Re: [WikiEN-l] Is Copyrighted Freeware CCbySA?

2009-02-19 Thread Jay Litwyn
Todd Allen toddmal...@gmail.com wrote in message news:2a34d5a90902162103lfd8202fmcbe76978816f2...@mail.gmail.com... On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Jay Litwyn brewh...@edmc.net wrote: Todd Allen toddmal...@gmail.com wrote in message

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Slashdot] The Role of Experts In Wikipedia

2009-02-19 Thread Charles Matthews
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: Personally I think this is a very interesting point. You will forgive if I have asked this before, and not gotten a reply. (I honestly forget if I have broached this subject before, I know I have often thought I should ask the question.) Does anyone know how many

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Slashdot] The Role of Experts In Wikipedia

2009-02-19 Thread Carcharoth
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: Personally I think this is a very interesting point. You will forgive if I have asked this before, and not gotten a reply. (I honestly forget if I have broached this subject

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Slashdot] The Role of Experts In Wikipedia

2009-02-19 Thread Charles Matthews
Does anyone know the answer to the opposite question? How many articles on the English Wikipedia lack interwiki links? It is possible (but less likely) that the articles exist in both places, but haven't been linked with an interwiki yet. I find examples of that fairly regularly, but am not

[WikiEN-l] BBC radio 5 Interview with Jimmy Wales

2009-02-19 Thread Ian Woollard
There's an excerpt at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7894719.stm And the full interview lasts half an hour and starts about 1:07:30: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00hlnfv/Richard_Bacon_16_02_2009/ -- -Ian Woollard We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. Life in a perfectly

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Slashdot] The Role of Experts In Wikipedia

2009-02-19 Thread Eugene van der Pijll
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen schreef: Would there be any workable way to create a big (huge?) Missing Articles project by somehow mass generating a list of the various non-English language articles still not translated to the English language wikipedia? I did something like this, four years ago.