Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copy and paste

2012-10-18 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
How hard would it be to set up a tool like the software that as far as I know the MIT uses to automatically check plagiarism among thesis etc. submitted to their digital library, checking the text of all Wikimedia projects against e.g. newspaper websites and Google Books, and then publishing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Meeting on Monday with Group Contacts for WM IRC channels

2012-10-18 Thread Filip Maljković
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:37 AM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi John, I don't speak for the GCs, but there's a redlink for the log on the meeting page on Meta, and someone has posted some notes on Etherpad. You can see the links at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours with the Language Engineering team 2012-09-17 16:30 UTC

2012-10-18 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan (WMF)
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan (WMF) slakshma...@wikimedia.org wrote: The log[1] is available. The next Language Engineering office hour will be on 14th November. Thank you Apologies for the spam, the next office hours will be on 21st November, 3rd Wednesday as usual.

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Chapter Association, Think Tank about the roles of the association

2012-10-18 Thread charles.andres
Dear wikimedians, In order to prepare the next development step of the Chapter Association (ie the concrete actions), a think tank has been created to receive all ideas of Tasks that should be handled or supported by the WCA. This process is open to everyone interested in the future of the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copy and paste

2012-10-18 Thread Tom Morris
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 6:26 AM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote: We really need a plagiarism detection tool so that we can make sure our sources are not simply copy and pastes of older versions of Wikipedia. Today I was happily improving our article on pneumonia as I have a day off. I

[Wikimedia-l] The new narrowed focus by WMF

2012-10-18 Thread Theo10011
Hi Sue Gardner started working on this document on Meta a couple of weeks ago - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sue_Gardner/Narrowing_focus The document outlines some rather big changes in the priority for WMF and future responsibilities it will agree to keep. I am surprised by how

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The new narrowed focus by WMF

2012-10-18 Thread MZMcBride
Theo10011 wrote: Sue Gardner started working on this document on Meta a couple of weeks ago - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sue_Gardner/Narrowing_focus Well, there's your problem. You're reading the talk page! You want the subject-space page, of course:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The new narrowed focus by WMF

2012-10-18 Thread MZMcBride
MZMcBride wrote: Theo10011 wrote: Sue Gardner started working on this document on Meta a couple of weeks ago - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sue_Gardner/Narrowing_focus Well, there's your problem. You're reading the talk page! You want the subject-space page, of course:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The new narrowed focus by WMF

2012-10-18 Thread Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton
Narrowing the focus... target locked on Wikipedia... hunf sad... very sad. Thanks board... On 18 October 2012 19:07, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: MZMcBride wrote: Theo10011 wrote: Sue Gardner started working on this document on Meta a couple of weeks ago -

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming: WMF metrics/activities meeting - November 1

2012-10-18 Thread Abbas Mahmood
Erik, This is wonderful news! Will you be rotating the time of the meetings to accommodate different timezones? Thanks, Abbas. Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:16:24 -0400 From: meta...@gmail.com To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming: WMF metrics/activities