Comment wikipedia has IE at 12% (Score 2) 390
12% at wikipedia, which is probably pretty representative. http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm
Comment Re: Truth by democracy... software by democracy (Score 1) 25
Actually yes, you can submit code reverts from the gerrit web interface, which is clunky according to many peoples definitions.
However that's really not what you meant. MediaWiki is meant as software for managing prose, not code. Where the code is done with git, which is a tool meant for the job. The use cases are different. The wiki software is also meant for non tech people who would be confused by things like svn or git. That said MediaWiki (and hence Wikipedia) have a web api so you can make your own command line editing tools (and people have)
Comment Re: Not for me... (Score 1) 25
Damn sites requiring stored session information (cookies) to maintain a persistent session (logging in).
Comment Re:Exactly one advantage to FTP - FXP (Score 1) 253
I dunno man, I kind of like being to re-start aborted transfers, too. I wish the W3C would tack that onto HTTP.
What do you think the range header does ( http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.35.2 )
Comment Re:Smokin' (Score 1) 357
Wikipedia's software is close in some respects -- you can include pages (but not, AFAIIA, selected bits of pages) in other pages. There aren't links in the UI, but it would be trivial to add them.
Actually there is an extension to do this called labelled section transclude that is in use in some wikimedia projects (Wikisource I think). Not to mention various hacks with <includeonly> or {{#ifeq:{{PAGENAME}}|some target.. Also backlinks (included which pages transclude the current page) can be viewed at the special page special:whatlinkshere. For example [1] lists all pages that are including the main page.
Comment Re:Hey! I resemble that! (Score 1) 77
apt-get install bsdgames will also get adventure for you, as well as some other older games.
Comment You have the right to fork (Score 1) 412
Wikipedia gives you the right to fork. If you feel that the community is beyond all help/whatever, do better. If this was a piece of software, this entire thread would be much different.
Comment Re:Too many assumptions.. (Score 1) 412
Trust me, ads = instant fork. There are many long lists of people who have said ads are not acceptable under any circumstances. There even seems to be an increase in opposition to fuindraiser ads this year (as they get bigger and more annoying each year)
Comment Re:Google still exists, right? (Score 1) 412
By that token - is this post notable enough for an article? I generally consider myself an inclussionist, but some things just aren't notable enough. (The interesting question is where to draw the line, but if you don't like the arbitrary line, you're free to convince people, or failing that—it's GFDL and you're free to try and do better)
Comment Re:Where's all the money going? (Score 5, Informative) 353
Can someone explain to me when the Wikimedia Foundation suddenly became poverty-stricken? The latest financial statement from the Wikimedia Foundation indicates that in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2006, they received $1,508,039 and spent $791,907 (leaving them with net assets of $1,004,216); according to the Wikimedia fundraising website they received a further $1,096,299 in the second half of 2006 and have received $275,427 so far in 2007. In order for the Wikimedia Foundation to be in trouble, they must have gone from spending $791,907 last fiscal year to spending over $2,000,000 in the first 8 months of this fiscal year.
Personally, I'm not going to make any donations or support advertising on Wikipedia until someone explains where all the money is going.
This link sort of answers your question.
Personally, I'm not going to make any donations or support advertising on Wikipedia until someone explains where all the money is going.
