Re: [WikiEN-l] Academic study: Wikipedia cancer information accurate but hard to read

2011-09-16 Thread Fred Bauder
On 16/09/2011 03:26, Tony Sidaway wrote: It appears that a study by a team at the Medical School at Thomas Jefferson University has found Wikipedia's cancer information to be very accurate and updated more frequently than other sources. Compared to professional sources such as PDQ,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Academic study: Wikipedia cancer information accurate but hard to read

2011-09-16 Thread Fred Bauder
Nice to know we are as accurate and more up-to-date than the competition. I'd love to see further work done on the 2% of information where we currently differ from the textbooks, hopefully most of that will just be that the textbooks are out of date. But it would be good to have that

Re: [WikiEN-l] Short featured articles

2011-09-14 Thread Fred Bauder
Today's featured article is all of 6 paragraphs long. Discuss. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MissingNo. Carcharoth Seems appropriate. Fred ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Journalist admits socking on Wikipedia

2011-09-14 Thread Fred Bauder
David Gerard wrote: Johann Hari admits he did it. http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-a-personal-apology-2354679.html - d. I don't see socking here; he admits to using only one account, and he doesn't appear to have an account in his own name. I do

Re: [WikiEN-l] JSTOR Early Journal Content access

2011-09-13 Thread Fred Bauder
I have bought expensive academic books in the past, but never actual published PhD theses. I would expect someone to rewrite, extend and expand on their PhD thesis to make it suitable for a wider readership before publishing it and expecting people to buy it. Many of the books I've bought

Re: [WikiEN-l] JSTOR Early Journal Content access

2011-09-13 Thread Fred Bauder
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: I've registered for this service and am downloading a thesis: Queen Victoria : the monarch and the media 1837-1867 I have agreed to terms and conditions which provide that my copy is only for personal

Re: [WikiEN-l] JSTOR Early Journal Content access

2011-09-11 Thread Fred Bauder
I read the FAQ and noticed this: Making the Early Journal Content freely available is something we have planned to do for some time. It is not a direct reaction to the Swartz and Maxwell situation, but recent events did have an impact on our planning. Anyone know what that is about?

Re: [WikiEN-l] JSTOR Early Journal Content access

2011-09-10 Thread Fred Bauder
According to their announcement not all material has been released yet. It will be available in stages. I was able to access an article in Science from May, 1910 which was quite useful. It is footnote 2 in the article, San Luis Valley Fred The second two links work for guest users; the first

Re: [WikiEN-l] Outline articles

2011-09-08 Thread Fred Bauder
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: I don't think we've discussed the outline of X articles much on this list, which surprises me, but people might nonetheless be interested in:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Hudong

2011-08-25 Thread Fred Bauder
Nevertheless I wouldn't be surprised to see a billion dollar IPO for either of them. Fred I think that it is also worth pointing out that, in my experience, articles on Hudong are pretty bad. They are poorly formatted, poorly written, generally lack inline referencing, and often have

Re: [WikiEN-l] Hudong

2011-08-24 Thread Fred Bauder
I hadn't heard of Hudong before. This article by Rebecca Fannin calls it China's Wikipedia and says it has a 95% market share and more than 5 million entries from 3.6 million contributors. http://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccafannin/2011/08/23/why-draper-funded-chinas-wikipedia/ English

Re: [WikiEN-l] WikiLove Extension on Prototype

2011-07-01 Thread Fred Bauder
I really dislike it. Socialization should be an implicit function of the website software, not an explicit one. NO SOUP FOR YOU! ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:

Re: [WikiEN-l] WikiLove Extension on Prototype

2011-06-25 Thread Fred Bauder
Naw, let's trick em. Let's pretend to be friendly and appreciative for at least two years. Fred As long as we don't start giving newcomers a false sense of appreciation or accomplishment, which will end up hurting them more in the future, as opposed to letting them know right away what they

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Press] 'Fixer' cleans Wikipedia entries for senior business figures

2011-06-09 Thread Fred Bauder
Looks to me like they are referring to 94.193.122.119, registered to London Clerkenwell Residential Dynamic. Yes, thank you. I was looking for recent edits and couldn't find many. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Special:Contributions/94.193.122.119 This is quite a treasure

Re: [WikiEN-l] The expert problem, dissolved

2011-06-06 Thread Fred Bauder
And as usual, El Reg's coverage manages to be negative anyway. They are truly a lesson to all of us. From http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/01/wikipedia_makes_students_do_better_work/ Yes, clearly, The Register would have opposed the wheel. Fred

Re: [WikiEN-l] schema.org - anything here for us?

2011-06-03 Thread Fred Bauder
http://schema.org/ An initiative by Google, Yahoo and Bing to make a tag language to make things more findable in search engines. Is there anything in this for us? schema.org tags in templates? Presumably this would require software work too, and require us to cross levels between software

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia article on [[Santorum (neologism)]]

2011-05-26 Thread Fred Bauder
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote: [...] You can't neutrally discuss how a person is compared to shit.  Not in any real-world sense. I don't agree for a moment that we can't neutrally discuss how a person is compared to shit. We can and in my opinion we

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia article on [[Santorum (neologism)]]

2011-05-25 Thread Fred Bauder
You are ascribing motive to Cirt's activities. Assume Good Faith. This is starting to feel like something that should be dealt with by interested parties engaging with each other, rather than researching on wiki-en. There is a on-wiki discussion and there will be more, but this: By the

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia article on [[Santorum (neologism)]]

2011-05-25 Thread Fred Bauder
I've dropped Cirt a note and link to this thread, in case they weren't aware of it. As mentioned before, what is at the root of this is a wider problem though: to what extent we as a project are happy to act as participants, rather than neutral observers and reporters, in the political

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia article on [[Santorum (neologism)]]

2011-05-25 Thread Fred Bauder
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote: I've dropped Cirt a note and link to this thread, in case they weren't aware of it. As mentioned before, what is at the root of this is a wider problem though: to what extent we as a project are happy to act as

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia article on [[Santorum (neologism)]]

2011-05-25 Thread Fred Bauder
I'm not surprised that a Wikipedia article shoots to the top of Google searches, isn't that one of the reasons why we write here? I'm pretty sure I've seen Wikipedia articles come top on Google even if they lack templates and are practically orphans. Nor am I surprised that someone who

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia article on [[Santorum (neologism)]]

2011-05-25 Thread Fred Bauder
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 23:57, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote: If there weren't any anti-scientology campaigners spreading the word about Xenu, we'd still have a reason to have an article about Xenu.  If there was no anti-Santorum campaign, we'd have no reason for the article--its

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia article on [[Santorum (neologism)]]

2011-05-25 Thread Fred Bauder
Again - I am not Cirt, and I find the article reasonably balanced. Having an article that associates someone with human waste be reasonably balanced is like claiming that an article about the Richard Gere gerbil rumor (as long as it stated the rumor was false) would be reasonably balanced.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia article on [[Santorum (neologism)]]

2011-05-25 Thread Fred Bauder
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: Again - I am not Cirt, and I find the article reasonably balanced. Having an article that associates someone with human waste be reasonably balanced is like claiming that an article about the Richard Gere gerbil

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia article on [[Santorum (neologism)]]

2011-05-23 Thread Fred Bauder
On 23/05/2011 03:56, geni wrote: On 23 May 2011 02:24, Brian J Mingusbrian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: When you Google for Santorum's last name this Wikipedia article is the second result. This means that people who are looking for legitimate information about him are not going to find it

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia article on [[Santorum (neologism)]]

2011-05-23 Thread Fred Bauder
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:47 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: Many of the things we report on are unfortunate.  An IMF candidate who alledgedly raped a hotel maid snip Candidate? Last I looked, he was Managing Director of the IMF at the time the story broke (he is now

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia article on [[Santorum (neologism)]]

