User:Sj/Blahg/arch1

archives: 3/20-3/23 | 3/24-4/7

There can be no return
{Pi Day, 2004 faceted} in passing: centi/millipede multiple perlsonalities(#wp) [19:58] are you using two identities on wiki? [19:58]  - nsh: no... I am not [19:58]  no, he's using 4 [19:58]  - I just like to add pictures [19:58] * Timwi in an accusatory mood today [19:59]  - FF: if you want me to stop adding pictures and articles to wikipedia, I would be upset because It makes me relax [19:59]  Wikipedia is not a vacation. six days later(3/20) [09:21]  what did you want me to do with your edits [09:26]  - merge them all together under AP, but keep p seperate

Do not taunt the archbishop
{March 20, 2004 shiny} in passing: MW custom elts

its a feature(#w) [10:11] <_sj_> where's the right place for reporting a 'feature' in wiki syntax? [10:12]  There is no such place. :)  [10:18]      ...in such a way that they will be fixed within any reasonable time-frame.

WOP(#w) [10:55] you are listed as a "confirmed speaker" on [10:55] along with erik and jimbo [10:55]  yup... we're announcing the end of wikipedia [10:56]        we're replacing it with an ice cream stand. [10:59]        I warn you, it's open source ice cream. [11:02] Is RMS giving his standard Cone/Ice Cream vs. Ice Cream lecture? [11:04]  Yeah. We had to placate him with a free strawberry sundae. [11:05]        Ice cream isn't *free*. It costs money to make, cows to milk. [11:05]  You have two cows.

Evil(#w) [12:06]  http://www.wikipedia.evil/ doesn't seem to work for me.

Vicious(#w) [12:36]  I created Mediawiki stuff for parts of Africa [12:36] nice job [13:02]  Hey guys... should I do a Mediawiki thing on European countries [13:03]           By "Northern Europe", "Western Europe", "Southern Europe", "Eastern Europe"? [13:03]  [hahahahaha] : and ... ... ...

Fresh blood(T:) Encouraging new neutral content -- and new NPOV-capable content providers -- is good (no matter how non-encyclopedic their initial content). +sj+

Old reads & watches(U:sj) Brianism, Sarah Marple-Cantrell, star-crossed, We_Didn't_Start_the_Fire

Categorically monkey(#w) [13:44] "This is a famous monkey. To see an automatically generated list of other famous monkeys click here." [13:45] we're going to have to keep categories on our watchlists, aren't we [13:45]  Otherwise George W. Bush will end up on List of famous monkeys. [13:45] otherwise some wit will add GW Bush to the "famous monkyies [13:45] :) [13:45]  jinx!

Rf-WHAT?(T:)  I took it to the mailing list is because there isn't really anyplace on the Encyclopedia to ask other people's opinions about articles. <Graham> Wikipedia:Requests for comment? <RickK> I never knew that page existed. (17:34, 19 Mar 2004) <IMSoP> [So...] is anyone running a bot to archive [any of] those IRC channels?

<font face=verdana size=4 color=#314159>{March 22, 2004 latelate}

7-revert rule(#w) [23:51] <Xz> in the future I expect you to do either of two things: [23:51] <Xz> 2) Ask another user to "help" you by reverting... vandalism [23:51] I did ask for help [23:52] 04:17, 23 Mar 2004 . . (someone please step in here)  [23:52] <SethI> aton: That was on your *7th* revert.

Mama was a Dadaists
<font face=verdana size=4 color=#314159>{March 23, 2004 grogged}

Meta-Lists(#w) [05:40] When does it become absurd? "list of all articles that do not mention Hitler"? [05:43] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_who_owns_what [05:59] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:List#WikiList? [06:08] maybe they are embedded lists... See Lists (embedded lists) [06:38] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_encyclopedias

Are you the gatekeeper?(#w) [07:07] (am helping writing a 'Mapping Hacks' book for ORA; looking at geographical/factbook info in WP already; lot of maps there, even for places with spotty coverage [07:08] want to make a map interface to wikipedia [07:08] <jer_> taw was/is working on something [07:08] <jer_> en:User:Taw [07:08] based perhaps on http://brainoff.com/worldkit/ or just any dodgy seelction of shape files [07:09] map interface envisaged working like, "click, zoom, see related backlinks at this level of detail" [07:10] <jeronim_> also see Wikipediatlas [07:15] whoosh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Maps

Graze my ship(email, via #w) [10:12] <SethI> "You have betrayed your own soul today and I can not for the life of me understand why." [10:12] <SethI> "Why would you seek unjustice, what have I ever done to you?"

John Doe(#wikp) [12:55] let's ask ipod... what do you think, ipod? er, i mean, John [12:56] i deduced it, timstarling confirmed it and John denied it [12:57] - oh! how strange...

fuchsmach the brave(#w) [18:46] anton I suggest you go on mcfly were you belong-the matter is being investigated by a developer

on gathering fat(#w) [19:17] <A> Hcheney: The last thing 172 told me about you was about that subpage, [19:23]         but I expect most people would oppose collecting up information on them like that

on Cheney, foxes & Wright(#w, en:) [19:13] and, I went to rutgers, and lived in NJ, and had heard of you before [19:18] fuchs is there a wikipedia page on you? ... is your bio in wikipedia [19:34] if I ever met you there would be trouble [19:34] ok, so you're not daniel wright?... just a fan? [19:35] <TS> fuchs has his real name set in IRC [19:36] dammit... it's on my e-mail too so allot of people know it now [19:36] <TS> it's sad and amusing at the same time [19:36] truly