Chris,
This paper suggests that Wikipedia has become more influential than a large
proportion of the peer reviewed literature:
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~xshuai/papers/jcdl240-shuai.pdf
On a related note, I tried to reply off-list to the Foundation official who
recently claimed that my assertion
Foundation should study bias
in the wikipedias' economics articles and its impact on society?
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 8:01 AM, James Salsman wrote:
> Chris,
>
> This paper suggests that Wikipedia has become more influential than a large
> proportion of the peer reviewed lit
elevance so that our
> board has to study this, why could we not leave it to the researchers ...
> or should we not first study the existing bias in our research ?
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
>
> Op do 23 feb. 2017 om 18:24 schreef James Salsman
>
>> Another fact
Hi Chris,
Thank you for your reply:
>> This paper suggests that Wikipedia has become more influential
>> than a large proportion of the peer reviewed literature:
>>
>> http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~xshuai/papers/jcdl240-shuai.pdf
>
> I am not sure that is the correct conclusion from the paper you me
This came up the other day and someone emailed me off-list suggesting
it wasn't true. Since we've never had a real discussion about it, I
should explain:
> 17 U.S. Code § 203 - Termination of transfers and licenses
> granted by the author
>
> (a) Conditions for Termination.—In the case of any work
>... provide a little more context for this thread
Beginning in 2036, Wikipedia editors will obtain the right to demand
either payment for their contributions, or in the alternative if the
Foundation can't replace their edits with non-infringing
substitutions, between $750 and $150,000 per edit.
Michael Snow wrote:
>...
> 17 USC 203 ... provides ... that derivative works prepared before
> termination may continue to be utilized.
I'm not sure if subsequent edits which preserve verbatim text are
derivative works. It's certainly worth figuring out. Section 101 of
the Copyright Act defines "[
The statements Yair quoted are appropriate unless you believe
"empower" in the Foundation's Mission statement merely means "enable"
or "facilitate," without regard to economic or political power, so I'm
very glad to see them, as I am to see all of the eleven sections in
https://annual.wikimedia.org
Patrik wrote:
>... I'd refer you to Loren, Building a Reliable Semicommons of
> Creative Works, 14 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 271, 318-28 (2007) (arguing that
> section 203 is inapplicable to CC licenses under a suggested doctrine of
> limited copyright abandonment); Armstrong, Shrinking the Commons, 47 H
> Refugees ... don't have anything to do with the WMF
Someone forgot to tell that to the Foundation volunteers working on
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/12/24/refugee-phrasebook/
which is directly linked from that section of the Annual Report.
> messages like this "empower" only those who agre
> politics damages our brand in real and serious ways.
Such as how? This assertion keeps being made without any evidence supporting it.
> It's more ammunition for everyone else's distrust and fear of our community
> and organizational motives.
Are there any actual reasons to believe that such d
>>> It's more ammunition for everyone else's distrust and fear of our community
>>> and organizational motives.
>>
>> Are there any actual reasons to believe that such distrust and fear
>> exists apart from those upset about being on the losing end of some
>> Wikipedia content dispute?
>
> Surely
Hi Katherine,
Where did the projections on the "Internet penetration by 2030"
slide[1] on the process briefing[2] come from? They look very low. The
file summary description says they came from the UN Department of
Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division[3] but they aren't
anywhere in tha
Yair,
Would you please explain what you mean by damaging?
> To have a huge banner placed over every article on
> the whole project linking to 43px-font blatant political
> advocacy which can't be reverted, is really damaging.
My opinion remains that 43pt blatant advocacy in support of both
perso
On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Leigh Thelmadatter wrote:
>
> Equally James, how is this advocacy "extremely helpful"? How does it help the
> building and maintainence of Wikimedia projects? How does it help the many
> volunteers who work on these projects?
Taking a stand for personal freedom a
Pine,
Which facts do you think the "facts matter" theme should have emphasized?
Do you think remaining politically neutral is compatible with
remaining accurate?
