Re: [Wiki-research-l] U.S. open access policy comment period open [important]

2020-02-27 Thread Timothy Wood
Posted at VP on English Wikipedia and Commons. I would encourage all to cross post this on your local projects. V/r TJW/GMG On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 7:13 PM Leila Zia wrote: > Jake, thanks for sharing this. It's good to see more movement in this > space. When Dario Taraborelli and the Legal

Re: [Wiki-research-l] sockpuppets and how to find them sooner

2019-08-24 Thread Timothy Wood
ki/Wikimedia_Scoring_Platform_team might > have some insights into these questions, although I believe they (current > and some former members) are active on this mailing list, so might chime in > here. > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 11:52 PM Timothy Wood > > wrote: > > > Then a

Re: [Wiki-research-l] sockpuppets and how to find them sooner

2019-08-23 Thread Timothy Wood
pear as > bad guys on individual edits. It's often more about long-term behaviours > like POV pushing, refusal to engage in consensus building, slow burning > edit wars, etc, that does not show on individual edits. > > Kerry > > Sent from my iPad > > On 23 Aug 2019, at 1

Re: [Wiki-research-l] sockpuppets and how to find them sooner

2019-08-23 Thread Timothy Wood
You are correct that in all but the most obvious cases, filing an SPI can be exceptionally time consuming. I'm afraid there is no obvious technical solution there that would not involve a complicated AI that is probably beyond the ability of the foundation to produce. There is quite a bit of data

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Transferring CC-BY scientific literature into WP

2019-04-18 Thread Timothy Wood
; > -- > > ...let us be heard from red core to black sky > > > > On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 at 09:47, Timothy Wood > > wrote: > > > > > > This looks like a job for Wikisource. If nothing else, so long as we > can > > > verify their CC licensing is com

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Transferring CC-BY scientific literature into WP

2019-04-17 Thread Timothy Wood
t; provide half the functionality that they can. > > cheers > stuart > -- > ...let us be heard from red core to black sky > > On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 at 09:47, Timothy Wood > wrote: > > > > This looks like a job for Wikisource. If nothing else, so long as we can > >

Re: [Wiki-research-l] User type context sensitivity to introduction sections.

2019-02-08 Thread Timothy Wood
/r TJW/GMG On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 8:25 PM Aaron Gray wrote: > On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 at 01:01, Timothy Wood > wrote: > > > This has been somewhat answered by the Simple English Wikipedia. But even > > Simple was recently nominated for deletion in whole on meta, although the &

Re: [Wiki-research-l] User type context sensitivity to introduction sections.

2019-02-08 Thread Timothy Wood
This has been somewhat answered by the Simple English Wikipedia. But even Simple was recently nominated for deletion in whole on meta, although the nomination failed. I'm not sure it can be done without splitting off multiple projects, but the problem with that is that our cross-wiki vandals are