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Comparative ranks
There is a WWII comparative ranks page:

Comparative military ranks of World War II

Ta The Land 15:36, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome!
You're welcome. Glad I could answer your question! Kamezuki 11:54, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Blanking of 742 Evergreen Terrace
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Marine
Thnx for the invite. I have posted a few things on the talk page, but wasn't sure if I remembered enough correctly to change article. Oh well,Ya'll will check it im sure :)  Joe I  20:33, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Fabian Basabe
Nice work re-writing that! A vast improvement. Dan100 (Talk) 09:24, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Pauline Musters
Please provide a source for the material in this article. Thnx. TheRingess 00:48, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

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Just to clearify, pointing to imageshack isn't much use, a source is supposed to tell us who owns the rights to the image Sherool (talk) 01:28, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Tiny articles
"Cleo is a women's magazine" is not an article. It is a declaritive statement. It has also been deleted before for lack of content. Repeated reposting of what is considered nonsense is viewed as vandalism. Unless you can add a lot more, please do not repost that entry. Thank you. - Lucky 6.9 02:44, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Talk:List of the longest movies in history
Hey, I was wondering, since you've already gotten involved with the Cure for Insomnia dispute, if you wouldn't mind at least putting in your two cents regarding the rest of the issues under discussion at Talk:List of the longest movies in history? Would be very grateful to hear some more voices! Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola 23:11, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the new comment. Actually, though, I was asking about the 200 minute vs. 300 minute debate, mainly! :) Well, if you have any extra time for that one too, I'd be much obliged. If not, no worries. Again, with many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola 01:09, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

City Island Article Images
Matt,

I have many piccys of City Island, Bronx, New York, that I would like to add to the article, but user Roy Smith and other creepy Deletionists here, will simply delete almost everything I add! There's absolutely no point! It's a waste of time and it has Jimbo's blessing! OK? Why add to such an article, when some Sixteen year old troll will wipe out your contribution is....CRAZY!

Supercool Dude 03:15, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

AFD
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Article Improvement Drive for America's Next Top Model
Hi, I notice you've been a frequent contributor to America's Next Top Model. I've just nominated the article to be improved through Wikipedia's article improvement drive, and you can see the nomation here. I'd appreciate your comments on (and hopefully support of!) the article's nomination. Thanks :). Fabricationary 04:11, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Bundaberg, Queensland
Hi Matt, I see that you recently added Anthony Athanasiov (boxer, better known as the Bundy Brawler) to the list of well-known inhabitants of Bundaberg. I question this addition, compared with everyone else on the list, who are indeed 'well-known' and therefore a justifiable entry on the list. I for one, have never heard of this guy and googled him to search for notoriety, but all that turned up were links to the Bundaberg Wikipedia article and other associated wikis. Therefore, he doesn't seem to be well-known or a worthy addition to the list. Was wondering if you could help me with this one? Cheers --- BrightLights 10:29, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Biased pageants
Well, I read your comment from the Miss Universe talk page, and I made a mention of that while writing the Big Four pageants article. When you mentioned sports there (distance runners coming from Africa, gymnasts coming from Russia and even Romania), the judgment of who is the best is more objective. For example, in athletics, it is based on time spent to complete the distance. I don't see any biases when an African country sweeps all the medal places there--they were the fastest and hence, they deserved their places. Although such a contention may not hold perfectly true for such sports as gymnastics and figure skating (note that these sports has recently made reforms to the judging system to make it less biased and prone to favoritism, and more objectively based). But in pageants, when choosing the judges itself is subjective, then there will always be a space for biased decisions (e.g. the 2001 Miss Universe pageant was controversial for fielding in mostly Puerto Rican judges, and most of them were sitting next to each other, not to mention being held in Puerto Rico; hence, Puerto Rico won, as some critics claimed). The Miss International pageant, meanwhile, is known for its standard of selecting porcelain doll beauties. With such a standard, how can a woman of color (especially of African descent) win? Still, to be fair, when critics complained about last year's lineup when Latin American delegates dominated the top 15 spots, one must not deny the fact that these are the countries/territories which invest the most to preparing their delegates (e.g. some countries select their delegates years in advance, to ensure proper training and experience, and even cosmetic procedures, unlike those from other regions which select theirs just months or even weeks before), in as much as Russia invests heavily in gymnastics discipline (and more recently, in tennis facilities) and African countries have environmental conditions ideal for the training of long-distance runners. --Joey80 06:49, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