To what extent does staying focused on mission involve pointing out
issues with freedom and accuracy in society, in your view?
On Tu
Rogol Domedonfors wrote:
>
> Do you believe truth and accuracy are to be found only
> at one ppint on the spectrum of political belief?
There is a very strong correlation which has, since November, become
much stronger. Compare for example:
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/ (1
Please join me in asking AMD to open-source the PSP (backdoor) in
their chips -- a chance to regain secure x86 hardware.
https://www.change.org/p/advanced-micro-devices-amd-release-the-source-code-for-the-secure-processor-psp
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ship with Wikimedia on this? I'm missing the
> link.
>
> Best,
> Lodewijk
>
> 2017-03-13 23:03 GMT+01:00 James Salsman :
>
> > Please join me in asking AMD to open-source the PSP (backdoor) in
> > their chips -- a chance to regain secure x86 hardware.
> >
&g
Franklin
wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> Again, could you clarify how this is related to Wikimedia? If there's a
> direct connection I am not seeing it.
>
> Cheers,
> Craig
>
> On 14 March 2017 at 09:49, James Salsman wrote:
>
> > Recent leaks suggest almos
Joseph Seddon wrote:
>
> You can find out more about the Endowment here:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Endowment
I'm very glad to see the asset allocation strategy published, but I
have questions:
1. Does the Foundation intend to benchmark Endowment performance
against the mutual fu
study on the economics articles, please?
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 9:35 PM James Salsman wrote:
> Joseph Seddon wrote:
> >
> > You can find out more about the Endowment here:
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Endowment
>
> I'm very glad to see the asset al
orld. That is not neutral, that is a force of change and change always
> is poltical.
>
>
>
> Christophe HENNER
> Chair of the board of trustees
> chen...@wikimedia.org
> +33650664739
>
> twitter *@schiste*skype *christophe_henner*
>
>
>
> On Mon,
That makes me extremely happy too, especially since it looks like someone
on the wikitolearn.org team might be working on the Quiz extension.
On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 8:25 PM Pine W wrote:
Here's a new edition of "What's making you happy this week?"
I'm grateful to see the quantity of people who
A frustrating reason why it is difficult to "use green energy" in general
is because of the secret accords between Franklin D. Rosevelt and King Faud
of Saudi Arabia just after the end of WWII, wherein, according to the BBC
documentary "Bitter Lake," the U.S. agreed to uninterrupted purchases of
Sa
Sam,
How do you feel about searching recent changes? I saw some estimates that
would take a lot more effort than it would.
Also, is Len Tower still in the Boston area? The more we improve the diff
algorithm, the more edit conflicts we can avoid, and that's certainly worth
the money, time, and eff
Is it better to think of the problem as paid editing or organized advocacy
for persuasion at the expense of accuracy regarding all costs and benefits?
Burger King is a commercial enterprise which makes money by mass production
of beef products, which require more water and produce more greenhouse
P.S. The paragraph ending "instead of backsliding, and" should have been
followed by "proposing cuts to the payroll tax."
On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 12:54 PM James Salsman wrote:
> Is it better to think of the problem as paid editing or organized advocacy
> for pe
Should the Communications team hold a contest asking wikipedians to propose
new trademarks for Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods?
Ref.:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/64yf80/labgrown_meat_is_about_to_go_global_and_one_firm/dg6frig/?context=3
On a more serious note, why don't we quant
John, the AROWF project GSoC student implemented your proposal last year:
https://github.com/priyankamandikal/arowf/blob/master/backlog.py
She also used WikiWho to suggest review of out-of-date passages, and both
categories and readability metrics to suggest review of unclear passages:
https://g
I've proposed asking wikimedians at large what they think should be done
about paid advocacy editing, as item number 5 on my periodic survey
proposal composed of all the unresolved questions over the last quarter on
this list at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:James_Salsman#Periodic_sur
I have a question: the news about pending Chinese "supply-side structural
reforms" is almost all about matching supply to demand; for example see
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-01/22/c_136004899.htm
But if you look at pp. 42 and 63 here, you see the proposaled legislative
reforms are actua
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 1:19 AM, FRED BAUDER wrote:
> I think we could hire professional fact checkers and target articles that
> have gotten off track. I don't think a great deal of money would be
> necessary to set an example, and illustrate some of our notorious problems.
