Re: [WikiEN-l] English Wikipedia blackout

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Javier Bassi wrote: > A blackout with JavaScript? -_- Yes. And don't tell anyone they can avoid the blackout by hitting ESC pressing 'stop' in their browser before onLoad() triggers. -- Stephen Bain step

Re: [WikiEN-l] Difficulty making structural changes to WP due to human nature?

ggested five years ago that enwiki might like to try [2], to responses of BURO and CREEP (which are guaranteed responses to any proposal for any sort of structure). -- [1] http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/ConsensusPolling [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus_polling -- Stephen

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

On Sep 15, 2011 4:51 AM, "Phil Nash" wrote: > > Storm in a teacup? Yes, the meddling with his primary materials seems the far more serious issue: Is he used as a source in any articles? (I would check were I not on my phone.) ___ WikiEN-l mailing lis

Re: [WikiEN-l] Short featured articles

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Fred Bauder wrote: > > Change is good. Brevity wit. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Millions for salaries, not one cent for defense

l via copyright over this stuff, no matter > what silly deals they may or may not have signed with the Royal > Society. Any action here would be in contract (for breach of the terms and conditions), not in copyright. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com _

Re: [WikiEN-l] iCorrect

r words, enough *independent* and reasonable mentions/links in > other Wikipedia articles. We don't know if there's demand because hardly anyone redlinks anymore. Whether that's a function of over-zealous link police or obviously linkable topics being filled out, I can't say. -

Re: [WikiEN-l] iCorrect

nt that we can be confident the people are who they say they are (and the process as described seems reasonably sound), this can be used in the same fashion as any other self-published source. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ WikiEN-l mail

Re: [WikiEN-l] Updated new search interface on the prototype

the decision to carry out this change, presuming that they did actually use some. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ 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 New Look

sing Vector, I imagine. I like the collapsing navigation menus now though, very neat. The thing that's throwing me is the new logo. It's darker than the old one was, and actually it seems closer to the original version of the puzzle globe. -- Stephen Bai

Re: [WikiEN-l] Citizendium dead?

le sizes (caches results, but can be a bit slow if it hasn't been run on a particular project in a while): http://toolserver.org/~thebainer/articlesizes/ -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.o

Re: [WikiEN-l] Looking for thoughts on statistics

Wikipedia to learn about things: http://stats.grok.se/en/201003/Sex -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ 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] Wikimedian image restorations exploited on eBay

ed by Fred Bar, 2009 restoration by Fred Quux") so as to > correctly inform their readers (as well as motivating the restorers). Indeed; the restoration is part of the provenance of the image. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ Wi

Re: [WikiEN-l] Why the semantic web needs human review

xed their results. It gets worse: http://healthbase.netbase.com/#Jew&Causes http://healthbase.netbase.com/#Jew&Complications http://healthbase.netbase.com/#Jew&Pros Next time I see any of my Jewish friends I'm going to ask them to "bring horse" as HealthBase promis

Re: [WikiEN-l] At last, a new stats run for en:wp!

ilized, and the decline in active Wikipedians was > less severe than new Wikipedians.  Edits per month, and maybe new > articles per month, look to be stabilizing as well. Yes, we've stopped having exponential growth, but have settled comfortably into more-or-less linear growth.

Re: [WikiEN-l] News agencies are not RSs

stern news orgs claim to follow? Al-Jazeera participated in the blackout: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25673247-2703,00.html -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubs

Re: [WikiEN-l] Image reuse

couraged not to either). -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ 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] Ramifications to wikipedians of unmasking of police blogger?

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Sam Blacketer wrote: > > Update: It's there already: > http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2009/1358.html Cheers, I'd checked BAILII but didn't think to look under QB. -- Stephen Bai

Re: [WikiEN-l] Ramifications to wikipedians of unmasking of police blogger?

o be consistent with current UK "privacy" (ie, expanded breach of confidence) jurisprudence, though I haven't read the whole case yet. Does anyone know where a copy of the decision might be available? Looks like it will be another important case in this de

Re: [WikiEN-l] A new solution for the BLP dilemma

n it > may be worth it to them. On principle, I'm not keen on paternalism. My concern is editors wasting their time and effort offering placebos when there is medicine to be made. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ Wik

Re: [WikiEN-l] A new solution for the BLP dilemma

edia.org/wiki/Template:NOINDEX -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ 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] GDFL compliance

complying with this. 2) The preservation of any copyright notices, and of the notice that the thing is available under the GFDL. The situation is slightly different if using a modified version, but that's not usually the case when photos are used. -- Stephe

Re: [WikiEN-l] Historian teaching with Wikipedia

llaboration issues). The good thing here is that one of the objectives the teacher has with this assignment is to give the students a practical lesson in different methodologies. -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-

Re: [WikiEN-l] AFD has gone to a 7 day cycle

2004). So there you go, a little policy history lesson :) -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ 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] Saying no to new unreferenced BLPs

ection indicators */ rather than checking for an empty field (which I presume is what it does). -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wiki

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions: de:wp 99.5% reviewed

(Note that it's 0.5% of articles that don't have any reviewed revisions, and 1.5% that have a non-current revision reviewed. Information about the ages of revisions in both these categories would be interesting.) -- Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com ___

Re: [WikiEN-l] Flagged Revisions: de:wp 99.5% reviewed

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:14 AM, David Gerard wrote: > http://toolserver.org/~aka/cgi-bin/reviewcnt.cgi?lang=english&action=overview&project=dewiki To my mind the more important statistic is that 98% of all articles have had their most recent revision reviewed. -- Stephen Bai

Re: [WikiEN-l] Suggestion on how referencing system could be improved

longer be viable, but another (and probably a better) one could easily be written. -- Stephen Bain [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l