Somebody just contacted me to let me know that he thinks Google is
experimenting with their search result options: one option is to allow
users to block Wikipedia articles from showing up in Google's search
results. Sometimes this option comes up and sometimes is doesn't. Has
anyone else seen
On 3/19/11 1:56 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
2011/3/19 Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org:
Looks like it's one of their small percentage experiments. Haven't
been able to reproduce it myself. Not clear whether it's just
wikipedia.org or other/all sites.
Bence pointed to this explanation:
James Alexander wrote:
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote:
Vandalizing Wikipedia may actually get a few started on the project. It's
usually easier to persuade people to do evil sounding things on the
internet than real-life - some positive
As I was contacting the FB product team this morning (PST time) I
noticed that it was already taken down through the normal channels.
Thanks to everyone for finding and reporting this.
--Kul
On 5/3/10 9:42 AM, Jyothis E wrote:
Some of us had reported it
Regards,
Jyothis.
Hi Gerard,
On 4/22/10 1:32 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
Will we learn the traffic data from Facebook? Will we be able to do the
kind of data analysis that we do on our own traffic data ?
Great question. This involves some coordination with the usability team
and Dr. Z (Erik Zachte) so we
is not correct or has any display problems.
It's going to be a learning situation for both us and them so we'll see
how this goes.
--Kul
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Hey Steven,
On the one hand, I think it's definitely praiseworthy that we have found
another outlet for distributing Wikipedia articles and thus fulfilling
our mission. But to be perfectly honest, the idea of a Facebook mirror
that siphons off potential editors and lets Facebook slap ads
Rui,
On 4/19/10 1:08 PM, Rui Correia wrote:
I would go with Contribute to this article - click edit button that takes
you back to the Wikipedia, where new editors can edit to their hearts'
content without the ads getting into the way of the knowledge project.
Facebook told us that they would
Today I'm excited to announce the Foundation's second major,
multi-national partnership with a respected leader in global
telecommunications: Telefónica. Most of you will have heard of, or
perhaps are customers of, one of Telefónica's many properties and
portals already. They are a Fortune
Nice!
Quick sp correction: Punjabi
Milos Rancic wrote:
Yesterday, new projects were opened:
* Sorani Wikipedia (http://ckb.wikipedia.org/)
* Western Panjabi Wikipedia (http://pnb.wikipedia.org/)
* Mirandese Wikipedia (http://mwl.wikipedia.org/)
* Acehnese Wikipedia
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
Actually according to the standard Panjabi is the correct spelling.
Thanks,
GerardM
Hmmm...really? And I'm half Punjabi. You'd think I should know that. --Kul
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- experienced professional reference-work writers (and we should help them
find ways to sustain themselves, particularly in niche markets -- one way is
by distributing the underlying work needed to find and organize data).
there is room in the world-of-WP for effective, sustainable POV and
We have been talking about how we survived being blocked by the Chinese
government during the last June 4th ban but now this is on the table. We
have to see how this will now affect us.
June 9, 2009
China Requires Censoring Software on New PCs
By ANDREW JACOBS
BEIJING — China has issued a
Thank you :-) Actually we are all very happy but also shocked in
Poland. Now, we feel great responsibility to organize Wikimania as
well as we are able or even better :-) I think all three biding team
deserve congratulation as all of them did great job as well, and
Wikimania could have been
Will there be at least a rough guide to where this deal will result in
the logo turning up legitimately?
Yes. We have a list of portals/sites where they plan to profile the
content and the logo. We went through the list but we will review the
use every quarter and reassess as needed.
Hi All,
I am spreading the news around (I just posted to the internal list)
about a new announcement going out in a couple hours. For the past few
months I have been working on a deal with Orange (France Telecom) on a
new kind of multi-platform (web, mobile, IPTV) partnership for the
McDonalds: serves 75 million people a month
Wikipedia: 275 million
'nuff said.
Lars Aronsson wrote:
Andrew Gray wrote:
268,000,000 contributions would be fun; probably ~500,000,000 for
all wikis put together.
We're now very close to a mathematical definition of the idiom my
two cents,
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