On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Oleg Alexandrov
wrote:
> I have been a Wikipedian for five years. I am an administrator, I have
> written tens of articles, created hundreds of pictures, and made tens
> of thousands of edits. I love Wikipedia and all that it represents.
>
> I find the current "WIK
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 4:14 PM, David Gerard wrote:
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> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/12/11/annual-fundraiser-checking-banner-results/
>
>
> - d.
>
I am very happy that the Foundation has finally decided to make data driven
decisions, both in fundraising and the usability initiative. This has
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Deniz Gultekin wrote:
> Wikipedians and Jedi-themed special effects?! *gets popcorn*
>
> But yes, I agree, it'd be fantastic to have even more high quality
> videos of editors *and* readers, with or without lightsabers.
>
> On 10/6/10 6:05 PM, Carcharoth wrote:
> >
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:44 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 5 January 2011 22:40, geni wrote:
>
> > 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
> > h
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Brian wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:44 PM, David Gerard wrote:
>
>> On 5 January 2011 22:40, geni wrote:
>>
>> > Basically no
>> > If you look at even [[Template:Cite web]] it requires stuff that you
>> > have to go hunting for (author).
>> > You could co
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Ian Woollard wrote:
>
> I therefore award the Wikipedia class C:
>
>
Considering that 55% of articles are stubs and 21% are start awarding
Wikipedia a C overall is quite generous.
--
Brian Mingus
Graduate student
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
Universit
Hi all,
I'm not sure about the history of this article, but it it was recently
brought to my attention via Facebook.
My take on this article is that it is an abuse of Wikipedia's notability
guidelines. The article goes out of its way to cite lots of sources, but I
do not believe that being mentio
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Brian wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm not sure about the history of this article, but it it was recently
> brought to my attention via Facebook.
>
> My take on this article is that it is an abuse of Wikipedia's notability
> guidelines. The article goes out of its way to
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:25 PM, George Herbert wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Ken Arromdee wrote:
> >> Again - I am not Cirt, and I find the article reasonably balanced.
> >
> > Having an article that associates someone with human waste be "reasonably
> > balanced" is like claiming th
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:47 AM, George Herbert
wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Fred Bauder
> wrote:
> >> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Ken Arromdee
> wrote:
> >>>[...]
> >>> You can't neutrally discuss how a person is compared to shit. Not in
> >>> any
> >>> real-world sense.
>
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Rob wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Brian J Mingus
> wrote:
> >
> > Your arguments fail to account for the fact that the article is curated
> by
> > biased anti-Santorum contributors,
>
> Well, you lost me right there.
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Rob wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Brian J Mingus
> wrote:
> > I believe you will have a hard time justifying your claim that my comment
> is
> > false (not to mention that it is a slur). It should be easy to show that
> the
&
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:50 PM, George Herbert wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Brian J Mingus
> wrote:
> > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Rob wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Brian J Mingus
> >> wrote:
> >> > I b
I notice that the article on the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon has recently
been deleted, and it has in fact been deleted many times over the years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader-Meinhof_phenomenon
However, according to stats.grok.se, this article is quite popular, having
been viewed *around 35
kipedia,
which has advertised it to hundreds of thousands of people and generated
tens of thousands of websites which use it by that name.
The article should clearly stay!
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 2:25 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 8 March 2014 09:20, David Gerard wrote:
> > On 5 March 2
*Most often requested* nonexistent articles per day (based on *149* days in
year *2008*).
?
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Richard Farmbrough <
rich...@farmbrough.co.uk> wrote:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Most_missed_articles
>
> On 08/03/2014 09:20, David Gerard wrote:
>
>> I r
I don't see why this script shouldn't be permanently installed into
Common.js assuming it works.
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:03 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 28 March 2014 01:02, Richard Farmbrough
> wrote:
> > On 08/03/2014 09:20, David Gerard wrote:
>
> >> I recall finding a list somewhere of
You can use Google image search to search for openly licensed content. This
includes images from Flickr.
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Richard Symonds <
richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
> Of course Carcharoth. Cany promise anything but happy to try!
> On 11 Aug 2014 13:02, "Carcharot
28 July and another peak at 112,239 on 4 August.
>
> Reached number three in the most-viewed list for the week of July 27
> to August 2, 2014 (and was still at number 15 the following week):
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Top_25_Report/July_27_to_August_2,_2014
&
What is there to say?
