From Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz Wed Sep 3 03:21:50 2008 From: Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz (Robin-P) Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 15:21:50 +1200 Subject: [Genealogy-l] Another record-breaking month for the Genealogy Wikia References: <005c01c8dbfc$d02227c0$0201a8c0@home> <8b722b800807012204p740dfdccl53e045baa1059766@mail.gmail.com> <001f01c8e824$2958a0c0$0201a8c0@home> <04ca01c8efd6$12dbe5a0$0201a8c0@home> <0FFCC834-CE96-49BF-8F06-F5B14D089BF6@earthlink.net> <056d01c8f0cd$3c130320$0201a8c0@home> <79BACC5A-FB33-4559-A79A-F40C55F3E7CE@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <022401c90d74$3522a480$0201a8c0@home> Statistics update - http://wikistats.wikia.com/wikistats/EN/TablesWikiaGENEALOGY.htm - shows that even the first 28 days of August produced a couple of records. "Wikians who contributed 5 times or more in this month " reached 22. May had created a record with 17. June and July were both on 20. "Wikians who contributed 100 times or more in this month" reached 10, beating July's record 8. "Mean number of revisions per article" (the total over all, not for the month) crept up to 4.4, higher than every other month except the first three months (when, by contrast with the current 23,000 substantive articles, there were no more than 10 articles and our Founder was doubtless feeling his way and tinkering a lot). Suggests that we are doing more quality-improvement of existing material. Onwards and upwards, folks, and remember to check the forums to keep up with developments that may save you time or enhance your work. [Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson, 88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026, New Zealand Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974 http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free cooperative MediaWiki site From Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz Sun Sep 7 04:11:50 2008 From: Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz (Robin-P) Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 16:11:50 +1200 Subject: [Genealogy-l] Software upgrade References: <005c01c8dbfc$d02227c0$0201a8c0@home> <8b722b800807012204p740dfdccl53e045baa1059766@mail.gmail.com> <001f01c8e824$2958a0c0$0201a8c0@home> <04ca01c8efd6$12dbe5a0$0201a8c0@home> <0FFCC834-CE96-49BF-8F06-F5B14D089BF6@earthlink.net> <056d01c8f0cd$3c130320$0201a8c0@home> <79BACC5A-FB33-4559-A79A-F40C55F3E7CE@earthlink.net> <022401c90d74$3522a480$0201a8c0@home> Message-ID: <00d501c9109f$daf1e460$0201a8c0@home> New version of the software. See http://www.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki_1.13/Change_log [Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson, 88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026, New Zealand Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974 http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free cooperative MediaWiki site From Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz Mon Sep 22 06:46:42 2008 From: Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz (Robin-P) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:46:42 +1200 Subject: [Genealogy-l] August really was a record-breaking month for the Genealogy Wikia References: <005c01c8dbfc$d02227c0$0201a8c0@home> <8b722b800807012204p740dfdccl53e045baa1059766@mail.gmail.com> <001f01c8e824$2958a0c0$0201a8c0@home> <04ca01c8efd6$12dbe5a0$0201a8c0@home> <0FFCC834-CE96-49BF-8F06-F5B14D089BF6@earthlink.net> <056d01c8f0cd$3c130320$0201a8c0@home> <79BACC5A-FB33-4559-A79A-F40C55F3E7CE@earthlink.net> <022401c90d74$3522a480$0201a8c0@home> Message-ID: <01be01c91c7e$f9a70760$0201a8c0@home> Update a few days into September shows that August was better than predicted. Total number of new "Wikians who edited at least 10 times since they arrived" went from 101 to 110: the previous best gain for a month was 7, so 9 is a bit of an advance. "Wikians who contributed 5 times or more in this month " reached 27. May had created a record with 17. June and July were both on 20. "Wikians who contributed 100 times or more in this month" reached 11, easily beating July's record 8. And (having averaged 49 new articles per day in August) we recently crept over the 24,000 mark for total articles, so I updated the "Big Wikis" page. Have you all discovered how much you can produce in the same amount of time by using "info pages"? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin-P" To: Cc: Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 3:21 PM Subject: [Genealogy-l] Another record-breaking month for the Genealogy Wikia > Statistics update - > http://wikistats.wikia.com/wikistats/EN/TablesWikiaGENEALOGY.htm - > shows that even the first 28 days of August > produced a couple of records. > > "Wikians who contributed 5 times or more in this > month " reached 22. May had created a record with > 17. June and July were both on 20. > > "Wikians who contributed 100 times or more in this > month" reached 10, beating July's record 8. > > "Mean number of revisions per article" (the total > over all, not for the month) crept up to 4.4, > higher than every other month except the first > three months (when, by contrast with the current > 23,000 substantive articles, there were no more > than 10 articles and our Founder was doubtless > feeling his way and tinkering a lot). Suggests > that we are doing more quality-improvement of > existing material. > > Onwards and upwards, folks, and remember to check > the forums to keep up with developments that may > save you time or enhance your work. > > [Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson, > 88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026, > New Zealand > Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974 > http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp > And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free > cooperative MediaWiki site > > _______________________________________________ > Genealogy-l mailing list > Genealogy-l at wikia.com > http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/genealogy-l From Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz Tue Sep 23 02:30:25 2008 From: Robin-P at slingshot.co.nz (Robin-P) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:30:25 +1200 Subject: [Genealogy-l] Wiki down time starts in 6 hours References: <005c01c8dbfc$d02227c0$0201a8c0@home><8b722b800807012204p740dfdccl53e045baa1059766@mail.gmail.com><001f01c8e824$2958a0c0$0201a8c0@home><04ca01c8efd6$12dbe5a0$0201a8c0@home><0FFCC834-CE96-49BF-8F06-F5B14D089BF6@earthlink.net><056d01c8f0cd$3c130320$0201a8c0@home><79BACC5A-FB33-4559-A79A-F40C55F3E7CE@earthlink.net><022401c90d74$3522a480$0201a8c0@home> <00d501c9109f$daf1e460$0201a8c0@home> Message-ID: <024701c91d24$564413a0$0201a8c0@home> Hi everyone, We will be setting all of Wikia to "read-only" mode for about an hour starting at 09:00 UTC (2:00 AM PDT) on Tuesday morning so that we can move the master database to another server. During this time, wikis will still be accessible, but editing will be disabled. We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this maintenance is necessary to ensure the best possible performance and reliability. This message is only being sent to sysops, so please pass this information along to other members of your communities as needed. Thanks, The Wikia Community Team