User talk:Magnus Manske

Welcome to Wikipedia, Magnus! -- LMS

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Cut old talk

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Hey Magnus; I've started a new thread over at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elements about a concept for nav bars and locator maps (there is a prototype example at Lithium). Join in if you are interested. --mav

Magnus; I reduced the width of the image at lithium by 10 pixels. Does this work for your browser? If not I suppose I could shave off more... --mav

I just played around with a copy of it, and it was me who misinterpreted the whole thing. I thought you had tried to align the element names/links to the graphic! Now I realized it is an "up-and-down"-link. So, it was all right in the first place, I was just confused by the "labelling" of the elements... --Magnus Manske 08:28 Oct 1, 2002 (UTC)

Oh, OK. I'll revert to the slightly wider image then (which is just a wee bit better on my eyes). --mav

Self-link on topic lists

I disagree with your removal of the self-link on List of musical topics and List of computing topics. While in general we should remove self-links, I belive topic pages like these pose an exception for a few reasons. The pages themselves fall into the category of the topic they list. In the future, some people may use pages like that in place of Recent changes. If the scope of their Recent changes suddenly decreased because of a vandal, that should appear on their Recent changes page. --Ellmist Wednesday, October 9th, 2002

I'm afraid you'll have to explain that to me. Would that "Recent changes replacement" use the watchlist, or the "watch links" function? Also, is there a "list of lists on wikipedia" page? That would cover the lists as well, without the (rather inelegant) self-link. --Magnus Manske 08:13 Oct 10, 2002 (UTC)

It mentions on those pages that they were created to be used by people with Watch links. It seems to me, that anyone interested in seeing recent changes on musical pages, would also want to have the option of seeing changes to the List of musical topics page. I see three options:

1. Mention that the page that lists musical topics does not have an entry on the musical topics list, so people can view the history of that manually or add it to their watchlist.
2. Have Watch links also watch the page with the links.
3. Include a self-link, which, I agree, doesn't pose the most elegant solution even if we hide it somehow.

Sorry, if I came off a bit truculent. --Ellmist Thursday, October 10th, 2002

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Magnus, I see you've changed back Foreign relations of Anguilla three times already. The point I made in my last change to redirect was : "Anguilla is not an independent nation, and as such has not foreign relations - these are handled by the UK; this article will therefore never have content". I think this article has no reason for being, and if the only useful information we can provided is a see to (which is likely also the only information there ever), we should make it a redirect. Jeronimo

Sorry, actually I didn't notice it was changed back, I'm just wading through the "double redirects" page. I'll try to avoid Anguilla from now on. --Magnus Manske 17:01 Oct 10, 2002 (UTC)

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Please revert your vandalism of the anti-American users page. Lir 12:48 Nov 10, 2002 (UTC)

I deleted it on several requests that were made on the mailing list. Anti-americans should not work on an American server, anyway. (I'm German, BTW) --Magnus Manske 19:24 Nov 10, 2002 (UTC)

Anti-Americans have a right to work on an American server and state that they disagree with American policy. There were also several requests made not to delete the page.Lir 19:28 Nov 10, 2002 (UTC)

Sorry, I forgot to add "IMHO" to that statement. If you want to describe anti-American positions in articles, fine. If you want to say "americans should burn in hell" on your user page, that's fine with wikipedia policy (although doing that on an American server IMHO clearly shows your state of mind). But I agree with the people on the mailing list (didn't see opposition there so far), that one should not abuse wikipedia pages to form an anti-Americans club here. I think that's beyond rude. The next step in that direction would be "wikipedia:Proud Nazi users" or "wikipedia:nigger-hating users". --Magnus Manske 20:29 Nov 10, 2002 (UTC)

Are people required to use the mailing list to state their objections? Several people had stated their objections on the page you deleted! That argument about how proud nazi users=anti-america was used before.

Some of us think that a "Wkipedian America Lovers" is analagous to a "Wikipedias Proud Nazis and Nigger-Haters". In fact, Im fairly certain that they are the same thing. We should have the right to form a group just like the vegetarians, who as basically the Anti-Meat group. Lir 20:33 Nov 10, 2002 (UTC)

Do we have a "Wikipedian America Lovers" page? I don't think so. Why don't we have one? Take a guess!

