On 11 January 2013 16:45, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se wrote:
He has since then extended the scope to include all living species, both
animals and plants, which means another 1-1,5 million articles. Running
at full permissible bot speed, the bot generates around 10,000 articles
sad. :(
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Date: Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 9:05 AM
Subject: [FC-discuss] Very Sad News
To: Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization in
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Andrew Gray skrev 2013-01-12 11:58:
On 11 January 2013 16:45, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se wrote:
Wow!
Very interested to see you got community support for this - normally
it's sharply the other way around.
We had a very lengthy dissusion of course with all the common arguments.
Dear all, dear Tim,
I want to extend the thank you from the Uzbek Wikipedia community. I let
them use their own words (although, translated for the benefit of this
list).
user 1: wow, it's great! who has done it
user 2: wikimedia programmers
user 1; super! real heroes!
user 3: thank you, thank
Killed himself.
http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html
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On 12 January 2013 12:04, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Killed himself.
http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html
Awful news.
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I never met Aaron, nut this is very, very sad news.
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 January 2013 12:04, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Killed himself.
http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html
Awful news.
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Sorry, I don't know better - in what way was A. S. related to the
Wikimedia movement?
Kind regards
Ziko
2013/1/12 Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com:
I never met Aaron, nut this is very, very sad news.
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 January 2013 12:04,
He was an author (user:aaronsw) and developer, among others.
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl wrote:
Sorry, I don't know better - in what way was A. S. related to the
Wikimedia movement?
Kind regards
Ziko
2013/1/12 Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com:
I just created an article for him on Portuguese Wikipedia.
I want to improve about this On July 19, 2011, he was arrested for
harvesting academic journal articles from JSTOR.
Very sad.
Tom
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl wrote:
Sorry, I don't know better
On 12 January 2013 15:01, Mathias Schindler mathias.schind...@gmail.com wrote:
He was an author (user:aaronsw) and developer, among others.
Also came up with the study showing that most content contribution is
done by drive-by editors:
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia
So a
It's shocking, horrible news.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AaronSw/Election - he ran for the
Board in 2006. See http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/morewikipedians
Making More Wikipedians.
Some more links and memories at
http://www.metafilter.com/123777/Open-access-open-internet-closed-book .
Dear Colleagues
Let me start off by pointing out the fact that I am never sure about
exactly what issues are handled on this list and secondly when are the
issues of a specific language Wikipedia handled among that community and
when are they (these issues) - if ever - handled at a higher level
On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 17:37:56 +0200, Rui Correia wrote:
Dear Colleagues
Let me start off by pointing out the fact that I am never sure about
exactly what issues are handled on this list and secondly when are
the
issues of a specific language Wikipedia handled among that community
and
when are
On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:46:57 +0100, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
On the other hand, nothing ever will be done about it outside these
projects. I do not see WMF ever stepping down, under any
circumstances. One can open RFC on Meta, which has 100% chance of
Sorry, obviously meant stepping in
On Jan 12, 2013 3:38 PM, Rui Correia correia@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Colleagues
Let me start off by pointing out the fact that I am never sure about
exactly what issues are handled on this list and secondly when are the
issues of a specific language Wikipedia handled among that community
As has been noted, Aaron (User:AaronSw) was a prolific Wikipedian
since 2003 and a candidate in the 2006 Board election. His writings
during his election campaign are worth re-reading:
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/wikiroads
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia
[...]
The first site I built was called get.info. The idea was to have a
free, online encyclopedia that anyone could edit or add things to or
reorganize, right through their web browser. I built the whole thing,
added lots of cool features, tested it on all sorts of browsers, and
was very proud
Thanks for the information, and my condoleances to those who knew him.
Sounds like a very, very interesting person.
Kind regards
Ziko
2013/1/12 Everton Zanella Alvarenga ezalvare...@wikimedia.org:
[...]
The first site I built was called get.info. The idea was to have a
free, online
Condolences to all that knew him - very tragic - especially at such a young age.
If my memory is correct (and that's a gamble) I seem to recall knowing about
him more from his work on early RSS around the age of 13. I was in college
doing websites at the time and recall being rather impressed
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 4:04 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Killed himself.
http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html
- d.
Oh, Aaron. I remember meeting him, after reading some of his writing, and
being surprised to find the person behind the mental voice, introverted and
A few posts if anyone here's not aware of Aaron (see also his Wikipedia
bio)
-
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/technology/aaron-swartz-internet-activist-dies-at-26.html
- http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/verysick - Aaron's blog post on himself
-
This is terrible to hear. We've lost a brilliant mind far too soon.
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 5:04 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Killed himself.
http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html
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On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga
ezalvare...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I just created an article for him on Portuguese Wikipedia.
I want to improve about this On July 19, 2011, he was arrested for
harvesting academic journal articles from JSTOR.
Very sad.
Tom
This
On 12 January 2013 19:37, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote:
A few posts if anyone here's not aware of Aaron (see also his Wikipedia
bio)
Even Tim Berners-Lee weighs in (and he basically keeps quiet about
almost everything):
https://twitter.com/timberners_lee/statuses/290140454211698689
Aaron
NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/technology/aaron-swartz-internet-activist-dies-at-26.html
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Dear colleagues,
Since November 2012, Wikivoyage is a part of the Wikimedia movement. I
have come to some thoughts about this old/new project, both from the
perspective of a collaborator and from the perspective of the
movement.
Chance:
Wikivoyage has a huge potential; it may open the movement
What a dreadful loss. I never knew Aaron except through his work and his
writings, but he always came across as a confident person who was truly
passionate about the work that he did. We're all the poorer for his
passing. My condolences to everyone on this list who knew him.
Regards,
Craig
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nlwrote:
Dear colleagues,
Since November 2012, Wikivoyage is a part of the Wikimedia movement. I
have come to some thoughts about this old/new project, both from the
perspective of a collaborator and from the perspective of
Aaron explained how he originally measured Wikipedia contributions:
http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/whowriteswikipedia/swartz2006 -- which is
only linked through the bibliography he kept up on the topic
http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/whowriteswikipedia/ which is linked at the
end of the main essay. Less
This is the worst news of last year for Wikimedia, Aaron has been a
genial and precious member of our community.
But nothing really meaningful can be said or done now...
Nemo
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Official statement from the family:
http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/post/40373383323/official-statement-from-the-family-and-partner-of
I hope someone will perhaps write a blog post for the Wikimedia blog
about his impact on the Wikimedia and free knowledge movement. This
could be a community
On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:45:52 -0800, Steven Walling wrote:
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Ziko van Dijk
vand...@wmnederland.nlwrote:
As one step toward properly welcoming Wikivoyagers... are many of
them on
this list? It would be cool to get some replies and short
introductions
from
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote:
Official statement from the family:
http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/**post/40373383323/official-**
Official statement from the family:
http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/**post/40373383323/official-**
statement-from-the-family-and-**partner-of
http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/post/40373383323/official-statement-from-the-family-and-partner-of
I hope someone will perhaps write a blog post for
I started something on [[WP:RIP]].
On Jan 13, 2013 12:45 AM, Jay Walsh jwa...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Official statement from the family:
http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/**post/40373383323/official-**
statement-from-the-family-and-**partner-of
We're also reaching out to
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 6:43 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Leslie Carr lc...@wikimedia.org wrote:
http://www.wired.com/business/2013/01/wikivoyage/
An awesome writeup in Wired!
Argh; Sarah Mitroff calls wikivoyage
The blog post it out now:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/12/remembering-aaron-swartz-1986-2013/
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Official statement from the family:
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