David Gerard wrote:
2008/12/22 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com:
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
The following Firefox bookmarklet may be useful:
javascript:(function(){Darwin.Upsell.deactivate();})()
Thanks! It works
2008/12/23 Mathias Schindler mathias.schind...@gmail.com:
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:06 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com 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
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:21 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com 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:
2008/12/22 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@gmail.com:
2008/12/22 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com:
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
2008/12/22 teun spaans teun.spa...@gmail.com:
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
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
amir.ahar...@gmail.comwrote:
2008/12/22 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@gmail.com:
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org 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
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@gmail.com wrote:
2008/12/22 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com:
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
2008/12/22 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
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
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 dger...@gmail.com wrote:
2008/12/22 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com:
On Mon,
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:17 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
2008/12/22 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com:
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
The following Firefox bookmarklet may be useful:
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 dgoodma...@gmail.com wrote:
Upsell is the name of the leading market research
2008/12/22 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com:
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
2008/12/22 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
2008/12/22 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com:
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
2008/12/22 Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com:
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
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:38 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com 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
2008/12/22 Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com:
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:38 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com 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
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org 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
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
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 source
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 Britannica
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 else
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-paste
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