Re: [Foundation-l] Does google favour WIkipedia?

2012-03-20 Thread Andrew Gray
on our part is completely inconceivable to someone who approaches everything from this perspective.) -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2012-03-12 Thread Andrew Gray
On 11 March 2012 00:23, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 March 2012 22:15, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: The image filter may not be a good solution, but too much of the response involves saying we're fine, we're neutral, we don't need to do anything and leaving

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

2012-03-10 Thread Andrew Gray
these issues without yelling censorship! any time someone tries to discuss the problem. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] The 'Undue Weight' of Truth on Wikipedia (from the Chronicle) + some citation discussions

2012-02-18 Thread Andrew Gray
times as many entries, present contentious debates fairly, and reflect brand new scholarly research, all while being edited and overseen primarily by volunteers. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links

2012-02-04 Thread Andrew Gray
an option in preferences to provide an edit link actually on the page for section 0. Preferences Gadgets, and the first entry under Appearance. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Research assistance

2012-01-25 Thread Andrew Gray
getting agreement from the community! I'd love to see this part of the study done (and make a small bet as to what the results might be...), but it's going to be a hard sell. If you're planning to get this running in the summer, you might want to start the negotiations quite soon... -- - Andrew

Re: [Foundation-l] The Mediawiki 1.18 image rotation bug

2011-12-12 Thread Andrew Gray
the Flickr live upload feed. Over about 20 pages of 20 images each, I found eight wrongly-rotated shots, or eight in 400 ~~ 2%. It's not Commons, of course, but it is indicative. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing

Re: [Foundation-l] A possible solution for the image filter

2011-09-22 Thread Andrew Gray
it registered-user-only we need to work out how this interacts with account creation - and IP blocks. It clearly will cause problems if people *want* to turn on the filter, go to create an account, and discover one of our famed cryptic block messages telling them they can't... -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g

Re: [Foundation-l] A possible solution for the image filter

2011-09-22 Thread Andrew Gray
, just to label them for display [or not] in articles. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] A possible solution for the image filter

2011-09-22 Thread Andrew Gray
no *less* clunky than requiring people to sign in (and the associated forgetting-to-sign-out...) -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-22 Thread Andrew Gray
* about sex or violence without wanting to look at pictures of it - a system which allows someone to choose to read the article without looking at the pictures thus makes more sense in comparison. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-22 Thread Andrew Gray
with more than two cleanup tags, etc. :-) -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-22 Thread Andrew Gray
be demand, there might not, we just can't tell from the available evidence. (To steal David's analogy, it's a bit like saying that unicorns can't be trained, as there are no trained unicorns. Of course, there are no unicorns at all, and their trainability is moot...) -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

2011-09-22 Thread Andrew Gray
a problem when the issue is whether it's appropriate to *include an image at all*. If one position says we should include an image and the other position says we shouldn't, then whichever way we decide, we've taken sides. We can't really be neutral in a yes-or-no situation. -- - Andrew Gray

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter - magical flying unicorn pony that s***s rainbows

2011-09-21 Thread Andrew Gray
to inclusive global neutrality win out over the real state of affairs? It's the great big unexamined assumption in our discussions... -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter - magical flying unicorn pony that s***s rainbows

2011-09-21 Thread Andrew Gray
with, this is a bad argument. It doesn't mean we *should* have the image filter, but it does mean we need to think some more about the reasons for or against it. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] Summary of findings from WMF Summer of Research program now available

2011-09-18 Thread Andrew Gray
definitely be worth distinguishing between links in article text and links from projectspace / inline templates. Technically more difficult to figure out, of course, but that's why we call them researchers ;-) -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] On curiosity, cats and scapegoats

2011-09-09 Thread Andrew Gray
it on for it to work.) -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-05 Thread Andrew Gray
heading of where are the major third-party reusers that anyone actually cares about? - the non-existence of a commercial filtered version is less of a surprise when we consider the dearth of commercial packaged versions at all... -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

