Movement of Star Wars cruft to the Star Wars Wiki? the wub (talk) 09:15, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Assumably the opening of the StarWars Wikicity, which is already the biggest wikicity out there (and now I know why!). GreenReaper 14:31, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Don't ask me to elaborate the choice of words here since I didn't make this question. But you are incorrect. Sorry. -- AllyUnion (talk) 15:22, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
On April 23 123.249.70.7 removed a large portion of Force (Star Wars) due to plagerism. -- Nis81 20:36, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)
plagiarism
Screetchy cello's guess edit
In April 2005, Michael Snow redirected Wikipedia:The_dark_side_of_Wikipedia (history) and Wikipedia:Dark_side_of_Wikipedia (history) to Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is not so great. Obviously, this shrunk the content of those two pages down to just a redirect.
I found this by assuming the "dark side" the question referred to was talking about Wikipedia itself, not any Star Wars link. I remembered seeing something once about the downside of Wikipedia and found it by googing " "dark side" site:en.wikipedia.org -"Star Wars" ". It's in the second page of hits.
--Screetchy cello July 9, 2005 09:50 (UTC) (sorry, forgot to sign my post!)
Reediewes' verbose guess edit
Searching for ("dark side of wikipedia" site:en.wikipedia.org -"star wars" -"pink floyd") on Google turns up three hits. Following these links to the eventual destination of Wikipedia:The dark side of Wikipedia and by redirect to Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is not so great. The "dark side" of Wikipedia is the possible inaccuracy, incompleteness, and POV-ness that may result from making the sum of all human knowledge editable by any yokel with a keyboard.
On April Fool's Day, 2005, a great deal of pages were created as pranks and jokes (Example list 1 and Example list 2). These articles were unencyclopedic and sometimes offensive and were deleted shortly after April 1st. The removal of these pages constituted a shrinkage in the dark side of Wikipedia. Reediewes 21:15, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
Hint edit
This question deals with a bug or error in the software used to run the Wikipedia. --AllyUnion (talk) 08:24, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
Block compression bug edit
I thought it must refer to the block compression bug (mentioned here, which made it impossible to delete certain pages. These pages were orphaned (hence "hard to see"/"dark side") and put in Category:Pending deletions until the bug was fixed. However according to the history of User:Pending deletion script this was only fixed, and the backlog of pages deleted in May, not April. the wub "?/!" 11:40, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
Hint 2 edit
This bug or error attempted to fix a problem only to cause a newer problem. --AllyUnion (talk) 01:44, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
I'll try... edit
This wouldn't have anything to do with [1], would it? Tim turned off tidy and some people's signatures had unclosed HTML tags, so text got smaller and smaller as the page went on. « alerante ✆ ✉ » 19:22, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
- Close enough. Correct! The Unicode Byte Order Mark. (It was being inserted by HTMLTidy (http://tidy.sourceforge.net/) when dealing with broken signatures ironically, the reason it was turned on in the first place.) --AllyUnion (talk) 06:56, 25 August 2005 (UTC)