The popular Russian blogger Artemy Lebedev [1] is known for changing
the title of his blog every few days. Usually it is a line from spam
emails. The current title is the translation into Russian of "We now
accept rubles (RUB)", most likely taken from the Wikipedia fundraising
banners.
Lebedev als
Some updates on this, for anyone interested:
http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/any-normal-human-being-would-be-offended/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/facebook-google-tell-india-they-wont-screen-for-derogatory-content/2011/12/06/gIQAUo59YO_blog.html
http://blogs.ft.co
News and notes: Amsterdam gets the GLAM treatment, fundraising marches on,
and a flourish of new admins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-12-05/News_and_notes
In the news: A Wikistream of real time edits, a call for COI reform, and
cracks in the ivory tower of knowledg
What: Fundraising triage
When: Wednesday, December 7, 2100UTC
Time zone conversion: http://hexm.de/bc
Where: #wikimedia-dev on freenode
Use http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-dev
if you don't have an IRC client
Etherpad: http://etherpad.
On 06/12/2011 4:21 PM, WereSpielChequers wrote:
> Unless he casts his net wider I'm personally more concerned about the sort
> of politicians who are prudish about nudity on the web and reluctant to
> have information about evolution in the classrooms.
The point is, many people (including myself)
Unless I'm missing something, his examples "morphed photos of Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi, as well as
pigs running through Islam's holy city of Mecca." sound like things that we
would not be using in Wikipedia articles, except if the morphed image had
gained su
News and notes: Amsterdam gets the GLAM treatment, fundraising marches on, and
a flourish of new admins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-12-05/News_and_notes
In the news: A Wikistream of real time edits, a call for COI reform, and cracks
in the ivory tower of knowle
See the wiki version here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Reports/2011-11
This is the language committee report for November 2011. Previous month no
e-mail was sent because there was nothing to report, other than the
creation of the Northern Sotho Wikipedia.
===Committee===
*
It was deleted at Geoff's request; I'm not certain if he's intending to
reformat it and put it back up somewhere else, or what, but I'll add it to
my list of things to talk about with him. We'll try to get the info up in
some format, of course. :)
pb
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Philippe Beaudette
Head
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Kim Bruning wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 09:25:03PM +0530, Achal Prabhala wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 December 2011 08:27 PM, Kim Bruning wrote:
> > > I do not believe that the Indian internet community shares Kapil
> > > Sibal's position. Though they'll have to
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 11:08:21AM +, Fae wrote:
> It would not be an unreasonable corrective action to take their boastful
> claims at face value and stick dirty great COI notices on the top of every
> Wikipedia article about each of their clients; with a suitable explanation
> on every talk p
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 09:25:03PM +0530, Achal Prabhala wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 December 2011 08:27 PM, Kim Bruning wrote:
> > I do not believe that the Indian internet community shares Kapil
> > Sibal's position. Though they'll have to speak for
> > themselves, of course! :-)
> They have:
>
> ht
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 08:12:48AM +0700, Anirudh Bhati wrote:
> On Saturday, December 3, 2011, Steven Walling
> > start
> > to read the introduction that he wrote:
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Geoffbrigham/Strategy
>
> Why was this page deleted?
19:22, 2 December 2011 Philippe (WMF)
On Tuesday 06 December 2011 08:27 PM, Kim Bruning wrote:
> (Also: seeing reporting on facebook and twitter activity, and
> having viewed pages from eg. Hindi Wikipedia, I do not
> believe that the Indian internet community shares Kapil
> Sibal's position. Though they'll have to speak for
> themse
media.
Reply-To:
What to many appeared to be the abstractest of theory just
a few months ago, is now becoming frightful reality :-(
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-16044554
Kapil Sibal's position seems to be pretty much exactly in
line with our projected concept of image filte
On 6 December 2011 11:45, Thomas Morton wrote:
>>
>> +1 to Fae
>>
>> This is outrageous. I would say COI notices + Disputed Neutrality notices.
>>
>
> Lets not get too dramatic.
>
> And anyway; if the purpose of doing such tagging is to punish them for
> their actions, well, then it's probably not
>
> +1 to Fae
>
> This is outrageous. I would say COI notices + Disputed Neutrality notices.
>
Lets not get too dramatic.
And anyway; if the purpose of doing such tagging is to punish them for
their actions, well, then it's probably not a good thing to do...
Tom
_
+1 to Fae
This is outrageous. I would say COI notices + Disputed Neutrality notices.
> From: fae...@gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 11:08:21 +
> To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] WP being edited by lobbying firm
>
> It would not be an unreasonable correcti
It would not be an unreasonable corrective action to take their boastful
claims at face value and stick dirty great COI notices on the top of every
Wikipedia article about each of their clients; with a suitable explanation
on every talk page pointing to the newspaper source until a credible
assessm
On 6 December 2011 10:14, Bod Notbod wrote:
> Hardly surprising or new, but something we need to be aware of:
> Wikipedia is being edited by a large lobbying company, Bell Pottinger.
> It removes negative coverage of its clients:
> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/caught-on-camera-to
The article about them is... amusing. It's almost entirely sourced to press
releases...
Tom
On 6 December 2011 10:14, Bod Notbod wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Hardly surprising or new, but something we need to be aware of:
> Wikipedia is being edited by a large lobbying company, Bell Pottinger.
> It remo
On 12/4/11 4:01 PM, Andreas K. wrote:
> many featured articles – at least on en:WP – are about
> niche topics, while so-called "vital articles" (VA), i.e. core topics that
> any encyclopedia would be expected to cover well, are underperforming, with
> comparatively few making FA or GA. Looking at t
Hello,
Hardly surprising or new, but something we need to be aware of:
Wikipedia is being edited by a large lobbying company, Bell Pottinger.
It removes negative coverage of its clients:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/caught-on-camera-top-lobbyists-boasting-how-they-influence-the-p
On 4 December 2011 18:21, Edward Buckner wrote:
> "Thomas Dalton"
>> There are always going to be disagreements over what should constitute a
>> vital article.
>
> There are disagreements about whether Theology is a vital article?
Well on the basis that Universities should have some vague id
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