2011-05-23 Thread Fred Bauder
We don't exist to fix the real world - we exist to report on it accurately. Many of the things we report on are unfortunate. An IMF candidate who alledgedly raped a hotel maid, a tornado that killed 89 plus people, a terrorist attack in Pakistan and several ongoing and incipient wars,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia article on [[Santorum (neologism)]]

2011-05-23 Thread Fred Bauder
I agree. Let's remove all content on Wikipedia about the Internet. My God! Larry Sanger was right! Fred ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia article on [[Santorum (neologism)]]

2011-05-22 Thread Fred Bauder
Hi all, I'm not sure about the history of this article, but it it was recently brought to my attention via Facebook. My take on this article is that it is an abuse of Wikipedia's notability guidelines. The article goes out of its way to cite lots of sources, but I do not believe that

Re: [WikiEN-l] Encyclopedia Dramatica

2011-05-17 Thread Fred Bauder
On Tue, 17 May 2011, David Gerard wrote: The new site has indeed had about 0 verifiable third-party coverage. But the problem is that it's being treated as a new site and therefore all the notability and such has to start from scratch. How do we determine that something remains the same

Re: [WikiEN-l] How does Wikipedia compare for neutrality?

2011-05-02 Thread Fred Bauder
Well I would love to provide you very very examples of where I attempted to fix the problems there. The wikpedia loves to claim being NPOV but in fact in kosovo there is a total bent, just compare the de.en,sq and sr wikis via translation, each of them has its own POV and subscribes to some

Re: [WikiEN-l] I like this

2011-04-29 Thread Fred Bauder
10:20, 29 April 2011 Jimbo Wales (talk | contribs) m (37,376 bytes) (moved Kate Middleton to Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge over redirect: Marriage to the Duke of Cambridge) (undo) He must have had his finger on the button waiting for Beardie[*] to pronounce them man and wife... [*] I

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia survey

2011-04-26 Thread Fred Bauder
on wikipedia? To be able to add reliable interesting information have it remain available to the public. 4) How would you define online volunteerism? Working for public benefit 5) Do you support another platform as an online volunteer? Wikinfo.org a fork of Wikipedia Fred Bauder Thank you very much

Re: [WikiEN-l] Knowino

2011-04-16 Thread Fred Bauder
Knowino is a good project, folks. Fred Hello folks! Most of you are probably familiar with Citizendium, the competitor to Wikipedia that Larry Sanger started back in 2006. Citizendium is now dying under the weight of a massive bureaucracy, which was landed upon the project either far too

[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia a reliable source for political info, study says

2011-04-14 Thread Fred Bauder
Brown found that all of the verifiable biographical information in those articles was completely accurate. (candidates for governor of U.S. states) http://scienceblog.com/44345/wikipedia-a-reliable-source-for-political-info-study-says/ Adam R. Brown PS: Political Science Politics / Volume 44 /

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia? Step 1 allow people to edit

2011-04-09 Thread Fred Bauder
Sad indeed. I am not entirely convinced Conservapedia is even maintained by conservatives. Most of the stuff I've seen on there looks as though it was designed to poke fun at conservatives, rather than to represent us accurately. And Glen Beck is a Stalinist intent on discrediting resistance

Re: [WikiEN-l] The viable competitors to Wikipedia.

2011-04-08 Thread Fred Bauder
of Wikipedia, the inclusionists will have it not rejected. But it would be interesting to see a search option: Do you want to see everything (WP+WP2), or only the notable(W)? Anyone care to guess which people would choose? -- David Goodman Yes, let's do that. Fred Bauder

Re: [WikiEN-l] How to start a viable competitor to Wikipedia?

