Lol, global recession and people give MORE to charity? It's a funny old world.
That said, despite this general trend we definitely upgraded the sex appeal of
the banner for this year's run...
CM
Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
> Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 13:49:08 -0800
> From: sgard...@wikimedia.
Civility much, Mark?
Snark apart, the basic problem with commons isn't the people (although they
don't help), it's the software. MediaWiki is just not terribly well suited to
this sort of thing. Categorisation is problematic. On encyclopedia projects
this isn't the end of the world, because th
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] 80% of our projects are failing
Hoi,
You did not get my point. The point is that inform ation in a native language
is valuable by objective standards.
Thanks,
Gerard
2008/12/1 Christiano Moreschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Have you forgotten tha
Have you forgotten that these are WIKIS we are talking about? It's not just a
matter of translation: the technology isn't there to do it automatically and we
don't have the manpower do it manually. Even if the technology were there, it's
a WIKI. Unlike your friend's translations, our content ca
t; informed with our pearls of wisdom..
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
> 2008/11/30 Christiano Moreschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> >
> > No it doesn't. The greatest tool for the education of those poor sods in
> > the 3rd world is the English Wikipedia, plu
Huh? Could you please provide some evidence for this striking claim that the
French and German Wikipedias are failing? Let me be clear: I don't think
anybody reads the English wikibooks either!
CM
Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:15:46 +0100
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTE
imagine that this goes for all languages. And not only
> encyclopediae, but also learning books, dictionaries and perhaps one day
> even other collections. Wikipedia *does* make a difference. (and I'd almost
> add: donate now ;-) )
>
> Best regards,
>
> Lodewijk
>
>
Do we care that 80%
> of our projects are failing?
> Thanks,
> GerardM
No. Why should we? Nobody actually reads shit like the albanian wikibooks
(doesn't matter if that doesn't exist, you get my point). Such projects exist
purely the monomaniacal benefit of the editor(s), not any readers
Amusing. I am strongly reminded of the fights over Macedonia and Liancourt
Rocks. Except on those occasions nobody had any illusions that the participants
on all side were any more than puerile time-wasters. Just because this lot have
greater fluency in the English language doesn't mean that th
