molehills, wikidramas out of
off-the-cuff remarks. Is there not an encyclopedia that needs editing?
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start taking TomCoins I'll be happy to give you
a million of them. No, wait, how about a billion?
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On 24 September 2013 at 12:56:18, David Gerard (dger...@gmail.com) wrote:
fyi
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of grizzled wiki-veterans try out the Visual Editor, realise it isn't
for them and stick with editing markup, that's not a failure for the Visual
Editor, that's a win for freedom of choice.
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ation fundraising shows that OpenStreetMap is perhaps experiencing the
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and so on. In these discussions, frequent
reference is made to Wikimedia as a big sister. ;-)
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rant about the perceived
injustice of wanting to encourage women to edit Wikipedia (I know, pass the
smelling salts, what a radical idea), but there's a solution for that: report
it to the mods and move on.
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_
)
Now the Foundation just need to do the same for Wikipedia and the other
Wikimedia projects with VisualEditor, right...?
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There's also this:
http://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2013/05/06/orphans-much-ado-about-what/
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On Saturday, 4 May 2013 at 16:32, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Tomasz Ganicz (mailto:polime...@gmail.com)> wrote:
> &
services. We implicitly waste the time of
people who don't use social sharing services or who, say, are trying to
undermine the social services by building their own. [1]
Browsers already come with a social media sharing service: it's called
copy'n'paste.
and so on.
As for IRC, while it may not be a dating service, there is occasional campy,
flirty silliness. :-)
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ing against my
> right to fly first class everywhere. My champagne glass won't refill
> itself, you know!
Next time someone balks at my day rate, I'm just going to say "I need a new
Ferrari and twenty new Hugo Boss suits a year or you'll feel the force of a
discriminatio
tly are
Chapters trying to do now that they are failing at that necessitates
the creation of the WCA?
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Does this mean Wikinews might get an app for Android and iOS? ;-)
On Jan 17, 2013 4:41 PM, "Matthew Roth" wrote:
> (This press release is also available online at:
>
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_Knight_News_Challenge_winner
> )
>
> Wikimedia Foundatio
week like in
the old days…)
Any plans to make sure things like this don't happen in the future?
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On Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 05:52, Peter Southwood wrote:
> There are two immediately obvious possibilities for this.
> 1 GMT/Univers
ished anything about the official
launch of Wikivoyage? It'd be quite useful to be able to point my enquiring
friends to "oh, this is what the Foundation are saying about it", but
apparently the Foundation aren't saying anything about it.
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and images seems a lot, but many hands makes light
work...
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erly implemented, bidirectional parser implementation rather than an
unspecified bundle of regex and pain is likely to actually make dealing with
complex internationalization (and international text input) issues easier?
Congrats to James and his team for all their hard work.
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On Friday, 30 November 2012 at 11:41, Richard Symonds wrote:
> I think WMUK might be able to host something, (possibly) - especially if
> Tom Morris is around to help!
That sounds like an awful lot of work. I only got into OpenStreetMap because
mapping rural footpaths was rather less str
ing to produce an "open crawl of the web" (much as Google,
Bing etc. have for their search engines).
Now that the copyvio bot is down, I'm wondering if someone would be
interested in building something that used the Common Cra
thical Man Month points out, you can't just keep on adding programmers if you
want it done faster. Software development teams don't actually scale that well.
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th
the Kutcher and Bieber case, there's a lot of "I don't like it, therefore it
can't be notable!"
I just cannot see any legitimate argument for deletion being presented. They
all basically boil down to "don't like it!"
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certain Anders Behring Breivik, he of
killing-a-whole-bunch-of-Norwegian-teenagers fame, cited the EDL admiringly in
his book-length manifesto.
To say the name is sub-optimal is a major understatement.
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dia founder, etc.
It's almost as if what the press say and what the facts are in reality are two
different things that have only a very tenuous relationship.
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On Wednesday, 27 June 2012 at 17:56, Nathan wrote:
> Jimmy is not Wikipedia. What about that is hard to understand?
The whole point about deliberate obfuscation is that it's supposed to blur that
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naughty pics and doesn't interfere with editing. It also reduces the need for
any servers.
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On Saturday, 16 June 2012 at 23:51, Tobias Oelgarte wrote:
> Am 16.06.2012 23:36, schrieb Tom Morris:
> > On Saturday, 16 June 2012 at 20:21, Tobias Oelgarte wrote:
> > > That means they already found a solution to their problem that includes
> > > the whole web
"Suggestive
use of feathers" etc.