2011-04-07 Thread Fred Bauder
On 7 April 2011 21:56, MuZemike muzem...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps I'm missing the point, but isn't that what we have been doing so far (i.e. with all the other sister Wikimedia projects)? Yes, but also other niches Wikipedia leaves. Wikia, for example, started to form wikis of any sort,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Nationality on the lead of articles

2011-03-31 Thread Fred Bauder
I dread to think how many megabytes of discussion are spent on discussing nationalities. So why are you discussing it? Meta discussions about problems sometimes result in progress. For example, I've been looking at another article, Astrology, where half a dozen astrology advocates have

Re: [WikiEN-l] Nationality on the lead of articles

2011-03-31 Thread Fred Bauder
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: WikiProject Rational Skepticism High-importance) Really? Astrology is one of the oldest and, amazingly enough, still most popular foes of skepticism. If they don't consider it 'High-importance' then what

[WikiEN-l] iCorrect

2011-03-28 Thread Fred Bauder
suggesting it as an editing tool. Fred Bauder ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] iCorrect

2011-03-28 Thread Fred Bauder
On 28 March 2011 11:53, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: A site, where for $1,000, corrections to one's Wikipedia article can be posted: For $1,000, Site Lets Celebrities Say It Ain’t So https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/world/europe/28icorrect.html?ref=todayspaper If you search

Re: [WikiEN-l] iCorrect

2011-03-28 Thread Fred Bauder
On 28 March 2011 14:40, Scott MacDonald doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com wrote: Geni, It might help if you checked you own facts before making false claims: I quote: It is fundamental for ICorrect to confirm the true identity of each Corrector. Therefore ICorrect requires a reliable reference

Re: [WikiEN-l] iCorrect

2011-03-28 Thread Fred Bauder
I think you're going a bit overboard there, Doc. I agree that the claims of the subject shouldn't be ignored, particularly if they spend $1000 to publish a correction on a startup site (as long as we can confirm it is them). But should it count as a reliable reference to trigger a chance in

Re: [WikiEN-l] iCorrect

2011-03-28 Thread Fred Bauder
On 28 Mar 2011 at 12:00, Fred Bauder wrote: A site, where for $1,000, corrections to one's Wikipedia article can be posted: Did Andrew Knight really pay $1000 to write Wikipedia entry is anodyne and largely accurate. Never mind, let's keep it that way? == Dan == I assume he had issues

Re: [WikiEN-l] iCorrect

2011-03-28 Thread Fred Bauder
So, any reasonable solution is good. If we were to actually encourage the creation of one - presuming this site isn't quite what we're after - how would it work? This might be a good opportunity to encourage an independent but useful right of reply project... -- - Andrew Gray  

Re: [WikiEN-l] iCorrect

2011-03-28 Thread Fred Bauder
On 28 March 2011 16:13, Victor Vasiliev vasi...@gmail.com wrote: OTRS is not that bad, at least as far as I know. The volunteers there are supposed to be friendly (at least polite) as long as the person does not behave very aggresively. The only problem I am aware of is backlog

Re: [WikiEN-l] iCorrect

2011-03-28 Thread Fred Bauder
On 28 March 2011 15:46, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: However, noting what the subject says is surely apposite in the general case, even if it's delusional - as long as it can be reasonably cited in a source that is almost certainly said subject. Not really the case article in

Re: [WikiEN-l] iCorrect

2011-03-28 Thread Fred Bauder
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: A personal note from the subject needs to be added, and accepted, as reference. It is by most authors and editors, for appropriate matters. Fred Where do you suggest to store it? --vvv refNote from [subject

Re: [WikiEN-l] iCorrect

2011-03-28 Thread Fred Bauder
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: On 28 March 2011 16:00, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: You see the problem? Do I ever. Fred, a couple of points: 1) You missed out the attribution to geni when you reposted what he said (you made it look like

Re: [WikiEN-l] iCorrect

2011-03-28 Thread Fred Bauder
Good grief, Carcharoth, there it is! Brilliant! I've been stumbling about for years looking for a way to differentiate between legitimate encyclopaedic biography, which Wikipedia should do, and the problematic, armature-journalistic, selectively biased, originally researched, WP:NOTNEWS

Re: [WikiEN-l] iCorrect

2011-03-28 Thread Fred Bauder
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:05 AM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 March 2011 15:34, Scott MacDonald doc.wikipe...@ntlworld.com wrote: E-mail OTRS and you're dealing with a non-editorial non-authority, who might not believe who you are, and probably won't accept your own testimony as

