2008/12/21 wjhon...@aol.com:
As Todd mentions, some of us already subscribe to various online services.
*IF* the WMF could negotiate a group rate, that could be a win-win situation.
I would also come down on the side of established editors versus
Admins. We are trying to ease the
In a message dated 12/21/2008 1:39:37 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
geni...@gmail.com writes:
Your problem would be getting a big enough group to make it
worthwhile. Fairly few wikipedians are going to be interested in any
given journal and searching them effectively is quite a trick.
I
The idea is a good one, the idea of accessing material online came out of
something I suggested (and I seriously doubt I'm alone in doing) in
suggesting we find volunteers who could be trusted to verify the content of
books being used as references in the case of more contentious and
potentially
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/caitlin_moran/article5371572.ece
I think she's saying that, given a wiki page to edit, everyone turns
into an incredibly tedious nerd. (I know I do.)
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2008/12/21 Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) newyorkb...@gmail.com:
I'm an incredibly tedious nerd in real life, so that saves time.
Me talking to Press Association last year:
Me: We're basically a bunch of nerds who think writing an
encyclopedia is *really cool fun*.
Journalist: Nerds? You call
2008/12/22 WODUP wikiwo...@gmail.com:
The article says The most notable instance of this was on the night Barack
Obama won the American election. I found that his entire, detailed entry
disappeared for nearly an hour - to be replaced with the one-line entry,
Barack Obama is the new SOCIALIST
The article says The most notable instance of this was on the night Barack
Obama won the American election. I found that his entire, detailed entry
disappeared for nearly an hour - to be replaced with the one-line entry,
Barack Obama is the new SOCIALIST President of the United States of
America.,
Yeah but judging by the article she probably isn't computer savvy
enough to realize you have to refresh a page to see if it has changed.
BozMo
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:10 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
2008/12/22 WODUP wikiwo...@gmail.com:
The article says The most notable
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 5:10 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
2008/12/22 WODUP wikiwo...@gmail.com:
The article says The most notable instance of this was on the night
Barack
Obama won the American election. I found that his entire, detailed entry
disappeared for nearly an hour
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:06 PM, WODUP wikiwo...@gmail.com wrote:
The article says The most notable instance of this was on the night Barack
Obama won the American election. I found that his entire, detailed entry
disappeared for nearly an hour - to be replaced with the one-line entry,
Barack
2008/12/21 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/caitlin_moran/article5371572.ece
I think she's saying that, given a wiki page to edit, everyone turns
into an incredibly tedious nerd. (I know I do.)
From the article:
Wikipedia's founding belief
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps we should have a Wikipedia for reporters page which details
things like how to check how long some particular edit persisted.
Working on it. Give me a bit, I have an outline but no content. The
communications
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 6:18 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.comwrote:
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.comwrote:
Perhaps we should have a Wikipedia for reporters page which details
things like how to check how long some particular edit persisted.
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On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Thomas Larsen wrote:
Hi,
This is an interesting idea indeed. However, I'm not sure it would
fly, for two reasons:
1) I doubt many receivers (of journals, etc.) would be able to
understand them well enough.
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Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 8:06 PM, WODUP wikiwo...@gmail.com wrote:
The article says The most notable instance of this was on the night
Barack
Obama won the American election. I found that his entire, detailed entry
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
JSTOR also claims ownership over a great deal of indisputably public
domain works. I'd hate to think that a penny of my donations to the
WMF would be going to support such organizations.
If it were a big concern,
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Gregory Maxwell
gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
JSTOR also claims ownership over a great deal of indisputably
public domain works. I'd hate to think that a penny of my
donations to the WMF would be going to
Wait until he is at a press conference to throw your shoes at him.
-X!
On Dec 21, 2008, at 11:11 PM [Dec 21, 2008 ], Charlotte Webb wrote:
On 12/21/08, White Cat wikipedia.kawaii.n...@gmail.com wrote:
Or we could hire someone to throw him a shoe or perhaps a
pretzel ;) -
What, so he
I think here, the most good we could probably do is in getting access
to journals that your average public library won't offer. I do get
access to some research resources through the regular public libraries
here, and that's pretty standard. Maybe we should survey what those
offer, to get a better
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