Re: [WikiEN-l] Resolving conflicts and reaching consensus

2010-04-13 Thread Ryan Delaney
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Peter Tesler wrote: > Hi everyone - > This is a project presented at Wikipedia Day 2010 at NYU in New York > last January..http://ideagra.ph > We presented this as a way to discuss a few of the most > complicated/controversial Wikimedia-related issues that haven't

Re: [WikiEN-l] Cuil launches CPedia.com, the robotically generated "encyclopedia".

2010-04-13 Thread Ryan Delaney
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 5:31 PM, David Gerard wrote: > Remember Cuil, the worst search engine of last decade? This is what > they've done with the left over hardware: an automated encyclopedia. > > http://www.cpedia.com/ > > It's like Wikipedia read by Mark V. Shaney. > > > - d. > > Lmao. ___

Re: [WikiEN-l] Cuil launches CPedia.com, the robotically generated "encyclopedia".

2010-04-13 Thread David Gerard
On 13 April 2010 17:05, Ryan Delaney wrote: > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 5:31 PM, David Gerard wrote: >> Remember Cuil, the worst search engine of last decade? This is what >> they've done with the left over hardware: an automated encyclopedia. >> http://www.cpedia.com/ >> It's like Wikipedia read

Re: [WikiEN-l] Cuil launches CPedia.com, the robotically generated "encyclopedia".

2010-04-13 Thread Ryan Delaney
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Ryan Delaney wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 5:31 PM, David Gerard wrote: > >> Remember Cuil, the worst search engine of last decade? This is what >> they've done with the left over hardware: an automated encyclopedia. >> >> http://www.cpedia.com/ >> >> It's

Re: [WikiEN-l] Cuil launches CPedia.com, the robotically generated "encyclopedia".

2010-04-13 Thread geni
On 12 April 2010 01:31, David Gerard wrote: > Remember Cuil, the worst search engine of last decade? This is what > they've done with the left over hardware: an automated encyclopedia. > > http://www.cpedia.com/ > > It's like Wikipedia read by Mark V. Shaney. > > > - d. Well in theory an automate

Re: [WikiEN-l] Resolving conflicts and reaching consensus

2010-04-13 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Ryan Delaney wrote: > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:38 AM, Peter Tesler wrote: > >> Hi everyone - >> This is a project presented at Wikipedia Day 2010 at NYU in New York >> last January..http://ideagra.ph >> We presented this as a way to discuss a few of the most >> co

Re: [WikiEN-l] Cuil launches CPedia.com, the robotically generated "encyclopedia".

2010-04-13 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
David Gerard wrote: > On 13 April 2010 17:05, Ryan Delaney wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 5:31 PM, David Gerard wrote: >> > > >>> Remember Cuil, the worst search engine of last decade? This is what >>> they've done with the left over hardware: an automated encyclopedia. >>> http:/

Re: [WikiEN-l] Cuil launches CPedia.com, the robotically generated "encyclopedia".

2010-04-13 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
geni wrote: > On 12 April 2010 01:31, David Gerard wrote: > >> Remember Cuil, the worst search engine of last decade? This is what >> they've done with the left over hardware: an automated encyclopedia. >> >> http://www.cpedia.com/ >> >> It's like Wikipedia read by Mark V. Shaney. >> >> >> - d.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Resolving conflicts and reaching consensus

2010-04-13 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Ryan Delaney wrote: > A common way to stifle discussion about nuance in any situation is to refer > to old discussions on similar ideas and say "we already discussed this and > got consensus". Keeping an ancient history of all past debates could cause a > single d

Re: [WikiEN-l] Resolving conflicts and reaching consensus

2010-04-13 Thread David Gerard
On 13 April 2010 23:06, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > But the opposite approach is as bad or worse:  If every issue must be > argued anew when someone brings it up then the ultimate outcome is > that by sheer pigheaded persistence you will eventually get your way > once everyone saner has tired or rep

Re: [WikiEN-l] Cuil launches CPedia.com, the robotically generated "encyclopedia".

2010-04-13 Thread MuZemike
Here's an example article from Cpedia about Barack Obama (basically, read and weep): http://www.cpedia.com/wiki?q=Barack+Obama After skimming over it really quickly (especially read the end), words cannot describe it as far as the tone of the article is concerned. -MuZemike On 4/13/2010 11:18