On 11/26/08, Marc Riddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> on 11/26/08 3:29 PM, phoebe ayers at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I believe that he means many of us do not feel the same lack of
>> leadership and/or crisis that you apparently do, and would indeed
>> prefer if you stopped trying to "discuss" t
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Marc Riddell
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Marc Riddell wrote:
on 11/17/08 12:32 PM, Charles Matthews at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>>
> You must forgive David. The many years he has now spent in the UK have
> undercut his natur
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Marc Riddell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Marc Riddell wrote:
>>> on 11/17/08 12:32 PM, Charles Matthews at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> wrote:
>>>
>
You must forgive David. The many years he has now spent in the UK have
undercut his natural Aussie frankn
> Anyone have any ideas how to set up a system like that cleanly and get
> it working on Wikipedia? The relatively poor spread of Persondata
> suggests that it is harder than it looks to get something like this
> going.
Pay MoS to make it standard, then it will be bots ahoy! and doing it
automatic
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 5:06 AM, Marc Riddell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are you speaking for David now, Charles? The picture becomes clearer with
> every post.
Please stop being a dickhead.
Steve
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Carcharoth wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Marc Riddell
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> This is one of five different ways the Birth & Death dates are now being
>> represented in the Project.
>
> There is a similar profusion of different methods of dealing with
> biographical metadata...
> Marc Riddell wrote:
>> on 11/17/08 12:32 PM, Charles Matthews at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> wrote:
>>
>>> You must forgive David. The many years he has now spent in the UK have
>>> undercut his natural Aussie frankness. He is saying you've become a
>>> bore on the topic: start at date formats
Marc Riddell wrote:
> on 11/17/08 12:32 PM, Charles Matthews at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>>
>> You must forgive David. The many years he has now spent in the UK have
>> undercut his natural Aussie frankness. He is saying you've become a
>> bore on the topic: start at date formats a
> Marc Riddell wrote:
> 2008/11/16 Marc Riddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> David, are you content with the overall picture the (English) Wikipedia
>> is
>> presenting today? Do you believe it has enough stability, structure and
>> strong leadership to sustain it?
>>
>
Marc Riddell wrote:
2008/11/16 Marc Riddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> David, are you content with the overall picture the (English) Wikipedia is
> presenting today? Do you believe it has enough stability, structure and
> strong leadership to sustain it?
>
>>> 2008/11/16 Marc Riddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
David, are you content with the overall picture the (English) Wikipedia is
presenting today? Do you believe it has enough stability, structure and
strong leadership to sustain it?
>
>> on 11/16/08 10:59 AM, David Gerard at [EMAIL
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Charlotte Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On 11/16/08, Al Tally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Archives are indeed searchable (Google is your friend!) There is actually
> a
> > search function I believe which is in the list archives, but I always use
> > Google
2008/11/17 Marc Riddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> 2008/11/16 Marc Riddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>> David, are you content with the overall picture the (English) Wikipedia is
>>> presenting today? Do you believe it has enough stability, structure and
>>> strong leadership to sustain it?
> on 11/16/0
> 2008/11/16 Marc Riddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> David, are you content with the overall picture the (English) Wikipedia is
>> presenting today? Do you believe it has enough stability, structure and
>> strong leadership to sustain it?
on 11/16/08 10:59 AM, David Gerard at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wr
On 11/16/08, Al Tally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Archives are indeed searchable (Google is your friend!) There is actually a
> search function I believe which is in the list archives, but I always use
> Google to search things from mailing lists.
O rly?
http://lists.wikimedia.org/robots.txt
Ma
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Carcharoth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 3:59 PM, David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2008/11/16 Marc Riddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> >> David, are you content with the overall picture the (English) Wikipedia
> is
> >> presenting to
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 3:59 PM, David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/11/16 Marc Riddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> David, are you content with the overall picture the (English) Wikipedia is
>> presenting today? Do you believe it has enough stability, structure and
>> strong leadership to
2008/11/16 Marc Riddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> David, are you content with the overall picture the (English) Wikipedia is
> presenting today? Do you believe it has enough stability, structure and
> strong leadership to sustain it?
I believe I've answered before in threads on this list on this to
2008/11/15 Marc Riddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> And this:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Stiv%C3%ADn
>
> This is one of five different ways the Birth & Death dates are now being
> represented in the Project.
"now being represented"? It was added exactly like that in 2006!
We've
geni wrote:
> 2008/11/15 Marc Riddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
>> To put it plainly: The product this Project is putting
>> out has become incredibly sloppy, both in content and presentation.
>>
>
> Become? Quite the reverse in fact. Sure there are poor articles out
> there. Always have
On 11/15/08, Carcharoth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I suspect you mean /style/ issues (i.e. "born" versus "*" vesus "b."
> and so on), but I might be wrong.
I'm not a big fan of the asterisk either, but maybe I read a little
too much Vonnegut in middle school. But it does seem a little awkward
in
on 11/15/08 8:14 PM, David Gerard at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 2008/11/16 Marc Riddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> on 11/15/08 6:57 PM, David Gerard at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>> A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (Clay Shirky):
>>> http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
>>> Note that Wikipedia
2008/11/16 Marc Riddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> on 11/15/08 6:57 PM, David Gerard at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (Clay Shirky):
>> http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
>> Note that Wikipedia is given as an example of a group that had evaded
>> this. Oh well.
>
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Marc Riddell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is one of five different ways the Birth & Death dates are now being
> represented in the Project.
I suspect you mean /style/ issues (i.e. "born" versus "*" vesus "b."
and so on), but I might be wrong.
Can you lis
2008/11/15 Marc Riddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> And this:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Stiv%C3%ADn
>
> This is one of five different ways the Birth & Death dates are now being
> represented in the Project.
There are probably more. They will be sorted in time wikipedia tends
towar
on 11/15/08 6:57 PM, David Gerard at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 2008/11/15 Marc Riddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> Most often a project or organization does not fail due to some catastrophic
>> happening from without; these they are prepared for and can defend against.
>> What does prove to be its
2008/11/15 Marc Riddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Most often a project or organization does not fail due to some catastrophic
> happening from without; these they are prepared for and can defend against.
> What does prove to be its final undoing is a corrosion of its product &
> culture from within.
on 11/14/08 7:53 PM, Marc Riddell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Here's one way to avoid dealing with formatting the dates issue - don't
> include them:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster_Lewis
>
> With this gem, the reader must go to the references to find the Birth &
> Death d
Folks,
Here's one way to avoid dealing with formatting the dates issue - don't
include them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster_Lewis
With this gem, the reader must go to the references to find the Birth &
Death dates! :-(.
Marc Riddell
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