On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:02 PM, wrote:
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> How do you determine the number of views a particular Wikipedia page has
> received?
http://stats.grok.se/en/200910/Colorado%20Balloon%20Incident
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How do you determine the number of views a particular Wikipedia page has
received?
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikinews has not failed
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Bod Notbod wrote:
> Is it possible that sometimes Wikipedia steals Wikinews' thunder?
>
> You get something like that kid (not) in a balloon and it
> struggles/fails to get on Wikipedia but I assume did OK on Wikinews.
>
> Sometimes a current event is big enough th
Is it possible that sometimes Wikipedia steals Wikinews' thunder?
You get something like that kid (not) in a balloon and it
struggles/fails to get on Wikipedia but I assume did OK on Wikinews.
Sometimes a current event is big enough that Wikipedia can cover it
without fear of deletion (I think of
- wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
>
> ... Few to no Wikipedia articles
> point at Wikinews even when there is a Wikinews article.
How about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon_Treaty#Signing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radovan_Karad%C5%BEi%C
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Robert Rohde wrote:
> I've read a variety of things there though I haven't yet been inspired
> to make a proposal. My impression though, and correct me if I
> overlooked something, is that the strategy development process has
> generally been framed in terms of i
Hi all,
While specific proposals have indeed been solicited (largely focusing on
individual projects), task forces focusing on larger strategic issues have been
formed in the past few weeks. These task forces are deliberating on key issues
that affect the Wikimedia community broadly. You can fi
Robert Rohde wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Bod Notbod wrote:
>
>> Are you already on
>>
>> http://strategy.wikimedia.org
>>
> I've read a variety of things there though I haven't yet been inspired
> to make a proposal. My impression though, and correct me if I
> overlooked some
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:02 PM, wrote:
> Wikinews should be gracefully shut down. It's long since failed to serve
> any service to the community or to the world. Few to no Wikipedia articles
> point at Wikinews even when there is a Wikinews article. And I submit that
> no outside agency points
But George we do have pointers from Wikipedia to Wikisource, Wikiquote, and so
on. Wikinews is sort of the red-headed stepchild of the entire collective.
It's been going for years and yet only has 15,000 English-language articles.
That's probably smaller even than Citizendium.
The failure
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Bod Notbod wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Robert Rohde wrote:
>
>> At the root, I think that Wikipedia is something of a victim of it's
>> own success. We've written the largest encyclopedia in history,
>> become a household name, and created a top web d
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Robert Rohde wrote:
> At the root, I think that Wikipedia is something of a victim of it's
> own success. We've written the largest encyclopedia in history,
> become a household name, and created a top web destination. Great
> job. What now?
Are you already on
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 23:36, Robert Rohde wrote:
> I have been part of the wiki community for 6 years now. As I reflect
> on what I've seen over the years, I've developed a definite sense that
> the enthusiasm and energy in the community has waned. (I'm going to
> frame this discussion mostly
I have been part of the wiki community for 6 years now. As I reflect
on what I've seen over the years, I've developed a definite sense that
the enthusiasm and energy in the community has waned. (I'm going to
frame this discussion mostly in terms of the English Wikipedia, though
I think it applies
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:02 PM, wrote:
> [...] Few to no Wikipedia articles
> point at Wikinews even when there is a Wikinews article.
I believe that there's a policy determination that Wikinews is not a
Wikipedia "Reliable Source" as defined in [[WP:RS]], so not having
pointers from Wikipedia t
We keep it because some people use it, some people contribute to it,
and it costs us very little to keep it going. All projects that are
useful and well used were at one point completely obscure, including
the English Wikipedia. That obscurity is not, of itself, a good reason
to delete the entire p
Wikinews should be gracefully shut down. It's long since failed to serve
any service to the community or to the world. Few to no Wikipedia articles
point at Wikinews even when there is a Wikinews article. And I submit that
no outside agency points at Wikinews articles for anything.
Why do we
"Dominating it" Phoebe? We're talking about *a* single thread. One
thread. That you can delete on sight without reading. And yet you keep
reading
it, and you keep complaining about reading it. Doesn't that seem a bit
counter-productive.
Just... stop... reading.. that one thread. Just say
Not bad. I don't think all of it is good, but generally not bad.
(I'd especially question some of the esoteric stuff in phase one,
which gives no indication that this is a fundraiser, and simply
assaults the visitor with platitudes in large font. I would suggest
that the marketing instinct to bui
phoebe ayers wrote:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Improving_Foundation-l is still up but
> hasn't gotten any new traffic in the last few weeks. Suggestions
> included:
> * starting a forum
> * starting an announcements list
> * limiting posting
>
>
Looking at that discussion's history I see t
Trying one more time. Seems to have disconnected from my previous message.
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Hi Ziko,
you find them all on http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
Alice.
2009/11/4 Ziko van Dijk
> Sorry folks, I could not make it yesterday. Is there a protocol in the
> net or elsewhere?
> Kind regards
> Ziko
>
>
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Sorry folks, I could not make it yesterday. Is there a protocol in the
net or elsewhere?
Kind regards
Ziko
2009/11/3 Philippe Beaudette :
> Strategic Planning office hours are tomorrow, Tuesday, November 3,
> from 20:00-21:00 UTC.
>
> We meet in #wikimedia-strategy on the freenode network. You
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Birgitte SB wrote:
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>
> --- On Mon, 11/2/09, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
>
>> From: wjhon...@aol.com
>> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?
>> To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
>> Date: Monday, November 2, 2009, 4:55 PM
>> Personally, I process about two or
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Andrew Gray wrote:
> 2009/11/2 Nikola Smolenski :
>> Дана Monday 02 November 2009 18:31:50 Andrew Gray написа:
>>> First image is probably your best bet - the odds are reasonably high
>>> it'll be a picture, or something else "representative", in the
>>> conventiona
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