I'd recommend George Orwell's essay on Politics and the English
Language. It's one of the most persuasive arguments to use clear
language I've read.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
We're a multi-lingual movement, and this makes clear English even more
important. If something is
Jussi-ville writes:
The policy, misused in the course of POV struggle, is a way of excluding
information with interferes with presentation of a desired point of view.
I think you are being way too generous. ... Let me repeat in more concise
form.
The policy was written to enable serious
We're a multi-lingual movement, and this makes clear English even more
important. If something is unclear to a native speaker, it's even more
difficult for someone who has English as a second or third language.
I confirm.
Its quite difficult for a non fluent english speaker to be involved in
On 19 February 2012 10:21, Thierry Coudray thierry.coud...@wikimedia.fr wrote:
We're a multi-lingual movement, and this makes clear English even more
important. If something is unclear to a native speaker, it's even more
difficult for someone who has English as a second or third language.
I
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 4:44 AM, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote:
I think the article in The Chronicle of Higher Education is a
must-read. Here you have a researcher who actually took pains to learn
what the rules to editing Wikipedia are (including No Original
Research), and who,
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 4:44 AM, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote:
I think the article in The Chronicle of Higher Education is a
must-read. Here you have a researcher who actually took pains to learn
what the rules to editing Wikipedia are (including No Original
Research), and who,
Yes, you are right! I forgot to mention you guys, so sorry! I'll punish
myself :P
El 18-02-2012 22:31, Mateus Nobre mateus.no...@live.co.uk escribió:
Wikimedia Brasil also have a project of indigenous language, the nheengatu
project.
http://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nheengattu
On 19/02/2012 5:21 AM, Thierry Coudray wrote:
Thierry
who still not have found a good translation in French for accountability :)
You probably want /imputabilité/ :-)
-- Coren / Marc
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On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 6:44 AM, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote:
Jussi-ville writes:
The policy, misused in the course of POV struggle, is a way of excluding
information with interferes with presentation of a desired point of view.
...
I think the article in The Chronicle of Higher
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote:
Jussi-ville writes:
The policy, misused in the course of POV struggle, is a way of excluding
information with interferes with presentation of a desired point of view.
I think you are being way too generous. ... Let me
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Mike Christie coldchr...@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps the policies can be improved, but they are written to stop bad
editing rather than to encourage good editing. I don't think that can be
changed. It's impossible to legislate good judgement, and it's judgement
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Mike Christie coldchr...@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps the policies can be improved, but they are written to stop bad
editing rather than to encourage good editing. I don't think that can be
changed. It's impossible to legislate good judgement, and it's
Dear Tom,
I couldn't agree more. And I remember that I understand Amir's blog
entries quite well, in sharp opposition to some other WMF technical
guys' blog entries...
A copy-editor with an eye for newbies, non techies, non native
speakers of English etc. would be a great idea.
Kind regards
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, 19/02/2012 08:12:
Do the people at MeatballWiki know?
Why should they care?
I don't know if this has already been mentioned somewhere:
http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com/2012/02/our-thoughts-on-right-to-be-forgotten.html
It's a very cautious comment I think.
Nemo
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
However, the issue of advocacy is not generally agreed upon by the entire
community. SOPA blackout was the first and official action of its kind,
before we consider an advocacy department, do we have consensus that it is
On 2/19/12 4:12 PM, Sarah wrote:
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 6:44 AM, Mike Godwinmnemo...@gmail.com wrote:
I think the article in The Chronicle of Higher Education is a
must-read. Here you have a researcher who actually took pains to learn
what the rules to editing Wikipedia are (including No
On 2/19/12 2:29 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
The key problem here is that WP:UNDUE was expressly written to address
the problem of genuine ongoing controversies, and fringe views. In
this case there is no ongoing controversy, but the use of the policy
has for long been used to remove new
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Delirium delir...@hackish.org wrote:
On 2/19/12 4:12 PM, Sarah wrote:
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 6:44 AM, Mike Godwinmnemo...@gmail.com wrote:
I think the article in The Chronicle of Higher Education is a
must-read. Here you have a researcher who actually took
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Delirium delir...@hackish.org wrote:
On 2/19/12 2:29 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
The key problem here is that WP:UNDUE was expressly written to address
the problem of genuine ongoing controversies, and fringe views. In
this case there is no ongoing
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, 19/02/2012 08:12:
Do the people at MeatballWiki know?
Why should they care?
This is where it all started,
http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/RightToLeave
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Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~
On 19 February 2012 18:06, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, 19/02/2012 08:12:
Do the people at MeatballWiki know?
Why should they care?
This is where it all started,
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 3:57 AM, Mike Christie coldchr...@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps the policies can be improved, but they are written to stop bad
editing rather than to encourage good editing. I don't think that can be
changed. It's impossible to legislate good judgement, and it's judgement
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 3:57 AM, Mike Christie coldchr...@gmail.com
wrote:
Perhaps the policies can be improved, but they are written to stop bad
editing rather than to encourage good editing. I don't think that can
be
changed. It's impossible to legislate good judgement, and it's
On 19 February 2012 18:06, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, 19/02/2012 08:12:
Do the people at MeatballWiki know?
Why should they care?
This is where it all started,
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
On 19 February 2012 18:06, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, 19/02/2012 08:12:
Do the people at
On 19 February 2012 20:13, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
How can we remove ten thousand comments and signatures using the users
real name or well-known handle?
With a bot (or AWB) going through the What Links Here list for your
user page. People have done that before (although maybe
On 19/02/2012 4:25 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
With a bot (or AWB) going through the What Links Here list for your
user page. People have done that before (although maybe not if they
had ten thousand comments to change).
Yes, and on enwp at least the one time I remember this having been
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
On 19 February 2012 18:06, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, 19/02/2012 08:12:
Do the people at
On 2/19/2012 8:19 AM, foundation-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
Message: 4
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:12:09 -0300
From: Sarahslimvir...@gmail.com
To:mnemo...@gmail.com, Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] The 'Undue Weight'
Fred Bauder writes:
I think it probably seems to climate change deniers that excluding
political opinions from science-based articles on global warming is a
violation of neutral point of view, and of basic fairness. That is just
one example, but there are other similar situations.
This
Fred Bauder writes:
I think it probably seems to climate change deniers that excluding
political opinions from science-based articles on global warming is a
violation of neutral point of view, and of basic fairness. That is just
one example, but there are other similar situations.
This
This is a wonderful report. Thank you for sharing, Osmar!
Do you know whether we have any official message of support from
UNESCO that we can point to?
Or one from a group that works with us and that is wholly dedicated to
language preservation (like our friends at the Rosetta Project?)
SJ
Hoi,
This sounds like a great initiative. I am sure that the language committee
will aim to help you as much as possible.
The language policy is designed to ensure that new projects have an optimal
chance of success. There are a few things that we require from you. They
are that you localise the
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