honestly believe that their keyword-primed advertorial
page is actually more useful than a Wikipedia page and are astounded
that Google might have the temerity to disagree. ;-)
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:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Archives
If the CBC were to follow the BBC's folly, that would be tragic and
utterly stupid.
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fair few of those people probably are not quite so interested in
getting into long and protracted arguments about chapter fundraising
and movement roles and all that jazz.
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e.
To see the difference, consider:
Wikipedia is the leading player in the online reference sector and
provide a revolutionary cloud-based 'encyclopedia as a service'.
Thanks to the visionary utilization of our key strategic software
assets, we deliver value-add to our stakeholders by e
ble. There are volunteers in the movement who
happily spend hour after hour copyediting on Wikipedia and Wikinews
and Wikibooks and so on. Give them the opportunity to fix up the
language used by the Foundation and the chapters.
Remember: how can community members support and become more deeply
ive size.
I'm wondering whether 3D Wikipedia would be possible: some kind of
WebGL-based JavaScript 'player' that has a few pluggable physics
presets. Then the ability to load models from Commons. I don't know
enough about file formats and licensing and so on, but, thi
d tag) that lobbying, certainly in
Britain, is a right every citizen has: to ask their Member of
Parliament to meet them in the lobby of the Palace of Westminster to
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comments. We aren't craven pageview whores like our friends in the
commercial news website business who are quite happy to trade
intellectual standards (seriously, read a newspaper comment column)
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> Wikipedia article. Just go to
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_Matrix/AllExtensions and search for
> "comment" or "discussion".
>
Sounds a bit like Article Feedback Tool v.5:
https://en.wikipedia
the possible cost of overriding project independence isn't
worth the benefit in having some minor sites taken offline in
solidarity. (Plus, Wikinews might want to cover the reactions to the
Wikipedia shut-down. :P )
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quot;
>
Sure, that's why I was hoping to take into account some summary of
what OTRS e-mailers said (obviously in an anonymous, statistical
form).
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really nailed merchandise), they want SMS donations in various
European countries, they want it so that if they've donated it removes
the banner for the rest of the fundraiser.
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encouraging newbs to edit seems like a fairly good
reason for us to not jump the gun and switch it off prematurely.
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ther than enwiki without a lot
more discussion and consultation.
But then I've just been watching the process quietly from the
sidelines: I may have got this all wrong.
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e version.
As for author reputation, check out the WikiTrust extension for
Firefox - see http://www.wikitrust.net/
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2012 will be going to the WMF.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFpPpMpopV8
Which is pretty cool. ;-)
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ue of principle may be very strong - and Kim Bruning
made the point about the ALA definition, for instance, which is a
principled rather than consequentialist objection.
Generally, though, I don't particularly care *what* people think, I
care *why* they think it. This is why the debate over this has b
oice or otherwise.
>
My point was not to provide an argument for or against any particular
implementation. It was a response to one particularly god-awful
argument.
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r but I can
> understand it as a theoretical concern. Has the board or WMF talked about /
> addressed this issue anywhere in regards to "set" based filter systems?
>
I find it highly unconvincing and wrote an extended blog post on the
topic a
iew has been so well heeded.
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ionary? The word Wiktionary with the label "a currently-offline
wiki-based Open Content dictionary"
Commons could have the arrows pointing all over the place.
As for Wikinews? Well, duh, that should tell you that the site is
offline as a breaking news headline.
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plemented on Wikipedia using userscripts. The
difference is that the WMF may do it in a slightly more user-friendly
way given that they have access to the servers.
* That's less sarcastic than it sounds.
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can cause
> un-intended comic effects, depending which article one is reading.
>
A rather OTT one I print-screened for effect: http://imgur.com/SfSDr
But, yes, this has been mentioned a few times by people writing in to
OTRS and also on some social media sites.
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On Thursday, November 3, 2011, David Gerard wrote:
> On 3 November 2011 12:22, Tom Morris wrote:
>
>> Perhaps this could be part of the article feedback tool: "is this article
>> missing a source? could you tell us what it is?" - this would
automatically
>> d
ype in, along with
a template called something like "potential ref" which would add a category
so someone could go and check up on it. And, yes, I do know that this may
seem like I'm coming up with a solution to the huge backlog of unreferenced
articles
box around and generally making things
slow. Personally, I just use the built in 'Cite' buttons and I also
use Reftag, a tool that lets you paste in a Google Books URL and which
then spits out a copy-pasteable citation - see
http://reftag.appspot.com/
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ndon. It is
arguably the same as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)"
"In the United Kingdom, GMT is the official time only during winter;
during summer British Summer Time is used."
