local
project and explain to them that being able to checkuser
potential
sockpuppets or hard-block users is not needed: gaining consensus
there
would be a good starting point to changing this.
On 29 March 2015 at 11:57, James Farrar james.far...@gmail.com
wrote
Wikipedia is suing the NSA? Seriously?
On 28 Mar 2015 11:23, Brian J Mingus brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote:
It has worked up to now, but I'm thinking that, especially given Wikimedia
is suing the NSA, it is no longer justifiable. If the NSA can't track
citizens, Wikimedia shouldn't be
I noticed that. Dear god, is it ugly.
On 4 Apr 2014 16:07, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
Has the font used to display the title of Wikipedia pages changed? I
noticed things looked different today and have just worked out what
the change is. Is there a discussion about this
That doesn't necessarily follow. Surely female American novelists should
appear in both categories.
On 25 Apr 2013 23:14, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net
wrote:
What subcategories would American men novelists go into? of
That rather depends on who the subject is.
On Oct 7, 2012 2:44 PM, Marc Riddell michaeldavi...@comcast.net wrote:
I came across this today in the English Wikipedia:
In 2011, it has been reported that [the subject] has been caught cheating
on his wife with a 30 year old intern turned reporter.
Courtesy and taking complaints seriously (initially, at least) should be
standard practice, not VIP treatment.
On Sep 12, 2012 7:17 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
If something gets
Actress is certainly not obsolescent in common usage, and I would suggest it
is not the role of Wikipedia to redefine the English language.
At least until the Academy changes the name of its award for performance by an
actress in a leading role...
On 18 Jul 2012, at 12:13, Charles Matthews
Lukas Rosol's Wikipedia page has been updated. What a lad.
pic.twitter.com/Hufq9avk
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It's also not the first post in this thread it could have been said about...
On May 17, 2012 5:38 PM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com
wrote:
On 17 May 2012 17:32, Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com wrote:
That conclusion would be far more convincing if you weren't who you are.
On 10 December 2011 11:38, James Farrar james.far...@gmail.com wrote:
Here's the thing.
Banner adverts are bad.
Sometimes they're necessary (the fundraiser being the most obvious
example, but other get involved with Wikipedia/WMF/chapters stuff
qualifies) - but when they're
On 4 June 2011 04:47, Rob gamali...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote:
Part of it is a matter of degree. The article on the John Kerry controversy
isn't the #2 search for Kerry on the Internet.
And whenever people mention this, they
In your completely neutral opinion, of course.
On 30 April 2011 19:58, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote:
Well I can tell you for a fact that the articles about kosovo are not
neutral at all,
mike
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 5:20 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
In a
NPOV but in fact in kosovo there is
a total bent, just compare the de.en,sq and sr wikis via translation,
each of them has its own POV and subscribes to some side.
if you are really interested in this I can tell you more.
mike
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:08 PM, James Farrar james.far
10:20, 29 April 2011 Jimbo Wales (talk | contribs) m (37,376 bytes)
(moved Kate Middleton to Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge over
redirect: Marriage to the Duke of Cambridge) (undo)
He must have had his finger on the button waiting for Beardie[*] to
pronounce them man and wife...
[*] I can call
Some people won't be satisfied until Wikipedia has no BLPs.
2010/1/21 K. Peachey p858sn...@yahoo.com.au
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:48 AM, Cool Hand Luke
failure.to.communic...@gmail.com wrote:
Remember also that The burden of proof is on those who wish to retain
the
article to demonstrate
2009/7/25 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
My point is that despite media publicity about deletionists and
people on the fringes of Wikipedia getting annoyed at not being
considered article-worthy ... we still include a wider range of stuff
than (I think) any general encyclopedia ever before
David Gerard wrote:
and never think they're spamming feckwits who should be nuked from
orbit in short order.
http://www.wolf-howl.com/grayhat-seo/invalidate-wikipedia-articles/
(I'm sure JEHochman would love a large anvil to fall on people like
this ;-)
I like the way they say
[[Iain Dale]]'s Diary, generally considered one of the most
influential UK political blogs[1], has picked up on the story of the
resignation of a member of enwiki's ArbCom:
http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2009/05/look-whos-been-naughty-boy.html
[1] http://www.wikio.co.uk/blogs/top/politics
From: James Farrar james.far...@gmail.com
To: Bill Carter billdeancar...@yahoo.com
Sent: Monday, May 4, 2009 4:31:32 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Notability in Wikipedia
Do you have a birthday soon? I'll buy you an irony meter - you appear
to need one.
2009/5/3 Bill
2009/4/28 Bill Carter billdeancar...@yahoo.com:
Notability in Wikipedia is a joke, as is NPOV. Need I remind you about the
article about Alan Cabal that is waiting to reach mainspace?
Oh, there is? I don't think you've told us about it.
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2009/4/30 Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com:
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:06 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
Gwern is criticizing the article. The Wiki-En operates under US
copyright law. In the US you may quote an entire copyrighted work if
your purpose is to criticize/critique it.
