Anthony wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:22 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
>> This morning the Wikimedia Foundation had a meeting about migrating to
>> Google Apps.
>
> Using Google Apps for what?
My understanding is that it would be used for e-mail, calendars, and Google
Docs primarily. When I asked "W
Hello,
Due to a recent server rebuild and resurrection of this email address,
I've been rediscovering mailing lists that I had completely forgotten I
was subscribed to. This is one.
Imagine my amusement at receiving an email from someone called Houston
Navarro appearing to leap to the def
News and notes: Mike Godwin leaves the Foundation, ArbCom election announced
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-10-25/News_and_notes
In the news: Good faith vs. bad faith, climate change, court
citations, weirdest medieval fact, brief news
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W
On 10/25/2010 06:22 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
> Has the decision to use Google Apps been finalized? If so, who made the
> final decision?
>
> What are the benefits of using Google Apps for the Wikimedia Foundation?
>
One thing I will say to the benefit of Google Apps is that they allow
long-distan
Hi everyone,
This is another update on Pending Changes work. Over the Hack-a-ton
weekend, Chad Horohoe and Priyanka Dhanda worked on two of the bigger
features for the November 16 Pending Changes update:
Bug 25294 - "Reject" button confirmation screen in Pending Changes
https://bugzilla.wikimedi
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:22 AM, MZMcBride wrote:
> Hi.
>
> This morning the Wikimedia Foundation had a meeting about migrating to
> Google Apps.
Where was this announced / discussed ?
Or, how the heck did you find out?? ;-)
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On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:22 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
> Hi.
>
> This morning the Wikimedia Foundation had a meeting about migrating to
> Google Apps.
Using Google Apps for what?
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Hi.
This morning the Wikimedia Foundation had a meeting about migrating to
Google Apps. Google Apps is a Web-based closed source office suite that
includes Gmail and a few other services.[1]
I had a few questions about this migration.
Has the decision to use Google Apps been finalized? If so, wh
On 10/25/2010 02:05 PM, George Herbert wrote:
>
> General agree. I do back of the envelope spacecraft mission planning
> with Wikipedia sources when on the road and away from my professional
> tools, and back of the envelope structural design with Wikipedia
> materials properties when similarly aw
In a message dated 10/25/2010 2:12:37 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk writes:
> Superb. I was wondering when someone would actually say this. It is the
> point I made right at the beginning of all of this. That the drug pages
> should not be reflecting some controversy. >
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:54 PM, SlimVirgin wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 14:19, George Herbert
> wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 3:38 PM, SlimVirgin wrote:
>>> We would not allow the people who make Coca Cola to be our sole
>>> sources on whether it's safe, or on whether we all ought to b
On 25/10/2010 21:54, SlimVirgin wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 14:19, George Herbert
> wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 3:38 PM, SlimVirgin wrote:
>>> We would not allow the people who make Coca Cola to be our sole
>>> sources on whether it's safe, or on whether we all ought to be
>>> drinkin
On 25/10/2010 21:19, George Herbert wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 3:38 PM, SlimVirgin wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 16:26, Fred Bauder wrote:
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 15:59, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> And where there is a body of scholarly research, the peer-reviewed
> scholarly l
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 14:19, George Herbert wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 3:38 PM, SlimVirgin wrote:
>> We would not allow the people who make Coca Cola to be our sole
>> sources on whether it's safe, or on whether we all ought to be
>> drinking it. But when it comes to drugs and scientists,
On 25/10/2010 18:32, Austin Hair wrote:
Just for your information, Houston Navarro has been moderated for
being Greg Kohs.
Pro tip: bcc'ing a bunch of list subscribers with a fake
"[Foundation-l]" subject isn't very sneaky, particularly when the
return-path header says "thekoh...@gmail.com."
T
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 3:38 PM, SlimVirgin wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 16:26, Fred Bauder wrote:
>>> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 15:59, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
And where there is a body of scholarly research, the peer-reviewed
scholarly literature is the most authoritative literature ar
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Robert S. Horning
wrote:
> On 10/23/2010 03:42 PM, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
>>
>> If at any moment it can be stood on its head then the information
>> contained in the articles can never be authoritative. Suppose I have a
>> calculator that every once in
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:
> Hoi,
> It does not work for me. The poll that is.. The ban of Mr Kohs works for me.
> Thanks,
> GerardM
Pressing "Enter" doesn't work as you'd expect on that site (it seems
to activate the "Sign In" button, rather than "Continue").
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Hoi,
It does not work for me. The poll that is.. The ban of Mr Kohs works for me.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 25 October 2010 19:32, Austin Hair wrote:
> Just for your information, Houston Navarro has been moderated for
> being Greg Kohs.
>
> Pro tip: bcc'ing a bunch of list subscribers with a fake
Just for your information, Houston Navarro has been moderated for
being Greg Kohs.
Pro tip: bcc'ing a bunch of list subscribers with a fake
"[Foundation-l]" subject isn't very sneaky, particularly when the
return-path header says "thekoh...@gmail.com."
Greg, the sooner you grow up, the happier th
Hi everyone,
We're working on a number of major design projects here at WMF over the next
few months, and as part of that work I'd like to reach out to everyone to take
part in suggesting photographs and images from the Commons for inclusion. This
request is specifically focussed on suggesting
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Fred Bauder wrote:
>
> http://www.nursinginpractice.com/default.asp?title=NewWikipedia-likepharmacywebsite&page=article.display&article.id=23508
>
> Pharmapedia
>
> http://www.phip.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
>
> There's just getting start, but looks promising.
http://www.nursinginpractice.com/default.asp?title=NewWikipedia-likepharmacywebsite&page=article.display&article.id=23508
Pharmapedia
http://www.phip.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
There's just getting start, but looks promising. They are not copying
Wikipedia articles.
Fred
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In a message dated 10/24/2010 10:58:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
dgoodma...@gmail.com writes:
> This is not a mechanical
> process. It is editing in the true sense of the word: it takes
> judgement, it takes takes research-- things we have been claiming are
> against our basic principles. >>
> > The vast majority of our users
> > are using Wikipedia and not the other projects, which means even a
> > small improvement to Wikipedia is likely to have more impact than even
> > a large improvement to one of the other projects.
>
> That's an unproven assumption. It might even be the opposite
As a contributor, mainly in the molecular pathology field in the spanish
wikipedia, I see that our main problems are: lacking of images, lacking of
reliable parameters and the great degree of scattering of data in the
literature, oftenly contradictory. Recently I talk about this with a pupil.
Th
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 03:05, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> I'm sure you noticed that this 2008 study
>
> http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0050095
>
> criticises media reports for citing studies and experts with financial ties
> to manufacturers, w
Nice. Worth noting though that the articles were informatics articles,
rather than medical articles.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2929539/table/T0004/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2929539/table/T0003/
A.
> From: Fred Bauder
> Here is a medical use of Wikipedia,
>
Here is a medical use of Wikipedia, from Journal of Pathology Informatics:
The pathology informatics curriculum wiki: Harnessing the power of
user-generated content
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2929539/?tool=pubmed
This journal article in free online. I really like it. They don't
> > Can you address the issue of
> vested interests? If a drug
> > company has
> > financed all or most of the peer-reviewed work, your
> > argument is that
> > we should nevertheless reply on those studies
> exclusively,
> > and not
> > allow high-quality mainstream media who may be
> pointing to
> From: David Goodman
> Date: Monday, 25 October, 2010, 6:57
> Whether or not we want it to be,
> whether or not it ought to be,
> Wikipedia is being relied on. Our foundational principles
> do not
> control the outside world. What we have produced is
> being used as the
> nearest approach to a
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