On 11/03/11 6:27 AM, Fae wrote:
On 3 November 2011 12:27, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
Backlogs as a concern translate directly to newbies are inherently a
problem.
I don't get the point being made here, I would have thought that backlogs
are a good way to attract new editors into
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
On 11/03/11 6:27 AM, Fae wrote:
On 3 November 2011 12:27, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
Backlogs as a concern translate directly to newbies are inherently a
problem.
I don't get the point being made here, I
On 11/03/11 5:32 AM, Tom Morris wrote:
On Thursday, November 3, 2011, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
I suggest that backlogs don't matter nearly as much as involvement and
drawing new people in.
Backlogs as a concern translate directly to newbies are inherently a
problem.
I'd
On 11/03/11 5:59 AM, David Gerard wrote:
On 3 November 2011 12:53, Nathannawr...@gmail.com wrote:
I wish we didn't always have to dispense with this tired argument that
making editing easier will inundate the projects with idiots. Easy and
open editing is the ethos that built the whole
I'd disagree. Newbie treatment is important, but having quarter of a
million articles without a single reference is also important given WP:V.
It's also valuable to avoid giving undue weight to WP:V.
My opinion (and it's just an opinion) is that it's really hard to give
undue weight to WP:V.
2011/11/4 David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com:
I'd disagree. Newbie treatment is important, but having quarter of a
million articles without a single reference is also important given WP:V.
It's also valuable to avoid giving undue weight to WP:V.
My opinion (and it's just an opinion)
My opinion (and it's just an opinion) is that it's really hard to give
undue weight to WP:V.
WP:V is not equal to verifiability itself. You may have adminitis.
I think verifiability carries a lot of weight. WP:V is different from
verifiability in various important ways, which have been
On 11/04/11 12:44 AM, Keegan Peterzell wrote:
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Ray Saintongesainto...@telus.net wrote:
On 11/03/11 6:27 AM, Fae wrote:
On 3 November 2011 12:27, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
Backlogs as a concern translate directly to newbies are inherently a
On 11/04/11 1:26 AM, David Richfield wrote:
My opinion (and it's just an opinion) is that it's really hard to give
undue weight to WP:V.
WP:V is not equal to verifiability itself. You may have adminitis.
I think verifiability carries a lot of weight. WP:V is different from
verifiability in
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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:58:32 +0100
From: Peter Damian peter.dam...@btinternet.com
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia ideology
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On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:
On Thursday, November 3, 2011, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Backlogs as a concern translate directly to newbies are inherently a
problem.
I'd disagree. Newbie treatment is important, but having quarter of a
Can I start with my disappointment of those who like to hijack/corrupt the
conversation
for their pet whinge? This was in no way bagging WP, absolutely not. This was
not
bagging WMF; this was my concern and frustration that WMF conflates to become
Wikipedia,
and that the organisation does
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't remember if we ever asked, in our general surveys, how and when
contributors discovered that they /could/ edit. But perhaps after
they've edited it's too late becauser they've already fallen in the
This is completely understandable. I recently looked at a 13-page
article in the Bullletin of the Pan American Union for 1933 on
Hipólito Unánue. Our stub article shows him as president of Peru in
1825-6. He wasn't. I had to ask myself how much time am I prepared to
use for sorting this
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/11/st_essay_wikipediawonders/
At the Wikimedia Conference in March, a German coalition proposed that
Wikipedia become the first digital World Heritage site. A petition was
drafted, declaring Wikipedia “a masterpiece of human creative genius.”
Unesco was not
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Mateus Nobre mateus.no...@live.co.uk wrote:
This hostility is being reflected in the drop at the number of the editors.I
agree with the ''automatic-message theory''. None likes automatic messages.
In my view, it should be reserved for vandals.
Newbies needs
Hi all,
Geoff's inaugural IRC office hours, for discussion his legal strategy for
2011-12, has been moved to December 2nd because he will be traveling with
Sue on her Europe trip this month.
See: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
--
Steven Walling
Community Organizer at
Ray, does the article say he was not the President of the Government
Council? I found a link on that and added it to the article, but the
reference, how should I put it, does not look to me as an ultimately to
most authoritative source. I will search more, but if you have the
material
at hand
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