On 15 February 2013 20:37, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
COMPREHENSIBLE TEMPLATES!!!
I know, right!
I predict that we are about to see a revolution occur.
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Hi all,
A speculative question: what's the most novel, thought-provoking, or
otherwise interesting piece of research you've seen, either
a) using information from Wikipedia (ie extracted text), or
b) looking at Wikipedia itself as a subject?
I'm giving a talk next month which will cover
Awhile back I found an interesting lecture by Luca de Alfaro on YouTube
called How (Much) To Trust Wikipedia. It deals with methods of figuring
out whether to trust information within an article.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6mB4soRlR8
Another interesting work is How Wikipedia Works-- a
Hi all,
Do content policies still get discussed on this list? I'm a bit out of touch.
Anyway, I seem to keep running afoul of the image use policy.
Several galleries that I've added to articles have been removed. (And
see this response to my second attempt to gallerise one article:
Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, and should illustrate its articles with
as many or as few images as appropriate. seems right.
Fred
Hi all,
Do content policies still get discussed on this list? I'm a bit out of
touch.
Anyway, I seem to keep running afoul of the image use policy.
Several
On 2/18/13, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
Thoughts? Comments? Am I on the fringe? Are guidelines like this still
subject to debate and change?
It's a tricky one. I favour more image use, not less, but then I work
with images a lot (outside Wikipedia), so I'm kind of biased there. I
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Carcharoth
carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
It's a tricky one. I favour more image use, not less, but then I work
with images a lot (outside Wikipedia), so I'm kind of biased there. I
Yeah, I wonder if there is equally a pro-text/anti-image bias amongst
some
lots of pretty pictures of similar things
No
Fred
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Carcharoth
carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
It's a tricky one. I favour more image use, not less, but then I work
with images a lot (outside Wikipedia), so I'm kind of biased there. I
Yeah, I wonder if
On 18 February 2013 23:24, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
So, here's my thinking in response to the above:
1) Wikipedia is not for images, Commons is for images is just bad
logic. Commons is a dumping ground for *all* images. Wikipedia is an
encyclopaedia, and should illustrate its
