This paper (first reference) is the result of a class project I was part of
almost two years ago for CSCI 5417 Information Retrieval Systems. It builds
on a class project I did in CSCI 5832 Natural Language Processing and which
I presented at Wikimania '07. The project was very late as we didn't se
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Bod Notbod wrote:
> Is it possible that sometimes Wikipedia steals Wikinews' thunder?
>
> You get something like that kid (not) in a balloon and it
> struggles/fails to get on Wikipedia but I assume did OK on Wikinews.
>
> Sometimes a current event is big enough th
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:04 PM, private musings wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Wikipedia Review, 'tarantino' pointed out that on WMF projects,
> self-identified minors (in this case User:Juliancolton) are involved in
> routine maintenance stuff around sexually explicit images reasonably
> describable as
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Bod Notbod wrote:
>>Or go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sex_positions , one of the most
>>viewed pages of English Wikipedia. Do you think the images there are of
>>excellent quality? I don't.
>
>
> I think they have a certain innocent charm. They look l
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:03 PM, William Pietri wrote:
> On 02/28/2010 08:59 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
> > I finally figured out that the "view history" button in Pivotal Tracker
> is
> > where all the relevant details are. For each of the items I'm looking at,
> > Aaron appears to have completed them
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 28 February 2010 22:17, Brian J Mingus
> wrote:
> > I run a mediawiki farm with mediawiki trunk installed. I've got the
> process
> > of setting up new wikis scripted and can set one up in 30 seconds. If yo
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Brian wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Thomas Dalton
> wrote:
>
>> On 28 February 2010 22:17, Brian J Mingus
>> wrote:
>> > I run a mediawiki farm with mediawiki trunk installed. I've got the
>> pr
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Anthony wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Anthony wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:23 AM, William Pietri >wrote:
> >
> >> On 02/28/2010 09:36 PM, Mike.lifeguard wrote:
> >> > On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, William Pietri wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> I've reported w
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
> > Suggestion: weekly updates (to en:wp Village Pump and wikien-l,
> > perhaps), with whatever there is to report, including nothing. People
> > hear nothing and worry and get upset - you can see the frantic
> > activity
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 6:37 PM, geni wrote:
> On 8 March 2010 00:14, Tyler wrote:
> > That's not what I asked. I said, in 2001, Wikipedia was founded, right?
> The earliest edit in >edit history is 2002. What was the home page in 2001
> then?
> >
>
> Nope oldest edit is 2001:
>
> http://en.wik
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8560469.stm
>
> We're the biggest non-profit website in the world. That sounds like
> argument for us to get the prize money to me.
>
The Internet is definitely worthy of the prize as a whole but I'm not
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Brian wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8560469.stm
>>
>> We're the biggest non-profit website in the world. That sounds like
>> argument for us to get the prize money to me.
>>
>
> The In
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Tim Starling wrote:
> Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 01:40, Brian J Mingus >wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Dalton >>> wrote:
> >>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technolo
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Michael Snow wrote:
> Brian J Mingus wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Tim Starling >wrote:
> >
> >> Give the Nobel Peace Prize to DARPA for designing the Internet. And
> >> they've made so many oth
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Michael Snow wrote:
> Brian J Mingus wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Michael Snow >wrote:
> >
> >> Brian J Mingus wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Tim Starling <
> tstarl...@
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Brian wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Michael Snow wrote:
>
>> Brian J Mingus wrote:
>> > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Michael Snow > >wrote:
>> >
>> >> Brian J Mingus wrote:
>&
I have been working with Sam and others for some time now on brainstorming a
proposal for the Foundation to create a centralized wiki of citations, a
WikiCite so to speak, if that is not the eventual name. My plan is to
continue to discuss with folks who are knowledgeable and interested in such
a p
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Finn Aarup Nielsen wrote:
>
>
> Hi Brian and others,
>
> I also think that it would be interesting with some bibliographic support,
> for two-way citation tracking and commenting on articles (for example), but
> I furthermore find that particular in science articl
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Brian J Mingus
> wrote:
> > I have been working with Sam and others for some time now on
> brainstorming a
> > proposal for the Foundation to create a centralized wiki of citations,
l plan to have some
kind of a demo site available.
> I love the idea of having a global place to discuss citations -- ALL
> citations -- something that OpenLibrary, the arXiv, and anyone else
> hosting cited documents could point to for every one of its works.
>
Exactly :)
Brian
> Sam
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Daniel Kinzler wrote:
> Hi all
>
> A central place for managing Bibliographic data for use with Citations is
> something that has been discussed by the German community for a long time.
