n't mind too much about
notability - if the stuff seems relevant enough for a specialized paper
encyclopedia, i feel it's worth including it in a wikipedia.
''Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free
access to the sum of all human knowledge
I completely agree :)
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 21:16 +0100, David Gerard wrote:
> > "Both the opinion poll itself and its proposal were accepted. In
> > contrary to the decision of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia
> > Foundation, pers
As I understand, the change has only been proposed.
Possibly another interesting issue will develop: the italian wiki was
discontinued by a short vote or poll. I suppose the most democratric way to
terminate it would be another vote or poll. How are they gonna have that
poll if they locked themsel
Isn't this premature? As I understand, the law is still being discussed, not
yet in affect.
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Theo10011 wrote:
> For those not following, Italian Wikipedia went into lockdown a while ago.
> All content and pages direct to the notice.
>
> http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki
too general. And a count of
PD-old gives just 17K.
kind regards,
Teun Spaans
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
> It's based on the template transclusion count here:
>
> http://toolserver.org/~jarry/templatecount/index.php?lang=commons&name=Template%3APD-Layou
The number of 3 million surpises me. Common hosts about 10 million items.
Are you certain this amount is approximately correct?
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Geoff Brigham wrote:
> Yesterday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed an amicus
> ("friends of the court") brief in Golan
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Alec Conroy wrote:
> On Bitcoin-- we (and the web in general) desperately need a
> zero-overhead micropayment system of some kind.
>
Both wikimedia and the web could indeed use a free micropayment system very
well. It doesn' t need to be bitcoin as a currency,
the NYT uses an image from commons by inline
linking, then we could indeed invalidate their historical research by
deleting that image if it contains a copyright violation. CV are the main
reason for deletion. Other reasons include bad quality, and duplicate
images.
Teun Spaans
Everybody knew it was
Danese, sorry to see you go. Though not always visible, you have done a lot
:)
Thank you for your efforts!
Teun Spaans
Everybody knew it was impossible, until someone turned up who didnt know
that.
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:
> Hoi,
> This is a sad day.
&g
timal way to communicate
that message. An email or article in the signpost might be a much more cost
effective way than a banner.
kind regards,
Teun Spaans
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:52 AM, church.of.emacs.ml wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Do we have any guidelines limiting the use of Cen
And of course the widely read sensation newspaper is copying the message
widely:
http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/9409794/__Minder_schrijvers_Wikipedia__.html?p=24,2
Their readers often react, usually without much feeling for nuance.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Martijn Hoekstra <
martijnho
If i interpret the link correctly, these are only featured articles?
2011/3/30 David Richfield
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Fred Bauder
> wrote:
> > http://www.rob-matthews.com/index.php?/project/wikipedia/
> >
> > Rob,
> >
> > May I direct your attention to:
> >
> > https://secure.wikime
I can confirm what Gerard says: they are influential in the financial and
management sector. I occasionally listen to them while driving.
The article mentions a german research. At the moment there is one reaction
confirming it from personal experience.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Austin Hai
Milos,
Fully agree with your remark about the WYSIWYG editor!
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Milos Rancic wrote:
...
> * We need, for example, WYSIWYG editor. Some more important features,
> too. And it is not expensive.
> * In the world where the funniest thing is to send an email, editing
>
eterzell wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:14 AM, teun spaans
> wrote:
>
> > Quote:Many volunteers don't have a lot to write.
> > This sounds like an opinion, not like a fact. Even on English wikipedia,
> we
> > still have about two hundred thousand plant speci
agree with some of your remarks about motivation. One way to motivate
people might be to provide more information on the process that google maps
uses to locate wikipedia artciles to its maps. It's much nicer if lots of
people actually read 'your' article.
Teun Spaans
On Tue, Mar 2
to pay a
bit more and have their publciatiuons open access. That sounds like an
interesting development to me.
Teun Spaans
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Melissa Hagemann wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, John Vandenberg wrote:
>
> > > And if there is interest in advocating on th
Welcome back, Brion!
Imho there is no one better suited forthe job than you!
Teun
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Jay Walsh wrote:
> Sending on behalf of Danese...
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Yes, the rumors are true! Today I am pleased to announce that after more
> than a year away, Brion Vibber wi
"You have just made your 100th edit: congratulations."
That would be good bot to run: encourage people!
Another idea: A simple message to make a compliment on people who make their
first 3 posts which are not reverted after a day. make it aimed at anonymous
contributors, and inviting them to regist
A courageous point of view. With arguments.
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
> http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125899/
>
> January 7, 2011
> Wikipedia Comes of Age
> By Casper Grathwohl
>
> Casper Grathwohl is vice president and publisher of digital and reference
>
such as blogger supports, we can have a best of both
worlds: Newbies have an easy start, while old hands can still have all the
templates the want.
Teun Spaans
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Birgitte SB wrote:
> What project are you speaking of? At en.WS the entire navigation
> structu
The stats on http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesArticlesNewPerDay.htm are
actual till Jun 2009
The stats on http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/Sitemap.htm are up to date till
sep 2010.
