentrating in building the Project with more emphasize on topics and matters relating to the English-speaking countries; and the European world? I know that I shall not be decorated with choice terms including being “foolish” and unable to comprehend wikipedia’s policies, “racist”, “nationalist”, “pro-Asian” or “pro-African” for sharing my doubts with my fellow wikipedians. I understand that in its formative years, way back in 1768 and several decades thereafter Encyclopedia Britannica had perhaps a pre-dominant coverage of only those matters to which the Great Britain had got exposed to – this was normal during those times. However, in the present digital age, in case, we restrict our coverage (as indicated above), intentionally and intuitively (including on account of infatuation and cultural divide), we shall be failing in our duty to build the sum total of human knowledge. I believe that we are here to build the Wikipedia, The Best Encyclopedia, from a global perspective. Kindly clear my doubts. Thanks and regards. -- Bhadani 09:10, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
I happened upon the website of the Arizona Daily Wildcat, and was surprized by the favicon that site uses. Looks awfully familiar, but I can't quite remember where I've seen it before...
-- Bhadani 12:56, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Why we find a tendency to resort to bashing of wikipedians from poorer countries like India? Constructive criticism is fine, but criticism to make a point is certainly ridiculous. Why we allow Hindu-bashing if one has a user name of weapon of a Hindu God? -- Bhadani 16:15, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
I thank you for sharing your experience with me - Now, I understand the matter with a better perspective. -- Bhadani 15:34, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
Once again, I found something unusual, and the following edits by me may clarify the position:
I am really feeling sad. I felt it my duty to bring the factual and legal position to the kind attention of our wiki-community. I am feeling more purturbed after reading these news. I was aware of denial of access to wikipedia in China as I had read a message on my talk page sometime back, as also an indication to this effect in User Page. I am afraid that if our Project gets blocked in India also due to the fault of one of us, most of humanity shall be deprive of the Free Encyclopedia. Thanks and regards. -- Bhadani 17:33, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
I have to agree with *Dan T.* here. The messages Bhadani posted were unfounded legal threats. By the way, Bhadani, saying a legal threat is not a legal threat doesn't make it so, and I would support sanctions against you for that. Also, even though you didn't act on this, it is highly inappropriate to make changes to another's userpage without his/her consent simply because you don't like a userbox. Kafziel 13:06, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Regarding: Image:Symbol_support_vote.svg, Image:Symbol_unsupport_vote.png, Image:Symbol_oppose_vote.svg, Image:Symbol_neutral_vote.svg, Image:Symbol_keep_vote.svg, Image:Symbol_delete_vote.svg, Image:Symbol_comment.png, Image:Symbol_comment_vote.png, Image:Symbol_comment_vote.svg, Image:Symbol_question.png ...they're attractive, but what purpose do they serve and why weren't they deleted along with the template they were part of?: See Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion/Log/Deleted/June_2005#Template:Support_and_Template:Object_and_Template:Oppose and the deletion log for the template [15] Шизомби 22:14, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
On my User page [ User:Sauvik.Biswas] you can find the list of articles that are related to Tintin. Most of these (except few main articles like Tintin itself) are poorly written/organised. If you wish to be a part of the project, please feel free to contact me on my talk page. [ Click Here to leave me a message.]
A small to-do list and a format has to be chalked out before starting off with editing the pages. I have already prepared a Template and used it to show chronology on the right hand side of each Tintin Book. -- 54UV1K 12:01, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Please help me: This message appears when I try to send messages in #wikipedia
This user Kick me out from MIRC #wikipedia. He is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alkivar User:Alkivar.
This is an agression, because i am from Latin America, He expulse me like an alien.
Please do something, he violeted my rights,
Help me please.