2011-09-05 Thread Andrew Gray
can solve (and it's perhaps not one we should be trying to solve) but it does mean we shouldn't draw any firm conclusions from the absence of any specific types of project - there's an absence of *all* sorts of projects, good and bad ones alike. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions on controversial content and images of identifiable people

2011-08-27 Thread Andrew Gray
. The status quo is that every reader, in every context, gets given the one particular image selection that a group of Wikipedians have decided is appropriate for them to have, on a take-it-or-leave-it basis... -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions on controversial content and images of identifiable people

2011-08-27 Thread Andrew Gray
there :-) My Arabic is basically nonexistent, so while I can tell there *are* some past discussions about it, I've no idea what they were saying. Anyone? -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] How to free something from Wikipedia in the public domain?

2011-08-26 Thread Andrew Gray
tangential here, I think; if we accept a pseudonymous account as good enough to release the content under CC licenses to begin with, then all you'd need for relicensing would be for those same accounts to agree to it. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] Genuine, Generous, and Grateful

2011-08-23 Thread Andrew Gray
://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Twitter -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Genuine, Generous, and Grateful

2011-08-18 Thread Andrew Gray
on twitter] and [small WP projects needing users].) -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Black market science

2011-07-20 Thread Andrew Gray
punished. Are there some particularly egregious bits of past behaviour I've missed? -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] NPG still violating copyright

2011-06-16 Thread Andrew Gray
an old copy of the Dictionary of Australian Biography. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread Andrew Gray
. For meaningful data on any particular class of tickets, you'd probably have to sample. Apologies for the length, but hopefully that's of some use! -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] breaking English Wikipedia apart

2011-03-14 Thread Andrew Gray
to the correct queue; info-en-q@ will put it directly there. (There are other shortcut addresses for vandalism reports, copyright issues, etc, working in the same way). The main benefit of using info@ is that it's easier for people to remember once we've given it to them! -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g

Re: [Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

2011-03-08 Thread Andrew Gray
research, there's no reason we couldn't start doing so. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

2011-03-08 Thread Andrew Gray
WMF uses for internal donations management. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

2011-03-07 Thread Andrew Gray
there was *some* kind of close option. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Storyteller job opening

2011-03-01 Thread Andrew Gray
, not universally loved - will hopefully mean the next donation campaign annoys fewer people. That doesn't seem too unreasonable, to me. (The actual job description did make my eyes roll a bit, though. Storyteller, oh dear.) -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)

2011-02-26 Thread Andrew Gray
being created, or is it page creation being approximately equal to the rate of deleting old pages? -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)

2011-02-25 Thread Andrew Gray
categorised or project-tagged. (I have no idea how easy this would be to implement...) -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we even know if there is a Gender Gap

2011-02-21 Thread Andrew Gray
widely quoted of about 10-15% of editors being female ... well, most people seem to have nodded and said yes, that seems about right. It's not widely dissimilar to earlier estimates, and it fits with a lot of anecdotal observations of (and from!) the community over time. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g

Re: [Foundation-l] share in Facebook/Twitter/etc icon

2011-02-07 Thread Andrew Gray
. (An elegant trick would be to have the share function for images resolve to the Commons page rather than the local one, where appropriate.) -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Since Egypt has shutdown internet, should we too?

2011-01-29 Thread Andrew Gray
this since mid-2006: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Ag%C3%AAncia_Brasilaction=history -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Re: [Wikizh-l] About WM priv ate policy

2010-12-24 Thread Andrew Gray
it is an edit, and edits should always be allowed, we could also argue that no pages should be semi-protected (people are stopped from editing them without usernames) or IPs blocked (those people are stopped from editing without usernames). Createpage is just a version of the same idea... -- - Andrew

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Executive Director?

2010-12-10 Thread Andrew Gray
, without changing the text - like WMAU have, here. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Executive Director?

2010-12-09 Thread Andrew Gray
seen seen cases where someone's heard editor of Wikipedia and got drastically the wrong impression...) -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] excluding Wikipedia clones from searching

2010-12-08 Thread Andrew Gray
there are many more than 32 sites that clone Wikipedia, so this trick is also becoming useless. As noted above you can use -wikipedia; alternately, keywords common on mirrors, such as -mediawiki, -gfdl could be worth trying. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] Shopping-enabled Wikipedia pages

2010-12-04 Thread Andrew Gray
/107830.html We were not consulted, and are currently fully examining this. It is not official or endorsed by us. [Erik] -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] should not web server logs (of requests) be published?

