On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
2009/9/22 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com:
Some you would expect there to be enough material for this sort of
treatment. Others less so. I like the idea of doing this sort of thing
for very long biographcal
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote:
Now we can {{note|foo}}^W^W{{r|foo}} like it's 2005!
But seriously, I find this discouraging - a sign of dysfunctionality.
All the work put in to
Carcharoth wrote:
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk
wrote:
2009/9/22 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com:
Some you would expect there to be enough material for this sort of
treatment. Others less so. I like the idea of doing this sort of
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com wrote:
Actually this isn't a copyright discussion.
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=581
To ensure that publication of material from its
Gwern Branwen wrote:
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Gwern Branwen gwe...@gmail.com wrote:
Now we can {{note|foo}}^W^W{{r|foo}} like it's 2005!
But seriously, I find this discouraging - a sign of
Surreptitiousness wrote
I don't really know what you do with early life articles. I'm still
working out how you define early life.
Case-by-case, I should think. There is one on John Milton, going up to
1640 or so, which makes a lot of sense. Some lives are heavily segmented
(e.g. Winston
A modern book length biography of Johnson would certainly have
chapters for different stages in his life (though Boswell wrote his in
chronological order by year, but otherwise in a single continuous
sequence (with the result that in the usual modern edition, the 4 vol.
work needs a 2 vol.
Charles Matthews wrote:
Surreptitiousness wrote
I don't really know what you do with early life articles. I'm still
working out how you define early life.
Case-by-case, I should think.
Feel free to chip in at [[Wikipedia:Case-by-case]], seems to be needed.
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:22 PM, David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com wrote:
A modern book length biography of Johnson would certainly have
chapters for different stages in his life (though Boswell wrote his in
chronological order by year, but otherwise in a single continuous
sequence (with the
We could do even more: there
are book-length works based on specific periods in his life
(Kaminski's Early career of Samuel Johnson; Clifford's Dictionary
Johnson : Samuel Johnson's middle years.
I meant that it would be *possible* for us to do this without
violating WP:OR, not that we
Actually the Bundesarchiv did something along those lines with 100,000
images last December. They owned unambiguous copyright over the collection
so they relicensed medium resolution versions under CC-by-sa and uploaded
those to Commons while they retained full copyright over the high resolution
2009/9/23 Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com:
Because transclusions like that are dynamic, that sort of thing
severely messes up the page history - you can't see what the article
looked like at any one time, because the editing took place in the
subarticles, not on the main article, and
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
snip
Never underestimate the effects of recentism ;-)
Indeed.
Although, peering into my crystal ball, into the future, far as human
eye can see...
10,000 years in the future, and Barack Obama is a small paragraph
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:50 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
Never underestimate the effects of recentism ;-)
Indeed.
Although, peering into my crystal ball, into the future, far as human
eye can see...
10,000 years in the future, and Barack Obama is a small paragraph in
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
This is absolutely standard, at least in Australia. For example, see the
snip
Thanks for that informative reply, that was really helpful. I wish I'd
gone to GLAM-WIKI, I probably could have gotten work to pay for it
too...
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:30 AM, Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com wrote:
4. Persuade the staff to change policy.
This is the approach I've been working on, one institution at a time. A
group of volunteers have been pooling information and resources toward that
end. We've had some successes
Most of these institutions have a mission to inform the public. Openness
helps fulfill that mission. In the Bundesarchiv's case, donation of 100,000
images significantly increased their sales of images. That may seem
counterintuitive but if an organization is smart about it everyone
benefits.
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Carcharoth
carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
The Google translation is hilarious, but the gist comes through:
Hmm, Assume good intentions seems so much clearer than assume good faith.
Steve
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With all due respect to my friends in de.wp and speaking purely as a
community member, there are some valid points in the essay, but a page
title like Be cruel is IMO inherently unhelpful to our objective to
be a friendly and welcoming community.
Erik
Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
With all due respect to my friends in de.wp and speaking purely as a
community member, there are some valid points in the essay, but a page
title like Be cruel is IMO inherently unhelpful to our objective to
be a friendly and welcoming community.
So,
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Surreptitiousness
surreptitious.wikiped...@googlemail.com wrote:
[[Wikipedia:Footnote3]] explains it all. I can't work out the
difference, except maybe it took Dragons flight a lot of work to give us
what we already had?
Interesting. I'm not sure why we
Just having a quick look at where these templates are still used, and
I see some novel uses:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigard,_Oregon#Government
Here they're not being used for referencing, but to create specific
footnotes for a specific section.
Steve
User:Tznkai would like your opinion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Invitation_for_review
-Stevertigo
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