While I really appreciate that wiktionary is covered so prominently I am a
little confused as well. What is, from a technical standpoint, different in
this app compared to the wikipedia app?
rupert
Am 28.03.2012 00:43 schrieb "Patrick Hayes" :
> Hi everyone!
>
> The first beta release of the Wikt
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 02:26, Samuel Klein wrote:
> Technically, we could attract raw contributors with the flick of a
> finger: by encouraging editing via sitenotices.
> But attracting people who won't contribute well, or will have a bad
> experience -- or doing so when there is no good way to i
I did use a very old "konversationslexikon" as a child, mainly for the
pictures. With our children this got replaced now by online resources. And
no, not by wikipedia, but by YouTube. And every time I spend 15 minutes to
find a video to illustrate something it makes me a little sad that we as a
gro
On Mar 1, 2012 12:12 PM, "Amir E. Aharoni"
wrote:
>
> 2012/3/1 David Gerard :
> > On 1 March 2012 10:23, Strainu wrote:
> >
> >> If names are that important for you, go ahead and rename foundation-l,
> >> but there is really no need for yet another list.
> >
> >
> > +1
> >
> > Adding a new list w
to avoid such either/or discussions, would it be possible to fund rodrigos
proposal with a similar amount of money? make the money flow to projects
conducted by local people seems to be a very well accepted strategy ...
even if not everything will be flawless.
rupert
On Jan 25, 2012 9:42 PM, "Stev
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 10:10, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
> Dario Taraborelli, 10/12/2011 04:51:
>> • Is the Foundation running ads?
>> No, this banner is a recruitment campaign for a research project that has
>> been thoroughly reviewed by the Research Committee. We have a long tradition
>> of
such a lazy "theoretical" message.
> --
> Alasdair
>
>
> On Sunday, 4 December 2011 at 19:38, rupert THURNER wrote:
>
>> did you already improve one of these articles or you are just writing
>> theoretical mails about theoretically improving a list
did you already improve one of these articles or you are just writing
theoretical mails about theoretically improving a list, and
theoretically improving some text?
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 19:31, Alasdair wrote:
> If you look at the '10,000" articles list - it becomes very clear that the
> select
uh .. you are right ... sometimes one might wonder what
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Education_Program are for if
such basic articles stay in such a state. like one "professor for
information technology":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:United_States_Education_Program/Courses/In
fyi, in switzerland there are 2 mio readers and below 1 donors ... this
means more than 99% are not giving money.
On Nov 29, 2011 11:21 PM, "emijrp" wrote:
> 2011/11/29 Thomas Dalton
>
> > On 29 November 2011 21:51, emijrp wrote:
> > > Dear all;
> > >
> > > We have heard many times that mos
eaders "do you have an image of this? If so, why
> not upload it?" or whatever if they provide a sucky rating for a photo.
> I'll drop the devs a note and see what their plans are in this field :).
>
> On 29 November 2011 19:36, rupert THURNER
> wrote:
>
> &
t; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5)
> we're moving away from "rating" articles.
>
> On 29 November 2011 19:13, rupert THURNER
> wrote:
>
> > would it be possible to have a rating for pictures as well?
> > On Nov 29, 2011 6:17 PM, "Oliver
have, so -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5)
> we're moving away from "rating" articles.
>
> On 29 November 2011 19:13, rupert THURNER
> wrote:
>
> > would it be possible to have a rating for pictures as well?
> > On
would it be possible to have a rating for pictures as well?
On Nov 29, 2011 6:17 PM, "Oliver Keyes" wrote:
> Hey guys!
>
> Another AFT session - this one will be in #wikimedia-office on 2 December,
> at 19:00 UTC. If you're vaguely interested in playing around with
> prototypes, you should attend
y be in order. Agree that things don't work out should be
> dropped, but maybe new ways of doing things can also provide new answers.
