Re: [WikiEN-l] Amazonified Wikipedia
Apropos nothing in particular: Facebook must die. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Re: [WikiEN-l] CZ fork: Tendrl
Four or five years ago I quite confidently pronounced it unlikely that the success of Wikipedia could be sustained beyond 2010. Once the novelty wore off, I thought, people would drift away to the next shiny new thing. By now it seems clear that Wikipedia could last at least another six months or so, to my surprise and delight. I too will toast the problems of success in our January celebrations. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Re: [WikiEN-l] CZ fork: Tendrl
On 10 December 2010 20:52, Charles Matthews wrote: > Hmm. I've just thought of a generalisation about WP, which I haven't > immediately discarded (a freakish circumstance). WP has problems - hoo > boy - but they are the problems of success. When they bring out the cake > with the ten candles, let's all make a wish: that we continue to have > that sort of problem, not the ones the competition has. I wonder at competitors that attempt to solve problems of huge success, but don't address the problem of utter obscurity, i.e. the one they actually have. - d. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Re: [WikiEN-l] CZ fork: Tendrl
On 10/12/2010 05:02, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:15 PM, David Gerard wrote: >> http://www.basicprogramming.org/larsent/tendrl/index.php/Tendrl:Differences >> Everyone uses their own real names. > Meh. You lose good editors that way. > >> Potential contributors need to create an account to edit, but don't have to >> provide an autobiography. > Sure, why not? > >> Have only one or two bodies with clearly-defined authority. People have >> common sense: trust them to use it. > That'll scale. > >> Experts are invited to review articles, but they need to contribute as a >> regular editor for some time first. > I'm sure the experts who are already tripping over themselves to write > wikipedia articles will love that. > >> We have a zero-tolerance policy on sniping and offensive remarks. >> Have a culture that looks down upon incivility and poisonousness with a >> sense of humour:>laugh about things. > That's not zero-tolerance. That's the way every project starts. > >> Ensure that (administrators|wardens|whatever we decide to call them) feel no >> qualms about>kicking out clearly disruptive people. > If it was clear to everyone who the disruptive people were, there > would never be any problems. But one person's troll is another > person's misunderstood genius. Hmm. I've just thought of a generalisation about WP, which I haven't immediately discarded (a freakish circumstance). WP has problems - hoo boy - but they are the problems of success. When they bring out the cake with the ten candles, let's all make a wish: that we continue to have that sort of problem, not the ones the competition has. Charles ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Re: [WikiEN-l] CZ fork: Tendrl
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:15 PM, David Gerard wrote: >>Ensure that (administrators|wardens|whatever we decide to call them) feel no >>qualms about >kicking out clearly disruptive people. > > If it was clear to everyone who the disruptive people were, there > would never be any problems. But one person's troll is another > person's misunderstood genius. It doesn't have to be clear to everyone, just to the people in charge. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Re: [WikiEN-l] What proportion of articles are stubs?
[citation needed] -MuZemike On 12/9/2010 10:55 PM, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Andrew Gray > wrote: >> On 29 November 2010 20:42, Charles Matthews >> wrote: >> >>> So does clicking "Random Article" and (gasp) judging for one's own self >>> what is a stub produce a figure very different from 50%? >> >> I hit random and immediately produced a category error :-) >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanarce >> >> One prose sentence! But on the other hand, a demographic table, and a >> map, and an infobox, and some statistics, and a navbox. Stub or not >> stub? > > *typity-typity-type-type* > > Not stub! > > Steve > > ___ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
