Anarchopedia talk:English

Messed up

the editing buttons are all messed up! I thought this was just a joke site! Sorry for vandalising!

I need to hit refresh before any of the buttons or left sidebar shows up

OK :) But, I don't understand what is the problem with buttons...--Milos Rancic 23:15, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Site owner?

who is the site owner here? Tsunamic 14:02, 30 Sep 2004 (CDT)

The site owner seems to be User:Millosh, who is also our Lowest Troll.

Theme

I think we should make the theme black. For one, it would distinguish it from other wiki based sites. For another, black is a common theme among anarchists (black flag, etc.). And finally, it's easier on the eyes. --Paragon 11:28, 2 Oct 2004 (CDT)

I was think almost the same: Black part (upper or left) is anarchist part (anarchopedia); blue or yellow or some other colour (down or right) for other fields (encyclopedia). What do you think? However, I am not designer and it is not OK, I don't have anything against. Also, do anyone knows/can/wants to make Anarchopedia theme for MediaWiki? I can upload it... --Millosh 11:40, 2 Oct 2004 (CDT)

I don't know anything about making a MediaWiki theme, sorry. I was thinking of using a black background with light grey and/or white text though. Links could be light blue and red or something like that. Personally I don't like yellow. --Paragon 12:29, 2 Oct 2004 (CDT)

Not to denegrate the work that's been done here so far, but the anarchapedia's main page design is quite nice...38.116.136.215 01:09, 7 Oct 2004 (CDT)

Thank you :) --Millosh 11:57, 7 Oct 2004 (CDT)

Keep agoin' 'ere Buddy, but toning down the text into a lighter shade of grey would help my endurance here also; added a little hint about en:Ulrich von Beckerath who's work can also be found in ge: --poetpiet 13 Oct

I work on user interfaces in my day job, and although I can sympathize with the apparent intent of this visual appearance, if you will take these comments as a constructive criticism - this appearance is a big mistake!

Although it might be an effective gimmick to use a reversed text appearance for the front page, to use this appearance theme globally will make it too difficult to use the site for hours at a time. (I've only read a few pages, and I already have a headache from the harsh appearance of the text - especially on the talk pages.) There is a reason why reversed text is used sparingly - it is simply too tiring to the human eye to look at reversed text for long periods of time.

If you ever want this site to grow beyond an opening statement, into a site with real "legs", you'll inevitably need to use a more sane text color scheme for the bulk of your pages, as serious readers will simply not put up with this look.

Computer screens used to have this appearance a few decades ago, but once it became feasible to show high contrast, black on white text, user interface designers, and later almost all users, quickly abandoned the bizarre-looking reverse text appearance en masse, and this apperance has now faded into obscurity. These days you only see this scheme in odd places - point of sale terminals used in discount stores, or in military installations that are stuck on the macho green on black thing. :)

Please, more serious discussion and articles, and fewer gimmicks with the appearance. You've got a great start here on an alternative to Wikipedia, so please don't turn away your potential audience because of a gimmicky design that makes it tiring to read your text! --69.110.24.8 13:07, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

German Anarchopedia

I started working on the german anarchopedia site ;-) Well I work on deu.anarchopedia.org now, but I see that on anarchopedia.org(the english wiki) are already some german artikel, without any content so I stay on the German wiki, I would like to know were I shall work now. So at first I stay at deu.anarchopedia.org wiki ;-) --henning

Yes, deu.anarchopedia.org is the right place for Anarchopedia in German. Anarchopedia:Deutsch is the old page. When you copy (if you need) contents from the old page, it should be removed. --Milos Rancic 12:37, 5 Dec 2004 (CST)

Also, if you want developer status (and it would be nice to have at least one person with dev status), please ask User:Guanaco for that. (He knows MediaWiki a lot better then me :) ) --Milos Rancic 12:40, 5 Dec 2004 (CST)

