[Wikimedia-l] Creative Commons Global Summit: April 13-15 in Toronto

2018-02-26 Thread Jennie Rose Halperin
Hi Wikimedians! Hoping to see you there in April! Thanks for your attention. Jennie The Creative Commons annual Global Summit is from April 13-15 in Toronto. Planned Wikimedia-related events include a keynote by Katherine Maher and several discussions and sessions on how Wikimedia and C

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

2018-02-26 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I have been involved in a translation project with professional translators translating featured articles of the English Wikipedia. The choice for featured articles was done because we expected that the content would not be in dispute. We found different. Several of the translated articles wer

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

2018-02-26 Thread James Salsman
> wonder if creating dynamic articles from Wikidata is better > than creating static articles Not for years to decades. https://twitter.com/AustenAllred/status/967842020151603200 On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 3:02 AM, John Erling Blad wrote: > I wonder if creating dynamic articles from Wikidata is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fake news ‘vaccine’: online game may ‘inoculate’ by simulating propaganda tactics

2018-02-26 Thread James Salsman
Here is a tweet describing a problem with social media recommendation systems: "The algorithm I worked on at Google recommended Alex Jones' videos more than 15,000,000,000 times, to some of the most vulnerable people in the nation." - @gchaslot What should the penalty for that be? A fine? Enough

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

2018-02-26 Thread John Erling Blad
I wonder if creating dynamic articles from Wikidata is better than creating static articles. Because we lack tools for this, it is easier to do this offline, and as a consequence we get the static bot-articles. Den søn. 25. feb. 2018, 16.26 skrev Gabriel Thullen : > I should have joined in this d

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ¿Qué te hace feliz esta semana? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 25 February 2018)

2018-02-26 Thread Natacha Rault
Quelle belle idée de transcender les barrières linguistiques! Ich finde dass wirklich wichtig dass wir zusammen in verschiedenen Sprachen zusammen reden. я тоже мненочко по руски гаварю I’m sure I made mistakes in the last one, but it was fun trying. Thanks Pine for this idea! This made me ha