book on a subject sneaks in quite a bit of
opinion and original research, and sometimes even digs at academic
opponents if the editors let them get away with it, which is why you
can't really read an academic book without *also* reading a few
journals' reviews of it.
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policy, we beat the book by a large margin!
And it's hardly an isolated example, if you look at the list of recent
publications by academic presses, there is a whole lot of social
activism going on. Not that that's even necessarily bad; academic
presses don't serve the
that's what we should
tackle, though. Is it possible to improve our methods of keeping
marginal junk out of an article, while stopping short of entirely
deleting and salting the article?
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a reliable source that does.
Are there any cases where editors should have discretion to delete
*actually* solidly verifiable information, like some piece of physics
information sourced to multiple well-re
their old
content freely available through JSTOR, if JSTOR offered that as an
option that they could choose--- something like the NYTimes, "pre-1923
free, post-1923 pay" archive policy. But JSTOR doesn't even allow a
journal to mark any portion of their archive non-paywalled, much les
not manufactured by Kawasaki. I guess
the OED doesn't have a note on that yet? Or maybe they don't have OED
subscriptions over at the court? Alternately, maybe they just liked the
way we worded the explanation and wanted to quote it rather than
re-explaining the same thi
in 3d graphics, imo it'd be appropriate for
[[transformation matrix]] to link it, because that becomes more focused.
Best,
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ns" are not new goals, and many organizations
actually based in India, with longer histories, have much more knowledge
about the sticking points than we do.
Plus, decentralization of operations and dissemination of funds to
support decentralized operations seems rather in keeping with the
ge
text, rather than a side illustration.
But at larger widths, you can put the side illustrations out in the
margin, because there is tons of space.
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turn up less
positive results.
But in any case, it's an interesting read.
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e to talk about global warming,
heat death of the universe, whatever --- is to be elevating a badly-written
policy above common sense. Again.
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e impenetrable writing.
Quoting Derrida can be likened to pouring oil on troubled fires.
Phil has hinted at it, but the primary reason we should be able to summarise
and rephrase the words of humanities experts is that if we don't, our articles
won't make any gosh-darned sense ...
C
ot; tags ("promotional",
"fair use", etc.) seems to have worked wonderfully.
We still need to do something about people uploading images with
incorrect information, but it's far less of a problem than it used to
be.
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t's
nice when there is a consensus view of what a given infobox should say; it's
less nice when the people who populate the infoboxes have different interests
and values from you.
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t's
nice when there is a consensus view of what a given infobox should say; it's
less nice when the people who populate the infoboxes have different interests
and values from you.
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to read "music" -- although I suppose this would lead to
edit wars over the use of such infoboxes in articles on rappers.
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that you can't watch over all
the articles that Wikipedia has without getting more and more editors. Another
reason why being nice to newcomers and leaving a good first impression is so
crucial. Obviously, as you can read in the Slashdot comments (and many other
places), this is not Wi
o me (in the end, at least). I hope other editors can feel the same
way.
Mark
From: Scientia Potentia est
To: English Wikipedia
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 10:49:30 AM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Poetry thread
Durova, you forgot the cardinal rule of Wikipedi
Bill,
It's not any good to make blanket statements about Wikipedia based on one
article in your experience. This is what a lot of journalists do when writing
about Wikipedia, and then proceed to lambast/praise/poo-poo or whatever based
on that single experience. That is what it looks to me like
How much good can there be to say about the leadership for WMF?
Meanwhile, At the same time as this is published, the lovely "co-founder" issue
springs up again. How ironic.
And by the way, just wondering: when you say you studied Wikipedia, does that
mean just English Wikipedia, or the whole
Wikipedia says Wikipedia was "a complementary project for Nupedia".
Citenzendium says Wikipedia was "an accidental spin-off of Nupedia". Is there
any reason to say that? How can a project be an "accidental spin-off" of
something else?
Noble Story
From: Carch
I guess they don't want to aim too low on their expectations.
"Within the next five years, TIME Magazine, Harvard Business Review,
Scientific American, Condé Nast Traveler, and Wikipedia will be
replaced by Ulitzer."
From: geni
To: English Wikipedia
Sent: Thur
Tropical cyclones. Anyone surprised? That's followed by Illinois, and the
Simpsons. I made a full list at User:Noble Story/Project stats.
Actually, I was surprised at how good the Vital articles coverage was. 16% of
the articles are "approved", which is eleventh best. Not bad, as opposed to
wha
Why is this needed when there are already RSS/Atom feeds for every article
history?
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peloponnesian_War&feed=rss&action=history
That's one, for example. Did they just happen to overlook that?
From: Carcharoth
To: Engli
Similar to the story of adding one more name for a German politician. This
seems very hypocritical of "traditional" sources, to call Wikipedia unreliable,
and then copy it verbatim. How many more embarrassments do they need to take
before they stop?
From: Wil
The thing about the template is that after the date it's useless; it can just
be plain text. So, someone will come and remove it, which is just the same as
having to update the date manually.
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it gets "nofollow"; if it creates a two-bracket link, it doesn't.
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, and every
few years, another generation of advocates discovers that it isn't the
obscure codewords and symbols that make programming difficult.
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rrect (no, I haven't looked up to
> see whether some genius has changed the definition of stub). I've never
> taken much notice of what is and isn't denominated a stub.
In fact (and to return to the original topic ;)), I would argue that Steve's
comprehensive two-parag
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 13:14, David Gerard wrote:
> http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/file-renaming-enabled-for-admins/
>
Again? Bets on how long it'll last this time?
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propaganda that totalitarian states produce. Throw in a picture of
Jimbo giving the Roman salute and you're done.
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From: "ENWP Pine"
Date: Jun 3, 2014 5:02 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] VisualEditor on English Wikipedia
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Cc:
Because VE has repeatedly been mentioned in this list as something that is
improving and may help us with acquisi
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 2:59 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
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