Of course, you can form such a group. And of course you can have a webpage about it. Just not in an NPOV encyclopedia. I recommend either a North Korea or a Iraqui server ;-)

Someone just mentioned on the mailing list that these "special interest group" pages could live on the meta wikipedia. While I generally dislike such pages, I (and others, I guess) could live with that solution. --Magnus Manske 13:24 Nov 11, 2002 (UTC)

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Magnus, Thank you for reverting my accidental deletion of Genetically modified organism. I'm not sure how I did it, but it was not intended. I have just released today's edits of this article. David 21:26 Dec 2, 2002 (UTC)

Magnus, nice work on adding all of the pictures. -- Zoe

Thanks, I'm not done yet ;-)

There are many pictures of people on [1] we don't have an article on yet. Maybe we should make a list of these? --Magnus Manske 12:56 Dec 31, 2002 (UTC)

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Note you have put up several excellent images. However, could you take the time and scale down these and future ones by about 40% (good Wiki width is about 2.5") as the size overpowers the text and the page viewer. Thanks....DW

Didn't see this, because it wasn't on the talk page. Good wiki width is 350 pixel. --Magnus Manske 15:18 Jan 1, 2003 (UTC)

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Hi there is a vandal with sysop powers on fr. Wikipedia. He had already cracked my password. Now he is using the password of anthere. Could you please remove all sysop powers please. Regards. -- Youssefsan

Tried nice--that didn't work. Have had to replace more of your oversized photos that in addition are ALL far too dark. A good width is certainly not 350 pixels, I have no idea where you get that. Please LOOK at your handiwork after you load it. And, what in the name of hell, beyond moronic stupidity, does any Wikipedia contributor's length of time have to do with anything? Are you awarded a Medal of Valor or something after X number of days service? Quality, not quantity, counts. So far, 99% of your photos would be better left undone. Instead of trying to be a hero and getting people like Zoe to stroke your ego, slow down and do things properly. Looking at a page with your kind of minimal input and poor quality, overwhelming photos, is what turns people away from Wikipedia....DW

Nonsense. Magnus' photos are perfectly fine. If anything, we need larger versions linked to from the small versions for printing. --Eloquence

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Sweet! I love the new RC. It is a bit messy... Any chance of bringing back the RC table org thingy? ;) --mav

Thanks! I'd like to redo the table layout RC, but it wasn't very popular in Phase II, AFAIK. How about one that can be sorted by user instead of time? --Magnus Manske

Hm. That would be useful for vandal/newbie patrol. BTW, I for one loved the table in Phase II - having all the users lined-up made it easy to check for vandalism and sub-par edits. But on annoying thing about the new RC is that cur/hist don't are not lined-up. This makes it more difficult to check on articles in quick succession. --mav

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Good to see you around. KQ

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Hey Magnus,

the RC table proposal you referred to is mine (you should have known, every large wiki-tech proposal of the last few months is mine ;-), it is here. One of the things I am missing from that proposal is the ladder like arrangement of the diff links, which I find more intuitive than the cur/last links. --Eloquence 16:43 Jan 16, 2003 (UTC)

Yes, thanks! I have implemented something similar on the test wiki just yet (instead of the "enhanced recent changes"). Looks good, but the roll/unroll button doesn't work, partly because of bad Mozilla rendering (see [2]), partly because of my lousy JavaScript ;-)

If you know how to fix it, go ahead! --Magnus Manske 20:12 Jan 16, 2003 (UTC)

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I understand. Thanks for the suggestion.

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Haven't got a clue what you are talking about, re photos. I copy yours and reload. Is there a problem with that?...DW

I still don't get it. Go away....DW

In one breath you say that 250 pixels (which by the way equals inches) is the proper width for Wikipedia photos but then you turn around and put back a photo twice that size!!!! WHY? Note, very large photos are turn offs on the Internet. Microsoft, IBM, and every major information site in the world keeps photos to a maximum of approximately 1/3 page width or smaller. Your monster photo ruins the Wikipedia text (which people find hard to read on any website) by diminishing it to mumbo jumbo. Please fix your photos not just on my suggestion or even because that is how companies and people far more knowledgeable than you or I do, but because it makes common sense if you actually look at the article!....DW

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Magnus, I reorganized and rewrote citric acid cycle quite a bit. Could you check it? Aslo, if you still have the source for the image tca.png: in step 4 a CO2 should leave, and in IV the CH2 should be CH₂. AxelBoldt 19:37 Mar 2, 2003 (UTC)

Would you be good enough to scale down the Rudyard Kipling photo. Thank. User:Black Widow

Done. You were not logged in when writing the above message. DW, is that you? Someone fixed DWs typos (similar to the "Thank" above) in January, with the IP 64.228.30.103. The IP you wrote your above message under is 64.228.30.118. A coincidence, surely? --Magnus Manske 09:30 Apr 15, 2003 (UTC)

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Please take a peak at User talk:Dewlaylomo/ban. I think an administrator should take some action. MB 02:35 May 15, 2003 (UTC)

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Could a developer check to see if User:Eddie is loging in using User:Michael's ip range (i.e. 152.163.25x.xxx)? He has been reverting articles of User:Michael's back to user Michael's content in a sneaky way. I just want to make sure it is or isn't User:Michael. If it is him, please ban the account. Thanks. MB 17:40 4 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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User:Fuck is Michael, please ban and delete the account, or whatever is nessesary.