> To
> me, it consists of two parts: a project for managing the structured data
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Jodi Schneider wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> On 20 Jul 2010, at 18:02, Brian J Mingus wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Finn Aarup Nielsen wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hi Brian and others,
>>
>> I also think that it woul
The WMF mission is to provide free knowledge to the world. Wikipedia, in
particular, hopes to summarize all notable topics into a neutral sum.
Accomplishing this goal means Wikipedia an the WMF will have to evolve.
Consider the implications of the mission: Every single work that contains
notable t
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Lennart Guldbrandsson
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Did you know that less than a third of the users who create an account on
> English Wikipedia make even *one* edit afterwards? Two-thirds of all new
> accounts never edit! Interestingly, this percentage vary very much from
I'll bite - it's about time for our yearly advert flame war anyway. The
answer is 0 dollars. That is because as soon as we put the advertising up we
lose credibility and Wikipedia is no more.
- Brian
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
> How many billions in potential advertising
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:43 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Fred Bauder
> wrote:
> >> For some time I am a bit puzzled by the fact that I don't know any
> >> African American Wikimedian. For some time just because I am living in
> >> a European country without African
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote:
> >
> > As it is the first new project in quite a long time, having a WMF
> > staff member assigned to it would be brilliant.
> > As this would/should involve the first deployment of semantic
> > mediawiki by WMF, it would be good for that someo
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Przykuta wrote:
> Hmm. We need change strategy. Banners work well, but without changes - you
> know.
>
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics
>
> przykuta
>
>
I'm not sure that the drop can be attributed to a lack of effectiveness in
the
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Przykuta wrote:
>
> > > Hmm. We need change strategy. Banners work well, but without changes -
> you
> > > know.
> > >
> > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics
> > >
> > > przykuta
> > >
> > >
> > I'm not sure that the drop can be attr
Here are a couple of quick indexes into the dump file. I didn't venture into
the binary revision data. You'll find an alphabetized list of articles that
contains all the diffs for each article in the order that they occured in
the dump and a sorted index into each revision as well.
http://grey.col
Browsing through the earliest revisions in the revision index (
http://grey.colorado.edu/wikipedia_2001/revisions.html) is rather
interesting and full of fodder for founder debates. Consider these very
early revisions:
"[http://www.nupedia.com Nupedia.com] is an open content, international,
peer r
Here is an interesting bit of history - the Wikipedia logo was first an
American flag. Then Scott Moonen suggested we make it a globe:
In its first day of existences, because the nearest thing to hand for
JimmyWales that was suitable for a logo was an American flag,
WikiPedia had the American fla
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Mono mium wrote:
> Awesome!
>
> How about we add popups?
>
> Seriously, if you're going to do this, just add AdSense...it's a heck of a
> lot prettier.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:10 AM, K. Peachey
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Dom
hat was worth risking so much its economical autonomy and
> mission?
> I hope you're wrong about the situation, Brian.
>
>
>
> On 31/12/2010 16:19, Brian J Mingus wrote:
> > Second, if WMF doesn't meet the fundraising goal they will have to cut
> > something from t
if
>> the donations are insufficient? That would be throwing itself into the
>> lion's den. What was worth risking so much its economical autonomy and
>> mission?
>> I hope you're wrong about the situation, Brian.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 31/12/2010 16:
+1
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
> Actually, what we should be doing is asking Afilias for one of the reserved
> 1-letter domains: w.org. Twitter has t.co, so why not?
>
> Ryan Kaldari
>
> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Platonides wrote:
>
> > Just create your own tld ;)
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Neil Harris wrote:
> On 09/05/11 23:57, Platonides wrote:
> > Just create your own tld ;)
> >
> Sadly, .wp wouldn't pass the new gTLD process: new gTLDs must have at
> least three characters.
>
> -- Neil
>
> How about:
http://en.wp.wmf
--
Brian Mingus
Graduate
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote:
>
> > With regards to the wi.ki domain, I asked people at the WMF back in 2009
> > about whether they were interested in buying it given that the owner at
> the
> > time had a notice on
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Brian wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Keegan Peterzell
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote:
>>
>> > With regards to the wi.ki domain, I asked people at the WMF back in
>> 2009
>> > about whether they were interested i
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Brian J Mingus
> wrote:
> >
> > It seems that giving w.net/com/org to the WMF would be in line with his
> > vision of no corporation controlling a letter.
> >
> >
&g
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 3:45 AM, Strainu wrote:
> 2011/9/21 emijrp :
> > Hi all;
> >
> > Just like the scripts to preserve wikis[1], I'm working in a new script
> to
> > download all Wikimedia Commons images packed by day. But I have limited
> > spare time. Sad that volunteers have to do this wit
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