On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 02:02, Fajro fai...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:28 PM, onthebrinkandfall...@aol.com wrote:
What am I misunderstanding? Surely there is a difference between the filter
bubble that decides what content to show me on it's own, and an opt-in
filter where
Tom Morris, 30/06/2011 11:28:
I'd have a problem if people started making overwrought
comparison to Nazi book burnings too.
Wow, a reductio ad reductionem ad Hitlerum argument.
Nemo
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On 30 June 2011 10:55, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
Tom Morris, 30/06/2011 11:28:
I'd have a problem if people started making overwrought
comparison to Nazi book burnings too.
Wow, a reductio ad reductionem ad Hitlerum argument.
Trained professional philosophers can get
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Philippe Beaudette
phili...@wikimedia.org wrote:
*Call for referendum*: The Wikimedia Foundation, at the direction of the
Board of Trustees, will be holding a vote to determine whether members of
the community support the creation and usage of an opt-in
On 30 June 2011 12:31, Alec Conroy alecmcon...@gmail.com wrote:
The further we can get away from the model of elementary schools and
towards the model of the global universities, the better.
+1
(This entire post is gold.)
One *big* problem we have now is: Wikipedia has won. Wikipedia is the
On 30 June 2011 12:31, Alec Conroy alecmcon...@gmail.com wrote:
The further we can get away from the model of elementary schools and
towards the model of the global universities, the better.
+1
(This entire post is gold.)
One *big* problem we have now is: Wikipedia has won. Wikipedia is
Of course, that could either help or hinder, with no way to
know for sure in advance; perhaps encouraging more social interaction
would exacerbate and personalize the disputes and conflicts that drive
people away.
From my perspective, this is exactly what is happening. Too many people
want
One *big* problem we have now is: Wikipedia has won. Wikipedia is the
encyclopedia anyone actually consults, ever. Wikipedia now defines
what an encyclopedia is in popular conception.
So we don't have any tail-lights to chase. What sets our direction?
Well, this is now completely and utterly
Of course, that could either help or hinder, with no way to
know for sure in advance; perhaps encouraging more social interaction
would exacerbate and personalize the disputes and conflicts that drive
people away.
From my perspective, this is exactly what is happening. Too many people
want
On 30 June 2011 17:00, Alec Conroy alecmcon...@gmail.com wrote:
[a git-like distributed wikisphere]
It's not my idea, I believe it's been independently suggested at
least five different times that I know of. But it's a HUGE step that
would require a big, bold push from developers and thus
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:35 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Adapting MediaWiki to git has been tried a few times. I suspect the
problem is that the software deeply assumes a database behind it, not
a version-controlled file tree. Wrong model for an easy fix to
MediaWiki itself.
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:35 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 30 June 2011 17:00, Alec Conroy alecmcon...@gmail.com wrote:
[a git-like distributed wikisphere]
It's not my idea, I believe it's been independently suggested at
least five different times that I know of.
I have
On 30 June 2011 19:49, HaeB haebw...@gmail.com wrote:
I have added your postings to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HaeB/Timeline_of_distributed_Wikipedia_proposals
:-D
Do you have an index of this sort of perennial proposal? Apart from,
of course,
It looks like we understand the potential risks of adding social
features, but I don't know that the merits have sunk in.
==Don't call it a Social Network, don't think of it as a revolution==
Th first thing to do is banish the word Social Network from the
discussion. Social Network evokes
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
As we did not know the extend to which we generally edit in many languages,
we have not considered the needs of this majority. Our view has always been
on single projects. We can do better and we should do better
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