On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Peter Damian
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> From: "John Vandenberg"
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 12:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Organization on Wikipedia that deals withcontent
> issues.
>
>
>>Irony.
On 1 September 2010 00:27, John Vandenberg wrote:
> You, and the RW article about WP, start from the assertion that
> Wikipedia is successful. Successful at what? Success at Google
> rankings/pageviews/popular culture? Is that the only appropriate
> measure of an encyclopedia; an encyclopedia
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:55 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 31 August 2010 00:21, John Vandenberg wrote:
>>..
>> Pseudo-science, pseudo-humanities, etc are no stranger to Wikipedia,
>> and our processes have not always been victorious over it. Simply
>> put, the rubbish on Wikipedia outweights the
These reports remain some of my favorite reading. Thank you, Sue!
You can also read, wikify, and comment on these reports on Meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports#The_Gardner_Report
SJ
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 5:10 PM, James Owen wrote:
> FEBRUARY
> Report to the Wikimedia Foundation B
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
> A real-time feed of external links is overkill. As mentioned by others,
> the chief problem is linkrot of old links. All we need to do is dump the
> contents of externallinks.el_to from the database once a year or so, run
> a hex to ASCII conv
Peter Damian wrote:
> You take exception, in
> a thread which is explicitly about content issues in Wikipedia, with a post
> that makes unfavourable comparison between Wikipedia and one of its
> competitors. Why is this?
>
The post I was responding to was nothing but an assessment of a
Citiz
A dump "once a year or so" is not enough: the average life span of a website
is 3 months. Kind regards, Dodoïste
2010/8/31 Ryan Kaldari
> A real-time feed of external links is overkill. As mentioned by others,
> the chief problem is linkrot of old links. All we need to do is dump the
> contents
Hello Everyone,
Recently we've been having some internal conversations regarding transparency
for our hiring, recruiting and contracting. In efforts to be more proactive
about sharing this information we're moving to a system of tweeting short
bursts of announcements. This will be done in a "
A real-time feed of external links is overkill. As mentioned by others,
the chief problem is linkrot of old links. All we need to do is dump the
contents of externallinks.el_to from the database once a year or so, run
a hex to ASCII conversion on it, zip it, and email it to someone at the
Inter
On 31 August 2010 21:56, Sue Gardner wrote:
> They're not exactly technical issues: I just have a headache :-(
Go and have a lie down - by far the best headache cure. Get well soon!
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They're not exactly technical issues: I just have a headache :-(
Sorry for the short notice. James will get me rescheduled pretty soon
-- meanwhile, please enjoy Barry :-)
Thanks,
Sue
On 31/08/2010, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Due to some technical issues, Sue will not be doing off
Hi all,
Due to some technical issues, Sue will not be doing office hours
today. Taking her place will be Barry Newstead, the Chief Global
Development Officer for the Wikimedia Foundation.
Same time and location. :)
pb
On Aug 31, 2010, at 5:06 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
> Just a remi
- Original Message -
From: "Michael Snow"
You are this Michael Snow, correct?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Michael_Snow
You are currently on the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation and
previously served as chair of the Board of Trustees. You take exception, in
a thread wh
From: "Michael Snow"
> Peter Damian wrote:
>> Hoping I am not straying too far off-topic.
> You are. Are the Citizendium forum and mailing lists so completely dead
> that issues with its articles cannot be discussed there?
>
> --Michael Snow
Sorry. It began with the David Gerard's assertion that
From: "John Vandenberg"
>Pseudo-science, pseudo-humanities, etc are no stranger to Wikipedia,
>and our processes have not always been victorious over it. Simply
>put, the rubbish on Wikipedia outweights the rubbish on CZ, and I
>suspect that an academically sound study would indicate that,
>prop
Peter Damian wrote:
> Hoping I am not straying too far off-topic.
You are. Are the Citizendium forum and mailing lists so completely dead
that issues with its articles cannot be discussed there?
--Michael Snow
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Hoping I am not straying too far off-topic. I looked at the article on
Young Earth Creationism in CZ
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Young_earth_creationism . It comes in from
some heavy criticism in the RationalWiki article
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Citizendium for being "heavily (and "expe
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Lennart Guldbrandsson
wrote:
> Right now we in the Bookshelf Project are preparing a number of booklets and
> brochures and you are welcome to participate in the work. We look forward to
> any comments you may have to any of our deliverables:
> http://outreach.wi
From: "David Gerard"
>> Actually David wrote the page. I thought it was interesting ...
> No, that section was substantially written by Trent Toulouse.
I did get the calculator out (sorry). There are 608 edits to the article.
252 were by you. I don't know what section you are referring to. I s
- Original Message -
From: "David Gerard"
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Organization on Wikipedia that deals
withcontentissues.
> On 31 August 2010 20:16, Peter Damian wrote:
>
>> Actually David wrote the pa
On 31 August 2010 20:16, Peter Damian wrote:
> Actually David wrote the page. I thought it was interesting ...
No, that section was substantially written by Trent Toulouse.
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- Original Message -
From: "John Vandenberg"
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Organization on Wikipedia that deals withcontent
issues.
>Irony. David Gerard disparaging CZ using a rationalwiki page as evidence
News and notes: Most linked websites on Wikipedia, New York
Wiki-Conference, and more
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-08-30/News_and_notes
In the news: Agatha Christie spoiled, Wales on Wikileaks, University
students improve Wikipedia, and more
http://en.wikipedia.or
Just a reminder this is in about 11 hours :)
Philippe
On Aug 30, 2010, at 10:08 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Sue Gardner, the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation,
> will be having office hours this Tuesday (Aug 31) at 23:00 UTC
> (16:00 PT, 19:00 ET) on IRC in
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