Thanks!
Craig Newmark
founder, craigslist
On Nov 2, 2016 12:44 PM, "FRED BAUDER"
wrote:
Craig,
I don't expect you to do anything about it, but Hillary Clinton
presidential campaign, 2016 has been so much an object of political
editing
by Clinton supporters that it looks more l
after people have recovered from the election. How
about...reminding me two weeks from today. I might've recovered by
then,
seriously...
Thanks!
Craig Newmark
founder, craigslist
On Nov 2, 2016 12:44 PM, "FRED BAUDER" <fredb...@fairpoint.net>
wrote:
Craig,
I don't exp
Craig,
I don't expect you to do anything about it, but Hillary Clinton
presidential campaign, 2016 has been so much an object of political
editing by Clinton supporters that it looks more like an ad for
Hillary than a Wikipedia article.
Fred Bauder
On Wed, 2 Nov 2016 11:43:32 -0400
Craig
There is resistance to including material with no published reliable
source. They can also edit Wikia which is to a certain extent devoted to
gaming.
Fred
I think there might be some resistance within the WP community to
encouraging detailed game content in WP. There are plenty of other wikis
I've just started reading this, but a few thoughts right off:
As every experiment it should be reproducible
This is not possible because Wikipedia has a world-wide audience and is a
top 10 website. No comparable can be expected to develop.
Also, compared to using Wikipedia in junior high or
Truth is a relative virtue, that mostly depends on the effectivity of
social procedures and norms. Wikipedia makes no such claim; only that it
is a summary of generally accepted knowledge.
Fred
Hello,
I have already discussed this work on the mailing list two months ago.
You may now find the
meaning is not the product of a one-sided teaching, but of a dialogical
exchange between two seemingly equal human consciousness Again, we do
not aspire to meaning nor to dialog only to consensus regarding the
corpus of generally-accepted information. Even calling it knowledge is a
stretch. It is
We have about as much talent and personnel as one journal. And an
operation of about the same order of magnitude.
Fred
There seems to be a great deal of misunderstanding among Wikipedians
how academe actually works. Piotr thinks a grad student can produce a
scholarly journal. Look at history.
Piotr says Let me repeat: editors, authors and reviewers are not
paid That's completely false. They are all paid professional
salaries by their home universities, and the kind of work they do is
counted in terms of getting jobs, promotions, pay raises and
tenure. Furthermore for the
Thanks everyone! I knew that one should be careful with Alexa but I
didn´t expect it could be THAT wrong. It´s a pity because otherwise it
could be a convenient and interesting tool. The next question is: is
this rather an exception or is Alexa in general not reliable? Maybe I
shouldn´t use
Hi,
I realized today that surprinsingly the Russian Wikiversity is better
ranked by Alexa than the English version (ru.wikiversity.org = 53.66% of
wikiveritsy.org´s traffic, en.wikiversity.org only 33.28%).
The description says:
(...) it is relatively popular among users in the city of
amateur editors, although they may be enrolled in sophomore
mathematics classes. A good textbook, or Wikipedia article requires a
skilled teacher who can gradually introduce the reader to the concepts,
and jargon of mathematics.
Fred Bauder
So far, the best phrasing I've come up with is: What
, essentially whackamole.
Investment in articles varies greatly.
Fred Bauder
Hi all,
I'm working on a study for which I'd like to know more about editors'
watchlisting practices. Of course what I'd really like is to know who
had what page on their watchlist when, but I understand the obvious
The point is well taken that the proposal was not that well advertised
and I still haven't found a link to the RFC.
Fred Bauder
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Piotr Konieczny pio...@post.pl wrote:
Bryan Song wrote:
The Wikipedia:Research policy on subject recruitment on Wikipedia has
made
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