Michael Peel wrote:
It's always good to have several standard alternatives for
distributing information, and it will be interesting to see what
happens with this one. They could have chosen a better name, though -
vixra sounds like something you'd see in a spam email...
The capital
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm
http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/07/new-statistics-for-the-english-wikipedia/
http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/07/new-statistics-for-the-english-wikipedia-2/
This means that we don't have to keep telling people numbers from Oct 2006 ...
- d.
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 9:53 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm
http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/07/new-statistics-for-the-english-wikipedia/
http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/07/new-statistics-for-the-english-wikipedia-2/
This means that
2009/7/18 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com:
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 9:53 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm
Cool! I'm too lazy to look. Anything there worth discussing?
Look at that URL at least. You'll see the data for our
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:23 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/18 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com:
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 9:53 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm
Cool! I'm too lazy to look. Anything there worth
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8156268.stm
Oh dear, they got his name wrong.
David Coetzee (it is Derrick, not David)
From here:
http://idealink.vijtable.com/2009/07/17/associated-press-its-okay-if-we-do-it/
Or a suggested donation to WMF, perhaps.
- d.
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2009/7/18 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com:
Could someone link to Erik Moeller's blog post and to any of the press
releases from the WMF?
There's been no press releases from WMF as such - Mike Godwin is,
funnily enough, treating this as a legal issue, i.e. a combination of
chess and
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote:
Summary:
-- User is sent to Arbcom for date delinking. The Arbcom remedy, however,
prohibits him from making _any style change_ that is not specified by a
style guideline.
Point of information: the restriction is not
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:43 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/18 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com:
Could someone link to Erik Moeller's blog post and to any of the press
releases from the WMF?
There's been no press releases from WMF as such - Mike Godwin is,
funnily
Carcharoth wrote:
Most of that is the sale of contemporary copyrighted photographs (by
living photographers earning money from their trade). But some of that
will be the commercial sale of scans of PD stuff that gets free
culture people up in arms. The root of this issue is the commercial
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Jussi-Ville
Heiskanencimonav...@gmail.com wrote:
Carcharoth wrote:
Most of that is the sale of contemporary copyrighted photographs (by
living photographers earning money from their trade). But some of that
will be the commercial sale of scans of PD stuff that
2009/7/18 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com:
What is most striking to my mind in this issue of
use of images, is how the status quo differs from
that with regard to _texts_.
Yes. One has to keep in mind, of course, that the NPG is qualitatively
different to most museums, and behaves
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Jussi-Ville
Heiskanencimonav...@gmail.com wrote:
Carcharoth wrote:
One more point:
The British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies has backed
the National Portrait Gallery's stance.
We don't have an article on BAPLA, but we do have five references
2009/7/18 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com:
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Jussi-Ville
Heiskanencimonav...@gmail.com wrote:
Any chance of Wikimedia UK (the chapter) applying
for a membership of BAPLA? Or would they be considered
insufficiently commercial?
Commons would be the
2009/7/18 Luna lunasan...@gmail.com:
Obviously I can't speak to specifics, but especially when talking with
people outside the usual Wikipedia sphere, it's all too easy to get vague
about terms. Take deletion as an example: if something's deleted, was the
text deleted from the current
2009/7/18 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
2009/7/18 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com:
What is most striking to my mind in this issue of
use of images, is how the status quo differs from
that with regard to _texts_.
Yes. One has to keep in mind, of course, that the NPG is
2009/7/18 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com:
What is most striking to my mind in this issue of
use of images, is how the status quo differs from
that with regard to _texts_.
I suspect it's simply that with images - where the physical single
master copy is quantitatively different for
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:47 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/18 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com:
snip
You may want to look through the
BAPLA list and see if any charities or non-profit organisations are
there - there might well be, as I've never looked through the
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
snip
Picture Archive Council of America:
http://www.pacaoffice.org/
PACA, the Picture Archive Council of America, is the trade
organization in North America that represents the vital interests of
stock archives
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
Cool! I'm too lazy to look. Anything there worth discussing?
To me, the data is really encouraging. Take a look at the charts for
New Wikipedians vs. Active Wikipedians. We knew before that both of
those peaked in
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Sage Rossragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com wrote:
To me, the data is really encouraging. Take a look at the charts for
New Wikipedians vs. Active Wikipedians. We knew before that both of
those peaked in early 2007. But now it seems that the decline has
more or
A daguerreotype of a well adjusted [[Phineas Gage]] holding the rod that
impaled his frontal lobes was recently discovered. It will be published in
The Journal of the History of the Neurosciences imminently. It was, in my
opinion, correctly uploaded to Commons under the Public Domain. It is, after
Sage Ross wrote:
To me, the data is really encouraging. Take a look at the charts for
New Wikipedians vs. Active Wikipedians. We knew before that both of
those peaked in early 2007. But now it seems that the decline has
more or less stabilized, and the decline in active Wikipedians was
Having these up to date statistics available is fantastic news. Is there
anything we should learn from the 2.5 year interlude?
- David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
From: David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Saturday, 18 July, 2009
Daguerrotypes are quite interesting in terms of preservation and copying.
From our article on them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype
[That's one of the better 'start' articles I've seen, for those
discussing article assessment accuracies.]
The daguerreotype is a negative image, but
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