Re: [Wikimedia-l] Source-o-meter

2016-04-22 Thread Brill Lyle
I may not be correctly understanding the gist of this article but doesn't something semi-similar already exist? I've recently seen these on some of the Talk pages that are on my watch list. - Erika User:BrillLyle from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jeff_Raikes == External links modified ==

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open and recorded WMF Board meetings

2016-04-22 Thread Ruslan Takayev
Andreas, et al On 23 March, Jimmy stated:[1] "Still waiting to see if the board allows another board member to publish something that will then allow me to publish further. But I did publish something on my user talk page that is relevant." We are now exactly one month down the track and there

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Source-o-meter

2016-04-22 Thread George Herbert
Thanks, Tilman, I missed that... George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 22, 2016, at 2:14 PM, Tilman Bayer wrote: > > See also the review of that preprint we ran in the Wikimedia Research > Newsletter: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2016/February#Test_of_300

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Source-o-meter

2016-04-22 Thread Tilman Bayer
See also the review of that preprint we ran in the Wikimedia Research Newsletter: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2016/February#Test_of_300k_citations:_how_verifiable_is_.22verifiable.22_in_practice.3F and the community discussion it generated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] wikinews has a NPOV policy derived from wikipedia, mamamia ...

2016-04-22 Thread quiddity
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 12:42 PM, rupert THURNER wrote: > > [snip] > > just as a note, i hate that the blog [5] opens 20 times slower than > wikinews on my mobile phone, that it is not in different languages, > that i do not have the "usual mediawiki features". For translations, see https://meta

Re: [Wikimedia-l] wikinews has a NPOV policy derived from wikipedia, mamamia ...

2016-04-22 Thread Tilman Bayer
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 12:42 PM, rupert THURNER wrote: > hi jimmy, > > i asked on the facebook group wikipeda weekly if joe/ed could publish > an upcoming blog post on wikinews. joe sutherland mentioned ".. I > simply cannot get my head around its attitude to news coverage". which > i find frigh

Re: [Wikimedia-l] wikinews has a NPOV policy derived from wikipedia, mamamia ...

2016-04-22 Thread Dan Garry
On 22 April 2016 at 12:42, rupert THURNER wrote: > > i asked on the facebook group wikipeda weekly if joe/ed could publish > an upcoming blog post on wikinews. joe sutherland mentioned ".. I > simply cannot get my head around its attitude to news coverage". which > i find frightening. an editor fo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] wikinews has a NPOV policy derived from wikipedia, mamamia ...

2016-04-22 Thread Oliver Keyes
You're publishing on the main movement mailing list to complain about another user and ask Jimmy a yes/no question? This could've been handled with a neutral description of the background. I'm not sure if you're in a position to be frightened by the comments of long-term editors right now. On Fri

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Source-o-meter

2016-04-22 Thread James Heilman
We are not trying to "incentivize sourcing articles with information that’s easy for people to check online" We are trying to use the best available sources, at least when it comes to medicine. James On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > On 2016-04-22 20:31, George Herber

[Wikimedia-l] wikinews has a NPOV policy derived from wikipedia, mamamia ...

2016-04-22 Thread rupert THURNER
hi jimmy, i asked on the facebook group wikipeda weekly if joe/ed could publish an upcoming blog post on wikinews. joe sutherland mentioned ".. I simply cannot get my head around its attitude to news coverage". which i find frightening. an editor for 10 years, tens of thousands contributions, thou

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Source-o-meter

2016-04-22 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 2016-04-22 20:31, George Herbert wrote: Just saw this in The Atlantic. A suggestion Wikipedia implement a source verifiability meter for each article. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/wikipedia-open-access/479364/ George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone Interesting

[Wikimedia-l] Source-o-meter

2016-04-22 Thread George Herbert
Just saw this in The Atlantic. A suggestion Wikipedia implement a source verifiability meter for each article. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/wikipedia-open-access/479364/ George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone ___ Wikimedi

[Wikimedia-l] Funding Citation Hunt

2016-04-22 Thread James Salsman
How do people feel about a few of the larger the Chapters funding pilots to have professional researchers do https://tools.wmflabs.org/citationhunt/en and a few other main languages? It would be great to measure the quality of results of different payment incentive models and rates, but this is no

[Wikimedia-l] [ASBS] Vote of Wikimédia France

2016-04-22 Thread Emeric VALLESPI
** I already sent this email to the chapters/affiliates mailing list but I'm not sure all representatives subscribed to the list. Sorry for cross-posting ** Dear fellow wikimedians, After a resolution from the board, Wikimédia France has cast its vote for the Affiliate-Selected Board Seats. We be