On 8/25/14, 3:06 AM, MZMcBride wrote:
As a metric, pageviews are probably not very meaningful. One way we can
observe whether we're fulfilling our mission is to see how ubiquitous
our content has become. An even better metric might be the quality of the
articles we have. Anecdotal evidence
On 6/16/14, 4:27 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
As Sage notes, the functionality of the new apps is about the same on both
Android and iOS, with some differences in the UI.
Is there something written on the intended relationship between the apps
and the mobile website? I've long been mildly confused
On 6/17/14, 5:52 PM, George William Herbert wrote:
On Jun 17, 2014, at 8:37 AM, Emmanuel Engelhart kel...@kiwix.org wrote:
On 17.06.2014 17:26, George William Herbert wrote:
We need an Uncommons, where the strict open license / PD rules are abandoned
and we accept images as long as their
On 2/28/14, 9:18 AM, David Gerard wrote:
On 28 February 2014 01:23, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 February 2014 22:03, Galileo Vidoni gali...@gmail.com wrote:
And we remain convinced that there is space for a way more prudent
implementation of URAA that prevents deleting educational
In terms of specific articles to create, there is also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles
That project collects articles that exist in wide range of other
encyclopedias, but don't yet exist on Wikipedia. However that's not
covering quite the same
On 11/27/13 2:01 PM, Fæ wrote:
As well as finding out where this has happened, it would be good to
have some cases of where bots went bad explained. My main concern
would be leaving a bot to create thousands of articles but in the
process creating a headache for limited numbers of maintainers,
On 10/23/13 2:08 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Theo10011, 23/10/2013 00:21:
I'm quite surprised to constantly read FDC is somehow representative
of the
larger community and accountable to them. Almost all the current members
were part of chapter leadership and have been quite active within
On 9/24/13 10:13 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
On 24 September 2013 14:06, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm now working for the National Library of Australia and we offer free, at
home, access to JSTOR and MANY other restricted access databases to any
Australian, if they get a free library
On 9/3/13 4:28 PM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
On 09/03/2013 09:45 AM, Fred Bauder wrote:
Abusive nonsense does not make that fact go away. Someone,
actually, many someones, need to be trusted.
Доверяй, но проверяй.
I agree with your assessment of the risks of working with the PRC, I
simply
This is a very interesting proposal. I think how well it will work may
vary considerably based on the language.
The strongest case in favor of machine-generating stubs, imo, is in
languages where there are many monolingual speakers and the Wikipedia is
already quite large and active. In that
On 10/12/12 12:40 AM, Itzik Edri wrote:
Just want to inform that WMIL published Wikimania 2011 budget breakdown:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011/Budget
Thanks for the information; it's quite useful to see these kinds of things.
Two minor questions about the numbers. I don't see
On 8/17/12 12:02 PM, Magnus Manske wrote:
http://toolserver.org/~magnus/redefined/?page=Pyramid
This is quite nice, especially on a larger screen! Our current layout,
which uses the full browser width for text, makes articles hard to read
and cluttered-looking on larger screens. The text
On 8/6/12 4:52 PM, WereSpielChequers wrote:
Hi, after crashing an hour or so ago EN Wikipedia has started to come back
but with a really strange appearance - less usable than Vector.
It's back to normal for me now. Afaict, the servers hosting the static
CSS/JS came back up later than the
It looks like a direct scrape, even to the extent of having some
internal links being broken because they didn't update them (e.g. the
link to Wikimedia Commons at the end of the article). I believe it's
just one of the (many) unauthorized mirrors that don't properly credit
the source of their
On 8/1/12 1:51 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Yann Forget, 01/08/2012 13:13:
I have suggested some basic rules about this on the French WP, but not
only they were blankly rejected, but I was barred from mentioning the
whole subject. The first step against CoI is making the editors
conscious
On 7/14/12 7:05 PM, Audrey Abeyta wrote:
Appearance does affect perceptions of credibility, which should be of
interest to Wikipedia. Recently, I was talking to someone who doubted
Wikipedia's validity. When I asked her if it was because the content can be
edited by anyone, she replied, No, it's
On 7/4/12 1:04 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
What would a Wikipedia look like that did not make use of press sources? It
would look a hell of a lot more like an encyclopedia. Thousands of silly
arguments would never arise. Thousands of apposite criticisms of Wikipedia
would never arise. These are
Thanks for this list. For the languages I know, I've started going
through and fixing ones that are clearly wrong. If a number of people do
that, that should improve the general quality/consistency of interwiki
links. I second the other comment that it'd be nice if the parsing could
be re-run
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