Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
> This is a interesting proposal, but I'd suggest taking the idea to Meta.
> There is already a
> Symptom checker at WebMD, but it could potentially upon a legal can of worms
> for WM to get
> involved in medical troubleshooting.
There may already be online troubleshootin
Thomas Dalton wrote:
>>
>> We definitely do not want to be giving medical advice to people. If
>> you get that wrong, people die. Medical advice should be got by going
>> to the doctors. Can you give another example of what your idea could
Yes, medical troubleshooting is both extremely useful and
This is a interesting proposal, but I'd suggest taking the idea to Meta. There
is already a Symptom checker at WebMD, but it could potentially upon a legal
can of worms for WM to get involved in medical troubleshooting.
From: Yao Ziyuan
To: foundation-l@lists
We definitely do not want to be giving medical advice to people. If
you get that wrong, people die. Medical advice should be got by going
to the doctors. Can you give another example of what your idea could
be used for? Can you also explain how it would work - how would we put
together this wizard?
Possible names: WikiTroubleshooting/WikiWizard/WikiWiz/WikiSolve/WikiFix/...
Motivation:
Wikipedia provides factual knowledge (e.g. 7th-grade geometry) but not
problem-solving capabilities (e.g. helping a visitor solve his
geometry problem).
Solution:
A hypertext system like a wiki can impleme
These are great questions, and we're actually having a big meeting about
the project this afternoon, so I'll be sure to raise them to make sure
we all have the same notion. That said, a few of quick responses from my
perspective:
On 05/03/2010 08:15 AM, Carcharoth wrote:
> Since it does seem ve
Speaking from my own experience, I started off as a "vandal" got a couple of
test warnings and then I started contributing meaningfully. As long as the
vandalism is not subtle and experimenting users are not labelled as
"vandals" as such, it can be easily managed by bots and users.
ZOMG LET''S VA
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa wrote:
> James Alexander wrote:
> > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Anirudh Bhati
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Vandalizing Wikipedia may actually get a few started on the project.
> It's
> >> usually easier to persuade people to do "evil" sounding thin
--- El mar 4-may-10, Kul Takanao Wadhwa escribió:
> >> I agree, I've actually met at least 3 people "out in the world" who
> >> admitted to starting off vandalizing the Wikipedia and then ended up
> >> editing it legitimately...
> >
> That's very interesting to know. Do you have any idea wha
James Alexander wrote:
> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Anirudh Bhati wrote:
>
>
>> Vandalizing Wikipedia may actually get a few started on the project. It's
>> usually easier to persuade people to do "evil" sounding things on the
>> internet than real-life - some positive externalities may a
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Anirudh Bhati wrote:
> Vandalizing Wikipedia may actually get a few started on the project. It's
> usually easier to persuade people to do "evil" sounding things on the
> internet than real-life - some positive externalities may arise.
>
> I agree, I've actually m
Vandalizing Wikipedia may actually get a few started on the project. It's
usually easier to persuade people to do "evil" sounding things on the
internet than real-life - some positive externalities may arise.
Anirudh Bhati
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Amory Meltzer wrote:
> On Mon, May 3, 20
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