Re: [WikiEN-l] Where does en:wp need most help?

2009-08-11 Thread Charlotte Webb
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Steve Bennett wrote: > Meanwhile, for the autodidacts among us, the 200 core biographies list > is a pretty interesting place to start reading. Definitely. I can relate. I mean if I said everything I've ever remembered for more than a month I learned on my own time

Re: [WikiEN-l] Where does en:wp need most help?

2009-08-10 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Carcharoth wrote: > Either more accurate assessments, or the article standards are slipping. :-( Or the definitions of the standards are being raised. It's hard to tell which is the case though, as there's no obvious way to find out which were the 3 GA articles whi

Re: [WikiEN-l] Where does en:wp need most help?

2009-08-10 Thread Jay Litwyn
"Steve Bennett" wrote in message news:b8ceeef70908020616j742cfe6es9f1d6b7fa04b3...@mail.gmail.com... > On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:37 AM, David Gerard wrote: >> Efforts like the Wikipedia Selection for Schools are important to help >> too (and feed into 0.7 and 1.0). Remember, that's a real actual

Re: [WikiEN-l] Where does en:wp need most help?

2009-08-03 Thread Carcharoth
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:37 AM, David Gerard wrote: >> Efforts like the Wikipedia Selection for Schools are important to help >> too (and feed into 0.7 and 1.0). Remember, that's a real actual >> encyclopedia DVD being used in actual schools an

Re: [WikiEN-l] Where does en:wp need most help?

2009-08-02 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:37 AM, David Gerard wrote: > Efforts like the Wikipedia Selection for Schools are important to help > too (and feed into 0.7 and 1.0). Remember, that's a real actual > encyclopedia DVD being used in actual schools and hugely popular with > teachers, based on all our hard wo

Re: [WikiEN-l] Where does en:wp need most help?

2009-08-01 Thread David Gerard
2009/8/1 Steve Bennett : > My current view is that [[wp:1.0]] is really the only taskforce that > matters, and there is a huge amount of work to be done there. Clean up > the process, improve the selection, review more articles, improve the > articles that are going to be released. > When deciding

Re: [WikiEN-l] Where does en:wp need most help?

2009-08-01 Thread Steve Bennett
> But I'm  interested to know if the good people of this list are aware > of specific  tasks/duties on en:wp that are woefully understaffed at > the moment. Things  that really need doing. My current view is that [[wp:1.0]] is really the only taskforce that matters, and there is a huge amount of w

Re: [WikiEN-l] Where does en:wp need most help?

2009-08-01 Thread Jay Litwyn
wrote in message news:8cbdef1cc58b49c-1160-2...@mblk-m09.sysops.aol.com... > http://www.google.com/search?q=wikipedia+articles+with+unsourced+claims > > Proving evidently that our internal search is lame compared with Google > :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:All_articles_with_unsourced_

Re: [WikiEN-l] Where does en:wp need most help?

2009-07-30 Thread Charles Matthews
Bod Notbod wrote: > If you can give me a link to a specific (project) page that you're > thinking of with regard to unsourced claims, please do. > > [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced Article Cleanup]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Citation cleanup]

Re: [WikiEN-l] Where does en:wp need most help?

2009-07-30 Thread Ray Saintonge
Bod Notbod wrote: > Hi again, > >> But I'm interested to know if the good people of this list are aware >> of specific tasks/duties on en:wp that are woefully understaffed at >> the moment. Things that really need doing. >> >> Y-E-S spells YES and you are now it. >> Articles with Unsourced Cl

Re: [WikiEN-l] Where does en:wp need most help?

2009-07-29 Thread wjhonson
http://www.google.com/search?q=wikipedia+articles+with+unsourced+claims Proving evidently that our internal search is lame compared with Google :) -Original Message- From: Bod Notbod To: wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wed, Jul 29, 2009 10:35 pm Subject: [WikiEN-l] Where does

[WikiEN-l] Where does en:wp need most help?

2009-07-29 Thread Bod Notbod
Hi again, > But I'm  interested to know if the good people of this list are aware > of specific  tasks/duties on en:wp that are woefully understaffed at > the moment. Things  that really need doing. > > Y-E-S spells YES and you are now it. > Articles with Unsourced Claims I did what I thought was

Re: [WikiEN-l] Where does en:wp need most help?

2009-07-29 Thread WJhonson
<> Y-E-S spells YES and you are now it. Articles with Unsourced Claims There are entries that are over a year old We really shouldn't have any entries even over a month old in a perfect world. Will **Hot Deals at Dell on Popular Laptops perfect for Back to School (http

[WikiEN-l] Where does en:wp need most help?

2009-07-29 Thread Bod Notbod
Hi, As I mentioned in passing previously, I'm intending to spend a lot more time working on Wikipedia. I can find lots of ways to spend that time at the community portal. But I have so far been spending most of it patrolling Recent Changes using Huggle. But I'm interested to know if the good peo