Re: [WikiEN-l] Skin / interface appearance

On 12 February 2013 17:24, Matthew Bowker matthewrbowker.w...@me.com wrote: I'm seeing some lost stylesheets in Firefox Nightly. Is that what you were describing? Yeah. When the css goes, that'll be bits.wikimedia.org being flaky. - d. ___

[WikiEN-l] If someone gave you the entirety of Wikipedia from 100 years in the future for only 10 minutes, what would you read?

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/18dcov/if_someone_gave_you_the_entirety_of_wikipedia/ - d. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:

Re: [WikiEN-l] If someone gave you the entirety of Wikipedia from 100 years in the future for only 10 minutes, what would you read?

On 12 February 2013 23:05, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: PS. You might find that the page(s) you chose to read had been protected for years, or was in the middle of an edit war. Or that the entire encyclopedia had been 'checked' and published and was 'finished'? Would that be

[WikiEN-l] Larry Sanger's new project

A commercial enterprise a bit like a wiki or a blog that's a way to crowdsource *high-quality* information. http://columbus.craigslist.org/eng/3614099241.html - d. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this

Re: [WikiEN-l] Larry Sanger's new project

On 14 February 2013 14:20, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:51 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: A commercial enterprise a bit like a wiki or a blog that's a way to crowdsource *high-quality* information. http://columbus.craigslist.org/eng

Re: [WikiEN-l] Larry Sanger's new project

On 14 February 2013 15:15, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: That job ad is so awesome I had to save it for posterity. Work as a programmer slash executive assistant, for free! Be available 24 hours a day at a moments notice! Weekends off? Forget it! Mediocre candidates need not apply! Work for

Re: [WikiEN-l] Larry Sanger's new project

On 14 February 2013 15:15, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: That job ad is so awesome I had to save it for posterity. Work as a programmer slash executive assistant, for free! Be available 24 hours a day at a moments notice! Weekends off? Forget it! Mediocre candidates need not apply! Work for

Re: [WikiEN-l] Larry Sanger's new project

On 14 February 2013 15:49, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: He's not wrong; if it is possible to effectively mobilize the world's best experts in a major widely supported crowd sourcing project it could be awesome. Any Wikipedia editor knows from experience that from time to time you

[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Lua rollout to en.wikipedia.org and a few others

COMPREHENSIBLE TEMPLATES!!! -- Forwarded message -- From: Rob Lanphier ro...@wikimedia.org Date: 15 February 2013 20:33 Subject: [Wikitech-l] Lua rollout to en.wikipedia.org and a few others To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Larry Sanger's new project

On 21 February 2013 11:34, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like he want's to build a megaproject in a huge go, no evolutionary steps at all, and then see if anyone likes the behemoth of a constructed reality straight-jacket. Well, it worked for Citizendium.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Larry Sanger's new project

On 21 February 2013 19:00, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: More a failure of nerve; when he did not attract experts in the field he gave authority to 2nd rate people. Present company excepted, of course. He attracted academics, then he and the constables drove them away.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Larry Sanger's new project

On 14 February 2013 13:51, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: A commercial enterprise a bit like a wiki or a blog that's a way to crowdsource *high-quality* information. http://columbus.craigslist.org/eng/3614099241.html Splash page up now: http://infobitt.com/ - d

Re: [WikiEN-l] Psychological correlates of deletionism/inclusionism?

On 13 April 2013 23:42, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: On 4/13/13, Gwern Branwen gw...@gwern.net wrote: My basic observation here is that inclusionism/deletionism debates seem intractable, like religion and politics, which have long been correlated with a variety of mental and

Re: [WikiEN-l] Psychological correlates of deletionism/inclusionism?

On 14 April 2013 01:29, Gwern Branwen gw...@gwern.net wrote: On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: Jimbo and Angela did not play a significant role in debates over inclusion and deletion Indeed, that was my point. I don't think they did anything, or

Re: [WikiEN-l] Psychological correlates of deletionism/inclusionism?

On 14 April 2013 11:44, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: Indeed. As is characteristic of false dichotomies. I was once asked by a prominent journalist where I stood on this. I replied that it was a boring question. And that once I had defined myself as deletionist on

Re: [WikiEN-l] Psychological correlates of deletionism/inclusionism?

