notability - if the stuff seems relevant enough for a specialized paper
encyclopedia, i feel it's worth including it in a wikipedia.
''Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free
access to the sum of all human knowledge''
I wish you health and happiness
Teun Spaans
I completely agree :)
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rswrote:
On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 21:16 +0100, David Gerard wrote:
Both the opinion poll itself and its proposal were accepted. In
contrary to the decision of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia
As I understand, the change has only been proposed.
Possibly another interesting issue will develop: the italian wiki was
discontinued by a short vote or poll. I suppose the most democratric way to
terminate it would be another vote or poll. How are they gonna have that
poll if they locked
Isn't this premature? As I understand, the law is still being discussed, not
yet in affect.
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
For those not following, Italian Wikipedia went into lockdown a while ago.
All content and pages direct to the notice.
regards,
Teun Spaans
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
It's based on the template transclusion count here:
http://toolserver.org/~jarry/templatecount/index.php?lang=commonsname=Template%3APD-Layout#bottomhttp://toolserver.org/%7Ejarry/templatecount
The number of 3 million surpises me. Common hosts about 10 million items.
Are you certain this amount is approximately correct?
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Geoff Brigham gbrig...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Yesterday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed an amicus
(friends of the
Danese, sorry to see you go. Though not always visible, you have done a lot
:)
Thank you for your efforts!
Teun Spaans
Everybody knew it was impossible, until someone turned up who didnt know
that.
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote:
Hoi
such as the NYT uses an image from commons by inline
linking, then we could indeed invalidate their historical research by
deleting that image if it contains a copyright violation. CV are the main
reason for deletion. Other reasons include bad quality, and duplicate
images.
Teun Spaans
Everybody knew
way to communicate
that message. An email or article in the signpost might be a much more cost
effective way than a banner.
kind regards,
Teun Spaans
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:52 AM, church.of.emacs.ml church.of.emacs.ml@
googlemail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Do we have any guidelines limiting
I can confirm what Gerard says: they are influential in the financial and
management sector. I occasionally listen to them while driving.
The article mentions a german research. At the moment there is one reaction
confirming it from personal experience.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Austin
If i interpret the link correctly, these are only featured articles?
2011/3/30 David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net
wrote:
http://www.rob-matthews.com/index.php?/project/wikipedia/
Rob,
May I direct your
And of course the widely read sensation newspaper is copying the message
widely:
http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/9409794/__Minder_schrijvers_Wikipedia__.html?p=24,2
Their readers often react, usually without much feeling for nuance.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Martijn Hoekstra
with some of your remarks about motivation. One way to motivate
people might be to provide more information on the process that google maps
uses to locate wikipedia artciles to its maps. It's much nicer if lots of
people actually read 'your' article.
Teun Spaans
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Milos
:
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:14 AM, teun spaans teun.spa...@gmail.com
wrote:
Quote:Many volunteers don't have a lot to write.
This sounds like an opinion, not like a fact. Even on English wikipedia,
we
still have about two hundred thousand plant species to describe, and
millions of animal
Milos,
Fully agree with your remark about the WYSIWYG editor!
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
...
* We need, for example, WYSIWYG editor. Some more important features,
too. And it is not expensive.
* In the world where the funniest thing is to send an
to pay a
bit more and have their publciatiuons open access. That sounds like an
interesting development to me.
Teun Spaans
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Melissa Hagemann mhagem...@sorosny.orgwrote:
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
And if there is interest
Welcome back, Brion!
Imho there is no one better suited forthe job than you!
Teun
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Jay Walsh jwa...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Sending on behalf of Danese...
Hello,
Yes, the rumors are true! Today I am pleased to announce that after more
than a year away,
You have just made your 100th edit: congratulations.
That would be good bot to run: encourage people!
Another idea: A simple message to make a compliment on people who make their
first 3 posts which are not reverted after a day. make it aimed at anonymous
contributors, and inviting them to
A courageous point of view. With arguments.
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125899/
January 7, 2011
Wikipedia Comes of Age
By Casper Grathwohl
Casper Grathwohl is vice president and publisher of digital
, such as blogger supports, we can have a best of both
worlds: Newbies have an easy start, while old hands can still have all the
templates the want.