Eriks explanation explains the situation for not being updated since sep
2010, not for those since june 2009.
On Th
.
teun spaans
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
> I was looking through some old files in our SourceForge project. I
> opened a file called wiki.tar.gz, and inside were three complete
> backups of the text of Wikipedia, from February, March and August 2001!
&g
this means for freedom and justice i leave to your own conclusions.
Should not any action be directed to all three or four organizations? But i
doubt anything is achieved by denying ourselves gifts.
I wish you joy and happiness,
teun spaans
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Robert Tice wrote
that wants to support them, or helping to find them a sponsor.
kind regards
teun spaans
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:56 AM, geni wrote:
> Should we offer to host citizendium?
>
> Okey get over the instinctive reaction.
>
> ==The background==
> Those who have read this week's
PA are simply NOT DONE.
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:
> Hoi,
> What is unacceptable, that Greg is a dick or that he is said to be a dick?
>
> It takes a fair amount of doing to get banned on two projects and to be put
> on moderation on mailing lists. He achieved all th
That word had occured to me, but I didnt dare to mention it in this
discussion as i had been "warned" here in the past about my usage of
that word here, and didnt want to be put on moderation list myself.
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Florence Devouard wrote:
> Censorship !
>
> :)
>
> On 10/9/
till there.
teun spaans
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:14 PM, wrote:
> In a message dated 9/20/2010 12:02:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> peter.dam...@btinternet.com writes:
>
>
>> In my experience
>> the problem of humanities in Wikipedia is that the methods and tra
If PC is what the german wiki has been using for some time, i think i
support its usage. Allthough it wont stop vandalism, it expect it does
greatly reduce it, allowing the volunteers to spend their time in a
more useful way. Imho it is working pretty well on the german wiki.
The first time i felt
This looks like a solid organization. Solid in the sense that it wont
go suddenly offline.
Such links may be valuable for:
- article references to sources, in case the source goes offline
- article references to sources, in case thesource changes its content
- media copies when the source changes
ideas?
kind regards,
Teun Spaans
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Excirial wrote:
> *You have my sympathy to - no matter what the outcome is, some if not many
> people will label it censorship, directly or indirectly. "We dont censor"
> has been an standard argument so far
ant.
kind regards
Teun Spaans
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The community of each wiki can decide which illustrations are best for
a certain article, true.
Using foundation resources (banner, cpu, bandwidth) to campaign
against other foundation projects should be avoided.
Protest against decisions of WMF is one thing, lobbying against a
whole WMF project i
IBMs decision to get rid of all internal communication sounds to me as a
very good practice for us.
It also fits in well with the wikipedia culture of consensus in decision
making.
Following this comm. strategy involves the large volunteer community, and
taps on the vast knowledge of our community
The Catholic church is not identical to the Roman Catholic church, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_%28disambiguation%29
live long and prosper,
Teun Spaans
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:
> Hoi,
> The Catholic church is not the same as the Vatican.
A minimalist design is a good goal to strive for. As many people do mot use
them, it may be a good cleanup of the interface. Howver, for its
afficionados the developers might create an option in the user preferences
to show all interwiki links directly instead of hiding them. Personally I
find them
Dear Derk-jan,
As for 1), I think youtube can be compared in populairity and size with
wikipedia, and in videos surpasses commons.
Youtube enables its visitors to tag videos as adult.
see for example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA22WSVlCZ4
kind regards,
Teun Spaans
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at
Adam,
could you please continue existing discussions instead of creating new ones
again and again?
kind regards
teun spaans
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Adam Cuerden wrote:
> (Sorry, ignore the last two sentences - they're left over from a previous
> draft)
>
> On Sat,
Would it stand any chance to file against Foxnews for slaunder?
It seems they are also actively approaching organizations who donated
support to wikimedia.
teun
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Techman224 wrote:
> It seems like Fox News can't get enough. Fox News has a history of being
> the oppo
Gerard,
this statement surprises me.
Why was the foundation involved in the localization of Freecol, a game with
little or no historic information (compared with other historic games such
as europa universalis)?
kind regards,
Teun
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:
> Hoi,
>
t;, and to make wikipedia as
useful as possible, i believe we should learn about their behaviour on
wikipedia.
live long and prosper
teun spaans
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportOrigins.htm
>
> Well, if I&
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:41 AM, MZMcBride wrote:
> >>Hello --
>
> >>Some of the people posting to this mailing list don't seem to understand
> how
> to write a decent, readable reply to a mailing list thread.
Yes, but the opinion on what makes a readable reply may differ from person
to person
?
Perhaps a template with the contest info might be useful. One way or the
other, it would be a good thing if the copyright status could be determined:
does the foundation have all rights? Do the creators still have all rights
reserved?
teun spaans
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 8:19 PM, geni wrote:
> On
Hi Erik,
thank you. Very nice.
