Interesting photo commentary:
http://thereifixedit.com/2010/03/11/epic-kludge-photo-anyone-else-die-a-little/
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2009/6/10 Florence Devouard :
> I can not help share this with you.
>
> I was looking for the name "devouard" in a little tool I just discovered
> today (TouchGraph).
>
> And I was surprised to discover that the word "devouard" was highly
> linked to the Hoggar plateau (Ahaggar) in Algeria. I conse
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
> Дана Wednesday 10 June 2009 16:36:38 Florence Devouard написа:
>> But frankly, I am super pleased to find out that one of the pict I
>> uploaded 4 years ago are now featured in Britannica :-)
>
> And they made a honest effort to be GFDL-co
Дана Wednesday 10 June 2009 16:36:38 Florence Devouard написа:
> But frankly, I am super pleased to find out that one of the pict I
> uploaded 4 years ago are now featured in Britannica :-)
And they made a honest effort to be GFDL-compliant. I wonder how many more
such images are there.
I can not help share this with you.
I was looking for the name "devouard" in a little tool I just discovered
today (TouchGraph).
And I was surprised to discover that the word "devouard" was highly
linked to the Hoggar plateau (Ahaggar) in Algeria. I consequently
clicked on the central point ap
That's great. It might be valuable to share notes on collaborations
between old-school encyclopedic media groups and Wikipedians in
various countries. I see a few classes of collabs possible
* between traditional editing teams and Wikipedians. These teams,
including those being laid off by broc
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
> Do we know people at Arvato? SJ
Yes (more precisely: at Wissen Media and at InmediaOne] )
Mathias
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On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Mathias Schindler
wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:21 PM, David Gerard wrote:
>
>> Eek! What's happening to the content?
>>
>
> There are/were several ways to access the content of the actual core
> Brockhaus encyclopedia:
>
>
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:21 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> Eek! What's happening to the content?
>
There are/were several ways to access the content of the actual core
Brockhaus encyclopedia:
1. Buy the book. 30 volumes, 2700€ - 3100€, depending on your payment
plan: http://www.brockhaus.de/enzykl
2008/12/23 Mathias Schindler :
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:06 PM, David Gerard wrote:
>> Britannica is notoriously antagonistic toward Wikipedia in its
>> advertising, but Brockhaus for instance isn't anywhere near as
>> obnoxious (they're not *fans* of Wikipedia, but they have more class
>> tha
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:06 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> Britannica is notoriously antagonistic toward Wikipedia in its
> advertising, but Brockhaus for instance isn't anywhere near as
> obnoxious (they're not *fans* of Wikipedia, but they have more class
> than to trash a perceived competitor the
David Gerard wrote:
> 2008/12/22 Milos Rancic :
>
>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Tim Starling
>> wrote:
>>
>
>
>>> The following Firefox bookmarklet may be useful:
>>> javascript:(function(){Darwin.Upsell.deactivate();})()
>>>
>
>
>> Thanks! It works well :)
>>
>
>
David Goodman wrote:
> Upsell is the name of the leading market research company in
> publishing--probably they are the ones who designed it. I'm suprised,
> for they are generally known as competent.
No, that would be upsell as in:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up-selling
I'd give you a Britanni
David Gerard wrote:
> (A tangential note: I consider NPOV to be our most important
> innovation - much more radical than merely letting anyone edit your
> encyclopedia. The concept of "neutrality" has existed in various
> guises, but not like Wikipedia does it, with the consequences it has
> as a s
I noticed that Britannica is using some creative commons images from
Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
Example:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic-art/589288/113374/Courthouse-in-Denton-Texas
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Courthouse_Denton_TX.jpg
-Aude
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Tim Starling wrote:
> I checked a larger biography, and it looked complete to me. Note that it
> uses ajax to load article sections as you scroll to them, so you have to
> scroll up and down the page to trigger all the ajax loads before you can
> copy the text out.
