happy april first
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Svip svi...@gmail.com wrote:
On 1 April 2012 12:25, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
America’s most trusted encyclopedia, Conservapedia, have decided to
launch a new wiki-based semantic data project named Conservadata. The
new
Hi there,
If you have size restrictions on commons, use
http://www.archive.org/create/ it has no size restrictions.
thanks,
mike
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 8:38 AM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I wanted to update everyone about our progress in putting up WikiConference
India 2011
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com wrote:
I guess, this is just one of the times where things in Hollywood are a
bit different than in real life. The students and kids will just have
to realize that things in films are not always true to life...
(Without having
The smurfs move disturbed me when I watched it,
Not only does the actor in the movie lift an image off the wikipedia
and use it in his advertising campaign, but the movie itself gives no
credits to wikipedia on the webpage etc.
infringement
Risker
On 17 December 2011 06:20, Ole Palnatoke Andersen palnat...@gmail.comwrote:
It was mentioned on the Wikimedia Foundation Communications Committee
Mailing List in September.
Regards,
Ole
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Mike Dupont
jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
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-Robert Rohde
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl
wrote:
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 12:59:05PM +0100, Mike Dupont wrote:
I found a clip with the wikipedia lifting being shown :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJxqFMPe95c
Do we get properly credited in the end
the license.
thanks,
mike
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 12:59 AM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 17 December 2011 23:09, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Well thanks for the great explanation, so the did their homework.
now what about the example that is being given to kids, just google
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 4:03 AM, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote:
Again, speaking only for myself, I believe the Italian Wikimedians
made the right choice, and I believe that, so long as this tactic is
not overused, a strike may be the best and most effective response to
other
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:57 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
From Wikimedia's perspective, I think this is one down, several hundred to
go. Wikimedia has made it clear that its singular focus is the English
Wikipedia. All other Wikipedias are peripheral; all other project types are
Hi,
we have been using archive.org for our conference videos, it works pretty
good.
mike
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Jan Kucera (Kozuch) garba...@seznam.czwrote:
Hi there,
I think WMF should set up some quality measures to make sure there
actually is some reasonable online output from
Thanks for this, I was just reading the last issue, very interesting!
mike
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
Wikizine 125 [1] is under construction and it will be published at
August 25. If you don't want to be bold and edit the page, you can use
this form
the dominating
political viewpoint of the opposite side that they don't even get a
chance to be heard.
We need to make a way for these people to be heard and to moderate the
conflicts better, that will make Wikipedia stronger and more robust.
thanks,
mike
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Mike
mails from the archive.
2011/7/23, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com:
It looks like my message here was truncated from the mailing list
archive,
so I am reposting it.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-October/061709.html
Mr Kohs pointed this out here
Congrats to the winners! What a great team.
BTW, we are going to be organizing a new conference the first weekend of
november in Prishtina, again, skf11 the third edition. It would be great to
get some speakers from wikimedia, we have had milos, gerardm (in vlore,
albania at the partner event
Well thanks for the invite, and I voted.
Same here two invites, and also I got the mail a little late, cause the
voting is already half over.
I blogged about this as well
http://undeletewikipedia.blogspot.com/2011/06/funny-voting-for-wikimedia-board-of.html
mike
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 5:00
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Tanvir Rahman wikitan...@gmail.com wrote:
formate. So, I think most of the YouTube videos need to be converted to ogv
(from mpeg or flv). Can we do that automatically with script?
ffmpeg and or mencoder can do this,
in theory it could run on toolserver, but those
Hello, sorry to bring this up, again, but this guy, mr whitewriter has
been wikihounding me, he just does not give up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Skier_Dude#Hi_dude.21_:.29
It really hurts me to be treated this way and I wonder if this
behavior of whitewriter will be tolerated and
Hi there,
look guys someone deleted my pages promoting our work in Kosovo and Albania
from my user page saying they are of no use to the wikipedia
can someone please comment on that?
Gerard was at the event in Albania that was supposedly not helping the
wikipedia to talk about wikipedia there.
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:56 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
On 04/25/2011 11:53 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
I have restored a subset of these pages. Some of them would be better
on the Meta or outreach
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.netwrote:
Hi there,
look guys someone deleted my pages promoting our work in Kosovo and
Albania
from my user page saying they are of no use to the wikipedia
can someone please comment on that?
Gerard was at the event in
About the foundation openness,
I wanted to write a comment on the foundation page, but it was not open.
So I wrote my comment on SJ talk page,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sj#Openness
Here is what I have to say about wikipedia and openness :
;
HI, I wanted to
I have read this article this morning,
Well this is a similar problem I am having with adding details to, or new
articles about Kosovo,
even my attempts are getting deleted. Having problems even getting the
Turkish, Bosnian or Albanian alternative names added without being deleted,
even if
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
HomePage
* WikiPedia
* PhilosophyAndLogic
* UnitedStates
* PopularMusic
* SportS
* MathematicsAndStatistics
* CountriesOfTheWorld
* AaA
* AfghanistaN
* UuU
* TechnologY
* ComputinG
* ComputerSoftware
*
i mean google has copies, caches of items for searching.
