5 Feb 2001 22:38
9 Feb 2001 03:18
Copyright problem
Someone had posted a copyrighted article into the 'wolf' category. I deleted it, please see the discussion at 'WolF'. For now, I just deleted it by removing all the text, but of course the copyrighted material is still on our server in the revision history. That will go away after 14 days, as I understand it, but I will also try to figure out how to make it go away sooner. I'm not too worried about this for the future. Legally, it isn't likely to be a huge problem. We just need to instill a very strong social norm on the wikipedia that copyright violations will not be tolerated. -- -- ************************************************* * http://www.nupedia.com/ * * The Ever Expanding Free Encyclopedia * *************************************************
13 Feb 2001 23:38
Automating plagiarism-checking
It would be very easy to write a program that would, every week say, randomly select three bits of text from every Wikipedia page and search on that text using Google. If there were any results--well, it's hard to say how the program could tell if there were zero results--this could be posted somewhere for a human admin to check. That's the general idea. Of course, it could be tweaked, but I'll bet something like this could be made to work. Larry
21 Feb 2001 23:30
Strange feature of the new wiki revision
This might be a bug, or I might just be confused. I noticed that when I put in [[common sense]] on a page, it creates a link to a page titled "Common sense" (first letter u.c.). However, when I click on CommonSense and replace it with #REDIRECT [[common sense]], the *latter* creates a link to a page titled "common sense" (first letter l.c.). I would prefer to be able to title the page "common sense", actually. And I *can*--by using a redirection page (!)--I just can't link to the "common sense" page by using a [[common sense]] link on a regular page (because that will point to "Common sense". Another problem is that I must rework my redirection pages from "[[common sense]]" to "[[Common sense]]" or else all the old CommonSense links will be broken (because they will point to "common sense" instead of "Common sense". What should I do? I'm sure at least ONE person will understand the above.Larry
22 Feb 2001 00:43
Re: Strange feature of the new wiki revision
I think that this is, in part anyway, a feature not a bug. I know that Clifford forces the upper case in hopes of having more 'accidental linking'. The idea is that 'Common sense' and 'common sense' should point to the same thing. It doesn't matter if it is at the beginning of a sentence or not, see. Larry Sanger wrote: > This might be a bug, or I might just be confused. > > I noticed that when I put in [[common sense]] on a page, it creates a > link to a page titled "Common sense" (first letter u.c.). However, when > I click on CommonSense and replace it with #REDIRECT [[common sense]], > the *latter* creates a link to a page titled "common sense" (first > letter l.c.). > > I would prefer to be able to title the page "common sense", actually. > And I *can*--by using a redirection page (!)--I just can't link to the > "common sense" page by using a [[common sense]] link on a regular page > (because that will point to "Common sense". Another problem is that I > must rework my redirection pages from "[[common sense]]" to "[[Common > sense]]" or else all the old CommonSense links will be broken (because > they will point to "common sense" instead of "Common sense". > > What should I do? I'm sure at least ONE person will understand the > above.(Continue reading)
22 Feb 2001 00:01
How to update Wikipedia
I have an idea about how we can systematically update all the old pages: (1) Search for "." or "e". (2) Copy contents of each page in succession (3) Replace the contents of all 1,300 or so MashedTogether pages with #REDIRECT [[Mashed Together No More]]. Just BE SURE that you label the page with the first letter capitalized. I.e., NEVER type: "#REDIRECT [[link like this]]". Instead, type: "#REDIRECT [[Link like this]]". (4) Paste copied contents on Mashed Together No More. Then all we have to do is replace the LINKS to the old pages with links to the new pages. What do you think? Shall we start doing this, or will Cliff or someone be doing something to automate the link conversion process? Larry
1 Mar 2001 03:18
Slashdotted?
JimboWales is being interviewed by Slashdot, and the interview may appear tomorrow (Thursday) morning. He mentioned Wikipedia in the interview, and we may experience a substantial surge in traffic. Based on what has happened to other wikis mentioned on slashdot, we might expect to see some vandalism. If all the active participants could log in a bit more often tomorrow to keep an eye on things, that would be great. Larry
3 Mar 2001 20:43
3 Mar 2001 21:16
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