Re: [WikiEN-l] Privacy Study Looking for Volunteers

2015-03-31 Thread geni
if there are important similarities, nobody wants to look like a hypocrite. What does this have to do with anything? -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] How's our coverage of medications?

2008-11-25 Thread geni
to keep up with the required rate of sighting (We have a hard time marking new pages as patrolled at the moment) If you want to use drug articles as the foundation for your argument proof that it would provide any protection against subtle vandalism. -- geni

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to sabotage Wikipedia, for SEO spammers

2008-11-26 Thread geni
assume that google treats wikis like other websites. Due to their unusually high levels of inline linking in wikis this is questionable. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] Suggestion on how referencing system could be improved

2008-12-04 Thread geni
on older computers. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Suggestion on how referencing system could be improved

2008-12-04 Thread geni
in sync is a fairly significant effort. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] help videos about editing?

2008-12-05 Thread geni
://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Instructional_videos_on_using_wikipedia -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Abolishing image placeholders; again

2008-12-06 Thread geni
about how one of the changes will impact the servers (basically I want to put an if command into mediawiki:Sharedupload). -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] UK censorship: I'm on BBC Radio 4 Today show

2008-12-08 Thread geni
over the weekend they haven't been able to present their side of the story. It's equally possible that the IWF is unsure if it should have blocked the image in question. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from

Re: [WikiEN-l] UK censorship: I'm on BBC Radio 4 Today show tomorrow 8:20am

2008-12-08 Thread geni
by pointing out they are currently withholding information that responsible site operators need to keep their sites child porn free. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] Another Mirror Question

2008-12-11 Thread geni
Hosting the English wikipedia will get you hammered with a duplicate content penalty so you tend not to rank very high in search results. In theory a machine translation of French would avoid that. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Community vs. Scholarly Consensus

2008-12-17 Thread geni
2008/12/17 Phil Sandifer snowspin...@gmail.com: On Dec 17, 2008, at 1:48 PM, geni wrote: And this is one of the reasons why wikipedia policy is what it is. This fight has been done by others and they have done it better ( eg http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/decon.html ). Wikipedia policy

Re: [WikiEN-l] Subscription idea

2008-12-21 Thread geni
and searching them effectively is quite a trick. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia and indecent content

2008-12-22 Thread geni
that the word encyclopedia still has this meaning and association. —Thomas Larsen Scholarly practices such as they exist in the field of popular music have long established that if you are going to talk about an album cover you show the thing. -- geni

Re: [WikiEN-l] Subscription idea

2008-12-24 Thread geni
harder to defend than anyone we've previously run up against. However we cannot meaningfully disrupt their business model (We do not have the strength in the academic world to push open access journals significantly and the wider public is irrelevant to them). -- geni

Re: [WikiEN-l] Subscription idea

2008-12-24 Thread geni
they would appear to be surviving that). The pictures of Mohamed thing was already overdone by the time it reached us but some religious groups might be a risk factor I suppose. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from

Re: [WikiEN-l] Speedy deletion

2009-01-01 Thread geni
be channeled toward other tasks. Experience suggests not. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Speedy deletion

2009-01-01 Thread geni
://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NewPagesoffset=20090101212200 that is http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NewPagesoffset=year,month,day,hour,minute,second But no one wants to do that. Remember tagging is secondary admins can just straight delete without tagging. -- geni

Re: [WikiEN-l] Who The Hell Writes Wikipedia, Anyway?

2009-01-03 Thread geni
thousand edits to get some idea. In terms of complaints on forums and blogs I see if you ignore the complaints more focused what people want to write the loss of a significant chunk of our coverage of TV shows and various popular media is the most complained about. -- geni

Re: [WikiEN-l] To boldy delete what no one had deleted before!

2009-01-05 Thread geni
content from one article from another (the rest of the time you can nail them for persistently lying in edit summaries). Given the format of the mediawiki software and the GFDL it is pretty much impossible to do such merges without violating copyright. -- geni

Re: [WikiEN-l] To boldy delete what no one had deleted before!

2009-01-05 Thread geni
2009/1/5 wjhon...@aol.com: In a message dated 1/5/2009 3:48:55 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, geni...@gmail.com writes: Mostly because from time to time they have actually moved content from one article from another (the rest of the time you can nail them for persistently lying in edit

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rank hath its privileges

2009-01-07 Thread geni
that was a completely harmless issue related to so interface stuff). While I would oppose it that is mostly because it doesn't look right rather than my being able to find an armored plated policy reason as to why that is the case. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rank hath its privileges

2009-01-07 Thread geni
to be legit so the issue is entirely between him and the company. Our copyright rules do not apply. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [WikiEN-l] From Private Eye

2009-01-08 Thread geni
a credit! Yours etc, David Waterson Solihull --- I laughed a lot. :) Hmm the image in question is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Public_north.JPG but they cropped it down a bit so a bit of the building is actually missing from the private eye version. -- geni

Re: [WikiEN-l] Interesting article on restored copyrights in US works between 1923 and 1964

2009-01-12 Thread geni
work is in copyright in the US. We don't use the copyright not renewed clause stuff and commons' general support for Must be PD in the country of origin as well as the US means we mostly dodge the issue. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Announcing Epistemia, a new wiki encyclopedia

2009-01-15 Thread geni
wikipedia depending on what they are counting as an article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodong -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [WikiEN-l] Interesting article on restored copyrights in US works between...

2009-01-15 Thread geni
. If that is zero then it is zero. Since under US law sweat of the brow does not give something copyright protection if your scans are publicly available it is rather hard to get people to pay anything for them. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Announcing Epistemia, a new wiki encyclopedia

2009-01-15 Thread geni
-3.0. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Interesting article on restored copyrights in US works between...

2009-01-15 Thread geni
ever being meaningfully PD. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Interesting article on restored copyrights in US works between...

2009-01-15 Thread geni
is on it's own non creative. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Interesting article on restored copyrights in US works between...

2009-01-15 Thread geni
not protected by rather limiting conditions. For example he's the conditions for the imperial war museam: http://collections.iwm.org.uk/upload/pdf/newlegal02a.pdf -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing

Re: [WikiEN-l] Interesting article on restored copyrights in US works between...

2009-01-15 Thread geni
the number of copyright claims we've ignored citing that case you would have thought someone would have tired taking the situation to court if they thought they actually had a case. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe

Re: [WikiEN-l] Interesting article on restored copyrights in US works between...

2009-01-15 Thread geni
. If that cases companies issues then under the principles of capitalism that isn't my problem unless I own shares in them. That's not very nice. 1)Copyright law isn't nice 2)Compared to most of the other bits the relevant area isn't very nasty. -- geni

Re: [WikiEN-l] Interesting article on restored copyrights in US works between...

2009-01-15 Thread geni
it on theirs. Without any credit to you, without any consideration. Again depends where they are. But yes any American can do that with this stuff most of which I scanned: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Old_Ordnance_Survey_map_images -- geni

Re: [WikiEN-l] Interesting article on restored copyrights in US works between...

2009-01-15 Thread geni
Just about every company that makes Generic pharmaceutics. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Interesting article on restored copyrights in US works between...

2009-01-15 Thread geni
2009/1/16 wjhon...@aol.com: In a message dated 1/15/2009 7:53:56 PM Pacific Standard Time, geni...@gmail.com writes: Which effectively kicks out sweat of the brow. Sweat of the brow is on it's own non creative. False. Sweat of the brow discusses effort. Creativity and effort can both

Re: [WikiEN-l] Interesting article on restored copyrights in US works between...

2009-01-15 Thread geni
2009/1/16 wjhon...@aol.com: In a message dated 1/15/2009 9:15:53 PM Pacific Standard Time, geni...@gmail.com writes: Just about every company that makes Generic pharmaceutics. - So you're advocating stealing from pharmacies to get free drugs? Otherwise I don't

Re: [WikiEN-l] Interesting article on restored copyrights in US works between...

2009-01-15 Thread geni
mentioned rather a lot of times I'm British. British law in this area is slightly different. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Interesting article on restored copyrights in US works between...

2009-01-15 Thread geni
copyright as a tool. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Interesting article on restored copyrights in US works between...

2009-01-15 Thread geni
work are the companies that take advantage of the 50 year rule on recorded music in the UK. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Interesting article on restored copyrights in US works between...

