Re: [Wikimedia-l] An encyclopedia must be conservative (?)

Hello people, thanks for the reactions! I actually did not mean conservative in a strict political sense, and I am a big fan of Reagle's book. It seems to me that some people in the movement identify strongly with the (political) term "progressive", and, depending on their personal circumstances,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] An encyclopedia must be conservative (?)

Most people in the world (or at least in the U.S.) use the terms "conservative" and "progressive" when talking about politics, and associate them with bundles of viewpoints on society, economics, religion, and so on. The political aspect is partly relevant to Wikipedia, too, but if we just take

Re: [Wikimedia-l] June 4 1800 Maggie Dennis office hour (with a twist)

This will be very interesting, thank you Maggie. (To check your local time for this office hour: click here ) Vriendelijke groet, Ciell Op do 28 mei 2020 om 14:03 schreef

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Giving Commons a bigger public

On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 8:12 AM Michael Peel wrote: > > It’s worth remembering that this functionality is built in to Commons, > it’s just not as user-friendly. From the example below, if you put > "haswbstatement:P180=Q191931” into the Commons searchbox, you will get the > same results. Thanks

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Giving Commons a bigger public

Hoi, I have been playing with the tool for some time and it is already great; it works and it is a great basis to expand on. Expand its functionality and data quality. I added a label in Urdu in Wikidata for "Mujaddid Ahmad Ijaz" and once the synchronisation was done, I found a wealth of pictures