Re: [Wikimedia-l] dmoz.org

2017-03-12 Thread carl hansen
On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 12:43 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com > wrote: > Hoi, > It is not going to be absorbed in Wikidata. We did not even do that for > Freebase to my regret. > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 12 March 2017 at 09:03, carl hansen <c

[Wikimedia-l] dmoz.org

2017-03-12 Thread carl hansen
I see dmoz.org is going offline in few days after a couple decades. It is a community-written project. Will it be absorbed into wikidata? Sort of a snapshot-in-time of the web. Get it while you can, at http://rdf.dmoz.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] English Fundraiser Update

2016-12-17 Thread carl hansen
also being discussed at https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/12/16/1631223/wikipedia-exceeds-fundraising-target-but-continues-asking-for-more-money fyi ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why are articles being deleted?

2016-06-26 Thread carl hansen
Mitar, To get a deleted article back, ask an "Administrator" to move it to your User_page draft space so you can get your text/references . The text is still in the system, just not accessible to public. There should be no problem. You could even ask the Administrator who deleted it, via Talk page

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why are articles being deleted?

2016-06-25 Thread carl hansen
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 11:29 PM, Brill Lyle wrote: > Hi Mitar, > > ... > > First off: > Please include your user name and the name of the article you were working > on. Without any context it's impossible to help you. Thankfully I was able > to dig and find the page,

[Wikimedia-l] any open search engine for web project starting

2016-03-18 Thread carl hansen
https://about.commonsearch.org/ "We are building a nonprofit search engine for the Web" Sounds alot like Knowledge Engine, if there were such a thing. Any overlap with wikimedia projects? ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: