Re: [Wikimedia-l] an observation on economic biases in Wikipedia

2018-05-08 Thread Dennis During
At the level of generalization of the cited statement in the WP article, it is pretty much impossible to approach objectivity in economics articles. I doubt that an instance of bias should lead us to include the kind of unscientific economics that we happen to find agreeable. I specifically

[Wikimedia-l] an observation on economic biases in Wikipedia

2018-05-08 Thread James Salsman
The more I survey different language wikipedias, the more I am convinced an effort at the chapters level is needed to address this problem: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2018-April/006256.html It occurred to me that this Max Roser video might help: A Selfish Argument for

[Wikimedia-l] Solve legal uncertainty of Wikidata

2018-05-08 Thread mathieu stumpf guntz
Hello everybody, There is a phabricator ticket on Solve legal uncertainty of Wikidata that you might be interested to look at and participate in. As Denny suggested in the ticket to give it more visibility through the discussion on the Wikidata

[Wikimedia-l] How to deal with spam subscription to mailing list

2018-05-08 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Hi all, We have been receiving tens of subscription to our mailing list ( wikimedia...@lists.wikimedia.org) from aol.com addresses. Today alone we have received over 30 subscription from that domain addresses and we find this very problematic. I'll need the help of a more experienced list