ement Charter Drafting Committee, we will chart out a path for more
> lasting, productive collaboration.
>
Related to the other thread about English I remembered this. It is good
that the WMF talks to English Wikipedia. Many of us just wish WMF
leadership would talk directly to the other w
that the responses from the Africans in this thread have been very calm and
patient.
John S.
Den tors 4 maj 2023 kl 17:43 skrev John S. :
> This is so close to being a good thing and then it stumbles on the
> cultural imperialism of English. It's like they don't understand how thi
it's like it
goes against the entire point of a global movement because those who don't
speak English will always be second class members.
John S.
Den tors 4 maj 2023 kl 13:11 skrev Andreas Kolbe :
> Dear all,
>
> Yesterday's WMF press release
> <https://wikimedia
Thank you.
John S.
Den tors 4 maj 2023 kl 03:57 skrev Kunal Mehta :
> Hi all,
>
> The final round of voting to determine the seventeenth annual Picture of
> the Year is now open! Please cast your vote at <https://w.wiki/6bcP> and
> then share with your communities. This ro
Thank you for the update. Please continue to keep us informed.
John S.
Den lör 4 feb. 2023 kl 02:45 skrev Stephen LaPorte :
> Hello everyone,
>
> Today, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) ordered that access
> to Wikipedia be suspended in Pakistan. We are urging
This is very sad.
John S.
Den ons 25 jan. 2023 kl 13:45 skrev Peter Southwood <
peter.southw...@telkomsa.net>:
> A real loss, but his work will remain.
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> *From:* Johan Jönsson [mailto:brevlis...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 25 January 2023 09:38
> *To:*
This is massive...
Congratulations
John. A
On Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 9:44 AM Camelia Boban wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> [1] *Wikimedia Community User Group* *Rwanda *[2] as a Wikimedia User
> Group. The g
,
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Executive Director
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all other Wikipedians "Negroid" because of their
> appearance meeting a racist theory published in the 1930s.
>
> Or were you trying to say something else, other than defending
> "scientific racism" on this public list?
>
> Fae
>
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at
I'm not sure it is wise to try to refute differences between humans,
whether we call it race or something else, it is simply too easy to point
out the differences. We should rather promote that differences are a
GoodThing™
Humans do exhibit racial differences, but those differences should not be
u
It happen after a reboot where the browsers was reset.
No, I did not take a screenshot.
On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 7:43 PM Samuel Klein wrote:
> >
> > This is a complaint about multiple banners on the same page.
>
>
>
> > I believe it would be better to put the add on the lower part of the
> > viewp
One of the browsers are set up with forced session cookies and web storage,
and also to block third parties. It breaks several features, also central
login. I have reported it as an issue, but none has bothered to create a
fix.
I believe it would be better to put the add on the lower part of the
v
Thanks, but I do know how to log in at Wikipedia, its about 15 years since
I started editing.
This is a complaint about multiple banners on the same page.
On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 11:02 PM Nick Wilson (Quiddity) <
nwil...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi John, thank you for the feedback
;
> On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 10:56 AM John Erling Blad wrote:
>
> > Often I surf Wikipedia without being logged in, and so I did right now. I
> > got the usual banners, but this time they popped up repeatedly in several
> > locations. This quickly gets extremely annoying, an
Often I surf Wikipedia without being logged in, and so I did right now. I
got the usual banners, but this time they popped up repeatedly in several
locations. This quickly gets extremely annoying, and I find it unwise.
Create one banner, and stick with that. Several banners are simply way over
the
It is said quite often that the Wikimedia-movement is apolitical. In
strongly believe the movement with its goal has never been, and never will
be apolitical. When we say that knowledge should be free and fully
available for everyone, then we make a political statement. It may not
align with you fa
Can everyone please calm down.
This is (nearly) only hyperbole.
Thank you.
/jeblad
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 8:51 AM Fæ wrote:
> OPEN LETTER
>
> Dear Katherine Maher,
>
> The WMF home website landing page (https://wikimediafoundation.org)
> yesterday featured a full-page banner directing all vis
oject/RfC_Should_the_Foundation_call_itself_Wikipedia
John Erling Blad
/jeblad
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 10:49 AM Samir Elsharbaty
wrote:
> Hi, the Brand team has been watching the RfC and has written a summary
> about it [1] that was shared both in the RfC [2] and the project page [3]
> in Meta. The team has integrated the feedback
t; > > https://creativecommons.org/faq/#artificial-intelligence-and-cc-licenses
> > >
> > > >
> > > > r.
