As a follow up to the discussion about Bitcoins (during the board elections)
accepting them as donations... I thought this article by the EFF
explaining why they no longer accept BC sets out some interesting
arguments: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/06/eff-and-bitcoin
Tom
2011/6/21 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org
FYI :-)
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On 06/20/11 2:12 PM, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
The case with Simple English WP is a little more complicated:
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Simple_English_Wikipedia
Basic English is only one standard they are looking at.
There should be also more consideration about the target group. If
Hi
I know I am in the wrong place for this. Normally this kind of thing would/
should go on the discuss pages, but category discuss pages don't attract
much attention.
If you consult Categories: Sailors/ Navigators/ Explorers, you will see that
quite a number of people are listed in these
This should be on wikien-l instead of foundation-l I guess,
2011/6/21, Rui Correia correia@gmail.com:
Hi
I know I am in the wrong place for this. Normally this kind of thing would/
should go on the discuss pages, but category discuss pages don't attract
much attention.
If you consult
Dear Huib
I edit the WP in English, Portuguese, French, Afrikaans, German, Spanish ...
This is happenning in all languages - it is not a WP-E issue.
Regards,
Rui
2011/6/21 Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com
This should be on wikien-l instead of foundation-l I guess,
2011/6/21, Rui Correia
I guess you want to discuss about English Wikipedia category system.
The better place for this is wikiEN-l list:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
2011/6/21 Rui Correia correia@gmail.com:
Hi
I know I am in the wrong place for this. Normally this kind of thing would/
On 21 June 2011 10:50, Rui Correia correia@gmail.com wrote:
I edit the WP in English, Portuguese, French, Afrikaans, German, Spanish ...
This is happenning in all languages - it is not a WP-E issue.
Categories work a bit like a hierarchy, a bit like tags.
There's a perennial proposal[1]
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Rui Correia correia@gmail.com wrote:
I know I am in the wrong place for this. Normally this kind of thing would/
should go on the discuss pages, but category discuss pages don't attract
much attention.
If you consult Categories: Sailors/ Navigators/
Hi
I know I am in the wrong place for this. Normally this kind of thing
would/
should go on the discuss pages, but category discuss pages don't
attract
much attention.
If you consult Categories: Sailors/ Navigators/ Explorers, you will see
that
quite a number of people are listed in
On 06/21/2011 12:25 AM, MZMcBride wrote:
Thanks for the detailed response. :-)
Milos Rancic wrote:
As usual, discussion would be held on Meta. If there are serious
arguments against creation of Simple French Wikipedia, we would consider
them, of course. However, arguments like I don't like
On 06/21/2011 09:11 AM, Thomas Morton wrote:
As a follow up to the discussion about Bitcoins (during the board elections)
accepting them as donations... I thought this article by the EFF
explaining why they no longer accept BC sets out some interesting
arguments:
I'm guessing it is related to a dawning reality that while Bitcoin isn't at
the whim of some government it *is* at the whim of lots of people on the
internet. There are major issues there; of a lack of oversight, a lack of
security in the market (i.e. the recent hacking and crashinng of the market
Supposedly the Bitcoins system was just hacked.
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Thomas Morton
morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:
As a follow up to the discussion about Bitcoins (during the board elections)
accepting them as donations... I thought this article by the EFF
explaining why they
On 21 June 2011 15:13, Mono mium monom...@gmail.com wrote:
Supposedly the Bitcoins system was just hacked.
The biggest Bitcoin exchange was apparently hacked, both machines and
socially. This is the part of the system that is not immaculately
cryptographically sound, i.e. the humans.
- d.
Lets try to approach this from another angle.
Perhaps simple Wikipedia should not be considered as a different language,
but rather as a different project - a simplified Wikipedia. Because the
purpose of simple wikipedia's can be debated of course, but one potential is
to give more people
News and notes: WMF Board election results; Indian campus ambassadors
gear up; Wikimedia UK plans; Malayalam Wikisource CD; brief news
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-06-20/News_and_notes
In the news: Wikipedia could become trusted medical resource;
neologism
Another alternative:
New 'simple/advanced' keywords which would hide specific sections of the
content from the user if he or she asked for it.
I envision a Wikipedia (many years from now) which knows you want math
articles in a simple version but detailed/advanced coverage of say
history
Actually, it is probably best posted to mediawiki-l or wikitech-l as it's
about using the software not about the Foundation or about the English
Wikipedia in particular.
2011/6/21 Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com
I guess you want to discuss about English Wikipedia category system.
The better
David Gerard wrote:
On 21 June 2011 10:50, Rui Correia correia@gmail.com wrote:
I edit the WP in English, Portuguese, French, Afrikaans, German, Spanish ...
This is happenning in all languages - it is not a WP-E issue.
Categories work a bit like a hierarchy, a bit like tags.
There's a
Thomas Morton wrote:
As a follow up to the discussion about Bitcoins (during the board elections)
accepting them as donations... I thought this article by the EFF
explaining why they no longer accept BC sets out some interesting
arguments: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/06/eff-and-bitcoin
The claims of Bitcoin advocates about the legality of the currency have
always been questioned. Frankly I don't know of anybody involved with Bitcoins
and understood it on a technical level that wasn't also sure that it was simply
breaking new ground on both a technological as well as a legal
On 21 June 2011 17:52, robert_horn...@netzero.net
robert_horn...@netzero.net wrote:
I'd be far more worried about the stability of currencies like the U.S.
Dollar and the Euro as their basis in reality is even shakier than Bitcoins,
yet the collapse of either or both currencies could
Actually, it is. I expect Wikipedia to outlast the U.S. Dollar at least in
some form, or at least stick around as long as literature like The Oddessy
and The Epic of Gilgamesh and be a part of human culture longer than the
civilizations that produced that literature. Why would it be
Actually, it is. I expect Wikipedia to outlast the U.S. Dollar at least in
some form, or at least stick around as long as literature like The Oddessy
and The Epic of Gilgamesh and be a part of human culture longer than the
civilizations that produced that literature. Why would it be
Hi. I realize this has nothing directly to do with the WP Project, but
here's an article I thought many of you might find interesting:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/health/07learn.html?emc=tnttntemail0=y
Enjoy.
Marc Riddell
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foundation-l
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:26 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 17 June 2011 16:08, Marco Chiesa chiesa.ma...@gmail.com wrote:
To be honest, when you release your work under cc-by-sa you grant a
third party the right to reuse a (small or large) part of your work to
make a derivative
A fair comparision, though as with Wikipedia editions I think this
varies by language.
Even on en.wiki it is not always like that. The major contributors to
featured articles ate generally allowed more leeway on content ownership.
That's written into th guideline.
Tom
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