
Gianfranco is lurking, learning and sometimes posting, from Rome, Italy. Before registering as a user, my contributions were identified as IP 151.24.???.??? ---- I would sincerely like to thank the other Users for their help in fixing the English in my text: (with a patience that I deeply appreciate) they make my many mistakes disappear, by some alchemy I don't know, transforming them into something that is finally readable -- Thank you :-) ---- August 30, 2002:
discussions previously in my talk page are now at User talk:Gianfranco/archive. ---- After a few months in Wikipedia, it was perhaps correct to add a brief note on myself. :I'm a Rome by birth (a circumstance that here we are somehow proud of - for never cleared reasons indeed), so I ordinarily do enjoy the particular soul, the special spirit, the unrespectful unique humour of this town, and I believe that I was lucky to grow and live here. Yet, I don't properly endorse the typical roman mentality, even if I watch at it respectfully (one of these days I should post the tale of the street-sweeper and the Pope, it might be interesting). :Yes, being a Roman also means that you daily may have to deal with many matters that truly sometimes are better known by foreigners ( :-), like politics, religion, history, architecture, art, music and, of course, latin language (but we don't speak it in the streets). But it's not so heavy, one soon gets used to it. :My principal educational knowledge is in jurisprudence, civil law in particular (in the Italian sense), that helped me to work in consultancy for business (now, with more salt than pepper in my hair, I'm not retiring, but I relevantly decreased it) and in running my own minor business, shared into several different fields (Web too). :Luckily, my professional activities could mostly be oriented toward research on one side, while on the other side I have worked a lot in historical or artistic related business, therefore I often enjoyed the advantage of the many opportunities my country could give me, and the thrill of letting passions enrich the profession. :As for passions, I'm now studying about ancient and medieval Sardinia, a field that I recently found of great interest due to the uncommon evolution of local society, laws, language, habits, after so little contacts with the mainland. ---- :Don't forget to check the Latin version of Wikipedia, now available at :: http://la.wikipedia.com/ :::''adde quod sciis...'' ---- ''September 6, 2002'' :After a private disaster which in my absence ruined my ''studio'', my books, my pictures and my collections, now terribly under some tons of water and tainting, I will not be able to follow Wikipedia as frequently as I was used to do before. :I certainly have to keep in mind that there are greater problems than mines - I will also have to stay in Florence for a while (...), so I'll have a constant immediate recall to the sense of proportions; but my spirit is not so joyful, as you can imagine, and I have to rebuilt ''ex novo'' decades of work and study. :Please consider that I'll consequently be unable to answer you promptly, as I would like to do, but this is a forced situation that I do hope will not last so long. :I also found today another sad surprise in Wiki's community, User:JHK. I do believe that quality is always from and for minorities, in life and everywhere, and that we always need a hard effort (and to fight, really) for it to resist quantity, for value to prevail on weight; and I believe that sometimes we can even feel it is a battle we do have to fight, beyond our emotions. But I have to respectfully accept a choice that makes me sad and poorer. I am however sure that soon these comments of mine will become useless again... ;-) :I'd then like to invite you, in the meanwhile, to explore [http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=J_Hofmann_Kemp&days=360&limit=2000 one of the most valuable examples] of what Wikipedia is great for (slow page, but interesting). :Please, help to preserve safe, objective, serious and encyclopedic, Nicolaus Copernicus. But this was a special one: I still consider it symbolic of the spirit of Wikipedia, and a proof that...
