On 4 December 2011 18:21, Edward Buckner peter.dam...@btinternet.com wrote:
Thomas Dalton
There are always going to be disagreements over what should constitute a
vital article.
There are disagreements about whether Theology is a vital article?
Well on the basis that Universities should
Hello,
Hardly surprising or new, but something we need to be aware of:
Wikipedia is being edited by a large lobbying company, Bell Pottinger.
It removes negative coverage of its clients:
On 12/4/11 4:01 PM, Andreas K. wrote:
many featured articles – at least on en:WP – are about
niche topics, while so-called vital articles (VA), i.e. core topics that
any encyclopedia would be expected to cover well, are underperforming, with
comparatively few making FA or GA. Looking at the VA
The article about them is... amusing. It's almost entirely sourced to press
releases...
Tom
On 6 December 2011 10:14, Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Hardly surprising or new, but something we need to be aware of:
Wikipedia is being edited by a large lobbying company, Bell
On 6 December 2011 10:14, Bod Notbod bodnot...@gmail.com wrote:
Hardly surprising or new, but something we need to be aware of:
Wikipedia is being edited by a large lobbying company, Bell Pottinger.
It removes negative coverage of its clients:
It would not be an unreasonable corrective action to take their boastful
claims at face value and stick dirty great COI notices on the top of every
Wikipedia article about each of their clients; with a suitable explanation
on every talk page pointing to the newspaper source until a credible
+1 to Fae
This is outrageous. I would say COI notices + Disputed Neutrality notices.
From: fae...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 11:08:21 +
To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] WP being edited by lobbying firm
It would not be an unreasonable corrective
+1 to Fae
This is outrageous. I would say COI notices + Disputed Neutrality notices.
Lets not get too dramatic.
And anyway; if the purpose of doing such tagging is to punish them for
their actions, well, then it's probably not a good thing to do...
Tom
On 6 December 2011 11:45, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:
+1 to Fae
This is outrageous. I would say COI notices + Disputed Neutrality notices.
Lets not get too dramatic.
And anyway; if the purpose of doing such tagging is to punish them for
their actions, well, then
media.
Reply-To:
What to many appeared to be the abstractest of theory just
a few months ago, is now becoming frightful reality :-(
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-16044554
Kapil Sibal's position seems to be pretty much exactly in
line with our projected concept of image
On Tuesday 06 December 2011 08:27 PM, Kim Bruning wrote:
(Also: seeing reporting on facebook and twitter activity, and
having viewed pages from eg. Hindi Wikipedia, I do not
believe that the Indian internet community shares Kapil
Sibal's position. Though they'll have to speak for
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 08:12:48AM +0700, Anirudh Bhati wrote:
On Saturday, December 3, 2011, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org
start
to read the introduction that he wrote:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Geoffbrigham/Strategy
Why was this page deleted?
19:22, 2 December 2011
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 09:25:03PM +0530, Achal Prabhala wrote:
On Tuesday 06 December 2011 08:27 PM, Kim Bruning wrote:
I do not believe that the Indian internet community shares Kapil
Sibal's position. Though they'll have to speak for
themselves, of course! :-)
They have:
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 11:08:21AM +, Fae wrote:
It would not be an unreasonable corrective action to take their boastful
claims at face value and stick dirty great COI notices on the top of every
Wikipedia article about each of their clients; with a suitable explanation
on every talk page
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 09:25:03PM +0530, Achal Prabhala wrote:
On Tuesday 06 December 2011 08:27 PM, Kim Bruning wrote:
I do not believe that the Indian internet community shares Kapil
Sibal's position. Though
It was deleted at Geoff's request; I'm not certain if he's intending to
reformat it and put it back up somewhere else, or what, but I'll add it to
my list of things to talk about with him. We'll try to get the info up in
some format, of course. :)
pb
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Philippe Beaudette
News and notes: Amsterdam gets the GLAM treatment, fundraising marches on, and
a flourish of new admins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-12-05/News_and_notes
In the news: A Wikistream of real time edits, a call for COI reform, and cracks
in the ivory tower of
See the wiki version here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Reports/2011-11
This is the language committee report for November 2011. Previous month no
e-mail was sent because there was nothing to report, other than the
creation of the Northern Sotho Wikipedia.
===Committee===
*
Unless I'm missing something, his examples morphed photos of Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, as well as
pigs running through Islam's holy city of Mecca. sound like things that we
would not be using in Wikipedia articles, except if the morphed image had
gained
On 06/12/2011 4:21 PM, WereSpielChequers wrote:
Unless he casts his net wider I'm personally more concerned about the sort
of politicians who are prudish about nudity on the web and reluctant to
have information about evolution in the classrooms.
The point is, many people (including myself)
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News and notes: Amsterdam gets the GLAM treatment, fundraising marches on,
and a flourish of new admins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-12-05/News_and_notes
In the news: A Wikistream of real time edits, a call for COI reform, and
cracks in the ivory tower of
Some updates on this, for anyone interested:
http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/any-normal-human-being-would-be-offended/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/facebook-google-tell-india-they-wont-screen-for-derogatory-content/2011/12/06/gIQAUo59YO_blog.html
The popular Russian blogger Artemy Lebedev [1] is known for changing
the title of his blog every few days. Usually it is a line from spam
emails. The current title is the translation into Russian of We now
accept rubles (RUB), most likely taken from the Wikipedia fundraising
banners.
Lebedev also
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