Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copy and paste

2012-10-20 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 10/17/12 10:26 PM, James Heilman wrote: We really need a plagiarism detection tool so that we can make sure our sources are not simply "copy and pastes" of older versions of Wikipedia. Today I was happily improving our article on pneumonia as I have a day off. I came across a recommendation th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The new narrowed focus by WMF

2012-10-20 Thread Mono
I find this rather frightening, as it implies that the programs undertaken by the Wikimedia Foundation recently were not successful and wasted funds. This is open to debate, but if these programs were successful in 'editor engagement' why would we get rid of them? (It seems like they weren't.) Me

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The new narrowed focus by WMF

2012-10-20 Thread Steven Walling
On Oct 20, 2012 6:36 PM, "Mono" wrote: > > The WMF should spend less time thinking about what to do and more time > doing it. That means they can't do everything under the moon. But everyone > knows that big things need to happen. > Well said. That is precisely why these changes are being propos