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On 03/09/12 6:06 AM, Neil Babbage wrote:
Wikimedia is not supposed to be some kind of exercise in perfection for
perfection's sake. It's supposed to be open, accessible and useful.
Useful, like notable is another of those words that cannot be easily
defined. In many otherwise non
to be some kind of exercise in perfection for
perfection's sake. It's supposed to be open, accessible and useful.
Neil / QuiteUnusual@Wikibooks
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of its free-for-all nature. Someone will make money but more
knowledge will be spread which I think outweighs the evil of charging a fee...
Neil / QuiteUnusual@Wikibooks
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What *was* at issue here is how we treat new users; the discussion was
approached (on the part of our editors) either as a battleground/fight, or in a
quite patronising way. The issue here was that someone was put off from raising
the issues.
The expertise that is most valued at Wikipedia is
problem to fix
things compared to our current stock response of if you see things that could
be better, fix it yourself. I'm not saying this is intended but it runs the
risk of making projects look they have people exercising editorial control.
Neil
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Probably not a good day for the Toolserver to have intermittent hardware errors
leading to the eligibility checker to time out frequently. It would be a good
idea to get someone to prioritise fixing it if you expect a mad rush to vote.
Cheers,
Neil
(QuiteUnusual@en.wikibooks)
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be interested in any arguments that might be made against such a
proposal.
- Neil
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leave it turned off -- which is also one click.
Where would the difficulty be in that?
- Neil
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Yes they are able to strike, but that still doesn't give them the right
(legal or moral) to shut down property that doesn't belong to them. In
any case, if the servers are located in the US then US law applies to
their management.
On 04/10/2011 21:02, Milos Rancic wrote:
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011
The digital copies of the Dead Sea Scrolls have copyright, not the
originals...
On 26/09/2011 19:58, emijrp wrote:
Hi all;
Finally, the Dead Sea Scrolls[1] have copyright[2]. Courtesy of The Israel
Museum. Congratulations.
By they way: Hi Wikimedia Israel.
Regards,
emijrp
[1]
The projects will always have some crossover (or grey areas if you
prefer) because they present the same information, just in different
ways. For example, a textbook (Wikibooks) presents the same information
as an encyclopedia but in a more inclusive way. That is, it tries to
present all the
You could try contacting the domain registrar email
addressdns-ad...@wikimedia.org
or you could contact the WMF staff via talk pages on Meta (e.g.,
User:Philippe (WMF)).
did you try #wikimedia-tech on IRC? They might be able to help.
On 31/08/2011 15:46, Huib Laurens wrote:
Hello,
I
: for good or ill, the word wiki now means
wikipedia-like collaborative things to the general public. Perhaps the
Wikiknowledge movement?
-- Neil
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, this
would still be less than three months.
The same tape systems could also, trivally, be used to back up all the
other WMF sites, on similar lines.
-- Neil
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On 03/06/11 00:44, Mark Wagner wrote:
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 16:11, Neil Harrisn...@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
Tape is -- still -- your friend here. Flip the write-protect after
writing, have two sets of off-site tapes, one copy of each in each of
two secure and widely separated off-site
, and then allow the user to slowly bootstrap their
language sophistication from there? Although this would be a massive job
to create, once the mission was put in place, many people might be
willing to crowdsource the needed content.
-- Neil
, easier to remember, contains the Wikipedia
branding).
enwp.org, on the other hand, is 8 characters long, has only two
components, and is a natural contraction of en.wikipedia.org.
-- Neil
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On 09/05/11 23:57, Platonides wrote:
Just create your own tld ;)
Sadly, .wp wouldn't pass the new gTLD process: new gTLDs must have at
least three characters.
-- Neil
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On 10/05/11 00:46, Kirill Lokshin wrote:
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Brian J
Mingusbrian.min...@colorado.eduwrote:
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Neil Harrisn...@tonal.clara.co.uk
wrote:
On 09/05/11 23:57, Platonides wrote:
Just create your own tld ;)
Sadly, .wp wouldn't pass
On 05/03/11 14:30, David Gerard wrote:
On 5 March 2011 14:19, Neil Harrisn...@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
And also, WMF should make it possible to accept continuing donations as
a subscription on a monthly basis.
Even better, they should do this already!
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki
than $60 once a year.
Continuing donations also don't require a decision to keep on giving --
the donations just continue until canceled.
Building up a base of continuing donors would be almost as good as
having an endowment, and would make financial planning much easier.
-- Neil
riding on top of this process -- a
year of competent adminning should suffice as a Turing test.)
So: unless there is a good reason not to, why not do this?
-- Neil
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a bot. However, if bad data is ever uploaded into the database,
the full expansion of the cite would still be available in the article history,
again aiding archival access, and protecting against data corruption.
-- Neil
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for people not to want either, and make their
own choice of both client and storage medium. Mailing lists, and the
ecosystem surrounding them, have worked just fine for around 40 years;
why break something that works just fine for other people as it is
currently?
-- Neil
at
http://vision.ai.uiuc.edu/mhyang/face-detection-survey.html , if you are
looking for ideas for algorithms.
-- Neil
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Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/6/5 Neil Harris use...@tonal.clara.co.uk:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/6/4 Jon scr...@nonvocalscream.com:
Has apache/proxy level filtering been considered?
Filtering for what? Javascript is executed client-side, ie. after the
page has gone
the generation of any HTML that loads
any indirect resources (scripts, iframes, images, etc.) whatsoever other
than from a clearly defined whitelist of Wikimedia-Foundation-controlled
domains?
Doing this should completely stop site admins from adding web bugs.
-- Neil
to keep as much of that remaining privacy as
secure as possible.
-- Neil
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) is not a reason not to have a lock
on it, or a door there in the first place.
-- Neil
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