2008/12/22 Gregory Maxwell :
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:38 PM, David Gerard wrote:
>> (A tangential note: I consider NPOV to be our most important
>> innovation - much more radical than merely letting anyone edit your
>> encyclopedia. The concept of "neutrality" has existed in various
>> guises,
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:38 PM, David Gerard wrote:
[snip]
> (A tangential note: I consider NPOV to be our most important
> innovation - much more radical than merely letting anyone edit your
> encyclopedia. The concept of "neutrality" has existed in various
> guises, but not like Wikipedia does
2008/12/22 Tomasz Ganicz :
> I don't like guys from Wikmedia projects speaking in some sort of
> "supremacy" language. Our goal is to create: "a world in which every
> single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge." so
> if the Britannica or PWN or any other commercial provider o
2008/12/22 David Gerard :
> 2008/12/22 Milos Rancic :
>
>> Then, I wanted to see what is the value of Britannica; without
>> success. It is a "private company" (in US sense of that meaning;
>> "public companies" in European sense are just companies owned by some
>> local or state government; and in
2008/12/22 Milos Rancic :
> Then, I wanted to see what is the value of Britannica; without
> success. It is a "private company" (in US sense of that meaning;
> "public companies" in European sense are just companies owned by some
> local or state government; and in some specific circumstances). It
Sorry, wrong company name--I was thinking of another one --a truly
competent one, Outsell, that has undoubtedly nothing to do with this
nonsensical method of protection.
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:20 PM, David Goodman wrote:
> Upsell is the name of the leading market research company in
> publishi
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:17 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> 2008/12/22 Milos Rancic :
>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Tim Starling
>> wrote:
>
>>> The following Firefox bookmarklet may be useful:
>>> javascript:(function(){Darwin.Upsell.deactivate();})()
>
>> Thanks! It works well :)
>
>
> They c
Upsell is the name of the leading market research company in
publishing--probably they are the ones who designed it. I'm suprised,
for they are generally known as competent.
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:17 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> 2008/12/22 Milos Rancic :
>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Tim St
2008/12/22 David Gerard :
> They called the function "upsell"? *facepalm* Wikipedia doesn't need
> to do anything to compete with Britannica, just leave them to collapse
> under the weight of their own ineptitude.
>
> We should probably run a large public "Save Britannica!" campaign -
> how to save
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> 2008/12/22 Milos Rancic :
>> If I understood well, the content of the online edition of Britannica
>> became free (as in "free beer", of course). They are putting some
>> irritating screen with recommendation to buy access to their edition
2008/12/22 Milos Rancic :
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Tim Starling wrote:
>> The following Firefox bookmarklet may be useful:
>> javascript:(function(){Darwin.Upsell.deactivate();})()
> Thanks! It works well :)
They called the function "upsell"? *facepalm* Wikipedia doesn't need
to do a
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Tim Starling wrote:
> The following Firefox bookmarklet may be useful:
>
> javascript:(function(){Darwin.Upsell.deactivate();})()
>
> Put it in a bookmark in your toolbar and click it to get rid of the
> annoying box. It doesn't come back until you go to another pa
teun spaans wrote:
> "but possibly illegal" you can omit the word "possibly". I dont see a copy
> left license at their site.
You can copy it for your personal use :°♫
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
> wrote:
>> 2008/12/22 Amir E. Aharoni :
>>> 2008/12/22 Milos Rancic :
>>> An
2008/12/22 teun spaans :
> "but possibly illegal" you can omit the word "possibly". I dont see a copy
> left license at their site.
It may be possible to copy from EB under fair use terms. On Wikipedia
i don't even need to think about that (except some images...).
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni
heb: ht
"but possibly illegal" you can omit the word "possibly". I dont see a copy
left license at their site.
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> 2008/12/22 Amir E. Aharoni :
> > 2008/12/22 Milos Rancic :
> > And Britannica has this totally weird feature - the article loads
> > its
2008/12/22 Amir E. Aharoni :
> 2008/12/22 Milos Rancic :
> And Britannica has this totally weird feature - the article loads
> itself as soon as the scrollbar progresses through it. So even if it
> is free as in beer, it is obnoxiously inconvenient to copy text from
> it, 'cuz Ctrl-A doesn't work a
2008/12/22 Milos Rancic :
> If I understood well, the content of the online edition of Britannica
> became free (as in "free beer", of course). They are putting some
> irritating screen with recommendation to buy access to their edition
> every 10 seconds (or so), but, in fact, it is possible to co
Milos Rancic wrote:
> If I understood well, the content of the online edition of Britannica
> became free (as in "free beer", of course). They are putting some
> irritating screen with recommendation to buy access to their edition
> every 10 seconds (or so), but, in fact, it is possible to copy-pas
If I understood well, the content of the online edition of Britannica
became free (as in "free beer", of course). They are putting some
irritating screen with recommendation to buy access to their edition
every 10 seconds (or so), but, in fact, it is possible to copy-paste
the content somewhere els
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