it can be done, and in fact it has been done. : :Thank you. :Gianfranco ---- Gianfranco, I just wanted to say thank you for the kind words. Since going, Talk:Henry I of France appeared. It, and the fact that no one has chosen to respond to it, has pretty much confirmed my decision. I decided to break my self-imposed silence (this Elliot person seems to think it was not entirely voluntary, although what else could it be?) because I truly appreciate the time you took to say goodbye in such an eloquent manner. Perhaps the wikipedia will at some point come up with a system that protects proven contributors from unfounded accusations. Again, my address is available if anyone has a question (the wikipedia list people have it). Take care, and I hope you can salvage more from your office than you'd hoped. user:JHK ---- Re: LanguageIt.php -- sure, go ahead and send me a current version and make sure it's all up to date, and I'll put it up. --User:Brion VIBBER 18:57 Dec 31, 2002 (UTC) ---------- Nice edit of pasta. thanks! ----------------
In order to keep this page light and easily readable, the previous discussions have now been moved to User talk:Gianfranco/archive Your comments are always welcome. :-) ---- Ciau Gianfranco Did you know that we have started a sicilian wikipedia? If you have any friends that can write in Sicilian, please let them know. Indeed, if you yourself can write in Sicilian, your articles will always be welcome. Salutamu --User:Pippu d'angelo 05:57, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC) ----- Ciao Gianfranco, mi chiamo Valentina e sono una studentessa dell'Università Cattolica di Milano. Sto studiando per la mia tesi di laurea, nella quale studierò proprio il progetto dell'enciclopedia open source e in particolare sto cercando di capire bene il funzionamento base di Wikipedia. Essendo la mia tesi in ambito sociologico, in particolare trattasi di sociologia della comunicazione, sarei interessata soprattutto a capire il processo di 'annullamento' del diritto d'autore/editore, al fine di creare questa sorta di 'diritto collettivo'. Ho letto che tu sei uno dei veterani, nonchè il fondatore del progetto italiano di Wikipedia. Mi piacerebbe chiederti un po' di solidarietà e vorrei una mano per entrare in questo mondo e cercare di capirne a fondo il funzionamento, anche con la lettura delle tue esperienze a riguardo e magari di altri wikipediani. Sono particolarmente incuriosità dal fatto che un così grande numero di persone si siano messe insieme per creare qs archivio di tutto lo scibile umano, perennemente aggiornabile. Ti ringrazio moltissimo già da ora per la collaborazione, attendo impaziente un segno di vita da parte tua :-)))) --[Vala] ps. sai dirmi qualcosa anche sulla versione internazionale in inglese e sui fondatori. Come hai scoperto tu il tutto, ecc. Thanx ----- Sono : un nuovo amico (Christian) ha mostrato un interesse a capire meglio cosa voglia dire diritto d'autore. Gli ho dato una risposta. puoi verificare (almeno l'ortografia :-), per favore? http://it.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?Silvio_Berlusconi/Talk ----- Scusa, ho sbagliato un link, come si cancella la voce (nello specifico patriarca di Venezia cehe andava diviso in patriarca e Venezia). Al momento la pagina l'ho svuotata, ma per eliminarla non basta... puoi dirmi come si fa? Lucas ----- 1500 articoli ?! suvvia non bariamo, più della metà sono a quattro cifre oppure seguiti dal nome di un mese. Magari fossero già stati riempiti anche questi !
ciao :Intanto non sottovalutiamo il duro lavoro dei portatori d'acqua ;-))) :Secondo: caso mai mi potevi dire "l'era dell'ottimismo", con tanto di commessi e clienti che saltellano tutti contenti gridando che questo è il migliore dei mondi possibili... :-))) :Seriamente, siccome in pochissimi stiamo facendo un gran lavoro (io un po' meno, a dire il vero), mi piaceva comunque dare un segnale di crescita, il cui dato numerico è difficile da individuare sceverato dalle pagine sui giorni e sugli anni. Occorrerebbe una query che non so immaginare al momento. E' importane però segnalare che la "massa critica" si muove, cresce, si perfeziona e si sviluppa, e sapendo che quando toccheremo i 5.000 avremo già incluso e completato gli anni (2000), i giorni (366) e i decenni (200), da quel momento saranno tutti articoli "puri". :La Wiki inglese cominciò in questo modo. Può sembrarci strano, ma quando qui si prefissavano di raggiungere quota 100.000, sembrava un obiettivo impossibile. Anche il richiamo numerico (fatto al nostro stesso modo) ebbe probabilmente la sua importanza. :Con il PHP (che non so proprio perché stia ritardando - quando ho messo l'avviso, mi era stato dato giorno ed ora...) potremo distinguere velocemente la qualità degli articoli già escludendo dal computo i redirect e le pagine Talk, e avremo un conto già più netto. [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics Vedi qui] :Comunque, cerchiamo di raggiungere i 5.000, che (comunque siano) sarebbero già una massa di articoli di buona rilevanza :-))) User:Gianfranco ----- Ciao Gianfranco, son sempre io, tomi http://it.