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Carcharoth
wrote:
> If the moderators of this mailing list are around, would they or
> anyone else subscribed to the list be able to throw up some statistics
> about how much the traffic has declined over the past few years? I'm
> asking beca
Isn't this list moderated?
On Dec 27, 2014 8:59 PM, "Alan Liefting" wrote:
> Thanks for that. I usually reach for google or wp to answer questions but
> forgot in this case.
> So how did they get hold of this list. Is Ron on Badoo??? And did Badoo
> get hold of Ron's email contacts???
>
> A
>
>
I think it's rather curious that edits to Wikipedia aren't private. Why log
the IP address? Why log anything? It's invasive.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Andrea Forte
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> I'm representing a team of researchers from Drexel University who are
> researching privacy practices
provide attribution as per the Creative
> Commons and other licenses we operate under.
>
> Sent from my Droid 4
> Elias Friedman A.S., CCEMT-P
> אליהו מתתיהו בן צבי
> elipo...@gmail.com
> "יְהִי אוֹר"
> On Mar 27, 2015 4:15 AM, "Francesco Ariis" wrote:
>
> > Commons and other licenses we operate under.
> > >
> > > Sent from my Droid 4
> > > Elias Friedman A.S., CCEMT-P
> > > אליהו מתתיהו בן צבי
> > > elipo...@gmail.com
> > > "יְהִי אוֹר"
> > >> On Mar 27, 2015 4:15 AM, &qu
Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 01:19:35PM -0400, Brian J Mingus wrote:
> > I think it's rather curious that edits to Wikipedia aren't private. Why
> log
> > the IP address? Why log anything? It's invasive.
>
> I guess it's a sensible choice against abuse (vandalism)
I think now that we are suing the NSA that it's deeply hypocritical to be
surveilling users. A quick fix: stuff the ip field with random numbers.
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 8:38 AM, James Alexander
wrote:
> The idea of the IP being more private in the history/ public logs (for
> example a unique ha
ot;yes" to all of the above, the NSA is broadly analogous. If no...a
> better analogy is needed.
>
> On 28 March 2015 at 11:44, Brian J Mingus
> wrote:
> > I think now that we are suing the NSA that it's deeply hypocritical to be
> > surveilling users. A quick fix
e of this data is unnecessary, I recommend you go to your 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 a
te the utility of
> > checkuser or hard-blocks or range blocks, but if the community wants
> > it as much as you seem to think I'm sure they'll support the idea.
> >
> > On 29 March 2015 at 14:10, Brian J Mingus
> wrote:
> >> In general people do not read
e system is set up to facilitate that
> goal.
>
> If you think that recording IP addresses is invasive, then you should
> probably be publishing your content on your own website, not Wikipedia.
>
> Cheers,
> David...
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 5:10 AM, Brian J
ility to fight spam, detect socks, and respond to
> emergency@ issues, unless I've missed something?
>
>
> Sent from Samsung Mobile
>
>
> -------- Original message
> From: Brian J Mingus
> Date:03-29-2015 4:36 PM (GMT-05:00)
> To: David Carson
> Cc: English
egister, then sure, encrypt or hash the IP address before
> displaying it publicly. I don't think randomizing it on every edit would be
> a good idea, because I think it's important to be able to tell whether a
> succession of edits were from the same editor.
>
> Cheers,
&g
Just like the Netflix Prize, knowing which topics an entity is interested
in, and having access to text they have written, is, in many cases, enough
information to reveal who that person is, where they live, etc. You just
plug the data into Google and correlate away.
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 7:19 P
s helpful, but not necessary" mean?
>
> Cheers,
> David...
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Brian J Mingus <
> brian.min...@colorado.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> It is a bit of hyperbole, but reductio arguments have their role in
>
tructive discussion, you
> should pick a better format and attitude.
>
> On 29 March 2015 at 19:02, Brian J Mingus
> wrote:
> > The notice just says that the IP is public. Most people have no idea what
> > that means.
> >
> > It will absolutely make those proble
Leave the list open! There are lots of important people subscribed, and you
never know when an interesting conversation will pop up.
I'm the present moderator of a mailing list that's been active since 1988.
When an interesting conversation starts, it's fascinating to see all the
famous people chi
By active I mean open. It has had periods of quietness.
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Brian J Mingus
wrote:
> Leave the list open! There are lots of important people subscribed, and
> you never know when an interesting conversation will pop up.
>
> I'm the present moderator
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