On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 6:15 AM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote:
We appear to have a problem with Arbcom. We have an editor who has
contributed significantly to Wikipedia over the previous 7 years, making
more than 100,000 edits and generating a couple of featured articles. Than
in a
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:27 PM, David Richfield
davidrichfi...@gmail.com wrote:
If I understand the suggestion properly, the idea was not to stop
linking to articles in closed journals, but to find some meaningful
way to support the efforts of the researchers who are boycotting
closed
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Pedro Sanchez pdsanc...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm worried that we may be getting in trouble.
I don't know about US laws, but are charitable organizations allowed
to meddle in political lobbying?
I'd appreciate if more knowledgeable people could give us some
An update: I managed to fix the double-counting problem I mentioned
was skewing the numbers upwards, and fixed a few other issues. (In
retrospect, the solution was almost trivial: just discard any URL that
appears *twice* in the diff, since none of the edits would repeat an
added link.)
The
2011/12/22 David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com:
This article starts as a complaint about external links being moved to
talk pages and never making it back to the main page, and then becomes
a rant against deletionism.
No, it does not 'start' as that; the complaint is a subsection and
I have just completed and written up a little research project of mine:
http://www.gwern.net/In%20Defense%20Of%20Inclusionism#the-editing-community-is-dead-who-killed-it
Summary:
1. Talk pages are where references/links/citations go to die; less
than 10% ever make it back
2. In just the sampled