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?Tomi . Ti invito a leggere http://it.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?Tomi/Discussione . Ci risentiamo, tomi ----- Ciao Gianfranco, Sono Tomi http://it.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?Tomi , a parte ringraziarti per il tuo lavoro su it.wikipedia.com , volevo chiederti se c'è un modo di aver un proprio mirror locale, per evitarmi di stare troppo a lungo on-line (off-line non va molto bene, perché ci sono sempre piccoli stupidi errori che si fanno) Serve a me a casa (Linux/Apache/MySQL/Perl-PHP-Pyton) Seconda domanda: c'è modo di mettere le immagini da qualche parte? Avrei altre domande, ma te le risparmio (per il momento) ciao, tomi ----- Hi Gianfranco -- I've left a note for you on Talk:Salic law. If you have a chance, could you please check it out? Mille Gracie! User:JHK ---- Hi Gianfranco - you don't seem to be around very much these days, but I hope you can help me with something over at conductor. I'm wondering if the Italian term ''direttori'' (which you introduced to a section of the orchestra article which I've since moved to conductor) is exactly equivalent to "conductors" or if it means something more specific (for instance, is it only applied to conductors of opera, ballet, other stage works; or only to well established conductors; or something else). Thanks. --User:Camembert :Hi Camembert, I believe that Direttori (singular: Direttore) mostly coincides with the English Conductors. It is indeed a degree in artistic careers that is in use in many disciplines and it should correspond to the function of the one who has the duty of organising and coordinating an artistic show. But, like in the most evident example of Opera, the Direttore is not always the general artistic organiser of whole show - Visconti and Zeffirelli, just to mention a couple of cases, produced "their" famous interpretations of Opera works with no directly musical performance. So Direttore applies to the organisation and coordination in the respective field of competence. :In formal language, we have the "Direttore d'Orchestra", the "Direttore del Corpo di Ballo" and so on; recently, new forms were also added like the ugly "Maestro direttore" or "Maestro programmatore", but these are reserved to special careers (like for radio-TV companies' orchestras). :The title is quite bureaucratic, in the sense that it is not reserved to the really most important "bacchette" only. We have plenty of unknown Conductors that ''merely'' have completed a course of studies in the Conservatories (this happens also for the word "Maestro"), so they have achieved a sort of official administrative licence to conduct, but no serious impresario would ever let them govern an important orchestra (even if sometimes... ;-) :In general language, consider that a true Direttore is a good Conductor. :Long hair is not mandatory :-) --G ---- Hi Gianfranco. Sorry to hear about your office getting flooded; hope you manage to sort things out soon. --User:Bth :Thank you, Bth. :We're still working very hard these days, and little by little objects and furnitures are being dried and re-ordered. Unfortunately there are many things, especially photographs, pictures, books, to which I linked personal memories, that are lost forever and this is the worst damage. I'm currently within the chaos, yet (sadly) working. :But... I won't surrender, not at all! :-))) --G ---- Thanks for your help on Italian cuisine - (I put the other info there in the last few days) - i know it is terribly inadequate - with more time to research it i'd like to really flesh out the italian cuisine section properly. cheers User:LeonBambrick ---- Hi Gianfranco -- check out Pontifex Maximus to make sure I haven't done any violence to anything you've added. -- User:Someone else 02:28 Oct 31, 2002 (UTC)
:Hi, Someone Else, thank you for your help.
:No violence, at all :-) Only, I think that some dubitative caution could have perhaps remained, given that there is no "scientific certitude" on what they were or represented and many versions are available on these topics.
:But that's really the only point, and effectively not crucial. Thank you again :-))) [G]
:: Hi again. Point taken, room for doubt is a good thing, but a little bit goes a long way. I just did a bit of editing on Rota. Again, I don't think I did TOO much damage... but you should check just the same. (I think it's nice that you ask for help with the language, your English is really pretty good.) User:Someone else 04:21 Nov 2, 2002 (UTC)
::No damage, Someone Else, don't worry. Now it is what I really wanted to say :-)
::I do need that someone (else? :-) graciously checks my contributions, as I'd like to add something (hopefully) useful and correct to the project, and in an Encyclopedia there is no room for mistakes.
