Hi,
I've been following with great interest the endeavour to relicense Wikipedia
for some time, though this is my first meaningful contribution to it.
Attribution is an important and sensitive issue but I think the discussions
so far are missing a great opportunity to promote Wikipedia itself whil
Someone should fix the date at the start of the article (2008 -> 2009).
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Chad wrote:
> Not sure why this announcement didn't merit a mention on the lists (as
> most others do), but Roger McNamee has been named to the advisory
> board. I incidentally found out from
Not sure why this announcement didn't merit a mention on the lists (as
most others do), but Roger McNamee has been named to the advisory
board. I incidentally found out from the WM blog.
-Chad
Press release:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Roger_McNamee_to_Become_Wikimedia_Advi
Hello Tim,
I definitively like to see things develop in the direction you
described. That would make the templates more useful, either for the
editors but also for the readers and other developers who can datamine
the Wikimedia-project entries. And at some point we must simply ignore
the desir
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
> Another useful thing: after an article is parsed, write all the
> templates it uses and their parameters in the database. Even if at first
> it isn't possible to read this data on Wikipedia, Toolserver could do
> wonders with it :)
This s
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
>> The other useful thing that can be done with templates is to
>> standardise the field names in them as much as possible per wiki.
>>
>> The reason? To enhance machine readability of data in them. People are
>> SERIOU
David Gerard wrote:
> The other useful thing that can be done with templates is to
> standardise the field names in them as much as possible per wiki.
>
> The reason? To enhance machine readability of data in them. People are
> SERIOUSLY INTERESTED in this.
Another useful thing: after an article