This is what the AR
Here is an interesting quote of a Mozilla Foundation lawyer from
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/11/mozilla_wants_eu_to_slow_down_its_eprivacy_directive_process/
"draft Regulation imposes very specific restrictions on the technology
industry that may challenge the business models of some ISP
please? Because
> if you can't, then the answer to your question has to be "No, it isn't".
>
> "Rogol"
>
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 4:02 PM, James Salsman wrote:
>
>> Here is an interesting quote of a Mozilla Foundation lawyer from
>> htt
Instead of blaming people, I blame the idea that board members should ever
be ejected if they have lost the trust or confidence of other board
members, or because other members feel uncomfortable working with them, or
because they may choose to withhold or be more forthcoming with information
than
On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 5:25 AM, Deborah Tankersley
wrote:
>
> The Discovery team structure has now changed, but the new teams will still
> work together to complete the goals as listed in the draft annual plan.[2]
> A summary of their anticipated work, as we finalize these changes, is
> below. We
15, 2017 at 10:40 PM, Deborah Tankersley
wrote:
> James Salsman wrote:
>
> How will the Foundation's approach to machine learning of search
>> results ranking guard against overfitting?
>
>
> Overfitting, for those who aren't familiar with the term, describes the
&
Hi Katherine,
In March, the topics that the Movement Strategy process described as
to be addressed included metrics:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Topics/Metrics
However, since then the topics list on which metrics were listed have
been removed from all but eig
Rogol, you might want to look at the history of Aaron's talk pages and
e.g. on Jimbotalk and various places on meta. He's been incredibly
receptive to suggestions and ideas from the community, moreso than
perhaps any other Foundation employee.
On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 12:59 AM, Rogol Domedonfors
> what proportion of articles at NPP appear paid for?
> And what percentage of socks / sock cases relate to paid editing?
I would sure like to know this.
I would also like to whether the Foundation could, hypothetically,
hire editors to address the COIN and related backlogs (AFC, etc.)
without en
Can Katherine Maher as Foundation Executive Director decide and
announce a new policy that the continuation of the WMFR Charter is
contingent on the September General Assembly agenda including
particular items which they may not otherwise be inclined to agendas,
please?
On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 6:
.wikimedia.org] On Behalf
> Of James Salsman
> Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2017 1:11 PM
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List; Katherine Maher
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Wikimédia France
>
> Can Katherine Maher as Foundation Executive Director decide and announce a
> new
then there are a lot of difficult choices to be made, unfortunately.
>
> Pine
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 6:20 PM, James Salsman wrote:
>
>> Peter, in this situation I think it is completely appropriate and
>> preferable for the Foundation Director to make the continued
Rogol,
What content protected by safe harbor provisions would the Foundation
be exerting editorial control over by requiring governance standards
of a Chapter?
Is there some French law that requires charities to be more
independent of their international affiliates than would be under such
a requ
>> >
>> > > I wonder if WMF would be willing to let a non-WMF affiliate put up
>> > > fundraising (which I consider to be another form of advertising, and
>> > > perhaps some survey respondents did too) banners to get funds for COIN
>> >
Hi Felix, I was very happy when I saw you announced as the Wikipedian
of the Year. I think you are a great choice.
This week I am also happy that Foundation staff are increasing their
engagement with the community.
Last week I was happy that the automatic speech recognition for
pronunciation asse
Forwarding this message from publicpolicy list which could benefit
from a larger audience:
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To: Publicpolicy Group for Wikimedia
H
Why are we having this RFC prior to the survey which was discussed at
length less than a year ago?
