While I don't agree wit most of the criticisms (this is a survey after all, not
a philosophy thesis; asking extremely precise questions is not the point), the
--/++ questions do seem like a bad design choice. There should be at least clear
indication whether an absoulte answer is expected (if I
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Issue 1: The official and public description of CheckUser lays out a
transparent process for justifying when and how it may be used. In practice,
it is often used in secret and quick back door process. First issue is
the misrepresentation to the
2009/10/27 Mike.lifeguard mike.lifegu...@gmail.com:
You are a long way from proving your point, but I would encourage you to
make that request on the talk page of the CheckUser policy page on
English Wikipedia so it can be pointed out that while there is a public
request process, most
Hi all!
This is a request-for-comments (RFC) about an idea that had surfaced on
#wikipedia at the time about creating an open web directory similar to
http://www.dmoz.org/ only world-editable and with a more convenient interface.
This was motivated after I was referred to the Wikipedia is not
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@iglu.org.il wrote:
This was motivated after I was referred to the Wikipedia is not a web
directory section of:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not
One workaround I've found is to add a resources section to the
I have just seen a list of the Wikimedia projects and noticed that the
last one was created in 2006, is that right?
In spite of all sympathy for a Wiki-directory I am afraid that
partially Wikipedia already has taken over that part. When I am
looking for the web site of a museum I tend to go to
2009/10/27 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org:
Blog post by Jay is now up:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/10/27/wikimedia-finds-a-new-home/
First photos here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Foundation_149_New_Montgomery
More pics will come with time for those who can't
Hi everyone,
Strategic Planning office hours are tonight, Wednesday, October 28,
from 04:00-05:00 UTC, which is: 9-10pm PDT, 12am-1am EDT.
We meet in #wikimedia-strategy on the freenode network. You can
access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net/ and filling
in a username and the
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:55 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/10/27 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org:
Blog post by Jay is now up:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/10/27/wikimedia-finds-a-new-home/
First photos here:
2009/10/28 Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:55 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/10/27 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org:
Blog post by Jay is now up:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/10/27/wikimedia-finds-a-new-home/
First photos here:
This works for the notable things that are in Wikipedia. The point of
a project like this would be to go one step further, and have a open
content directory, not based on advertising , that would cover the
local and hobbyist material that either does not make it into
Wikipedia or that is
David, there are many projects covering some or all of those ideas. There's
Wikia for hobbyist and popular culture content, the many city wikis
(attempts at creating a central repository of civic wikis has thus far
failed), AboutUs for domain-centric content, and the list goes on and on. As
SJ
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