[WikiEN-l] Related places tool

2010-01-31 Thread Magnus Manske
Hi all, just toolspamming my latest... I read the announcement for Britain Loves Wikipedia, was sad to find no museum in or immediately around my place participates, and tried to look for the nearest one. Harder than it sounds, if you're not very familiar with British geography. So I wrote a

[WikiEN-l] Living Person Task Force is starting up

2010-01-31 Thread Keegan Paul
Hey, folks. The Living Person task force should get rolling mid-week, we're finalizing the core and last plans ( http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Living_Persons) We hope to hold weekly public meetings on IRC with the entire Wikimedia community, and we will be publishing the logs on

Re: [WikiEN-l] Living Person Task Force is starting up

2010-01-31 Thread Keegan Paul
Oh yeah, it's at #wikipedia-blptf On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Keegan Paul kgnp...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, folks. The Living Person task force should get rolling mid-week, we're finalizing the core and last plans ( http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Living_Persons) We hope to

Re: [WikiEN-l] Living Person Task Force is starting up

2010-01-31 Thread Keegan Paul
Third time is a charm http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Living_Persons On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Keegan Paul kgnp...@gmail.com wrote: Oh yeah, it's at #wikipedia-blptf On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Keegan Paul kgnp...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, folks. The Living Person

Re: [WikiEN-l] Living Person Task Force is starting up

2010-01-31 Thread Keegan Paul
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Keegan Paul kgnp...@gmail.com wrote: Third time is a charm http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Living_Persons Or not http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Living_People THERE. Copy and paste is not your friend. --

Re: [WikiEN-l] Living Person Task Force is starting up

2010-01-31 Thread David Goodman
I'm sorry but I will not participate, as I am unwilling to use a process like IRC. The discussion should be on-wiki,. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Keegan Paul kgnp...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:13 PM,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Living Person Task Force is starting up

2010-01-31 Thread Risker
DGG, IRC is but one of the communication means being utilized. Further, this is a cross-project, Foundation-led task group. Perhaps you might wish to review the summary of the preliminary work group, and read the transcripts as they become available over the coming weeks, and provide your opinion

Re: [WikiEN-l] Living Person Task Force is starting up

2010-01-31 Thread Nathan
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: DGG, IRC is but one of the communication means being utilized. Further, this is a cross-project, Foundation-led task group. Perhaps you might wish to review the summary of the preliminary work group, and read the transcripts

Re: [WikiEN-l] Related places tool

2010-01-31 Thread Carcharoth
Looks great! I believe there is something similar already in use for categories? You can click to get all co-ordinate marked articles in a category showing up on a map. Now I just need to find a category where that is in use... Here is an example: