Re: [Foundation-l] The Signpost – Volume 6 Issue 4 4 – 1 November 2010

2010-11-02 Thread Sue Gardner
On 1 November 2010 20:28, Wikipedia Signpost wrote: > > Single page view > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single Hey, is the Signpost also sent to the Announce mailing list? If not, could it be? It's always full of useful information, and I could imagine people who would want

Re: [Foundation-l] Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing, was Re: Ban and...

2010-11-02 Thread David Goodman
I see it that way too. It is sufficient that if such questions arise and are published, then we report on them. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 8:11 AM, wrote: > mill...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 08:54, wrote: >> > Quite right, the articles in other subjects are polluted with irrel

Re: [Foundation-l] Evil Book

2010-11-02 Thread geni
On 2 November 2010 19:56, wrote: >> Perhaps, but one can't claim moral rights: > >  o where the work is a computer program >  o where ownership of a work originally vested in an author's employer >  o where the material is being used in newspapers or magazines >  o reference works such as enc

Re: [Foundation-l] Closing the Circle to Published Content (was Re: Evil Book)

2010-11-02 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 11/2/2010 12:59:12 PM Pacific Daylight Time, pjacobi...@googlemail.com writes: > The problem with LLC is, that on many of their amazon pages,. > Wikipedia isn't mentioned at all. Example: > http://www.amazon.de/Himmelsmechanik-Gravitation-Keplersche-Titius-Bode-Rei > he-Ereign

Re: [Foundation-l] Closing the Circle to Published Content (was Re: Evil Book)

2010-11-02 Thread Peter Jacobi
The problem with LLC is, that on many of their amazon pages,. Wikipedia isn't mentioned at all. Example: http://www.amazon.de/Himmelsmechanik-Gravitation-Keplersche-Titius-Bode-Reihe-Ereignishorizont/dp/1159048118 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] Evil Book

2010-11-02 Thread ????
On 02/11/2010 04:59, geni wrote: > On 2 November 2010 03:53, Nikola Smolenski wrote: >> Дана Tuesday 02 November 2010 02:57:10 geni написа: >>> 2010/11/1 KIZU Naoko: I see, thanks Mike. Personally I'm not for this kind of attempt, I'd rather agree with Ryan: if and only if they complies

Re: [Foundation-l] Evil Book

2010-11-02 Thread Arlen Beiler
The point is that you search for a book on Amazon, and find a book for 50 dollars that is just a conglomeration of articles that were put together by a computer, not a human, and therefore have little value. It is just a big rip off. On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:32 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 2 Nov

Re: [Foundation-l] Evil Book

2010-11-02 Thread David Gerard
On 2 November 2010 12:02, wrote: > In a message dated 11/1/2010 11:50:03 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > cimonav...@gmail.com writes: >> Another thing that might shut this stuff down, or atleast make people >> more >> savvy in judging what quality they are getting, would be if we finally got >> some

Re: [Foundation-l] preferences statistics

2010-11-02 Thread Andrew Garrett
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Ashar Voultoiz wrote: > On 01/11/10 08:47, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: >> Are there statistics about users' preferences on Wikimedia sites? >> >> For example, a statistic that would say things like how many users use every >> skin and how many users have "Show preview b

Re: [Foundation-l] Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing, was Re: Ban and...

2010-11-02 Thread Arlen Beiler
Let's have our readers vote. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:49 PM, wrote: > In a message dated 11/1/2010 6:16:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > jay...@gmail.com writes: > > > > The PLOS Medicine article is based on a dataset of 78 interventional > > studies, 81 observational studies, and only 47 scienti

Re: [Foundation-l] Evil Book

2010-11-02 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 11/1/2010 11:50:03 PM Pacific Daylight Time, cimonav...@gmail.com writes: > Another thing that might shut this stuff down, or atleast make people > more > savvy in judging what quality they are getting, would be if we finally got > some > dead tree stuff out there with the W

Re: [Foundation-l] Evil Book

2010-11-02 Thread Fred Bauder
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Fred Bauder > wrote: >> My thought was for the Foundation to approach Amazon regarding carrying >> listings of such books which seriously represent their content. as this >> one does. Such a book approaches fraud. >> > > Agreed. There is no *obligation* for Amazo