2009-01-16 Thread geni
2009/1/16 wjhon...@aol.com: Well it could be that what Geni is advocating is not legal in the US and the fact that Geni is not willing to do it Geni-self might be a good indication of that. Will It could be but you would have to overturn a fair bit of caselaw. The second part of you email

Re: [WikiEN-l] Reasons I care less about Wikipedia than I used to, No. 43

2009-01-18 Thread geni
2009/1/18 James Farrar james.far...@gmail.com: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Images_of_Spider-Man_sculpture Existing copyright law is not wikimedia's fault. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Reasons I care less about Wikipedia than I used to, No. 43

2009-01-18 Thread geni
could prize it off them without a very large crowbar. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Reasons I care less about Wikipedia than I used to, No. 43

2009-01-19 Thread geni
the article namespace because while some of them might qualify under fair use it isn't worth the hassle it would take to keep the situation under control. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing

Re: [WikiEN-l] Why infoboxes are good

2009-01-28 Thread geni
looked fairly soild. They also got their bot to the point where it could pretty much write wikipedia articles by extracting info from thre web. The other thing they found was than opening sentances are very standardised which made them easy to extract information from. -- geni

Re: [WikiEN-l] Why infoboxes are good

2009-01-28 Thread geni
2009/1/28 geni geni...@gmail.com: 2009/1/28 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2009/01/27/extracting-wikipedia-infoboxes-values-from-text/ - d. I saw one of the talks about work in this area on youtube. Other than the slight problem that they intialy focused

Re: [WikiEN-l] Watch out Wikipedia, here comes Britannica 2.0

2009-01-29 Thread geni
is a feature much liked by readers (and back when people where doing WPvsEB was often used as a point in wikipedia's favor). For our content writers the instant results are a significant part of their reward for contributing. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing

Re: [WikiEN-l] Watch out Wikipedia, here comes Britannica 2.0

2009-01-29 Thread geni
public will also soon see their changes. See the backlog of unpatrolled new pages. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Desysopping

2009-02-11 Thread geni
2009/2/11 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: I have occasionally referred to some of our more common-sense disabled editors as Turing Test failures ... Which is a bit of a problem if you want to have credibility addressing a civility issues. -- geni

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

2009-02-16 Thread geni
around in their heads. As a result the average person is facing far fewer opportunities to write new articles or expand existing ones than they used to. This makes both continuing expansion in size and editor numbers somewhat tricky. -- geni

Re: [WikiEN-l] xkcd

2009-02-20 Thread geni
function I can't see a way to do it. Even {{REVISIONID}} {{PAGESIZE:page name}}{{NUMBEROFUSERS}}{{NUMBEROFUSERS}}{{NUMBEROFEDITS}}{{NUMBERINGROUP:groupname}} wouldn't quite be ungameable. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] A proposal to de-table Wikipedia infoboxes

2009-03-03 Thread geni
in seamonkey. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] History started in 1995

2009-03-04 Thread geni
my county does not have a copy of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_This_Thing_Called_Science%3F -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [WikiEN-l] History started in 1995

2009-03-04 Thread geni
2009/3/4 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: 2009/3/4 geni geni...@gmail.com: 2009/3/4 Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com: Two words: interlibrary loan. -Durova Doesn't work so well these days. Enough libraries have been closed and stock sold off that you don't have to get that obscure

Re: [WikiEN-l] History started in 1995

2009-03-04 Thread geni
current library services do the job well enough. Getting access to existing collections and permission to make copies of them (county archives will generaly photocopy stuff for you but they won't let you point a camera at the stuff) is a more significant issue at this point. -- geni

Re: [WikiEN-l] History started in 1995

2009-03-04 Thread geni
2009/3/4 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: 2009/3/4 geni geni...@gmail.com: Getting access to existing collections and permission to make copies of them (county archives will generaly photocopy stuff for you but they won't let you point a camera at the stuff) is a more significant issue

Re: [WikiEN-l] So much for the Obama scandal

2009-03-10 Thread geni
. It is however cheap and easy to write so there is a significant incentive for media organisations to pick it up. similar to the reason it can be rather hard to find out about day to day events outside the more heavily industrialised notations. -- geni