I copied all Content(well there wasn't that much :P) you can delete that page now, Atm. iam working at a new design (you can see it on the main page). And tomorrow I get a user account here and conntact the guy for developer status(well I dont know what that is but..). Also I would like to give spread the starting of Anarchopedia Germany(indymedia germany etc.) is that okay? --henning

Please, look at here and vote :) We have problem about CPU usage if we are using Rewrite Engine in Apache. It is good idea to call other people to work, but if we would turn off Rewrite Engine, external links to articles will not work. --Milos Rancic 16:24, 5 Dec 2004 (CST)

Someone started German pages, but he is not active enymore. Also, contents of templates are at some other place (links to templates are broken). Also, I think that deu has more now then German page ever had :) --Milos Rancic 16:24, 5 Dec 2004 (CST)

Developer can something (I forgot what, but Guanaco knows :) ) what sysops can't. I think that it is something about MediaWiki maintaince. In general, everyone who is not crazy, who knows something about MediaWiki and who is "libertarian socialist" should have dev status... --Milos Rancic 16:24, 5 Dec 2004 (CST)

Developers can lock/unlock the database, hand out bot and developer flags, delete images on www, and directly query the databases on the language Anarchopedias. Guanaco 19:00, 5 Dec 2004 (CST)

Vandalism

I've reverted vandalism twice from "128.252.102.138" in two days. It's very disturbing vandalism. Do we believe in collective punishment here? I.e. does the collective have the right to expel persistantly violent individuals?--Che y Marijuana 17:13, 16 Dec 2004 (CST)

The vandalism was on the main page here, by the way.--Che y Marijuana 19:17, 16 Dec 2004 (CST)

Address can be blocked if that person(s) make(s) vandalism again (you can do that, too). But, I didn't see any serious attack... (Even on eng: yesterday or on www one month ago.) If we have some serious attacks in the future, we can use our bots. There are a lot of such things on Wikipedia, which is not so open as Anarchopedia is. The problem here is delete permission to anyone. But, I think we should try this way some time. If vandalisms are more often then now, we should think again about delete permission. --Milos Rancic 20:00, 16 Dec 2004 (CST)

I was asking for in future, just in case this guy keeps repeating it. Cause it was quite disturbing, I don't know if you read it, but it was quite a sexist piece of work. Considering this was the second time in two days on the main page, I thought it made sense to figure out what the policy is here in case it happens again. I have warned him, so we'll see. --Che y Marijuana 03:09, 17 Dec 2004 (CST)

New rewrite rules

With old rewrite rules it was not possible to upload files. With new it is possible. You will see links like ".../index.php/some_page", but it is possible to type "http://deu.anarchopedia.org/some page" and your url will be rewritten to "http;//deu.anarchopedia.org/index.php/some_page". When we would have some faster machines or some better MediaWiki code, we would have "nice urls", too. --Milos Rancic 23:35, 18 Dec 2004 (CST)

Also, you can change your skin to ApMonoBook or to any other now. --Milos Rancic 23:35, 18 Dec 2004 (CST)

Logo

I designed a t-shirt (with a definition of 'anarchism') a while back and I was pretty stoked with the outcome. It uses a star like the current Anarchopedia logo but is a little more sophisticated. I'm happy to upload it if people like it and want to use it as the Anarchopedia logo. It's got an 'A' in it too, which I imagine could be played on no end. It could be any colour (the example below is a dark red) and I could cut it down to the just the symbol for the main logo and add "Anarchopedia" instead of "Anarchism" for a larger version. See example here --Christiaan 00:24, 13 Jan 2005 (CDT)

You are welcome :) I would like (your) black star (not dark red), but we can make some voting about that. What do you think? --Milos Rancic 13:47, 13 Jan 2005 (CST)

One more thing: Ask people from deu: if they want your logo, too. --Milos Rancic 13:55, 13 Jan 2005 (CST)

can you tell something more about the t-shirt action - how had people reacted, where do you live (which country / environment etc.)? it sounds like really a good idea...

No action, just a graphic I designed for a t-shirt. I'm from New Zealand. --Christiaan 18:32, 13 Jan 2005 (CST)