Re: [WikiEN-l] iCorrect

2011-03-28 Thread Fred Bauder
. So I run, I run as fast as I can. And you And you can't catch me. I am I am the fastest. You can't You can't get me. There will always be people adding interesting material to Wikipedia. Fred On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: I couldn't find an obituary

Re: [WikiEN-l] iCorrect

2011-03-28 Thread Fred Bauder
Fred, I'm failing to see the connection between a chap born in 1870 and our BLP policy. You perhaps can't find an obituary, but I'm pretty sure he's dead. Scott Articles about living people strung together from press coverage can be troublesome. That is due to the nature of the press,

Re: [WikiEN-l] iCorrect

2011-03-28 Thread Fred Bauder
On 28/03/2011, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 March 2011 20:15, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: My other theory is that writing stand-alone articles is not a good thing in the long-run. Articles should be created if there is a demand for the articles from people

Re: [WikiEN-l] iCorrect

2011-03-28 Thread Fred Bauder
The real problem is that people are perfectly willing to lie about themselves. I never slept with that woman. I don't fund the Tea Party. I'm not a hypocrite. etc. etc. You're only getting warm; the real problem is that they believe it. Fred ___

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

2011-03-18 Thread Fred Bauder
'Being really good at it' is subversion when they aren't actually really good at it, they just disregard the rules. I wont speak for George, but yes, doing it in secret makes me think they *are* adding bias. If this is upstanding, good work, they would do it in view with open communication.

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

2011-03-18 Thread Fred Bauder
Did he say he was working for Koch's PR firm? No, and it is still not clear if that was his assignment from the firm. I've left a note on his user talk page asking him to clarify this if he returns to editing. Fred On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote

Re: [WikiEN-l] Templates and old page versions

2011-03-15 Thread Fred Bauder
I think I've asked this before, but I'm raising it again as I've noticed templates being used again within articles to allowed finer control over specific parts of article content. This practice of using templates within articles for the actual text of articles is something I think should be

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

2011-03-15 Thread Fred Bauder
The thing is, it takes a conspiracy within the Wikipedia's rank and file to bias an article significantly over a long period; otherwise normal editing and then RFCs and so forth will tend sort it out. If it remains sufficiently inaccurate then the target will kick up a big fuss; initially

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

2011-03-15 Thread Fred Bauder
The article doesn't say that a conspiracy within Wikipedia tried to bias articles. It says that a prominent industrialist and political contributor paid professional writers to alter Wikipedia articles to change the descriptions of his involvement in a political movement. It's a situation

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

2011-03-14 Thread Fred Bauder
It is possible to provide arguments against the reliability of any source whatever. (And in the other direction, it is possible to take most sources and selectively quote them to provide evidence for support for any position whatever.) It is possible to destroy the integrity of any article by

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

2011-03-14 Thread Fred Bauder
Of course, if an interested minority party has effectively infinite money, they can start to tip the scales. If they can benefit from LOTS of negative PR... Fred ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this

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

2011-03-14 Thread Fred Bauder
The Koch brothers are mostly unknown. It is a known fact that they have at least one professional PR firm (New Media Strategies) working to monitor their Wikipedia presence. That's certainly within their rights, and can be within the Wikipedia rules. It is Ken's assertion that there are

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

2011-03-11 Thread Fred Bauder
MBMadmirer was never unblocked. The only basis he could be blocked on, in my opinion, is Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest#Blocks and I'm not sure he actually engaged in behavior that was disruptive enough to actually justify that. Fred Bauder ___ WikiEN

[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#MBMadmirer

2011-03-11 Thread Fred Bauder
A discussion about this matter, which we have discussed some here: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#MBMadmirer Fred ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:

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] Accessibility of technical articles

2011-02-17 Thread Fred Bauder
This is typical sophomoric writing, sometimes literally done by 2nd year students, actual sophomores. It is not limited to math; my particular pet peeve is our philosophy articles. A skilled teacher with years of experience teaching at the college level can often make such subjects much more

Re: [WikiEN-l] Accessibility of technical articles

2011-02-17 Thread Fred Bauder
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:15 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 February 2011 14:16, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: So some might object to your use of the term sophomore, but the rest I agree with. You need people who have experience explaining things to make

[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] Fixed our client’s Wikipedia page.