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So.... is Wikipedia:Most wanted articles broken or is it supposed to look like that now? --Dante Alighieri 08:18 7 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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user:My Green Dice is also Michael-- Green Dice, with spaces, not MyRedDice, without. Anyway, he's moving Hephaestos' page to different places; could you block him please? Thanks. Koyaanis Qatsi 01:57 8 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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Howdy, Magnus<G>, I'm getting a "Host 'larousse.wikipedia.org' is blocked because of many connection errors. Unblock with 'mysqladmin flush-hosts'" error when trying to access the mailing list. I'm assuming that this is something Brion is not doing while he's away, and that you'll know what it is and want to do it<G>! -- Someone else 02:39 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Done. Magnus Manske 08:45 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)

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Dear Magnus, could you possibly add User:The Anomebot to the list of registered bots? It's well debugged and non-controversial, and has been working without causing any fuss on and off for a couple of days. If it is registered, I intend to speed it up to one hit per minute, with an extra safety back-off feature (measure transaction time, take min of a multiple of this and the programmed delay) that will stop it from being a nuisance when the server is heavily loaded. -- The Anome 22:14 13 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Magnus, thanks for registering the Anomebot! However, the Anomebot's edits are showing up in Recent Changes, so I'm stopping it for now. Can you check that the live code has been updated? -- The Anome 12:26 14 Jul 2003 (UTC)

I think what's happening is that the bot code is not suppressing the image creation or upload log entries in Recent Changes, although it is suppressing the entries for normal edits. --- The Anome 10:40 17 Jul 2003 (UTC)

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WINOR download

m:WINOR's download link is dead. --Menchi 07:10, Jul 31, 2003 (UTC)

I would also be interested in downloading WINOR, binaries or source, if it can be made available. My C++ by far outstrips my PHP so it could be possible that I could contribute something to the technical side of Wikipedia. Thanks Pete 12:32, 11 Sep 2003 (UTC).

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Did you get my email regarding an emergency developer contact list? -- Tim Starling 02:31, 28 Aug 2003 (UTC)

If you don't want to be on it that's fine with me. The contact list contains information regarding how much access each person has, and there's a field where you can indicate if you don't want to be contacted at all. So there's no reason you can't be on it. At the moment, it seems as if everyone who has root access is in the US, so at certain times of the day it can be very hard to contact one of them. So by all means, ask Jimbo for full access. On wikitech-l I specifically requested that Eloquence be given full access but I was ignored. Maybe Jimbo just didn't see it. -- Tim Starling 01:03, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)

quicksilver

I'm working on a project based on the wikipedia MediaWiki engine to create a set of annotations on Neal Stephenson's upcoming book Quicksilver. It's going to be a public site. I've seeded some of the entries with text from the Wikipedia for our internal release, and I wanted to invite you to participate and also ask you whether it's OK to use some of the Wikipedia content for our public release (I realize the license is GFDL, but I still wanted to make sure that we don't just launch without asking). Send me email and I can give you the URL and password for the internal site. patrick@appliedminds.net

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"Image201.png" -- pretty bad file names! "GraysAnatomy201" would have been a better choice -- Tarquin 09:17, 22 Sep 2003 (UTC)

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Wrist versus Wrist-joint

AFAIK, it's commonly referred to just as "wrist" or worst, as "wrist joint", not as "wrist-joint". You might want to move the text to fix it. --Alex.tan 09:30, 22 Sep 2003 (UTC)

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Magnus - I see you were the first non-anon contributor to [Greg Bear]. Were you by any chance the original (anon) author of that article? -- Finlay McWalter 18:13, 21 Oct 2003 (UTC)

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I noticed vandalism on Nuclear pore by 168.221.143.70. I fixed it by reverting to your last edit. WormRunner 22:17, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)

New table markup

(see MediaWiki User's Guide: Using tables)

Should articles be converted to use the new table markup? -- Noldoaran 17:29, Dec 5, 2003 (UTC)

3 neue Admins auf DE

Hallo Magnus,

Auf der deutschen Wikipedia scheinen nur Du und Brion als Developer (bzw. Admin-Rechte-Vergeber) auf. Da Brion sehr beschäftigt ist, wollte ich Dich fragen, ob Du die 3 neuen Admins "aktivieren" könntest (die zum teil schon ein Monat auf Admin-Status warten... fast schon peinlich, ist aber nicht Brions schuld!)