Augusto maguina
05:05, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Why are the Microsoft Office applications such as Excel at pages like Microsoft Office Excel, not Microsoft Excel? The most recent version is labelled Microsoft Excel. If the next one changes the name to MS Office Excel, well that's great, but A) It's not out yet, making the name incorrect, much like changing the Montenegro page to say it is independent is premature, B) I was under the impression we keep articles at the most common name, (eg. Czech Republic (not Czechia), East Timor (not Timor-Leste), and Vietnam (not Viet Nam)). Can anyone shed any light on why the articles are where they are? + Hexagon1 ( t) 06:53, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
I love the colored maps I find when searching different nations and states on Wikipedia I was interested to know if anyone can create or find a way to bring the State of Alaska and the Territory of Yukon together on one map. Kind of a supranational map for topics relating to North America's first-order administrative units. Any help I could receive on the matter would be nice or any with experience using the maping software found on the many places on Wikipedia 209.193.56.228 01:07, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
I found this while working on the orphan article list. Steven M. Newman is a journalist who walked around the world in 1983 and wrote 2 books about it. The only place that links to him is the list of people named Newman. Anyone have a better suggestion? Thatcher131 01:01, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
The link-law could be a new detected law of nature, based on long term observations and calculations from the norwegian wikipedian Friman. It says:
Each red link a wikipedian makes blue, in average will result in two new red links.
The law may result in severe frustrations for contributors, and can induce link-phobias and wiki-myalgia. -- Friman 22:22, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
I'm relatively new to Wikipedia and I hope I'm posting this to the appropriate location. If not, I apologize. I looked for a discussion thread on this at wiki and elsewhere without success. Perhaps it's out there someplace, but I haven't found it.
A couple of weeks ago, I heard a Kim komando radio segment calling Wikipedia a “bad idea” and a "silly idea." [16]
I beg to differ.
I have discovered that Wikipedia articles are more complete and satisfactory on a variety of topics, here than any other place on the web. A quick spot check today confirmed it: not only does Wikipedia have more complete articles, but it also has articles that you can't find anywhere else (at least at the free encyclopedia sites).
It's probably true that ALL of the info at Wikipedia has not been verified, but can anyone say that any encyclopedia's data has been verified 100%? True, I wouldn't want to use Wiki data in a scholarly article without verifying the information first. But I would say that the vast majority of the contents can be trusted, especially if the topic is non-controversial.
It isn't very often that I contribute money to an online site, but I feel strongly enough about Wikipedia that I made a donation during the last fund-raising drive. I plan on coming back often, and when I do, I want it to still be here. -- Leon7 20:17, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello everyone,
The Dutch Wikipedia reached on the 24th of May 2006, with this article the number of 200.000 articles. Congratulations Dutch-Wiki. -- Algont 09:42, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
I read over the History of Wikipedia page and some related ones today. Afterwards, I began to wonder if anyone knows who the first adminstrator selected by the community was (I assume that Jimbo or some such person was the first, but I'd like to know who the first editor to become an admin was.) Does any one know? Cool3 21:53, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
I did just that. Here are the results, where the dates are date/time of first edit and marks indicate whether they continue to be active:
RoseParks, Timshell, and WojPob first edited in January 2001, with RoseParks, a Nupedian like Jimbo, coming earliest ( her first edit, an article creation in the old-fashioned Nupedia naming style). AstroNomer first edited in February 2001. Andre Engels, Jimbo Wales, Lee Daniel Crocker, and Stephen Gilbert first edited in March 2001. I'd give the award for earliest still-acive admin to Stephen Gilbert. I'm pleasantly surprised to see that many of our original admins remain with us today. Thank you to them all for your years of service. Deco 12:45, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
I am not quite sure where to put this, but I have been thinking of possible guidelines to expand articles about smaller communities like towns and villages. If there is already something similar somewhere, I haven't found it. My ideas are here and I think they need further suggestions. - Skysmith 11:59, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
207.250.22.5 appears to love to create senseless links in Wikipedia. Any questions on how common this is?? Georgia guy 20:07, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
I just got done with a very intence history corse, and i would not have been sucessful without this site. I want to thank anyone who has contributed, you always had the most though information I was looking for.
Wikipedia is more than an encyclopedia, and it's experiencing growing pains because of that. It's also not always the right tool for the job. Maybe we need to divide up the problem. Suppose Wikipedia were divided into "Divisions", with somewhat different rules for it.
The intent is that the inclusion standards for popular culture are relatively low - if you can buy the thing, it gets in. The inclusion standards for People remain where they are now, and the inclusion standards for General Knowledge tighten up. This will make life easier for the fan base (fewer "my band is notable" arguments), while lowering the noise level for those working on general knowledge.