One suggestion: for trends, i would expect a bar indicating upward or
downward trend, not a percentage bar.
live long and prosper
teun
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Erik Zachte wrote:
> Today I released 4 new reports, which all focus on:
>
> Where do our reader
nsible for what minors during their vi\olunteer acticvities for
wikimedia do and see.
Viewn as such, it might indeed be a responsibility for the foundation, and
not for an individual wiki.
i wish you health and happiness,
teun spaans
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Andrew Garrett wrote:
>
>
As an example, let's have a look at the first two questions:
1) Do you use Wikimedia Commons at all?
Choose one of the following answers
* Yes, regularly
* Yes, sometimes
* No
Criticism: not exact. What is "regularly"? Once a day? Once a week? Once a
month? 5% of all wiki edits? 25% o
I regard Erik highly for his skills in analyzing data which is already
present. I am completely confident he can do some thought provoking
analysis.
Unfortunately, the skills required for putting a good questionare together
are different from those on analyzing the data.
The remarks I have seen s
Brion,
congratulations on your new job, and you sound excited and happy with it, so
that is good :-)
But I must admit that I am sorry to see you go - your commitment to
wikimedia has always been over 100%, if such a thing is possible, and your
personality has always been a pleasure to work with.
There are a lot of metrics which could be defined, and each has its own
merits:
* number of articles: an indication of the amount of subjects covered, and
for "completeness" of the topics covered. More articles will probably draw
more visitors.
* number of participants: probably an indication of po
people who
have opinions to voice on politics, religion, etc.
kind regards,
teun spaans
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Georg von Zimmermann <
g.v.zimmerm...@evelope.de> wrote:
> Dear “Wikipedians”,
>
> please allow us to introduce a project we have been working on for
>
volunteers
without substantial support from the scientific community.
For these reasons I would support a closure vote at meta.
kind regards,
teun spaans
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Klaus Graf wrote:
> I cannot understand why WMF is unable to terminate Wikispecies which
> is a zero quality p
"the fact of the matter is that it is not the author that benefits from
copyright"
unfounded and untrue.
I wish you health and true happiness.
teun
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:
> Hoi,
> I had a read of the first one. While it is nice that there is an
> understanding t
may be other laws to consider. For
example, if the publication if Hitlers Mein kampf is forbidden, I will not
upload that text to wikibooks. I will leave that to someone else.
i wish you well,
teun spaans
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Jimmy Xu wrote:
> Hello all,
> These days at the V
I don't think that "any random admin on one of the projects should be able
to insert a web bug into
Common.js" is what he suggests. The Hungarian situation seems to have been
in place with support of the hungarian community, at least at start.
Frankly, I'd rather see private sensitive data on an
"oncurrently April 1 is when the amendment to South Korea’s Act on the
Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and User
Protection will go into effect".
That date smells ;-)
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:53 AM, RYU Cheol wrote:
> According to this post,
>
> http://briandeutsch
on the validity of the articles.
teun spaans
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) <
newyorkb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not familiar with the details of the data dump process, so I can't
> comment on whether it's broken or not.
>
> However, on
Hi Gerard,
pls remain polite and dont call names.
teun
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Hoi,
> You are out of your mind. The author of the book, a respected Wikipedian,
> can relicense it to anything he likes.
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
> 2009/1/28 geni
>
> > 2009/1/
"but possibly illegal" you can omit the word "possibly". I dont see a copy
left license at their site.
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> 2008/12/22 Amir E. Aharoni :
> > 2008/12/22 Milos Rancic :
> > And Britannica has this totally weird feature - the article loads
> > its
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Platonides wrote:
> teun spaans wrote:
> > Many times it works well.
> > But the procedures also irregularly goes amiss.
> >
> > I also received deletion messages of a pic i had uploaded with a correct
> > license. Some wiki
iness,
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Many times it works well.
But the procedures also irregularly goes amiss.
I also received deletion messages of a pic i had uploaded with a correct
license. Some wikimedian had accidently removed the license, making a bot
come along and warn me. By pure coincidence i happened to come along at
commo
e, such as
cities, panoramas, and even some people pix.
I wish you health and happiness,
Teun Spaans
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Lars Aronsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
>
> > That might be a hell of a incentive to change. Before we talk
> >
make it a random selection of 2 items from everything that has been
suggested
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:01 AM, Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >wrote:
>
> > McDonalds: serves 75 million people a month
> > Wikipedia: 275 mill
I agree that creating an article should be much easier. Creating a wysiwyg
editor would greatly facilitate that.
It would also help if we promoted a culture where people are invited to
create new articles. Many hard code wikipedians seem to have adopted the
attitude that red links are ugly - so re
It is good to hear that en: is replicated. I assume this also applies to
commons?
Still, it might be a good idea to think about a redesign of the dump
process.
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Robert Rohde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Neil Harris <[EMAIL PROTECT
Agree.
And perhaps other organizations working with copy left licenses could be
informed?
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Teofilo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The European Commission published in July a "Green Paper - Copyright
> in the Knowledge Economy" (1) .
>
> In §3.4. They talk about th
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