Talk:Wikipedia

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Countries

Moved to Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Countries

Link for "volunteers"

The first paragraph says "Wikipedia's 13 million articles (3 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers," and "volunteers" links to the [[Volunteer|general volunteer page]. I think it should link to the [Virtual_volunteering|virtual volunteering] page instead, since these are specifically online volunteers, rather than traditional onsite volunteers, especially since Wikipedia is one of the largest examples of virtual volunteering. Comment by: User:Jcravens42

Beta version of Wikipedia

Wikipedia article does not contain any information about the new beta feature nor any content about wikipedia's future. Wikipedia staff should do something about this.

The first one

Is it known which was the first article of wikipedia? Is it still kept, or was it renamed, merged, deleted or something else in this time? MBelgrano (talk) 15:10, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Spelling error in the article: "Wikipedia"

Under the section "Attacks on the Encyclopedia" - the subsection "Vandalisation" is a blatant grammatical error. It should be replaced with the word "vandalism" originally posted by User talk:Madgeek999 (talk | contribs) 08:11, November 11, 2009

Actually, it is a word, but it can indeed be phrased more straightforwardly. --Cybercobra (talk) 08:52, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Madgeek999: you can review the nounal form of 'vandalise' at this Merriam Webster webpage, so 'vandalism' and 'vandalisation' appear to be two different forms for the same word and would thus be interchangeable –and yes, 'nounal' is also a good word. Best: HarryZilber (talk) 17:05, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Servers in Korea decommissioned?

According to Wikitech [2] [3] and Ganglia, there are no longer Wikipedia servers in Korea, though even Meta-Wiki hasn't been updated and there seems to be no up-to-date server layout diagram.

pronunciation

I've never heard "wikipedia" pronounced with the first syllable like "wee", on TV, the radio, or in conversation, and so have deleted the IPA for that. Dictionary.com and the six sound files at forvo.com would appear to back me up. Anyone actually pronounce it WEE-kee-PEE-dee-ə rather than WIK-ee-PEE-dee-ə? (And no, we don't care how it's pronounced in Hawaiian. That's irrelevant. If we were concerned with that, we'd transcribe it VEE-tee-PEE-dee-ə.) —kwami (talk) 09:09, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

I'm in the UK and I have never heard it pronounced "wee..." 21:53, 13 November 2009 (UTC). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.152.242.27 (talk)

Minor wording quibble

At the end of the lead section, I suggest

"... because of how quickly articles about recent events appear."

is changed to

"... because of the speed at which articles about recent events appear."

because the former does not seem like very good English to me. 21:55, 13 November 2009 (UTC). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.152.242.27 (talk)

Add software license to the infobox

It's GPLv2+ as you can find out at MediaWiki. This is just as important as mentioning the content licensing.