if
there are important similarities, nobody wants to look like a hypocrite.
What does this have to do with anything?
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Dreams]] as the subject. This would mean that the resulting video would
need to be released under the free art license mind.
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Wikipedia that isn't an issue. The classic example being this source:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/04/the-remarkable-notability-of-old-man-murray/
In the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_Murray
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There really isn't much data to support that.
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would argue regardless of the wording used what is actually going on
there is an attempt at an informed democracy which is probably the best we
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Thoughts? Comments? Am I on the fringe? Are guidelines like this still
subject to debate and change?
You can try but you are unlikely to get very far.
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I have reverted the template to not have a link to the wikia, for now.
I would like some support for my project and protection to contact
users about the deleted articles.
thanks,
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Large scale unsolicited external linking? spam.
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meetup. Opinion ranges talking to PR people to
injecting formic acid into their eyeballs. So I'm going to stay we are
still at the lot of shouting stage.
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of what we need to be more innovative than (the reason I want a video
of every single animal is that they want a pic of every single
animal).
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with this standard is that it would preclude having an
article on the person currently running mali (admittedly the article
isn't up to much but I think it could be argued that we should at
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Missing the point.
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professional British library users and I expect the British library
would rather keep them onside.
In any case I guess we will have to go somewhere else to get a
complete set of London illustrated news scans.
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trying to exert a stranglehold, etc., etc...
Its more a sciences/humanity divide as far as I can tell.
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into an article?
Obviously Wikipedia is not a campaigning platform. In terms of making
yourself hard to trace a fresh account with edits from an internet
cafe paid in cash and the like would be harder for lawyers to trace.
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arbcom is known to leak.
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profile to get some decent submissions.
Heh also paying for the scanning of the old time computer game
magazines would be a viable approach.
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the editors - but even so announcement of the feature suddenly seemed to
appearon-wiki the day before :) (that may not be an accurate picture - but
for most that is how it appeared).
It could be effectively switched off by local admins if there were
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Senators BLP.
Google's search results are entirely their business.
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On 9 May 2011 08:19, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 9 May 2011 04:38, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
Given that it is still broken in the classic skin how about no.
I suspect that the remaining users of the classic skin do not
constitute an obvious and overwhelming veto.
I also
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of funding and proceed to hire whoever you need to write your
encyclopedia.
Admittedly given the foundation's spending plans of late it appears
the WMF is interested the same model.
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successfully hoodong
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for Wikipedia:
http://www.icorrect.com/search/node/Wikipedia
I'm just suggesting it as an editing tool.
Fred Bauder
It fails our reliable source requirement.
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It fails our reliable source requirement.-- geni
Wow. Geni that's truly the remark that encapsulates exactly what's wrong
with BLPs, and the irresponsible attitude of Wikipedia.
Since people can write anything
On 28 March 2011 12:32, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 28 March 2011 12:25, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
It fails our reliable source requirement.
Claims authentically by the subject are relevant to BLP issues.
Site say no fact checking remember. That means we don't actually know
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Geni,
It might help if you checked you own facts before making false claims:
I quote:
It is fundamental for ICorrect to confirm the true identity of each
Corrector. Therefore ICorrect requires a reliable reference
mistakes
corrected doesn't have far cheaper options.
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prosecution service:
The charges refer to events between 2004 and 2009 and the alleged
deceptions include representations that he was a qualified Italian
lawyer.
http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/press_statements/cps_statement_on_giovanni_di_stefano/
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Geni, you are now being obtuse.
Sometimes we publish false crap on people, sometimes we do it all on our
own, and sometimes it's because we're following a source that is publishing
falsehood.
When a victim tries
know the answers to these questions, but am not sure, so
want to see what others think.
Copyright exists as soon as something is published in a fixed form.
Which includes any given wikipedia edit. Subsequent edits have no
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On 15 February 2011 11:22, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:33 AM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
We can establish a lower
bound since the Thomson-Gale's Biography Resource Center contains over
1,335,000 biographies.
The 2007 edition of the ODNB
many bios there could be more generally I don't think can be done.
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On 15 February 2011 18:17, Ian Woollard ian.wooll...@gmail.com wrote:
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On 15 February 2011 16:19, Ian Woollard ian.wooll...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, really. That page claims we only have 3% of notable Poles. Are you
really, seriously, telling me we
there is an individual really prepared to look after the article there
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bound since the Thomson-Gale's Biography Resource Center contains over
1,335,000 biographies.
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(but not insignificant) investment in a
server with a couple gigabytes of RAM. I was thinking of contacting
the toolserver people to see if I could potentially work in that
environment.
Seems similar to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LinkSearch
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Other than getting a database report to list every link to such a site
within a ref tag there isn't much we can do about it.
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! was not the first Wikipedia edit. It may have
been the first NupediaWiki edit, but that's not quite the same thing.
I seem to recall jimbo stating at some point that the edit in question
was deleted (rather than lost).
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-citation to
the clipboard?
Basically no
If you look at even [[Template:Cite web]] it requires stuff that you
have to go hunting for (author).
