Wikipedia talk:Alphabetical list of Wikipedians
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An incomplete list. How useful is this? User:Wetman (not listed)
User:Egon (not listed)
- For the complete list see for Special:Listusers. This one is a voluntary list where you are supposed to put yourself yourself. Andres 17:24, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- What is the purpose of this list if there is an automatically generated list? --JamesTeterenko 19:08, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Conversely, could I add myself if I don't want/have an account? And if so, where should I go?
~ender 2004-02-15 10:22:MST
- If you're going to use the site regualarly, there really is very little reason not to set up an account - it requires no personal information (even the e-mail address is optional!) and offers many benefits, including the ability for other people to recognise your hard work, and for you to keep track of it. See Wikipedia:Why create an account? for more details. - IMSoP 16:02, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)
That doesnt answer his question.. yes go ahead and add your ip adress. it has its own page anyways. Lucid 01:47, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
This page is getting very long. Is it worth breaking it up? San de Berg 14:19, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] Collating order
I would have looked for Ævar in with the a's, rather than down at the bottom. That is how my (english) dictionary lists such things, and is congruent with the practice described at collation. For usernames in the greek, cyrillic and other alphabets (which seem to be handled just fine by wikipedia - see e.g. Meta:User:Дошли), this is also congruent with the European Ordering Rules, and Unicode Collation Algorithm. Should we rearrange it? NealMcB 19:05, 2004 May 9 (UTC)
- Your assumtion is correct and false, it all depends on how you read into it, i made a file with all Icelandic letters and put them in one text file called letters and then sorted them using GNU sort(1) while using different enviromental variables.
$ LC_ALL="en_US" sort -d letters | tr '\n' ' ' a á æ b c d e é f g h i í j k l m n o ó ö p q r s t u ú v w x y ý z þ
$ LC_ALL="is_IS" sort -d letters | tr '\n' ' ' a á b c d e é f g h i í j k l m n o ó p q r s t u ú v w x y ý z þ æ ö
- In Iceland the former would be totally inacceptable in the same what that 'ABZDOGE' would be in english speaking countries, i never list myself on the top of such lists because it's customary to me to have it raughly at the end of the alphabet.
- I really dont mind if i'm at the top or the bottom however, but i think we should have a policy on this, and though it may have it casualties sorting everything according to it's place in the character set does have it's atvantages and it's weakness because that order may not follow customs or transend effectively across languages since that is not how this has been done throughout history and Unicode is only a recent thing invented with the Plan9 operating system while customs on how to sort alphabets have existed for thousands of years. However the customary method also has it's weaknesses for example if you were to make up a list of swedes,icelanders,danish,english and french people the you could have a problem merging those alphabets. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 08:42, 2004 May 18 (UTC)
- Whichever we choose note that your english dictionary is probably irrelivant if we choose to merge alphabets since the old english Æ is not the same as the Icelandic one. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 08:42, 2004 May 18 (UTC)
[edit] Duplicate Sections
This page has accumulated a number of duplicate sections. I have merged sections up to 'F', but many still remain. Please remove the 'cleanup-rewrite' tag once all of the duplicates have been merged appropriately.
I have fixed this issue up Ianblair23 04:04, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Re-implementation?
Perhaps this could be re-implemented as a category? Not only would it be simpler to manage the page (the software would automatically break it up into more manageable page sizes) but all that would be required to add an entry would be for a user to add a [[Category]] to his user page--which would additionally increase exposure to others who might add themselves, as it would then be linked to by every user page listed.
Additionally, and more importantly, it fits the semantic purpose of a category--which is to group entries that have something in common together (in this case, user pages belonging to Wikipedians). Kurt Weber 15:52, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
I just added myself to a category on the Esperanto wikipedia, and was surprised, coming back to the english one, to find no such system in place. They've also implemented some categories such as Category:Wikipedians from <Your Country>, so I would be listed in (Categories: Wikipedians, Wikipedians from Canada) plus any other categories. I think the listings of people by interest, by language, and a bunch of other things could use categories. The problem would be getting everyone to update their pages, as I certainly don't have time to go through the User:*** list and fix everyone's pages. :) -- Christian Edward Gruber 01:36, 2005 Jun 6 (UTC)
- I am going to begin re-implementing the user list a set of Categories, I will post the updates here as they come along. --thereverendeg 20:27, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Duplicate Grouping
After See also the sections T through Z are repeated. I am deleting this error now. --The1exile 12:40, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