> > > >
> > > > _
> > > >
> > > > Ryan Merkley (he/him)
> >
gt; > Chief of Staff, Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
> >
> > rmerk...@wikimedia.org <mailto:rmerk...@wikimedia.org>
> > @ryanmerkley <https://twitter.com/ryanmerkley>
> > +1 416 802 0662
> >
> >> On Jan 18, 2020,
ses>
>
> r.
>
> _
>
> Ryan Merkley (he/him)
> Chief of Staff, Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
>
> rmerk...@wikimedia.org <mailto:rmerk...@wikimedia.org>
> @ryanmerkley <https://twitter.com/ryanme
millions and billions. Even a 1px
fine print would be troublesome!
What is the official stance on this? Is it a copyright infringement or
not, does the license(s) cover the case or not?
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The news reporting seems to be that Snøhetta has been awarded a full
design project, while the page at Meta says it should act as some form
of facilitator. It could be interesting to know what is correct, as
these two descri
Note that "Dagens næringsliv" printed the story Thursday, so they must
have had information about it before WMF left the meeting with
Snøhetta. This is no longer a breaking story.
On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 12:04 AM John Erling Blad wrote:
>
> This is out in several newspapers no
This is out in several newspapers now.
"Snøhetta shall create new visual profile for Wikipedia-owner" [1]
A quick Google Translate dump
The mission is the largest in the field of graphic design ever, writes
Dagens Næringsliv.
- For me personally, this is very big, but you see it in a larger
per
Seems like the site is throttled or even redirected to a taerpit.
Anyone inside Turkey that can run a trace?
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 7:21 PM Amanda Keton wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> My name is Amanda Keton, the new General Counsel at the Wikimedia
> Foundation. While Katherine is inflight traveli
Both en.wikipedia.org and tr.wikipedia.org are still blocked.
On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 10:44 PM Mike Godwin wrote:
>
> Great news! Even if the court's decision isn't implemented by the current
> Turkish government, it is important to have established that the block was
> a violation of constitutio
elopers and editors participate in it, the
> better—not because it saves money, but because it makes the project more
> "owned" by the community.
>
>
> בתאריך שבת, 14 בדצמ׳ 2019, 09:12, מאת John Erling Blad :
>
> > I get a little scared when I read “probably, but
For those interested: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-device-adapt-1/
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:47 PM John Erling Blad wrote:
>
> Could we please update them with a slightly more up-to-date skin?
>
> Take a look at our Norwegian competitor in the lexicon field.
> https://snl.no/kuns
I get a little scared when I read “probably, but not necessarily,
mostly by staff” because all kind of central standardization creates a
whole lot of arguing in the individual subprojects. If that
standardization means changing a whole lot of templates I'm afraid it
will create much more fighting t
A skin does not have to change the content, most of the skin is chrome
and can be changed without touching the content at all.
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 1:12 AM Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
wrote:
>
> Multiple responses:
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 10:07 AM Juergen Fenn wrote:
>
> > Am 12.12.19 um 02:25
design, for something aside from the
> content to absolutely overwhelm the whole monitor on a first view. That
> robot image should be about a third of its size.
>
> Todd
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 4:22 PM John Erling Blad wrote:
>
> > Try holding your cellphone vert
huge photo of a robot looking at me. I have to scroll down past
> that to get to the actual meat, the text content. *That* looks like 1996.
>
> I'll take the way we have it over that, thanks very much.
>
> Todd
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 2:48 PM John Erling Blad wrote:
at 2:01 PM John Erling Blad wrote:
>
> I wrote 1996 in the subject field because that was the year I made a
> wikisite with tabbed interface, and experimented with a paper-like
> design in Xt. More or less what designers today would call a material
> design. The present design i
it. The design proposal was deemed to radical and
to simple for Wikipedia. He got several awards for the design.
No, I'm not a designer, but I do like good design.
On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 1:34 PM John Erling Blad wrote:
>
> Thank you, but discussing how your site or any other sp
Thank you, but discussing how your site or any other specific site
looked like in some year is an distraction.
On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 12:30 PM Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
> Hi John!
>
> On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 22:47:21 +0100
> John Erling Blad wrote:
>
> > Could we please update t
xperience (and the beta mode
> there is super cool, but still breaks some templates).
>
> Strainu
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:48 PM John Erling Blad wrote:
> >
> > > Could we please update them with a slightly more up-to-date skin?
> > >
Could we please update them with a slightly more up-to-date skin?
Take a look at our Norwegian competitor in the lexicon field.
https://snl.no/kunstig_intelligens
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On Mon, Sep 30, 2019, 10:27 AM Nicole Ebber
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Hi everyone,
>
> We recently held the harmonization sprint in Tunis [1], where
> representatives from each working group met in
surmount the barriers to join in that I am now facing. John, John
DeBruyn, HTTP://debruyn.com, 303-919-4840
On Sun, Sep 29, 2019, 3:44 PM LiAnna Davis wrote:
Reminder: This meeting is tomorrow: Monday, September 30, from 17:00 UTC to
> 18:30 UTC
>
> Join here: https://zoom.us/j/876197184
&
Most extraordinary, all involved are to be congratulated, and
most importantly the Basque People and their Representatives who have
through their Government rendered such generous financial support, an
Example to the World.
With Personal and Warm Regards, Sincerely, John, John DeBruyn, Denver
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[1] https://censoredplanet.org/kazakhstan/live
On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 2:43 PM John Erling Blad wrote:
> You are right. “Firefox and Chrome disable pin validation for pinned hosts
> whose validated certificate chain terminates at
efault.
>
> On Sun, 28 Jul 2019, 12:58 John Erling Blad, wrote:
>
> > The Kazakhstan MITM could be stopped by HTTP Public Key Pinning [1], but
> > Chrome seems to have dropped support for HPKP[2]? Dropping HPKP made the
> > MITM attack possible, by forcing the users to insta
The Kazakhstan MITM could be stopped by HTTP Public Key Pinning [1], but
Chrome seems to have dropped support for HPKP[2]? Dropping HPKP made the
MITM attack possible, by forcing the users to install the root certificate,
as many of the sites listed has been on the HPKP list. With HPKP in place
the
Where, at what web address or URL would I be able confirm that what I
posted during the meeting was received and sent out to the other folks who
were participating in the meeting? Thanks, much appreciated, John DeBruyn
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 11:39 AM Sasha Redkina wrote:
This meeting is starting
so terrible it cannot be named, but oddly was not
> worth a global ban but only the equivalent of a 12 month block on
> Wikipedia while they are free to do whatever they feel like on other
> Wikimedia projects.
>
> Fae
> --
> fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User
When you bad mouth other users there should be, and will be, consequences.
An admin got desysoped and banned after repeated warnings? So what? The
only ting to be learned is that some people believe they can do whatever
they want and it has no consequences, and other people goes ballistic when
cons
> > One reason; reach.
> >
>
> In academia reach -per se- is not a big deal, while impact is.
Reach leads to impact. You can't get impact without reach, but reach
in non-scientific communities does not necessarily turn into reach in
scientific communities.
> At nowiki we vere approached some year
How often do you expect a scientific article to be translated?
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 7:46 PM James Heilman wrote:
>
> Wiki Journals use CC BY SA. We do not support or want to us ND as that
> would prevent translation into other languages. That is why I disagree with
> Plan S's move to allow ND.
Do editing in a non-indexed draft space and then move the articles
into an indexed mainspace after passing peer review.
I guess a "WikiJournal" should be CC-ND by default. Authors should be
able to relax the license. If others are allowed to edit then the
license should be forced to CC-by-SA.
Aut
One reason; reach. At nowiki we vere approached some years ago by a
university about publishing cutting edge research in fish farming. We
could not publish their work because some claimed it to be "original
research". Sure it was, and it was darn good original research too. I
don't think that was a
al_of_Science/RIG-I_like_receptors>
> ).
>
> Thomas
>
> On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 at 14:18, John Erling Blad wrote:
>
> > How do you handle lock down of articles? That is only listed authors should
> > write a given article, so you can't allow random user edi
How do you handle lock down of articles? That is only listed authors should
write a given article, so you can't allow random user edit access as it is
today.
Jeblad
man. 3. jun. 2019, 04.16 skrev Thomas Shafee :
> Yes, we put together a little checklist back in round one (*link*
> <
> https://en
uot; and as good
> practice it should always be easy for the reader to navigate to the
> unenhanced original.
>
> Fae
> --
> fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
>
> On Tue, 28 May 2019 at 02:23, John Erling Blad wrote:
> >
> > A quite commo
A quite common problem at all Wikimedia sites; we have a photo but the
quality is poor. An example is the old photo from the cabins at
Mørkedalen where a group of fighters hid out during the invasion of
Norway.[1]
I've been using some manual tools to restore images, but it is very
slow and the res
" which is something you
typically drive on a road, but it can also be part of a train, or a
toy.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word2vec
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_neural_network
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triplet_loss
On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 2:55 PM John Erling Bla
Microsoft has unveiled an idea about a grammar and style tool for
Word. [1] I proposed something similar for detecting problematic
grammatical constructs in the content translation tools.[2] It is a
couple of years ago now, and I closed the task.
