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Note: This talk page is only for proposing improvements to Wikipedia:This page is protected as a guide. YOu can visit:

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Wikipedia:Requests for page protection

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A "short" while

The page says "With the exception of several pages which are permanently protected — namely those in the MediaWiki namespace which provide text for the user interface, system administration and copyright/license pages, and the Main Page, which is highly visible, making it a vulnerable target for vandalism — you should be able to edit the page when it is unprotected in a short while."

This is not entirely true. For example, Brian Peppers will not be unprotected until at least 21 February 2007. I don't think this can be considered "a short while". The page should be updated to mention that there are some pages in the main namespace which are protected for a long time.

I understand the reason behind protecting that particular article, but I think Wikipedia is taking it too far by hiding the fact that the issue (and other similar issues) even exist. Jibjibjib 07:43, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

"Article" to "page"

Referring to the following sentence in this version:

In the meantime, please feel free to discuss the changes you want to make on the talk page of the article in question."

Many pages, such as MediaWiki and highly vulnerable pages in the WP namespace, are not in the namespace. Therefore, article should be changed to page.--Ed ^{¿Cómo estás?} 03:16, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Done. Made sense. ^demon^{[omg plz]} 04:25, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Question

Can one of you administrators add another shortcut? It's called Wikipedia:Why are some pages protected?

VD Burning Notes for the Carnegie Supernova Project

1. Choice of media

As an initial media for mass storage DVD-R 4X single sided media is recommended (4.7 GB capacity). Although, the Sony DW-U14A burners on our computers are capable of reading and writing most popular DVD and CD formats, many other computers are not equipped with universal read capability. A complete discussion of the various writable media types available is beyond the scope of this document, but the choice of DVD-R is not hard to understand. DVD-R is the most widely supported media and it is economical (approaching $ 1.00 a disk in bulk quantities). Initially we had considered using double-sided media, but after some reflection we now think this is not the best approach. The reason for this is that there is very little room on double-sided media to apply a label or mark directly on the disk. Furthermore with double-sided media it is necessary to manually flip the disk on our current burners to write on the opposite side.

2. DVD Software and Examples

I have implemented two methods to burn DVD's: Command line tools and K3b. The command line tools, dvd+rw-tools, are the latest versions from http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/. This rather technical (but interesting) web site should be consulted for details. K3b is a KDE GUI that handles the burning of both DVD's and CD's quite intuitively. K3b is a well-featured backup utility with many nice features that users should like such as drag and drop file selection, multivolume DVD backups, backup verification, and DVD/CD copying. Note that k3b uses the dvd+rw-tool package as an underlying software layer.

There are several approaches to using command line tools to burn DVD's, but the simplest method is to insert a blank DVD in the drive and simply issue the command:

$ growisofs -Z /dev/cdrom -R -J -apple <directory>

You may also change the writing speed by issuing:

$ growisofs -Z /dev/cdrom -R -J -apple -speed=1 <directory>

where <directory> is the top of a directory tree. I have tested DVD-R's burned this way and they are readable on Linux, Windows XP, and Apple OS-X computers (and probably other OS’s as well). Note that in using this command line invocation, the user is responsible for having his files properly organized in the directory as they will all be streamed out and burned nearly immediately onto the blank DVD media. I estimate that burning a 4.7 GB DVD will take about 15 minutes depending on the number of files. The CSP will generate about 1.2 GB of data per night, so burning one archival DVD and one backup archival DVD each night should be very straightforward. More elaborate command line approaches are possible by developing scripts. By typing

$ mkisofs -help

a full set of switches, all usable by growisofs, is given.

To use the k3b GUI to burn or copy DVD's, open a terminal window and become superuser. Type

1. k3b

and follow the intuitive GUI menus (similar to PC programs such as NERO) to select directories and files to burn or copy DVD's. Note that k3b also supports CD burning and copying if one has smaller sized data needs (650 MB per disk). It will be possible eventually to get k3b to work for non-privileged users.

1. Verify DATA Written to DVD:

High-risk templates

The page should mention that Wikipedia:High-risk templates get long term protection. — Randall Bart ^(talk) 11:34, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Add iw

The Norwegian language page at no:Wikipedia:Denne siden er beskyttet. Nsaa 20:29, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Singapore

This page begins w/ something about "singapore"; had this person attempted to place a similar comment on a Singapore page? If so, maybe they could say "This is what I had wanted to say on that page,..."

Well, I wanted to comment @ talk : Jeff Garlin; but, that is blocked,...

What I had wanted to say:

signature

[[ hopiakuta Please do sign your signature on your message. ~~ Thank You. -]] 04:09, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

On

Daily Show, did he say something about "Don't ever trust anyhting on wikipedia."?

[[ hopiakuta Please do sign your signature on your message. ~~ Thank You. -]] 04:09, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

The first part would be a signature reminder, partly that I do not my comment to be mixed-into the previous comment.

The second part would be about what I had thought that I had heard.

Now, I've said it here because it is completely blocked.

Thank You,

[[ hopiakuta Please do sign your signature on your message. ~~ Thank You. -]] 04:09, 11 September 2007 (UTC)