Re: [Foundation-l] Is random article truly random

2011-10-20 Thread Arlen Beiler
Ok, this discussion has 60 arguments and we are getting nowhere. Why don't we follow Google's example (what that is is for you to figure out)? On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Andreas K. jayen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:13 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 20

Re: [Foundation-l] Black market science

2011-07-06 Thread Arlen Beiler
Once it is published, can't it just go to Wikisource? Or would it have to be CC-By or something like that. If so, Wikisource would still be the best suited for that, we would just have to put it in a journal namespace or something along that line. On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:17 PM, David Gerard

Re: [Foundation-l] Moral rights

2011-03-04 Thread Arlen Beiler
Next thing these people will shutdown wikipedia because the french law says impre*scriptible*, and they will say that because wikipedia uses JS and so is scriptable, it shouldn't be around. What don't you like about the licence anyway? It is my opinion that the laws of the most influentual country

Re: [Foundation-l] Translatewiki illustrates how low internationalisation is in the priorities of the Wikimedia Foundation

2011-01-28 Thread Arlen Beiler
Or boycott their translations and start a WMF transwiki. On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Teofilo teofilow...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/1/28 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: When the CIA uses MediaWiki and it does, we are happy because as a result we do and did get feedback on the

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

2010-12-21 Thread Arlen Beiler
So for every article we have 960 active editors? I assume you wrote that wrong. On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 November 2010 18:33, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 November 2010 23:09, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: Am I

Re: [Foundation-l] some worries about fundraiser and editor appeals boycotting it

2010-12-07 Thread Arlen Beiler
After all, a person probably isn't going to donate ten times just because ten different people appealed for funds. On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Peter Coombe thewub.w...@googlemail.comwrote: I believe that the plan is to bring in the thermometer showing how close we are to our target in the

Re: [Foundation-l] the annual advertisement discussion

2010-11-08 Thread Arlen Beiler
For one thing, we have always been proud of how Wikipedia and its sister sites have been ad-free. Why don't we get those half-breeds with their ads and everything to do the revenue making? I mean, of course, Wikia. Having ads on Wikipedia (or anywhere else) would be awful. On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at

Re: [Foundation-l] the annual advertisement discussion

2010-11-08 Thread Arlen Beiler
I thought someone was saying that Wikia gets all kinds of special treatment, or something like that. On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: On 8 November 2010 13:03, Arlen Beiler arlen...@gmail.com wrote: For one thing, we have always been proud of how

Re: [Foundation-l] No, even a couple of Google ads on each page would be a fatally bad idea

2010-11-06 Thread Arlen Beiler
I don't think I could stand it if we picked up advertising. I hate the way wikia looks, and therefore have an aversion to contributing in any way to its progress. Can you imagine! We actually link to Wikia sites and give them traffic (though I guess that is better than filling up wikibooks and

Re: [Foundation-l] Funding Sources of Medical Research, was Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing...

2010-11-05 Thread Arlen Beiler
I think you have hit the nail on the head. Now we just need to drive it in the rest of the way. On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Tue, 2/11/10, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:36 AM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:

Re: [Foundation-l] Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing, was Re: Ban and...

2010-11-02 Thread Arlen Beiler
Let's have our readers vote. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:49 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 11/1/2010 6:16:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time, jay...@gmail.com writes: The PLOS Medicine article is based on a dataset of 78 interventional studies, 81 observational studies, and only

Re: [Foundation-l] Evil Book

2010-11-02 Thread Arlen Beiler
The point is that you search for a book on Amazon, and find a book for 50 dollars that is just a conglomeration of articles that were put together by a computer, not a human, and therefore have little value. It is just a big rip off. On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:32 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com

Re: [Foundation-l] Misplaced Reliance, was Re: Paid editing, was Re: Ban and...

2010-11-01 Thread Arlen Beiler
Precisely my feeling on this. I just recently read that out of over 40 studies on something, only ~7 claimed they had no ill side effects (6 of those being FDA tests). I don't remember where I saw it, but that is basically how it was, I think. It is common knowledge that manufacture funded