You could construct something for popular websites (BBC say) which
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, because it's a nice idea. However, a wiki isn't a forum.
Facebook is probably working to change that.
TVTropes has forums which see some use:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/topics.php
Wikis with social networking and the like attached can certainly be
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more likely candidates.
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conventional universities) but still a far from neutral
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to suggest that they
have any interest in releasing there songs under a free license or the
like.
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an impressive example of churnalism.
Original source is:
http://booktwo.org/notebook/wikipedia-historiography/
Talk can be found at:
http://huffduffer.com/dConstruct/25256
http://www.slideshare.net/stml/james-bridle-dconstruct-2010
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into the english language.
A sustained government backed effort (think BBC of encyclopedias)
Potentially a release of journal databases backed by an improvement in
search technology could act as significant competition for our more
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of the encyclopedias themselves that is not already something we are
quite used to dealing with on a daily basis for many years :-)
A large group of trained people who can use not-english sources. Thats novel.
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behavior by admins and long standing users. The tiny number of rebels
and iconoclasts left are from years ago and have little to day to day
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Not going to happen. The main page being hard locked has the secondary
benefit that admins shouldn't generally fiddle with it.
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in classic is on the top left (as well as the
second one at the the end of the page). As far as I'm aware this
requies no changes from monobook.
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before and plans to gather some after.
- d.
The new skin is still a step backwards from classic which had a second
search box at the end of the article for when you've just read an
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the additional
benefit in that it instantly indicates that there is something that
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On 19 May 2010 00:04, stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote:
geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
[[WP:V]] says no. The use of the wrong tense has the additional
benefit in that it instantly indicates that there is something that
needs updating here.
You assume that such errors are good, just because
{{msg:whatever}}.
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of the powerset team at microsoft tried
something similar I would expect results to be better if still fairly
useless.
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starting to do with cold fusion,
As a defence of PR that has to be mildly worse than citing Edward Bernays work.
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. See [[Wikipedia:BLP1E]].
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traders who
apparently had no problems trading with him while he occupied the
castle. Other than that he hardly seems to exist.
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pricey. Do
libraries generally throw people out for getting out their phone and
photographing pages from public domain books?
Depends where you are. Some library systems will suggest you bring a
proper camera (rather than photocopying at all) other counties will
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of articles) who may
more legitimately be running out of things they can write articles on
that won't get deleted on sight.
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you
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Keen's opinions, but we live in an
imperfect world ...
Charles
Does he have any new ones?
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is that they're dangerous
in ways that unsourced other articles aren't.
Thank you VERY MUCH for your hard work on this.
- d.
unsourced BLPs are not however dangerous in a way that sourced BLPs are not.
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to parliamentary privilege 'cos it says so.
Your argument that anyone on wikipedia enjoys something akin to
parliamentary privilege should be interesting.
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2010/1/21 geni geni...@gmail.com:
2010/1/21 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com:
not a personal playground enjoying
something akin to parliamentary privilege 'cos it says so.
Your argument that anyone on wikipedia enjoys something akin to
parliamentary
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Vian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Plumb,_Baron_Plumb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoushka
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a clear single
author who would have some interest and would likely be traceable no
matter what happened to the publisher.
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Feel free to drop me a line with questions or comments.
William
Did someone just seriously admit that the WMF has been following a
It’s done when it’s done process on this? They are aware that we
have quite an article on that topic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_Forever
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2009/12/3 geni geni...@gmail.com:
2009/12/3 Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/02/wikipedia-known-unknowns-geotagging-knowledge
Mark Graham writes. Map of density by geo-tagging round the world, and a
sensible comment that broadband
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Other than some rule 34 stuff most know versions of wikipe-tan can be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TAN
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head of population.
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can't see whoever actually did the
deletion leaking it.
Someone was being a [[WP:DICK]]. We have no reason to hope they are successful.
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getting some
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for the really big stories (2008 Mumbai attacks, Michael
Jackson's death, the new pope) but not so much for day to day news.
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2009/11/23 Giacomo M-Z solebaci...@googlemail.com:
I think you will find, that one does have to pay to join IRC, from Europe at
least.
Giano
Just install [[seamonkey]] and click the links at [[WP:IRC]]
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Charles
Indeed. Looking at this:
http://www.floatingsheep.org/2009/11/mapping-wikipedia.html
Gives us some idea where the gaps are but not to the extent you might
think (there are simply fewer citable sources referring to things in
say the Central African Republic than the UK).
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interest if you are trying to work out if a problem is just
you or wikipedia. It can also be of general interest with regards to
traffic patterns (for example the variation in page views seems to be
far less than the variation in image and text uploads).
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hard. It
doesn't have to wait for San Francisco to wake up to admit there is a
problem. Remember with enough eyes all bugs are shallow. Community
has a lot of eyes and is unlikely to object to fixing them.
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page. Is Mathias doing this as a personal project,
or an official WMF project?
With the privacy issues it's somewhat questionable if it is something
that should be supported.
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is the clincher. It
may not be strictly speaking creative, but it does deserve
recognition.
That would be sweat of the brow. US law not care about such things
(which is why the NPG is sueing in the UK).
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