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| In the end, vandals get bored. It is thrilling to defile Wikipedia
| once or twice, but when
I can understand why 'outside' people would think that wikipedia is
unreliable. But don't all the articles have sources? So why don't they
just learn their students to verify the sources themselves (help us out
while they're at it) and then they'll see quick enough that wikipedia is
reliable.
Hi Tyler,
The problem of vandalism is indeed one and it will remain so. Most
people don't realize actually that not everybody can edit, or if he
does, it is very likely that his edit will be reverted. That is our
real problem - it is difficult to join the team, which may become
smaller and no
Shlomi Fish wrote:
In one of the open source conferences in Israel, the bureaucrat of the Hebrew
wikipedia, came on stage and said How can you trust an encyclopaedia that
anyone can edit? How can you trust an encyclopaedia that no one can edit!!
I usually say: I admit it is
Hey Philippe,
That's pretty snarky, Domas. There was a legitimate question there.
:-) Did community strategy members come up with this conclusion, or you had to
involve external consultants?!
Domas
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Dear Tyler,
the kids have got a point. This bothers a lot of people. But it is not so
crucial.
First of all, vandals are not a big problem for Wikipedia. The number of
vandals is much lower then billion. Editors are very successful in a fight
against them so far.
Naturally appearing mistakes
Some folks at Wikipedia criticize the heck out of schools and don't trust
schools because schools let anyone in, including people who don't want to
learn. If schools tolerate people who don't learn, why do they exist? There
could be a billion disruptive students. And when the old ones graduate,
On 02/16/2010 03:09 AM, Domas Mituzas wrote:
Hey Philippe,
That's pretty snarky, Domas. There was a legitimate question there.
:-) Did community strategy members come up with this conclusion, or you had
to involve external consultants?!
Domas, I am disappointed with the
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Tyler programmer...@comcast.net wrote:
Kids at my school are criticizing the heck out of your Foundation and will
not trust Wikipedia because anyone can edit it. If anyone can edit, then why
do you exist? There could be a billion vandals. When the old ones
William,
Domas, I am disappointed with the frequent disrespect with which you
treat colleagues, as exemplified by your responses here to Tyler and
Philippe.
I respect Philippe - we had lots of great time and discussions in the past -
and I hope he remembers that (including all my thoughts
On 02/16/2010 02:12 AM, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
In general: Never before people knew so little about something they
use so often, as a German journalist said about Wikipedia.
In a strange way, that pleases me; as Danny Hillis says, What people
mean by the word technology is the stuff that doesn't
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 4:32 PM, William Pietri will...@scissor.com wrote:
On 02/16/2010 02:12 AM, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
In general: Never before people knew so little about something they
use so often, as a German journalist said about Wikipedia.
In a strange way, that pleases me; as Danny
On Feb 16, 2010, at 10:19 AM, Domas Mituzas wrote:
I respect Philippe - we had lots of great time and discussions in
the past - and I hope he remembers that (including all my thoughts
about the work he is doing), and doesn't think I'm in any way
disrespectful! I'm sorry, if it is seen
Philippe Beaudette wrote:
Indeed, I remember some wonderful conversations, particularly one in
which Domas and I attempted to drink all the beer in Argentina. At
lunch. We were THIS close. It's because of that interaction and the
solid base that it's built on that I felt comfortable
Hi everyone,
Sorry for the late reminder. Strategic planning IRC office hours are tonight:
Wednesday from 04:00-05:00 UTC, which is:
Tuesday, 8-9pm PST
Tuesday, 11pm-12am EST
As always, you can access the chat by going to
https://webchat.freenode.net and filling in a username and the channel
Dear Wikibook Contributor,
Thank you for those who participated in the online questionnaire which aims to
assess the motivation of Wikibooks' contributors.
I am pleased to advise that the analysis of the data from the completed online
questionnaires has been finalized. The analysis provides
Hi all,
I am delighted to tell you that Google is giving Wikimedia a grant of
USD 2 million. It will come to us via the Google Fund at the Tides
Foundation, which handles all of Google's philanthropic activity, and
it is completely unrestricted.
We'll be putting out a press release tomorrow,
That is amazing! Congrats guys! It actually seems quite surprising to me to
see such a large gift be totally unrestricted when most gifts of this size
always seem to have ifs/ands or butts attached.
User:Jamesofur
James Alexander
james.alexan...@rochester.edu
jameso...@gmail.com
100 gmail invites
On 17 February 2010 02:37, James Alexander jameso...@gmail.com wrote:
That is amazing! Congrats guys! It actually seems quite surprising to me to
see such a large gift be totally unrestricted when most gifts of this size
always seem to have ifs/ands or butts attached.
I agree, this is
WOW Overwhelming!!!
2010/2/16 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
On 17 February 2010 02:37, James Alexander jameso...@gmail.com wrote:
That is amazing! Congrats guys! It actually seems quite surprising to me
to
see such a large gift be totally unrestricted when most gifts of this
size
Chinese report: http://tech.163.com/10/0217/12/5VNMNPCH000915BF.html
Chinese wikipedia: http://zh.wikipedia.org/
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2010/2/17 Wilfredo Rodriguez wilfre...@gmail.com:
WOW Overwhelming!!!
2010/2/16 Thomas
Hi,
I wonder if you know about :
http://prishtinainsight.com/
They have a great newspaper that is very informative. Problem is: it is
lacking funding.
My idea is that we would raise funding from wikimedia to buy articles from
them to put in the wikipedia.
Or we would raise funding from other
jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote:
I wonder if you know about :
http://prishtinainsight.com/
They have a great newspaper that is very informative. Problem is: it is
lacking funding.
My idea is that we would raise funding from wikimedia to buy articles from
them to put in the
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