Unfortunately,
Well, in relative terms, anyway:
http://www.conservatives.com/News/Speeches/2009/04/The_age_of_austerity_speech_to_the_2009_Spring_Forum.aspx
http://tinyurl.com/dxdujw
Our government spends nearly £400 million a year on advertising to
reach sixty million people while Wikipedia, one of the
understood their statement as the opposite: they have expressly said that
policies should distinguish between BLP articles and non-BLP articles.
- Original Message -
From: James Farrar james.far...@gmail.com
From: Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
2009/4/21 doc doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com:
David Gerard wrote:
-- Forwarded message --
From: Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees urges the global Wikimedia
community to uphold and strengthen our commitment to high-quality,
accurate
2009/4/16 Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net:
In fact, this is almost the same as the BLP and privacy abuses. Sanger is a
particular named individual that Wikipedia is making claims about. He says
the claims are wrong. It's up to us to get them right, whether it improves
the encyclopedia or
2009/4/16 Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net:
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, James Farrar wrote:
(b) Sanger didn't post to the list to
improve Wikipedia; he posted here to bitch about Wikipedia and Jimbo
Wales, not necessarily in that order.
The same can be said of an ordinary BLP question. Most people
2009/4/16 Durova nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com:
3. Is debate about Sanger's and Wales's respective cofounder/founder claims
regarding Wikipedia a worthwhile endeavor?
Not here. It doesn't help us develop and improve the English Wikipedia.
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It seems to be Green Ink Day on the list.
*sigh*
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2009/4/9 purple.clou...@gmail.com
Could you please explain?
On Apr 9, 2009 9:40am, James Farrar james.far...@gmail.com wrote:
It seems to be Green Ink Day on the list.
*sigh*
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Snap! :)
2009/4/9 Jim Redmond j...@scrubnugget.com
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:43, purple.clou...@gmail.com wrote:
Could you please explain?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_ink
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Oddly enough the Wikipedia article makes even less sense than the original
declaration.
bibliomaniac15
--- On Thu, 4/9/09, James Farrar james.far...@gmail.com wrote:
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Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Green Ink Day
2009/4/9 Larry Sanger sanger-li...@citizendium.org
Fred Bauder replied:
A problem you are trying to stir up.
A problem I am exacerbating--quite right. Do you have a problem with that?
Yes. You can't complain that something is a problem when you are the
one who is causing it.
Basically,
That would be a matter for Foundation-l then, not wikien-l.
2009/4/9 Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu:
Honestly, it's important enough that the Foundation should take an objective
look at the facts and make a statement about Wikipedia's history.
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Larry Sanger
2009/4/1 Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvards...@gmail.com:
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote:
Generally, I'm not a fan of this sort of joke. They give the impression of
we get to break the rules when we want to, as long as it's funny.
Meanwhile, everyone else
http://dizzythinks.net/2009/03/government-cut-and-pastes-wikipedia-in.html
You can read the full story on IPtegrity.com but the long and short
of it is that the Government has made proposals to the EU to stamp on
users rights to access content and services on the Internet, and it's
done it by
2009/1/19 Nathan nawr...@gmail.com:
Instance number 192,453,345,252 that someone complains about something that
makes no sense and turns out to be completely wrong. Next!
No-one said that.
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2009/1/18 Wilhelm Schnotz wilh...@nixeagle.org:
On 1/18/09, James Farrar james.far...@gmail.com wrote:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Images_of_Spider-Man_sculpture
Congrats a deletion discussion (that is not even over yet) is not
going the way you want it to. I
2009/1/18 Wilhelm Schnotz wilh...@nixeagle.org:
On 1/18/09, James Farrar james.far...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/1/18 Wilhelm Schnotz wilh...@nixeagle.org:
On 1/18/09, James Farrar james.far...@gmail.com wrote:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Images_of_Spider
2009/1/18 Alvaro García alva...@gmail.com:
On 18-01-2009, at 14:18, James Farrar james.far...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/1/18 Wilhelm Schnotz wilh...@nixeagle.org:
On 1/18/09, James Farrar james.far...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/1/18 Wilhelm Schnotz wilh...@nixeagle.org:
On 1/18/09, James Farrar
2009/1/19 Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net:
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, The Cunctator wrote:
I think James's point is that wikilawyers have lost all perspective.
In this case, the image actually may be unusable even under fair use. It's
the *real* law which has lost all perspective. We have no
From the letters page in the current edition (Eye 1227, p. 14):
Sir,
Re Nooks and Corners, Eye 1226. It was a treat to see my rather
amateurish photography appear (via Wikipedia) on page 12 of Eye 1226,
depicting in all its glory West Bromwich's less-than-lovely The
Public.
As an Eye reader of
2008/12/8 Sam Blacketer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Covered in the Guardian's Technology blog in a very sympathetic way:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/dec/08/internet
The Scorpions album was released in 1976, so it's amazing to think that
civilisation has managed to survive for more
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