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You could ask those two questions:
"Where was Abraham Lincoln born?"
and
"what is the population?"
and it would return you the population of the city lincoln was born in.

Unfortunately, WMF shot toolserver down, so you get a deadlink. This "foundation" dictator group of superprotectors will be the death of the wikipedia project! If it were for me, they should be revoked their deducible status right now.
Archive has a mirror, however as useful as an archive google mirror (interactive website):
http://web.archive.org/web/201...

And cars kill even more people than coal. A thing that cars and coal don't do is forcing you to evacuate tens of thousand of people and make a vast area inhabitable for centuries. Suppose the Belgians have to do with their Tihange power plant what the Japanese had to do at Fukushima, that is evacuate everybody in a 20 km radius from the site. Say good bye to Liege. A 30 km radius? Goodbye to Brussels. IMHO that's too big a risk.

I'm skeptical. The article didn't list the username, but a quick Google search points to Dr Aaij. According to this tool, his edit count is only 1,475.

We already know exactly where it is.

You're welcome to go on over. I doubt the staff would be very appreciative, however.

Bing has aerial photography that isn't really helpful..
http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&cp=56.082778~37.089444&style=h&lvl=15&sp=Point.56.082778_37.089444_UVB-76___

More sources at http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?pagename=UVB-76&params=56_4_58_N_37_5_22_E_type:landmark_region:RU

I submit Hell's Gate to you... (this thing has been burning for 40 years)

Here are the coordinates: http://toolserver.org/~geohack/geohack.php?pagename=Derweze&params=40_15_8_N_58_26_23_E_scale:10000

Not so easy... the area is not just the narrow Red Sea or just coastal waters of Somalia.
As I have already put in another post, this is the stated position of one of the last ships kidnapped.

Sorry but the available data does not support your post.

The data I found about the position of the Alakrana shows that it was far away from Somali coast (way more than 200 mi). If it was Economic Zone of any country, it had to be of the Seychelles.

Of course I don't know if they were going to unload fish from Somalia coast, but you'd need some additonal data to back that statement.

Having had a few EXT3 filesystems go tits up because they've been quietly borking themselves on a 24/7/365 server being able to do a weekly "zpool scrub" in a 4TB array without the downtime is a beautiful thing. Kernel CIFS with proper ACLs and integration with ZFS snapshots is pretty great as well. When btrfs is released and gets a few miles on it I may switch back. But for now my file server stays OpenSolaris.

On the other hand, I'm somewhat involved in two different sites that use(d) ZFS. One, the Wikimedia toolserver, switched from ZFS to vxfs for /home after several serious issues where ZFS died and caused downtime (although no data loss). (more info)

The other site, Wikipedia, uses ZFS for image storage. Some time ago, it had to disable uploads for a while to move data off to other machines, because apparently ZFS (or some configuration of ZFS) slows down to a crawl when it gets too full. It's still using ZFS for the time being, AFAIK, just making sure it doesn't get too full.

So, I'm sure different people have different experiences, but just throwing my limited personal experience out there.

Having had a few EXT3 filesystems go tits up because they've been quietly borking themselves on a 24/7/365 server being able to do a weekly "zpool scrub" in a 4TB array without the downtime is a beautiful thing. Kernel CIFS with proper ACLs and integration with ZFS snapshots is pretty great as well. When btrfs is released and gets a few miles on it I may switch back. But for now my file server stays OpenSolaris.

On the other hand, I'm somewhat involved in two different sites that use(d) ZFS. One, the Wikimedia toolserver, switched from ZFS to vxfs for /home after several serious issues where ZFS died and caused downtime (although no data loss). (more info)

The other site, Wikipedia, uses ZFS for image storage. Some time ago, it had to disable uploads for a while to move data off to other machines, because apparently ZFS (or some configuration of ZFS) slows down to a crawl when it gets too full. It's still using ZFS for the time being, AFAIK, just making sure it doesn't get too full.

So, I'm sure different people have different experiences, but just throwing my limited personal experience out there.

yeah..
Oooksml editing war

If you're affected and cannot edit or create an account for yourself, Wikipedia can make an account for you.

The signing off would allow people to cite a Wikipedia article as a source that had been vetted by at least one person (with confidence in the source depending on that person's credentials). The signer's identity (and sometimes, their credentials) could be confirmed using several methods, such as verifying an .edu e-mail address. Users could still submit edits, but they would have to be approved by the article verifier. Different users could sign off on different versions of the same article, and readers would still have the option of viewing the latest version of an article, with all of its unmoderated edits (which is what you're looking at on Wikipedia most of the time).

I'm a sysop in the German Wikipedia and I'm telling you: It won't work.
The German Wikipedia was the first Wikimedia Wiki to test an Extension called "Flagged Revisions". We first activated Sigthed version, where every user with >200 edits can validate a version as vandalism-free. Other users can still edit, but their edits must be reviewed first. Now, look at the statistics, the last image. Note that this kind of quality control only covers checks of obvious vandalism, the actual information is not verified. (Note that I am a supporter of Sighted versions. But even though they are great, they do not solve every problem Wikipedia has)

Regarding the other statements in your quote: If you want to have a permalink, you can click on "Permanent link", if you want to cite it, click on "Cite this page". Note however, that citing Wikipedia is not always appropriate.

I know it's a late reply, but there actually is a service where, if you ask nicely, they might run an arbitrary SQL query for you: http://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Query_service