On 17 November 2013 11:41, Nathan Larson nathanlarson3...@gmail.com wrote:
In my experience, spam is pretty easy to spot
because the bots aren't very subtle about it.
I'm sure spam directed at, say, enwiki, would get very subtle very quickly
if spammers thought there was a real chance of it
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Happy Melon happy.melon.w...@gmail.comwrote:
I'm sure spam directed at, say, enwiki, would get very subtle very quickly
if spammers thought there was a real chance of it being able to use
enwiki's pagerank weight. Don't underestimate spammers' ability to
Why not set it up on Labs? :)
On 17 November 2013 20:45, Dirk Hünniger dirk.hunni...@googlemail.comwrote:
Hello,
I also put up a web version of the mediawiki to latex converter.
http://mediawiki2latex.mooo.com/
The machine it is running on is really slow (like an intel atom)
Yours Dirk
On 11/18/2013 04:39 AM, Happy Melon wrote:
I'm sure spam directed at, say, enwiki, would get very subtle very quickly
if spammers thought there was a real chance of it being able to use
enwiki's pagerank weight. Don't underestimate spammers' ability to learn
and adapt.
Also +1; pagerank is a
I agree. While spammers are so pathetic they will do anything for page views, I
have to admire (and detest) their ability to adapt in order to spread their
nonsense.
Anything that slows them down, even in the slightest degree, is something I
support and recommend.
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013
I also agree.
Perhaps more importantly, I don't see any actual argument for *not* using
nofollow. We're not here to drive pagerank for other websites, and our
doing so can be harmful to those sites, or to the article subject.
Risker
On 18 November 2013 09:44, Arcane 21 arc...@live.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps more importantly, I don't see any actual argument for *not* using
nofollow. We're not here to drive pagerank for other websites, and our
doing so can be harmful to those sites, or to the article subject.
Wikipedia's
On 11/17/2013 03:41 AM, Nathan Larson wrote:
Following the mediawiki-l
discussionhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2013-November/042038.htmlabout
$wgNoFollowLinks and various other discussions, in which some
discontent was expressed with the current two options of either
Hi, Google Code-in is about to start:
http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2013
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In
We have currently 72 tasks published and 13 mentors. We are still
looking for more mentors and tasks. If you are interested, contact me.
This is the
On 11/18/2013 08:52 AM, Quim Gil wrote:
Hi, Google Code-in is about to start:
http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2013
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In
You can see all our open tasks at
http://www.google-melange.com/gci/org/google/gci2013/wikimedia
--
Quim
On 2013-11-18 12:52 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi, Google Code-in is about to start:
http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2013
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In
We have currently 72 tasks published and 13 mentors. We are still
looking for more
On 11/18/2013 09:36 AM, Brian Wolff wrote:
So just to clarify, for those of us who are non-mentors, we can treat the
gci students just like normal people (by which I mean, if they ask for
help, help them. If they submit code review it, etc. I wouldn't have to
record or do anything special if I
To aggregate some of the arguments and counter-arguments, I posted
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/The_dofollow_FAQ and
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Costs_and_benefits_of_using_nofollow.
It does seem, from my googling of what the owners of smaller wikis
have
to say about it, that nofollow
On 11/18/2013 09:46 AM, Nathan Larson wrote:
I do think the implications of changing how nofollow is applied are very
different on, say, Wikipedia than they would be on a small or even
medium-sized wiki
As I said, at least for Google there should be no difference as it
ignores rel=nofollow on
On 18 November 2013 17:46, Nathan Larson nathanlarson3...@gmail.com wrote:
If Google agrees, they
can stop giving wikis in general, or certain wikis, such influence over
pagerank. The spammers have market incentives to become more sophisticated,
but so does Google, since their earnings
I do think the implications of changing how nofollow is applied are very
different on, say, Wikipedia than they would be on a small or even
medium-sized wiki where the average user watches RecentChanges instead of
a
watchlist. In a small town, you can leave your doors unlocked and get away
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Gabriel Wicke gwi...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On 11/18/2013 09:46 AM, Nathan Larson wrote:
I do think the implications of changing how nofollow is applied are very
different on, say, Wikipedia than they would be on a small or even
medium-sized wiki
As I said,
On 11/18/2013 10:11 AM, Nathan Larson wrote:
Do we have any way of knowing that Yong-Gang Wang of Google is correct
about this? I sent a message to this
individualhttps://plus.google.com/105349418663822362024/about(hopefully
it's the same guy) asking for more information. It seems like a
On 2013-11-18 2:19 PM, Gabriel Wicke gwi...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 11/18/2013 10:11 AM, Nathan Larson wrote:
Do we have any way of knowing that Yong-Gang Wang of Google is correct
about this? I sent a message to this
individualhttps://plus.google.com/105349418663822362024/about
(hopefully
Hi!
I'm applying to the
OPWhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women(FOSS
Outreach Program for Women) internship program to work on a Wikimedia
project, and am told it's a good idea to announce my project proposal on
this list; so here it is:
On 18 November 2013 11:47, Gabriel Wicke gwi...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 11/17/2013 03:41 AM, Nathan Larson wrote:
Following the mediawiki-l
discussion
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2013-November/042038.html
about
$wgNoFollowLinks and various other discussions, in which
On 11/18/2013 12:27 PM, Risker wrote:
To be honest, I suspect if the Google fellow said anything like this, it
was that they might ignore nofollow on Wikimedia wikis, but I'm pretty
certain that he didn't say Mediawiki wikis.
I remember being surprised too that it applied to all MediaWiki
On 18 November 2013 21:59, Gabriel Wicke gwi...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 11/18/2013 12:27 PM, Risker wrote:
To be honest, I suspect if the Google fellow said anything like this, it
was that they might ignore nofollow on Wikimedia wikis, but I'm pretty
certain that he didn't say Mediawiki
Hi everyone,
I'm thrilled to announce that Aaron Arcos has agreed to volunteer for
the Wikimedia Foundation as a developer with our Multimedia team
through May. Aaron most recently worked at Google Switzerland (from
2005 until August 2013), where he was a frontend software engineer and
UX
Hello,
We made some change to Echo api recently. The api ApiEchoNotifications
mixed both read and write actions, we have migrated the 'markasread' action
to its own api module - ApiEchoMarkRead. The 'markasread' function still
works in ApiEchoNotifications but it will be removed once all
On 11/14/2013 12:57 PM, Mark Holmquist wrote:
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 07:21:01PM -0500, Tyler Romeo wrote:
MediaWiki participates in a number of student competitions and programs as
an open source mentor (such as GSoC, Code-In, etc.). Today I ran into
another one: Facebook's Open Academy
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