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On 24 September 2013 at 12:56:18, David Gerard (dger...@gmail.com) wrote:
fyi
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From: Kathleen McCook klmcc...@gmail.com
Date: 24 September 2013 12:25
Subject: [WikiEN-l] access to journals
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If only there were some kind of editable data store project being worked on
that could store this kind of metadata in a centralised location… grin
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On Friday, 26 April 2013 at 13:07, David Gerard wrote:
On 26 April 2013 12:15, Carcharoth carcharot
some
high-quality, not-at-all bullshit research that shows that failure to adhere to
their preferred philosophy is something that shows a deep psychological
tendency to rape kittens.
That'll elevate the debate, I'm sure.
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to
technology and business too.
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a member of the Nigerian Royal Family.
And I was offered access to some horny chicks that live near me, apparently.
I await the Fox News story about how I failed to take up any of these offers.
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), Freebase may do what you want.
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start editing Wikipedia to help provide
better business listings but to improve articles about interesting,
notable topics.
And I say that as a Wikipedian who is also an OSMer who spends a
non-trivial amount of time adding shops and businesses to OSM. ;-)
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languages like
FR, ES, DE and PT.
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There is currently an enormous backlog at Articles for Creation, of over 700
articles.
If you've got some time spare, it'd be great if you could help work on the AfC
backlog.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AFC
Many hands make light wiki-work. ;-)
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a problem. The problem
with paid editing isn't the pay, it's the articles they are editing.
Shilling is the problem, not being paid.
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just 26 minutes. ;-)
The question also presumes that Wikipedians are not also Redditors.
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the instantiation of literary constructions that do not meet
our best practices.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:B2B
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programmes. Much as my gut feeling is god
no, don't give an inch to PR people even if they are claiming to act
'ethically'!, I have a funny feeling we're going to need to do something very
soon.
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for matching articles, rather than a list, when
you expect it to be unusually large?
It's still going to have to calculate the intersection of the two sets (the
computationally and IO intensive task) in order to then calculate the size of
said intersection.
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notability standard (NFOOTY) such that
most deletions aren't that contentious.
As an admin who closes a fair few AfDs, and as a human being who isn't a big
fan of loudmouthed ideological posturing, I have to say that I rather like such
topic areas.
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grab my
laptop or smartphone and go to Wikipedia or Wiktionary (even though my
local library gives me Britannica access, and my university library
gives me OED access - all the logging-in faff isn't worth it).
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-of-the-harlem-renaissance-vs-wikipedia
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On 17 January 2012 17:09, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Citizendium will *clean up* tomorrow.
No, Simple English Wikipedia will.
It's like Citizendium, but with three times as many articles and with
a much better homeopathy article. ;-)
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is seeing it the wrong way
round, or if it is just me. I presume the default is to show the
Wikipedia file if there is a file of the same name both here and on on
Commons.
I've deleted the local version on enwiki, so it should be using the
version on Commons now.
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On Dec 11, 2011 10:03 PM, Daniel R. Tobias d...@tobias.name wrote:
While the design and user interface of Wikipedia certainly has things
that could stand improvement, I generally like the fact that it's not
run by a billion dollar budget commercial outfit brimming with
meddlesome marketing
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 15:52, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote:
Four *separate* incidents where users mistook the fundraising banner ad for
an illustration that is part of the article.
We've had a few at OTRS too...
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that they can avoid a life of crime by getting an
education and a job, or maybe we could tell politicians to tell the
truth. Or maybe News of the World journalists could be informed of the
many story-gathering opportunities that don't involve hacking into
people's voicemail systems.
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and credit, the managers
treat us with kindness and consideration.
14. When decisions are made about ranking and credit, the managers
treat us with respect and dignity.
There are no managers, just the community.
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either have to or are encouraged to do when they
return after the next election.
This is the sort of thing we can do as a chapter even if doing it as an
individual is a pain in the ass.
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a flap-mouthed miscreant, but instead I shall
risk accusations of incivility and just facepalm quietly to myself.
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behind it is insane. Yes, more experienced
users with things like Rollback or Reviewer rights tend to run the
site, but that might be because those people are selected for their
ability to competently manage the site and those who are incompetent,
don't. That may be wishful thinking.
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as an area for improvement.
The article feedback tool is just that... a tool we can use to feed
back into the project. It shouldn't ever be an end in itself.
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on it.
But there is. So we do.
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Please don't print this e-mail out unless you want a hard copy of
it. If you do, go ahead. I won't stop you. Nor will I waste your
ink/toner with 300+ lines of completely pointless and legally
unenforceable cargo cult blather about
that it really seems like a
tough row to hoe.
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a reasonable
presupposition to think that once an encyclopedia like Wikipedia has
an article on the Cabbage Patch Dolls or Plato's Republic or the
evolution of horses or whatever, the amount of updating isn't going to
be too drastic.
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Please don't print this e
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Citizendium, Deletionpedia, Knowino, Wikinfo, Includipedia.
It would be useful if the page on WP for Mirrors and forks was split
into separate listings for straight mirrors and forks, and having a
brief description of what exactly the premise of the fork (if any) is.
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