Re: [Foundation-l] "RevisionRank": automatically finding out high-quality revisions of an article

2011-12-19 Thread Paolo Massa
Wikitrust already provider a Selection API, which returns a list of the top ranked revisions of an article if you are trying to pick a single revision to show to users. This API is useful for the problem of creating an offline version of Wikipedia (such as book or DVD formats), where the preference

Re: [Foundation-l] The Mediawiki 1.18 image rotation bug on Commons and on all Wikimedia projects

2011-12-19 Thread Tim Starling
On 20/12/11 12:50, Kim Bruning wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:35:24AM +1100, Tim Starling wrote: >> On 13/12/11 01:36, Teofilo wrote: >>> Let us stop asking users to individually tag every wrong picture! Let >>> us have some developers create a tool to find wrong pictures and >>> rotate them b

Re: [Foundation-l] The Mediawiki 1.18 image rotation bug on Commons and on all Wikimedia projects

2011-12-19 Thread Kim Bruning
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:35:24AM +1100, Tim Starling wrote: > On 13/12/11 01:36, Teofilo wrote: > > Let us stop asking users to individually tag every wrong picture! Let > > us have some developers create a tool to find wrong pictures and > > rotate them back to their original orientation! > > W

Re: [Foundation-l] Smurfs Movie is infringing on wikipedia copyright

2011-12-19 Thread Kim Bruning
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 01:35:03PM +, David Gerard wrote: > On 18 December 2011 12:38, Mike Dupont > wrote: > > > Ok. I understand that. Maybe I am getting upset over nothing, but when > > it comes to shutting down people who copy small clips and snippets > > from movies, it seems that the

Re: [Foundation-l] "RevisionRank": automatically finding out high-quality revisions of an article

2011-12-19 Thread Tom Morris
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 22:38, Yao Ziyuan wrote: > I seem to have found a way to automatically judge which revision of a > Wikipedia article has the best quality. > > It's very simple: look at that article's edit history and find out, within > a specified time range (e.g. the past 6 months), which

Re: [Foundation-l] "RevisionRank": automatically finding out high-quality revisions of an article

2011-12-19 Thread Yao Ziyuan
With this idea, not only can Wikipedia provide two views for every article ("Latest" and "Stable"), but we can even select certain Wikipedia articles and put their Stable versions into a DVD edition or printed edition for sale. On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Yao Ziyuan wrote: > Hi Wikipedians,

Re: [Foundation-l] IRC office hours with the Head of Reader Relations, Thursday Dec. 22nd

2011-12-19 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Yes, Wednesday evening in North America. 4PM PST, 7PM EST ___ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Risker wrote: > Since that 0:00 UTC is always confusing to me, wo

Re: [Foundation-l] IRC office hours with the Head of Reader Relations, Thursday Dec. 22nd

2011-12-19 Thread Risker
Since that 0:00 UTC is always confusing to me, would I be correct to assume that this would be taking place Wednesday evening in North America? Risker On 19 December 2011 19:28, Steven Walling wrote: > Hey all, > > I think most Foundation-l subscribers know Philippe Beaudette from the > Foundat

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation's 2010-11 Annual Report

2011-12-19 Thread Tilman Bayer
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Abbas Mahmood wrote: > >> From: tba...@wikimedia.org >> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:35:18 +0100 >> To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation's >> 2010-11 Annual Report > >> Just a quick note th

[Foundation-l] IRC office hours with the Head of Reader Relations, Thursday Dec. 22nd

2011-12-19 Thread Steven Walling
Hey all, I think most Foundation-l subscribers know Philippe Beaudette from the Foundation, but perhaps not all are aware of his title, Head of Reader Relations, or exactly what that department is and what role it fills. If you'd like to hear an update on the office of reader relations at the WMF

[Foundation-l] "RevisionRank": automatically finding out high-quality revisions of an article

2011-12-19 Thread Yao Ziyuan
Hi Wikipedians, I seem to have found a way to automatically judge which revision of a Wikipedia article has the best quality. It's very simple: look at that article's edit history and find out, within a specified time range (e.g. the past 6 months), which revision remained unchallenged for the lo

Re: [Foundation-l] sopa debate now live

2011-12-19 Thread Kim Bruning
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 12:20:34AM +0100, Kim Bruning wrote: > > Further SOPA debate postponed 'till wednesday. > > https://twitter.com/#!/jasoninthehouse/status/147819972498948097 The Easiest way to kill SOPA would be to interact with the committee before Wednesday. Are there any DC wikimed