It would appear to me your email account is set up to use the name
wiki. Try altering it and see if that does anything.
Bob
On 2/6/2011 8:40 AM, wiki wrote:
It would be instructive to know what articles they are worried about and
why. I find that most people wanting articles deleted have a
Around here (here being Evansville, IN, U.S.), the public libraries all
put a 15-minute cap on your computer usage and also require you to have
a valid library card. The reason is because the libraries don't have
enough computers to support everyone. (Keep in mind that the clients
aren't just
While no robot has passed the official Turing test (though many have
passed highly simplified versions of it), the idea of a central AI
system is an innovative one-- just think, Wikipository-- the
information repository that any robot can contribute to--
Intelligent robots are programmed to be
On 2/9/2011 5:22 PM, Carcharoth wrote:
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Bob the Wikipedian
bobthewikiped...@gmail.com wrote:
While no robot has passed the official Turing test (though many have
passed highly simplified versions of it), the idea of a central AI
system is an innovative one
On 2/9/2011 6:21 PM, Carcharoth wrote:
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Bob the Wikipedian
bobthewikiped...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/9/2011 5:22 PM, Carcharoth wrote:
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Bob the Wikipedian
bobthewikiped...@gmail.comwrote:
While no robot has passed
Mr. Kleijn--
Sounds like a followup survey's in order, then, and I'd be more than
willing to participate.
I won't hold the question's format against you-- questionnaires are very
difficult to write without leading the questionnee.
God bless,
Bob
On 2/17/2011 6:44 AM, Jeroen Kleijn wrote:
(on the list), or
will this be done by the moderators of the list?
Sorry for the inconvenience, but maybe I misunderstood?
Regards,
Jeroen Kleijn
Op 17-02-11 16:44, Bob the Wikipedian schreef:
Mr. Kleijn--
Sounds like a followup survey's in order, then, and I'd be more than
willing to participate
now and prevent them from being part of the
project?
WereSpielChequers
On 18 February 2011 08:26, Bob the Wikipedian
bobthewikiped...@gmail.com wrote:
The first survey's fine. :-) I'm merely suggesting you put out a second
survey once this one's harvested. The second survey, of course
From LiveScribe's website:
The Echo™ and Pulse™ smartpens work only with Livescribe™ dot paper.
Use it to activate all smartpen applications.
Dot paper (while I'm not completely sure what it is) is apparently a
crucial element in utilizing the smartpen.
The product being sold here isn't the
I use it quite frequently and can probably do that sometime within the
next few days. I use it for rollbacks, warning, and the last feature
and can demo those for you. If it happens that I use the ARV in the near
future (I rarely do), I'll screencast that as well.
God bless,
Bob
On 3/4/2011
Wait-- should this be an instructional video? I can do that, too.
On 3/4/2011 9:51 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
Hi folks,
is there someone on this list who 1) routinely uses WP:TWINKLE, 2)
would volunteer to create a little screencast recording their everyday
usage of the tool? We're looking at
Alright :-) I'll be sure and record when I do use Twinkle during the
next few days and send you links to videos.
Just for the heck of it, I did go ahead and upload a video demonstrating
installation of Twinkle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNl9ePgsxwk
Let me know if the resolution/annotation
Surely that wasn't the only reason he got banned, unless he did it
following several warnings
On 3/10/2011 7:11 AM, Fred Bauder wrote:
On 09/03/2011 23:24, Tony Sidaway wrote:
Think Progress, a progressive blog run by the Center for American
Progress, today ran a story about a hired PR
I'm not sure how helpful it is, but yesteryear's word for tsunami was
typhoon. You might consider searching for typhoons as well.
Bob
On 3/15/2011 9:42 AM, Carcharoth wrote:
Would anyone be able to help me track down examples of articles that
cover two or more things on the same page? I'm
On 3/16/2011 1:34 AM, Carcharoth wrote:
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Bob the Wikipedian
bobthewikiped...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not sure how helpful it is, but yesteryear's word for tsunami was
typhoon. You might consider searching for typhoons as well.
I'm not sure that is correct. Typhoons
Already been done, Conservapedia. The most disgusting mockery of
conservatives I've ever seen. Then again, isn't this one of the sites
Jimbo runs?
Bob
On 4/8/2011 3:32 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
On 04/07/11 5:03 PM, Ian Woollard wrote:
You should be careful what you wish for. It's not hard to
Good :) I'd be embarrassed for whoever does run that site.
On 4/8/2011 6:08 PM, Sarah wrote:
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 15:57, Bob the Wikipedian
bobthewikiped...@gmail.com wrote:
Already been done, Conservapedia. The most disgusting mockery of
conservatives I've ever seen. Then again, isn't
Sad indeed. I am not entirely convinced Conservapedia is even maintained
by conservatives. Most of the stuff I've seen on there looks as though
it was designed to poke fun at conservatives, rather than to represent
us accurately.
I've not heard of Liberapedia; I might check it out in a bit to
Haha, yes. And we certainly seem to be cutting out those who don't wish
to identify.
God bless,
Bob
On 4/10/2011 2:44 PM, geni wrote:
On 8 April 2011 23:07, Bob the Wikipedianbobthewikiped...@gmail.com wrote:
A relatively successful wiki competitor is the Encyclopedia of Life.
