On 28 March 2010 19:44, Nicholas Moreau nicholasmor...@gmail.com wrote:
Has anyone else got this weird message, a pseudo-phishing attack?
Everyone. They tried this last year on the inactive admins, now they
appear to be trying it on everyone.
MAKE ACCOUNTS FAST
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On 25 March 2010 21:33, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote:
There is now: *
On 19/03/2010, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
It's heartbreaking to see how a small project can be disrupted by a
tiny number of well-known problem users, and IMO a strong argument for
using more global blocking processes. Small projects often think they
need to give people fresh
On 13 March 2010 19:12, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
For minor languages sustainable activity is often the very good work of
one extremely dedicated individual with no-one else making any
significant contribution.
I thought the definition of sustainable activity included at least
On 10 March 2010 23:40, Brian J Mingus brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote:
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8560469.stm
We're the biggest non-profit website in the world. That sounds like
argument for us to get the
On 4 March 2010 17:20, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Also, David Gerard made a suggestion about weekly updates that concretely
list the progress that's being made with regard to FlaggedRevs development.
William has mentioned there are software checkins, etc. in progress.
Even a list
On 3 March 2010 10:38, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote:
By looking on the other sites that seem to be posting it. I don't see
how posting their signing keys helps anyone trying to learn about
the company.
This sounds like a new case of we want to post it because they don't
want it posted
On 3 March 2010 12:28, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
Wikipedia is not a dumping ground for your copyfight. There is plenty
of reason to exclude this material regardless of the copyright/legal
concerns, and plenty of other people hosting it elsewhere. Doubly
true where the
On 2 March 2010 09:19, Naoko Komura nkom...@wikimedia.org wrote:
The Stanton usability project is in the final phase, but we are still
developing one of the most complicated features we worked so far,
collapsing and form-based templates. We are faced with a lot of challenges,
but we
On 2 March 2010 04:37, Gregory Kohs thekoh...@gmail.com wrote:
Do you think donors think this is an important mission, to
build up the savings account?
Yes. Getting out of living hand-to-mouth and building an actual
ongoing reserve has been an express goal over the past few years.
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On 1 March 2010 06:51, William Pietri will...@scissor.com wrote:
And in the future people want to know about something, just drop me a
note off list and say, Hey, William! I was wondering about X, and I'd
bet other people are too. I'm entirely happy to keep people apprised on
pretty much
On 1 March 2010 12:52, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
Judging from (an older version of?) the website, it's a general
non-commercial license on all submissions:
::: The archive contains free sheet music, free for non-commercial usage.
This
::: means that you may download the
On 28 February 2010 12:42, church.of.emacs.ml
church.of.emacs...@googlemail.com wrote:
The Werner Icking Music Archive has announced it's no longer capable of
coping with the large amount of visitors to the site. They are
considering hosting the content somewhere else.
This archive contains
Not WMF-related, but a project I think many here would find sympathy with:
http://librivox.org/2010/02/24/librivox-needs-your-help/
They do public-domain audio recordings of public-domain books. The
audio files are hosted by ibiblio.org, but the rest runs on a server
of their own. They need $20k
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From: Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com
Date: 19 February 2010 21:19
Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)
To: wikipedi...@lists.wikimedia.org
An editor on META is having the crazy idea of tagging all historical
logo
On 17 February 2010 14:44, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote:
The question is, how do we thank the company that has everything?
We can thank them by providing better content to everyone. That is both what
they and us want.
Indeed. Note, by the way, I believe we've previously
On 3 February 2010 00:15, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote:
Do note that this is translation of dynamic language code, it doesn't
make it as efficient as code written for native compilation.
OTOH, given that wikitext is defined as what the parser does, it's
the only current realistic
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/02/britain-loves-wikipedia-and-about-time.html
I've added some background on what we do (ask nicely, take things
slowly) and why. Others welcome, particularly as I've only done
minimal GLAM liaison myself :-)
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On 1 February 2010 13:40, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/02/britain-loves-wikipedia-and-about-time.html
I've added some background on what we do (ask nicely, take things
slowly) and why. Others welcome, particularly as I've only done
minimal GLAM
On 28 January 2010 20:16, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm delighted to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation's new Chief
Technical Officer is Danese Cooper, an experienced technology manager
and open-source evangelist. Danese will start with Wikimedia on
February 4, 2010.
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/5104
Michael Geist on how excessive copyright and ACTA-like treaties will
directly affect the process of sharing and education, i.e. what we do.
