Re: [Foundation-l] Evil Book

2010-11-02 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: My thought was for the Foundation to approach Amazon regarding carrying listings of such books which seriously represent their content. as this one does. Such a book approaches fraud. Agreed. There is no *obligation*

Re: [Foundation-l] Evil Book

2010-11-02 Thread Fred Bauder
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: My thought was for the Foundation to approach Amazon regarding carrying listings of such books which seriously represent their content. as this one does. Such a book approaches fraud. Agreed. There is no

Re: [Foundation-l] Evil Book

2010-11-02 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 11/1/2010 11:50:03 PM Pacific Daylight Time, cimonav...@gmail.com writes: Another thing that might shut this stuff down, or atleast make people more savvy in judging what quality they are getting, would be if we finally got some dead tree stuff out there with the WMF

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] preferences statistics

2010-11-02 Thread Andrew Garrett
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Ashar Voultoiz hashar+...@free.fr wrote: On 01/11/10 08:47, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: Are there statistics about users' preferences on Wikimedia sites? For example, a statistic that would say things like how many users use every skin and how many users have Show

Re: [Foundation-l] Evil Book

2010-11-02 Thread David Gerard
On 2 November 2010 12:02, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 11/1/2010 11:50:03 PM Pacific Daylight Time, cimonav...@gmail.com writes: Another thing that might shut this stuff down, or atleast make people more savvy in judging what quality they are getting, would be if we finally

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] Evil Book

2010-11-02 Thread ????
On 02/11/2010 04:59, geni wrote: On 2 November 2010 03:53, Nikola Smolenskismole...@eunet.rs wrote: Дана Tuesday 02 November 2010 02:57:10 geni написа: 2010/11/1 KIZU Naokoaph...@gmail.com: I see, thanks Mike. Personally I'm not for this kind of attempt, I'd rather agree with Ryan: if and

Re: [Foundation-l] Evil Book

2010-11-02 Thread geni
On 2 November 2010 19:56, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote: Perhaps, but one can't claim moral rights:  o where the work is a computer program  o where ownership of a work originally vested in an author's employer  o where the material is being used in newspapers or magazines  o

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

2010-11-02 Thread David Goodman
I see it that way too. It is sufficient that if such questions arise and are published, then we report on them. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 8:11 AM, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote: mill...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 08:54, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote: Quite right, the

Re: [Foundation-l] The Signpost – Volume 6 Issue 4 4 – 1 November 2010

2010-11-02 Thread Sue Gardner
On 1 November 2010 20:28, Wikipedia Signpost wikipediasignp...@gmail.com wrote: Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single Hey, is the Signpost also sent to the Announce mailing list? If not, could it be? It's always full of useful information, and I could