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Reagan and Bush Changes/Military Service
First of all, as a veteran, I take great offense to your statement of medals being handed out like candy. Certain medals are "handed out like candy", others are not. Medals and ribbons in our military tell the story or history per se of the person that wears them. Medals such as conflict ribbons and campaign medals are given to anyone who was in support of that operation or conflict. Other medals are achieved through action, service, or gallantry. Those are few and far between as you go up in rank of medal. At the very least, there is no reason to deny Reagan WWII service. Under Army Regs, both Reagan and Bush would have served during those wars as long as they completed more than 30 day active service. If Reagan served in Europe or Asia should not be the question here. He served in the Army in support of the war effort. Effectivly he is a veteran of WWII and served during WWII. The reason he was not in combat was due to health issues. This would be the same for coastal artillery, for example. They guarded our coastal areas during WWII but did not serve overseas. They are WWII veterans none the less. They provided for the total war effort. Bush, by serving active duty time, would have been in service during the Vietnam War.

To say that any soldier serving during time of conflict did not serve during that conflict is a slap in the face. Every soldier on active duty at this moment, wether in theatre or not, is training or working in support of the current conflict. For example, I was in Europe on a peacekeeping operation in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, i.e. The Global War on Terror. I served proudly during war time and it should be noted. Just because orders have yet to send me to combat should not lessen my, not any other soldier's efforts. A change in orders could have sent me to Iraq or Afghanistan. However, that does not take away my war time service. If you want to get nitpicky about this, then we need to denote service in theatre. For example. If a soldier served in support of the Global War on Terror, his or her bio would state that service. If a soldier served in support of the GWT with service in Operation Iraqi Freedom, then the GWT service and OIF service would be denoted. What that would tell me as the reader is that that soldier served during war, denoted by the GWT, and served in a combat theatre, denoted by the OIF. If you want to go that far, then should Carter be denoted for service in Korea even though from what I understand never sat foot in the war zone?

You statement about what denotes war leaves me to question your realiability in making decisions on this matter. Yes, there are many other operations at this time and other times. There are Operations Other Than War, i.e. Somalia, Panama, and Grenada. And peacekeeping, i.e. Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Korean DMZ. However, if you agree with it or not, we are at war. It is called the Global War on Terrorism. OIF and Afghanistan are two pieces of that war. Anyone who serves during that time is justly credited with service during a time of war.

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The Evergreen State College
I removed the following text that you included on this article's page:

 * Evergreen Terrace, the fictional street where the title family in Groening's animated program The Simpsons live, is believed to be named after the College.

Believed by whom? I had removed that information from the article before (diff). Do you have a source? I've read articles that note it's named after a street Groening lived on in Portland among other claims. If it's really unclear and unverifiable, it shouldn't be in an encyclopedia article. Thanks! --Rkitko 04:55, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

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Paraparaumu

Paraparaumu is a town in the south-western North Island of New Zealand. It lies on the Kāpiti Coast, 55 km north of the nation's capital city, Wellington. It is also known to residents as Pram or Paraparam.

Like other towns in the area, it has a partner settlement at the coast called Paraparaumu Beach, which is directly opposite Kapiti Island. The two towns form part of the Kāpiti Coast District. Together with the nearby Raumati Beach and Raumati South they are among the fastest-growing urban areas in New Zealand, and are major dormitory towns with workers commuting to the cities that make up the Wellington urban area. The four towns between them have a 2012 population of over 49,000 people. Inland behind Paraparaumu is the Maungakotukutuku area.