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2010/1/19 Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com:
Keep in mind, though, that PM is constantly asking for Foundation
intervention with regard to the images that he is so consistently reviewing
and concerned about. Why PM wants Foundation intervention rather than
community consensus is unclear to me --
2010/1/14 David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com:
As for the link, showing these in greatly enlarged versions, without
the context of the articles in which they are used, is setting up a
strong bias. We've never engaged in that use of the material, nor
would we. If people want to take our
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/07/wikibumps.html
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2010/1/8 William Pietri will...@scissor.com:
On 01/08/2010 09:02 AM, David Gerard wrote:
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/07/wikibumps.html
And the poster, who is a Boing Boing guest editor, is one of our own, an
English Wikipedia contributor since 2004:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
2009/12/17 Mark Williamson node...@gmail.com:
This is great publicity for Craigslist and it would be silly to measure the
impact by the number of pageviews for our own page on Craigslist. I think
the point Geni was trying to make is that it has indeed raised some interest
in Craigslist,
2009/12/15 Mark Williamson node...@gmail.com:
If that's true, I am even more against this... what does that say about us?
Didn't we have this discussion around Virgin Unite?
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/UnNews:Wikimedia_Foundation_to_introduce_paid_editing
Craig Newmark's on the WMF
2009/12/15 Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com:
Have you added your new blog to Open Wiki Blog Planet and the Wikimedia
aggregator?
The en:wp arbcom have started messing with the Open Wiki Blog Planet,
on the pretext that if the control page is on en:wp then they must own
it. Suggest
2009/12/15 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com:
2009/12/15 Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com:
Have you added your new blog to Open Wiki Blog Planet and the Wikimedia
aggregator?
I've asked for it to be added to Planet Wikimedia. I've never heard of
the other one.
2009/12/15 Judson Dunn cohes...@sleepyhead.org:
http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2009/12/wikis-fundraising-ads-send-wrong-message.html
Ah, well. :)
Hey, free publicity! *cough*
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2009/12/13 Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com:
But the best is to use no energy at all : see the OLPC project in
Afghanistan (A computer with pedals, like the sewing machines of our
great-great-great-grand-mothers) (1)
(1)
2009/12/12 Geoffrey Plourde geo.p...@yahoo.com:
The only reason the servers and internet access produce CO2 emissions is
because of the defective and antiquated energy production systems we use
across the world. As we move towards more efficient and cleaner means of
energy production, the
2009/12/12 masti mast...@gmail.com:
W dniu 12.12.2009 22:36, David Gerard pisze:
Iceland! Geothermal energy!
but we need to cool not to heat our servers :)
I think they've got some of that there too ;-)
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2009/11/22 Judson Dunn cohes...@sleepyhead.org:
And in defense of the bureaucratic morons, you might be surprised the
number of super positive generous people that want their work on
Wikipedia that are completely unwilling to allow 3rd parties to use
their work. I don't personally make people
2009/11/22 Geoffrey Plourde geo.p...@yahoo.com:
I see a lot of well meaning people responding here, but maybe its time to go
back to the basics. No non free pictures, period. No more bureaucracy plus
cost savings on not having to run the permissions systems.
I submit that you aren't
2009/11/22 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com:
Keep in mind that this is not about non-free content, this is not
about a possibility that professor didn't understand all consequences
of his approval; this is just about The Form. The Bureaucracy. Note,
also, that this cooperation exists for four
This thread should be an illustrative example in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect .
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2009/11/8 wjhon...@aol.com:
The reason I asked for no personal attacks is because the above, by you,
sounds very much like : You are the problem. You are a problem.
Actually, you are the problem. Your posts to foundation-l of late have
pretty much entirely been self-aggrandising noise and
2009/11/5 wjhon...@aol.com:
By failing I mean that it never achieved any sort of siginificant presence.
When Wikinews was started it was, imho, to shunt news off the main project
into its own space.
In your opinion? i.e., not necessarily in anyone else's.
Better to re-focus attention on
2009/11/5 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
2009/11/5 Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk:
We did astonishingly, staggeringly, unbelievably, improbably well with
Wikipedia. Failing to replicate that is to be expected; it's unlikely
we could deliberately manage such a success without
http://www.externaute.net/la-globe-en-puzzle-de-wikipedia-en-realite-3d/1071
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Nominated for having successfully taken the organisation to the next
level of professionalism and the influence that gives us.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/29/huffpost-game-changers-wh_n_337129.html?slidenumber=IYkFqRf71RU%3D#slide_image
(Do of course click through the others.)