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:James_Salsman#Periodic_survey_prototype
On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 1:05 AM, Robert Fernandez
wrote:
> Since Rogol has followed through on his threat he should
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 1:38 AM, Lisa Gruwell wrote:
>... regarding the Endowment:
>
> 1) I met with Lukas at Wikimania regarding SRI and the endowment. As James
> indicated, the endowment is invested through the Tides Foundation and this
> is one of the areas of expertise. We have been looking
While it was very hard to click through the link on the slides in the
Metrics and Activities meeting video :-) this is truly awesome:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Training_modules/Documentation
Props to the Support and Safety team and Joe Sutherland in particular!
Can't we render each gadget in a Foundation-controlled with a
height taller than the gadget ever typically flows to?
On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 12:00 AM, Krinkle wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Unexpected page jumps are never fun. They tend to be known as a "reflow" or
> FOUC [1], and are common all over th
Wow, first there was solid evidence that tourism is causally
influenced by Wikipedia, and now science. The English Wikipedia's
Economics article still says "Tax cuts [boost] aggregate demand."
Isn't it time that potentially harmful biases in economics articles
are tempered as carefully as those in
like
it in other articles.
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Peter Southwood
wrote:
> So fix it,
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf
> Of James Salsman
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 September 20
Individuals, associated with WPMEDF, have applied for and received
> individual engagement grants. In other words all these opportunities are
> avaliable from the movement for those interested in improving Wikipedia's
> economics coverage.
>
> Best
> James
>
> On Tue,
Jean-Philippe, yes, absolutely:
http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/policy/how-well-represented-is-the-mena-region-in-wikipedia/
As biases go, omitting notable subjects in the global south doesn't
have the deleterious real-world consequences that reenforcing
erroneous economic hegemony does.
On Mon, Sep
early see the danger of thinking "less" of those cultures of
> people...
>
> JP
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 3:31 PM, James Salsman wrote:
>
>> Jean-Philippe, yes, absolutely:
>>
>> http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/policy/how-well-represented-
>> is-th
I'm skeptical that the online mobile apps are a good use of resources,
with their very meager usage, especially relative to the several
engineers tasked to support them, their questionable accessibility
aspects, declining app store ratings, and other issues involving
content substitution which have
Yes, mobile app page views are much closer to 1.5% than 0.0006%, my
mistake, I used the WAP row with 116,000 page views in 2015 instead of
the 784,000,000 pageviews of the mobile app.
I caught the error after pressing "Send", but I decided that it didn't
need to be corrected, given that the Strate
st from threads
> that start with "what made me happy this week" :)
>
> Thank you,
> Lodewijk
>
> On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 2:45 AM, James Salsman wrote:
>
>> Yes, mobile app page views are much closer to 1.5% than 0.0006%, my
>> mistake, I used the WAP row
On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Leinonen Teemu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is super interesting and important discussion. One idea.
>
>> On 10 Oct 2017, at 3.44, Erik Moeller wrote:
>> And for most of the sources amalgamated in this manner, if provenance
>> is indicated at all, we don't find any o
There are still over 2,700 known notable women scientists without stubs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Missing_articles_by_occupation/Scientists
And those are just the women scientists who made it on to Wikidata but
not Wiktionary somehow. The old ISI/Thompson R
Brian Wolff wrote:
> [The developer retention rate is] now 5%, but this time last year it was 12%.
It's currently 8% per
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Developers/Quarterly/2017-10#Key_findings
And the time series is the third graph under
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Developers/Quarter
> Legal threats are surely the universal language of bad faith
That assumes that legal threats are never legitimate. If there are
criminal allegations of which the Foundation has not yet been made
aware, they should be emailed to the appropriate officials and role
accounts. Abuse of process is the
Erik,
Should interactive web, internet of things, or offline services
relying on Foundation encyclopedia CC-BY-SA content be required to
attribute authorship by specifying the revision date from which the
transluded content is derived?