2010-11-29 Thread Andrew Gray
The end result: one file with 0.1% of requests logged in detail and another file with hit counts and no more. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Paid editing comes of age

2010-11-18 Thread Andrew Gray
online marketing consultancy services that vaguely promise this sort of thing - but I wonder what will come of it in practice. (I have written articles on companies. I never thought to *invoice* them for it...) -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] Paid editing comes of age

2010-11-18 Thread Andrew Gray
=atomaction=history All you'd need to do is produce a nice wrapper for it... -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Page views

2010-10-18 Thread Andrew Gray
users by a week or so later - the middle of the month. If we were going to see a surge from that, we'd have had it appearing in late September, but that month doesn't seem to be particularly unusual. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] Expertise and Wikipedia redux

2010-10-14 Thread Andrew Gray
rather than just leaving a blank void.) The most recent of the editorial articles in the HE section to have any comments at *all*, good or bad, is from 29th September - there have been ten posted since then. I suspect the site operators are just not very responsive at approving them... -- - Andrew

Re: [Foundation-l] How to improve quality of Wikipedia?

2010-10-10 Thread Andrew Gray
. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

2010-10-03 Thread Andrew Gray
, but they are emphatically *not* primary goals in themselves. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

2010-09-07 Thread Andrew Gray
identified attribution problems with the PDF generators? -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Reconsidering the policy one language - one Wikipedia

2010-06-24 Thread Andrew Gray
. This helps emphasise the distinction between languages and subsets-of-languages, and also means we can be more fluid about the simple/for children presentation on a project-by-project basis. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

2010-06-07 Thread Andrew Gray
, eg, Espanol into Spanish (t), with the (t) link going to a Google translate link for the target page. I haven't used it much, but it's a useful tool to have. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

2010-06-05 Thread Andrew Gray
/Afrikaa?useskin=vector http://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaa?useskin=monobook - dropping the solid boxes from the left-hand column means that it doesn't look so dominant when expanded. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing

Re: [Foundation-l] Vector skin on Wikisource

2010-06-04 Thread Andrew Gray
the toolbox section to be expanded by default in the same way the interaction section is... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] Texas Instruments signing key controversy

2010-03-06 Thread Andrew Gray
- doesn't mean that we ought to feel we can or should start adjudicating on the reasonableness of any not-entirely-clear-cut case that turns up, such as this one... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Building up the reserves

2010-03-04 Thread Andrew Gray
On 3 March 2010 20:53, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: mid-2007 - - - - - $1m end-2007 - - - - - $2.3m - - - - - $0.21m - - - - - 11 mos. mid-2008 - - - - - $3m - - - - - ($0.32m) - - - - - 9 mos. end-2008 - - - - - $6.7m - - - - - $0.43m - - - - - 15 mos. mid-2009

Re: [Foundation-l] Building up the reserves

2010-03-03 Thread Andrew Gray
in reserve seesaws. I don't know what's considered a normal margin to have - I'd presume around a year or so is considered quite good - but hopefully someone more au fait with standard practice in the field could enlighten us. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] Werner Icking Music Archive may be closing

2010-03-01 Thread Andrew Gray
to seperate that out from the rest, and then tackle the problem of whether any editing people have done to them gives rise to new copyrights... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

2010-01-14 Thread Andrew Gray
you'll find that traffic to Commons increases proportionately with traffic to Spanish/Portuguese Wikipedia usage. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] Follow up: Fan History joining the WMF family

2009-11-30 Thread Andrew Gray
, and we can't just finesse past that stage. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikinews has not failed

2009-11-05 Thread Andrew Gray
to do it. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

2009-11-02 Thread Andrew Gray
. [[November 2]], then chose a random picture from that. First image is probably your best bet - the odds are reasonably high it'll be a picture, or something else representative, in the conventional top-right slot. Certainly better odds than random selection! -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g

