anyone at LV a wikipedia admin? or regular editor?

Post by **hugh** » March 12th, 2006, 10:48 am

we need a bit of help, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mel_Etitis

and:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mackinaw

because we occasionally go thru and put in a whole bunch of links from articles about a text to the relevant LV catalog pages, we got tagged as linkspammers - and now I am battling out with the admin. (I'm mackinaw, admin guy is mel_stitis)

any ideas anyone? it seems as though this will go round and round. also just out of curiosity, who here is a regular wikipedia editor?

Cori · Post by **Cori** » March 12th, 2006, 11:59 am

What would Mel like to see happen..?

It seems like s/he's worried about the volume more than the content of links - so would a compromise be to add a link a day..? Or to agree that it happens routinely once a month, perhaps..? Or are they wishing we'd just stop linking altogether..?

Good going with it so far, though, Hugh, you sound pretty calm. Hang in there! And no publicity is bad publicity, or something ...

Post by **hugh** » March 12th, 2006, 12:35 pm

well the nice thing is when you send an email to jimmy wales & he replies:

If you'll send me a link to a discussion, I'll be happy to weigh in.

so I assume that should be the end of that!

kri · Post by **kri** » March 12th, 2006, 12:53 pm

Hugh in midst of argument wrote:finally, after spending all this time battling about links, would you consider doing a reading for us? the best place to start is weekly poetry, see: http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1657

God that cracked me up.

Post by **hugh** » March 12th, 2006, 1:10 pm

one must keep one's sense of humour, musn't one?

Bronwyn Kate · Post by **Bronwyn Kate** » March 12th, 2006, 1:17 pm

Yes, one MUST.

I am a Wikipedia editor, who is somewhat regular in her habits, and orderly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EuropracBHIT

Here we are then.

Post by **hugh** » March 12th, 2006, 1:45 pm

bronwyn! how can i help you escape from the chinese fortune cookie factory!?!

pberinstein · Post by **pberinstein** » March 12th, 2006, 3:14 pm

kri wrote:
Hugh in midst of argument wrote:finally, after spending all this time battling about links, would you consider doing a reading for us? the best place to start is weekly poetry, see: http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1657
God that cracked me up.

I'll bet he will. He was very gracious about doing an interview/podcast for me.

Post by **hugh** » March 12th, 2006, 3:44 pm

oh I'll ask Jimbo eventually - but that note was to the stubborn admin I was fighting with, not Jimbo.