I too support the creation of Wikidata. Unfortunately, in the global decline of
Wikimedia participation, even the Foundation is unable to help ignite a new
valuable project that is desperately needed in order to bring in some new
participation... sad situation. I wonder what the 50+ Foundation s
Being able to serve mainspace banners specified by geolocation and/or
article category and/or language edition would open up a whole new level of
fundraising potential. That would allow you to get local celebrities (who
are otherwise not especially popular/known outside their
city/state/country/lan
Fine grained control over which banners appear on which pages would
also result in the community being extremely worried that WMF is
gearing up to run ads on content pages.
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Liam Wyatt wrote:
> Being able to serve mainspace banners specified by geolocation and/or
>
On 24 November 2010 10:24, John Vandenberg wrote:
> Fine grained control over which banners appear on which pages would
> also result in the community being extremely worried that WMF is
> gearing up to run ads on content pages.
If the community has that level of assumption of bad faith, then
e
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:27 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 24 November 2010 10:24, John Vandenberg wrote:
>
>> Fine grained control over which banners appear on which pages would
>> also result in the community being extremely worried that WMF is
>> gearing up to run ads on content pages.
>
>
> I
I don't know why they would think that. I mean, we obviously already have the
tech to insert advertisements ... and do; at least ads for the fundraiser.
John Vandenberg wrote:
>Fine grained control over which banners appear on which pages would
>also result in the community being extremely worr
Hi all,
as you may know I've been involved in the structured data community
for a few years (through the original "Wikidata" proposal in 2004 as
well as architecting and developing OmegaWiki, together with the
OpenProgress team and others from 2005-2007). I've been following
Semantic MediaWiki, Fr
Would this project answer the question I am trying to address today?
"Which American actors died in 1970?"
There does not appear to me, to be any obvious way of using the built-in
search engine to answer this question. Searching for "Actor 1970" generates a
lot of false positives, an overwhelm
on 11/24/10 6:10 PM, wjhon...@aol.com at wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
> Would this project answer the question I am trying to address today?
>
> "Which American actors died in 1970?"
>
> There does not appear to me, to be any obvious way of using the built-in
> search engine to answer this question.
In a message dated 11/24/2010 3:29:12 PM Pacific Standard Time,
michaeldavi...@comcast.net writes:
> Could it de done with a Category: 1970 Deaths - Actors, or some such
> thing?
>
> Marc
>
Evidently the phrase "Category: 1970 Deaths" is not indexed. Try it, and
see if you get anything.
on 11/24/10 6:33 PM, wjhon...@aol.com at wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 11/24/2010 3:29:12 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> michaeldavi...@comcast.net writes:
>
>
>> Could it de done with a Category: 1970 Deaths - Actors, or some such
>> thing?
>>
>> Marc
>>
>
>
> Evidently the phra
Marc Riddell wrote:
> on 11/24/10 6:10 PM, wjhon...@aol.com at wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
>
>> Would this project answer the question I am trying to address today?
>>
>> "Which American actors died in 1970?"
>>
>> There does not appear to me, to be any obvious way of using the
>> built-in search en
In a message dated 11/24/2010 3:56:52 PM Pacific Standard Time,
phn...@blueyonder.co.uk writes:
> Try http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php
>
> plug in values "en", "Deaths in 1970" and "American Actors".
>
Articles that are under American Actors and under Deaths i
Hi everyone,
This week we're forgoing Office Hours due the U.S. Thanksgiving
holiday, but a week from today on Wednesday December 1, I will be
hosting an IRC discussion of the planning for Wikipedia's 10th
anniversary. From 16:00-17:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office, we'll have an
open meeting t
on 11/24/10 6:59 PM, wjhon...@aol.com at wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 11/24/2010 3:56:52 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> phn...@blueyonder.co.uk writes:
>
>
>> Try http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php
>>
>> plug in values "en", "Deaths in 1970" and "America
In a message dated 11/24/2010 4:11:03 PM Pacific Standard Time,
michaeldavi...@comcast.net writes:
> I just pulled up the Articles on two actors who I know died in 1970. One
> was
> in the Category "English Film Actors" and the other in "American Film
> Actors".
>
The category intersect PHP
on 11/24/10 7:25 PM, wjhon...@aol.com at wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 11/24/2010 4:11:03 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> michaeldavi...@comcast.net writes:
>
>
>> I just pulled up the Articles on two actors who I know died in 1970. One
>> was
>> in the Category "English Film Actors"
Marc Riddell wrote:
> on 11/24/10 7:25 PM, wjhon...@aol.com at wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
>
>> In a message dated 11/24/2010 4:11:03 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>> michaeldavi...@comcast.net writes:
>>
>>
>>> I just pulled up the Articles on two actors who I know died in
>>> 1970. One was
>>> in the Cat
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