Interrupting my train of thought lines of longitude and latitude.

[reddragdiva]

• Welcome to popular culture. I look forward to the day I too end up in slashdotpunk and not just in comics.

• English Wikipedia finally did what all the other Wikipedias do and switched on rel=nofollow for external links, so they don't get a page rank bonus in Google. It seems to have hit its target. I love the whine of high-velocity spammers.

We have been approved for the house. Should the deal not evaporate between now and handing them a pile of cash, the lease will start February 3rd, so happy birthday to redcountess! Tonight I repacked a pile of boxes into far fewer boxes and threw out lots. I can't tell you how enormously happy I was to find a stealth puddle of cat pee.

Work has been quiet as anything, but I've had plenty of Microsoft-Wikipedia fun. It hit the AP and is in a hundred newspapers around the world. Ahem. I invited the Microsoft guy who actually thought this was a good idea to participate on the talk page, so hopefully the article should suck less (it was a bit of a wasteland of anti-advocacy before). The Wikimedia Foundation also has a new paid communications officer, which may make our press a little less reactive and haphazard. Basically they need several people in each language who know their wiki, know the Foundation and have an overwhelming fear of not public speaking. Sadly I only exist on en: Wikipedia. *sigh*

p.s.: SNOW!!! And more tonight!

Comments

[shadowdaddy.livejournal.com]

Yay house!

[reddragdiva]

I'll believe it when we're in and the end of it hasn't fallen off.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

Now, if only there were something for all the little MediaWiki sites, the only occasionally administered, maybe with little other than the Main Page on them — and which nonetheless rack up over two meg of hidden link spam on that one page (and a like quantity on the talk), which is just a little bit irritating for one trying to read the actual content.

Ahem. But on the bright side, random users (i.e., me) can go in and kill the spam just as easily.

[reddragdiva]

mediawiki-l or mwusers.com any help?

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

What's with all the Wikihate?

[reddragdiva]

Um, spammers think we owe them increased link ratings in Google, and Microsoft thought paying people to push their line was a dandy idea until it gave them a world of bad press and everyone called them arseholes again.

Oh, I'm on Irish radio in 45 minutes too. w00t! I AM MEDIA STAR! Coke and chicks ahoy!

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

They give you cola and baby birds? I WANT TO BE ON IRISH RADIO.

[reddragdiva]

Diet Pepsi and something from Dixy Halal Greasebird. EW.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Dixy Halal Greasebird and USA Fried Monkeybrains are two of the reasons I don't want to leave London, I'll have you know.

The third is the gastric catastrophes that they cause making it impossible to be more than ten feet from a toilet. ;)

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

\o/ \o/ HOUSE wooooo

[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

Well, hey ho for Wikipedia. I haven't heard this much whining outside of a Pearl Jam concert in years.

By the way, just to remind you, let me know when the move is ready. I have a big box full of neat stuff from the Republic of Texas for you lot, and I'd love for it to get there in time for you to enjoy it after you've gotten settled in.