On 14 April 2013 12:24, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: Mmm, I remember that mail and whom I suggested ... I didn't see you in that thread ... who were you thinking of? I'm still quite deletionist on BLPs because of examples where our rules are too easy to game. I'm

Re: [WikiEN-l] Psychological correlates of deletionism/inclusionism?

On 14 April 2013 13:41, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: He certainly could have intervened in the arb com cases where I was vilified for my VfD comments, which I guess would be characterized as inclusionist. I think the overarching problem was that you spent several years being an

Re: [WikiEN-l] Psychological correlates of deletionism/inclusionism?

On 14 April 2013 14:04, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: As for the correlation of the oh shit graph to inclusionism/deletionism: A restriction of new article creation to registered users only was put in place in December 2005. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia ) In

Re: [WikiEN-l] Psychological correlates of deletionism/inclusionism?

On 14 April 2013 14:24, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: What needs to be explained more clearly is what took its place. I remember saying to Brianna Laugher at the time - she raised the point in Taipei, so was ahead of many of us - that people who like rules were

Re: [WikiEN-l] Psychological correlates of deletionism/inclusionism?

On 14 April 2013 14:21, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: We have Wales to thank for the absurd Articles for Creation process (Is that still around? I haven't checked in a long time.). Seems to me that constitutes a significant role in debates over inclusion deletion. Only by a stretch.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Psychological correlates of deletionism/inclusionism?

On 14 April 2013 14:29, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 April 2013 14:21, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: We have Wales to thank for the absurd Articles for Creation process (Is that still around? I haven't checked in a long time.). Seems to me that constitutes a significant

Re: [WikiEN-l] Tom Strickland - former United States Attorney for Colorado

On 15 April 2013 16:51, Latham, Brecke brecke.lat...@wilmerhale.com wrote: I am looking for a Wiki representative to assist in a change that needs to be made to Tom Strickland's Wikipedia pagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Strickland. I need assistance because he requested that his page

Re: [WikiEN-l] bizarre: Women Novelists Wikipedia

On 26 April 2013 12:15, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Category_intersection That's an old proposal, but is it becoming more feasible now? As I vaguely recall, the main barrier to treating categories as tags in the past was that

[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [EE] Notifications are now live on the English Wikipedia!

-- Forwarded message -- From: Fabrice Florin fflo...@wikimedia.org Date: 30 April 2013 21:22 Subject: [EE] Notifications are now live on the English Wikipedia! To: WMF Editor Engagement Team e...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello everyone, I am happy to announce that we just deployed

[WikiEN-l] So who's beta-testing the Visual Editor?

This is all the Visual Editor edits in en:wp: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangestagfilter=visualeditor It's not many. So please switch it on (you can still click Edit source to do references and templates) and give it a good kicking. A bug discovered now saves

Re: [WikiEN-l] So who's beta-testing the Visual Editor?

On 11 May 2013 22:08, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Mmmm... so I know that it's the English Wikipedia mailing list, but I suppose that this won't hurt: In the Hebrew Wikipedia several people tried the VisualEditor. I counted seven newly reported bugs as a result of this,

Re: [WikiEN-l] So who's beta-testing the Visual Editor?

On 13 May 2013 05:38, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: As I think I commented elsewhere, the lack of references is a deal breaker for me, even for testing. A couple of times already I started making an edit with the VE, then went to add a reference...and hard to start over in the

[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia in the '80s (video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=tqD9OCa8ywQ The title music is particularly frightening. - d. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:

[WikiEN-l] [tangential] Why voting is evil

Rick Falkvinge has been writing a book, Swarmwise, on how the Pirate Party organised. He's been posting it a chapter at a time to his blog. You know how Wikipedia/Wikimedia has (or had) the meme that voting is evil? This sets out why.

