Re: [Foundation-l] Call for participation in Epistemia, a new wiki encyclopedia

2009-02-06 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Delirium wrote: > conflict-of-interest rules: when writing about a Croatian-Serbian > conflict, for example, anyone who is connected with Croatia or Serbia or > their cultures should recuse themselves when discussion gets heated. But The only thing you will achieve is that people will pretend t

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for participation in Epistemia, a new wiki encyclopedia

2009-02-05 Thread Delirium
Thomas Larsen wrote: > Hi all, > > On 2/4/09, Fred Bauder wrote: > >>> Basically you've just said "we're going to be just like wikipdia except >>> we >>> won't let incivlity, personal attacks and other bad stuff like that >>> happen". >>> How will you stop it? Blocking? Then you're just like wi

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for participation in Epistemia, a new wiki encyclopedia

2009-02-05 Thread Thomas Larsen
Hi all, On 2/4/09, Fred Bauder wrote: >> Basically you've just said "we're going to be just like wikipdia except >> we >> won't let incivlity, personal attacks and other bad stuff like that >> happen". >> How will you stop it? Blocking? Then you're just like wikipedia. > > Actually, no. Wikipedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for participation in Epistemia, a new wiki encyclopedia

2009-02-05 Thread Thomas Larsen
Hi, On 2/4/09, Patton 123 wrote: > I would also like to say that a community run by a > http://meta.epistemia.org/wiki/Council is a community destined to fail... I beg to differ. A community run by a democratically-elected council of active community members seems, to myself at least, a step for

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for participation in Epistemia, a new wiki encyclopedia

2009-02-03 Thread Fred Bauder
> I would also like to say that a community run by a > http://meta.epistemia.org/wiki/Council is a community destined to fail... > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listin

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for participation in Epistemia, a new wiki encyclopedia

2009-02-03 Thread Fred Bauder
> Basically you've just said "we're going to be just like wikipdia except > we > won't let incivlity, personal attacks and other bad stuff like that > happen". > How will you stop it? Blocking? Then you're just like wikipedia. Actually, no. Wikipedia no longer enforces civility. At least not again

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for participation in Epistemia, a new wiki encyclopedia

2009-02-03 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/2/3 Nathan : > I don't think Thomas Larsen needs to remind us about Epistemia regularly, > although I can't say it really bothers me. It isn't spam, though. I don't think this email was spam - it was informing a larger audience (foundation-l rather than just wikien-l) of the project now that

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for participation in Epistemia, a new wiki encyclopedia

2009-02-03 Thread Nathan
I don't think Thomas Larsen needs to remind us about Epistemia regularly, although I can't say it really bothers me. It isn't spam, though. I'm not sure anyone who is interested in the wider goals of Wikimedia should describe any other free content project as "destined to fail." That someone is tr

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for participation in Epistemia, a new wiki encyclopedia

2009-02-03 Thread Marc Riddell
on 2/3/09 11:07 AM, Al Tally at majorly.w...@googlemail.com wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: > >> Your initial announcement was fine. Continuing to spam is not. >> >> Fred >> > > Agreed, please don't spam here further. This place becomes less civil, more unfriendly

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for participation in Epistemia, a new wiki encyclopedia

2009-02-03 Thread Patton 123
I would also like to say that a community run by a http://meta.epistemia.org/wiki/Council is a community destined to fail... ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundatio

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for participation in Epistemia, a new wiki encyclopedia

2009-02-03 Thread Al Tally
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Patton 123 wrote: > Basically you've just said "we're going to be just like wikipdia except we > won't let incivlity, personal attacks and other bad stuff like that > happen". > How will you stop it? Blocking? Then you're just like wikipedia. > No, removing uncivi

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for participation in Epistemia, a new wiki encyclopedia

2009-02-03 Thread Patton 123
Basically you've just said "we're going to be just like wikipdia except we won't let incivlity, personal attacks and other bad stuff like that happen". How will you stop it? Blocking? Then you're just like wikipedia. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundati

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for participation in Epistemia, a new wiki encyclopedia

2009-02-03 Thread Al Tally
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: > Your initial announcement was fine. Continuing to spam is not. > > Fred > Agreed, please don't spam here further. -- Alex (User:Majorly) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.o

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for participation in Epistemia, a new wiki encyclopedia

2009-02-03 Thread Fred Bauder
Your initial announcement was fine. Continuing to spam is not. Fred ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for participation in Epistemia, a new wiki encyclopedia

2009-02-03 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/2/3 Thomas Larsen : > We now have 25 contributors and 118 articles. How many of those are copied from Wikipedia (I've checked and at least some are)? What are your plans for using Wikipedia content, assuming the licenses become compatible? ___ foun

[Foundation-l] Call for participation in Epistemia, a new wiki encyclopedia

2009-02-03 Thread Thomas Larsen
Hello all, Recently, I announced Epistemia (http://epistemia.org/), a new wiki encyclopedia, on WikiEN-L (see my e-mail at http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2009-January/098140.html). Essentially, Epistemia was launched by Richard Austin and myself in response to perceived flaws inhere