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LSS/wikiEN-l-archives/2008 11 16-30

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  • What is this? A summary of the topics discussed on the mailing list wikien-l, grouped roughly by topic & chronological thread.
  • Time period: Sunday, November 16, 2008 -- Saturday, November 30, 2008 (2 weeks, Sunday to Sunday)
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Summary

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  1. Outside articles about Wikipedia:
    1. videos on Wikipedia [1]
    2. another SEO spam article on (ab)using Wikipedia [2], discussion: [3]
    3. students can edit Wikipedia for extra credit at one university, + discussion of assigning WP [4]
  2. autoconfirm settings for image uploads (new users can't upload) [5]
  3. link to etherpad.com, a new wiki-esq platform [6]
  4. unblocking, sockpuppet accusations, Durova (lions and tigers and bears, oh my!) [7], more: [8], and even more: [9]
  5. medications: can we improve our coverage of them? (medical disclaimers, infoboxes, etc.) [10]
  6. Ireland troubles: dispute over whether w:Ireland should be a disambig page, and what the other articles about Ireland should be called [11]
  7. Invitation to answer a survey about Wikipedia, from some Taiwanese academics [12]
  8. there's a confusing asterisk in w:special:statistics. What is it? (content notes, apparently) [13] (and fixed(?): [14])
  9. there's a vandal in town, and he/she is employing an evil writing professor motif: [15]
  10. statistics about editing on en:wp: [16]
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