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21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
J'au-æmne Posted Mar 21, 2002
So, ITV isn't a BBC-specific swearword, then? 
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 21, 2002
All round! 
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
kelli - ran 2 miles a day for 2012, aiming for the same for 2013 Posted Mar 21, 2002
Hooray! This is turning out to be quite the happy day
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
mrs. badcrumble - my other hat's a balaclava Posted Mar 21, 2002
Fantastic!
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
Yowuzupman- New Top Speed 122 (thats mph you metric fools) Posted Mar 21, 2002
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
broelan Posted Mar 21, 2002
not that this is a major concern or big priority, but just out of curiosity, will suitable links that were previously failed be reinstated (eventually)?
no matter, really, its great news at any rate!
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
Ormondroyd Posted Mar 21, 2002
This is great news! Well done to all concerned!
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
Peta Posted Mar 21, 2002
Hi St Broelan,
Previous links that were removed from postings can't be reinstated unfortunately, because they were cut out of the postings and replaced with [URL removed by moderator].
Legacy postings that have URL's in them will now resurface with their URL's intact though; so that's a good thing. 
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 21, 2002
Couldn't you persuade Jim to write a script to recover pre-BBC URLs which were moderated out of the backlog...? 
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
Afgncaap5 Posted Mar 21, 2002
Yee-HA! It feels just like the olden days of h2g2....sorry, went over nostalgic for a moment there.
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
Mark Moxon Posted Mar 21, 2002
"Couldn't you persuade Jim to write a script to recover pre-BBC URLs which were moderated out of the backlog...?"
That wouldn't be a good idea, because we'd then have to re-moderate all the Postings again (the script would simply reinstate the original copies, so would have to re-star out any swearwords, and check the rest of the content, as well as the URL itself to check it wasn't linking to porn). Nice try, though! 
"Next stop? Well, you know what I have to say to that: Other languages. 
"
The ban on non-English languages is *not* down to the policy makers - they're happy with the translator volunteers scheme as a concept. However the moderation tools are not designed to let members of the public moderate content, so we had to do it totally by hand, and to be honest it was such a huge effort to do it by hand, that we've given up.
So I've added a feature to the to-do list at <./>Development-Features</.> called 'Moderation Tool Support for Volunteer Translators', to join the thousands of other ideas on the list. To reiterate, we cannot support non-English languages because (and only because) we do not have the technical infrastructure to enable volunteer moderation to happen, but once we do have that infrastructure, it should be possible.
The universe is finite, though, so we cannot do everything immediately. We apologise for the inconvenience...
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 21, 2002
21 March 2002: URL Trial is a Success
Granny Weatherwax - ACE - Hells Belle, Mother-in-Law from the Pit - Haunting near you on Saturday Posted Mar 21, 2002
*wonders when Mark's going to give out the biccies & lemon soaked paper napkins?*
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- 21: J'au-æmne (Mar 21, 2002)
- 22: Galen (Mar 21, 2002)
- 23: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Mar 21, 2002)
- 24: kelli - ran 2 miles a day for 2012, aiming for the same for 2013 (Mar 21, 2002)
- 25: Tonsil Revenge (PG) (Mar 21, 2002)
- 26: mrs. badcrumble - my other hat's a balaclava (Mar 21, 2002)
- 27: Yowuzupman- New Top Speed 122 (thats mph you metric fools) (Mar 21, 2002)
- 28: Sergeant Mushroom (Mar 21, 2002)
- 29: broelan (Mar 21, 2002)
- 30: Ormondroyd (Mar 21, 2002)
- 31: Peta (Mar 21, 2002)
- 32: Sergeant Mushroom (Mar 21, 2002)
- 33: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Mar 21, 2002)
- 34: Galen (Mar 21, 2002)
- 35: Afgncaap5 (Mar 21, 2002)
- 36: Robert (Mar 21, 2002)
- 37: Mark Moxon (Mar 21, 2002)
- 38: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Mar 21, 2002)
- 39: Sergeant Mushroom (Mar 21, 2002)
- 40: Granny Weatherwax - ACE - Hells Belle, Mother-in-Law from the Pit - Haunting near you on Saturday (Mar 21, 2002)
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