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for retrieving certain subsets
of the data, do ask and someone with Toolserver access can run queries
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want to give (or encourage others to
give) to CC as well as Wikimedia.
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dia in public without offending the moral
sensibilities of people who catch a glance at my laptop screen would be a
feature. Being able to click 'Random page' without the chance of a public
order offence flowing from it would also be pretty nifty.
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ey would have done
it already." Following this impeccable logic, they decide that it's
probably not something anybody wants, and continue pressing on with
Nupedia...
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rst edit? Changing Photography to include both digital and film
photography. [1]
Thousands upon thousands of edits later (and after an extended
WikiBreak at Citizendium), I'm still addicted! ;-)
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Photograph&diff=prev&oldid=388293
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d make
it usable and presentable and Wikimedians to write up stories around it.
Producing original news stories might be slightly more interesting than 'Yet
Another Google Maps Mashup' hacks which is usually what is done with the
data. It would also produce stories that would be unavailable
tleneck, it
becomes simply a matter of throwing more people at the problem.
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BBC...)
[1]
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Spanish_smoking_ban_takes_effect_in_bars_and_restaurants
[2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/28/bbc-world-service-cuts-response
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rategy, chapter wikis, private wikis: making more wikis
doesn't solve problems, it just means we have more damn watchlists to
keep track of.
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ter wouldn't
have those problems: it's just when you go to a page which has, say, sexual
content, you'd know exactly what had been left out.
Again, I'm not sure whether I support the image filter, but it's a rubbish
argument to say that it creates filter bubble-t
list may lead the reader to think this adds no new rules to
bide by beyond those imposed by the law of their country and the United
States. It'd be helpful if that could be clarified.
I'm sure when I'm not tired and on the last train home, I'll find some other
things to nitpi
re reviewers. To get
more reviewers, we need more editors. To get more editors, we actually
have to publish their stories relatively quickly so they don't get
disenchanted and frustrated with the whole process. And to do that, we
need more reviewers
On Tuesday, September 6, 2011, Fajro wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Tom Morris >
> wrote:
> > non-Western topics: see http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Category:Chile
>
> Chile non-western?
> Fixed!
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chile&diff=prev&am
review process is slow and broken but it handles
non-Western topics: see http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Category:Chile
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Google have some kind of books thing in the pipeline
apparently).
Wikibooks and Wikiquote too. Not so sure whether there is such a
pressing need for Wikiversity on mobile, so whatever.
Anyone at the Foundation: any chance of mobile versions for the sister projects?
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, wiki-based; cons: language barrier)
That seems the most sensible way. It's not an OTRS issue.
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ium, I wrote a script to pipe
new pages into Twitter. It's still running:
http://twitter.com/cz_newdrafts
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pedia against someone), and any comments
that come up in the 'packaging' process could be taken as feedback in
the normal way just as if packager at Debian finds a bug with a piece
of software, he or she can point that out the upstr
ivalent.
Basically use the StackExchange version as a test bed to see if
Wikimedia should a Q&A site of its own.
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ikisources
> and wiktionaries) could be merged as to foster the develop of those
> projects.
>
Yep, I wasn't suggesting merging Wiktionary and Wikisource into
Wikipedia. But we don't need new wikis for cross-project collaboration
or outreach: we have Meta, so use it!
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easier if they could just be part of Meta.
Plus, the "tenth anniversary year" of Wikipedia is still rolling, and
the tenth anniversary of Wikipedias in Polish, Afrikaans, Norwegian
and Esperanto are coming up this year.
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Please don't print
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 22:52, WereSpielChequers
wrote:
> But I see no reason why ten wiki, Strategy and the various wikimanias
> each need their own wiki as opposed to being projects within meta.
>
Outreach and Strategy could and should be folded back into Meta...
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rison with the so-called 'filter bubble' is a good
one. I'd have a problem if people started making overwrought
comparison to Nazi book burnings too. Justifying such an overwrought
comparison by saying "well, the material would still be censored"
isn't helpful to the dis
r than the
'brutally fisted with stinging nettles by Satan himself' category.
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Please don't print this e-mail out unless you want a hard copy of
it. If you do, go ahead. I won't stop you. Nor will I waste your
ink/toner with 300+ lines o
ed by the authors concerned or
permitted by law". But in doing so, you haven't infringed on the
copyright of either the concert performer or the creator of the
device.
Another similar case might be some of the CDs that you could disable
the DRM on by covering certain areas of the disk surfa
commercial-needs/
This should be... interesting.
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