On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:13 AM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
Steve, news articles *in general* are primary sources.
Here is how you can tell: Is what I'm reading the first time someone has
published what I'm reading?
So and so was hit by a car today -- primary source, first time published.
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 gwe...@gmail.com wrote:
It would seem we need a maxim to cover cases where editors couldn't win
online, so they switched to offline attacks - 'complaints are an extension of
editing by other means'?
The problem with this argument is that it assumes that the blots aren't
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In a message dated 8/23/2009 4:53:57 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
brewh...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca writes:
The search for bees and flowers suggests pollination. I do not see
anything mindless about that.
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On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Bod Notbodbodnot...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd really hate to go to [[curry]] and see recipes. The sorts of
spices that are often included yes. But
Carcharoth wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:36 AM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
snip
You silly goose. Don't you realize that when we all have brain implants
that retain a quintabyte that the internet won't exist at all. We'll be in
constant streaming twitter mode all the time. There won't
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
This is an approximation of what David Gerard has arrived at with his own
method, Mister Johnson.]
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In a message dated 8/23/2009 6:07:11 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
brewh...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca, I wrote of a common spam complaint
that is either fraudulent or dangerous.
It's a bit rough to complain about Wikihow in this
I think [http://ecn.ab.ca/~brewhaha/img/Bowser.jpg that fractal] looks like
a dog. [http://ecn.ab.ca/~brewhaha/img/Tippy.jpg That one] looks like a cat.
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2009/8/24 Jay Litwyn brewh...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
This is an approximation of what David Gerard has arrived at with his own
method, Mister Johnson.]
Not me, the guy who did the website :-) It did occur to me to wonder
if he'd just reinvented
2009/8/24 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:36 AM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
snip
You silly goose. Don't you realize that when we all have brain implants
that retain a quintabyte that the internet won't exist at all. We'll be in
constant streaming twitter
2009/8/24 geni geni...@gmail.com:
In practice the end point of Natural language processing and large
scale digitalisation is likely to be made to request computer
generated custom articles. Wikipedia with it's surprisingly structured
entries is likely to be used as a significant stepping
2009/8/24 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
Yes. Rather a lot of conversations I have with random geeks are along
these lines.
Basically, infoboxes = machine-readable data = good. So the way to go
there would be to make template plumbing give data more amenable to
chewing on. (Standardised
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:54 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/8/24 geni geni...@gmail.com:
In practice the end point of Natural language processing and large
scale digitalisation is likely to be made to request computer
generated custom articles. Wikipedia with it's surprisingly
In a message dated 8/24/2009 10:47:15 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
geni...@gmail.com writes:
Wikipedia with it's surprisingly structured
entries is likely to be used as a significant stepping stone in this
direction.
What is the name of every celebrity born in
2009/8/24 wjhon...@aol.com:
In a message dated 8/24/2009 10:47:15 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
geni...@gmail.com writes:
Wikipedia with it's surprisingly structured
entries is likely to be used as a significant stepping stone in this
direction.
What is the name
In a message dated 8/24/2009 12:23:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
geni...@gmail.com writes:
Birth dates and locations tend to be fairly structured within articles
so are fairly easy to get. Dealing with a term as vauge as celebrity
make the task impossible even with human intervention.
2009/8/24 wjhon...@aol.com:
What about movie stars ? That's not quite as vague. Can we do that today
without human intervention? People who have been in a film? Or is that too
vague
It can be done with say actors and actresses. Fun area since
apparently it has number of closely related
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:40:23 +0100, wikien-l-Tony Sidaway wrote:
Be bold and remove crap,
Tell that to all the people on this list who insist on quoting back
half a dozen copies of the list footer, untrimmed.
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2009/8/25 Daniel R. Tobias d...@tobias.name:
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:40:23 +0100, wikien-l-Tony Sidaway wrote:
Be bold and remove crap,
Tell that to all the people on this list who insist on quoting back
half a dozen copies of the list footer, untrimmed.
While we are on the subject of
A success Wikipedia has thus far been, though issues there are still.
Observations, on these issues I will make.
1) Wikipedia is a collaborative website that tries to be an encyclopedia.
Wikipedia's got a funny name: It was named by the founders after the
technology it was based on, rather than
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