[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2014 needs your help!

2014-06-20 Thread Chris McKenna
Hello all We're looking for extra hands to help with he smooth running of this year's Wikimania, so I and the rest of the team would be extremely grateful if any of you would consider giving a few hours of your time. We will need volunteers to: staff the registration desk, especially on

[Wikimedia-l] Interesting comment system for Wikipedia

2014-06-20 Thread David Cuenca
Hi, I really liked the way the comments are implemented on this website https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/5e7ed624986d Basically the comments are associated to each paragraph, and a little number appears next to it. When clicking it, it displays the comments. I can imagine that it would

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interesting comment system for Wikipedia

2014-06-20 Thread David Cuenca
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Feature_map#1._Ratings_and_Reviews https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46440 The difference with the OKFN annotation tool is the way of presenting the number of comments.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interesting comment system for Wikipedia

2014-06-20 Thread David Cuenca
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Markus Glaser markus.gla...@wikimedia.de wrote: There's already a similar implementation for MediaWiki. It's basically a modification of Extension:Comments and it allows to associate comments with sections. You can see it live at WebPlatform.org [1]. And that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interesting comment system for Wikipedia

2014-06-20 Thread David Cuenca
Perhaps also relevant: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/washington-post-new-york-times-and-mozilla-team-up-for-new-web-site-comment-system/2014/06/19/fa836e90-f71e-11e3-8aa9-dad2ec039789_story.html?hpid=z3 On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 2:07 PM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rethinking Commons paradigms with Wikidata // was The tragedy of Commons

2014-06-20 Thread David Cuenca
Which btw is open source http://levan.cs.washington.edu/ngrams/README.txt On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 7:42 PM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: And all this about structured data gets even more interesting when you combine it with machine learning, like in LEVAN

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Moderation (was Wikiconference USA in the media)

2014-06-20 Thread rupert THURNER
you know that we agree on most topics lodewijk. but on this one we do not :) i d be glad if i can make a picture of something by what i read and not by what i am allowed to read by an arbitrary list moderator, who probably does not even have my cultural context. if somebody does write too often

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The tragedy of Commons

2014-06-20 Thread Yann Forget
Suite of the drama. A request for a topic ban against LGA, who made these deletion requests, was started by Hanay, a user from the Hebrew Wikipedia. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/User_problems#User:LGA Now she is blocked for one week for canvassing,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The tragedy of Commons

2014-06-20 Thread Jeevan Jose
All ended in a good way as Sven Manguard unblocked her. Hope the Hebrew Wikipedia will recover from the painful memories soon. Regards, Jee On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Yann Forget yan...@gmail.com wrote: Suite of the drama. A request for a topic ban against LGA, who made these