I did use a very old konversationslexikon as a child, mainly for the
pictures. With our children this got replaced now by online resources. And
no, not by wikipedia, but by YouTube. And every time I spend 15 minutes to
find a video to illustrate something it makes me a little sad that we as a
On 14 March 2012 00:22, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been asked to write a short editorial about this development from
a Wikipedian's perspective and am curious about (and would love to
include) other Wikimedian experiences -- did you use print
encyclopedias as a kid? Was a
On 14 March 2012 07:33, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote:
I did use a very old konversationslexikon as a child, mainly for the
pictures. With our children this got replaced now by online resources. And
no, not by wikipedia, but by YouTube. And every time I spend 15 minutes to
On 14 March 2012 05:16, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote:
I will actually look for a copy of the 15th edition (for sentimental
reasons) to buy before they get too rare and too expensive :D Of course I
will miss it! If Britannica is gone we will need to start printing
Wikipedia ;-)
I see
Sure, that isn't the problem ;) go to USA is *so* cheap those days ;)
I was actually about to go request the one from my old school, they should
give the book to the only girl who read the full school library right? ;)
(well, 80% but I left before graduate from High School, so I might had got
I did use a very old konversationslexikon as a child, mainly for the
pictures. With our children this got replaced now by online resources. And
no, not by wikipedia, but by YouTube. And every time I spend 15 minutes to
find a video to illustrate something it makes me a little sad that we as a
2012/3/14 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
On 14 March 2012 05:16, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote:
I will actually look for a copy of the 15th edition (for sentimental
reasons) to buy before they get too rare and too expensive :D Of course I
will miss it! If Britannica is gone we will
I think what you might be remembering is that they used to sell them via a
sales force who went door to door. They announced a few years back that they
were stopping that.
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I had a small encyclopedia at home (only one volume, but a massive volume)
and there was a copy of Britannica in the local library and, later, at
secondary school.
But I started getting frustrated with them when I was about 12 or 13,
because the shorter articles rarely answered the questions I
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Subject: [Foundation-l] Stopping the presses: Britannica to stop
I think what you might be remembering is that they used to sell them via a
sales force who went door to door. They announced a few years back that
they were stopping that.
And, indeed, it was the reliance on the sales force that killed off
Britannica in the late-80s/early-90s when Encarta
Samuel Klein, 14/03/2012 03:00:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanterpute...@mccme.ru wrote:
No, I think there were only like three big universal encyclopaedias still
being printed (Britannica, Brockhaus, and Russian Encyclopaedia?), unless I
am confusing things.
There's
did you use print encyclopedias as a kid?
Oh yes. I especially loved #6 of Lithuanian Soviet Encyclopedia
http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaizdas:Lietuviskoji_tarybine_enciklopedija_resize.jpg
- L* had airplanes and M* had automobiles ;)
B* had whales (hence my obsession with Exploding Whale
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 03:00, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
No, I think there were only like three big universal encyclopaedias still
being printed (Britannica, Brockhaus, and Russian Encyclopaedia?), unless
Interesting news indeed.
Lead's one to wonder when WMF will launch it's first printed
encyclopaedia. Perhaps a 2013 Citation Needed edition is in the works?
Russavia
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
2010's 32-volume set will be its last. (Now I want to
On 14/03/12 13:17, Milos Rancic wrote:
There is ~20 volumes Serbian Encyclopedia in progress, likely to be
finished around 2050. I have no idea what would be the purpose of that
Milos, please. It will likely be finished around 2025.
paper encyclopedia at that time, but I know that it is
On 14 Mar 2012, at 12:21, Russavia wrote:
Interesting news indeed.
Lead's one to wonder when WMF will launch it's first printed
encyclopaedia. Perhaps a 2013 Citation Needed edition is in the works?
Something like this:
http://www.labnol.org/internet/wikipedia-printed-book/9136/
?
(And
On 14 March 2012 12:50, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
On 14 Mar 2012, at 12:21, Russavia wrote:
Interesting news indeed.
Lead's one to wonder when WMF will launch it's first printed
encyclopaedia. Perhaps a 2013 Citation Needed edition is in the works?
Something like
Why did the articles in Brittania keep getting shorter? Because printing
on paper costs money. Storage on the Internet is free by comparison. -
So why do our editors insist on reducing what might be an interesting
article down to something so brief it might as well be on paper in a
book that
The CBC is getting rid of its physical music collections in Vancouver and
other sites across the country, a treasure
trove of over 100,000 artifacts amassed over decades. Valuable, rare and
historic recordings on vinyl and tape will be
destroyed or dispersed, lost to all of us forever.
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:22 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
2010's 32-volume set will be its last. (Now I want to get one, to
replace my old set!) Future versions will be digital only.
on 3/14/12 1:54 PM, Kim Bruning at k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
The CBC is getting rid of its physical music collections in Vancouver and
other sites across the country, a treasure
trove of over 100,000 artifacts amassed over decades. Valuable, rare and
historic recordings on vinyl and tape
From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
On 14 March 2012 09:40, Joan Goma jrg...@gmail.com wrote:
Unfortunatelly they still not realize that if published using a free
licence compatible with Wikipedeia their income would be even 15 times
larger.
Would it? Can you explain how that
On 14 March 2012 19:27, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:
Wow, if only there were another public service broadcaster who
stupidly decided to chuck away their physical archives for cost
reasons and then rapidly came to regret it afterwards.
What's that broadcaster called? I'm pretty sure
If there is anyone who wishes to take this on in the name of Wikimedia
Canada I would be supportive. I know we have a few members in Vancouver who
may be interested.
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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Hoi,
Commons as a project provides a service to any and all projects. It does
have its own community but as Commons is a shared resource it is similar
but not the same in its autonomy. This should be obvious .
Thanks,
Gerard
On 13 March 2012 08:23, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
Dear Robin,
There are several reasons for making a text not too long. Pity with
the reader is one of them.
I personally try to be reluctant with generalizations about Wikipeda
language versions. They usually are not true. It's often like the
thing that the grass in the neighbour's yard is
On 03/14/12 2:29 PM, Joan Goma wrote:
Catalan Wikipedia has about 10 times more pageviews than them. If they use
a free license and use a wiki then their professionals can copy our best
articles and review them and we can copy their content. 7,8% of their
page-views go there from Catalan
I don't think it is pity to reduce an 800 word article down to under 200
words. Instead of something readable you end up either with a Who's Who
entry - filled with insider abbreviations and obscure wording that must
be decoded or something so bland it has no value to anyone intrested
enough
On 14 March 2012 17:34, Robin McCain ro...@slmr.com wrote:
I find it bizarre that inclusion of information of local importance is
encouraged in the internationalized local language wikipediae but
discouraged in the U.S. English wikipedia.
What U.S. English Wikipedia? I have read plenty of
Those of you who have been around for a few years may remember
user:Tlogmer, aka Ben Yates -- co-author with Charles Matthews and I
on How Wikipedia Works.
I got an email from his mother this morning with the very sad news
that Ben passed away yesterday. I do not know the details. He was in
his
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
I don't think that copying articles is the way to go. If the two projects
have separate articles on the same subjects that's still a very good thing.
They can still maintain their professional standards, whatever that
That should be reverted right now per our privacy policy and any
others on site. No different than share button usage.
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K. Peachey wrote:
That should be reverted right now per our privacy policy and any
others on site. No different than share button usage.
As far as I've come to understand it, it's a matter of whether Jobvite's
privacy policy is compatible with Wikimedia's:
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