[1]
https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/06/microsoft-d
To be an organization so devoted to knowledge, Wikimedia as such (the
projects communities included) knows very little about epistemology. A
collection of mere facts, even referenced, is nothing more than
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of EXIF data, we the issue remain.
>
> Regards,
> Yann
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>
>
>
> Le mar. 14 mai 2019 à 10:00, John Erling Blad a écrit :
>
> > Again; what is different betw
Again; what is different between me as a photographer taking pictures for a
newspaper and me as a photograper taking pictures for Commons? Is it the
name written om the lens? The shoes I'm wearing?
There are no difference, this is a fallacy.
John Erling Blad
/jeblad
tir. 14. mai 2019,
Some years ago I did a quite simplified analysis of the number of
active contributors, and normalized the number against the number of
people wit internet connections for the respective language groups.
The relative number was pretty similar for all languages from similar
cultural groups. I suspect
Trying to explain European copyright to Americans can be
quite hard…
;)
On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 6:07 AM Yann Forget wrote:
>
> Hi James,
>
> Of course. More admins would lesser the work charge, and it would be great.
> We specially appreciate admins with multi-language capabilities, as it is a
This is wrong: "The upload system allow you to upload something if you
are the author. Period."
The system as it is now will allow anyone to upload a file given (s)he
has the necessary rights. That does not imply the uploader being the
author of the material.
Note that verifying whether the uploa
I can imagine a bot comparing photos found by Google (ie. comparing
hashes) but not a system extracting some kind of unique feature that
says an image is a copyright violation. So how do you imagine ORES
being used for copyright violations? I can't see how a copyright
violation would have any kind
I have proposed use of local sensitive hashing algorithms for at least
three different purposes in the past. All being turned down. Probably
it is due to LSHs being difficult to understand, and not to forget it
is a fairly bit of fighting over what is and whats not a "real" LSH.
In the past there h
pedia is considered so
important for the infrastructure of the Internet. We are very happy that
the agreement does not have an end date and that we have the possibility to
grow significantly over time as well (while keeping the generous subsidy).
Please contact John Andersson (john.a
Anyone noticed the terse tech notice in november?
"When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic"
citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able
to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a
book in this tab. This will search the Cros
We should be using a grid for what people are reading about, instead
of using countries. That will give a better representation of large
countries vs small countries. It will also better reflect local ethnic
groups.
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 1:53 PM Amir E. Aharoni
wrote:
>
> בתאריך יום א׳, 10 במר
> is most likely not considered to be ok even if does not explicitly
> contradict to any policies.
>
> Cheers
> Yaroslav
>
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 5:07 PM John Erling Blad wrote:
>
> > I was thinking about actually bounties, like in bug bounties from
> > larger
review. And rather than driving people away, they tend to draw them
> in—Cunningham's law[2] never fails.
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ENGVAR
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 6:55 PM John Erling Blad
Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has over a half a million articles.
About 10 % lack sources. Nearly all of them has spelling errors. It is
nothing unusual about this.
Could we use bounties to get some momentum?
John Erling Blad
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[0]
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[2] WMDE's and WMSE's tech teams will share knowledge and insights
ongoingly as part of the project - I am very excited about more
inter-affiliate cooperation.
Kind regards and happy holidays,
John
PS. If funded we will be looking to hire at
see what type of speech recordings can
and should be stored on Wikimedia Commons and what kind of metadata should
be included there; this project will help us clarify the needs.
Please contact John Andersson (john.anders...@wikimedia.se) if you have any
questions.
As always, you can find the full
Hi all, after talking to community members at the London meetup yesterday,
I want to suggest that we start running a monthly skillshare after work at
the Wikimedia UK office. It would be good to organise a 12 month programme
with skillshares on things like 'getting an article to featured article
st
by using the highly
specialized rdf2vec algorithm (hello Copenhagen) and verifying the stateful
language model (hello Helsinki and Tromsø).
I wonder if the only real problems are what do the community want, and what
is the acceptable error limit.
John
rmstatbank.am/pxweb/en/ArmStatBank/>, State Statistical Office of
the Republic of Macedonia
<http://www.stat.gov.mk/OtvoreniPodatociApi_en.aspx>, Basque Institute of
Statistics <http://en.eustat.eus/bancopx/english/indice.html>
Note also the grant proposal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Idea
Hello,
Additional details for the May dictionary attack and the 2016 OurMine
attack have been provided at:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/blog/view/13/
Thanks
John Bennett
On Mon, 2018-08-27 at 12:13 -0500, John Bennett wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The Security team will be putting t
utions with specific types of collections that
would like to work with the Wikimedia movement.