Re: [Foundation-l] Charity Navigator rates WMF

2009-10-08 Thread Andrew Gray
increasing at a fairly linear $1m/year, but unlike WMF their income is plateauing - they'll be exceeding their income this year at that rate! -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] It's not article count, it's editors

2009-09-24 Thread Andrew Gray
a couple of estimates on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage though they look a little dated. Alternatively, users by country is reasonably well estimated, I think, and you could try estimating based on languages from that. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] strategic planning process update

2009-09-15 Thread Andrew Gray
in at the new wiki, or visit it whilst remaining logged in. (This latter part, especially with people looking at article interwikis, will probably account for quite an upsurge in account creation post-SUL...) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] Creative Commons publishes report on defining Non-commercial

2009-09-15 Thread Andrew Gray
like a recipe for unintentionally annoying a lot of people releasing material under the license. I wonder, perhaps, if the best thing the next generation of the -nc- licenses could include would be a long list of worked examples... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] Creative Commons publishes report on defining Non-commercial

2009-09-15 Thread Andrew Gray
desired outcome for the creator, though. One of the benefits of CC is to encourage worry-free distribution by helping creators be entirely up-front about what they're happy to have happen with their material, but this sort of ambiguity seems to bring us full circle. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g

Re: [Foundation-l] Security holes in Mediawiki

2009-09-15 Thread Andrew Gray
problems. I haven't checked each one, but all the recent ones look solved, so I think we're safe - at least, safe from the problems we know about, which is always the important caveat! -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing

Re: [Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees June 2009-

2009-09-12 Thread Andrew Gray
etc. People will make bad decisions, estimates, projections, guesses, conclusions sometimes; it happens. We spot them the second time around, once we've realised they're wrong, fix them, and move on. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] How much of Wikipedia is vandalized? 0.4% of Articles

2009-08-20 Thread Andrew Gray
. One other false positive here: edit warring where one or both sides is using undo/rollback. You'll get the impression of a lot of vandalism without there necessarily being any. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] How much of Wikipedia is vandalized? 0.4% of Articles

2009-08-20 Thread Andrew Gray
article. I'm not sure how we'd go ahead with the second one, but it's an interesting thing to think about. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] New projects opened

2009-08-13 Thread Andrew Gray
Turkish editions of wikinews, wikiquote, wikisource, and wikitionary, as well as wikipedia. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] How was the only people who averaged two edits a week in the last six months can vote rule decided?

2009-08-01 Thread Andrew Gray
. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation Button Enhancement : Part 2

2009-07-20 Thread Andrew Gray
at a stretch, rotating them so as to ensure they don't regularly go up at the same time (of the day or of the week) and so that they get roughly equal coverage. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-17 Thread Andrew Gray
://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=302589573 I discovered yesterday that: enwp.org/Article redirects to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article Sadly, it doesn't work with revision IDs, but it's a start! -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] On templates and programming languages

2009-07-01 Thread Andrew Gray
... This is a marvellous idea, and presumably a lot of the code for it is already in existence (what with ref etc). It'd also solve the issue with people wanting to templatise content such as infoboxes in order to reduce the clutter on a specific page. Can anyone see any obvious downsides? -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g

Re: [Foundation-l] Why Wikipedia and not the Wikipedia?

2009-06-27 Thread Andrew Gray
with the project. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Issues about Copyright

2009-06-25 Thread Andrew Gray
) is not very effectively protected in the US, but I could be wrong. (3) is quite a common provision, but (4) takes it further than usual. (I really like the spirit of nr. 11, but I can see how it's not really applicable here...) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] Issues about Copyright

2009-06-25 Thread Andrew Gray
are not eligible but the comment by the author is eligible for copyright. Am I right? Thanks. I'd extend comment to be the words they've actually written, but that's about it. They can't stop you paraphrasing or rewriting it. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies

2009-06-04 Thread Andrew Gray
be implemented - would it be too impractical to just regularly run a script to check those for things like Google Analytics links, and remove them with a polite note when found? -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update vote result