2011-02-11 Thread Fred Bauder
High motivation for making decent open-source images available: http://searchengineland.com/updating-google-image-results-for-online-reputation-management-63965 Fred ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia and robots

2011-02-09 Thread Fred Bauder
Most humans see the world their own way and there's very little standardization going on. Fred http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12400647 Robots could soon have an equivalent of the internet and Wikipedia. Do you think they will let humans edit their Wikipedia? Carcharoth

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia and libraries

2011-02-08 Thread Fred Bauder
Wi-fi is the obvious solution for libraries. We've made the entire downtown area of Crestone into a hot spot, not by plan, just by natural growth of cafes and other nodes. The result is lots of people who gather and use their laptops to stay connected. Fred Around here (here being Evansville,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Deletionist wanted for hire

2011-02-06 Thread Fred Bauder
I'm quite willing to contact them, afd each article on their list, and if consensus is that any merit deletion, I will donate the proceeds to the WMF. Scott I've tried bidding on that basis myself; it is futile. They want someone who breaks, or at least manipulates the rule, not someone that

Re: [WikiEN-l] Deletionist wanted for hire

2011-02-06 Thread Fred Bauder
It would be instructive to know what articles they are worried about and why. I find that most people wanting articles deleted have a good reason and, while deletion may not be justified by Wikipedia's rules, there are often problems with the articles that we ought to address. People

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors}

2011-02-05 Thread Fred Bauder
I've always found the problem with Wikipedia is that it has components which usually work remarkably well together (wiki, open editing, no-privileged editors, neutrality, verifiability, quality) but since it has never defined which of these is core and which is the means to the end, on the

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors}

2011-02-04 Thread Fred Bauder
On 4 February 2011 01:32, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: One is expected to use sound editorial judgment. Using British tabloids for a biography of a living person falls outside that remit. One is expected to have some familiarity with what is an appropriate source for the subject

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

2011-02-04 Thread Fred Bauder
On 4 February 2011 01:32, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: One is expected to use sound editorial judgment. Using British tabloids for a biography of a living person falls outside that remit. One is expected to have some familiarity with what is an appropriate source

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

2011-02-04 Thread Fred Bauder
I think we also need to take into account what the subject is and type of information. I wouldn't trust one of our fleet street tabloids for a WWII bomber found on the moon story, and I was somewhat cynical about the following week's WWII bomber mysteriously disappears from the Moon

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

2011-02-04 Thread Fred Bauder
We have a policy about not spreading gossip, but I see little evidence that we adhere to it. Andreas After such examples are found they still need to be edited. The editing community varies in its tolerance, experience, and compliance. What in one context might slip though will not in

[WikiEN-l] Why I don't contribute to Wikipedia anymore

2011-02-04 Thread Fred Bauder
What we look like to a discouraged editor: http://ploum.net/post/222-why-i-don-t-contribute-to-wikipedia-anymore Note the blogs as reference issue. Fred ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list,

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

2011-02-04 Thread Fred Bauder
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearchredirs=1search=t hesun.co.uk+%22Living+people%22fulltext=Searchns0=1title=Special%3ASearch advanced=1fulltext=Advanced+search 'Nuff said. Scott Said but not done. We need to take a good look at this, and similar uses of dubious

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

2011-02-04 Thread Fred Bauder
In other words, the more tabloid sources we cite, the more editors we attract who like tabloids, while turning off those potential contributors who don't read tabloids. Andreas We are already nastier then we need to be or ought to be to ordinary people who try to edit. We are not going in

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

2011-02-04 Thread Fred Bauder
Also, some of those media references may be obituaries, which are a different sort of source to news articles. While Lessing was born in 1919, last time I looked she was still alive. ;) Tough old bird. Our article talks about her dalliances with communism, feminism, and sufism, and