Please contact the project manager John Andersson (
john.anders...@wikimedia.se) if you have any questions. If you are
interested to take part, please sign up on the project portal at Meta:
Hi Giselle,
You can read more about the project in English here:
https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Strategisk_inkludering_av_biblioteksdata_på_Wikidata_2018/Background
Best,
John
Den mån 27 aug. 2018 18:24Wikimedia Argentina
skrev:
> Congrats! Open data is the present and future
Hello,
The Security team will be putting together a brief summary of events
for both of these incidents and plan on sharing an overview by Sept
7th.
Thanks
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Executive Director
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Phone: +
Just wanted to make you all aware of a useful new feature of the Wikipedia
mobile app. You can share text from any Wikipedia page as a nice image by
highlighting it, pressing share, and then choosing the app you want to
share it to, like Twitter. See the images attached. Hope you all find this
usef
Congratulations from Norway!
*NOTICE: This message is not confidential or legally privileged in any way!
;)
On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 6:14 PM Eileen Hershenov
wrote:
> Congratulations
>
> On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 1:36 AM Thierry Coudray wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > La grande nouvelle du jour
good mix of activities and I hope you will be able to scale even further
in the years to come. I must also say that I am impressed by the large
number of media mentions you've already managed to achieve.
Best,
John
- - - -
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Executive Director
Wikimedia Sverige
Phone: +46(0)73-39
estions, please contact
the Support and Safety team (susa{{@}}wikimedia.org).
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Director of Security, Wikimedia Foundation
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Password_strength_requirements
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ChangePassword
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I wonder if some of the problem is that we have made a mash-up of policies
and guidelines on the same pages, thereby making it very hard for newcomers
to figure out what they must know and all the stuff that is simply nice to
know. Take a look at Verifiability at enwiki. [1] How much of this is
rea
This is slightly more complex. Some projects have a very large and steady
decline, especially in new contributors,[1] while some projects have an
increase, especially in the established users group.[2] Why it is so is not
clear at all, but some editors favor an idea that other sites like Facebook
h
We do need better tools to curate the existing articles, but that is not a
blocker for new ways to create and edit articles.
For example, what if we could simply select a sentence, create a query on
some search engine, and then have an ai-bot crawl the result to see if one
of the hits can be used
Using a term from another language while creating an article and then later
localizing that term isn't that difficult, and should not be described as
impossible. What it does although identifies a problem with our current
production system; it is easy to move an article, but it is not easy to
make
third
person within the local community, to accept the translation as valid and
good enough. After it is ticked off as "done" further payment of that
specific article will stop.
On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 11:27 AM, John Erling Blad wrote:
> You guys are making the whole idea way to comple
You guys are making the whole idea way to complex. There should be no
editorial board. That goes against the whole wiki-way of doing things.
There should be no additional foundation, that makes the whole idea
unmanageable. It will also cost way more than the gain.
Make thing DarnSimple™! A single
There are something similar to paid translations in what you may call
prioritized articles. That is articles that are so important for a language
that they should be written, no matter whether they exist in a larger
language.
For example in the Northern Sami Wikipedia there should be an article ab
That is a very good example!
On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Harald Haugland wrote:
> This thread brought me to think of an article I wrote on Norwegian
> Wikipedia about a year ago. It was about the Allex Project (African
> Languages Lexical Project), a project where universities in Oslo,
>
gt; We can do a better job by providing the sum of all knowledge that is
> available to us.
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
> On 25 February 2018 at 15:16, John Erling Blad wrote:
>
> > Sorry, but this does not make sense. The core articles apply globally.
> > There will
we open up for creative brainstorming
> > (among the ones having the need) I think very many other ways can turn
> up.
> > Myself I am deeply impressed what you can create using Wikidata as a base
> > source of info, and being from a version of type 3 I see how much my
> > homeversion
ting in this thread *may* create such a critical mass. It also needs
> bold leaders, who will take it upon themselves Languages that are developed
> today went through periods of directed development in the past; Lomonosov
> did it for Russian, Diderot did it for French, and so on. This can
I like this!
+1000!!
On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 11:07 PM, Info WorldUniversity <
i...@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
> John and All,
>
> As a possible complement to this discussion, CC-4 MIT
> OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School seeks to matriculate
>
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