User talk:Sj/Help

Six things

 * 1) Multilingual_coordination
 * 2) Wikistats language list: How best to encourage that this page be updated?
 * 3) *Try asking Erik Zachte (done)
 * 4) Combined recent changes -- are there little tools for tracking recent changes or watchlists across multiple WP languages?
 * 5) *Unfortunately not. Maybe one day. People have certainly suggested it in the past.
 * 6) Stats queries -- is there a place to request further stats queries?  For instance, "Articles edited by more than 10 non-bot users", "Articles present in more than 3 languages", &c.
 * 7) *Scripting requests (first 2 requested)
 * 8) List of non-transient users -- is there some way to see a list of users with a) a user-page or b) more than a few edits?  The bulk of non-contributing users makes using the Users special page difficult.
 * 9) *I expect it's possible with some SQL query requests but you'd need to convince a developer to run it as it would likely be quite database intensive. (x)
 * 10) New bot action -- Is there a place to request a new bot / bot features?  There are a number of specific regexp search-and-replaces I would suggest.
 * 11) *The people who run PyWikipediaBot would be the best people to ask. PyWikipediaBot is the closest thing we have to an "official Wikipedia bot". They have a mailing list you could ask on. (on hold)

Hope that helps. Angela. 23:58, Mar 14, 2004 (UTC) (Yes(x6). Thank you. +sj+)

Cute links
[W'pedia Stats] .'. via Optim, Maveric149 and Tim Starling user pages, various hidden utility pages like All messages and Special:Allpages (a month out of date). also Dan Keshet! Hi, Daniel. ..

Uther's Useful Welcome Mesg
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Welcome to Wikipedia!

Questions? Help || Village pump(everyone gathers here) || Admin links: Deletion || Undeletion

Helpful links: Editing || Writing a great article || Naming || Style Manual || Policies || Reassigning old edits.

I hope you enjoy being a Wikipedian! Drop us a note at New user log so we can meet you and help you get started. You can also leave me questions at my talk page. +sj+

Shortcuts/Overviews? Stats?
Updated: +sj+ 04:00, 2004 Jan 28 (UTC)


 * Is there a list of shortcuts somewhere? Thanks again.  The idea of 'welcomers' is perfect.
 * MediaWiki custom messages

sets of queries a day; queries that cover a full day of changes might only be updated once an hour.)
 * Is there some way to see "recent changes" to content articles, and not to personal pages, user-talk pages, etc? Any other way to make "recent changes" more useful?  I really do want to see "recent changes to highest-level pages", or some daily statistics about activity, broken down by {main-page category, level of importance of active page, activity level} and noting the {number of different editors, number of non-minor edits}... at what level would such a change be implemented?  At the feature-request-on-Sourceforge level?
 * (Having a good "recent changes" page seems better for a system like this than getting everyone to use "Watch this page" extensively, since you can update "recent changes" once a minute and be guaranteed of only 1440
 * Try Sourceforge [or IRC --Ed].

Neat. I did find an overall [stats page]... +sj+ 04:00, 2004 Jan 28 (UTC)

Other 'pedias, translation

 * What's wikipedia's relation to other 'pedias? Is there a policy of forming useful relations or alliances that might eventually turn into copyright transfer?


 * Try Village_pump and Reference_desk.


 * What's up with nunupedia? I know there's a close relation b/t these projects, and that nupedia hardly exists as a 'pedia, but more as a software dev project these days... how is its software related to wikipedia's ware?


 * I don't know. Also try joining a UtherSRG 03:07, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)


 * How does multilingual association work? Who identifies an english page with a german page, for instance?  What's the right way to say two pages aren't quite referring to the same thing?  To suggest someone migrate/merge content from one language to the page in a different language?  How can I find, say, a list of German pages which have no English counterpart?


 * manually, some folks use IRC and bots to do a bunch of it. Try IRC_channel. - UtherSRG 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)


 * How does "opentask" get generated? Where can I go to find such technical details?


 * See MediaWiki custom messages for details. UtherSRG 03:07, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Greeting, and a note on [the above questions]
Hi there. Thanks for your note on the new user log. Glad you like it here, and I hope you stick around. If you want another person to bug with questions like the ones you were asking UtherSRG, feel free to drop notes on my talk page. I try to answer whenever I'm able. --Isomorphic