Paraparaumu is a Māori-language name meaning "scraps from an earth oven"; parapara means "dirt" or "scraps", and umu means "oven".

The village of Lindale is just north of the Paraparaumu town centre. It began as a Tourist and Agricultural Centre, but later gained a reputation for cheese and the Lindale Barnyard petting farm.

The old State Highway 1 and the Kapiti Line section of the North Island Main Trunk railway both pass through Lindale. The railway line was formerly owned by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company, and construction of the line was completed when the ends from Wellington and Longburn (Palmerston North) met near Lindale in Otaihanga in 1886. There were proposals to extend the commuter train service operated by Transdev Wellington to a new station at Lindale, subject to Wellington Regional Council funding, but these were dropped when electrification for the commuter service was extended from Paraparaumu to Waikanae.

The majority of shops are located close to the town centre in the Coastlands Mall, close to the train station.

Name and etymology
"Parapara" refers in Māori to food waste, and "umu" is ovens that they are cooked in. The name Paraparaumu comes from an 1819–1820 expedition of Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Toa, who on the west coast of the North Island from Kāwhia to Cook Strait. As they arrived in the Kāpiti Coast, they found no useful resources.

Paraparaumu is sometimes known by the names "Pram", "Paraparam" or "Pram-Pram".

History
In August 1936 a train derailed in Paraparaumu as it approached a land slide in rainy weather.

Climate
Paraparaumu has an oceanic climate typical of New Zealand, with moderately warm summers and mild winters. It has a quite high rainfall frequency year round, although it is drier than many other coastal areas in the country.

Demographics
Paraparaumu is defined by Statistics New Zealand as a medium urban area and covers 28.38 km2, which includes Otaihanga, Paraparaumu Beach, Raumati Beach and Raumati South. It had an estimated population of as of  with a population density of  people per km2.

Before the 2023 census, the town had a larger boundary, covering 28.61 km2. Using that boundary, Paraparaumu had a population of 28,701 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 1,866 people (7.0%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 3,441 people (13.6%) since the 2006 census. There were 11,379 households, comprising 13,560 males and 15,138 females, giving a sex ratio of 0.9 males per female, with 5,199 people (18.1%) aged under 15 years, 4,302 (15.0%) aged 15 to 29, 12,489 (43.5%) aged 30 to 64, and 6,708 (23.4%) aged 65 or older.

Ethnicities were 89.1% European/Pākehā, 12.5% Māori, 3.1% Pasifika, 5.1% Asian, and 2.3% other ethnicities. People may identify with more than one ethnicity.

The percentage of people born overseas was 23.5, compared with 27.1% nationally.

Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 54.0% had no religion, 34.7% were Christian, 0.4% had Māori religious beliefs, 0.7% were Hindu, 0.1% were Muslim, 0.6% were Buddhist and 2.2% had other religions.

Of those at least 15 years old, 5,013 (21.3%) people had a bachelor's or higher degree, and 3,876 (16.5%) people had no formal qualifications. 4,329 people (18.4%) earned over $70,000 compared to 17.2% nationally. The employment status of those at least 15 was that 10,368 (44.1%) people were employed full-time, 3,333 (14.2%) were part-time, and 918 (3.9%) were unemployed.

Retail
Coastlands Shopping Town or Mall opened in Paraparaumu in 1969. It has 1400 carparks and 94 shops, including Pak'nSave, The Warehouse, Farmers and Countdown.

Sport
Paraparaumu was formerly represented in soccer/football by Paraparaumu United. They merged with the Raumati Hearts in 2003 to create Kapiti Coast United, which is based at Weka Park in Raumati.

The local athletics club is Paraparaumu Track and Field Club, which has both junior and senior members in conjunction with Athletics Wellington and Athletics New Zealand age grades. The club is based at the Paraparaumu Domain.

Paraparaumu Beach also has a golf course. It has hosted the New Zealand Open a total of 12 times, a record unsurpassed by any other course.

