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This fascinating study from the PARC, first breaks down the En:Pedia content percentages into general topic categories, then compares that to the percentage of edit wars each Category experiences.

So someone somewhere, years ago, first created a simple Wiki-page for an up and coming young Senator named Obama. Is there a quick and easy way to find and read this page?

What's Wikipedia real policy on offensive imagery? I only found some weird article that said there was no real consensus.

I'm not sure how to make my point. I'm not talking about uploading shock pictures or even illegal pictures. Just pointless sexism in articles not about pointless sexism.

Such as the pinup image on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_Potts. Scroll down a screen or two. I figured it's possible to make a case that the image is pointless to the article itself, but it'd be very hard -not- to mention the inherent sexism of the pic. Because it's really quite drastic. At least in my opinion. I understand mileage may vary.

So in conclusion, thoughts?

So I like to patrol the New Pages things and put up the db-tags on the obvious messes[1]. But every once a while I get a hunch, check back and instead of putting up the HANGON text, the page creator has deleted the warning. And in some cases, has deleted it from other people as well.

And in a few rare cases, blank their discussion page and yell at 'us' via the article page itself.

Why won't they read the DB warning text? It is frustrating.

[1] Or so it seems. Sometimes other nuetral editors disagree with me. Such is life. I move on.

If this is really off topic, I apologize... RecentChangesCamp 2009 is being held at the Univeristy Place Hotel on the Portland State University campus Friday morning (February 20) and wrap-up Sunday afternoon (February 22). A copy of the invitation can be found here. Basically, RCC is a wiki barcamp. It would be really great to see people from this community and Wikipedia in general attending. It is a great opportunity to meet other wiki people, to talk about your own issues in the wiki community, how Wikipedia fits into the larger wiki community. etc.

Also, Camp Fandom 2.0 is coming up on March 21, March 22 in Chicago at IIT. It is a barcamp related to fandom's back end from supporting fansites to dealing with admin issues to promoting your fan community to business issues related to fandom. It would be great to see members of the wiki community there and to have a presentation on something like writing about fandom on Wikipedia, writing entertainment related articles, how to promote your fansites on Wikipedia or other issues like that where fandom is relevant to Wikipedia and wikis in general.

What's a good 'html warning' to put on a page to say 'This article has a lot of potential, but it just needs a complete rewrite for gramma and comprehension'. In other words, I find a lot of articles that could benefit from a good twenty minutes work (sometimes one just needs to iron out the typos) but of course I don't always want to spend twenty minutes on it. There exists shiny things outside of Wikipedia.

This is where we start shooting back - op-ed by Mike Godwin on the IWF kerfuffle. Particularly given (unconfirmed) reports that some UK ISPs are still running Wikipedia through one or two IPs.

Last week I started the Poison Elves Wiki on Wikia and I am fairly new to Wikis. I was wondering, is there a way to do a mass edit for pages?

In example:
I have 15 pages of characters who are elves and I want to add them to the Elves category. Do I have to add the tag one by one? or is there a way to do this to several pages at a time?

Thank you for your help.

I've been working on a Wikipedia "blame" function recently. This provides a view of the current state of a Wikipedia article, with annotations indicating who wrote what when. I just wrote an entry about it here. I thought it might be of interest to the members of this community too. :)

On October 18 and 19 Moscow will play host to the second international Russian-language Wiki-conference related to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, as well as other Wikimedia projects. The conference will take place on the premises of The K. D. Ushinsky Scientific Pedagogical Library.

[[Википедия:Вики-конференция 2008/Пресс-релиз/English|welcome]]!

Can anyone figure out why the references in this article are messed up? [[w:Lindy Hop]]

Hi,
I am new to all this and I see pages I would like to enhance with refs . The one I tried I used the ref quotes but it added extraneous material at the bottom so....I re edited deleting my changes so as not to drive the original editor over the edge.....Is there a simple process to follow

I tried doing for example  <ref>[http://www.spinalinjuryfoundation.org/research%20PDF/rollercoasterneckpain.pdf]</ref> at the bottom wiki says to edit the ref which would be fine if I could get at it the ref showed and the number plus other info like several lines of it. If you can help with this that would be awesome. I can do the refs from medline NCBI or wherever as they are legit refs I just need to know the ropes

I have found Wiki to be  alife saver when i went back to university and would like to give back ...
Thanks!

I could use some help understanding the Wikipedia policy for copyrighted images.

Over the past few years, I've uploaded lots of images which were deleted as copyright violations. One was a photo I took of part of a five-story-tall large mosaic in the Contemporary Resort at Walt Disney World. One was a photo I took of a Mickey plush toy I own. One was a screenshot I made from the old arcade game Dragon's Lair. One was a screenshot I made from an episode of the 1980s TV show Perfect Strangers.

It's getting to where I don't want to bother getting a good image of something and uploading it, because it'll only be taken down. It appears that I'm not allowed to post an image of anything that somebody else created, and that seems to narrow down the field by, oh, practically everything.

When, if ever, is it permissible to post a screenshot from a video game or a TV show, or a photograph of a work of art or a toy?

Edit: And, just to test my knowledge: wouldn't the majority of the images in the Mickey Mouse article be copyright violations, and therefore should be deleted?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tabitha_Smith&diff=next&oldid=236023808

It's showing I inserted the sentence about Nextwave...which I never did. Having stuff being attributed to me, even as minor as one goofy sentence, makes me very nervous.

Edit: And apparently I cannot spell the word 'noteable'. {{db-noteable}} no longer works via the edit preview window. {{db-spam}} and {{db-nonsense}} worked for me on previous recent pages.

On my surfing around Wikipedia I came upon this User:MER-C/Burnination-Wikipedia.the free encyclopedia site.The URL is:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MER-C/Burnination
This site can have despite its anti-spamming orientation a useful purpose for doing our friend adding hobbies and especially for those listed users on the LiveJournal platform a means for contacting them to join our LiveJournal Wikipedia Community.Just an idea for our organising tactics.

 Hey everyone the LiveJournal userbox code on Wikipedia is {{User:UBX/lj}} spread this around and put it on your Wikipedia userprofiles.

So the whole 'concept' of the show 'Robot Chicken' is brief sketches making pop culture jokes. Most of the Robot Chicken episode articles have descriptions of each and every joke. Since the show is humour based, it seems repeating all the funny is a trademark violation. I say we [1] 'nuke' all the episode articles, there doesn't seem to be a way (or justification for) to do an article per episode.

[1] As in someone, I wouldn't have clue one how to start that process.

Edited to add: I was going to request a cleanup for ''Resident Evil Gaiden'' on the Wikiproject Video Game section but the various 'request' rules seem to contradict themselves and they're asking for me to post unfamilar HTML to unfamilar locations. Mucho confusing and unlike other Wikiprojects I have encountered. Anywho, 'Gaiden' is full of dozens of typos/errors/game guide items. I'd spend some time on it myself but I'm working on the game myself and I don't want to spoil myself even more then I have.

As opposed to the Norwegian variety:)

Is it possible to rename yourself permanently? My current username is a bit too related to my RL now that I have rollback and am starting to do vandal patrol... some of them can be pretty determined in trolling. So, I'd like to rename, but don't want to lose my contributions/edit history and such.