Re: [WikiEN-l] Dealing with disappearing online sources

2009-02-21 Thread Fred Bauder
> Guilty as charged. http://tinyurl.com/ch3wdf > > I searched archive.org, webcitation, and a few other (using the > firefox "resurrect page" extension) for an archived version of the > link. Found nothing so I removed the dead source and added a {{fact}} > tag. On hindsite I should have tried a go

Re: [WikiEN-l] Dealing with disappearing online sources

2009-02-21 Thread Ron Ritzman
Guilty as charged. http://tinyurl.com/ch3wdf I searched archive.org, webcitation, and a few other (using the firefox "resurrect page" extension) for an archived version of the link. Found nothing so I removed the dead source and added a {{fact}} tag. On hindsite I should have tried a google news s

Re: [WikiEN-l] Dealing with disappearing online sources

2009-02-21 Thread Gwern Branwen
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Re: [WikiEN-l] [Slashdot] The Role of Experts In Wikipedia

2009-02-21 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/2/21 David Gerard : > 2009/2/21 Thomas Dalton : >> 2009/2/21 James Farrar : >>> 2009/2/21 Ben Kovitz : > Disclaimer: I've read three or four books on marketing, so that, uh, makes me an expert. ;) > >>> Probably more of an expert than someone who's read ten or twenty books >>> on mar

Re: [WikiEN-l] xkcd

2009-02-21 Thread Oskar Sigvardsson
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Sam Korn wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Thomas Dalton > wrote: >> Our template code may be Turing-complete, but I don't think it has >> live feed access to the stock markets... > > [[WP:BEANS]] Are you seriously suggesting that if we keep this discuss

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Slashdot] The Role of Experts In Wikipedia

2009-02-21 Thread David Gerard
2009/2/21 Thomas Dalton : > 2009/2/21 James Farrar : >> 2009/2/21 Ben Kovitz : >>> Disclaimer: I've read three or four books on marketing, so that, uh, >>> makes me an expert. ;) >> Probably more of an expert than someone who's read ten or twenty books >> on marketing ;) > I've read the Wikipedi

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Slashdot] The Role of Experts In Wikipedia

2009-02-21 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/2/21 James Farrar : > 2009/2/21 Ben Kovitz : > >> Disclaimer: I've read three or four books on marketing, so that, uh, >> makes me an expert. ;) > > Probably more of an expert than someone who's read ten or twenty books > on marketing ;) I've read the Wikipedia article on marketing, what more

Re: [WikiEN-l] xkcd

2009-02-21 Thread Sam Korn
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/2/21 David Goodman : >> Isn't the traditional way to link to some outside number--parimutual >> handle, stock market figures, whatever. > > Our template code may be Turing-complete, but I don't think it has > live feed access to the stoc

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Slashdot] The Role of Experts In Wikipedia

2009-02-21 Thread James Farrar
2009/2/21 Ben Kovitz : > Disclaimer: I've read three or four books on marketing, so that, uh, > makes me an expert. ;) Probably more of an expert than someone who's read ten or twenty books on marketing ;) ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikim

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Slashdot] The Role of Experts In Wikipedia

2009-02-21 Thread Ben Kovitz
On Feb 16, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > We could discuss why [CZ] failed but I think the real answer is > simply that Wikipedia is "good enough" so there is very little > interest in a new project doing the same thing. I think you have pegged it exactly right. In most large markets,

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Slashdot] The Role of Experts In Wikipedia

2009-02-21 Thread Ben Kovitz
On Feb 16, 2009, at 12:20 AM, Tim Starling wrote: > "Sanger was one of the founders of Wikipedia, and of its failed > predecessor Nupedia, who left the fold because of differences over the > question of the proper role of experts." > > Strange, I thought it was because he stopped being paid for it

Re: [WikiEN-l] Adding new material vs. undoing damage

2009-02-21 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/2/21 Ben Kovitz : >> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Thomas Dalton >> wrote: >> >>> I'm just going by the statistics, I'm not making any judgements based >>> on anything else. At the moment, we seem to be following a logistic >>> curve which levels out at around 3.5 million articles in aroun

Re: [WikiEN-l] xkcd

2009-02-21 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/2/21 David Goodman : > Isn't the traditional way to link to some outside number--parimutual > handle, stock market figures, whatever. Our template code may be Turing-complete, but I don't think it has live feed access to the stock markets... ___ Wi

[WikiEN-l] Adding new material vs. undoing damage

2009-02-21 Thread Ben Kovitz
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Thomas Dalton > wrote: > >> I'm just going by the statistics, I'm not making any judgements based >> on anything else. At the moment, we seem to be following a logistic >> curve which levels out at around 3.5 million articles in around >> 2013-14. (It's asymptot

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Slashdot] The Role of Experts In Wikipedia

2009-02-21 Thread Charles Matthews
Gwern Branwen wrote: > "User:MBisanz has charted the number of new accounts registered per > month, which tells a very similar story: March 2007 recorded the > largest number of new accounts, and the rate of new account creation > has fallen significantly since then. Declines in activity have also