That said, one should use the right tool for the right job. As it
stands, how would you argue that wikimedia and wikipedia (organizations
that depend on being neutral) would be the right place for this mission,
specifically with this wording?
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2
here was still work to be done in dec 2020 at the least.
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FWIW YMMV,
Executive Summary:
==
* I looked into Stable Diffusion recently. BEWARE: The actual technical and
legal
situation on the ground with these systems is VERY different from what -say-
twitter
will lead you to believe. Also :Everything you know will be wrong and out
Hello Cuncutator,
I think there's several lines of thought on this.
On what theory would you argue that ChatGPT is violating Wiki[p|m]edia
copyright?
(If you've already posted reasoning elsewhere, or if someone else has
posted an opinion you happen to agree with; I'd be happy to read a link
as w
Hmm,
I'd be interested to hear a nuanced opinion from [[User:Gmaxwell]],
if still active.
sincerely,
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 08:47:38AM +0100, Vi to wrote:
> Long overdue!
>
> Vito
>
> Il giorno mar 11 gen 2022 alle ore 04:25 GorillaWarfare <
> gorillawarfarewikipe...@gmail.com>
Closest to what you're assking would be this new design
for federated wiki by Ward Cunningham:
http://fed.wiki.org/
(May still have some bugs.)
No idea if realistic to convert.
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Kim Bruning
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:41:27AM +0200, Erik Aas wrote:
> Hello,
&
help our own cause now, we need to be careful we don't
hurt the people we depend on in turn.
People such as the open source community and internet standards
organisations might prove quite sensitive to changing Internet rules.
We should put our ears to the ground and listen carefully to wh
I think that making us not-a-source-of-referred-traffic might
be a good thing. (It disincentivises those
who should be disincentivised, while not harming
anyone else)
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 09:21:57AM -0700, Pete Forsyth wrote:
> There's a relevant
ed in some
country and at what thresholds promoted? Are there
documents/analysis online?
sincerely,
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On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:07:02PM +0100, Kim Bruning wrote:
>
> Washington post article
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/11/25/wikipedias-complic
ses in practice.
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Kim
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:07:02PM +0100, Kim Bruning wrote:
>
> Washington post article
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/11/25/wikipedias-complicated-relationship-with-net-neutrality/
On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 01:22:00AM +0800, Russavia wrote:
> Hi all
>
> If you receive an email purporting to be from myself and it's not from this
> email addy (and with an IINET IP), you can be assured it is not myself.
Glad to hear it wasn't you!
> If I wanted to troll you all, you all know t
On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 10:26:19PM +0100, Thyge wrote:
> I reported the group for spamming. Adding me and others without our consent
> and sending unsolicited emails must be stopped somehow.
Idem here. Was listed, unsubscribed, reported for spamming.
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k I work for has the policy to hunt down, find, and
prosecute every single fraud at all costs, and to the fullest extent
possible under law. They do so as a matter of honour. Suffice to say
this does tend to reduce the incidence of fraud in the country O:-)
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[
toxic pretty quickly ... once
you started throwing around insults like confetti. ;-)
You were trying to get indeffed on purpose, right!?
Only sane explanation.
Wikis are like pokemon, gotta get indeffed from them all!
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[*] NSFL WARNING: do not look up why Russavia
Washington post article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/11/25/wikipedias-complicated-relationship-with-net-neutrality/
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Just following up,
Has WMNL now received the sought information?
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On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 08:42:01AM +0100, Lodewijk wrote:
> It seems everyone agrees it is an important method (although I'm not 100%
> sure that the US based people running the fundr
To amplify:
Paying (business) taxes in The Netherlands now pretty much requires
electronic payment to an IBAN Account; a.k.a. it is (now) the standard,
default, baseline way to make payments at all.
After registering a business, the very next action is to open an (IBAN)
account. All extant dutc
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 09:04:11PM +0100, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
> Kim Bruning, 12/11/2014 19:40:
> >
> > I found this document/research paper on wikipedia user retention; FWIW
> >
> > http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_and_Decline/
>
I found this document/research paper on wikipedia user retention; FWIW
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_and_Decline/
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I suppose things actually are already pretty Interesting.
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Ha, you'd think so! ;-)
In reality so far, the only known application was to lock the common.js
at de.wikipedia, to prevent some crazy admin(s) from breaking the wiki.