It's almost as if the censorware manufacturers are selling products to people
who don't know any better that are ineffective and serve to give piece-of-mind
placebo to people in place of effective access control. Oh,
lot easier a task than preventing people who DO
want to see pictures of naked people from doing so.
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I do apologise. I meant to send this to Wikimediauk-l rather than Wikimedia-l.
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If you go to http://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/ you can donate… insecurely.
If you go to https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/ you can donate… but you get an
SSL certificate error.
This seems like a problem.
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involve people getting
offended doesn't mean that avoiding unnecessary surprise isn't a
laudable goal.
There's surprise in the "reading a book and learning something new"
sense, then there is surprise in the "being told that the book is on
this shelf, but instead it'
re mostly
just tweaking, fixing and maintaining (most of my edits in London are
just metadata improvement rather than actually adding any new shape
information). But if you go and look at many non-Western countries,
you'll find whole towns which just aren't covered
-ios-openstreetmap-credit
[3] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2010-September/053947.html
[4] I hate myself when I write sentences like that.
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to program a self-driving auto.
>
OpenStreetMap is working on whatever the contributors want. ;-)
For some of us, that's footpaths, for some of us it's business
metadata, for some it's mapping out baseball fields, or adding post
boxes or any number of other things.
-
. But when using Google Maps, I
find all sorts of inaccuracies, mostly derived from SEOers spamming
Google Maps. I saw an SEO consultant who managed to get their business
listing bang in the centre of the Houses of Parliament once.
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525724,-0.08722&spn=0.001799,0.005284&sll=51.022157,0.280645&sspn=0.003638,0.014656&oq=Old+Street,+&hnear=Old+St,+London,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=18
Note how OSM shows the location of underpasses, traffic lights, ATMs,
petrol station and bike storage... that's what yo
't stop
licensing works under NC/ND. There's a huge load of NC/ND work out
there already.)
* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OGL
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is, I believe, the "Original
and Best" (in all 57 varieties).*
* The Heinz joke blatantly stolen from Jon Davies at Wikimedia UK.
Anyway, James F. knows more about Wikipedia than most people on the
planet. Good hire.
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On Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 13:34, Anthony wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Tom Morris (mailto:t...@tommorris.org)> wrote:
> > We could also consider the possibility of allowing users to use OpenID or
> > OAuth or whatever the web identity mechanism du jour
username 'Tom Morris' and then some non-WMF wiki reuses it, it may be
attributing it to the local user 'Tom Morris' rather than the Commons user).
Finally, it'd be potentially useful for wikis which use some Wikipedia content
combined with some local content. For instan
Generally, at UK outreach events, there has usually been an enwiki admin or
two around who can create accounts for people. Admins (and accountcreators)
are not subject to account creation limits.
On May 16, 2012 4:23 PM, "Sumana Harihareswara"
wrote:
> When you're running an event, sometimes you
ligious and LGBT minorities. If we wish to include
anti-censorship as one of those requirements, it'd be worth knowing that
up-front so Wikimedians who wish to bid in the future can take that into
account rather than have it brought up after the bidding proces
On the IRC front, I note that Sue last had an IRC office hours session on 13
March and there doesn't seem to be any scheduled sessions with Sue in May.
Might it be an idea to have another office hours session with Sue soon?
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at the
browser level.
[1]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/11/facebook-targeted-advertising-gay-teen_n_1200404.html
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ategories solely because of the BLP-esque issues
Commons often raises and fails to adequately deal with.)
Subjective decisions happen all the time on the projects. There's a
reason why we generally prefer our admins to be made of flesh and
blood rather than just building hyper-intelli
usage
both inside and outside the Wikimedia projects. "Data driven
journalism" is something that's actually flourishing pretty well
without much in the way of open source and free culture, it'd be
interesting from a long-range strategic kind of view how the W
On Tuesday, 10 April 2012 at 18:00, David Gerard wrote:
> Just as long as we can still burn the GFDL at the stake.
Oh sure, no argument there. ;-)
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ve a CC BY NC licensed image than an all
rights reserved image if possible, so long as it doesn't affect the number of
contributed free images we have).
But let's not call for licenses to die or be killed: they serve an important
role in allowing the cautious to get their toes wet.
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