Re: [Foundation-l] Alphascript Publishing: 1900+ copypasted books from Wikipedia

2009-08-17 Thread Jay Litwyn
Maybe there should be a [[:category:printed articles]]. It should ignore personal and educational use with a note at the top saying Alphascript Publishing used this article in whole or major part for a commercial printing of Wikipedia.. It would be nice of them to create the category and make

Re: [Foundation-l] Lack of research on Wikipedia

2009-08-17 Thread Przykuta
I would guess that the most important reason why english wikipedia is slowing down is because of the other language projects gets the attention of the editors. perhaps it would be possible to get some numbers on the total influx of content and how it is distributed among the projects? John

Re: [Foundation-l] Alphascript Publishing: 1900+ copypasted books from Wikipedia

2009-08-17 Thread Geoffrey Plourde
The single best way to kill them is to reprint the exact same books, then sell them at the low low price of cost + 10%. When people start snapping them up like fruitcakes, Alphascript will be finished. From: Peter Coombe thewub.w...@googlemail.com To:

[Foundation-l] Missing audio of WMF Board candidates

2009-08-17 Thread Gregory Kohs
At some time into the WMF Board candidates campaigning season, the Wikivoices project undertook a sort of candidates debate, where a Skype conference served as a central meeting point for at least eight of the candidates to orally respond to questions posed them. This debate transpired about two

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing audio of WMF Board candidates

2009-08-17 Thread Nathan
You misunderstand the role of Wikivoices and its relationship to the Foundation. It fulfills no official function, does not (and did not) have any official sanction from the Foundation, and was simply an interesting and different way for prospective voters and candidates to participate in a

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing audio of WMF Board candidates

2009-08-17 Thread Chad
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Gregory Kohsthekoh...@gmail.com wrote: At some time into the WMF Board candidates campaigning season, the Wikivoices project undertook a sort of candidates debate, where a Skype conference served as a central meeting point for at least eight of the candidates

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing audio of WMF Board candidates

2009-08-17 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Gregory, Domas and myself life in Europe. For us the interview was in the middle of the night and yes, I am not pleased that the Wikivoices interview was not published. I have been involved with the Wikivoices in the past and it saddens me that Wikivoices is not able to publish its recordings

[Foundation-l] Strategic Planning Office Hours

2009-08-17 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Strategic Planning office hours happen tomorrow - Tuesday - at Tuesdays from 20:00-21:00 UTC, which is: 1-2pm PDT; 4-5pm EDT. We're going to try having this conversation in #wikimedia-strategy instead of taking over #wikimedia. Hope to see you there! Philippe

Re: [Foundation-l] Strategic Planning Office Hours

2009-08-17 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Correction - this will be at #wikimedia-strategicplan On Aug 17, 2009, at 4:32 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: Strategic Planning office hours happen tomorrow - Tuesday - at Tuesdays from 20:00-21:00 UTC, which is: 1-2pm PDT; 4-5pm EDT. We're going to try having this conversation in

Re: [Foundation-l] Open Library, Wikisource, and cleaning and translating OCR of Classics

2009-08-17 Thread Ray Saintonge
David Goodman wrote: The problem is extraordinarily complex. A database of all books (and other media) ever published is beyond the joint capabilities of everyone interested. There are intermediate entities between books and works, and important subordinate entities, such as article ,

Re: [Foundation-l] Open Library, Wikisource, and cleaning and translating OCR of Classics

2009-08-17 Thread Lars Aronsson
Yann Forget wrote: This discussion is very interesting. I would like to make a summary, so that we can go further. 1. A database of all books ever published is one of the thing still missing. No, no, no, this is *not* missing. This is exactly the scope of OpenLibrary. Just as