::I hope indeed that my English can be sufficient for communications, I'm always afraid I could need to add gesture to explain myself, and here it wouldn't be that easy... :-))) [G]
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Gianfranco,
Since you've already pointed out the intransigence of the Italian bureaucracy's devotion to official documents (Gian-Carlo Rota) I thought you might find this link of interest - a story about the difficulty of a young man accidentally designated as a female on his birth certificate.... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51403-2002Nov1.html -- User:Someone else 22:54 Nov 4, 2002 (UTC)
:ehmmmmm.... I'm afraid that in the article there is as much sweet irony as terrible truth.
:Yes, a few "peaks" might have been sharpened for the audience's advantage - but the essential description is correct. This is really not what we are used to, it is actually something that cannot surprise us. We say "ahimé"...
:A few years ago we had the case of a family, still in a poor context of Southern Italy, of which the many brothers and sisters were recorded (or later resulted) with many different surnames, instead of presenting the same common one. More or less, these surnames were only little different among each other, perhaps a carachter or two, a plural instead of a singular and soon, but "formally" they ''were different''. This could happen because birth acts were written by hand by different officers who often took no care in what parents verbally declared. Maybe once the father had a louder voice, maybe for the birth of another son he had caught a cold, maybe also the officer was half-deaf, maybe the father was not completely aware of his personal surname... who knows? After the wrong recording by the first officer, there is still another officer who will perform the transcription of the first document. At this moment, when the first one was not a "calligraphist", it was easy to wrongly read and copy. And once you have a "document", there you are, from here to eternity. When the parents died, a sort of law had to be officially and formally issued to recognise to the brothers their (poor) rights in the succession.
:I believe that the one who better rendered this formalism was Luigi Pirandello (I personally love this author, I regret that foreigners unfortunately cannot entirely appreciate his sophisticated use of the Italian language, his attention to quite unperceivable details of the communication, an accessory literarian greatness - but me too, I miss in turn these ''nuances'' for those authors foreign to me). Well, Pirandello wrote a paradoxal novel, "La Patente". It is the story of a man that the general superstition, in the village in which he lives in, indicates as a "jettatore" (one who brings bad luck, one to avoid because accompanied by "mala sorte", a sort of "outrageous fortune" that occurs to damage others than him). This man goes to the local police district and formally asks for a "Patente", a "document" that could publicly demonstrate that he was embodying such an unpleasant figure. Why? Being a jettatore is usually not a comfortable situation in Italy: everybody would avoid you, when you walk people secretly knock on steel (not wood, here), shake a coral red horn, or perform other scaramantic manoeuvres inside their pockets. A man would never let you marry his daughter, a wedding or an important purchase would be postponed if you simply pass by in the surroundings. So, why was he asking for such a document, why did he need a formal transcription, an official recording of such a disgraced condition? Why a "document" is so important here? Because with that document (''let me point out that we don't have such certifications... if I well remember...'') he would have been able to work: he could have legitimately stationed in front of a restaurant, or in front of a jewelry, and the patron would have immediately come out, paying him a fee to rapidly abandon his position and eventually move to stand in front of a concurrent shop... He just needed a document.
:But we follow ancient traditions: ''brocard"...
:Deep thanks for your note, I enjoyed reading that article (after the happy ending, of course...) :-))) Gianfranco
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Hey, many thanks on your assistance with the War on Drugs. I just finished revising, cleaning up the English and making some other changes. Feel free to check it out. I had one question:
*The proposed scheme would be terrificly dangerous because this would bring trafficants to engage into a chemical challenge (newer drugs are mostly made by synthesis) with the state, in order to create new clandestine products for new markets. Eventual new products could be even more lethal than current ones, so to gain consumers' interest. In alternative, trafficants could be forced to invest in other illegal activities, with all the power of their really huge capitals.
This was cited as an argument in favor of prohibition. If I read it correctly, it is saying that, if drugs were legalized, people who currently sell illegal drugs would invent new (presumably legal, since the War on Drugs has been cancelled in this hypothesis) drugs that excite the public's interest by killing large numbers of users using the (virtually nonexistent) profits they make from selling then-legal drugs at inflated prices, with the (also nonexistent) leftovers used to fund other illegal activities. I'm not at all saying it is impossible for someone to make such an argument, but I've never heard of it and it doesn't make much sense. If people really do argue this, please give me more details so I can reword it more clearly. Thanks a lot for your help, User:Tokerboy 06:13 Nov 5, 2002 (UTC)
:Hi Tokerboy, thank you for your note and for your huge work on that page. I'm very sorry to answer you so late, but I was in bed with an... influenza :-)
:I'm answering you on the Talk:War on Drugs page, so to allow other contributors to eventually enrich the discussion. See you there :-) [G]
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Hello Gianfranco,
I saw that you have changed the format for the title of the links footnote in the article House of Savoy. I had actually already formatted this title on purpose, in a way that may appear too big, but which was in line with what has been defined in Wikipedia:Manual of Style. So, I changed it back. Not a big deal. Just wanted to let you know about that, and that it is probably important that we all use the same style across the 'pedia, so that there is a common feel across all pages. User:Olivier 09:58 Nov 6, 2002 (UTC)
:Hi, Olivier.