Technically, Music, Movies, Books, Games, and Businesses need a real database, and Atlas needs a map system; they're not just text-based wikis. Entering data into those systems would be form-oriented, where users fill out web forms to get the data into the right slots. (A neat trick would be to develop programs that can take the existing articles on, say, music albums, find the key info, and put the article into the database.)
The first big step would be to get the database for Music and Movies working, then start moving articles over.
Comments?
-- John Nagle 17:16, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
There is already a project to add this kind of database functionality to wikipedia. Semanticwikipedia version 0.4 is already up and running at [ [17]]. Once this is working fully you will be able to annotate links between pages to help computers understand the information there. On the page for a CD a search engine will be able to tell which bit of text is the publisher, which is the musician, which is song title and will be able to search for the info you need. The plan (as I understand it) is to start by automatically converting information in infoboxes. I think this means we can help to make wikipedia semantic web ready by making sure all CDs, books, places, etc. have infoboxes. Later on as the links within articles are tagged it should be possible to automatically generate the infoboxes from the articles tagged links (or maybe not. I'm not an expert in these things.) Filceolaire 12:48, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
I need to write a bibliography and used Wikipedia for a number of things. Who should I put for the author of the site?
Look up "Citing Wikipedia": WP has a page for it. - Tracker 01:31, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
If you go to the toolbox links on the left of the screen on an article page there's one called 'Cite this article' that will give you a bibliographic reference in numerous citation styles (APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, etc.). Ziggurat 02:15, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
It suddenly started working as soon as I clicked save changes
Currently RfA is dominated by people with no particular connections to a candidate that merely vote in a lot of RfAs. To change this, I have begun a campaign to publicize all new RfAs. Any one who wants to help should see user:ShortJason/Publicity. Please join in this effort to improve the proccess. Thanks! ShortJason 19:35, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Custom CSS won't work on my user page, how do you get it to work. I Love Minun 19:35, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Has WP decided to fully justify all of the text? K ilo-Lima| (talk) 12:16, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Don't people get stressed out doing recent changes patrol? -- Username132 ( talk) 17:19, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
I find myself going instictively for the redlinked names. Call 'em redshirts because they'll be gone five minutes after posting their ad/vanity page/conspiracy theory. -- JChap 23:53, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia seems to be known as a place where people can get nonfiction published and college term papers get submitted here. When these are submitted to AfD, they are (rightly) summarily rejected. An editor who submits a term paper is invariably new and not familiar with Wikipedia policy. Some can take the summary rejection of their work quite hard, even where they don't get flamed. My concern: we are driving away talented writers from the project, who might contribute usable encyclopedia articles if they could be persuaded to stick around. We could (and should) contact them to explain what our criteria are for accepting an article. But can we do something more? Maybe we could suggest another place for them to post? I'd be interested in your thoughts. -- JChap 02:17, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
I have an article in mind I want to transfer to Wikipedia. It's on SourceWatch, a site using MediaWiki and the GNU GFDL. Is it OK if I copy the whole article to Wikipedia? It's on something WP does not have an article for. - Tracker 01:29, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
(Moved to WP:VPP) 81.104.165.184 20:31, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
In the "meals" template, the word snack goes to a disambiguation page, not the required article. I dont know how to change that. Anyone want to fill me in - leave a note on my talk page. See Lunch for an example of the template. skorpion 08:45, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
I have recently conducted a survey to estimate the percentage of vandalism on Wikipedia perpetrated by anonymous users. My conclusion thus far is that anon vandalism accounts for 82.2%-92.2% of all Wikipedia vandalism. However, I would like suggestions and comments so that, perhaps, I can design a better study to estimate vandalism statistics. Cool3 01:32, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
In my humble opinion, the community is capable to deal with any sort of vandalism. Simple vandalism by anonymous users are really easy to detect, and easier to deal with. The real problem faced by us, in my assessment, is vandalism of our contents by white-collar vandals, who have penetrated the system and maraud as legitimate editors. Similarly, a number of users think that the user pages personally belong to them, and some of us use the same, which are certainly not in conformity with the spirit of the policies and guidelines of wikipedia. -- Bhadani 16:44, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
I have Interiot to perform a tool server query that should give us all a more accurate figure :-)! Cool3 21:03, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
I do agree with Deco. Perhaps, I mis-communicated, and emphasis shifted to the user pages. Yes, we are more concerned about the disruption of contents of the articles, and such disruption are also being done by white-collar vandals, who have penetrated the system and maraud as legitimate editors. We must also try to check such white-collar vandalism. I also thank Cool3 for undertaking the survey. -- Bhadani 10:33, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to point out that uninformed and controversial edits are also mostly done by anonymous edits. While not technically vandalism, they are often reverted (or re-edited) because these anonymous editors don't even attempt to read or participate in the discussions on the talk pages. This would tend to drive the statistics for the useless anonymous edits even higher.
