It looks like a solution to bug 4547 is on the horizon.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4547
See also [Wikitech-l] Reasonably efficient interwiki transclusion
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/197322
This will be very useful for templates which Commons has
I see the highest interest in statistical data that can be automatically
updated from official sources.
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 16:51:27 +1000
From: John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com
Subject: [Foundation-l] Wikidata
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
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The premises:
1. I just had a short chat with [[Erik Orsenna]], a member of the
[[Académie française]] who loves to learn and pass along knowledge.
He's also interested in the adventure of knowledge and in the democratic
processes and appreciate being
Hello. I've just joined the list, as soon as I've known about the Wikidata
subject.
I've been thinking about a Wikidata project even before I knew about the
ideas proposed at Meta. I've explained it to several people in Spanish
wikipedia, and there I've begun work on Wikidata-compliant population
With wikipedia, any expert could reach and teach millions of persons. In
ten or twenty years, every literate person with internet access could
use an interdisciplinary, edge-cutting database of knowledge for their
diary reasoning.
The knowledge and understanding of mankind could make giant
Hi everyone,
After much debate, we've settled on a name for the English Wikipedia
implementation of FlaggedRevs: Pending Changes. This is a slight
variation on one of the finalists (Pending Revisions) which has the
benefit of using the less jargony term changes instead of revisions.
The
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On 28/05/2010 22:42, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
3. High level physicists also stay away from it. (for example most of
the theoretical information about [[quasars]] comes from the 1960's.
Current information on the net is frequently only available
The traditional academic system is based upon status differences
between pupils and teachers. One of the problems is the reception they
get--a great many experts do not take it kindly when they are
challenged by the ignorant, and get no respect for their
qualifications, or even negative comments
Exactly what David said.
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Re: Participation of intellectual professions
I see a number of issues holding professionals back from contributing:
1) Some do not realize that it is possible to edit Wikipedia ( I hear this
at work when people ask me how I became an editor ). Maybe we should
advertise the fact that yes you
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.comwrote:
Exactly what David said.
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Aye, there is a group who will never really be able to fit in (I generally
think of them as the elitist side of the academics but that
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