http://wikiangela.com/blog Angela Beesley Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:48:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tim proposed to me on Saturday night in a romantic setting outside the Sydney Opera House overlooking the Harbour Bridge. We're planning to get married in NSW this year, around the time of our three year anniversary. Here's a picture of the ring. It's white gold with three Moissanite stones. I wanted ... http://wikiangela.com/blog/im-engaged/ I love the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year contest. The 2007 results were recently announced. I voted for Henri Camus' storm at Pors-Loubous. Here are top 22 images. The width is proportional to the number of votes each received. ... http://wikiangela.com/blog/wikimedia-commons-picture-of-the-year-2007/ Thinking of writing a blog post about the Wikimedia Commons picture of the year contest reminded me I had an unpublished draft post about 2007. Like my end of 2006 post, here's a summary of what happened last year. January I celebrated New Year at my sister's house in England, with my ... http://wikiangela.com/blog/end-of-2007/ It's 2 years today since I first arrived in Australia. I was here for the X|Media|Lab conference in Melbourne and I thought it might be the only time in my life I would visit Australia, so I decided to take a few days off and visit Sydney while I was ... http://wikiangela.com/blog/two-years/ What do the Wikia sites on events, POV editorials, photography, the Polish RPG Wolsung, and the Fallout series of games have in common? Add a guess in the comments. http://wikiangela.com/blog/five-wikis/ Inspired by Tim O'Reilly's call for a Blogger's Code of Conduct, we've started a draft Code of Conduct on Wikia's Blogging Wiki. Brad Stone reported on this in the New York Times today in "A Call for Manners in the World of Nasty Blogs": "The conversational free-for-all on the Internet known ... http://wikiangela.com/blog/blog-code-of-conduct-at-wikia/ Happy Easter! Here are a few Easter Wikia pages I found testing out Wikia's new cross-wiki search tool. Find out about Easter on the Christianity wiki, religion wiki, or the Churches of Rome wiki. The calendars wiki describes the controversies around the date of Easter. Easter in literature and fiction can be ... http://wikiangela.com/blog/happy-easter-2007/ If you're in either London or Palo Alto on April 4, be sure to attend Wiki Wednesday. The London event is starting at 6.30pm at Microsoft House, 10 Great Pulteney Street. The Palo Alto one is from 6pm at 665 High Street following on from Socialtext's Wikthon the same day. The ... http://wikiangela.com/blog/wiki-wednesday-april-2007/ A few wiki bloggers are reporting the misleading statistic that 97% of vandalism is done by "anonymous" users when they actually mean users who are not logged in to Wikipedia. Logging in doesn't mean you are no longer anonymous since there is no requirement to use real names on Wikipedia. The ... http://wikiangela.com/blog/wikipedia-vandalism-study/ "A type of web page designed so that its content can be edited by anyone who accesses it, using a simplified markup language." I'm not too impressed with this draft entry from the Oxford English Dictionary for their new word "wiki". A wiki is more than just a web page and doesn't ... http://wikiangela.com/blog/oed-adds-a-new-word-wiki/