Airport
Kapiti Coast Airport has a few scheduled commercial flights and is a popular recreational airfield, hosting the Kapiti Aero Club. Air Chathams will have daily flights between the airport and Auckland from 20 August 2018, and Sounds Air operate to Blenheim and Nelson. Now defunct, locally based Air2there used operate to Blenheim and Nelson also. Prior to the mid 2010s Air New Zealand used to have scheduled services to Kapiti Coast Airport with their ATR-42s and Q-400/ DHC-8s. This was then cancelled in the mid 2010s.

Public transport
Paraparaumu is located on the North Island Main Trunk Railway (NIMT), on the Kapiti Line of Wellington's commuter railway network operated by Transdev under the Metlink brand. Electrified commuter services were extended to Waikanae on 20 February 2011. Korean built by Hyundai Rotem, FP/FT class electric multiple units operate the commuter trains.

Beyond Waikanae, KiwiRail's Great Journeys New Zealand division operates two diesel-hauled long distance passenger services: the Capital Connection between Palmerston North and Wellington, and the Northern Explorer between Auckland and Wellington.

There are also feeder and local commuter bus service operated by Metlink.

Primary schools
Paraparaumu School is a co-educational state primary school for Year 1 to 8 Students with a roll of as of

Paraparaumu Beach School is a co-educational state primary school for Year 1 to 8 Students with a roll of as of

Kapiti School is a co-educational state primary school for Year 1 to 8 students, with a roll of  as of.

Kenakena School is a co-educational state primary school for Year 1 to 8 students, with a roll of  as of

Our Lady of Kapiti School is a co-educational state-integrated Catholic primary school for Year 1 to 8 students, with a roll of  as of  It is named after a large statue of the Virgin Mary located near by.

Secondary schools
Three secondary schools are located near the Paraparaumu township: Paraparaumu College in Paraparaumu Beach, Kāpiti College in Raumati Beach and Ōtaki College in Ōtaki.

Raised in Paraparaumu

 * Christian Cullen – rugby union footballer

 * Stephen Kearney – rugby league footballer and coach
 * Wayne McIndoe – field hockey player
 * Drew Ne'emia – former television presenter
 * Andrew Niccol – film director

Educated in Paraparaumu

 * Peter Jackson at Kāpiti College – film director

 * Dane Coles at Paraparaumu College – All Blacks player
 * Karl Kippenberger at Kāpiti College – bass player in Shihad

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Atreides Battle Language

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Atreides Battle Language
Article apparently created to clarify an inaccuracy on an article linking to it. 119 02:42, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment: The red link that led to the creation of this substub was added to the list of fictional languages by User:MakeRocketGoNow. I think we should ask him his sources before deciding either way, especially as the creator of this article was an anon, and I have now done this. No vote for the moment. Andrewa 04:12, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * As far as I can recall the Ateides battle language is part of the original Dune series, as well as showing up in the film by Lynch and the TV miniseries. The current article content is nonsense, but the article itself is valid. Keep.--Centauri 05:22, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Here's a quote from the original Dune novel which specifically refers to "Atreides battle language": . I've rewritten the article accordingly. --Centauri 05:31, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Delete. Fancruft.  Dune is a brilliant book, but this is mere trivia. Indrian 07:54, Dec 18, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. No useful content, and the capitalisation is incorrect, it should be Atreides battle language according to technovelgy.com. So whether we want an article on the topic or not, we should just delete this. It's probably simple vandalism. Andrewa 09:49, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete as Dunecruft. Wyss 15:19, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete as there's no reason this bit of trivia should be a separate article. Short mention on the Dune article if noteworthy there, otherwise no reason to exist. DreamGuy 15:47, Dec 18, 2004 (UTC)
 * I have merged and redirected to House Atreides. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 20:26, Dec 18, 2004 (UTC)
 * Good solution. Thanks.  Rossami (talk) 20:08, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Is it meant to be Chakobsa ? - u can find it in the glossary of the first book or here at Dune terminology thanks,  user:max rspct