Die 3 Namen findest Du hier:

• Briont To Do List

Danke und Grüsse :-) Fantasy 14:00, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)

VIELEN Dank!! :-) Fantasy 17:08, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

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I updated Image:Nucleus ER golgi.jpg in line with your wikilegal post. Hope you approve. Tweak if you like. :) Martin 19:34, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)

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Hi Magnus, I think it was supposed to have been deleted. The copyvio page stated:

Image:Alexander-fleming.jpg, the source of the image is not public domain (in fact it is unspecified, cfr. http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/copy.html), contrary to what is noted on the image description. -- Looxix 14:59, 15 Sep 2003 (UTC)

It looks like only the image description page was deleted, though strangely the talk page still exists. It looks like we can't use it but I'm not sure I completely understand what Anthère is saying about it. I'll check and get it deleted if it is copyvio or replace it in the article if it's not. Do you believe it is public domain? Angela. 18:33, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Ok, well, if you're sure - I've replaced the image in the article. I've copied your comment to the image description page too. Angela. 12:55, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Why did you remove my name on hepburn_chart?

happy Magnus Manske Day

Kingturtle 05:06, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)

A toast to you and your inventions--Prosit! Jwrosenzweig 22:36, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Happy belated Magnus Manske Day!!!! cheers, Jack 22:39, 26 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! Makes me fel all warm and tingly :-) --Magnus Manske 10:54, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)

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Danke für den Lizenzhinweis. Die Wikipedia:Copyrights-Seite hat mich in die Irre geführt, da es dort "This image is not licenced under the GFDL. It is under a non-commercial-use only licence. Copyrights." als möglichen Tag für ein Bild gibt. Ergo meine Folgerung, dass eine solche Lizenz möglich ist. Hab das Bild aber nun als GFDL lizensiert. --Epix 17:15, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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Hi Magnus :) Please help me in my eternal struggle to have headers starting at ==! Thanks :) Dysprosia 09:30, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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Hallo Magnus, könntest du bitte aus deutschen Wikipedia die Bearbeitungsversion http://de.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/wiki.phtml?title=Winston_Churchill&oldid=684892 entfernen. Es handelt sich um eine Urheberrechtsverletzung (Quelle: [3]).--El 29 Feb 2004

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Newbish Question

What's with al the "list of encyclopedia topics (xx)"? lol, I'm a noobie... ugen64 15:28, Mar 7, 2004 (UTC)

See the list again, I've put up some explanatory text. :-) — Timwi 15:30, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Magnus: Thanks a lot for doing this. I've mentioned it on Wikipedia:Goings-on. :-) — Timwi 15:30, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)

P.S. could you perhaps split Wikipedia:List of encyclopedia topics (57) into sections like all the other ones? — Timwi 15:52, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)

How did generate the list of Encyclopaedia topics? Mintguy (T) 22:40, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)~

1906 San Francisco earthquake pix

Hi. In the particular case of 1906 San Francisco earthquake the page looked better to me before the image was thumbnailed. I was wondering what concern you were addressing by thumbnailing the fire photo there. Feedback would be appreciated. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 15:22, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Pedigree

I see that you have "pedigree" on your list of topics. There are quite a few random things that link to it, so I just created a brief, probably insufficient, disambig page & I know from the dog breeds side there isn't yet really an appropriate page to link to ("dog breed" redirects to "list of dog breeds" which in the long run I think will end up being 2 separate articles, for example...) Anyway, thought that if you had something in mind for the topic, this might spur you to contribute. Elf | Talk 19:32, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Pic size

Hi Magnus! Today I've been following you around doing a minor change to your most excellent conversions from old pic syntax to new pic syntax. I find that, with the new syntax, 300px looks too big so I've been changing you from 300px to 250px. I have no idea what causes this effect, it's probably due to the border. If you disagree with what I'm doing then I'll stop doing it and leave your work alone. What do you think? Best Wishes,
Adrian Pingstone 21:38, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Your quick and friendly reply on the above topic is much appreciated. Thanks.
Adrian Pingstone 22:24, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Pageless dog photos

Hey, thanks for all the work converting those to thumbnails. I'm thinking, though, that having all those images (even thumbnails) on one page is not a great thing for people dialling up the web--that's why I inserted one set of images as individual links to the images rather than as images. However, I'm not quite sure what the best strategy might be. There was a discussion somewhere in the last week or so about having gallery pages... Anyway, I'm rambling a bit, but wanted to let you know that I noticed & appreciate the effort & if you have any more ideas on handling that, you're welcome to join in. I also asked this question on Talk:List of dog breeds. Elf | Talk 23:16, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Ugly boxes