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2009/10/27 Mike.lifeguard mike.lifegu...@gmail.com:
You are a long way from proving your point, but I would encourage you to
make that request on the talk page of the CheckUser policy page on
English Wikipedia so it can be pointed out that while there is a public
request process, most
2009/10/20 Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com:
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Jiri Hofman hofm...@aldebaran.cz wrote:
Not free, not own content, not interested.
Categorizing content of internet has been repeatedly unsuccessful. Why it
should be successful now?
It's embedded. It's video!
factual.com is a new open data site. Here's a line from the TOS:
You may not sell, resell, redistribute, sublicense, or transfer all
or any portion of the services or data provided to you through Factual
API calls.
Yeah, that's open content all right. (fail.)
Is there anything we can or should
2009/10/10 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com:
The ratio of overhead to other expenses isn't always a great meter
stick, as Erik mentions. Nevertheless, one extraordinary aspect of
Wikipedia and siblings is how high the efficiency of its core project
work is by that measure: 100 billion views /
2009/10/10 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org:
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
In my experience, high-school teachers were 90/10 anti Wikipedia 3
years ago, and are slightly in favor of it today. This sort of thing
would be a fascinating survey to run year after
2009/9/30 wiki-li...@phizz.demon.co.uk:
David Gerard wrote:
But getting back to the case in question - we're talking about the
sort of museum that's actually a government sub-department. Thus,
public domain images that the taxpayer has *already paid for*. I see
nothing whatsoever
2009/9/28 wiki-li...@phizz.demon.co.uk:
From the earlier poster Teofilo:
I disagree. I think the priority is to have the full
resolution pictures of Public Domain works.
That seems to be a demand to have the highest resolution copies possible.
That sets it out as a goal, not a
2009/9/28 Mohamed Magdy mohamed@gmail.com:
This really sucks.
Hey, we'll all live, and he's alive and well :-)
I'm now sending the job opening around my SF contacts ...
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2009/9/26 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com:
Mike Godwin completed a first draft of the revised trademark policy.
- Nice. Does this mean we are closer to a world in which awesome
Wikimedia swag is easy to come by... and not through cafepress? [
sorry, CP! :) ]
The chapters still can't do
2009/9/22 Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com:
When this thread began I hoped more people would comb the collection in
search of copyleft license violations. We have been losing FP volunteers
over license violation problems.
That's a large statement, and it needs substantiation to convince.
2009/9/22 Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com:
No David, I have already stated that the best thing to do at this point is
step back and examine the differing assumptions that made this thread
nonproductive. My previous attempts to clarify matters with specific
examples led to accusations that I
From Erik Zachte:
http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/09/partipication-level-a-new-metric/
Hmm. Anyone want to change the front page of www.wikipedia.org accordingly? ;-)
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2009/9/15 Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com:
This is entirely off-topic, and could be continued in wikitech-l, if
you're really eager to tell how you modify compressed files in
place. ;-)
You can decode bzipped files an arbitrary block at a time (which makes
reader apps surprisingly viable
2009/9/17 Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net:
This doesn't seem quite right to me. average donors may financially
be worth less in each donation, but remember that there's a lot more
of them, and they're more likely to give repeat donations. Also,
there's more to worth than just financial, e.g.
http://blog.gingertech.net/2009/09/16/open-standards-sign-language/
Not quite there yet, but interesting and promising.
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2009/9/13 Austin Hair adh...@gmail.com:
I've personally met some of the most prolific posters to Foundation-l,
and not one I can think of is the type to dominate a conversation in
person.
*cough* I am, but consciously try to moderate it. A bit.
I'm encouraged by how the discussion's
2009/9/11 Waldir Pimenta wal...@email.com:
We would love to receive advice on how we can make the chapter work (well)
with people so spread across the country (almost all the involved people
live in different cities), and since much of the money WMF has was
volunteer-contributed, we will take
http://philanthropy.com/news/prospecting/9484/new-youtube-feature-helps-charities-raise-money-with-videos
So, any videos we can do this with?
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2009/9/10 Brion Vibber br...@wikimedia.org:
IMO we need to do that for the projects we already have before we take
on new obligations!
Oh yesss.
We still have very poor software support for:
* Commons -- We need a sane upload and post-upload workflow (eg review
and deletion), and a clean
the traffic!
The point is: it has been done and can be done. And that way, those of
us (e.g. me) who hate forums and don't want yet another web page to go
to can have it all happen in in our email.
So I heartily suggest we go to a forum with a fidelitous email gateway.