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 7:01 AM, Erik Moeller wrote:
> On Tu
On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 4:11 AM, Erik Moeller wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 12:51 AM, James Salsman wrote:
>> Should interactive web, internet of things, or offline services
>> relying on Foundation encyclopedia CC-BY-SA content be required to
>> attribute authors
Hi Erik,
I get the feeling you would question my identity if I didn't follow up
by asking you whether they asked you to endorse the possibility that
Mandarin could eclipse English?
Best regards,
James
On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 1:47 AM, Erik Moeller wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 5:56 PM, Andre
I am also withholding my endorsement until the assertion that Mandarin
could overtake English is corrected, and I endorse the "harmony is not
unison" description of views other than mainstream, towards fringe.
On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 6:22 PM, mathieu stumpf guntz
wrote:
>
>
> Le 27/10/2017 à 16:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=150&v=Eijc2tGe-zM
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> content.
> > Bare links without any explanation are also an anti-pattern to avoid.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 6:13 PM, James Salsman
> wrote:
> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=150&v=Eijc2tGe-zM
> >>
> >>
oundations to match my award, taking
the prizes to $150 and $75 if they agree. Thank you!
Sincerely,
James Salsman
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participate.
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 9:48 AM, Joseph Seddon wrote:
> How is this relevant to wikimedia-l?
>
> Seddon
>
> On 21 Nov 2017 09:28, "J
> Where does this idea come from, especially the topic selected?
I selected the topic.
> How "the best" will be determined, and by who?
I am happy to defer to either of the two foundations or take their
instructions for as many nominations as they like if they want me to
propose a panel.
> What
Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>> tflana...@wikimedia.org
>> education.wikimedia.org
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 11:52 AM, LiAnna Davis wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 1:27 AM, James Salsman
>> wrote:
>
hat, although I come across some of them which are
> usually stored on Meta, in user namespaces, or on Wikibooks (for example A
> Lecture on the Limits of Human Knowledge). So maybe a dedicated project for
> essays might make some sense.
>
> Eseete,
> mathieu
>
> Le 22/1
https://f-squared.org/whovisual/
As seen on
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/11/29/research-newsletter-august-2017/#Other_recent_publications
Best regards,
Jim
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> But clearly my worry isn’t significantly shared by others, so I’ll park this
> here.
It's shared by me, but first let me agree with you on this:
> to be clear, I think Esra’a is an excellent addition to the WMF board.
I do too. The problem with the photography restriction is that we've
had a
The Terrehaven, New Hampshire contingent of the international Wikimedia
projects' editors' community is happy to announce the appointment of
George S. Bauer, Jr. as chief day shift manager at a major fast food outlet
less than four kilometers from his parents' home, the identity of which is
being w
Heather,
While I agree in large part with Sam Klein's expression (I would
characterize my feelings as quintuple joy or above) I have to ask:
will this allow you more or fewer time and resources to focus on my
outstanding request of you at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Heatherawalls#Des
Anthony,
I've been working on
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_2030/Process_planning which
is where I believe the Phase 2 process is starting from.
I am particularly interested in your opinion as to whether survey
metrics should be added to traditional metrics.
Best regards,
Jim
On Su
Thanks, Zack.
Does anyone know what interest rates the $56 million short-term and $6
million long-term investments earn?
Are the CFO and the Endowment benchmarking their performance against
commercial institutional endowment-grade mutual funds? I recently wrote the
below to regulators; I hope it
How much would it cost to replace the servers and switches with open
source hardware?
Stephen, when do you expect to have the FEC requirements of organized
advocates for US political candidates researched?
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From: Stephen LaPorte
Date: Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at
> 1) I don't quite see how your question about servers and switches relates
> to Stephen's statement. Could you explain for us mere mortals how you link
> the two?
The NSA surveillance which was reauthorized by Congress can not depend
on eavesdropping alone with new HTTPS cyphers. It needs comprom
> the WMF doesn't have the resources to prevent a
> state level actor from gaining access to its servers.
Do you think merely avoiding the most mass-produced and arguably
widest backdoor is a step in the right direction?
