One risk of using Google to search Wikipedia is getting bad results. For
several weeks, a Google search for "gender" returned a disruptive
edit[1] that replaced the entire article with " There are only 2
genders. Male and Female." That edit, from May of this year, was only
live for a few minute
> On 28 Jul 2016, at 17:17, Jimmy Wales wrote:
>
> On 7/28/16 9:04 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
>> I've made the former a disambiguation page (not a redirect) linking to:
>> * The [[History of Wells Fargo]]
>> * The [[Wells Fargo History Museum]]
>>
>> You could have done that, too!
>
> :-) Sure,
Hi Chris,
Thanks for reading the report. Yes, sure, we are currently in
intensive conversations with WMF. :)
Cheers,
Nicole
On 27 July 2016 at 21:07, Chris Keating wrote:
> Thanks Nicole and everyone at WMDE for a very thorough report.
>
> One question - you say that 2017 funding for Wikidata h
REMINDER: This meeting starts in 30 minutes.
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Janet Renteria
wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday,
> July 28, 2016 at 6:00 PM UTC (11 AM PDT). The IRC channel is
> #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net, an
I talked to Mohsen earlier and convinced him it's Persian. I hope it uses
Persian more often :D
Best
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 1:25 PM Shlomi Fish wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 22:40:12 +0430
> Mardetanha wrote:
>
> > I would to let everyone know, after 13 years and millions of edits,
> Finally
>
On 7/28/16 11:53 AM, Pete Forsyth wrote:
> We recently had a huge amount of discussion about the importance of search,
> on this list and elsewhere. My strong takeaway from that was, nobody
> disagrees with the position you're advocating here, Jimmy - that our search
> is problematic, and is worth
Yay!
On 7/28/16 12:01 PM, Dan Garry wrote:
> Hey Jimmy,
>
> Thanks for the report. This problem is one that we've been aware of in
> Discovery for quite some time. It actually serves as a good example of a
> typical problem that we face in improving search: we know there's an issue
> with a small
On 7/28/16 9:04 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> I think that depends on the skin used. When logged put (so with
> default skin) I get a toolbar with the options to which your refer
> hidden behind its "advanced search" option.
Ah, that makes sense and is good.
> I've made the former a disambiguation pag
Hey Jimmy,
Thanks for the report. This problem is one that we've been aware of in
Discovery for quite some time. It actually serves as a good example of a
typical problem that we face in improving search: we know there's an issue
with a small subset of searches, and could fix this problem easily w
We recently had a huge amount of discussion about the importance of search,
on this list and elsewhere. My strong takeaway from that was, nobody
disagrees with the position you're advocating here, Jimmy - that our search
is problematic, and is worth investing in.
The only directly related ideas th
On 28 July 2016 at 06:00, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> mixing different languages in one list is just wrong
D'accord!
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On 28 July 2016 at 13:09, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> A journalist friend said to me that he "finally found something that
> Wikipedia doesn't have" and he was surprised. What was that, I said?
> "The history of Wells Fargo".
> Go to http://www.wikipedia.org/
>
> Make sure the dropdown in the search b
We recently had a thread in the Wikipedia Weekly Facebook group, where we
pretty much concluded the reason why we don’t have word in English for
“looked it up in Wikipedia” is because that word is “Googled it.” :)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/permalink/1050447111669786/
-Andrew
First, some context:
I was in Philadelphia for the Democratic National Convention earlier
this week, where I had been invited to speak (in a small side event)
about connectivity and global development. I spoke about our work in
the languages of the developing world, and made a point to say that b
Hi all,
The annual report over 2015 is now available on Meta.
The annual activities report can be found at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Belgium/Activity/2015
The annual financial report can be found at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/R
On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 22:40:12 +0430
Mardetanha wrote:
> I would to let everyone know, after 13 years and millions of edits, Finally
> Farsi Wikipedia has reached 500,000 article. This is a very historic moment
> for all us in Farsi Wikipedia.
>
> Mardetanha
Congratulations to the Persian Wikiped
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