Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-10-15/From the editor

message: Questions here:
* Are you currently working on getting database dumps for the English Wikipedia to work properly?  What is the status of this?
* What is the status of Single User Login?
* What does the Foundation have in the way of disaster recovery plans?
* What is the status of stable versions? (the partial and growing content fork at http://www.veropedia.com/ seems to be pre-empting this long-awaited and long-promised feature)
* Any chance that internal search functionality will be upgraded?
* What are the long-term plans for MediaWiki?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by ChazBeckett (talk • contribs) 11:41, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, that's incorrect. The behavior you describe is caused by splitting or combining paragraphs, not merely adding lines AFAIK. I actually filed a bug for it. Circeus 21:19, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

text: Solutions already exist for this: Wikiblame and User:AmiDaniel/WhodunitQuery.  -- John Broughton   (♫♫) 15:09, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

message: We can create new article just by changing letter from capital to small and vice-versa. Why allow, for example, to create articles 'Brion vibber', BrION VIBber, BRION vIBBER... and then redirect it to 'Brion Vibber'? Why not make changes in software so that even if person type 'BrioN vibbEr' and click 'go', it should lead to article 'Brion Vibber'?
Let me search 'Wikipedia signpost' again.
TRIRASH 16:26, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Err... the software does that already, for the Go button (as long as the resulting article title is in title case or sentence case). --ais523 12:51, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why allow creation of multiple articles manipulating capital and small letters? 

message: Thanks for your work, and thanks to all the people making wikipedia work technically. I am very curious as to how this happens. Is there some place with a breakdown or outline or map of all the interconnections, hierarchies, etc. between all the technical people. And which technical people get paid? What about equipment, hardware, donations of hardware and services, etc.. What makes wikipedia tick? :) --Timeshifter 12:55, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What makes wikipedia tick? 

message: Could new projects be created by using subdomains of wikipedia, and using the existing user base of wikipedia? Users would not have to create new registrations, I would think, with this method.
Few projects will ever be as successful as wikipedia until they get the numbers of registered users that wikipedia has. The simplest way would be to tap the existing pool of registered users of wikipedia by automatically making them registered users of all subdomain projects. 
Subdomains such as:
*tutorials.wikipedia.com
*opendirectory.wikipedia.com
*travelguide.wikipedia.com
*textbooks.wikipedia.com
*games.wikipedia.com
*space.wikipedia.com
*photography.wikipedia.com
*video.wikipedia.com
*music.wikipedia.com
*atlas.wikipedia.com
*library.wikipedia.com - public domain books, and documents.
*YouNameIt.wikipedia.com --Timeshifter 13:16, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New projects, and single user login via subdomains 

message: How's the move going?  How do you like your new home in San Francisco?  Will the Foundation ever set up a Wikipedia mirror or data center in the Bay Area, or will the primary data center always be in St Petersburg? -lethe talk [ +] 17:59, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  move