I personally favor semi-protection for articles we wish to remain stable, such as widely used templates and perhaps feature articles. This would be better than an outright ban, but I recognize that it is still controversial. Ideogram 19:18, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
72.137.223.200 has vandalized PBS idents 3 times by putting a wrong date for one of the idents. Anyone know what to do?? Georgia guy 01:39, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
I realize this is a long shot, but that's why this is in the misc area. The idiot known as Willy on Wheels is currently mounting a vandalism attack on www.wikitravel.org. He's defacing the main page and using the goatse picture liberally. I don't know any admins, but if anyone reads this who does, can you poke them and get them to ban his IP there and lock down the front page? Thanks. Sr.Wombat 00:48, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Have there been any attempts to write computer code using a Wiki interface? Ideogram 05:43, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
For about a week, there has been a big edit war at Talk:Moscow Metro about L1/12. There doesn't appear to be a way it can ever end. Georgia guy 17:19, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
As I'm with AOL I unfortunately share an ISP address *sigh* and can not edit anything even too add a useful link. How do I prevent this?
my contribution page is limited to only the last 500 edits, and I dont see anyway to know which ones U have created? Procrastinating@ talk2me 15:48, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia seems to contain images of low quality. An example would be the images in Hamster a few of which are out of focus and one of them is foggy. In the image for today's featured picture, the sky is clipped. Wikipedia has other images of low quality. Such images bring down the presentation of wikipedia. Maybe wikipedia needs to have standards for posted images? Reub2000 05:43, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
[18] - it's good for a laugh!-- Keycard ( talk) 17:41, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Dear Friends,
I'm confused. I meant to contribute by adding as external link to "Zen" or "Buddhism" the link to www.bodhidharma. it or in the English version "http:// users.libero.it/seza/indexgb. html" The Flower of Bodhidharma
I noticed that the link was systematically removed. Now, it even seems to be blacklisted.
Please note The Flower of Bodhidharma is a web site of an Italian Monastery associated with UBI (Italian Buddhist Union) and linked with many important Temples around the world.
On the web site are available, not only examples of what zen articles are, but also original teachings of our Master Tae Hye sunim, a Korean Zen Monk ordained in Korea and now resident in Italy.
I wonder if I made any mistake in proposing the link, maybe there was a misunderstanding due to my unexperience? In this case I am awfully sorry!
Thank you for your help.
Sergio (Tae Bi)
Hello there! Since 1907 populations really isn't a popular article, I'm asking people to look at the discussion page to give their opinion on the proposed rename. I proposed it instead of going through with it because it's a totally different name and it may cause controversy. Please comment on it! — THIS IS MESSED OCKER (TALK) 11:19, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Can you to block the page about Italian singer Pupo at this history: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Enzo_Ghinazzi&oldid=57683252
It is always vandalized!
-- Denelson 83 04:00, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Putting the politics and economics stubs together indents the second one. Is this attributable to the size of one of the graphics?
RyanEberhart 01:41, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
I don't know whether this is the place for a bit of an impromptu straw poll, so if it isn't please move it to where it is!
Two questions that I'd be interested in hearing people's opinions on:
~~ Happy-melon 07:19, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
On June 7, I launched a WikiProject covering Louisville-related articles. If you're a current or former resident or even if you just have an interest in this fine American city, you're very welcome to join. — Stevie is the man! Talk | Work 19:40, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
Is there any guidance on notability of churches? WP:CORP seems inapplicable to me. Churches are only incidentally incorporated, if they are at all.-- Kchase02 T 05:21, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
I just tried to sign my email with four tildes. Ideogram 19:59, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
You know you've really been editing Wikipedia too long when you set up an outgoing mail filter to fix it. — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 21:57, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
In the norwegian Wikipedia, we have removed the message From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia because some thinks it is to big and unnecessary. What are your thoughts about the case? Should it be removed? How meaningsful is it actually? Sorry for bringing this up, maybe it has been discussed earlier. Have a nice day! NorwegianMarcus 15:44, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Today, I stumbled upon Category:0s, and was baffled by what I discovered.