Here's how
But Europeans might contaminate Conservapedia with *gasp* things that
don't test your faith!
That site's a mess. Better that the world /doesn't/ see it, really. They
might start thinking conservative Christians (like myself) are all that
ignorant. And according to the article on dinosaurs, I'm
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
[The Fiji iguanas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachylophus] have
been hypothesized to have evolved from New World iguanas that rafted
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafting_event 8000 km west across the
Pacific Ocean
Seems logical; the more scholarly the topic, the more sources it had
better cite in order to be appear credible.
I also note the author saw that most students at that university were
discouraged from using Wikipedia at all but used it anyway without
citing it. I can speak from experience
It's about time! Who's eligible to vote?
Bob
On 7/1/2011 3:15 PM, Casey Brown wrote:
/Please distribute this message widely/
*Call for referendum*: The Wikimedia Foundation, at the direction of
the Board of Trustees, will be holding a vote to determine whether
members of the community
Will this be accessible to individuals without access to a subscribed
institution? I've lost my access to JSTOR ever since I graduated in May.
Bob
On 9/9/2011 2:20 PM, Andrew Gray wrote:
The announcement is a few days old, but I missed it (and it doesn't
seem to have turned up on the lists
The second two links work for guest users; the first requires
institutional subscription. Looks like pamphlets must not be included
for whatever reason.
Bob
On 9/10/2011 12:48 PM, Andrew Gray wrote:
On 10 September 2011 16:14, Bob the Wikipedian
bobthewikiped...@gmail.com wrote
:
On 10 September 2011 16:14, Bob the Wikipedian
bobthewikiped...@gmail.com wrote:
Will this be accessible to individuals without access to a subscribed
institution? I've lost my access to JSTOR ever since I graduated in
May.
That is indeed the plan, it seems. Post-1870/1922 material will still
You might also consider http://buzzlog.yahoo.com/overall/ which lists
the topics the world is searching for.
Bob
On 9/30/2011 1:24 PM, Ian Woollard wrote:
The raw dumps are here:
http://dammit.lt/wikistats/
IRC the compressed files consist of the list of the articles that were
accessed,
Wait, so someone pulling [[WP:DICK]] on someone else is something I can
take to Arbcom? Arbcom is gonna be pretty busy if I start reporting
every time I see it doneand I can't see it going very far with
Arbcom or with AN/Iconsidering how many people back it as one of the
three most
I'd like to suggest a slight change-- I ended my response to a concern
with to sign it. When it showed up on their talk page, however,
my name appeared on a separate line from my comment. It would be better
to leave out line breaks where they weren't deliberately inserted.
Bob
On
Got a pretty good laugh out of that one...and another...and
another...and still another. It's loaded with smart puns!
Bob
On 12/1/2011 6:03 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
Cute:
http://toons.mit.edu/index.php?title=News
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WikiEN-l mailing list
I understand Conservapedia could use a fresh revision of the Dinosaur
article... Maybe I'll do that tomorrow.
Bob
On 1/17/2012 6:37 PM, David Carson wrote:
Personally I intend to get all of my information for the day from
Conservapedia. So by the end of the day I expect I'll be ready to take
I was equally surprised (and saddened) to learn a few months ago that
Ripway's domain expired...I went through this week and {{dead}}'d all
the ripway links on the English Wikipedia.
Bob
On 1/18/2012 6:48 PM, Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
On the day that Wikipedia is temporarily blacked out, it
.
Bob
On 1/18/2012 7:14 PM, Phil Nash wrote:
- Original Message - From: Bob the Wikipedian
bobthewikiped...@gmail.com
To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] WR bites the dust?
I was equally surprised
Oh, wow. I actually just got a copy of that book (wonderful book, by the
way) when I visited the office a couple weeks ago. I'm sorry to hear he
died so young.
The tradition of Wikipedia is to remember the fallen editors at the
Deceased Wikipedians page, if anyone has any appropriate
Can we cite the mailing list? :D
On 8/28/2012 7:33 AM, Nathan wrote:
Years earlier, Green and his wife, Susan, served as teachers in Kenya
with WorldTeach Project, a development organization at Harvard
Universityhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University
.[*citation needed
I can't imagine a site more accessible and better organized than
Wikipedia for someone seeking porn. They're quite correct.
Bob
On 9/10/2012 1:51 PM, Steve Summit wrote:
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/09/10/wikipedia-slow-to-filter-graphic-imagery-from-site/
Wikipedia has turned down a
and schools, and is a globally-famous site, this qualifies
my statement.
On 9/10/2012 2:19 PM, Nathan wrote:
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Bob the Wikipedian
bobthewikiped...@gmail.com wrote:
I can't imagine a site more accessible and better organized than Wikipedia
for someone seeking porn
I just tested EnWiki in both browsers you mentioned and see nothing that
jumps out as odd.
Bob the Wikipedian
On 2/12/2013 11:03 AM, Nathan wrote:
Anyone else using Chrome notice that the interface looks very 90s right
now? Looks fine in Firefox, wonder if its related to something arcane
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
I find this idea of a dyslexia font quite intriguing...now if only one
could make a font that helps people like myself who have the flavor of
dyslexia known as surface dyslexia.
Folks with this flavor of dyslexia tend to read words from left to right
rather than as a unit. For example, here
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