Alternatively, put David Gerard
As Erik points out, at a certain point we have to actually write new
code to support new ideas. Else projects we could do at Wikimedia
becomes projects we can do with a wiki engine.
e.g. OpenStreetMap would have been a natural for WMF, but it would
have required a whole new software
2009/9/7 Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com:
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:42 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
That would describe the person who started this thread, who has stated
elsewhere that anything whatsoever he does on any WMF site is only for
the purpose of trolling.
Was that the
2009/9/7 Klaus Graf klausg...@googlemail.com:
I applaud fighting against Copyfraud but will it make sense to educate
e.g. the UK National Portrait Gallery? The Hydra Copyfraud has too
many heads.
There are times when it's prudent to let these things rest in a state
of quantum uncertainty,
2009/9/7 Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com:
I wonder what motivates this kind of thread. Do those who regularly
seek to pick out any inconsistency or failure to communicate
actually /like/ Wikipedia, or do they have some grudge against the
whole enterprise?
That would describe the person who
2009/9/7 Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com:
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Geoffrey Plourdegeo.p...@yahoo.com wrote:
The Commons Force proposal represents a clear and present danger, both for
whoever hosts it and participates in it. It is not for a third party to
intervene in a
2009/9/7 Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com:
That's a very fair comment.
Is it possible to keep my proposal intact and address those issues?
Indeed. Just note on CC-by and CC-by-sa that they also make it
eligible for Wikipedia.
Offer a tickbox for asking Wikipedia reviewers to check your image,
2009/9/6 geni geni...@gmail.com:
If you want to get seriously formal there are signpost or signpost
like publications in 19 languages on wikipedia which means that
informing them is likely to result in significantly wider information
distribution among the wikimedia than wikizine.
Wikizine
2009/9/6 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org:
I just have to say that I think it is utter and complete nonsense for anyone
to ever accuse the Wikimedia Foundation in any serious way of being the kind
of organization that tries to hush things up.
Too many people attribute to malice what is completely
2009/9/6 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org:
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 8:06 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Too many people attribute to malice what is completely explained by
fuckups.
Perhaps you should rethink this analysis. You might be attributing
accusations of the latter
2009/9/4 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org:
Yes, as noted in our 09-10 plan, we are relocating to a new space, as
a consequence of which the current satellite office will be re-merged
into the new HQ. We're hoping to sublet the Stillman space, once we've
covered up the entrance to our secret
2009/8/31 Cetateanu Moldovanu cetatean...@gmail.com:
I said OUR, OUR country, OUR language, OUR latin script and alphabet. Please
respect us.
If by respect you mean agree and do what I say ... then I'm not
surprised you have no insight as to why no-one cares about your
request.
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2009/8/25 geni geni...@gmail.com:
Omidyar Network? They were involved with a 4 million funding round for
wikia back in 2006 no?
http://web.archive.org/web/20060422054638/http://www.americanventuremagazine.com/news.php?newsid=941
Appointing yet another person with wikia links looks kinda dicey
2009/8/25 Jay Walsh jwa...@wikimedia.org:
This was also somewhat compounded by the considerable media interest
in coverage of some flagged revisions stories (it's important to
respond to every request we get - we want to get the story right).
Particularly the flagged revisions story, which
2009/8/23 Mark Williamson node...@gmail.com:
Getting involved overseas isn't the same as colonization.
There has been buzz about American colonialism and whatnot but the US
has few true colonies and none of any substantial size or population.
However, people learning English frequently
2009/8/21 Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net:
I can speak from a bit of personal experience here. Between the Dutch
chapter, Jan-Bart, and people on the technical team like Mark and Roan,
the Dutch were well represented at the meetings in Berlin in April. At
one point I decided to invade a
2009/8/21 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com:
Milestones are important, especially for PR purposes. We just need to
work out which milestones should be emphasised. For small Wikipedias
number of articles is probably a good choice, for larger ones,
particularly the English Wikipedia, it
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/New_Digital_Master_Map_for_Great_Britian:_Confidential_Advice_to_Ministers%2C_2009
This is a survey that they didn't want made public, about the costs
and benefits of releasing map data. They've clearly fiddled the cost
numbers. Now to try to get accountability for the
2009/8/20 Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se:
David Gerard wrote:
Yes, completely. Do other Wikipedias show the same S-curve of growth?
I don't think it's an S-curve. I think we are seeing linear
growth, with a few exceptions in the very early days (years).
