Samuel Klein wrote:
There is a wealth of work done all the time by primary source
researchers and publishers, which could be improved on by having
wikisource entries, translations, c.
Related question : how appropriate would large numbers of public
domain texts, with page scans and the best
Robert Rohde wrote:
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
While there may very well have been widespread fraud, that alone
wouldn't be enough to explain away a 29 percentage point spread. A
strong line of national security scare-mongering is always
Дана Saturday 20 June 2009 18:29:24 Brian написа:
This has reminded me to complain about Google Books. Google has the world's
best OCR (in virtue of having the largest OCR'able dataset) and also has a
mission to scan in all the public domain books they can get their hand on.
They recently
Дана Saturday 13 June 2009 18:20:36 picus-viridis написа:
IMHO automatic translations into Polish are useless, as they only allow
rough orientation in the contents of an article. It concerns not only
How is rough orientation in the contents of an article useless?
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 1:41 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2009/06/19/using-wikisource-as-an-alternative-open-access-repository-for-legal-scholarship/
Interesting. How well does this fit with what Wikisource does?
Tim Armstrong is a sysop on
But on the other end of the spectrum, on projects like the one
I am active on (the Finnish Wikipedia)...
Disruptive behaviour is not wired into our genes or our
culture, but quietly co?perative behaviour has been. Our
wikipedia is a paradise in comparison to many. For this
reason personally
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
Stephen Bain wrote:
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Parker Higginsparkerhigg...@gmail.com
wrote:
Except google isn't asserting any kind of copyright control over these
books, they're just not making it convenient
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
(*) Personally, I'm of the opinion that merely accessing a website is not
sufficient to bind a websurfer to a TOS, and that at most a TOS which you do
not have to even click agree to is a unilateral contract which can only
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
Stephen Bain wrote:
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Parker Higginsparkerhigg...@gmail.com
wrote:
Except google isn't asserting any kind of
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:54 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
Whether Google is good or evil is off-topic, and irrelevant to boot.
Whether or not they have a right to exclude bots isn't.
Also worth noting, Project Gutenberg has digitised less than 30,000
books since 1971.
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:54 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
Whether Google is good or evil is off-topic, and irrelevant to boot.
Whether or not they have a right to exclude bots isn't.
Actually, it is. This
2009/6/21 Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net:
Sure, transparency is a problem, but its absence alone does not imply
fraud. It hurts the Iranian authorities even more if the vote count is
accurate because nobody believes them.
Evidence the numbers were made up: humans are not very good at
2009/6/21 Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.yu:
Дана Saturday 13 June 2009 18:20:36 picus-viridis написа:
IMHO automatic translations into Polish are useless, as they only allow
rough orientation in the contents of an article. It concerns not only
How is rough orientation in the contents of
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 8:35 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
I suggest you take a look at a few of the DJVU files provided by
Internet Archive. Then you can point out real faults that you see.
I will. My apologies for misunderstanding your email.
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 8:35 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
I suggest you take a look at a few of the DJVU files provided by
Internet Archive. Then you can point out real faults that you see.
I will. My
It also depends on the language pair. For Chinese to English, I
wouldn't even bother with such a process (having a machine translate
and then correct the errors); for Spanish to English I do this very
frequently and it's a great timesaver.
Mark
skype: node.ue
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 7:05 AM,
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 8:35 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.comwrote:
I suggest you take a look at a few of the DJVU files provided by
Internet Archive.
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:00 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Evidence the numbers were made up: humans are not very good at picking
random numbers:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/20/AR200906204.html
(This is way off-topic ...)
Convincing,
subject line changed
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 8:35 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
I suggest you take a look at a few of the DJVU files
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 1:41 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2009/06/19/using-wikisource-as-an-alternative-open-access-repository-for-legal-scholarship/
Interesting. How well does this fit with what Wikisource does?
Here are seven articles from
Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
But on the other end of the spectrum, on projects like the one
I am active on (the Finnish Wikipedia)...
Disruptive behaviour is not wired into our genes or our
culture, but quietly co?perative behaviour has been. Our
wikipedia is a paradise in comparison to many.
Anthony wrote:
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Anthony wrote:
Okay, http://www.archive.org/details/catholicencyclo16herbgoog happened to
be the first book I randomly picked from Google Book Search. There's no
text version.
And the text version I find of other editions seems to be much
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