Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-12 Thread Gergő Tisza
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 11:13 AM, David Gerard wrote: > "INFOGALACTIC: an online encyclopedia without bias or thought police" > > Home page: http://infogalactic.com/info/Main_Page > Announcement: http://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/10/project-big-fork- > infogalactic.html >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-12 Thread Alessandro Marchetti
edia.org] On Behalf > Of Alessandro Marchetti > Sent: Wednesday, 12 October 2016 11:40 AM > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic > > I agree with Anders. About the issue of weak/bad/irrelevant/border-line > content management. I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-12 Thread Anders Wennersten
Of Alessandro Marchetti Sent: Wednesday, 12 October 2016 11:40 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic I agree with Anders. About the issue of weak/bad/irrelevant/border-line content management. I don't care about that specific project although I do

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-12 Thread Alessandro Marchetti
day, 12 October 2016 11:40 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic I agree with Anders. About the issue of weak/bad/irrelevant/border-line content management. I don't care about that specific project although I do support plurality in any case. Bu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-12 Thread Chris McKenna
On Wed, 12 Oct 2016, Peter Southwood wrote: I agree. There is a lot of information that could be provided for and by people who are interested in trivia (I am not using the term derogatively - just couldn’t think of a better one). Cheers, P The subject-specific Wikia wikis seem to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-12 Thread Peter Southwood
] On Behalf Of Alessandro Marchetti Sent: Wednesday, 12 October 2016 11:40 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic I agree with Anders. About the issue of weak/bad/irrelevant/border-line content management. I don't care about that specific project

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-12 Thread Alessandro Marchetti
ikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Anders Wennersten Sent: Tuesday, 11 October 2016 12:16 PM To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic I think this initiative point to a weakness in our approach, that is worth discussing, indepe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-12 Thread Peter Southwood
Wikitrivia? Cheers, P -Original Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Anders Wennersten Sent: Tuesday, 11 October 2016 12:16 PM To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic I think

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-11 Thread Anders Wennersten
Franklin Sent: Tuesday, 11 October 2016 8:48 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic So what you're saying is, Vox Day has created a "safe space" where his circle of friends can reinforce each other's biases without interference from t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-11 Thread Peter Southwood
... Cheers, Peter -Original Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Craig Franklin Sent: Tuesday, 11 October 2016 8:48 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic So what you're saying is, Vox

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-11 Thread Craig Franklin
So what you're saying is, Vox Day has created a "safe space" where his circle of friends can reinforce each other's biases without interference from the outside world? Great. Also, "Starlords". Good grief. Cheers, Craig On 11 October 2016 at 04:13, David Gerard wrote: >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-10 Thread HaeB
Background for some of the references in this thread (for people, such as myself, who haven't been following this particular, peculiar corner of the universe closely): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_Day http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Theodore_Beale 2016-10-10 11:13 GMT-07:00 David Gerard

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-10 Thread David Gerard
On 10 October 2016 at 20:50, John Mark Vandenberg wrote: > Ads on the horizon according to > http://infogalactic.com/info/Infogalactic:Roadmap and > https://infogalactic.com/info/Infogalactic:Advertising Well past that: http://infogalactic.com/info/Infogalactic:Corelords -

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-10 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 2016-10-10 6:41 PM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote: That said, "neutrality" has always been philosophically iffy for an encyclopedia pretty much by definition: reality takes sides. To clarify what I mean in relation to that fork - "objectivity" (their second canon) is arguably a much better

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-10 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 2016-10-10 2:13 PM, David Gerard wrote: "INFOGALACTIC: an online encyclopedia without bias or thought police" Why is it people unfailingly mistake "no bias" with "biases that match mine"? That said, "neutrality" has always been philosophically iffy for an encyclopedia pretty much by

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-10 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
Ads on the horizon according to http://infogalactic.com/info/Infogalactic:Roadmap and https://infogalactic.com/info/Infogalactic:Advertising forks are hard... lots of bugs on https://infogalactic.com/info/Infogalactic:Bug_list_for_editors My first Special:Random result was ... a connection

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-10 Thread Tanel Pern
Now, if only he could just go and also found his own damn Sci-Fi award, that would be just great :) 2016-10-10 21:13 GMT+03:00 David Gerard : > "INFOGALACTIC: an online encyclopedia without bias or thought police" > > Home page: http://infogalactic.com/info/Main_Page >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-10 Thread David Gerard
"No, it's not. My designs always work. See: multibutton mice." http://voxday.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/project-big-fork-infogalactic.html#c2393769086409813649 On 10 October 2016 at 20:18, Asaf Bartov wrote: > "Starlords". > > okay. > > A. > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 9:35

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-10 Thread Asaf Bartov
"Starlords". okay. A. On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 9:35 PM geni wrote: > S > > On 10 October 2016 at 19:13, David Gerard wrote: > > "INFOGALACTIC: an online encyclopedia without bias or thought police" > > > > Home page:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-10 Thread geni
S On 10 October 2016 at 19:13, David Gerard wrote: > "INFOGALACTIC: an online encyclopedia without bias or thought police" > > Home page: http://infogalactic.com/info/Main_Page > Announcement: > http://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/10/project-big-fork-infogalactic.html > Roadmap:

[Wikimedia-l] A new Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

2016-10-10 Thread David Gerard
"INFOGALACTIC: an online encyclopedia without bias or thought police" Home page: http://infogalactic.com/info/Main_Page Announcement: http://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/10/project-big-fork-infogalactic.html Roadmap: http://infogalactic.com/info/Infogalactic:Roadmap - d.