Many of the subcategories included in this category contain very few entries themselves; in fact, some contain one or none.
Why do such categories exist? It turns out that some of these categories are more than two (2) years old. What constructive purpose is served by having empty/lonely categories? -- Folajimi 18:48, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Whilst working on the Category:Establishments by year and its sub cats I have created some of the early establishments by years cats. I've also created a hierarchy of cats - eg 1st millennium establishments, 1st century establishments, 0s establishments, 8 establishments. I've only been working on all years for a couple of months and I have never created empty categories, although they might have become empty. I hope (and suspect) that there is room for growth in these early year categories and I think that they deserve more time before saying that over-categorization has occurred. I agree with the points made above, namely,
I'd like to make two further points. First, there are times in western history when not much has been recorded. However as more world-wide information is being added to the English Wikipedia then more information may be available on previously information-scarce times. Secondly, there are people (such as me) who are very interested in understanding world history in its development year-by-year and the year categories are most useful in this regard. Greenshed 14:11, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
... similar to the German Qualitätssicherung on the English Wikipedia? The Qualitätssicherung is a page where you can post bad articles, no matter if they are too short, POV, un-wikified, need cleanup, may be a copyvio or have another problem - they'll just get better soon because many Wikipedians go to that page very often. I think it'd be a great idea if we had such a page on the English Wikipedia. Sorry if this is the wrong place to post that. TZM T ( de: T) 15:28, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
User:Linuxbeak and I just thought up of a way to solve the problem of user pages with too many userboxes. Why not create a script that randomly selects one userbox from a hidden list the user specifies and displays it on his/her userpage. A different userbox would be displayed each time the userpage is reloaded. I'd say this would be a pretty nifty alternative to delegating a mass of userboxes to a subpage. -- Denelson 83 00:28, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Why are there sooo many articles about minor american 'cities'? Its just annoying when im trying to learn something interesting from a random article but more often than not seem to get a stub on a town with a population less than a tower block listing nothing but its co-ords and some rather pathetic data from the last census. wikipedia has guidelines about bad subjects for articles. why arnt these cities included? i just want to see other peoples opinions on these wastes of space :) Neblet 21:56, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
Recently I created this article in hope of adding to the Resident Evil Template, however I could not and my personal request on the site got ignored. Could someone Please add This to the Resident Evil Template and go over the article whilst their at it? -- John Z. Delorean 8:05 12 June 2006 (BST)
I noticed that a couple talk pages on wikipedia for images on commons were deleted for being "orphan talk pages" [19], [20]. These should not be deleted as there are many of these pages on wikipedia - when you click 'discussion' on an image that is on commons it takes you the talk page for the image on wikipedia, even though it isnt on wikipedia. -- Astrokey 44 02:01, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
Having read the extremely long debate on the inclusion of this image (showing an exposed mildly deformed eyeball) on the Main Page, I became curious about what percentage of viewers actually do find the image unpleasant to look at. Obviously, the talk page discussion is completely useless for determining this, since it's a biased and strongly self-selected sample. However, I'd expect the readers of this page should constitute a reasonably representative sample of Wikipedians, if not of readers in general.
Thus, out of pure curiosity, I'd like to set up an informal poll. Please look at the image (using the link above) and indicate below whether you found it unpleasant to look at. Please don't complain about the lack of options; instead, feel free to specify additional details in your comments. Note that I am emphatically not trying to use this poll as an argument for or against display of such images on Wikipedia, or for any other purpose related to Wikipedia policy whatsoever. I'm just curious about how different people react to this image.