>
> And yes, a one-size-fits-all solution is unlikely to work, given how
> culturally diverse the world is. So yes, boots on the ground, but also ear
> t
hi bishaka,
many thanks for your mail! i like a lot your attitude a lot to challenge
constantly existing ways of thinking and doing :)
just let us look on others. our exemplary organizations are not doing
anything different than in all other countries:
* http://www.indianredcross.org/sb.htm
* htt
would you be so kind to tell us a reason why
1. the indian chapter does not receive 50 dollars to hire 2 persons, to
pay the internet and telephone cost of 150 volunteers and to pay prices for
50 writing and photo shooting competitions around many universities in
india? the first price could a
the result of 10 minutes googling is ...
hisham mundol.
total edits 138, in 38 different pages. active since 4 months, active time
100% paid by wikimedia foundation. no free software development. created
even articles, an example:
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafe_Qahwa
sunil abraham.
no edits.
the practical difference seems to be the experience
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 07:44, Liam Wyatt wrote:
> Hi Hisham,
> Interesting development :-)
>
> My question is with regards to the relationship of the new trust to the
> existing India Chapter. The purpose of the trust (as defined as "The
> obj
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 09:28, Hisham wrote:
>
>
> On Nov 11, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Liam Wyatt wrote:
>
> >
> > My question is with regards to the relationship of the new trust to the
> > existing India Chapter. The purpose of the trust (as defined as "The
> > objective of the Trust is to promote th
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 14:55, Ting Chen wrote:
> Dear Wikimedia community,
>
> First, I want to thank the 24,000 editors who participated in the
> Wikimedia Foundation's referendum on the proposed personal image hiding
> feature. We are particularly grateful to the nearly seven thousand
> people w
do you propose questions like the following?
knowledge level o a-level o university o...
race o african o cacausian o...
gender o female o male o...
main wikipedia o de o en o fr
...
to see if there are other gaps as well than gender
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 01:48, Milos Rancic wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 00:18, Theo10011 wrote:
>>> - Harassment, threats, stalking, vandalism, and other long-term issues:
>>> The proposed agreement would make clear that such acts are prohibited.
>>> Novel for us, the agreement also ra
yes! and the rating of articles would then allow to drop all other quality
gates in place
On Sep 6, 2011 7:27 AM, "Samuel Klein" wrote:
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can I vote for you as reviewer?
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starting from "is there a tool" has some truth :) if there would be an
itch, somebody would scratch it. if there is a real need a tool would
exist written by somebody. and if somebody really feels to use such a
tool, this person would switch it on.
because, contrary to a mediawiki parser and wysiw
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 22:22, David Gerard wrote:
> On 4 September 2011 21:20, rupert THURNER wrote:
>
>> swastikas are not problem, but scorpions seem to be recently, haha:
>> * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Killer
>> * http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Killer
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 21:42, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 4 September 2011 20:11, church.of.emacs.ml
> wrote:
>> On 09/04/2011 07:43 PM, Kim Bruning wrote:
>>> Assuming that the .de community is similar to the wikimedia community at
>>> large […]
>>
>> That is where I disagree. The personal image f
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 16:46, Risker wrote:
> On 28 August 2011 04:47, rupert THURNER wrote:
>
>> 2011/8/28 Delphine Ménard :
>> > On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Ray Saintonge
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> If the question is one of "minim
2011/8/28 Delphine Ménard :
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
>> If the question is one of "minimum standards of accountability" the
>> WMF's first obligation would be to publish the standards which it
>> requires, presumably consistent with IFRS. Chapters incorporated wit
hi,
openstreetmap tries to switch to a new license:
http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/
one of the disadvantages of the license is that it does not exist e.g. in
german. what is the best strategy to get it in german as well? i am asking
because in switzerland 1% of the swiss osm data was pr
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 14:53, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> On 8/10/11 8:56 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote:
>> Perhaps I'm missing something, but where has it been suggested that chapters
>> would not remain free to raise funds independently of the WMF? My
>> impression was that the change being discussed here
what could be done to get wikipedia for different age groups off the ground?
would there be a possibility to get pilot space?
On Jun 24, 2011 11:55 AM, "Ray Saintonge" wrote:
On 06/23/11 1:30 PM, rupert THURNER wrote:
> people working at teacher schools in switzerland approa..
people working at teacher schools in switzerland approached us a couple of
times to push into a direction of *having wikipedia for different age groups
*. first discussed ideas included the *groups **kids, junior, standard, *and
* expert*. this would mean maximum four times as many articles, nicely
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