Re: [WikiEN-l] [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: access to journals

2013-09-24 Thread Tom Morris
/Alumni_access -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ On 24 September 2013 at 12:56:18, David Gerard (dger...@gmail.com) wrote: fyi -- Forwarded message -- From: Kathleen McCook klmcc...@gmail.com Date: 24 September 2013 12:25 Subject: [WikiEN-l] access to journals To: English

Re: [WikiEN-l] bizarre: Women Novelists Wikipedia

2013-04-26 Thread Tom Morris
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 -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ On Friday, 26 April 2013 at 13:07, David Gerard wrote: On 26 April 2013 12:15, Carcharoth carcharot

Re: [WikiEN-l] Psychological correlates of deletionism/inclusionism?

2013-04-13 Thread Tom Morris
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. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to write about things that were once notable?

2013-02-06 Thread Tom Morris
to technology and business too. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ 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] Fox News says we have a rampant porn problem

2012-09-11 Thread Tom Morris
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. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Categorisation by gender

2012-07-18 Thread Tom Morris
), Freebase may do what you want. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ 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 as part of a social media strategy for hotels

2012-06-25 Thread Tom Morris
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. ;-) -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] Duolingo and translating Wikipedia

2012-06-20 Thread Tom Morris
languages like FR, ES, DE and PT. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

[WikiEN-l] Massive AfC backlog

2012-06-19 Thread Tom Morris
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. ;-) -- Tom Morris http

Re: [WikiEN-l] Current consensus on PR editing?

2012-06-13 Thread Tom Morris
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. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing

Re: [WikiEN-l] How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit, _The Atlantic_

2012-05-16 Thread Tom Morris
just 26 minutes. ;-) The question also presumes that Wikipedians are not also Redditors. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https

Re: [WikiEN-l] Notability of commercial organisations

2012-04-30 Thread Tom Morris
the instantiation of literary constructions that do not meet our best practices. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:B2B -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: The counterattack of the PR companies

2012-04-18 Thread Tom Morris
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. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Corporate Representatives for Ethical Wikipedia Engagement

2012-04-04 Thread Tom Morris
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. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] Inclusionists vs deletionists

2012-03-22 Thread Tom Morris
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. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] Stopping the presses: Britannica to stop printing books

2012-03-14 Thread Tom Morris
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). -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ WikiEN

Re: [WikiEN-l] A Wikipedian asked to write for a paper encyclopedia

2012-01-20 Thread Tom Morris
-of-the-harlem-renaissance-vs-wikipedia -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ 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] BBC articles related to Wikipedia blackout

2012-01-18 Thread Tom Morris
://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews_interviews_Sue_Gardner_on_Wikipedia_blackout -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [WikiEN-l] English Wikipedia blackout

2012-01-17 Thread Tom Morris
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. ;-) -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] Image rotation request

2012-01-09 Thread Tom Morris
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. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] A reader's experience with The Closed, Unfriendly World Of Wikipedia

2011-12-13 Thread Tom Morris
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

Re: [WikiEN-l] Ad banners are a bad user interface

2011-12-13 Thread Tom Morris
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... -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] Lobbyists and Wikipedia (again)

2011-12-06 Thread Tom Morris
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. -- Tom Morris http

Re: [WikiEN-l] Invitation to Participate in Wikipedia Survey

2011-10-18 Thread Tom Morris
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. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ WikiEN

Re: [WikiEN-l] So ...

2011-10-14 Thread Tom Morris
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. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ WikiEN-l mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] Facepalm?

2011-10-04 Thread Tom Morris
a flap-mouthed miscreant, but instead I shall risk accusations of incivility and just facepalm quietly to myself. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit

Re: [WikiEN-l] Front Page on BLPs

2011-08-23 Thread Tom Morris
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. -- Tom

Re: [WikiEN-l] Article Feedback - Ramp up to 10% of Articles

2011-07-14 Thread Tom Morris
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. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia article on [[Santorum (neologism)]]

2011-05-25 Thread Tom Morris
on it. But there is. So we do. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ 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

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia article on [[Santorum (neologism)]]

2011-05-23 Thread Tom Morris
that it really seems like a tough row to hoe. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ 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

Re: [WikiEN-l] The viable competitors to Wikipedia.

2011-04-08 Thread Tom Morris
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. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ Please don't print this e

Re: [WikiEN-l] List of includipedias

2011-02-18 Thread Tom Morris
: 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. -- Tom Morris http

Re: [WikiEN-l] A Mormon Persective from the Deseret News

2011-02-15 Thread Tom Morris
page... -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ 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. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit