Jarl!
Me acabo de pulir los 142 links ambiguos a La Rioja que había en la Wikipedia, visitando las 142 páginas (bueno, en alguna página había más de un link) y haciendo que dichos links señalasen hacia la...
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Wikipedia fever
Yesterday was the last day of May, and an incredibly fruitful month ended, regarding my Wikipedia edits. As you can see in the previous link, I was 75 edits short of making 1000 edits that month!...
View ArticleI cross the 2k edit mark in Wikipedia
Following my recent trend of using the blog to talk about myself, instead of about the FLOSS that gives name to the blog, and after the Wikipedia fever I talked about some days ago, I write again to...
View ArticleHappy Wikibirthday to myself
As of today, I have reached my first year of (English) Wikipedia contributions under the identity isilanes. I have accumulated over 2100 edits in that time, and created over ten new pages, not counting...
View ArticleBe nice in Wikipedia
I just read, by chance, a very interesting essay a Wikipedia administrator wrote in his personal page. It deals with people spamming or vandalizing Wikipedia, for fun or for personal...
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Wikipedia fundraising
The Wikimedia Foundation is raising funds again. You can read an appeal from the Board Chair, Florence Devouard, and the corresponding press release. To contribute, click the banner below, and follow...
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Wikipedia is down
Wikipedia seems to be temporarily down... see below (click to enlarge): How will the western civilization survive this!
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Donations to Wikipedia
As they do periodically, these greedy bastards benefactors of humanity at Wikimedia Foundation are rising money to pay for the infrastructure that that a service like Wikipedia offers. Since I shelled...
View ArticleMediaWiki: URL beautification HowTo
The default MediaWiki installation will leave you with URLs of the type: http://mywiki.site.tld/wiki/wiki/index.php?title=Article_name This is ugly! Following instructions at the MediaWiki.org site,...
View ArticleLos piratas también comen
Ya me perdonaréis que escriba dos posts seguidos sobre el mismo tema. Además en castellano, cuando procuro que el lenguaje del blog sea el inglés, simplemente por mayor alcance entre los lectores...
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