Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-12 Thread Gergő Tisza
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 11:13 AM, David Gerard wrote: > "INFOGALACTIC: an online encyclopedia without bias or thought police" > > Home page: http://infogalactic.com/info/Main_Page > Announcement: http://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/10/project-big-fork- > infogalactic.html >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-12 Thread Alessandro Marchetti
You can simply leave a warning on sandboxes and drafts, or a "NOINDEX" template. And rejected content can also stay there, it just can't go to ns0 at least for a while. I mean if I open a sandbox or draft, write a description of something below notability in many cases it's not erased and/or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-12 Thread Anders Wennersten
One (unrealistic?) brainchild of me is that Wikipedia should be have as a key element, a reliability class set on all articles, say A-F, where today's articles would mainly be C (no issues) and D (issues exist). That articles with a A or B class would require only Trusted user account to edit,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-12 Thread Alessandro Marchetti
trivia makes me thinks about "wikia" platforms and similar. I also read discussions where people promoted a bigger interactions with wikia. They  suggested for example that a iink at the end of the pages of toons or series to wikia webpages would be not so bad, even if it is not 100% reliable

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-12 Thread Chris McKenna
On Wed, 12 Oct 2016, Peter Southwood wrote: I agree. There is a lot of information that could be provided for and by people who are interested in trivia (I am not using the term derogatively - just couldn’t think of a better one). Cheers, P The subject-specific Wikia wikis seem to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-12 Thread Peter Southwood
I agree. There is a lot of information that could be provided for and by people who are interested in trivia (I am not using the term derogatively - just couldn’t think of a better one). Cheers, P -Original Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-12 Thread Alessandro Marchetti
I agree with Anders. About the issue of weak/bad/irrelevant/border-line content management. I don't care about that specific project although I do support plurality in any case. But "not wasting" material and HRs is a key issue. For all platforms. At the moment I would strongly encourage at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-12 Thread Peter Southwood
Wikitrivia? Cheers, P -Original Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Anders Wennersten Sent: Tuesday, 11 October 2016 12:16 PM To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic I think