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Archive for April 29th, 2008

Re: The fallacy of power

Posted in Wikipedia on April 29, 2008

Thank you for this email, Erik. It is a pleasure to have so many eloquent writers in the Foundation… perhaps a benefit of starting from a community.

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Re: Official Election Notice — concerns about suffrage requirements

Posted in Wikipedia on April 29, 2008

Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) wrote: > Michael Snow <wikipedia@verizon.net> wrote: >>> If there’s a need to give people notices, this could also be.

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MyBB Wikipedia Page - Join Me

Posted in Wikipedia on April 29, 2008

Hamitr over at our MyBB Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyBulletinBoard) feels it is in his hands and his hands only to govern the MyBB Wikipedia page as he sees fit. He feels that important links should not be put up on

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Wikipedia goes old-media in Germany

Posted in Wikipedia on April 29, 2008

“When someone decides to look something up in Wikipedia, a computer is typically involved. But that may well change. In Germany, a printed collection of Wikipedia articles is being produced for the first time by a major publisher,

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list traffic decline

Posted in Wikipedia on April 29, 2008

David, fair points. Moreover, these stats are for amusement purposes only, and tell little more than the email-prone nature of the community, since a.

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Election rules modification regarding suffrage issues raised on

Posted in Wikipedia on April 29, 2008

Based on concerns raised on this list, the elections committee is changing the requirement from “at least 50 edits between April 1, 2008 and June 1, 2.

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On Wikipedia Tonight

Posted in Wikipedia on April 29, 2008

So I was doing some of my standard browsing on Wikipedia tonight. I decided to avoid my customary subjects of booze and killing machines for a broader subject. I picked Peru. I should know more about Peru. You should too, probably.

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For the first time, Wikipedia makes sense

Posted in Wikipedia on April 29, 2008

“You may remember that Pluto got kicked out of the planet club a couple of years ago, so all of a sudden there was all of this activity on Wikipedia. The talk pages light up, people are editing the article like mad, and the whole

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US Dept of Justice IP address blocked after 'vandalism' edits to

Posted in Wikipedia on April 29, 2008

Wikinews has learned that a United States Department of Justice (DOJ) IP Address has been blocked on Wikipedia after making edits to an article which were considered “vandalism”. In two separate instances, the IP address from the DOJ

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Wanted: Goldilocks Wiki

Posted in PMwiki on April 29, 2008

PMwiki is nice PHP based wiki that stores content in files. It’s fast, easy to use, suitable for use by several people if running on a server (it needs a web server) and, like TiddlyWiki (using a freely downloadable theme),

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