[WikiEN-l] Larry Sanger's new project

2013-02-14 Thread David Gerard
A commercial enterprise a bit like a wiki or a blog that's a way to crowdsource *high-quality* information. http://columbus.craigslist.org/eng/3614099241.html - d. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this

Re: [WikiEN-l] Larry Sanger's new project

2013-02-14 Thread Magnus Manske
co-founder of Wikipedia and many others. Indeed. On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:51 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: A commercial enterprise a bit like a wiki or a blog that's a way to crowdsource *high-quality* information. http://columbus.craigslist.org/eng/3614099241.html - d.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Larry Sanger's new project

2013-02-14 Thread David Gerard
On 14 February 2013 14:20, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:51 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: A commercial enterprise a bit like a wiki or a blog that's a way to crowdsource *high-quality* information.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Larry Sanger's new project

2013-02-14 Thread Nathan
That job ad is so awesome I had to save it for posterity. Work as a programmer slash executive assistant, for free! Be available 24 hours a day at a moments notice! Weekends off? Forget it! Mediocre candidates need not apply! Work for the *gasp* co-founder of Wikipedia! Solid, solid gold.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Larry Sanger's new project

2013-02-14 Thread David Gerard
On 14 February 2013 15:15, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: That job ad is so awesome I had to save it for posterity. Work as a programmer slash executive assistant, for free! Be available 24 hours a day at a moments notice! Weekends off? Forget it! Mediocre candidates need not apply! Work for

Re: [WikiEN-l] Larry Sanger's new project

2013-02-14 Thread Fred Bauder
On 14 February 2013 15:15, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: That job ad is so awesome I had to save it for posterity. Work as a programmer slash executive assistant, for free! Be available 24 hours a day at a moments notice! Weekends off? Forget it! Mediocre candidates need not apply! Work

Re: [WikiEN-l] Larry Sanger's new project

2013-02-14 Thread Thomas Dalton
I am rarely as enthusiastic about my ideas as I am about this one--it's a corker. I've never known him not be extremely enthusiatic about his ideas... If you need to see the project before agreeing to work, and I like you, it's no problem for me to share access to the site if you sign the

Re: [WikiEN-l] Larry Sanger's new project

2013-02-14 Thread David Gerard
On 14 February 2013 15:15, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: That job ad is so awesome I had to save it for posterity. Work as a programmer slash executive assistant, for free! Be available 24 hours a day at a moments notice! Weekends off? Forget it! Mediocre candidates need not apply! Work for

Re: [WikiEN-l] Larry Sanger's new project

2013-02-14 Thread Nicholas Moreau
It's interesting: his official website links to a Facebook fan page for Sanger... automatically generated, containing his Wikipedia profile. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Larry-Sanger/107978809222387 Nick ___ WikiEN-l mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] Larry Sanger's new project

2013-02-14 Thread David Gerard
On 14 February 2013 15:49, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: He's not wrong; if it is possible to effectively mobilize the world's best experts in a major widely supported crowd sourcing project it could be awesome. Any Wikipedia editor knows from experience that from time to time you

Re: [WikiEN-l] deployment of the first phase of Wikidata on enwp

2013-02-14 Thread Samuel Klein
This is simply wonderful. Thank you, Lydia and WD team! Sam. On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: Heya :) Third time's a charm, right? We're live on the English Wikipedia with phase 1 now \o/ Details are in this blog post:

Re: [WikiEN-l] deployment of the first phase of Wikidata on enwp

2013-02-14 Thread Steve Bennett
Hi Lydia, Very cool. You might want to expand on this text: Language links in the sidebar will automatically come from Wikidata, once the article is linked on Wikidata. No special syntax is needed for that. Speaking as someone who knows nothing about Wikidata, the phrase once the article is