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Robert LiKamWa
Vanity page. Non-notable personage. JD 02:44, Dec 18, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Grand google score of 9—Trevor Caira 04:28, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vanity.  --Randy 06:30, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, nn. Wyss 15:18, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. I've heard some of his works before. They're quite odd technically speaking but a lot of starting composers tend to do that.moseythedino 07:46, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete Let him become notable first. - Trick 04:56, 23 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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Analord

Analord is a series of eleven 12" vinyl records by the electronic music artist Richard D. James, most of which are released under the alias AFX. The series, released in 2005, marked James's return to primarily analogue equipment following his computer-oriented programming work in the late 1990s. After their release, James "distilled" the 3½ hour, 42-track series into the 10-track compilation album Chosen Lords (2006), effectively his first full-length release since the 2001 album Drukqs.

On 24 December 2009 the Rephlex Records website began posting unreleased/bonus tracks for the Analord series in MP3 and WAV digital formats. In all, 21 bonus tracks were added to the series, totalling 62 tracks for a runtime of 4 hours and 36 minutes.

History
The first installment, Analord 10, went on sale through the Rephlex Records website on 15 December 2004, and was packaged in a faux-leather binder with sleeves for housing the rest of the series. It was later re-released as a picture disc. Both pressings of Analord 10 were marketed under James' primary alias Aphex Twin, although other Analord recordings were released under the AFX pseudonym.

A condensed, album-length version of the series, Chosen Lords, was released in 2006.

Musical equipment used
James has programmed a variety of analogue equipment throughout his career. Instruments on Analord include drum machines such as the Roland TR-606, TR-808, and TR-909; sequencers such as the Roland MC-4; and various synthesizers and polysynths, including the Roland SH-101 and Roland TB-303, a Synton Fenix Modular.

Allusions

 * Tracks on Analord 8, Analord 9, and Analord 11 are named after computer viruses and other malicious software, allegedly to prevent or discourage file sharing.
 * The images on both sides of Analord 11 feature the Michael Faraday Memorial in Elephant and Castle, London (which is near the disused bank Richard D. James owns).
 * Both sides of Analord 1 feature the Roland MC-4 Microcomposer as the label art.
 * Side B of "Analord 4" has a Halibut's eye as the label art, connecting with the track "Halibut Acid".

Analord 1
Released 24 January 2005.

Analord 2
Released 24 January 2005.

Analord 3
Released 21 February 2005.

Analord 4
Released 21 February 2005.

Analord 5
Released 14 March 2005.

Analord 6
Released 11 April 2005.

Analord 7
Released 25 April 2005.

Analord 8
Released 9 May 2005.

Analord 9
Released 13 June 2005.

Analord 10
Released 15 December 2004 and credited to Aphex Twin rather than AFX. Re-released as a picture disc on 11 July 2005.

Analord 11
Released 13 June 2005.

 * Released on 24 December 2009; only available through download.

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Emmett Grogan

Emmett Grogan (born Eugene Leo Grogan, November 28, 1942 – April 6, 1978) was a founder of the Diggers, a radical community-action group of Improvisational actors in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. The Diggers took their name from the English Diggers (1649–1650), a radical movement opposed to feudalism, the Church of England and the British Crown.

Biography
Grogan's distrust of the mainstream media made it difficult for reporters to acquire more than a few details of his life. He was born on November 28, 1942, as Eugene Leo Grogan into an Irish-American family in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. According to his publisher, New York Review Books, "Grogan grew up on New York City’s mean streets, getting hooked on heroin before he was in his teens, kicking the habit and winning a scholarship to a swanky Manhattan private school, pursuing a highly profitable sideline as a Park Avenue burglar, then skipping town to enjoy the dolce vita in Italy." After high school, he attended Duke University for one year before moving to San Francisco.

The San Francisco Diggers were a legendary group that evolved out of two radical traditions that thrived in the Bay Area in the mid-1960s: the bohemian/underground art/theater scene, and the New Left/civil rights/peace movement. The Diggers combined street theatre, direct action, and art happenings in their social agenda of creating a Free City. Their most famous activities revolved around distributing free food ("Free because it's yours!") every day in Golden Gate Park, and distributing "surplus energy" at a series of Free Stores (where everything in stock was without a price tag).

