[Foundation-l] new project proposal wikipol

2009-03-06 Thread info
A Wikipol is an political program. It is a collection of wiki-pages that describe the actual stands of (webbased) political parties. The members of the e-party can develop and update these wiki-pages by amendments. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipol Jos Janssen

Re: [Foundation-l] BBC News on BLP vandalism

2009-03-06 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/6 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: Politicians get quite annoyed at this stuff. In my experience they mostly take a certain level of rubbish in their stride, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't work to improve the situation. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7921985.stm This

Re: [Foundation-l] BBC News on BLP vandalism

2009-03-06 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When the English Wikipedia is the only Wikipedia with BLP issues, I completely agree. Thanks, GerardM 2009/3/6 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com 2009/3/6 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: Politicians get quite annoyed at this stuff. In my experience they mostly take a certain

Re: [Foundation-l] BBC News on BLP vandalism

2009-03-06 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/6 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: Hoi, When the English Wikipedia is the only Wikipedia with BLP issues, I completely agree. It's the only Wikipedia where BLP issues significantly affect UK politicians, which are the subject of the article.

Re: [Foundation-l] BBC News on BLP vandalism

2009-03-06 Thread David Gerard
2009/3/6 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: 2009/3/6 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: When the English Wikipedia is the only Wikipedia with BLP issues, I completely agree. It's the only Wikipedia where BLP issues significantly affect UK politicians, which are the subject of

Re: [Foundation-l] BBC News on BLP vandalism

2009-03-06 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/6 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: 2009/3/6 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: 2009/3/6 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: When the English Wikipedia is the only Wikipedia with BLP issues, I completely agree. It's the only Wikipedia where BLP issues significantly affect UK

Re: [Foundation-l] BBC News on BLP vandalism

2009-03-06 Thread Cary Bass
Thomas Dalton wrote: 2009/3/6 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: 2009/3/6 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: 2009/3/6 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: When the English Wikipedia is the only Wikipedia with BLP issues, I completely agree. It's the only Wikipedia where BLP issues

Re: [Foundation-l] BBC News on BLP vandalism

2009-03-06 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/3/6 Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org: That's interesting. We should try and get some more up-to-date stats on that - it would be useful for Wikimedia UK to have stats like that to throw around in negotiations, etc., to show how important we are. For that matter, just look at the

Re: [Foundation-l] Academic article review

2009-03-06 Thread Delirium
Pharos wrote: My experience has been that, although certainly there is room for expansion in scientific articles on specialty topics, Wikipedia already has much better coverage of science than any print encyclopedias, and most basic scientific subjects are treated fairly completely. In