:The change I made was intended to avoid the paragraphs to be ordered starting by zero: the hyerarchy of these tags ("==", "===", etc.) and their position, currently makes the numbers of each paragraph start from 0.1, 0.2, etc, which makes no sense to me. Two alternative solutions we could use: we could make the last tag too like the other ones (please look at "=" signs) and we would have no more numbers, or we could invert the current tags (using "===" where now is "==", and viceversa), so that the article might start - more normally - with 1.1, 1.2, etc. I do consider that it would be better to have no numbers at all for that article, but... qu'en pensez-vous? :-) [G]
:The reason why you see numbers next to the headings is because you have selected "Auto-number headings" in your "Preferences". I am not using this option, so I did not initially see the same thing as you did. Now I can see what you mean, and I agree, it does not look great. Maybe the best way to solve it is to uncheck "Auto-number headings" in your "Preferences"... I agree that it will not solve the problem for people wiling to visualize the numbering though. So, please feel free to change the tags accordingly, but I would rather keep the formattng in line with the Manual of style. User:Olivier 08:59 Nov 11, 2002 (UTC)
::Well, in the Manual of style it is suggested to use "=" tags instead of " ''' " ones, but we can freely choose how many "=" signs to use in order to render any paragraph with its own "weight" inside the article and to eventually nest sub-sections. I'd say that the Manual's instruction was perhaps meant to allow auto-numbering (and I evidently agree this can be useful), and for this purpose it's necessary to turn the " ''' " tags into "=" (or "==", "===", "====", etc) ones. In fact my point was only that if the first sections are tagged with three "="s, and the last one with only two, the first section is recognised by the stylesheet as "of minor importance" of the last one, so it is numbered as if they were sub-sections while the last one was a section ("of higher level"). In this case, starting with a "sub-section" (as recognised by the software), numbers start with 0.1, 0.2, etc.
::If we edit as proposed, we are still in line with instructions :-) [G]
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Hey, sorry about the delay on moving the wiki. I've been distracted by the &$&*$@# performance problems, and have kept having to push back my upgrade plans. Should be soon... in the meantime, make sure the italian translation is up-to-date with the last few changes: see [http://meta.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Language.php&diff=0&oldid=5010]. It won't hurt if you don't, you'll just see a few new English messages. :) --User:Brion VIBBER 10:02 Feb 4, 2003 (UTC)
:I'll check it in depth tonight, but for what I have now quickly seen, there shouldn't be a problem if variables' names haven't changed. Besides, I still trust that further changes might be added later, when we will experience it in the "ordinary" editing life ;-)
:Thank you again :-))) [G]
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Hello,
I have been told by to ask you about this page http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_formats_for_language_linking. There are century and millenium to add for Italian. And are there capitals on months in Italian? Because there are not on this page, but there are in the Italian Wikipedia. By example, a link to goes to . Thanks, User:Yann from France. ---- Hi Gianfranco --
Just wanted to let you know that I expanded the article on the American Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, to which you contributed a while ago. --User:Xinoph 04:42, Mar 12, 2004 (UTC) ---- Sciau Gianfranco. I was wondering, since you have some Sardinian friends... do you think perhaps you could introduce them to Wikipedia and help get sc: up and running? ([http://sc.wikipedia.org/ sc:] Also... I think it's best for right now if people use the Limba Sarda Unificada (sp?) standard for spelling and grammar. User:Node_ueUser_talk:Node_ue == Article Licensing == Hi, I've User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project to get users to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (''CC-by-sa'') v1.0 and v2.0 Creative Commons Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The ''CC-by-sa'' license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at ''minimum'' those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information: *User talk:Ram-Man#Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered *Wikipedia:Multi-licensing *User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