The Diggers coined various slogans that became part of the counterculture and even the larger society, such as, "Do your own thing," and "Today is the first day of the rest of your life."

Grogan's 1972 autobiography Ringolevio, a Life Played for Keeps, is regarded by some as the best and only authentic book written about the underground culture of the 1960s. In the book, Grogan refers to himself by the alias Kenny Wisdom. Peter Coyote, in the 1990 introduction to Ringolevio states that Grogan's choice of that alias is "no accident" but without elaborating.

Grogan was also the author of Final Score, a crime novel published in 1976.

Criticism of counterculture
Grogan shunned media attention and became increasingly suspicious of those who sought publicity. In Ringolevio, Grogan discussed the 1967 Human Be-In, criticizing counterculture luminaries Timothy Leary, Jerry Rubin, and especially Abbie Hoffman.

Grogan thought the HIP (Haight Independent Proprietors) merchants, led by Ron and Jay Thelin, who had sponsored events like the Human Be-In, were the primary beneficiaries of the events: "The HIP merchants were astounded by their own triumph by promoting such a large market for their wares. They became the Western world's taste makers overnight..." He objected to the "Summer of Love" enticing of young people to the Haight-Ashbury to experience hippie life, noting that an influx of residents would cause an "immigration crisis" and the kids who came expecting an already-formed Utopia would end up living a desperate hand-to-mouth existence on the streets. He also decried the HIP merchants' "HIP Job Co-Op," revealing that much of the work they offered was sweatshop labor. He pointed out that unskilled and clerical jobs would be taken away from poor residents who depended on such work to survive.

Death
On April 6, 1978, 35-year-old Grogan was found dead on a New York City Subway train on the F train in Coney Island; he had suffered a heart attack. Close friend and Digger co-founder Peter Coyote stated in his foreword to Grogan's autobiography Ringolevio that his death was due to a heroin overdose.

Bob Dylan dedicated his 1978 album Street Legal to Grogan. Richard Brautigan dedicated his poem "Death Is a Beautiful Car Parked Only" to Grogan.

Personal life
Grogan was married to the French-Canadian actress Louise Latraverse; they had one son.

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Wikipedia:MozEx tutorial

This tutorial describes how to use the MozEx extension of Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox to edit Wikipedia pages in your editor of choice.

Installing MozEx
First, you must download and install the MozEx extension by visiting the appropriate web page and following the installation link provided there. The stable version of the MozEx package (at http://mozex.mozdev.org/) does not support editing UTF-8-encoded documents (and has a broken download link 2011-04-28 (visit directly download Index of mozex http://downloads.mozdev.org/mozex/), so the next best option is to visit http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/mozex107-en.html to download a modified version, mozex-1.07.6). This is particularly problematic since all Wikipedia articles are encoded in UTF-8 by default. However, the developer's version of MozEx does support UTF-8.

Configuring MozEx
After installing MozEx, depending on your operating system and its settings, you may need to configure MozEx to invoke the text editor of your choice. Detailed instructions for this are available on the official MozEx web page.

Note for Microsoft Windows users
When configuring the textarea setting to open up the text editor of your choice, the path must be wrapped inside quotation marks if long filenames are present.

For example:

Without quotes, MS-DOS 8.3 filenames must be used instead:

You can display the short filenames by entering at the command prompt:

Note for Vim users
When configuring the textarea setting for use with Vim, be sure and use the  commandline parameter. For example:

Editing with MozEx
To edit a Wikipedia page, click on the "edit this page" link. A box (textarea) containing editable text will show up. Right-click with the mouse in the textarea, and select mozex→Edit Textarea from the context menu that pops up. Your favorite editor will pop up, and you will be able to edit the text. Once you are done, save the text, go back to the browser window, and click on the text area. The text will be automatically updated, and the file you just saved will be deleted from your computer.

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