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On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 5:53 PM, geni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think we want to bring attention to current events. In terms > of finding what is blocked trying likely images rather than searching > the entire wiki is probably the most useful method (found the current > know issue after 3

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2008/12/6 Gregory Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Ray Saintonge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Pharos wrote: >>> "14 articles on famous cows" >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Famous_cattle >>> >>> That's still gotta be way more than Britannica. >>> >> High

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On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Ray Saintonge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pharos wrote: >> "14 articles on famous cows" >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Famous_cattle >> >> That's still gotta be way more than Britannica. >> > Highlighting something like that isn't as outrageous as would

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Pharos wrote: > "14 articles on famous cows" > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Famous_cattle > > That's still gotta be way more than Britannica. > Highlighting something like that isn't as outrageous as would at first appear. Adding a "Moo" sound to that would do even more. If it's ch

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make it a random selection of 2 items from everything that has been suggested On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:01 AM, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >wrote: > > > McDonalds: serves 75 million people a month > > Wikipedia: 275 mill

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On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > McDonalds: serves 75 million people a month > Wikipedia: 275 million > > 'nuff said. > > That we're more addictive than fast food? -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundat

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McDonalds: serves 75 million people a month Wikipedia: 275 million 'nuff said. Lars Aronsson wrote: > Andrew Gray wrote: > >> "268,000,000 contributions" would be fun; probably ~500,000,000 for >> all wikis put together. > > We're now very close to a mathematical definition of the idiom "my >

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Andrew Gray wrote: > "268,000,000 contributions" would be fun; probably ~500,000,000 for > all wikis put together. We're now very close to a mathematical definition of the idiom "my two cents", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_two_cents_(idiom) If every one of these 268 million edits was followe

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Brion Vibber wrote: > Gregory Maxwell wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:52 PM, effe iets anders >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm >>> >>> More then 10 billion page views per month... (or 3900 page views per second) >> 24 hour average HTTP re

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Making the internet not suck || Donate now. 2008/12/5 Erik Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2008/12/5 Gregory Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I think this is really fantastic, by the way. The "educating the > > world" has a lot of resonance for me and people that I talk with about > > Wikipedia. >

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2008/12/5 Gregory Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think this is really fantastic, by the way. The "educating the > world" has a lot of resonance for me and people that I talk with about > Wikipedia. How about: 11 million articles 150,000 volunteers Your faith in humanity -> Donate now ;-) --

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Chad wrote: > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Pharos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> "2,434 articles on people born in 1908" >> >> Ha! >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1908_births >> >> Thanks, >> Richard >> >> > "347 articles on internet memes" > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:52 PM, effe iets anders > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm >> >> More then 10 billion page views per month... (or 3900 page views per second) > > 2

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On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:58 PM, David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Donate > 4 million pictures > 11 million pages > 10 billion page views > Educating the world I think this is really fantastic, by the way. The "educating the world" ha

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On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:52 PM, effe iets anders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm > > More then 10 billion page views per month... (or 3900 page views per second) 24 hour average HTTP request rate is 46347. So thats 120,131,424,000 HTTP requests

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2008/12/5 effe iets anders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm > More then 10 billion page views per month... (or 3900 page views per second) Donate 4 million pictures 11 million pages 10 billio

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http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm More then 10 billion page views per month... (or 3900 page views per second) Lodewijk 2008/12/5 Pharos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "14 articles on famous cows" > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Famous_cattle > > That's still gotta be wa

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"14 articles on famous cows" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Famous_cattle That's still gotta be way more than Britannica. Thanks, Pharos On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Pharos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> "2,434 article

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On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Pharos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > "2,434 articles on people born in 1908" > > Ha! > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1908_births > > Thanks, > Richard > > "347 articles on internet memes" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Internet_memes -Chad

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2008/12/5 Robert Rohde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics gives 268 million+ for >> enwiki alone, but I agree that would be a good one. > > That 268M is for all edits, not just article edits. "268,000,000 contributions" would be fun; probably ~500,000,000 for

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On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > effe iets anders wrote: >> What about the total number of edits? Does anyone know that number? And I >> mean for *all* language versions together. Assuming an avg 10 edits/article: >> >> 110 million edits >> to write 11 million arti

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effe iets anders wrote: > What about the total number of edits? Does anyone know that number? And I > mean for *all* language versions together. Assuming an avg 10 edits/article: > > 110 million edits > to write 11 million articles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics gives 268 million

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"2,434 articles on people born in 1908" Ha! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1908_births Thanks, Richard On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Rand Montoya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey All- > > If you have the time and energy, take a look at this site notice here: > http://dev.donate.wikime

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What about the total number of edits? Does anyone know that number? And I mean for *all* language versions together. Assuming an avg 10 edits/article: 110 million edits to write 11 million articles // 6 million dollar (or the actual current needed number) to keep Wikimedia running Free Access to

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"260 languages" This page says they are technically 264 Wikipedias: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Languages But Herero and Tokipona have 0 articles, and Simple English, useful as it may be, isn't really a separate language. So, I say we go with 260. Thanks, Pharos On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:4

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2008/12/5 Finn Rindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2 million images?? There's currently > 3,589,050 freely > usablemedia > files at Wikimedia Commons... Whatever, pick a

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2008/12/5 David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2008/12/5 Andrew Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 2008/12/5 Rand Montoya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> If you have the time and energy, take a look at this site notice here: > >> http://dev.donate.wikimedia.org/index.php/Donate/Notice8a/en > >> I'm looking f

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2008/12/5 Andrew Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/12/5 Rand Montoya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> If you have the time and energy, take a look at this site notice here: >> http://dev.donate.wikimedia.org/index.php/Donate/Notice8a/en >> I'm looking for a few different/better ideas of what text should go

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2008/12/5 Rand Montoya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hey All- > > If you have the time and energy, take a look at this site notice here: > http://dev.donate.wikimedia.org/index.php/Donate/Notice8a/en > > I'm looking for a few different/better ideas of what text should go on > the left side (in place of th

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Hey All- If you have the time and energy, take a look at this site notice here: http://dev.donate.wikimedia.org/index.php/Donate/Notice8a/en I'm looking for a few different/better ideas of what text should go on the left side (in place of the 250 million visitors/11 million articles). Right no