[WikiEN-l] Contextual text in Wikipedia

2009-10-27 Thread Keith Old
G'day folks, Google has announced that it has developed a custom search skin for Wikipedia. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/contextual-search-within-wikipedia.html We are excited to announce that we've built a Custom Search Wikipedia skinhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Csewiki that

Re: [WikiEN-l] Contextual text in Wikipedia

2009-10-27 Thread Ryan Delaney
Great! Daniel Brandt will love it :D - causa sui On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Keith Old keith...@gmail.com wrote: G'day folks, Google has announced that it has developed a custom search skin for Wikipedia. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/contextual-search-within-wikipedia.html

Re: [WikiEN-l] Contextual text in Wikipedia

2009-10-27 Thread Nathan
I predict role account drama... ___ 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] Contextual text in Wikipedia

2009-10-27 Thread David Goodman
From that blog, I see that the project caries the signatures of both Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product Manager, Search at Google, and Mathias Schindler, WMF . I am a little puzzled a tthe way it is implemented, from an apparent role account user page. Is Mathias doing this as a personal project,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Contextual text in Wikipedia

2009-10-27 Thread Erik Moeller
2009/10/27 David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com: I am a little puzzled a tthe way it is implemented, from an apparent role account user page.  Is Mathias doing this as a personal project, or an official WMF project? Mathias has been working with Google on this as a community volunteer; the

Re: [WikiEN-l] Can sweet reason still work on en:wp? Occasionally.

2009-10-27 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Ryan Delaney ryan.dela...@gmail.com wrote: to the end. Rather than saying I am invoking IAR and I did this because X, just say I did this because X. Disagree. The response to I did this because X is, But there's rule Y, which you should have followed. Explicitly

Re: [WikiEN-l] How friendly are we to Newbies? Update on the create an article as a newbie challenge

2009-10-27 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:55 AM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: I want to personally look at the articles and responses in more depth before I comment more, but this has been exceptionally valuable research. Yes, can you please post the usernames and the articles that were