Re: [WikiEN-l] Jimbo interview

2009-04-04 Thread David Gerard
2009/4/4 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com: The only regret I personally have about that one, is that Jimbo missed the one big opening at a knock-out punch vis a vis citizendium. I don't. Citizendium can't harm Wikipedia, but Wikipedia could harm Citizendium. And that would be bad.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Jimbo interview

2009-04-04 Thread Carcharoth
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 10:24 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/4 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com: The only regret I personally have about that one, is that Jimbo missed the one big opening at a knock-out punch vis a vis citizendium. I don't. Citizendium can't harm

Re: [WikiEN-l] Jimbo interview

2009-04-04 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
David Gerard wrote: 2009/4/4 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com: The only regret I personally have about that one, is that Jimbo missed the one big opening at a knock-out punch vis a vis citizendium. I don't. Citizendium can't harm Wikipedia, but Wikipedia could harm

Re: [WikiEN-l] Jimbo interview

2009-04-04 Thread doc
Ray Saintonge wrote: Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: I do however in the larger scheme of things think that having a credible fork of the English wikipedia at this stage of its life-cycle wouldn't be counter-productive, ghod knows somebody needs to keep it honest. But I have very little hope of

Re: [WikiEN-l] Jimbo interview

2009-04-04 Thread doc
geni wrote: 2009/4/4 doc doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com: Contributors could be offered motivation in things like 1) promises of ad-revenue share. 2) meaningful attribution, where you can personally take the kudos of writing a superb article into the real world (CV etc.). 3) Ability to publish

Re: [WikiEN-l] Saying no to new unreferenced BLPs

2009-04-04 Thread David Gerard
2009/4/4 phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com: This is pretty great, and could be an easy, painless way to up sourcing across the board. Certainly, footnote syntax is so confusing that many people just don't bother; and this would probably help with identifying copyvios as well. I generally

Re: [WikiEN-l] Saying no to new unreferenced BLPs

2009-04-04 Thread doc
phoebe ayers wrote: I am all in favor of seeing if we can change people's behavior in subtle ways; it will take many solutions all working together to fix blp's. -- phoebe ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe

Re: [WikiEN-l] Saying no to new unreferenced BLPs

2009-04-04 Thread phoebe ayers
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:39 PM, doc doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com wrote: phoebe ayers wrote: I am all in favor of seeing if we can change people's behavior in subtle ways; it will take many solutions all working together to fix blp's. -- phoebe ___

[WikiEN-l] Wikimania 2009: Call for Participation reminder

2009-04-04 Thread Casey Brown
Just to remind you all that the Call for Participation for Wikimania 2009 closes soon.  You can view the Call for Participation on the following page: http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation with many translations available. For more information about Wikimania 2009, see