Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On 16/06/13 15:24, Johan Jönsson wrote: 2013/6/16 Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com I think that Anders is saying that the result of Wikimedia Swedish is due to a work of bots and to a work of people. It means that this result is contrary to the WMF strategy which would have more people and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Anders Wennersten
In the beginning there were a mass of article created manually that was substandard and which today would not be accepted as proper articles A little later (several year ago now) a mass of articles were botgenerated that were substandard and could not be seen as proper wp:articles We have

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with supportof bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Peter Southwood
I agree that the 100th article is much better than no article on the subject, and I too joined the project with no previous training - Original Message - From: Balázs Viczián balazs.vicz...@wikimedia.hu To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, June

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Dimce Grozdanoski
On 17.06.2013 12:36, Nikola Smolenski wrote: On 16/06/13 15:24, Johan Jönsson wrote: 2013/6/16 Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com I think that Anders is saying that the result of Wikimedia Swedish is due to a work of bots and to a work of people. It means that this result is contrary to the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with supportof bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Ilario Valdelli
Instead i agree that it's much better to have one qualitative article about the topic than 10 stubs. One of the strategic goal of the plan of wikimedia movement is the quality. Il giorno 17/giu/2013 14:28, Peter Southwood peter.southw...@telkomsa.net ha scritto: I agree that the 100th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with supportof bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Jan Ainali
2013/6/17 Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com One of the strategic goal of the plan of wikimedia movement is the quality. That is true. However, the strategic plan does not go into detail on how to measure it. Is it an article that only has claims backed by sources? If so, the bot-generated

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Ilario Valdelli
The use of wikidata instead of a bot is a good practice to provude good contant to all wikipedias because larger communities can control and fix errors instead of providing content by a bot and keep it outdated. Il giorno 17/giu/2013 15:53, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com ha scritto:

[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in jail!

2013-06-17 Thread Charles Andrès
Wikipedia for prisoners – an unexpected partnership between a swiss prison and Wikimedia CH Following an initiative from Emmanuel Engelhart, with the support of Wikimedia CH CAO, Chantal Ebongué, since March 2013, prisoners who request can have an access to Wikipedia offline (Kiwix project).

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Toby Negrin joins Wikimedia Foundation as Director of Analytics

2013-06-17 Thread Erik Moeller
Hello all, it’s my great pleasure to announce that as of today, Toby Negrin is joining the Wikimedia Foundation as the new Director of Analytics. Toby will be responsible for leading the analytics team, which is responsible for enabling data-driven decisions in the Wikimedia Foundation and the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in jail!

2013-06-17 Thread Liam Wyatt
Now THIS is seriously clever! Well done WMCH - that is a truly innovative way to provide access to knowledge to a community who is often forgotten. Can you link to the press release here, please? -Liam / Wittylama wittylama.com Peace, love metadata On 17 June 2013 14:15, Charles Andrès

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Matthew Roth
We just published a blog post from Lennart Guldbransson on the Wikimedia blog about this milestone: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/17/swedish-wikipedia-1-million-articles/ On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com wrote: The use of wikidata instead of a bot is a

[Wikimedia-l] If you are passionate about world hunger, sustainability and global issues please read this

2013-06-17 Thread Alex Peek
Homepage: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Economic_Map The goal of this project is to improve public understanding economic data and serve public administration. It's time that we create a standardized model that everyone can understand and relate to. Given the challenges that our world

Re: [Wikimedia-l] If you are passionate about world hunger, sustainability and global issues please read this

2013-06-17 Thread Deryck Chan
Wouldn't this fall within the scope of [[WP:Outlines]] already, and therefore doesn't need its sister project? Future developments of Wikidata will make it even easier for such articles on Wikipedia to be updated. On 17 June 2013 19:56, Alex Peek alexpe...@gmail.com wrote: Homepage:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] If you are passionate about world hunger, sustainability and global issues please read this

2013-06-17 Thread Alex Peek
Deryck, I re-read your message and i looked up the [[WP:outline]] feature. Looks interesting, thanks for showing me that. On 17 June 2013 12:07, Alex Peek alexpe...@gmail.com wrote: I do not intend that this become a new sister project. I am simply using Wikipedia as a platform to consolidate

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Asaf Bartov
Hubertl, your e-mail was rude, even if you did not mean it to be. Please remember hundreds of people read every e-mail sent to this list, and civility is expected. Thanks, Asaf On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Per A.J. Andersson p...@telia.com wrote: Hi! Nice to know German language

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Fwd: Re: Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with supportof bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Kurt Kulac
Am 17.06.2013 16:01, schrieb Jan Ainali: 2013/6/17 Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com One of the strategic goal of the plan of wikimedia movement is the quality. That is true. However, the strategic plan does not go into detail on how to measure it. Is it an article that only has claims

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Fwd: Re: Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with supportof bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Per A.J. Andersson
Hi! Sad for seeing you so disappointed. Good to see you have insight in butterflies. So I hope you will make your knowledge visible on dewp, where neither genera so far have found its way into articles. enwp (together with viwp!) has at least the genus Jameela as an article. That aside, is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Fwd: Re: Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with supportof bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Martin Rulsch
As far as I know, that's even planned by the Wikidata team. Cheers Martin 2013/6/18 Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl Hello, I am also unhappy with the mail from Hubertl, and also some remarks that good be understood as a criticism of the German Wikipedia editing community. Actually,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Hubertl
Hi Asaf, did you read my mail or is this an automated answer because of using the word monkey? Or is this a just a try like an official muzzle? Really rude for me is, when some Wikipedians think, they have to start a professional service company for transporting simple facts without efforts

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Hubertl
Hi Anders, you wrote: And as shown earlier we have learned that this actually helps recruting and keeping editors Do you have any prove for that or is this just a speculation or your personal wishes? Does this mean that the Swedish community precisely because this botwork has - against the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

2013-06-17 Thread Hubertl
Am 16.06.2013 15:24, schrieb Johan Jönsson: I would say our experience is that it doesn't affect the number of human editors at all in any way. Hi Johan, Anders Wennersten says: And as shown earlier we have learned that this actually helps recruting and keeping editors ??? It is