On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Robert Rohderaro...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Thomas Daltonthomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
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I don't know as much about UK copyright
law as perhaps I should, given my choice of hobby and my location, but
I would be surprised if there
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Thomas Daltonthomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/11 Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com:
This is where in the US, Bridgeman v Corel established that a
slavish reproduction of a PD work does not constitute a new work
that can be protected by copyright.
We
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Sue Gardner susanpgard...@gmail.com wrote:
People who want to help do some of this work should engage on the strategy
wiki: there's a task force focused on community health that will be looking
at these issues. I can't post the URL (I'm on my Blackberry and
FYI, related this audio interview is up now:
Wikipedia Weekly podcast interviews researchers Felipe Ortega and Ed
Chi about recent WSJ article re: volunteer departures
http://bit.ly/5aG6si
-Andrew
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Hi all, reading this thread with much interest. Lots of ideas on this,
in bullet points:
- As a journalism professor, I've followed (and debated) Wikinews
since its very start. I say this not to claim authority, but simply to
say it has been something I've pondered continually for six years now.
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
In other words, to have successful Wikinews, you have to have editor
pool which have Wikipedia itself and to be more structured. The only
other option is to hire someone to do that job.
Wikinewsie Brian McNeil's signature
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:02, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote:
of Wikipedia principles. Wikis depend on eventualism: given an
infinite timeline, pages eventually get better. News cannot survive on
that. The decay
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:34, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote:
And, in Wikipedia's crowdsourced way, potentially a re-oriented,
mobilized Wikinews could produce in one week what National Geographic
normally produces
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
And, as Andrew Lih mentioned, Wikipedia *had* payed editor at the
beginning.
Did I say this? I don't remember saying so.
In my book I described Nupedia, and how that system of having a paid head
didn't work out (namely
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote:
In my book I described Nupedia, and how that system of having a paid head
didn't work out (namely, Larry Sanger as editor in chief).
In fact, if you look at the process-heavy system that Wikinews has created
over
Mike Godwin wrote:
I read the article in the Chronicle pretty carefully. The author's
experience struck me as an example of a pattern that may account for
the flattening of the growth curve in new editors as well as for some
other phenomena. As you may remember, Andrew Lih conducted
An update: Steven Walling will be with me on NPR's Talk of the Nation,
today at 3pm US Eastern time talking about this issue.
In preparation for the show, I looked up Messer-Kruse's book on Amazon, and
I am pasting in the first two sentences of the blurb (bold emphasis mine).
In this
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Steven Walling
steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote:
But I do share Mike Godwin's concerns on what this means for attracting
editors and for Wikipedia's public image.
This is where I
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
It looks like it's just a promotion for Wikinews. It doesn't refer to or
link anywhere else. It's not totally accurate, from what I understand of
Wikinews, but I'm not sure how it's a threat?
In the video, the motto and the
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:
On 27 February 2012 20:18, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
It looks like it's just a promotion for Wikinews. It doesn't refer to or
link anywhere else. It's not totally accurate, from what I understand of
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Kevin Gorman kgor...@gmail.com wrote:
His most recent comment on the video: Just found out about WikiNews.org 5
minutes ago. Whoops.
so.. looks like he did this as a mockup and literally didn't know that it
was already a thing.
Yes, I contacted him and he
That's great stuff, thanks for letting the list know about it. Wikipedia
may have squashed Encarta and put Britannica on its heels, but those
encyclopedias had the edge with multimedia and professional infographics.
This is a wonderful step forward and I hope we'll see more.
-Andrew
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