But hey, that's growth in the number
2009/8/19 Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com:
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Nathannawr...@gmail.com wrote:
certainly see why it would be frustrating for him: he's much more reasonable
in voice chat than over text, and if the audio were widely circulated it's
possible he would have come in
2009/8/16 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com:
For me while interesting, it is hardly new and therefore not that
interesting what people like Ed H Chi write about Wikipedia. They do not
write about Wikipedia, they write about the English language Wikipedia.
Invariably news written about
2009/8/16 John at Darkstar vac...@jeb.no:
I would guess that the most important reason why english wikipedia is
slowing down is because of the other language projects gets the
attention of the editors. perhaps it would be possible to get some
numbers on the total influx of content and how it
2009/8/13 David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com:
I would be exceedingly uncomfortable with us organizing a negative
campaign against any publisher not actually violating our copyright.
. A factual campaign, providing information is another matter. It
would be entirely appropriate for
2009/8/14 Renata St renataw...@gmail.com:
As long as the books give sufficient indication that they are from
Wikipedia, ...
Inside the book -- yes, plenty of indication about copying. But nothing to
warn you before you buy. People are buying these books tricked into thinking
it's an
Our logo competitions have landed us such excellent trademarks as the
puzzle globe, the WMF logo and the MediaWiki flower. But most entries
are an excellent demonstration of why graphic designers are paid
money.
This one did make the b3ta newsletter, though. Could be a very
profitable bit of
2009/8/14 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com:
David Gerard wrote:
Our logo competitions have landed us such excellent trademarks as the
puzzle globe, the WMF logo and the MediaWiki flower. But most entries
are an excellent demonstration of why graphic designers are paid
money.
Sigh
2009/8/14 Renata St renataw...@gmail.com:
Inside the book -- yes, plenty of indication about copying. But nothing
to
warn you before you buy. People are buying these books tricked into
thinking
it's an original content.
Yuh. Point it out in reviews etc.
Exactly, except that there are
When you're competing with your own fans, you're ... in trouble.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/article1027680.ece
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2009/8/12 Kat Walsh k...@mindspillage.org:
I'm not sure what the technical challenges you had in mind are, but I
can think of plenty of reasons to argue against hotlinking and I don't
want to let the point slip by. A few:
The ones who want hotlinking want it as a way of making the images not
2009/8/10 Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net:
Didn't you ever play Monopoly?
The point is that this is not a zero-sum game. If Knol and Citizendium
and OpenSite get it together and rocket to #1, #2 and #3 websites,
that'll be a fulfilment of our mission:
Imagine a world in which every single
2009/8/10 Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com:
Some weeks ago I had an opportunity to talk with a Google employee
about a number of topics. One of the things we discussed was Knol.
Setting aside the way it may have been marketed in the popular press
at the time, she suggested that Google does not
2009/8/10 Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com:
It's entirely possible for there to be a Gresham's Law with regard to
collaborative encyclopedias, in my view.
Encyclopedia Dramatica is indeed the only way to keep up with 4chan ...
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2009/8/7 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com:
More than a year ago Google lunched Knol. It was a sensation then
(BTW, it was a sensation for more time than Wolfram Alpha was). Today
I just may say that I don't remember when I heard for the Knol last
time.
Well, Wolfram Alpha is occasionally
2009/8/7 Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com:
It's not bad to have an internal pattern, but I think it's more
important to match the practices in industry.
By containing the magic words senior and architect the proposed
Senior Software Architect is, in my experience, not inconsistent
with
2009/7/31 stevertigo stv...@gmail.com:
Note also that anytime someone is blocked/moderated from a public or
open list, its a common-sense requirement that the list be given
notification of the block/moderation, along with an explanation of
why. This is standard practice on wikien-l, and I
2009/7/31 stevertigo stv...@gmail.com:
My impression is that Wikimedia currently lives year to year on
donations, and that reserves are sufficient to pay a skeleton crew of
fundraisers. I'm sure its been discussed before though, but yes, it
would seem to make sense for Wikimedia -
Denise from dreamwidth.org - she's talking about software development,
but it's certainly apposite to the discussions here recently:
http://denise.dreamwidth.org/23600.html
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2009/7/25 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com:
I have quite opposite experiences. One of them had become Wikimedian
with 16-17 and two years later became a steward (by passing elections
with ~95% of support).
Yes. We must keep in mind that the Wikimedia projects attract some
*ridiculously* smart,
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/16060
Basically, if you cut'n'paste text, it appends a CC credit line to the
pasted text. Obviously the paster can remove it, but it does remind
them this is licensed, not PD.
Worth using for our stuff? A bit obnoxious? What do you think?
- d.
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