> Switching to little used, little supported and more expensive
> hardware s
27;s
>> > needed - that should be independent of any lobbying preferences. It looks
>> > like you're just pushing tangents again.
>> >
>> > 2) You do realize that the FTC and the FEC are very different
>> > organizations? But again, it seems yo
Attribution is often considered impractical, but providing the source
date along with e.g. the article name can be used to derive the
attribution, so it should be required. It's not just a good idea to
require this information from content re-users like Amazon, Apple, and
Google, but doing so will
t from our sites as CC0 or Fair Use.
>
> A few legal letters and maybe a court case a year should be easily affordable
> for the WMF and an excellent investment.
>
> Regards
>
> Jonathan
>
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 00:12:43 +
>> Fro
Here is a good example of instructional software to solve a systemic
communication issue:
https://www.getbadnews.com/
Ref.: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180220093555.htm
How can we sustain progress towards resolution of the issues?
Also, does the date by which Titan is likely t
I am happy about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpmRWCE7F_I&t=30m30s
Aaron Halfaker describes optimized ways to refine backlog presentation.
But I am unhappy that his first slides are missing and I hope he will
post the whole deck.
Also I would love to see the Turkish Wikipedia in InterPlanetar
>... make sure people are taking the work seriously and not
> simply using Google translate
People are likely to start with Google Translate whether they are
taking the translation seriously or not, so it would still help if we
could get Google to provide numeric per-word translation confiden
ial media had a bias towards usually undeserved
fame. Luckily, the damage is merely memetic and can be repaired with
literature. But the schemers turn into fraud cases, so they get more
attention than they should relative to the larger, general problem.
Best regards,
Jim
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:
> wonder if creating dynamic articles from Wikidata is better
> than creating static articles
Not for years to decades.
https://twitter.com/AustenAllred/status/967842020151603200
On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 3:02 AM, John Erling Blad wrote:
> I wonder if creating dynamic articles from Wikidata is
Languages are taught by authoritative dictionaries (after people, and
ahead of almost all other similar reference books.)
Wiktionary has multiple teaching functions whether we want it to or
not:
https://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/efe362e1-fe80-4c90-bc1e-4ab2d9bbae20/1/
Have you seen how muc
n than teaching subjects of encyclopedia
articles?
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 1:11 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
wrote:
> 2018-02-27 21:23 GMT+02:00 James Salsman :
>
>> Languages are taught by authoritative dictionaries (after people, and
>> ahead of almost all other similar reference books.)
> building an authoritative dictionary is considerably
> harder than building a (de facto) authoritative encyclopedia.
What reason is there to think that? My any measure of editor hours, or
the amount of money it would take to replicate the effort, or the
maintenance load going forward, I'm sure t
> Wikidata's Lexeme project is progressing slowly, but its direction is right.
> It will finally build a technical platform that is actually good for a
> dictionary.
A wiki article is a very similar type to dictionary presentation of lexemes.
The best dictionaries also cover morphemes, e.g., "gra
Pine, why not ask your namesake?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7jj0oa/im_donating_5057_btc_to_charitable_causes/
On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 7:13 PM, Pine W wrote:
> On the subject of paid translation, I could imagine this being included in
> the scope of work for a "Wiki Community Foundat
If the Foundation Endowment paid for translations of articles across
Wikipedias, it would still be like a Foundation Grant in terms of the
legal effect on the DMCA safe harbor provisions and the practical
effect on whether mistakes could bring the Foundation into disrepute.
Maybe the Foundation co
I wanted to share this because it's pertinent to issues with large
companies using our information without complying with the license
terms:
https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_galloway_how_amazon_apple_facebook_and_google_manipulate_our_emotions
One discussions I've had with both Erik Moeller online
er_talk:Heatherawalls#Design-blocked_technical_community_wish
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2018, 16:22 James Salsman, wrote:
>
>> I wanted to share this because it's pertinent to issues with large
>> companies using our information without complying with the l
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