Gawd those gray boxes are ugly, Tanganyika now looks much worse than it did before. Look at the page, see how the un-thumbnailed image looks real enough to touch, compared to the other two that are sitting behind gray prison walls, not to mention the visual noise that has been added. Doesn't anybody have a sense of graphic design around here? Stan 14:36, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I already grumbled on meta, to little effect. I'm hoping that this is just a phase, sort of like when people new to desktop publishing made "ransom note" usage of different typefaces. Stan 17:15, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hi. I like the idea of the stub articles, but before adding them, please check if we have them under a slighly different name. For example, we have very extensive articles on all of the Ottoman emperors (see, for example Abdul Hamid II. Danny 12:38, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Vital topic from the usual gang of idiots

Are you sure Alfred E. Newman's middle name is East? That's a new one to this lifelong Mad fan - DavidWBrooks 14:17, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)

"The usual gang of idiots" is the long-running reference to free-lance contributors in Mad's contents page. I will immediately fix Alfred's middle name, thereby returning Wikipedia to the straight and narrow path to truth and wisdom! - DavidWBrooks 14:56, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hi. I just noticed the images you uploaded from Gray's Anatomy. How far did you get with this? Did you pick images at random? Some obvious ones like the male pelvis (fig 241) are missing. Mintguy (T) 13:06, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Yeah. I'll create a page listing all of the Gray's Anatomy images by number to check which one's we've got. Mintguy (T)

Bugger, all images including missing ones show blue using the Media namespace. I don't think I want to have 1247 show up on one page. Is there a way round this? Mintguy (T)

Ok, what kind of pressure is this going to put on the DB though? Can it handle it?Mintguy (T)

Wikipedia:Gray's Anatomy images with missing articles, seems to load pretty smoothly. There are some fantastic unused images there. Weheehay! Well done. Mintguy (T)

PD

When you upload public domain images, can you tag them with {{msg:PD}}. Thanks, Maximus Rex 19:03, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Links in Thumbnails

Hi! I just noticed your change, to the new syntax, in the Boeing 767 article. Do you think it looks ugly with the caption below the picture box? So I've gone back to the "usual" syntax. Of course now the links to British Airways and Air Canada have gone.
A way round this is to put the links on the Image Description page. Unfortunately, if the reader doesn't click on the magnifier then they never see the links. However, until the caption permits links, I think that's better than external captions.
Please revert if you don't like what I've done. Best Wishes,
Adrian Pingstone 09:34, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

New syntax for my pics

I want to say a big thank you for the work you're doing on converting my pics to the new syntax. Obviously there's a small problem with captions that contained links but I would be inclined not to worry about that and convert them regardless. Perhaps one day that problem will be solved then perhaps you or I will go round linking them!

You're doing a great job. Thanks,
Adrian Pingstone 19:43, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Nupedia

Hey Magnus - I have a request. I saw on your main page that you were a contributor to Nupedia. About 3 weeks ago in our Nupedia article, I officially declared Nupedia dead. If you know anything in particular as to why it died (or anything else in general), it would probably help that article greatly. →Raul654 06:23, Apr 7, 2004 (UTC)

Germans

I've for long (a year, actually) been itched by the way Wikipedia-links are done with often sloppy distinctions between nationality, citizenship and ethnicity (with regard to persons) and also between nations and countries. This is particularly obvious in the case of people or entities that are denoted as German. A link to the Federal Republic of Germany is often outright unhistorical and wrong, but this has until now been the most usual.

That's why I'm considering an article on Germans, which I've started at the temporary location User:Ruhrjung/Germans. I would wish to avoid too much of edit wars after having started to link to the article. In particular, I would not wish to see the current disputes over German-Polish matters automatically extend also to this article, why I kindly ask you for comments now, in advance, in order to try to find wordings acceptable to as many as possible of concerned wikipedians.

I look forward to your comments at User talk:Ruhrjung/Germans.
--Ruhrjung 23:54, 14 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Articles beginning with AL

Hi Magnus, I just noticed that on Wikipedia:List of encyclopedia topics (02), there were no articles beginning with AL. Is that possible? Danny 02:40, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

There's an article on aluminium!

Adrian Pingstone 09:28, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Multiple languages on Wikibooks

Magnus, what can I do to get en.wikibooks, es.wikibooks, zh.wikibooks, etc. language-specific subdomains? Is it difficult to do? Who does it and how do I get them to do it? Thanks, - Karl Wick