Please add any metadiscussion about the poll here, not in the subsections below. Thank you for indulging me. — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 15:33, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Resonance (MIT). - CrazyRussian talk/ contribs/ email 18:36, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
There's some sort of wikiproject or tag for articles that need to be re-written in non-technical language. I wanted to tag Simplified ray tracing as such, but can't find what I'm looking for. Does anyone know what we do with articles written in dense technical language (in this case, mostly equations)?-- Kchase02 T 03:33, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
There are tons of people on this page which do not have links, which to me indicates that they don't have articles. If they don't have articles, they have failed to establish notability, and should not be on this page. I am proposing deletion of all names from the list that are not linked. User:Zoe| (talk) 21:42, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
As I noted on the talk page before finding out this was being discussed at the Pump,
I don't think that's a very good idea. Presence on Wikipedia is not a criterion for notability. You'd be kicking out these obviously notable folks, among others: ... [list omitted for brevity, see the talk page for details] ... Surely the criteria for notability ought to include Olympic medalists, Academy Award winners, heads of major educational and research institutions, etc. There was a time when most of these were red-linked to encourage the creation of articles, but someone didn't like the "unfinished" look and removed the links a long time ago.
As WP:BIO points out, the criteria for notability include:
Just because there aren't articles on these folks yet doesn't mean they aren't notable. It just means that Wikipedia isn't finished yet. RossPatterson 02:09, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
This makes no sense. Notability is a requirement for an article. Since when is notability a requirement to be mentioned inside an article? WP:BIO refers to guidelines for people to merit their own article, not for mention in another article. If we change the word "notable" in the article to "prominent" or some other word, would that make things more acceptable? I would not be in favor of reducing the list to meet the Wikipedia Notability guidelines. (If there is Wiki policy that concerns "notability" of items inside articles or lists, please post specific links and quotes. Someone above mentioned some items in WP:NOT. Please be more specific). Simon12 02:46, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
Let's talk turkey. Of the 220 names on the list, 83 are linked to articles, 132 are unlinked, and 5 link to non-existant articles. Of the 132 unlinked, I had no problem finding criteria in WP:BIO that support 34 claims to notability, just trolling through the list by eye for about 10 minutes (see my post at Talk:List of Stuyvesant High School people#Proposal for the details). Not being a mathemetician or a hard scientist, I can't tell what might apply to the folks in those categories (38 Math, 13 Physics, 5 Chemistry, 12 Life Sciences), but the math and physics lists were re-worked very carefully by Hillman, who seems qualified to know (see his explanation of his rewrite last September at Talk:List of Stuyvesant High School people#Reorganization). In Technology (which I do know something about), there are 14 unlinked names, and I'd say there are a few that ought to go, but no more than 3 or 4. After that, we're down in the low numbers - the foregoing account for 82 out of 98 unlinked-and-not-obviously-notable names.
If you accept as I do that Hillman knows his stuff, I really think we're only talking about a dozen or so names that may not be "notable" enough to deserve articles of their own. That's 5 to 10% of the list. Even assuming that a high school alumni list must be limited to people who could deserve articles (which is in dispute above), that's a pretty small problem. RossPatterson 02:49, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
I'd greatly appreciate if people would look in at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(biographies)#Nationality_and_ethnicity.2C_redux. Basically, at least one editor is systematically removing mention of people's Jewishness from article leads, citing the manual of style. I think this is inappropriate, and is downright absurd in the case of (for example) prominent figures in Yiddish theatre. Would people please comment there instead of here? Thanks. - Jmabel | Talk 20:23, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
User:Go_for_it! had his talk page disabled (I added a note now). Is this allowed? I cannot actually find a policy on it. ~ Linuxerist A/ C/ E/ P/ S/ T/ Z 18:12, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Anyone know if this is or was a real metal i know there is a page about it on here but it mentions nothing to whether it actually existed or not
Hallo, all, I'm translating a French article on fr:Louis Pauwels. It has relatively little biographical information, and is pretty much a list of all his works (books, published and unpublished; forewords and afterwords; even appearances in films and documentaries) with descriptions for some of them. I'm in the process of translating the quotes and moving them onto wikiquote.org. I've got two questions:
Any input is appreciated! The article is slowly being translated at User:Tamarkot/Louis Pauwels, by the way, if anyone'd like to take a look. Thanks again! Tamarkot 02:32, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
I dunno where else to put this.
Doesn answers.com [21] have permission to copy from Wikipedia? Because it's getting pretty blatant. [22] They don't even edit out terms they don't understand like __TOC__, they just leaves 'em in.
