Bhamwiki talk:Messageboard/Archive 2019
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Tommy James
I happened across this on Wikipedia on the entry for Tommy James and the Shondells:
The group continued until 1970. At a concert in Birmingham, Alabama in March of that year, an exhausted James collapsed after coming off stage from a reaction to drugs and was actually pronounced dead. He recovered and decided to move to the country to rest and recuperate, and left the band.
Unfortunately, the source cited for the first sentence is a book. The other source cited in that section doesn't actually mention anything about it happening in Birmingham. Tommy James' own Wikipedia entry actually has less detail on the incident other than mentioning it happened in March 1970. I don't have time to dig further right now, but wanted to note it in case someone else wants to chase it. --Lkseitz (talk) 09:16, 30 May 2019 (PDT)
- This collection of WVOK "Shower of Stars" advertisements indicates that they were billed as part of the show in 1966, 1967, 1969 and 1971. They weren't billed as part of any of the three 1970 shows, though. And I haven't found much by trying to limit Google's searches to before 2010, when that tidbit was added to the Wikipedia page by User:147.31.159.125. --Dystopos (talk) 11:13, 5 July 2019 (PDT)
Statistics July 5, 2019
Articles/files
- We have 13,806 articles and 6,270 uploaded files on Bhamwiki right now.
- That's 0.45 illustrations per article, or 1 image for every 2.20 articles.
Page edits
Over 12 years, we're still averaging right around 32 page edits per day and 3.96 edits per page.
Red links
- As of July 5, 2019, there are 67,487 wanted articles with who knows how many links to them (red links). We have 13,806 articles, so we're now 16.98% complete. Three years ago (May 2016), we were about 18.86% done. Our "percent done" continues to track backwards as we've added more red links than articles. (Note that wanted pages represent any topic which "could" have an article, not just those that "should" or "probably will" have articles.) This phenomenon is (still) probably best explained by my use of City Directories to populate street articles with abundant red links.
Users
We have a total of 519 registered users, of whom 243 have made at least one edit, and 5 have made edits in the 30 days (between June 5 and July 5, 2019).
WikiFactor
- "WikiFactor" is a measure of a site's popularity, derived by finding which is the last page (on Special:Popularpages) to have 1000x the number of page views as the number of its ranking.
- Our WikiFactor is now 54, as of 07/05/19.
- Our WikiFactor is now 60, as of 07/22/20.
- Our WikiFactor is now 61, as of 12/09/20.
- Our WikiFactor is now 63, as of 06/06/21.
- Our WikiFactor is now 64, as of 10/14/21.
- Our WikiFactor is now 70, as of 08/27/23.
Social media
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https
- I do wish you'd stop removing the "s" from "https" links. It's much safer to browse using https and there's no guarantee that a server will respond to an http call to the same page as an https one. If you don't like the lock icons it produces, there's probably a way to disable that in the MediaWiki settings. --Lkseitz (talk) 06:42, 3 August 2019 (PDT)