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors}

2011-02-04 Thread Fred Bauder
That's a valid and subtle point. It's compounded by the fact that the more heavyweight sources tend to be more restrained in their tone, and the more lightweight sources, more shrill and emotive. NPOV as presently defined does not help us there: we are duty-bound to reflect the shrill

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

2011-02-04 Thread Fred Bauder
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011, Fred Bauder wrote: Clearly there are issues. I'm on Jimbo's side with this though. Some of my earliest edit wars were over whether The People's Republic of China could be described in the introduction as a totalitarian dictatorship. What has currently been hit

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors}

2011-02-03 Thread Fred Bauder
with what is an appropriate source for the subject. Fred Bauder ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors} - repost

2011-02-02 Thread Fred Bauder
so this leaves this proposed council with a responsibility to mediate policy disputes and the authority to decide a deadlock in favor of a strong majority based on strength of arguement and core values (openness transparency etc) - this would basically end up being a fairly weak system

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors} - repost

2011-02-01 Thread Fred Bauder
many chores involved with that. Fred Bauder ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors}

2011-02-01 Thread Fred Bauder
Fred, this authority could bring order to the present chaos. As for my proposals, I have none that are fully formed. I would hope to work them out with persons who also believe this change is necessary. This is for Stephanie: I had trouble reading your post the way it came formatted on my

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors} - repost

2011-02-01 Thread Fred Bauder
of time so that patterns of behavior become apparent. -Stephanie Brilliant! Fred Bauder ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors}

2011-02-01 Thread Fred Bauder
On 1 February 2011 17:30, Marc Riddell michaeldavi...@comcast.net wrote: Fred, you still haven't answered my questions. I see the term consensus and, especially, the term community consensus used in many contexts on this and other Lists. But what does it mean? And by what means is that

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors} - repost

2011-02-01 Thread Fred Bauder
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Stephanie Daugherty sdaughe...@gmail.com wrote: That means we need a stronger executive that can decide to break deadlocks when they happen, or lend structure to debate so that it can run it's course, as appropriate for the situation. These are the two

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors} - repost

2011-02-01 Thread Fred Bauder
My own simple solution would be to elect a policy advisory committee *The PAC would only consider policy areas, and only as a last resort, where the status-quo did not enjoy evident consensus, but where repeated community attempts to resolve the problem had proved futile. *The PAC by

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors}

2011-02-01 Thread Fred Bauder
, Fred Bauder at fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: We discuss policy issues at length, consider the reasons for adopting alternatives, and come to agreement. C'mon Fred, isn't that rather vague? What I'm asking (again) is, after the discussion is other, how is it determined that a consensus

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors}

2011-02-01 Thread Fred Bauder
, Fred Bauder at fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: We discuss policy issues at length, consider the reasons for adopting alternatives, and come to agreement. C'mon Fred, isn't that rather vague? What I'm asking (again) is, after the discussion is other, how is it determined that a consensus

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors}

2011-02-01 Thread Fred Bauder
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Marc Riddell michaeldavi...@comcast.net wrote: People agree and support the decision. Fred, who are these people that are making these decisions and declaring that there in Community consensus, knowing that this consensus cannot be factually validated?

Re: [WikiEN-l] NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors

2011-01-31 Thread Fred Bauder
Wilfred Bion) Fred Bauder ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] The WP Challenge: Healthy Collaboration

2011-01-18 Thread Fred Bauder
on 1/18/11 2:10 PM, Fred Bauder at fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: The importance to the individual of collaborating within a group. And the importance to the group in recognizing, and nurturing, the individual. From: Amy Chua Is a Wimp By DAVID BROOKS Published: January 17, 2011 NYT

Re: [WikiEN-l] Avoiding Trouble

2011-01-02 Thread Fred Bauder
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 08:55:17 -0700 (MST) From: Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net From today's newspaper: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/01/health/01care.html?ref=todayspaper Creating positive emotional experiences diminishes distress and behavior problems. Fred Bauder Fred, surely you're

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