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia isn't just a good idea - it's compulsory

2009-03-25 Thread geni
of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Chamond_(tank) -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Microsoft kills Encarta

2009-03-30 Thread geni
to be trying to do this already. Not in the way I meant. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Microsoft kills Encarta

2009-03-31 Thread geni
mostly does this through nav boxes. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Microsoft kills Encarta

2009-03-31 Thread geni
there is that the unloader is only thinking about it in one context when it might usefully be tagged with additional things to over other contexts. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] Microsoft kills Encarta

2009-03-31 Thread geni
is marginalized (and potentially killed off) by whatever may come in future. You missed whatever comes next useing parts of wikipedia. Even if you weren't interested in wikipedia content would you really want to go to the effort of recreating wikipedia's redirect and disambiguation system? -- geni

Re: [WikiEN-l] Microsoft kills Encarta

2009-03-31 Thread geni
. You also want a system that highlights the key distinguishing features of whatever is being disambiguated. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [WikiEN-l] Earth Deletion Discussion

2009-04-01 Thread geni
2009/4/1 Elias Friedman elipo...@gmail.com: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Earth_(2nd_nomination) And before anyone gets too outraged, do make note of today's date. One of these days people will learn to be original. -- geni

Re: [WikiEN-l] Earth Deletion Discussion

2009-04-03 Thread geni
, they will be persuaded. Personally I would prefer that people considered things logically. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Students use Wikipedia, they just don't mention doing so

2009-04-03 Thread geni
concept seems interesting if the exact opposite of something I sometimes do with wikipedia (find a random slightly obscure source then use it to add info to appropriate wikipedia articles). -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] Students use Wikipedia, they just don't mention doing so

2009-04-03 Thread geni
. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] An open letter to Jimmy Wales

2009-04-09 Thread geni
conflict within wikipedia. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] An open letter to Jimmy Wales

2009-04-09 Thread geni
is. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] An open letter to Jimmy Wales

2009-04-09 Thread geni
the truth for personal gain, I doubt there is anything I can say that will convince you. Jimbo is not the leader (sue might have a better claim to that but hard to tell) and I think chief spokesbeing is probably jay. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing

Re: [WikiEN-l] Lies, damned lies, and statistics

2009-04-19 Thread geni
itself than case #1, again, either way, there's something profound there. Except several years behind the times. The community has dealt with the issue and from what I've seen Jimbo has been back peddling of late. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list

[WikiEN-l] We've been overtaken.

2009-04-20 Thread geni
we need to get a clearer idea of what is going on at Hudong. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] We've been overtaken.

2009-04-21 Thread geni
out Baidu Baike. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Citizendium vs. Wikipedia

2009-04-22 Thread geni
2009/4/22 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: 2009/4/22 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: 2009/4/22 geni geni...@gmail.com: 2009/4/22 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: 2009/4/22 wjhon...@aol.com: Is there a list of the top100 most popular Wikipedia pages? http://stats.grok.se

Re: [WikiEN-l] Citizendium vs. Wikipedia

2009-04-22 Thread geni
getting double the views of Watchmen which probably had far more geek and general internet appeal. 100K views week in week out is simply not possible for well anything conventional. Even Barack Obama doesn't manage that most months. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Knol - Our first major scandel

2009-04-24 Thread geni
and people useing such copyvios to improve their ranking on some scale that I don't understand. Interesting cultural contrast. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] Knol - Our first major scandel

2009-04-26 Thread geni
. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Notability in Wikipedia

2009-04-27 Thread geni
surprising. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Knol - Our first major scandel

2009-04-27 Thread geni
with lower level orphan works. Since people don't normally mention copyrights in their wills after a couple of generations working out who holds what rights can be near impossible. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] Twitterpedia will win

2009-05-04 Thread geni
, there is no Twitterpedia,... not a real one, anyway.) So. Who's going to start Twitterpedia? - d. Effectively thats what the opening sentences of wikipedia articles should already be (with the opening paras being the summery wikipedia). -- geni ___ WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Twitterpedia will win

2009-05-05 Thread geni
empire, against the Spartan-led Eponymous League. Peloponnesian War (431-404BC), Athens and its empire vs Spartan-led Eponymous League. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rod Liddle, Spectator, on his Wikipedia article

