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[edit] Neckar map fixed

05-March-2008: I have fixed the Neckar map for spelling of "Tübingen" and moved the images in article Tübingen to avoid text-gaps. Thanks for spotting the extra "r" in the name. I wish the wiki software had a more automatic way to auto-shift images to avoid those large text-gaps around large images, regardless of left/right placement, but I can't yet think how the MediaWiki software could be changed to provide auto-shifting. I finally realized that wiki edit-mode should not wrap brackets or parentheses at all, but just consider all characters as one long unsplit "word" of the form "xxx[[film])yyy" rather than split at "[[" or ")" to separate "xxx" or "yyy": that is an example of how a very trivial change to the MediaWiki software could avoid hours of spacing problems around brackets split between lines. I'm a computer scientist, and I've found that 99.999% of all irksome computer problems can be fixed by a few simple changes, and most computer software could be adjusted to be very easy to use: for example, the whole notion of "computer viruses" is an artificial problem actively allowed or fostered by some computer people, because viruses would be trivial to totally prevent. The computer robber barons realized that viruses killing PCs caused people to buy more of their trashy computers to keep going, hoping a new PC would be safer. However, most wiki-software problems are just accidental design flaws and could be fixed easily. -Wikid77 (talk) 01:31, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Germany Invitation

Hello, MaiusGermanicus! I'd like to call your attention to the WikiProject Germany and the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. I hope their links, sub-projects and discussions are interesting and even helpful to you. If not, I hope that new ones will be.

--Zeitgespenst (talk) 00:13, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I've just joined. --MaiusGermanicus (talk) 09:31, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] March 2008 edition of the WikiProject Germany newsletter

The Germany WikiProject Newsletter
Issue II - March 2008
From the editor

This is the second issue of WikiProject Germany's newsletter. The newsletter is intended to help all members of the project to keep up with new developments and coordinate new collaborative efforts. If you think anything should be featured in the next issue, please leave a note at the Newsdesk
Other areas where you can help
  • Assessment requests: Some open Requests for assessment need to be answered. To see new assessment requests as they come in, you can watchlist the assessment page.
  • More task forces and subprojects: As this WikiProject covers a very large topic area, it is helpful to add more task forces that focus on specific aspects of Germany. Currently, we have a Mainz task force, a Munich subproject and some joint task forces with other WikiProjects. Any project member is invited to start a new task force. Suggestions for possible topics:
    • Transportation in Germany
    • German politics (the political system of Germany and the biographies of its politicians)
    • German Democratic Republic

Be creative! If you have an idea, just suggest it on the project talk page (don't forget to watchlist it).

  • Categorization: Uncategorized Germany stubs need to be categorized
Project news
  • Cities and municipalities task force

The task force dedicated to creating and improving articles on all German cities and municipalities is happy to announce that there are now (at least) stub articles for all municipalities of Germany. Now the task force is looking for help in fleshing these out a little bit. The current phase of activity for the task force is to copy in infoboxes from the articles in German Wikipedia. If you want to help, even just for a few articles, look at the instructions and links here

  • Article Assessment:

There are now way over 26.000 articles tagged as part of our Wikiproject and many still need either an importance or a quality assessment. Also there are many more out there that do need to be tagged like approx 8000 municipalities. If you would like to help take a browse through Articles needing Importance assessment or Articles needing a basic quality assessment.

- Newsletter Bot Talk 15:27, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

This newsletter is delivered by a bot to all members of WikiProject Germany. If you do not want to receive this newsletter in the future, please leave a note at the talk page of the Outreach department so we can come up with a better spamlist solution. Thank you, - Newsletter Bot Talk 15:27, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hemmendorf (Rottenburg)

This is an automated message from CorenSearchBot. I have performed a web search with the contents of Hemmendorf (Rottenburg), and it appears to be very similar to another wikipedia page: Dettingen (Rottenburg). It is possible that you have accidentally duplicated contents, or made an error while creating the page— you might want to look at the pages and see if that is the case.

This message was placed automatically, and it is possible that the bot is confused and found similarity where none actually exists. If that is the case, you can remove the tag from the article and it would be appreciated if you could drop a note on the maintainer's talk page. CorenSearchBot (talk) 21:28, 29 April 2008 (UTC)