They are listed as being in New York, should be easy to get ahold of, legally speaking:
Answers Corporation 237 W 35th St. Suite 1101 New York, NY 10001-1905 US 646-502-4777 fax: 646-502-4778
Technical Contact: Hostmaster, Data Return hostmaster@datareturn.com Data Return, LLC 222 W. Las Colinas Blvd. Suite 350E Irving, TX 75039 US 800-767-1514 fax: - - - 000-000-0000
Sorry if to bug ya if answers.com does have some sort of arrangement with wikipedia. -- Markspace 21:39, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
I do a lot of searching using both Wikipedia's internal search and Google search of Wikipedia's site, and I couldn't help noticing that redirects show up on the internal search and on google. This appears to clutter up both search engines with unwanted duplicates. Surely Wikipedia does not want to spam google or clutter up its own search function. Hasn't anyone already proposed placing <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> tags on redirects or placing them in the wikipedia.org/w/ directory? Why aren't redirects excluded from the internal search? And for that matter why doesn't Wikipedia http redirect? Caveat lector 00:37, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
It appears this isn't the first time this has been proposed: see bugzilla:2798. Also, after further research, I'm no longer so sure if my description of how Google treats the noindex meta tag is correct. I don't know if there is any good solution for this. — Ilmari Karonen ( talk) 12:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
A recent dispute have arised over two competing templates for anime episode lists. See: Talk:List_of_Air_episodes#Straw_poll_for_which_episode_table_to_use -- Cat out 16:52, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Dear Wikipedia,
Mazel Tov (good luck, congratulations) on a truly great website. Although I am a relative newbe here, I greatly enjoy my visits. What I would like to know is:
How does Wikipedia compare to encyclopedias such as the encyclopedia Brittanica, the Columbia encyclopedia or the World Book encyclopedia?
I am also having trouble finding the Wikipedia mission statement.
Thank you,
Orpheuse
Out of curiosity, why does a search for "ladies' man extraordinaire" turn up Tom Selleck? Isn't this a bit debatable? Could it redirect to me?
Anonymous999 23:55, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
I've started Wikipedia:Sound of the day as a measure to jumpstart the growth of a sound community on Wikipedia, and to advance the day when Wikipedia:Featured sounds will be possible. Please consider adding the box to your user or talk page and getting involved in the selection of sound recordings. Thanks.-- Pharos 13:01, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
I looked and looked but couldn't find the project space page and/or email address for copyright holders wishing to give permission for their material to be used on wiki and/or relicensed under copyleft. Can anyone help?-- Kchase02 T 08:45, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
This Cfd is troubling Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_June_19#Category:Wikipedians_by_politics_and_all_subcategories
Note this category was kept twice as a result of two earlier Cfd debates. January 4 2006 and December 18 2005
There are plans to attack Category:Wikipedians by religion as well. Are they going to attack Category:Wikipedians by lifestyle, Category:Wikipedians by subculture, and Category:Wikipedians by organization too? I'm not sure how this is going to work. Maybe Category:Wikipedians will be deleted in the end. -- Facto 22:43, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
Does anybody here think that it can be statistically proved that wikipedia is better than google at yielding information? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.136.53.51 ( talk • contribs) 16:27, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
Sorry for misbehaving, first post here. Was thinking "better" in terms of "information" ("facts" if you want) vs. "data". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.136.53.51 ( talk • contribs) 20:17, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
A user has been removing additions what appear to be good faith but uncited (and possibly NPOV) edits by another user. This is reasonable to me. What is not reasonable is that the user doing the removals has been calling the edits vandalism reverts. I feel that removing them with the comment "rv vandalism" this is a misleading use of revert. Can someone have a look at this and deal with it appropriately, one way or the other? I've fixed a few of these, but I feel like I've turned over a rock and discovered a mass of squirming parasites under it, and I'm not sure if I should clean it up or just put the rock back where I found it. Someone more experienced than me needs to deal with this. -- Steven Fisher 20:38, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
This seems like the best forum for the feedback that I have in mind.
The Firefox browser has a drop down menu for search engines in the top right corner of their window. When "Wikipedia" is added to this list of search engines, the icon that appears looks more like the "thermal detonator" that Princess Leia used (when she was in disguise claiming the bounty on Chewbacca) than the Wikipedia "puzzle globe" icon. When the puzzle globe icon is miniaturized down to that size, it becomes largely unrecognizable. I recommend that you stick with the "W" for the Firefox search engine icon.