2009-05-06 Thread geni
://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rod_Liddlediff=prevoldid=133409794 Loads of vandalism on Cristiano Ronaldo around that date but nothing that fits Liddle's claims. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/81.156.42.14 Is another candidate but again nothing -- geni

Re: [WikiEN-l] Docs look to Wikipedia for condition info: Manhattan Research

2009-05-26 Thread geni
sense? -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Docs look to Wikipedia for condition info: Manhattan Research

2009-05-27 Thread geni
that doesn't present a significant chance of destroying the species cannot be considered exceptionally acute given how many things there are around that do carry that risk. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from

Re: [WikiEN-l] Intellipedia

2009-05-27 Thread geni
Linking to wikipedia pages would be kinda risky. One leak of what CIA IPs are and we can then use server logs to track what the CIA and simular are interested in. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from

Re: [WikiEN-l] Intellipedia

2009-05-27 Thread geni
2009/5/27 Aryeh Gregor simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 7:36 AM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: Linking to wikipedia pages would be kinda risky. One leak of what CIA IPs are and we can then use server logs to track what the CIA and simular are interested in. The IP

Re: [WikiEN-l] Intellipedia

2009-05-27 Thread geni
2009/5/27 Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 7:36 AM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: Linking to wikipedia pages would be kinda risky. One leak of what CIA IPs are and we can then use server logs to track what the CIA and simular are interested in. The IP addresses

Re: [WikiEN-l] A new solution for the BLP dilemma

2009-06-04 Thread geni
their bios it's exactly an improvement on the current situation. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] GDFL compliance

2009-06-06 Thread geni
that is probably more common than reusing text. Sam I haven't checked it over lately but that should be at: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] GDFL compliance

2009-06-06 Thread geni
and probably the GFDL locally. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Google thinks Wikipedia is a news source

2009-06-07 Thread geni
article per event rather than creating a string of new articles). -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Google thinks Wikipedia is a news source

2009-06-07 Thread geni
is effectively presenting wikipedia content to people. You also have the issue that both google maps and Microsoft's multimap have the ability to show wikipedia articles on their maps. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] Google thinks Wikipedia is a news source

2009-06-07 Thread geni
2009/6/7 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: 2009/6/7 geni geni...@gmail.com: Perhaps more directly the recent actions of Google and Microsoft bing suggest that part of being a modern search engine is effectively presenting wikipedia content to people. It was certainly surprising to see

Re: [WikiEN-l] Image reuse

2009-06-18 Thread geni
2009/6/18 Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com: Wikinews interestingly does for images. I never quite understood why they do and we don't - maybe it'll catch on! Andrew Basically because having credit:wetriffs.com in the article space would be inappropriate. -- geni

Re: [WikiEN-l] Hi there, everybody!

2009-06-18 Thread geni
the likes of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IRC and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [WikiEN-l] collective or collaborative areas of Wikipedia

2009-06-19 Thread geni
been met, abandoned or people have moved on to another forum. If a couple of new people come along with fresh targets they can re-awake. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] Google Starts Including Wikipedia on Its News Site

2009-06-22 Thread geni
on the back of the traditional news media. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Google Starts Including Wikipedia on Its News Site

2009-06-22 Thread geni
suggested that in some cases at least news organisations should adopt a non profit model. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Internet traffic spikes due to Michael Jackson's death

2009-06-26 Thread geni
factored in those going to redirect pages it was about 1.1 million. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Internet traffic spikes due to Michael Jackson's death

2009-06-26 Thread geni
2009/6/26 geni geni...@gmail.com: 2009/6/26 Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk: 2009/6/26 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/News_of_Michael_Jackson%27s_death_overloads_Internet_sites_and_sparks_hoaxes Is there anything anywhere (apart from the long thread

Re: [WikiEN-l] NY Times: Wired Editor Apologizes for Copying from Wikipedia in New Book

2009-06-29 Thread geni
idea. Particularly when several people ask them. Eventually they will get the idea: FREE STOCK PHOTOS just give credit and licence. Only if you consider CC-BY-SA to be weak copyleft. -- geni ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org

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