[Foundation-l] Improving search in Wikipedia through quality and concept discovery

This paper (first reference) is the result of a class project I was part of almost two years ago for CSCI 5417 Information Retrieval Systems. It builds on a class project I did in CSCI 5832 Natural Language Processing and which I presented at Wikimania '07. The project was very late as we didn't se

[Foundation-l] Wikiprogress (OECD wiki)

http://www.wikiprogress.org/index.php/Main_Page (found here: , in Italian). They use GFDL 1.2 (?). Nemo ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wik

[Foundation-l] How to make a puzzle globe

http://www.externaute.net/la-globe-en-puzzle-de-wikipedia-en-realite-3d/1071 - d. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] How to make a puzzle globe

On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 02:36:02PM +, David Gerard wrote: > http://www.externaute.net/la-globe-en-puzzle-de-wikipedia-en-realite-3d/1071 Haha, love that, very clever! I want one! Isabell -- Regards, Isabell Long [[User:Isabell121]] on all public Wikimedia projects Freenode Community Co-Or

Re: [Foundation-l] Improving search in Wikipedia through quality and concept discovery

Hi Brian, I'm not sure this is foundation-l type of discussion, but let me give a couple of comments. I took the liberty of re-running your sample query "hippie" using google and built-in search on simple.wp, here are the results I got for top 10 hits: Google: [1] Hippie, Human Be-In, Woodst

Re: [Foundation-l] How to make a puzzle globe

David Gerard wrote: > http://www.externaute.net/la-globe-en-puzzle-de-wikipedia-en-realite-3d/1071 > English-speakers may wish to consult the original source, the blog of the globe-makers, here: http://www.becausewecan.org/Wiki_globe There are more photos and some explanatory text. Those i

Re: [Foundation-l] Comparison of Chinese Wikipedia, Hudong and Baidu Baike

Thank you for the information! I am curious what the ESP group about China will have to report. Kind regards Ziko 2009/10/20 Jimmy Xu : > Hello, > > First of all, apologize for any inconvenience made by my poor grammar. > > As a Chinese, I should say, most people here knows (or uses) the Baidu >

Re: [Foundation-l] How to make a puzzle globe

is this the same as the one in the Office? 2009/11/1 William Pietri > David Gerard wrote: > > > http://www.externaute.net/la-globe-en-puzzle-de-wikipedia-en-realite-3d/1071 > > > > English-speakers may wish to consult the original source, the blog of > the globe-makers, here: > > http://www.beca

Re: [Foundation-l] How to make a puzzle globe

It is. Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.org On Nov 1, 2009, at 2:56 PM, effe iets anders wrote: > is this the same as the one in the Office? > > 2009/11/1 William Pietri > >> David Gerard wrote: >>> >> http://www.externaute.net/la-globe-en-puzzle-de-wikipedi

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

Gregory Maxwell wrote: > Practically every state and municipal government in the US is subject > to public disclosure laws, sometimes part of 'Government in the > sunshine' legislation, which require most relevant information about > the daily operations to be made available. This usually includes

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote: > Whether or not the > word accurately reflects the facts, the cat is out of the bag. It is all > over the internet where the audience tends to see little difference > between "He was fired," and "Was he fired?" There seem to be only two emails

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009/11/1 Anthony : > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote: >> Whether or not the >> word accurately reflects the facts, the cat is out of the bag. It is all >> over the internet where the audience tends to see little difference >> between "He was fired," and "Was he fired?" > > The

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/11/1 Anthony : >> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote: >>> Whether or not the >>> word accurately reflects the facts, the cat is out of the bag. It is all >>> over the internet where the audience tends to see little diffe

Re: [Foundation-l] How to make a puzzle globe

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 21:56, effe iets anders wrote: > is this the same as the one in the Office? On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 22:13, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > It is. It is actually _the_ one at the office, I don't think there are two of these, are there? Delphine -- ~notafish NB. This gmail

Re: [Foundation-l] How to make a puzzle globe

Yes, correct Delphine. There's only the one :-) --Original Message-- From: Delphine Ménard Sender: foundation-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: effeietsand...@gmail.com ReplyTo: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] How to make a

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

W dniu 01.11.2009 23:22, Anthony pisze: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: >> 2009/11/1 Anthony: >>> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote: Whether or not the word accurately reflects the facts, the cat is out of the bag. It is all over the interne

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009/11/1 Anthony : > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: >> 2009/11/1 Anthony : >>> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote: Whether or not the word accurately reflects the facts, the cat is out of the bag. It is all over the internet where the audienc

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > Yes, you can delete the archives on the WMF site. That does make much > difference. It will still be in everyone's inboxes and on various > other archive sites. So, what, don't do the right thing and delete it because some archive sites might

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009/11/1 Anthony : > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: >> Yes, you can delete the archives on the WMF site. That does make much >> difference. It will still be in everyone's inboxes and on various >> other archive sites. > > So, what, don't do the right thing and delete it beca

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

wjhon...@aol.com wrote: > Ha. I'm not ashamed to say I've been fired. Not once! I cast a spell on > them and they were bankrupt within the year. So there. > > Some of the companies I've worked for think I'm the cat's meow (that's a > good thing), and some think I'm the devil incarnate. I gue

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/11/1 Anthony: > >> Here in the US, if a company doesn't mind its unemployment tax rate >> going up, they can do pretty much whatever they want. >> >> In the UK, what, if anything, can a company do if they want to >> redefine a position altogether? >> > > If you a

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

I can think of approximately 500,000 other issues that it would perhaps be more productive for us to argue about on this list. [general comment] Thanks, Pharos On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote: > Thomas Dalton wrote: >> 2009/11/1 Anthony: >> >>> Here in the US, if a company d

Re: [Foundation-l] How to make a puzzle globe

That is delicious. Maker communities have such good energy. I particularly like the look on the face of the hand-painter. Was there ever a writeup from the puzzlemakers who produced the 3" 3D-JP puzzleballs, or the large one from Taipei? (were more of those puzzleballs made?) It would also be

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/11/1 Anthony : >> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Thomas Dalton >> wrote: >>> Yes, you can delete the archives on the WMF site. That does make much >>> difference. It will still be in everyone's inboxes and on various >>> other archive

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

"Proven" sounds a little strong to my mind. I would say "there is no evidence of how the termination occurred" ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Thomas Dalton > wrote: > > Yes, you can delete the archives on the WMF site. That does make much > > difference. It will still be in everyone's inboxes and on various > > other archive sites. > > So, what, don't do

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

Pharos wrote: > I can think of approximately 500,000 other issues that it would > perhaps be more productive for us to argue about on this list. > So just because you have a personal dislike for a comment you want to call it arguing. You're making far too big a deal of a casual response to Th