2009/9/15 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com:
Timwi -
That is indeed pretty egregious. I use that dialog all the time, but
usually upload my own images and so didn't really attend to whether
the other options are complete.
I agree that this should be fixed, and filed a bug:
I have to modify my comments, because after toying around at
wiki.answers.com the voting system doesn't work.
It's the same issue at Knol in general. I get over a thousand views a
day of my knols and very very rarely does anyone vote my articles either up
or down. There has been suspicion
The assumptions that support the use of such polls elsewhere do not
hold with this:
a. for true mass media, polling viewers on their views of news events,
the assumption is that the number of readers is high and diverse
enough to prevent manipulation
b. for professional topics on professional
But your response sounds like There's no problem.? And I just pointed out the
problem.? Just go to wiki.answers.com for example, answer a few questions, then
check back in a month.
Even though people read articles, they aren't voting.
That's not the same as a poll, where you deliberately create
An eBay vendor is exploiting a volunteer restoration of the Holocaust.
Another volunteer at Commons first spotted it.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Durova#Photo_on_ebay
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
eBay:
On 15 Sep 2009, at 23:05, Durova wrote:
An eBay vendor is exploiting a volunteer restoration of the Holocaust.
They are profiteering off public domain material (at least in the
case of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising). As it's public domain, there's no
actual legal requirement to provide
The vendor violates moral rights on all the items it offers for sale.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights_%28copyright_law%29
In particular, though, it happens to be useful that along the line they're
selling Walt Disney's portrait with Mickey Mouse.
Cheers,
Durova
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Clearly, though, this is a cultural matter. Readability in this sort
of sense is conditioned by the expectation that the written language is
very close to the spoken language, for example, which is
For the most part this barely merits consideration. We're a wiki. When
someone's idea of a well-written sentence differs from mine they're welcome
to revise it.
Two pet peeves:
1. POV-pushers who use 'copyediting' as a pretext to insinuate content
changes.
2. Copyeditors who don't actually
On 11/09/2009, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
I think the shock was realising this is the product. Yes, that live
working draft is the actual product. And this may actually be a
feature.
It's getting the world to understand that it's a work in progress, I
suppose.
Maybe we need to
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