On 10/07/12 08:16, Milos Rancic wrote:
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Keegan Peterzellkeegan.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Okay, I'll bite. This is just my opinion and based on SOPA in the United
States and what our government represents.
Thanks! I am responding as a non-cognitivist moral skeptic
On 10/07/12 15:45, Keegan Peterzell wrote:
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~ Benjamin Franklin
The blackout was exactly the opposite. A little temporary (one day)
safety (all the content was still available at
On 11/07/12 09:40, Milos Rancic wrote:
Yep, I forgot it. BTW, note the comments below RIA Novosti news on
Russian Wikipedia strike [1]. That baseline fluctuates a lot :)
[1] http://en.ria.ru/society/20120710/174509543.html
By the way, Western media are spinning this to be an anti-Putin
On 11/07/12 09:57, Fred Bauder wrote:
Try
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/10/russian-wikipedia-shut-down-protest?INTCMP=SRCH
It is quite possible, as in China, political censorship is the actual
purpose, and pornography, and whatever, is just the excuse.
Yes, but this has nothing to
On 27/07/12 03:47, birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote:
On Jul 26, 2012, at 4:23 AM, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
There is a contractual arrangement between the IOC and the photographer as
specified in terms and conditions on the ticket. If some one makes photos
available commercially then they
On 05/01/13 04:47, Tim Starling wrote:
For example, requiring phone number verification for new users from
developed countries would be less damaging.
I don't see how is this supposed to help (and I don't think most new
users would want to do this; I certainly wouldn't).
On 08/01/13 11:35, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Nikola Smolenski, 08/01/2013 10:30:
On 05/01/13 04:47, Tim Starling wrote:
For example, requiring phone number verification for new users from
developed countries would be less damaging.
I don't see how is this supposed to help (and I don't
On 09/01/13 10:03, Kim Bruning wrote:
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 07:45:41AM +, David Gerard wrote:
Right. So anyone in this thread going into detail about en:wp policies
is actually not addressing this, and the problem is on a higher level?
:-/ Back to the drawing board. That actually
On 15/01/13 09:50, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
David Gerard, 15/01/2013 09:30:
On 15 January 2013 08:26, Andrea Zannizanni.andre...@gmail.com wrote:
* the folks at archiveteam set up this:
http://aaronsw.archiveteam.org/ It
is not properly legal, read it all.
Note, btw, that this page was
On 15/01/13 00:21, Richard Farmbrough wrote:
Of course any effort to make article source more readable meets with
opposition - in the case of references in particular. And not only from
those who cite CITEVAR legitimately, but from at least one admin who
will block for putting references in
On 11/03/13 16:14, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
What we are asking for is that we ensure that the structures that exist in
OmegaWiki are replicated in Wikidata for reasons that are clear and
obvious. Technically there are a few things that make sense to have..
For instance.. In the Dutch language we
On 24/04/13 08:29, Erik Moeller wrote:
Could open source MT be such a strategic investment? I don't know, but
I'd like to at least raise the question. I think the alternative will
be, for the foreseeable future, to accept that this piece of
technology will be proprietary, and to rely on goodwill
On 24/04/13 12:35, Denny Vrandečić wrote:
Current machine translation research aims at using massive machine learning
supported systems. They usually require big parallel corpora. We do not
have big parallel corpora (Wikipedia articles are not translations of each
other, in general), especially
On 24/04/13 12:35, Denny Vrandečić wrote:
In summary, I see four calls for action right now (and for all of them this
means to first actually think more and write down a project plan and gather
input on that), that could and should be tackled in parallel if possible:
I ) develop a structured
Since I was thinking about how to do this for some time, I wrote some
developers' notes at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Article_generation so feel
free to comment if anything is not clear or not desirable.
On 26/04/13 14:10, Jane Darnell wrote:
Well, I am going to come out
On 26/04/13 19:38, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
* Andrea Zanni wrote:
At the moment, Wikisource could be a interesting corpora and laboratory for
improving and enhancing OCR,
as the OCR generated text is always proofread and corrected by humans.
Try also Distributed Proofreaders. It is my
On 16/05/13 23:18, Andy Mabbett wrote:
On 16 May 2013 18:36, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se wrote:
All lakes (3, all down to ones of pondsizes with no name) is now
produced based on lake data from Swedish metereology institute and all lake
environment data from a newly set up
On 03/06/13 11:40, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Ting Chen, 03/06/2013 11:29:
I happened to worked with a few biology interwikis on WikiData today and
saw the taxnomical data on it. Given that WikiData is growing and more
potential would not it be a good idea to merge WikiSpecies data into
On 16/06/13 15:24, Johan Jönsson wrote:
2013/6/16 Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com
I think that Anders is saying that the result of Wikimedia Swedish is due
to a work of bots and to a work of people.
It means that this result is contrary to the WMF strategy which would have
more people and
On 18/06/13 01:04, Martin Rulsch wrote:
As far as I know, that's even planned by the Wikidata team.
It isn't exactly planned by the Wikidata tema, a volunteer would need to
do it.
2013/6/18 Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl
Hello,
I am also unhappy with the mail from Hubertl, and also
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