[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Take the Ada Initiative Census of women in open technology and culture

2011-03-10 Thread David Gerard
-- Forwarded message -- From: Valerie Aurora vale...@adainitiative.org Date: 10 March 2011 02:13 Subject: [Foundation-l] Take the Ada Initiative Census of women in open technology and culture To: foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Today we started the Ada Initiative Census of women

[WikiEN-l] Reg. Research using Wikipedia

2011-03-10 Thread ramesh kumar
Dear Members, I am a PhD student in a reputed university. My Research is on blog classification using Wikipedia Categories.As for my experiment, I use 12 main categories of Wikipedia.I want to identify which particular article belongs to which main 12 categories?.So I wrote a program to

Re: [WikiEN-l] Koch brothers articles doctored says Think Progress

2011-03-10 Thread Charles Matthews
On 09/03/2011 23:24, Tony Sidaway wrote: Think Progress, a progressive blog run by the Center for American Progress, today ran a story about a hired PR firm creating sock puppet accounts to clean up Wikipedia articles for the Koch brothers. If true, this will only get messier as the

Re: [WikiEN-l] Reg. Research using Wikipedia

2011-03-10 Thread WereSpielChequers
Hi Ramesh, I'm assuming from the size that you are interested in the English language Wikipedia. If you are doing several of these reports I would suggest getting yourself a https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/FAQ toolserver account. For a complete one off I would suggest filing a request at

Re: [WikiEN-l] Koch brothers articles doctored says Think Progress

2011-03-10 Thread Fred Bauder
On 09/03/2011 23:24, Tony Sidaway wrote: Think Progress, a progressive blog run by the Center for American Progress, today ran a story about a hired PR firm creating sock puppet accounts to clean up Wikipedia articles for the Koch brothers. If true, this will only get messier as the

Re: [WikiEN-l] Koch brothers articles doctored says Think Progress

2011-03-10 Thread Bob the Wikipedian
Surely that wasn't the only reason he got banned, unless he did it following several warnings On 3/10/2011 7:11 AM, Fred Bauder wrote: On 09/03/2011 23:24, Tony Sidaway wrote: Think Progress, a progressive blog run by the Center for American Progress, today ran a story about a hired PR

Re: [WikiEN-l] Koch brothers articles doctored says Think Progress

2011-03-10 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 10 March 2011 13:11, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: What is an airbush? I think we should be told. Our article Airbrush does not include information on the use of airbrush as a metaphor Charles' point was that the article says airbush not airbrush in the headline.