Re: [WikiEN-l] Fixed our client’s Wikipedia page.

2011-02-13 Thread FT2
Win-win, and community consensus can decide the reliance to place on their newly written source v. other sources that existed. FT2 On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: High motivation for making decent open-source images available:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Tabloid sources (was Wikipedia leadership})

2011-02-13 Thread Daniel R. Tobias
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 13:25:17 + (GMT), wikien-l-Andreas Kolbe wrote: and she admits she thought it was a weird religion - - until she met Cruise. I'm not saying that I'm not a Scientologist because I think something's wrong with Scientology -- I want to be really clear about that, Jada

Re: [WikiEN-l] Tabloid sources (was Wikipedia leadership})

2011-02-13 Thread Marc Riddell
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 13:25:17 + (GMT), wikien-l-Andreas Kolbe wrote: and she admits she thought it was a weird religion - - until she met Cruise. I'm not saying that I'm not a Scientologist because I think something's wrong with Scientology -- I want to be really clear about that, Jada

[WikiEN-l] A Mormon Persective from the Deseret News

2011-02-13 Thread Fred Bauder
10 controversial Wikipedia topics: http://www.deseretnews.com/top/97/10-controversial-Wikipedia-topics.html Wiki Wars: In battle to define beliefs, Mormons and foes wage battle on Wikipedia: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700105517/ Fred ___

[WikiEN-l] Rating the English wikipedia

2011-02-13 Thread Ian Woollard
This encyclopedia has been rated as C-Class on the project's quality scale. This encyclopedia has been checked against the following criteria for B-Class status: 1. Referencing and citation: criterion not met (many common articles are not adequately referenced) 2. Coverage and accuracy:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rating the English wikipedia

2011-02-13 Thread Newyorkbrad
{{sofixit}} :) On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Ian Woollard ian.wooll...@gmail.comwrote: This encyclopedia has been rated as C-Class on the project's quality scale. This encyclopedia has been checked against the following criteria for B-Class status: 1. Referencing and citation:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rating the English wikipedia

2011-02-13 Thread Brian J Mingus
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Ian Woollard ian.wooll...@gmail.comwrote: I therefore award the Wikipedia class C: Considering that 55% of articles are stubs and 21% are start awarding Wikipedia a C overall is quite generous. -- Brian Mingus Graduate student Computational Cognitive

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rating the English wikipedia

2011-02-13 Thread Stephanie Daugherty
I say it's start class at best. On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Brian J Mingus brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Ian Woollard ian.wooll...@gmail.comwrote: I therefore award the Wikipedia class C: Considering that 55% of articles are stubs and 21% are start

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rating the English wikipedia

2011-02-13 Thread Ian Woollard
On 14/02/2011, Newyorkbrad newyorkb...@gmail.com wrote: {{sofixit}} :) fixin' the Wikipedia - brb -- -Ian Woollard ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rating the English wikipedia

2011-02-13 Thread Newyorkbrad
Can we at least agree it's High-importance? Newyorkbrad On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Ian Woollard ian.wooll...@gmail.comwrote: This encyclopedia has been rated as C-Class on the project's quality scale. This encyclopedia has been checked against the following criteria for B-Class

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rating the English wikipedia

2011-02-13 Thread Ian Woollard
On 14/02/2011, Brian J Mingus brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: Considering that 55% of articles are stubs and 21% are start awarding Wikipedia a C overall is quite generous. I think you can't take the simple percentages of articles, a lot of the most important and well visited articles are

Re: [WikiEN-l] Rating the English wikipedia

2011-02-13 Thread Steve Bennett
I would think that percentages of FA/GA/A/B/C/Start/Stub with respect to page hits would be much more illuminating. Ooh, I'd like to see that. And to get a list of pages that are well below par considering their popularity. Steve ___ WikiEN-l