How can google cache this?
Archive.org has copyrighted materials as well.
We should be able to save backups of this material as well.
mike
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:16 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 12/9/2010 11:06:30 PM
I am not talking about books, just webpages.
lets take ladygaga.com as example
Wayback engine :
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ladygaga.com
Google cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1720lEPHkysJ:www.ladygaga.com/+lady+gagacd=1hl=dect=clnkgl=declient=firefox-a
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:54 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 12/10/2010 12:48:31 PM Pacific Standard Time,
jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com writes:
I am not talking about books, just webpages.
lets take ladygaga.com as example
Wayback engine :
I know all about the aspects of programming and copyright, I thought I
answered the questions.
Of course I can program this myself, and we can use open source
indexing tools for that. the translations of course are a separate
issue, they would be under the same restrictions as the source page.
If
Well, lets backtrack.
The original question was, how can we exclude wikipedia clones from the search.
my idea was to create a search engine that includes only refs from
wikipedia in it.
then the idea was to make our own engine instead of only using google.
lets agree that we need first a list of
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:16 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 12/10/2010 2:12:44 PM Pacific Standard Time,
jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com writes:
Well, lets backtrack.
The original question was, how can we exclude wikipedia clones from the
search.
my idea was to create a
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:02 AM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 12/10/2010 2:58:08 PM Pacific Standard Time,
jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com writes:
my idea was that you will want to search pages that are referenced by
wikipedia already, in my work on kosovo, it would be very
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 8, 2010, at 6:21 PM, Mike Dupont wrote:
Sounds like we need to have a notable search engine that includes only
approved and allowed sources, that would be nice to have.
Sounds like a great community project
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Dec 8, 2010, at 6:21 PM, Mike Dupont wrote:
Sounds like we need to have a notable search engine that includes only
approved and allowed
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 6:02 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 12/9/2010 2:51:39 AM Pacific Standard Time,
jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com writes:
yes it would be great. As i said, it could just include all pages
listed as REF pages and that would allow people to review the
Sounds like we need to have a notable search engine that includes only
approved and allowed sources, that would be nice to have.
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:08 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 8 December 2010 15:26, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il
wrote:
Yes, but that
I thought about this more,
It would be to extract a list of all pages that are included as ref
in the WP. We would use this for the search engine.
we should also make sure that all referenced pages (not linked ones)
are stored in archive.org or someplace permanent.
I wonder if there is some API to
Good Job !
We were inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GerardM who Spoke the
freesb.eu conf in Vlore Albania and motivated us to start our own Photo
Contest for Kosovo.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/BestPictureOfKosovoForWikipediaContestThere
is still alot to do, most of the activity
in cases such as village and town names, names of mountains
and bridges, etc. which may have been referred to both ways in English
literature or barely mentioned or not mentioned at all in English
sources, it's less clear-cut.
2010/11/11 geni geni...@gmail.com:
On 11 November 2010 14:26, Mike
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:19 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
2. This is about en:wp only.
I am taking it to the english list. thanks for your attention.
A final point for the entire project, not just any language,
I would like point out that the sr.wikipedia and sq.wikipedia for
I have to say, I think it is good that wikimedia is not advertising funded,
because you provide a great service that is not geared to looking at
advertising.
Most webpages force you to look at ads, wikipedia does not. I think it
is a valuable resource and worth the donations.
We are working on
Hi there, I have seen a big problem in getting people to contribute in
kosovo to wikipedia
except the Kosovo article, there they dont call in *Kosovo and Metohija*i,
so I think there is a president for the english and albanian names in
wikipedia.
most of the names are in serbian, with strange
I think that at least a consistent listing of both names is needed,
expecially on the links. I have had to fight with simple unwillingness to
list both names in serbian and albanian on all things.
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
Hi there, I have seen
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Houston Navarro
houstonnava...@gmail.com wrote:
So, we lose that point of view in developing our neutral point of view.
exactly, that is why we should just unban kos and give him another chance.
mike
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Member of Free Libre Open Source
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:44 PM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote:
Encyc. Dramatica seems too take pride in creating attack pages regarding
Wikipedians. Of course they are exposing themselves to libel suits but
wow, now I have an excuse to finally look at this page! I did not look
at the
Hello,
From what I have seen about Greg Kohs is that he does have some
interesting points to make, but I do see that he is jumping to
conclusions and does seem to have a biased viewpoint.
People want to make their own decisions and have enough information to
do that. We don't want to have
I don't think we gain anything by providing a platform for Kohs campaign,
as illustrated at
http://www.mywikibiz.com/Top_10_Reasons_Not_to_Donate_to_Wikipedia
against Wikipedia.
Wow, this is very well written and interesting! please share more such
information.
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote:
On 19 Oct 2010, at 18:44, Mike Dupont wrote:
I don't think we gain anything by providing a platform for Kohs campaign,
as illustrated at
http://www.mywikibiz.com/Top_10_Reasons_Not_to_Donate_to_Wikipedia
against
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