2009-05-21 Thread Andrew Gray
had 3019 votes, which also suggests the turnout this time was remarkable. Do we have a rough estimate of qualifying voters who didn't vote? 17000 is pretty good, but it occurs to me I have no idea how large the editing community really is! -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] Court: Congress can't put public domain back into copyright

2009-04-06 Thread Andrew Gray
moved wholesale, servers and all, to California, so we were in the ninth circuit jurisdiction... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Andrew Gray
a sheaf of business cards, with Got a problem? info @ wikimedia.org in nice clear bold lettering, the puzzle-globe at one edge; the other side just WIKIPEDIA writ large. Distribute them to everyone who does PRish stuff... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread Andrew Gray
turned on a report this function, since that'd heavily be skewed towards vandalism. Enabling both, together, would be excellent. But I think making it something for after we get the thrice-blesséd FlaggedRevs might be the most efficient approach. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia

2009-02-26 Thread Andrew Gray
... ...oh, well, another on for the to-do pile :-) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia

2009-02-25 Thread Andrew Gray
is (apparently) derived from two defined simplified versions of English which were deliberately designed - have there been projects to do the same for, say, French or Spanish, or would we have to do the heavy lifting ourselves? -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] Top posters, special edition

2009-02-20 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/2/19 Mark Williamson node...@gmail.com: I still hold the crown on Wikipedia-l. Whatever happened to that list, anyways? Most of the people wanting to have abtruse cross-project theological debates just took it to foundation-l :-) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] An technical idea on spreading and improving Chinese Wikipedia

2009-02-20 Thread Andrew Gray
* what you want, but you can see the potential. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] An technical idea on spreading and improving Chinese Wikipedia

2009-02-20 Thread Andrew Gray
are appropriate. Or, even simpler (for the user), a plugin where the author selects a word or phrase and the system generates a Wikipedia link for it. Should be relatively effective for nouns and names, at least... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

[Foundation-l] Attribution made cleaner?

2009-02-02 Thread Andrew Gray
is available. I note that MediaWiki already has a user_real_name field - could we use it for this sort of purpose? Would this be technically practical? -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution made cleaner?

2009-02-02 Thread Andrew Gray
of NOCREDIT magic word, perhaps. This would neatly sidestep the worry of people not wanting credited downstream... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution made cleaner?

2009-02-02 Thread Andrew Gray
in the process - perhaps only an optional one - where someone takes a Wikipedia article and tries to shake out some authors. Figuring out how to make that work efficiently and cleanly and helpfully is a good thing in and of itself, whatever conclusion the main debate comes to. -- - Andrew Gray

Re: [Foundation-l] Agreement between WMF and O'Reilly Media about Wikipedia: The Missing Manual on Wikipedia?

2009-01-28 Thread Andrew Gray
... oh, wait. How is this a special case? The CC switch, when and if it happens, will be complex enough without inventing extra problems! -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

Re: [Foundation-l] Commons and The Year of the Picture

2009-01-28 Thread Andrew Gray
anyone arguing to keep it because they want to run off a poster... (and to a degree this is rendered moot by that helpful lowest useful resolution requirement of the unfree material rules) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Agreement between WMF and O'Reilly Media about Wikipedia: The Missing Manual on Wikipedia?

2009-01-28 Thread Andrew Gray
or later contributions, and not the other. It is, after all, *exactly the same license*... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

2009-01-23 Thread Andrew Gray
), Citizendium contributors Alan White, John Smith and Betty Green (2007-2009), and anonymous contributors. It's not exactly smooth, but it is comprehensible, and it does seem helpful to name the project to give some context to the names. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

2009-01-23 Thread Andrew Gray
authors who make nontrivial contributions result would be like? This might be a useful bit of data... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

2009-01-23 Thread Andrew Gray
via WikiBlame, but it certainly seems a little more meaningful than just dumping every name which appears in the article history. (Admittedly, that has the advantage of not accidentally excluding anyone...) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Foundation-l] Commons and The Year of the Picture

2009-01-23 Thread Andrew Gray
. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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