Re: [WikiEN-l] [tangential] Why voting is evil

On 1 July 2013 18:18, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: My approach for a very basic sanity check was to have three people agree on an idea as good for the swarm. One person can come up with ludicrous ideas, but I’ve never seen two more people agree on such ideas. Umm not consistent with beening

Re: [WikiEN-l] [Wikitech-l] The Damned Commons Image Deletion Cycle

On 5 August 2013 08:53, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: I put wikien-l back in the cc list as these are non-technical proposals and would require ... I guess, commons process. I don't know what the commons list is, and am not on it to be able to post to it. commons-l, but the

[WikiEN-l] Why writing biographies (e.g. on WIkipedia) is hard

http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/09/writing-biography-in-the-age-of-wikipedia-removing-a-shadow-from-the-life-of-justice-tom-clark/ - d. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Why writing biographies (e.g. on WIkipedia) is hard

I wasn't thinking so much in terms of Wikipedia itself, as the article being about one of the big problems with bios anywhere, including on Wikipedia. And particularly living bios. On 23 September 2013 17:58, Newyorkbrad newyorkb...@gmail.com wrote: I've NPOV'd the paragraph, and I will try to

[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] New - ScotWiki Mailing List!

-- Forwarded message -- From: Crockford, Ally a.crockf...@nls.uk Date: 23 October 2013 19:43 Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] New - ScotWiki Mailing List! To: wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org I wanted to announce the creation of a new mailing list for

[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Mobile starting page design for Zero users

-- Forwarded message -- From: Yuri Astrakhan yastrak...@wikimedia.org Date: 6 December 2013 22:44 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Mobile starting page design for Zero users To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org, mobile-l mobil...@lists.wikimedia.org Zero

Re: [WikiEN-l] Tools for repointing reference dead links to archive.org?

On 3 February 2014 14:31, Delirium delir...@hackish.org wrote: On 1/27/14, 1:10 AM, David Gerard wrote: What I need to do is (a) find all the links (b) add archiveurl= (something on archive.org, which seems to have captured the whole site) and archivedate= . This bot used to do something

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is now well-known because it's been on Wikipedia for so long

On 5 March 2014 22:04, Brian J Mingus brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: Wikipedia's policies are irrelevant: This phenomenon has entered the lexicon, and is now well known simply due to its existence in Wikipedia. Since the phenomenon didn't have a well known name, I've been telling people

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is now well-known because it's been on Wikipedia for so long

On 8 March 2014 18:04, Brian J Mingus brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: The reason the name stuck is that Baader-Meinhof is a weird name, and one would not expect to see it multiple times independently in short succession. Hence the name Baader-Meinhof phenomenon (which is also the name of a

[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikimediauk-l] Help: 28 articles on women professors need infoboxes

-- Forwarded message -- From: Fæ fae...@gmail.com Date: 26 March 2014 16:36 Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Help: 28 articles on women professors need infoboxes To: UK Wikimedia mailing list wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi, I have not played around with en.wp infoboxes for yonks.

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is now well-known because it's been on Wikipedia for so long

On 28 March 2014 01:02, Richard Farmbrough rich...@farmbrough.co.uk wrote: On 08/03/2014 09:20, David Gerard wrote: I recall finding a list somewhere of article titles that got lots of hits but didn't have articles, but don't recall where. I may be misremembering of course. - d. https

[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikidata vs Wikipedia

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[WikiEN-l] A bunch of nobodies

Add evidence of your insignificance here! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/A_bunch_of_nobodies - d. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Future of this mailing list

On 2 December 2014 at 10:12, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: I kinda like the separation between cross-project and cross-language issues on Wikimedia-L and the discussion about English Wikipedia, but if nobody is interested in the existence of this list, I won't be very sad

Re: [WikiEN-l] Future of this mailing list

being used for some discussion of block appeals, nothing was posted here for all of June and July? https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/ Yup. June 2015 and July 2015 join September 2014 as 'dead' months in the archives. :-) On 12/2/14, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com

Re: [WikiEN-l] Future of this mailing list

On 13 August 2015 at 16:01, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: On 13 August 2015 at 15:08, Brian J Mingus brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: Leave the list open! There are lots of important people subscribed, and you never know when an interesting conversation will pop up.

[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Ray Saintonge has died

-- Forwarded message -- From: Milos Rancic Date: 13 September 2016 at 17:00 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Ray Saintonge has died To: Wikimedia Mailing List He died yesterday. As he was an important member of our community, I think we

[WikiEN-l] mailman3 and shutting down wikien-l

This list has been dormant for several years now - all traffic has been multiply-cc'ed announcements. As such, I'm going to recommend that with the mailman3 upgrade (which is finally happening!), we shut and archive this list. Past posts should still be available - this list is important

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