:I agree to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:
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Gianfranco is lurking, learning and sometimes posting, from Rome, Italy. Before registering as a user, my contributions were identified as IP 151.24.???.??? ---- I would sincerely like to thank the other Users for their help in fixing the English in my text: (with a patience that I deeply appreciate) they make my many mistakes disappear, by some alchemy I don't know, transforming them into something that is finally readable -- Thank you :-) ---- August 30, 2002:
discussions previously in my talk page are now at User talk:Gianfranco/archive. ---- After a few months in Wikipedia, it was perhaps correct to add a brief note on myself. :I'm a Rome by birth (a circumstance that here we are somehow proud of - for never cleared reasons indeed), so I ordinarily do enjoy the particular soul, the special spirit, the unrespectful unique humour of this town, and I believe that I was lucky to grow and live here. Yet, I don't properly endorse the typical roman mentality, even if I watch at it respectfully (one of these days I should post the tale of the street-sweeper and the Pope, it might be interesting). :Yes, being a Roman also means that you daily may have to deal with many matters that truly sometimes are better known by foreigners ( :-), like politics, religion, history, architecture, art, music and, of course, latin language (but we don't speak it in the streets). But it's not so heavy, one soon gets used to it. :My principal educational knowledge is in jurisprudence, civil law in particular (in the Italian sense), that helped me to work in consultancy for business (now, with more salt than pepper in my hair, I'm not retiring, but I relevantly decreased it) and in running my own minor business, shared into several different fields (Web too). :Luckily, my professional activities could mostly be oriented toward research on one side, while on the other side I have worked a lot in historical or artistic related business, therefore I often enjoyed the advantage of the many opportunities my country could give me, and the thrill of letting passions enrich the profession. :As for passions, I'm now studying about ancient and medieval Sardinia, a field that I recently found of great interest due to the uncommon evolution of local society, laws, language, habits, after so little contacts with the mainland. ---- :Don't forget to check the Latin version of Wikipedia, now available at :: http://la.wikipedia.com/ :::''adde quod sciis...'' ---- ''September 6, 2002'' :After a private disaster which in my absence ruined my ''studio'', my books, my pictures and my collections, now terribly under some tons of water and tainting, I will not be able to follow Wikipedia as frequently as I was used to do before. :I certainly have to keep in mind that there are greater problems than mines - I will also have to stay in Florence for a while (...), so I'll have a constant immediate recall to the sense of proportions; but my spirit is not so joyful, as you can imagine, and I have to rebuilt ''ex novo'' decades of work and study. :Please consider that I'll consequently be unable to answer you promptly, as I would like to do, but this is a forced situation that I do hope will not last so long. :I also found today another sad surprise in Wiki's community, User:JHK. I do believe that quality is always from and for minorities, in life and everywhere, and that we always need a hard effort (and to fight, really) for it to resist quantity, for value to prevail on weight; and I believe that sometimes we can even feel it is a battle we do have to fight, beyond our emotions. But I have to respectfully accept a choice that makes me sad and poorer. I am however sure that soon these comments of mine will become useless again... ;-) :I'd then like to invite you, in the meanwhile, to explore [http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=J_Hofmann_Kemp&days=360&limit=2000 one of the most valuable examples] of what Wikipedia is great for (slow page, but interesting). :Please, help to preserve safe, objective, serious and encyclopedic, Nicolaus Copernicus. But this was a special one: I still consider it symbolic of the spirit of Wikipedia, and a proof that...