Hope that helps —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 154.20.188.125 ( talk • contribs) 06:53, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
Howdy, I noticed another site which carries Wikipedia content. However, rather than carry the GFDL license, it is labled (C) 2005 QuickSeek.com All rights reserved. Content is unquestionably from Wikipedia, and not the other way around, since everything down to the portals (modified to direct to quickseek's site) is included. The site is Quickseek, which uses ARTICLENAME.quickseek.com as the format. For example, http://newyorkcity.quickseek.com/ is the New York City page. Their terms of use explicitly forbits modification of content. No mention of Wikipedia is made. Is this appropriate/legal? -- TeaDrinker 22:47, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the information, I was unaware of that page. Probably best to avoid vandalizing the pages, if for no other reason that we should try to get them in compliance and it would be a bad idea to burn bridges we haven't even crossed yet. It may be they will alter their copyright notice if someone contacts them, and we wouldn't want to put them off if that were the case. -- TeaDrinker 03:03, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
I have noticed that although there is the navigation box there is no way to browse Wikipedia in general from any random page. I think that if we changed the navigation bar to include a link entitled 'Browse' for instance would make Wikipedia much more usable. I also think that linking to a page such as Portal:Browse would be good (from the Browse link of course). L C @ R S DA T A 19:56, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
I've noticed Google often puts Wikipedia articles at the top of their results. I don't know what algorithm they use to determine this, but in at least two cases ( Ideogram and Relational database) the articles are very poor and the extra attention makes me cringe.
Obviously the solution is to improve these articles, but we probably can't do it for every case. Ideogram 18:24, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Google will put Wikipeida up high because lots of other people like Wikipeida and link to this site. However, maybe it would be worth trying to persuade Google to give less weight to articles which are stubs or labelled as needing to be wikified. -- Mark S ( talk) 19:52, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Round 13 of the Wikifun Wikihunt has started; everyone is invited to compete! -- Eugène van der Pijll 21:10, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Note: The "notice board" page has now been deleted, so this discussion is moot. Derex 19:44, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Not sure I love this: Wikipedia:Conservative_notice_board. Seems like the same concerns Jimbo raised against userboxes applies here. To me this seems different than, say, Wikiproject mathematics, as it's arguably not a subject area per se but an outlook. It's complete with "action items" and the like. Seems to me like this, or any "X notice board", where X is a political outlook, could be a recipe for an organized POV-pushing disaster. Might be fine, but I thought some community input would be timely before it got established. Thoughts? Derex 07:47, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
On creating this noticeboard, Facto spammed over fifty editors whom he had identified, from their edits, statements, userboxes, or categories, as having conservative views, with a message that read:
Thus he revealed that the purpose for which he created the noticeboard was the creation of a biased forum for the purpose of the advancement of partisan political views. -- Tony Sidaway 20:29, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
This discussion seems to be getting increasingly unproductive. I'd suggest taking the noticeboard through the usual channels of deletion review and MfD as necessary. I'm not sure if Wikipedia:WikiProject/List of proposed projects is appropriate for a noticeboard, but if something similar exists, you might take it there.-- Kchase02 T 21:24, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
The image in
Template:Rocket-stub is not showing up for me in either IE or Firefox (it appears as some horizontal vertical lines).
Is it just me? The image is extremely high res, so maybe it's not rendering properly when it's reduced all the way down to 20 pixels. -
Big
Smooth
22:13, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
Wierd - that icon (the one on the template) hasnt been changed for months and its worked fine for me until now (in safari) but its just the two lines now. something screwy going on. BL Lacertae - kiss the lizard 23:39, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
Purged over at Commons and here again and it seems to work now. - Big Smooth 16:00, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
Do we use subst in Cfr?? When I put a template like this on Category:Women I substed, but a few other Cfr's didn't subst. Georgia guy 23:22, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Sometimes, when I enter a Wikipedia page, for a while the links to my user page, talk page, preferences page, watchlist, and contributions page are on the upper right corner, but then they move to the upper left corner after I move the mouse arrow over them. Any way to fix this?? Georgia guy 17:34, 12 July 2006 (UTC)