Re: [WikiEN-l] WIKIPEDIA FOREVER

2009-11-15 Thread Keegan Paul
A DIAMOND IS FOREVER. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] WIKIPEDIA FOREVER

2009-11-15 Thread Evangeline Han
Can the Foundation give an explanation as to why they went on with putting up that banner despite strong opposition from many people? That banner is totally horrible and I really wonder if it even was a Wikipedia editor who proposed it with all those capital letters. On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:38

Re: [WikiEN-l] WIKIPEDIA FOREVER

2009-11-15 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Evangeline Han evanbe...@gmail.com wrote: Can the Foundation give an explanation as to why they went on with putting up that banner despite strong opposition from many people? Because their advice was that it would work. It probably is working. Steve

Re: [WikiEN-l] WIKIPEDIA FOREVER

2009-11-15 Thread stevertigo
Keegan Paul kgnp...@gmail.com wrote: A DIAMOND IS FOREVER. That's not exactly true. Sol will consume Terra in only about 3.8 billion years, which, as anyone knows, forever. And if whoever the previous owner of the Koh-I-Noor is in fact still alive in some alternate afterlife reality, I'm sure

Re: [WikiEN-l] Chinese start caring about copyright

2009-11-15 Thread Carcharoth
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: What's the context here for Wikipedia? IMHO, the google books settlement, and all its twists and turns, has big implications for us,

Re: [WikiEN-l] WIKIPEDIA FOREVER

2009-11-15 Thread Carcharoth
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 4:20 PM, stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote: Keegan Paul kgnp...@gmail.com wrote: A DIAMOND IS FOREVER. That's not exactly true. Sol will consume Terra in only about 3.8 billion years, which, as anyone knows, forever. And if whoever the previous owner of the

Re: [WikiEN-l] WIKIPEDIA FOREVER

2009-11-15 Thread stevertigo
Keegan Paul kgnp...@gmail.com wrote: A DIAMOND IS FOREVER. stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote: That's not exactly true. Sol will consume Terra in only about 3.8 billion years, which, as anyone knows, forever. And if whoever the previous owner of the Koh-I-Noor is in fact still alive in some

Re: [WikiEN-l] WIKIPEDIA FOREVER

2009-11-15 Thread stevertigo
Evangeline Han evanbe...@gmail.com wrote: Can the Foundation give an explanation as to why they went on with putting up that banner despite strong opposition from many people? Giving out explanations would defeat the purpose of having a command entity in the first place. A command is exactly

Re: [WikiEN-l] WIKIPEDIA FOREVER

2009-11-15 Thread Carcharoth
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:52 PM, stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote: Keegan Paul kgnp...@gmail.com wrote: A DIAMOND IS FOREVER. stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote: That's not exactly true. Sol will consume Terra in only about 3.8 billion years, which, as anyone knows, forever. And if whoever

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia fundraising slogans from identi.ca and Twitter

2009-11-15 Thread William Pietri
David Gerard wrote: 2009/11/15 William Pietri will...@scissor.com: [...] I'm just saying that we don't have to speculate; we can run all the ones that don't seem blatantly counterproductive, and find out how well they do. Even better, we can automatically optimize which we show and how.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Chinese start caring about copyright

2009-11-15 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: What's the context here for Wikipedia? IMHO, the google

Re: [WikiEN-l] WIKIPEDIA FOREVER

2009-11-15 Thread Emily Monroe
I don't understand how this even relates to banner slogans, people! Emily On Nov 15, 2009, at 12:52 PM, stevertigo wrote: Keegan Paul kgnp...@gmail.com wrote: A DIAMOND IS FOREVER. stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote: That's not exactly true. Sol will consume Terra in only about 3.8 billion

Re: [WikiEN-l] WIKIPEDIA FOREVER

2009-11-15 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:55 PM, William Pietri will...@scissor.com wrote: I'm personally not a big fan of the ads either, but if they were substantially more effective, then I'd have to think about whether this is one of those many occasions where my personal tastes diverge from what makes a

Re: [WikiEN-l] WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 76, Issue 22

2009-11-15 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Daniel R. Tobias d...@tobias.name wrote: But from what I can see of their budgets, not all that much of their funds are going to that.  The rest is going for stuff like maintaining an office in a much more expensive city than the cheap one they used to have in

Re: [WikiEN-l] WIKIPEDIA FOREVER

2009-11-15 Thread Keegan Paul
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Emily Monroe bluecalioc...@me.com wrote: I don't understand how this even relates to banner slogans, people! Emily It relates because using anything claiming it to be forever is stupid. Short of theological concepts and some metaphysical debate on the

[WikiEN-l] Google blurb generation + Wikipedia = POVpedia

2009-11-15 Thread Gregory Maxwell
I've noticed lately that the blurbs Google is generating for Wikipedia articles not only no longer reflect the article intros (for a long time they were putting out whatever tripe DMOZ had about the article) but are now selectively quoting the most opinionated piece of POV-tripe phrasing that