it can be done, and in fact it has been done. : :Thank you. :Gianfranco ---- Gianfranco, I just wanted to say thank you for the kind words. Since going, Talk:Henry I of France appeared. It, and the fact that no one has chosen to respond to it, has pretty much confirmed my decision. I decided to break my self-imposed silence (this Elliot person seems to think it was not entirely voluntary, although what else could it be?) because I truly appreciate the time you took to say goodbye in such an eloquent manner. Perhaps the wikipedia will at some point come up with a system that protects proven contributors from unfounded accusations. Again, my address is available if anyone has a question (the wikipedia list people have it). Take care, and I hope you can salvage more from your office than you'd hoped. user:JHK ---- Re: LanguageIt.php -- sure, go ahead and send me a current version and make sure it's all up to date, and I'll put it up. --User:Brion VIBBER 18:57 Dec 31, 2002 (UTC) ---------- Nice edit of pasta. thanks! ----------------
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In order to keep this page light and easily readable, the previous discussions have now been moved to User talk:Gianfranco/archive Your comments are always welcome. :-) ---- Ciau Gianfranco Did you know that we have started a sicilian wikipedia? If you have any friends that can write in Sicilian, please let them know. Indeed, if you yourself can write in Sicilian, your articles will always be welcome. Salutamu --User:Pippu d'angelo 05:57, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC) ----- Ciao Gianfranco, mi chiamo Valentina e sono una studentessa dell'Università Cattolica di Milano. Sto studiando per la mia tesi di laurea, nella quale studierò proprio il progetto dell'enciclopedia open source e in particolare sto cercando di capire bene il funzionamento base di Wikipedia. Essendo la mia tesi in ambito sociologico, in particolare trattasi di sociologia della comunicazione, sarei interessata soprattutto a capire il processo di 'annullamento' del diritto d'autore/editore, al fine di creare questa sorta di 'diritto collettivo'. Ho letto che tu sei uno dei veterani, nonchè il fondatore del progetto italiano di Wikipedia. Mi piacerebbe chiederti un po' di solidarietà e vorrei una mano per entrare in questo mondo e cercare di capirne a fondo il funzionamento, anche con la lettura delle tue esperienze a riguardo e magari di altri wikipediani. Sono particolarmente incuriosità dal fatto che un così grande numero di persone si siano messe insieme per creare qs archivio di tutto lo scibile umano, perennemente aggiornabile. Ti ringrazio moltissimo già da ora per la collaborazione, attendo impaziente un segno di vita da parte tua :-)))) --[Vala] ps. sai dirmi qualcosa anche sulla versione internazionale in inglese e sui fondatori. Come hai scoperto tu il tutto, ecc. Thanx ----- Sono : un nuovo amico (Christian) ha mostrato un interesse a capire meglio cosa voglia dire diritto d'autore. Gli ho dato una risposta. puoi verificare (almeno l'ortografia :-), per favore? http://it.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?Silvio_Berlusconi/Talk ----- Scusa, ho sbagliato un link, come si cancella la voce (nello specifico patriarca di Venezia cehe andava diviso in patriarca e Venezia). Al momento la pagina l'ho svuotata, ma per eliminarla non basta... puoi dirmi come si fa? Lucas ----- 1500 articoli ?! suvvia non bariamo, più della metà sono a quattro cifre oppure seguiti dal nome di un mese. Magari fossero già stati riempiti anche questi !
ciao :Intanto non sottovalutiamo il duro lavoro dei portatori d'acqua ;-))) :Secondo: caso mai mi potevi dire "l'era dell'ottimismo", con tanto di commessi e clienti che saltellano tutti contenti gridando che questo è il migliore dei mondi possibili... :-))) :Seriamente, siccome in pochissimi stiamo facendo un gran lavoro (io un po' meno, a dire il vero), mi piaceva comunque dare un segnale di crescita, il cui dato numerico è difficile da individuare sceverato dalle pagine sui giorni e sugli anni. Occorrerebbe una query che non so immaginare al momento. E' importane però segnalare che la "massa critica" si muove, cresce, si perfeziona e si sviluppa, e sapendo che quando toccheremo i 5.000 avremo già incluso e completato gli anni (2000), i giorni (366) e i decenni (200), da quel momento saranno tutti articoli "puri". :La Wiki inglese cominciò in questo modo. Può sembrarci strano, ma quando qui si prefissavano di raggiungere quota 100.000, sembrava un obiettivo impossibile. Anche il richiamo numerico (fatto al nostro stesso modo) ebbe probabilmente la sua importanza. :Con il PHP (che non so proprio perché stia ritardando - quando ho messo l'avviso, mi era stato dato giorno ed ora...) potremo distinguere velocemente la qualità degli articoli già escludendo dal computo i redirect e le pagine Talk, e avremo un conto già più netto. [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics Vedi qui] :Comunque, cerchiamo di raggiungere i 5.000, che (comunque siano) sarebbero già una massa di articoli di buona rilevanza :-))) User:Gianfranco ----- Ciao Gianfranco, son sempre io, tomi http://it.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?Tomi . Ti invito a leggere http://it.