Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:04 AM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/24 Henning Schlottmann h.schlottm...@gmx.net: Milos Rancic wrote: In all cases we need to think seriously how to educate younger generations about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Thanks for all the data and the number crunching. But I think you are wrong in your assumptions and therefore in your analysis at least regarding de-WP. Here we are not looking at 15 year olds, we are looking at retired academics as the future of our user base. Quite frankly, a 15 years old can't contribute to de-WP anymore. Not even 20 years olds can. De-WP has reached a level where undergraduates can do vandal fighting and stuff like that, but writing and improving articles needs access to academic literature and experience in academic writing. English wikipedia has 2.9 million articles and far more words and can still have things added to it by teenagers. And it's not just different inclusion standards. For example [[Langstone]] meets any reasonable inclusion standards. De does not have an article. [[Ordnance Survey]] is clearly notable. No article on De. -- geni Indeed. The DE-Only-PhDs-elitism seems misplaced (and worrying) based on a few articles I compared. --Falcorian ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] About that sue and be damned to the National Portrait Gallery ...
Why are these images on Commons? According to [[Commons:Licensing]]: Wikimedia Commons accepts only media [...] that are in the public domain in at least the United States and in the source country of the work. Is it because they are potentially PD in the UK, but it's unclear? --Falcorian ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] No default codec for video and audio in HTML5
It's not free as it is patent encumbered, see [[H.264#Patent_licensing]]. --Falcorian On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Mike.lifeguard mikelifegu...@fastmail.fmwrote: Purely out of ignorance, why do we like ogg, but not H264? Or is it not that we don't /like/ it, but rather we simply don't support it as a format for whatever reason? Thanks, -Mike ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Info/Law blog: Using Wikisource as an Alternative Open Access Repository for Legal Scholarship
So the bot just has to run at human speeds so it does not get banned, it still won't get tired or make unpredictable mistakes. And you can run it from different IPs to parallelize. --Falcorian On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: Not likely. I've been banned from Google's regular search at least a dozen times during semi-frenetic search sprees in which I was identified as a bot. There is no doubt that if you try to automate it you will be quickly shot down. On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: Brian wrote: Unfortunately the only way I've found to download the full text of a public domain book from Google is to flip through the book a page at a time, copying the text to your clipboard. There are roughly 2-3 million public domain books in Google Books. That's easy to fix :) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Attribution and Relicensing
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:55 AM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/20 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org: That doesn't really any of my questions, though I was more looking for an answer from Erik or Mike anyway. It's a fairly important question, since compatibility with other works under CC-BY-SA is allegedly the main reason for the relicensing. Is the question clear? Maybe I should be even more specific. How would one go about using content from Citizendium in Wikipedia, if Wikipedia relicenses content under CC-BY-SA? Assuming a large number of authors on Citizendium. Use the export function there to provide the file in a useful format and reactivate the import function on en to export it (at a pinch is should be possible to put together a script that can grab the relevant information and turn it into a file suitable for import to wikipedia without having to use the export function). I actually have such a script written in python already, and it would be trivial for others to wirite similar ones. I suppoose my point is that reusing content from other Wikis is easy if Import is turned back on (as you keep full edit histories). --Falcorian ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
