[WikiEN-l] Larry Sanger's new project
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 mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Re: [WikiEN-l] Larry Sanger's new project
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. ___ 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 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] Larry Sanger's new project
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. http://columbus.craigslist.org/eng/3614099241.html co-founder of Wikipedia and many others. Indeed. Yes, his track record of success is singular. - d. ___ 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] Larry Sanger's new project
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. ___ 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] Larry Sanger's new project
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 the *gasp* co-founder of Wikipedia! Solid, solid gold. I think you're being unduly harsh here. His track record speaks for itself. - d. ___ 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] Larry Sanger's new project
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 the *gasp* co-founder of Wikipedia! Solid, solid gold. I think you're being unduly harsh here. His track record speaks for itself. - d. 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 end up arguing with idiots and losing the argument by consensus. Fred ___ 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] Larry Sanger's new project
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 NDA/non-compete. Is that standard? Signing a non-compete before finding out what the project is sounds risky - you have no idea what you're agreeing not to compete with... On 14 February 2013 13:51, 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. ___ 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 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] Larry Sanger's new project
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 the *gasp* co-founder of Wikipedia! Solid, solid gold. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/File:Capture_0e1fc921fd43d5424ccfe36c4554a06308c1cde3.png (RW has a Capturebot for this sort of thing.) - d. ___ 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] Larry Sanger's new project
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 WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Re: [WikiEN-l] Larry Sanger's new project
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 end up arguing with idiots and losing the argument by consensus. The trouble is that Larry will be running it. The arc of Citizendium, from launch sideways into the ground, was marked by Larry recruiting lots of high-powered academics then driving them away within a few months. (At which point the pseudoscientists and cranks moved in, and a bit after that the featured article was a puff piece on homeopathy.) He is demonstrably really, really terrible at community management. - d. ___ 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] deployment of the first phase of Wikidata on enwp
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: http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/13/wikidata-live-on-the-english-wikipedia An FAQ is being worked on at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Deployment_Questions Thanks everyone who helped! I'm happy to answer questions at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical). Please also let me know about any issues there. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ 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] deployment of the first phase of Wikidata on enwp
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 linked on Wikidata doesn't mean anything. From a bit of digging around, I see that someone has to create a Wikidata page for each biographical subject, but who? Will the bot MerllwBot (that created the Mario Goeppert-Mayer page) eventually create all the others? What exactly should editors do at this point? Just sit back and wikidata goodness will flow? Or take active steps to replace lists of interwiki links with automatically generated ones? Steve On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: 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: http://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/13/wikidata-live-on-the-english-wikipedia An FAQ is being worked on at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Deployment_Questions Thanks everyone who helped! I'm happy to answer questions at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical). Please also let me know about any issues there. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ 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 mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