Which incidentally shows that "will not break the wiki" really IS the
minimal admin criterion, and is not trivial at all }:-)
Hope to see you again soon in whatever your next capacity may be!
sincerely,
Kim Bruning
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 07:59:45PM +0200, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
> Dear colleagues, collaborators and friends of free knowledge,
>
> After three eventful years I left the board of Wikimedia
Did they have issues with eg. templates at top of page?
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:13:08AM -0600, Victor Grigas wrote:
> I interviewed 2 gentlemen who are both blind who use a program called JAWS on
> desktop machines that reads the Wikipedia page to them, allowing them to
> edit.
>
> > On Jan
e thing won't happen to us"
or "Esperanza is behind us now".
This is blatantly not true. Just look at the state of en.wikipedia!
We're going to have to do a lot of work to get things koving again :-/
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possibly by use of DRN or similar.
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(does mean we know where to start looking though)
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shooting gallery?
Conspire with the Twinkle/Huggle writers to implement [[poka-yoke]]
(mistake-proofed) UI and workflow changes, so that that course of action
becomes difficult?
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On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 04:13:20PM -0800, George Herbert wrote:
> >
> > Note: Adds a threshold, thus negatively influences editor retention.
> >
> But we need to understand what's wrong with the current way of doing things as
> part of the discussion.
Consider a famous example in Japan: Several
uld be limited
> to only flagged newbie helpers.
Technically, you could get very close by just creating a separate wiki for new
users and new articles. (replacing the current AFC process).
Simplest thing that could possibly work. + we have a precedent
(nupedia->wikipedia)
rticle talk page first, rather than going directly to editing the
> actual article...
Note: Adds a threshold, thus negatively influences editor retention.
sincerely,
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Maybe we need some sort of course/book "wiki-process design for
dummies".
able branch wikipedia".
(And cherry-pick from there). This proposal has the upside that it uses proven
technology and processes ;-)
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f consensus, that's what
> is left.
Consensus != Anarchy. And we've actually had [[WP:CONSENSUS]] nailed down pretty
hard, with process diagrams and everything. People keep disbelieving the hard
definitions and watering things down though.
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(IMO anyw
Look at procedures used for elections in Iraqs system: first they taught
everyone how democracy worked, *then* they held an election. If they'd just held
elections without ever teaching anyone what that means, they'd have gotten a(n
even bigger) mess. :-P
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c
trifecta NOR, RS, V. The unstable branch concentrates more on the
wiki trifecta NPOV/DICK/IAR(+BOLD).
When articles on unstable are deemed good enough, they can be transferred to
nupedi...pardon... wikipedia stable.
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I've also tested a few of the knwn terms myself.
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g need, (and if you can find
me): call me, beep me, and I might yet take a look.
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ps. For reasons, I'd like to stress that this applies to fetching CC-licensed
content
only; as created by CC-licensors only; as permitted by that license only. -Which
applies to m
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:47:42AM -0700, Erik Moeller wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> a quick update on the launch of a travel project under the WMF
> umbrella, and the import of the existing Wikivoyage site.
<3 <3 <3
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uages.
How realistic is this? If at all realistic, would this cause trouble for some
of our (less common language) projects?
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 05:19:19PM -0700, George Herbert wrote:
> I'm curious as to the internal view of the details, but... this is
> Violet Blue blogging about us.
Violet Blue is a known quantity to you?
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Spotted this in my news feed,
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57514677-93/corruption-in-wikiland-paid-pr-scandal-erupts-at-wikipedia/
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That's one step better than I was hoping for,
If all y'all are already in close contact with Erik, then I'm
no longer needed in this phase. :-)
(unless I can help with setup, or getting more data, or etc.)
Good luck, and have fun! :-)
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PS.
next steps? Will the foundation first wait for all
lawsuits to resolve, or will they start with working on providing the
servers? What's the current time-frame?
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(Haven't spotted at HN or Reddit yet.)
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For those interested, a quick reminder:
The travel guide RFC will (soft) close in 1 hour, 17 minutes as of the
moment this mail is sent. (At 0:00, 23 August 2012 (UTC))
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Travel_Guide
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esses and see where we can make them more efficient, thus freeing
up those same volunteer for other things.
(in theory;-)
Yes I know that volunteer time isn't 100% fungible, but saving volunteers time
certainly won't hurt editor
retention or process throughput. ;-)
sincerely,
ciate your feedback -- it's this kind of case that
motivates us to keep working on our algorithms so we can get people the
information they need as quickly as possible.- Google Spokesperson, July 2nd
2012"
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y not be obvious.
