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Extensions and interwiki links

A few questions:

1. What Wikimedia extensions are installed here?
2. What types of interwiki links are available for external wiki-linking? Mcornelius 03:59, 12 November 2010 (CST)

The extensions we have right now can be seen at Special:Version: we have categorytree, charinsert, parserfunctions, and cite. If we need more, however, we can ask our developers to install them.

As far as interwiki links go, it looks like we can use the full names of Wikimedia wikis, but not shortcuts. So, wikipedia:Ludwig von Mises or wiktionary:praxeology. For Wikisource, we have to specify the language: wikisource:en:The Law. --Forgottenman (talk) 06:49, 12 November 2010 (CST)

Rights

Seems like your rights issue is solved --Jatucker 12:16, 12 November 2010 (CST)

What do you mean? --Forgottenman (talk) 12:24, 12 November 2010 (CST)

I thought your permissions were somehow limited but I see that they are not --Jatucker 16:09, 12 November 2010 (CST)

No, you gave me "bureaucrat" status, which is pretty much the highest available without being a developer. --Forgottenman (talk) 18:57, 12 November 2010 (CST)

Missing Templates

Impressive work on all the background mechanisms, Forgottenman! May I request a few more templates for citing resources, that seem to be necessary for the many articles and parts imported from Wikipedia (e.g. here)? Pestergaines 08:25, 16 November 2010 (CST)

I'll have a look; they would be useful. Hopefully though their existence doesn't encourage more copy / pastes from Wikipedia... we have the opportunity to create articles that have much more detail and a less restrictive license, but if we start with WP text, our article is a derivative work of WP forever. --Forgottenman (talk) 08:42, 16 November 2010 (CST)

Well, we can always start from scratch if needed. :)

Oh, and: big thanks for help with the BookSources! It's a small detail, but very useful when needed! Pestergaines 14:41, 16 November 2010 (CST)

I'm thinking that starting from scratch may be a good idea. I'm not convinced that converting everything into metadata is really that useful. I'll start by adapting Wikiqoute's model of cite journal and we can go from there. --Forgottenman (talk) 14:54, 16 November 2010 (CST)

Innovation and original work.

I've already logged in and made a very small edit to the mises wiki: pollution. I'm trained in sustainable development and pollution related problems and solutions. All I've done is add the word soil pollution to the list. Its often overlooked but it is useful because it illustrates the property rights, disclosure aspect, knowledge issues and the issue of people going to the hazard. 

My question is not about pollution, its about charity and new tools like The Point, hopefully you know of that because of Bob Murphy's challenge to Krugman. Both need to be covered but in many cases the ideas of using charitable solutions are very new, particularly using the pledge based strategy in the Point, would they be considered original work? Charity is critical because we often argue that charity can pick up some key externalities or public goods; particularly welfare. However charities are very restricted, often because they compete with government as a solution, [ Marx saw them as the major threat to socialism and Lenin wiped out church based charities in the first months ]. They have cash flow problems often because they are "not for profit" and this restricts their investment and banking options and because of donor fatigue and recipient privacy constraints. There's much stuff on this in the writings but its blurred a bit by Ayn Rand's opposition to religion and charity. [Yes I know she's not an Austrian school but most don't know that.] How do we deal with the newest solutions. I've done some work in this field: Saving the world by burying greens. The catch is that in a wiki sense this is classic "original work" but there are so few of us this could become a largish problem.  What's plan A when your the only Austrian school player writing in a given field? Wesleybruce 00:07, 17 November 2010 (CST)