Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-09-14/News and notes

Good balance[edit]

I commend the authors of the article for giving appropriate weight to critics of the project, and for shedding further light on a story that I had thought had been over and done with. Few dedicated Wikipedians monitor the mailing lists, I suspect, and it is of great credit to the contributors to the Signpost that they report on prurient project discussions wherever they occur. Keep up the good work! Skomorokh 23:09, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Prurient"? I don't think that word means what you think it does. I'm scratching my head over which one you meant, & the best I can come up with is "relevant", which looks nothing like what you wrote. -- llywrch (talk) 16:59, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not to be flippant, but if you don't understand the term, it is there in the dictionary for you to look up; my comment was in reference to the urging to insinuate the presence of corrupt practices regarding Halperin's accession to the board seat. Cheers, Skomorokh 17:06, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unless I'm mistaken, "prurient" means "arousing or appealing to sexual desire". There's nothing sexual in the story, nor in the mailing lists (well, not very often). To repeat myself, I don't think that word means what you think it does. (Which is a paraphrase from a line in a movie popular 20-30 years ago.) -- llywrch (talk) 17:23, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Malayalam Wiktionary[edit]

How can the Malayalam Wiktionary have reached 12,000 entries, 10,000 entries, and 6,000 entries? +An gr 05:52, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

well, I think all of those things are necessarily true :) but the answer is not properly checking my cut & paste from Meta. Fixed. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 17:07, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]