>
> Is there something like a "task list for new projects"? Something like:
>
Chenneling Siebrand and Gerard:
Go to translatewiki.net and translate the UI for your language? (if not already
done)
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skin, it's the only skin that
has serif fonts for body text. :-/
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e probably can't get 100% of readers to give something back, but we
can definitely do better than the meager fraction-of-1% we have now.
Our policies/procedures/work-patterns have swung a little too far
encyclopedia-ward. We need to get the pendulum swinging back
wiki-ward for a w
ing us
WIMPs
who *do* know how to use Windows Icons Menus and Pointers) whether they
want to or not." I KL YOU
* Else If your answer is "better DTPishlayout control in CSS, including some
sane way to
do proper columnated text": YES YES, 1000 TIMES YES!
* Else If other:
Better would be to keep those articles, and also (at some point) to preserve
TVTropes.
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On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 06:17:57PM +, Mike Dupont wrote:
> well i decided to delete them, and other articles dealing with peoples
> personal lives.
> I don
epartments at Google than TV
Tropes does. It might be useful to enquire?
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 08:41:04PM +0100, geni wrote:
> On 26 June 2012 19:02, Kim Bruning wrote:
> > In the mean time, the discussed tropes *do* exist in our culture and in our
> > movies. It
> > somehow feels soviet. :-/
>
> A significant chunk of them would proba
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 08:02:55PM +0200, Kim Bruning wrote:
>
> Wow, thank goodness we never had advertising. The TV-Tropes wiki has been
> forced to censor a
> number of pages due to advertiser pressure.
The wiki-community is apparantly working on it:
http://tvtrope
feels soviet. :-/
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e're friends with the FSF. ;-)
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The FSF is not very pleased about being classified as a gambling site.
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/dear-microsoft-fsf.org-is-not-a-gambling-site
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Apparantly this is current, recent, and crowd-sourcing would help.
OCR/Correcting a card catalogue is not very sexy though.
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help digitize these records fit in our mission
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making plenty of positive progress, but we do have to
keep our eyes open for (potential) pernicious potholes in the road.
If someone shouts "look out", we should definitely stop and look, just to be
sure. ;-)
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x27;t read it yet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive:_The_Surprising_Truth_About_What_Motivates_Us
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7;obvious' place to start.
Wow, current state of affairs is (paraphrased)
"new users are not welcome"? :-(
That might explain some issues!
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full history is available on archive.org, that
linking to the relevant archive.org data might be adequate.
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t just the authors. :-P
If you're getting page data in some different format, sure. :-)
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On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:47:31AM +0100, Thomas Morton wrote:
> This has been debated numerous times; to what extent does the attribution
> have to relate to the exact
ewhere also?
I know the mediawiki export/import functions support this, and work
via GET request.
see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export
eg:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/Train
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namic assignment option does alleviate some people's privacy
concerns, right?
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ps. We all know that everyone needs to switch to IPv6 eventually.
Don't be surprised when people in your neighborhood decide to do
u take that into account, it's quite usable. (I always Use
Brain(tm) in combination satnav anyway, so I've hardly noticed, myself)
Note that OSMAndroid supports multiple online routing providers as well as
its own local-CPU algorithm. YMMV (literally! ;)
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tly for me.
I'm going to say that this myth is busted ;-)
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here he can get into the proper kinds of trouble. :-)
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On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 01:02:30PM -0700, James Alexander wrote:
> Coffee? ... but not tea?
Despite the stereotype, brits tend to drink more coffee than tea. ;-)
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nowledge to people.
AT ensures that the sum of all human knowledge is not subtracted from.
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need the images to be replicable too though.
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ul and important exercise; possibly to be repeated once per
year.
I get a sneaky feeling that the first few iterations won't go so well.
I'm sure AT would be glad to help out with the running of these fire drills, as
it seems to be in line with their missi
.php?title=Wikiteam
So at the very least, we don't appear to have very good
documentation. Who could best help Archive Team out? Has
anyone done/written documentation on completely restoring 1
or more wikimedia wikis from 'public backup' [1]?
What can we do to help them?
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ward to visiting a place with sane border customs
practices for a
change ;-)
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t up after
> > the bidding process is complete.
> >
>
> If the community want to include anti-censorship (and or numerous other
> possible complaints) as one of the requirements, then good luck finding
> any city in the world to host Wikimania.
Rejkyavik? :-)
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See
http://imgur.com/gallery/v7RRz
I wonder if someone could make and wear that for real? (Also, we need
wikipe-tan in that dress, of course!)
O:-)
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