Durova wrote:
Restoration is inherently interpretive. Consider something simple: a
newspaper cartoon in black and white. There are many possible whites; which
do you select?
The reasonable assumption is that the background white is an unprinted
area; the white is a function of the paper
In a message dated 9/19/2009 12:05:37 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
dgoodma...@gmail.com writes:
The best practical way to audit admin actions is to become an admin
oneself. Admins have just as many conflicts among them as any other
active people here. There are people I watch, and people who
Was reading around and following a link to the German Wikipedia, where
they have this policy:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sei_grausam
This translates roughly as Wikipedia: Be cruel.
The Google translation is hilarious, but the gist comes through:
Carcharoth wrote:
Is there anything like this page on the English Wikipedia?
Apparently WP:SO TOUGH has yet to be created.
Charles
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So which path would you follow?
1. Eliminate the paper texture during restoration because a textureless
background facilitates physical printout?
2. Convert to vector graphics?
3. Remain in raster grahics and keep the paper texture to preserve the look
and feel of a period document?
All three
That isn't a policy. This is the list of the German Wikipedia policies.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Richtlinien
Their structure is different; this is roughly on the level of
Wikipedia:Assume no clue.
-Durova
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Charles Matthews
Re Not everyone wants to be a janitor policeman. Unlike on say
commons there is no minimum requirement for admin activity level on
the English Wikipedia. Also it isn't unheard of for someone to submit
an RFA wanting the tools for a very specialist reason.
As for Every system should be open to
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:32:05 -0500, Emily Monroe wrote:
I'm going to contribute to this thread backwards, replying first to
this message and then replying to other peoples' reply. I hope other
people don't mind at all.
I don't care what order you reply to messages, but I wish you