Teun Spaans
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Birgitte SB birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote:
What project are you speaking of? At en.WS the entire navigation
The stats on http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesArticlesNewPerDay.htm are
actual till Jun 2009
The stats on http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/Sitemap.htm are up to date till
sep 2010.
Eriks explanation explains the situation for not being updated since sep
2010, not for those since june 2009.
On
.
teun spaans
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
I was looking through some old files in our SourceForge project. I
opened a file called wiki.tar.gz, and inside were three complete
backups of the text of Wikipedia, from February, March and August 2001
this means for freedom and justice i leave to your own conclusions.
Should not any action be directed to all three or four organizations? But i
doubt anything is achieved by denying ourselves gifts.
I wish you joy and happiness,
teun spaans
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Robert Tice robti
that wants to support them, or helping to find them a sponsor.
kind regards
teun spaans
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:56 AM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
Should we offer to host citizendium?
Okey get over the instinctive reaction.
==The background==
Those who have read this week's signpost
PA are simply NOT DONE.
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
What is unacceptable, that Greg is a dick or that he is said to be a dick?
It takes a fair amount of doing to get banned on two projects and to be put
on moderation on mailing
That word had occured to me, but I didnt dare to mention it in this
discussion as i had been warned here in the past about my usage of
that word here, and didnt want to be put on moderation list myself.
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com wrote:
Censorship !
there.
teun spaans
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:14 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 9/20/2010 12:02:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
peter.dam...@btinternet.com writes:
In my experience
the problem of humanities in Wikipedia is that the methods and training of
the 'experts' is so
If PC is what the german wiki has been using for some time, i think i
support its usage. Allthough it wont stop vandalism, it expect it does
greatly reduce it, allowing the volunteers to spend their time in a
more useful way. Imho it is working pretty well on the german wiki.
The first time i felt
This looks like a solid organization. Solid in the sense that it wont
go suddenly offline.
Such links may be valuable for:
- article references to sources, in case the source goes offline
- article references to sources, in case thesource changes its content
- media copies when the source changes
regards
Teun Spaans
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On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Excirial wp.excir...@gmail.com wrote:
*You have my sympathy to - no matter what the outcome is, some if not many
people will label it censorship, directly or indirectly. We dont censor
has been an standard argument so far in any attempt to
regulate
The community of each wiki can decide which illustrations are best for
a certain article, true.
Using foundation resources (banner, cpu, bandwidth) to campaign
against other foundation projects should be avoided.
Protest against decisions of WMF is one thing, lobbying against a
whole WMF project
IBMs decision to get rid of all internal communication sounds to me as a
very good practice for us.
It also fits in well with the wikipedia culture of consensus in decision
making.
Following this comm. strategy involves the large volunteer community, and
taps on the vast knowledge of our
A minimalist design is a good goal to strive for. As many people do mot use
them, it may be a good cleanup of the interface. Howver, for its
afficionados the developers might create an option in the user preferences
to show all interwiki links directly instead of hiding them. Personally I
find
Dear Derk-jan,
As for 1), I think youtube can be compared in populairity and size with
wikipedia, and in videos surpasses commons.
Youtube enables its visitors to tag videos as adult.
see for example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA22WSVlCZ4
kind regards,
Teun Spaans
On Sun, May 9, 2010
Would it stand any chance to file against Foxnews for slaunder?
It seems they are also actively approaching organizations who donated
support to wikimedia.
teun
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Techman224 techman...@techman224.comwrote:
It seems like Fox News can't get enough. Fox News has a
Adam,
could you please continue existing discussions instead of creating new ones
again and again?
kind regards
teun spaans
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Adam Cuerden cuer...@gmail.com wrote:
(Sorry, ignore the last two sentences - they're left over from a previous
draft)
On Sat, May 8
Gerard,
this statement surprises me.