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?Tomi/Discussione . Ci risentiamo, tomi ----- Ciao Gianfranco, Sono Tomi http://it.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?Tomi , a parte ringraziarti per il tuo lavoro su it.wikipedia.com , volevo chiederti se c'è un modo di aver un proprio mirror locale, per evitarmi di stare troppo a lungo on-line (off-line non va molto bene, perché ci sono sempre piccoli stupidi errori che si fanno) Serve a me a casa (Linux/Apache/MySQL/Perl-PHP-Pyton) Seconda domanda: c'è modo di mettere le immagini da qualche parte? Avrei altre domande, ma te le risparmio (per il momento) ciao, tomi ----- Hi Gianfranco -- I've left a note for you on Talk:Salic law. If you have a chance, could you please check it out? Mille Gracie! User:JHK ---- Hi Gianfranco - you don't seem to be around very much these days, but I hope you can help me with something over at conductor. I'm wondering if the Italian term ''direttori'' (which you introduced to a section of the orchestra article which I've since moved to conductor) is exactly equivalent to "conductors" or if it means something more specific (for instance, is it only applied to conductors of opera, ballet, other stage works; or only to well established conductors; or something else). Thanks. --User:Camembert :Hi Camembert, I believe that Direttori (singular: Direttore) mostly coincides with the English Conductors. It is indeed a degree in artistic careers that is in use in many disciplines and it should correspond to the function of the one who has the duty of organising and coordinating an artistic show. But, like in the most evident example of Opera, the Direttore is not always the general artistic organiser of whole show - Visconti and Zeffirelli, just to mention a couple of cases, produced "their" famous interpretations of Opera works with no directly musical performance. So Direttore applies to the organisation and coordination in the respective field of competence. :In formal language, we have the "Direttore d'Orchestra", the "Direttore del Corpo di Ballo" and so on; recently, new forms were also added like the ugly "Maestro direttore" or "Maestro programmatore", but these are reserved to special careers (like for radio-TV companies' orchestras). :The title is quite bureaucratic, in the sense that it is not reserved to the really most important "bacchette" only. We have plenty of unknown Conductors that ''merely'' have completed a course of studies in the Conservatories (this happens also for the word "Maestro"), so they have achieved a sort of official administrative licence to conduct, but no serious impresario would ever let them govern an important orchestra (even if sometimes... ;-) :In general language, consider that a true Direttore is a good Conductor. :Long hair is not mandatory :-) --G ---- Hi Gianfranco. Sorry to hear about your office getting flooded; hope you manage to sort things out soon. --User:Bth :Thank you, Bth. :We're still working very hard these days, and little by little objects and furnitures are being dried and re-ordered. Unfortunately there are many things, especially photographs, pictures, books, to which I linked personal memories, that are lost forever and this is the worst damage. I'm currently within the chaos, yet (sadly) working. :But... I won't surrender, not at all! :-))) --G ---- Thanks for your help on Italian cuisine - (I put the other info there in the last few days) - i know it is terribly inadequate - with more time to research it i'd like to really flesh out the italian cuisine section properly. cheers User:LeonBambrick ---- Hi Gianfranco -- check out Pontifex Maximus to make sure I haven't done any violence to anything you've added
I have been told by to ask you about this page http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_formats_for_language_linking. There are century and millenium to add for Italian. And are there capitals on months in Italian? Because there are not on this page, but there are in the Italian Wikipedia. By example, a link to goes to . Thanks, User:Yann from France. ---- Hi Gianfranco --
Just wanted to let you know that I expanded the article on the American Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, to which you contributed a while ago. --User:Xinoph 04:42, Mar 12, 2004 (UTC) ---- Sciau Gianfranco. I was wondering, since you have some Sardinian friends... do you think perhaps you could introduce them to Wikipedia and help get sc: up and running? ([http://sc.wikipedia.org/ sc:] Also... I think it's best for right now if people use the Limba Sarda Unificada (sp?) standard for spelling and grammar. User:Node_ueUser_talk:Node_ue == Article Licensing == Hi, I've User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project to get users to Wikipedia:Multi-licensing all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (''CC-by-sa'') v1.0 and v2.0 Creative Commons Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The ''CC-by-sa'' license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at ''minimum'' those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information: *User talk:Ram-Man#Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered *Wikipedia:Multi-licensing *User:rambot#Free the Rambot Articles project To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "
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