Re: [Wikimedia-l] Page views of male/female biographies?

2018-12-06 Thread David Cuenca Tudela
Of course, there is more than one way to skin a potato, but it doesn't mean that those ways are useful, desirable, or informative. You say that readers are more likely to access people who are named, than people who are notable, but isn't that relevant? If notable people are not named, then we can

[Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia password policy and requirements

2018-12-06 Thread Chris Koerner
The Wikimedia Foundation security team is implementing a new password policy and requirements. [0] You can learn more about the project on MediaWiki.org. [1] These new requirements will apply to new accounts and privileged accounts. New accounts will be required to create a password with a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mobile fundraising ads

2018-12-06 Thread Samuel Klein
I love the focus on mobile and smaller format interfaces, quite generally; it's increasingly how I use the projects too! A) This banner-text-series is clearly impactful, gave me a bit of a jump scare, and got me to read it to find out why. I'm still not sure how I feel about it. ~ Visual effect:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Croatian Wikipedia: persisting far-right bias?

2018-12-06 Thread Yaroslav Blanter
Hi Tomasz, whereas you are right in theory, a practical application of this method requires (i) availability and acceptance of all these sources in the community (for example, if one side published in Croatian and another one published in English, Croatian Wikipedia is likely to use only sources

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Croatian Wikipedia: persisting far-right bias?

2018-12-06 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
Vast majority of sources in controversial topics are usually biased. There are topics where there is in fact no any non-biased sources. And - coming back to my previous example, having knowledge how automatic method o bias measurement works it is very easy to bully it: "According to unfaithful