On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:30:45 -0600, James Heilman wrote:
@Yaroslov
1) A merger within a WMF project is supported by admins from both WT
and
WV. WV is going to be meeting on the possibility of merging June 9th
in
Germany
2) Wikimedia's mission is to provide freely available educational
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:41, Thomas Morton
morton.tho...@googlemail.comwrote:
What I think would be important to avoid is too much subjective information
from one individual; for example, where I to write about York, UK I would
recommend not going to the Jorvik centre (a main attraction)
We've mainly approached this issue encouraging the different groups of
travellers to add relevant content for their areas. We specifically try to
mix it all in, because we don't want to section anyone off. There was
considerable controversy back in 2005 or so about adding an LBGT section to
the
What I think would be important to avoid is too much subjective
information
from one individual; for example, where I to write about York, UK I would
recommend not going to the Jorvik centre (a main attraction) because I
thought it overpriced and boring.
Whilst my viewpoint on this
Just to highlight my earlier point about sourcing, the article on Florence
currently says:
Opera was invented in Florence.
This happens to be true - but I have no proof of it, and it may well simply
be the opinion of the original writer. Much of the rest of the historical
section is the same;
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Mark Jaroski mark.jaro...@gmail.com wrote:
We're under the impression that there are
other Wikimedia foundation projects which don't use NPOV, and so those of
us favouring approaching WMF have been able to argue that we wouldn't be
forced to use it. If that's
On 10 April 2012 17:51, Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.org wrote:
If we simply select an FDC (btw - how would this happen?) and ask them to
figure out the issues for themselves, this would be a recipe for serious
challenges that could doom the FDC from the start. A relatively brief, but
Thanks, Ziko. That's really interesting and sounds like an effective way of
getting them started.
I'm curious what kinds of problems people contact you about when they start
editing for real?
On Apr 12, 2012, at 1:45 PM, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
Hello,
Myself, I have a presentation which
