Take a look at the new project for kosovo, thanks to ipko and arianit
http://wikiacademykosovo.org/
Photo contest and article improvement, nice job!
mike
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James Michael DuPont
Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org
Saving wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion
Hi there,
there is an upcoming local event in kosovo that I would ilke to tell you
about.
if anyone is interested in taking part in this , please tell me and or
arianit. Also we are interested in getting swag from wikimedia as well for
this.
Arianit is organizing this. (website is coming) :
Here is my new suggestion with the colors, and the backpack has a wikipedia
patch on it :
[image: Inline image 1]
here is the version without the patch in case someone thinks it might be a
problem to include it :
[image: Inline image 2]
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup
please consider my latest logo :
[image: Inline image 1]
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.orgwrote:
I don't object to look at it - please do :) I just suggest to delay the
voting (and submission deadline) until a few days after the formal decision
has been made
to the logo.
I like those compass needle versions, by the way. The logo should be
not too complicated, and include the colours of Wikimedia.
Kind regards
Ziko
2012/10/6 Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com:
please consider my latest logo :
[image: Inline image 1]
On Sat, Oct 6
I love it! great stuff! wikipedia edit heatmaps is what we need!
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
Folks, if this has already been brought to the List, please excuse the
repetition. If not, enjoy;
Hi there,
It looks like Trent Franks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks)
is a fan of wikipedia, but needs some information about how it works.
He quotes Wikipedia, ``One year after the Fort Hood shooting, the
motivations of the perpetrator were not yet established.'', maybe he
needs to
on the copyright page they say that the content is mostly cc-by-sa
http://en.goldenmap.com/stylesheets/terms.php
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Delirium delir...@hackish.org wrote:
It looks like a direct scrape, even to the extent of having some internal
links being broken because they didn't
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Michel Vuijlsteke wikipe...@zog.orgwrote:
And we may want to consider if it is really _everyone_ we want
to edit our articles.
I don't believe you actually said this.
I would say this is a theme that I have seen on the wikipedia. People dont
have time to
Well I am listening, am open to criticism and willing to put work into
helping,
but as l long as I can continue legally and morally I will.
But I will have to spend more time to review the known copyright violations
and I am going to make some program to watch and flag articles that are
known
at 12:15 PM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 1:57 AM, Mike Dupont
jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote:
The articles are hosted on archive.org, and then transfered to wikia,
I could make some review tools, but where to host them?
mike
Well, why do you want
you plan to address it?
Newyorkbrad
On 6/10/12, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi,
I have launched speedydeletion.wika.com , it is updated every 30
minutes
with the proposed deletions and speedy deletion articles (not notable
and
hoaxes, not others
, not listed in search
engines.
Have you looked into hosting the articles at Internet Archive? This
seems like a better place than Wikia, at least before the articles are
manually reviewed.
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Mike Dupont
jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote:
John, and others
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 10:27 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 21 July 2012 22:33, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
wrote:
John, and others.
I have finally figured out a big problem with my plan. The articles for
deletion are not tagged peoperly at all. There are authors
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Delirium delir...@hackish.org wrote:
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.
Would it be possible to get copies of the older non-notable articles?
I would like to add them all to speedydeletion.wikia.com
thanks,
mike
James Michael DuPont
Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org
Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org
,
Kim Bruning
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 dont want to deal with stuff like that,
mike
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Mike Dupont
jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
well i decided to delete them, and other articles dealing with peoples
personal lives.
I dont want to deal with stuff like that,
mike
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Mike Dupont
jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote:
Well you think i should delete them from the speedydeletion wikia?
http
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internet_Defense_League I wonder why
it was not deleted yet. considering that established artists and
doctors are speedily deleted, why not them?
mike
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Philippe Beaudette
phili...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Internet Defense League
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On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internet_Defense_League I wonder why
the address is http://www.wikivoyage.org/
what is the difference to wikitravel.org? well it is in german and
italian, and missing information on places that are in the wikitravel.
For the würzburg article it seems pretty good at first glance it seems better
Well, lets see the speedy deletion wiki was just launched,
15 December 2010 it was deleted. I will have to make a plan for
getting older articles, they would be possible to get, but it is
outside of our time window right now.
mike
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:48 AM, David Richfield
://archive.org/download/wikipedia-delete-2012-06/wtarchive130612111041.zip
code is here github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/pywikipediabot and
github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/wikiteam
mike
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:45 AM, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
wrote:
yes, good point, and while checking this I found
...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:44:40AM +, Mike Dupont wrote:
Hi,
Again the full history is available on archive.org and i think that no
one
is going to think that this data is from me, it is clearly marked as
being
from wikipedia.
ps. It occurs to me that if the full
Hi,
I have launched speedydeletion.wika.com , it is updated every 30 minutes
with the proposed deletions and speedy deletion articles (not notable and
hoaxes, not others).
it is running on the en.wikipedia.org. the sources for the script are all
on git hub and are a merger of pywikipediabot and
viewable at
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Email_disclaimer
Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk
On 10 June 2012 18:29, Juergen Fenn schneeschme...@googlemail.com wrote:
2012/6/10 Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com:
I have launched speedydeletion.wika.com
What I really find upsetting is that PBS produces videos that cannot
be watched out side of the states, it really upsets me.
Also in germany, it is just unbearable, these copyright trolls called
GEMA take away all the fun of youtube.
mike
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Richard Symonds
Hello People,
I have completed my first set in uploading the osm/fosm dataset (350gb
unpacked) to archive.org
http://osmopenlayers.blogspot.de/2012/05/upload-finished.html
We can do something similar with wikipedia, the bucket size of
archive.org is 10gb, we need to split up the data in a way
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 6:06 AM, John phoenixoverr...@gmail.com wrote:
If your willing to foot the bill for the new hardware
Ill gladly prove my point
given the millions of dollars that wikipedia has, it should not be a
problem to provide such resources for a good cause like that.
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James
Well to be honest, I am still upset about how much data is deleted
from wikipedia because it is not notable,
there are so many articles that I might be interested in that are lost
in the same garbage as spam and other things.
We should make non notable articles and non harmful ones available in
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Carmen yarru...@charter.net wrote:
The WMF should stop pretending it's politically neutral (NPOV).
+1
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James Michael DuPont
Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org
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Arianit Dobroshi has been working on getting free access in kosovo from
ipko,
mike
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Denny Vrandečić
denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote:
I mentioned Wikipedia Zero in the last few talks that I gave about
Wikidata, and I always got great feedback on that part. I
Yes, I also found it upsetting, but I decided to bring this topic up as
someone had sent it to me,
and thought that it is better that we know about what is going on before it
hits us and we dont know about it.
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote:
I find this context
Trying to Search the index
http://www.vatican.va/library_archives/vat_library/index.htm
give a dead link
http://bav.vatican.va/en/v_home_bav/home_bav.shtml
the index of the secret (not really secret
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_Secret_Archives)
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