Why was the foundation involved in the localization of Freecol, a game with
little or no historic information (compared with other historic games such
as europa universalis)?
kind regards,
Teun
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Gerard Meijssen
, and to make wikipedia as
useful as possible, i believe we should learn about their behaviour on
wikipedia.
live long and prosper
teun spaans
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOrigins.htm
Well, if I'm
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:41 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Hello --
Some of the people posting to this mailing list don't seem to understand
how
to write a decent, readable reply to a mailing list thread.
Yes, but the opinion on what makes a readable reply may differ from person
there?
Perhaps a template with the contest info might be useful. One way or the
other, it would be a good thing if the copyright status could be determined:
does the foundation have all rights? Do the creators still have all rights
reserved?
teun spaans
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 8:19 PM, geni geni...@gmail.com
Hi Erik,
thank you. Very nice.
One suggestion: for trends, i would expect a bar indicating upward or
downward trend, not a percentage bar.
live long and prosper
teun
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Erik Zachte erikzac...@infodisiac.comwrote:
Today I released 4 new reports, which all focus
during their vi\olunteer acticvities for
wikimedia do and see.
Viewn as such, it might indeed be a responsibility for the foundation, and
not for an individual wiki.
i wish you health and happiness,
teun spaans
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.orgwrote
I regard Erik highly for his skills in analyzing data which is already
present. I am completely confident he can do some thought provoking
analysis.
Unfortunately, the skills required for putting a good questionare together
are different from those on analyzing the data.
The remarks I have seen
As an example, let's have a look at the first two questions:
1) Do you use Wikimedia Commons at all?
Choose one of the following answers
* Yes, regularly
* Yes, sometimes
* No
Criticism: not exact. What is regularly? Once a day? Once a week? Once a
month? 5% of all wiki edits? 25% of
There are a lot of metrics which could be defined, and each has its own
merits:
* number of articles: an indication of the amount of subjects covered, and
for completeness of the topics covered. More articles will probably draw
more visitors.
* number of participants: probably an indication of
of volunteers
without substantial support from the scientific community.
For these reasons I would support a closure vote at meta.
kind regards,
teun spaans
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Klaus Graf klausg...@googlemail.comwrote:
I cannot understand why WMF is unable to terminate Wikispecies which
the fact of the matter is that it is not the author that benefits from
copyright
unfounded and untrue.
I wish you health and true happiness.
teun
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote:
Hoi,
I had a read of the first one. While it is nice that there
, there may be other laws to consider. For
example, if the publication if Hitlers Mein kampf is forbidden, I will not
upload that text to wikibooks. I will leave that to someone else.
i wish you well,
teun spaans
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Jimmy Xu xu.jimmy@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all
I don't think that any random admin on one of the projects should be able
to insert a web bug into
Common.js is what he suggests. The Hungarian situation seems to have been
in place with support of the hungarian community, at least at start.
Frankly, I'd rather see private sensitive data on an
oncurrently April 1 is when the amendment to South Korea’s Act on the
Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and User
Protection will go into effect.
That date smells ;-)
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:53 AM, RYU Cheol rch...@gmail.com wrote:
According to this post,
on the validity of the articles.
teun spaans
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia)
newyorkb...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not familiar with the details of the data dump process, so I can't
comment on whether it's broken or not.
However, one question that I have is whether
Hi Gerard,
pls remain polite and dont call names.
teun
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hoi,
You are out of your mind. The author of the book, a respected Wikipedian,
can relicense it to anything he likes.
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/1/28
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
teun spaans wrote:
Many times it works well.
But the procedures also irregularly goes amiss.
I also received deletion messages of a pic i had uploaded with a correct
license. Some wikimedian had accidently removed
, such as
cities, panoramas, and even some people pix.
I wish you health and happiness,
Teun Spaans
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Lars Aronsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
That might be a hell of a incentive to change. Before we talk
about getting out the torches, I think
make it a random selection of 2 items from everything that has been
suggested
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:01 AM, Chad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
McDonalds: serves 75 million people a month
Wikipedia: 275 million
Agree.
And perhaps other organizations working with copy left licenses could be
informed?
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Teofilo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The European Commission published in July a Green Paper - Copyright
in the Knowledge Economy (1) .
In §3.4. They talk about the
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