In a message dated 8/9/2009 9:59:15 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
sainto...@telus.net writes:
> Most of these
> rare works will be in large cities where there will also be a
> concentration of people available to verify the material. For much of
> our material the acceptance criterion validly re
I'm trying it. It looks a lot like Vector, which I was already using.
Haven't really made up my mind about Vector/Acai. Seems like a step in
the right direction, but it's not really earth shatteringly better.
But then, usability is not really about helping experienced
power-users...
Steve
On Fri,
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 3:51 AM, wrote:
> Skepticism rears it's ugly head.
I just don't think that motivations are ever that straight forward.
Everyone loves to tell a simple tale like "The idea came to me one day
when X, so that night I decided to Y". Usually, though, we all have
lots of differen
wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 8/9/2009, bluecalioc...@me.com writes:
>
>> What if I live in a place where there isn't any library for hours (or
>> days even) via whatever transportation I have available?
>>
>> What if I have a library...but it's under-resourced, under-paid and
In a message dated 8/9/2009 7:42:48 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
bluecalioc...@me.com writes:
> What if I live in a place where there isn't any library for hours (or
> days even) via whatever transportation I have available?
>
> What if I have a library...but it's under-resourced, under-paid and
Will,
If I may ask a question.
What if I live in a place where there isn't any library for hours (or
days even) via whatever transportation I have available?
What if I have a library...but it's under-resourced, under-paid and
there's no way I can really get books or newsletter to help cite
In a message dated 8/9/2009 6:40:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
d...@tobias.name writes:
> So if I wanted to cite some rare book which I happened to know of
> only one copy in existence, located at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole
> Station in Antarctica, it would be up to you to arrange travel the
In a message dated 8/9/2009 6:26:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
d...@tobias.name writes:
> How come online "for-pay" stuff is to be excluded by your proposed
> rule, but not on-paper "for pay" stuff? Printed books, magazines,
> and newspapers are not generally free.>>
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Again thi
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:27:16 -0400, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
>
>> You're right. Several years ago, we had discussed this very issue.
>> That nothing "free" is really free is you have to pay to travel *to* it.
>> IIRC we basically agreed tha
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:27:16 -0400, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
> You're right. Several years ago, we had discussed this very issue.
> That nothing "free" is really free is you have to pay to travel *to* it.
> IIRC we basically agreed that traveling about, is just part of your
> normal life.
So if
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:04:58 -0400, wjhon...@{gag,vomit,retch}aol.com
> wrote:
>
>> You have completely ignored the requirement that I am here *solely*
>> referring to items which live, online, behind subscription walls. If
>> the item is
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:04:58 -0400, wjhon...@{gag,vomit,retch}aol.com
wrote:
> You have completely ignored the requirement that I am here *solely*
> referring to items which live, online, behind subscription walls. If
> the item is free, then it does not. So that removes the majority of
> yo
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:47 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> The problem being discussed in this thread would be solved by the
> feature (much-desired by Commons) of turning categories into tags - so
> that e.g. [[Category:Left-handed dead Jewish lesbian presidents of the
> United States]] could become
Cacharoth has it correct.
My response was in three parts, part one only refers to those items which
*solely* have an online life and no offline life whatsoever. That first part
is what a few people have objected to, but they objected to something which
I did not say.
Let's say that someone dec
> Just because a vanishingly small minority of people can't be
> classified as male or female, that is a reason to not bother doing
> such classifications? If that was a valid argument, many of these
> information forms that people fill in wouldn't ask for your gender.
> Those forms usually
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:25 PM, geni wrote:
> Patent dates to 1993 about when Encarta first appeared. I don't think
> that Britannica could quite be considered dead meet at that point.
Owning a (software) patent is one thing, using it beyond mere
defensive measure is another. The road map litigat
2009/8/9 David Gerard :
> http://is.gd/296dF
>
>
> - d.
Patent dates to 1993 about when Encarta first appeared. I don't think
that Britannica could quite be considered dead meet at that point.
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geni
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2009/8/9 Carcharoth :
> Tags and categories are different. Ideally, you would have both, or a
> clear of idea of what would be "primary" tags (what we call
> categories) and what are descriptive tags.
Oh yeah. But in practice, most of our ridiculously specific
sub-sub-cats are pretty much someon
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:47 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/8/9 :
>
>> About "Women" on Wikipedia, I think "famous" is probably problematic, like
>> "list of short women", is too much based on a judgement call.
>> And a list of all women on wikipedia would be too enormous.
>> However I would think
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2009/8/9 :
> About "Women" on Wikipedia, I think "famous" is probably problematic, like
> "list of short women", is too much based on a judgement call.
> And a list of all women on wikipedia would be too enormous.
> However I would think no one would object to something like Women by
> Nationalit
I agree completely with David, and if David is misunderstaning, please
explain. Your comment in an earlier email that "Most people seem to fail to
understand to what I refer." certainly applies to me, as I have no idea what
you're talking about. I also cannot see why you're being coy rather than
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Carcharoth wrote:
> http://www.dailylit.com/tags/wikipedia-tours
Thank you for that link. I had thought to do something like that
myself. I have been saved the time now.
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On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 2:49 AM, David Goodman wrote:
> The only paid references that should be removed are those which merely
> duplicate exactly what is available from other sources. For example,
> if a story is reprinted in many newspapers, we should try to find one
> which is free.
I think
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Emily Monroe wrote:
>> Trying to hammer every peg into one of just two holes is bound to
>> cause problems.
>
> Then there's the issue of people who are inter-sexed (born with mixed
> or absent gender-specific organs, example being [[Jim Sinclair]]),
> genderfuck (i
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