happy april first
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Svip wrote:
> On 1 April 2012 12:25, David Gerard wrote:
>
> > "America’s most trusted encyclopedia, Conservapedia, have decided to
> > launch a new wiki-based semantic data project named Conservadata. The
> > new project will make right-wing so
Well thanks for the invite, and I voted.
Same here two invites, and also I got the mail a little late, cause the
voting is already half over.
I blogged about this as well
http://undeletewikipedia.blogspot.com/2011/06/funny-voting-for-wikimedia-board-of.html
mike
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 5:00 PM,
Congrats to the winners! What a great team.
BTW, we are going to be organizing a new conference the first weekend of
november in Prishtina, again, skf11 the third edition. It would be great to
get some speakers from wikimedia, we have had milos, gerardm (in vlore,
albania at the partner event free
re so far way from the dominating
political viewpoint of the opposite side that they don't even get a
chance to be heard.
We need to make a way for these people to be heard and to moderate the
conflicts better, that will make Wikipedia stronger and more robust.
thanks,
mike
On Wed, Oct 20
te mails from the archive.
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> 2011/7/23, Mike Dupont :
> > It looks like my message here was truncated from the mailing list
> archive,
> > so I am reposting it.
> >
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-October/061709.html
> >
> > Mr
Thanks for this, I was just reading the last issue, very interesting!
mike
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Milos Rancic wrote:
> Wikizine 125 [1] is under construction and it will be published at
> August 25. If you don't want to be bold and edit the page, you can use
> this form [2] to report
Hi,
we have been using archive.org for our conference videos, it works pretty
good.
mike
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Jan Kucera (Kozuch) wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I think WMF should set up some "quality measures" to make sure there
> actually is some reasonable online output from every Wikimedi
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:57 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
>
> From Wikimedia's perspective, I think this is "one down, several hundred to
> go." Wikimedia has made it clear that its singular focus is the English
> Wikipedia. All other Wikipedias are peripheral; all other project types are
> abandoned. P
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 4:03 AM, Mike Godwin wrote:
> Again, speaking only for myself, I believe the Italian Wikimedians
> made the right choice, and I believe that, so long as this tactic is
> not overused, a strike may be the best and most effective response to
> other anti-free-speech events in
The smurfs move disturbed me when I watched it,
Not only does the actor in the movie lift an image off the wikipedia
and use it in his advertising campaign, but the movie itself gives no
credits to wikipedia on the webpage etc.
http://rdfintrospector2.blogspot.com/2011/12/smurfs-movie-wikipedia-cop
gement
>
> Risker
>
> On 17 December 2011 06:20, Ole Palnatoke Andersen wrote:
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>> It was mentioned on the Wikimedia Foundation Communications Committee
>> Mailing List in September.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ole
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 10:33 AM, M
;> tell from the video), but we have no such image under that name.
>>
>> The article [[blue moon]] actually uses a different image, and as far
>> as I can see from browsing the history it always has.
>>
>> So, it seems like it might not even be a real scree
license.
thanks,
mike
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 12:59 AM, geni wrote:
> On 17 December 2011 23:09, Mike Dupont
> wrote:
>> Well thanks for the great explanation, so the did their homework.
>> now what about the example that is being given to kids, just google
>> it, download
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Bence Damokos wrote:
> I guess, this is just one of the times where things in Hollywood are a
> bit different than in real life. The students and kids will just have
> to realize that things in films are not always true to life...
> (Without having seen the movie,
Hi there,
If you have size restrictions on commons, use
http://www.archive.org/create/ it has no size restrictions.
thanks,
mike
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 8:38 AM, wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to update everyone about our progress in putting up WikiConference
> India 2011 videos on Youtube. I did
> I don't think we gain anything by providing a platform for Kohs campaign,
> as illustrated at
> http://www.mywikibiz.com/Top_10_Reasons_Not_to_Donate_to_Wikipedia
> against Wikipedia.
Wow, this is very well written and interesting! please share more such
information.
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Michael Peel wrote:
>
> On 19 Oct 2010, at 18:44, Mike Dupont wrote:
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>>> I don't think we gain anything by providing a platform for Kohs campaign,
>>> as illustrated at
>>> http://www.mywikibiz.com/Top_10_Reasons_Not_to_
Hello,
>From what I have seen about Greg Kohs is that he does have some
interesting points to make, but I do see that he is jumping to
conclusions and does seem to have a biased viewpoint.
People want to make their own decisions and have enough information to
do that. We don't want to have import
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:44 PM, James Heilman wrote:
> Encyc. Dramatica seems too take pride in creating attack pages regarding
> Wikipedians. Of course they are exposing themselves to libel suits but
wow, now I have an excuse to finally look at this page! I did not look
at the p0nr pages that w
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Houston Navarro
wrote:
> So, we lose that point of view in developing our neutral point of view.
exactly, that is why we should just unban kos and give him another chance.
mike
--
James Michael DuPont
Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania
Hi there, I have seen a big problem in getting people to contribute in
kosovo to wikipedia
except the Kosovo article, there they dont call in *Kosovo and Metohija*i,
so I think there is a president for the english and albanian names in
wikipedia.
most of the names are in serbian, with strange chara
I think that at least a consistent listing of both names is needed,
expecially on the links. I have had to fight with simple unwillingness to
list both names in serbian and albanian on all things.
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
> > Hi there, I have seen a big problem in gett
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 3:17 PM, luke lenny wrote:
> why can't wikimedia publish advertisements and generate revenue and
> become self-reliant,self-sustainable , instead of asking for funds
> from user every year again and again...
I think that is called wikia.com?
mike
I have to say, I think it is good that wikimedia is not advertising funded,
because you provide a great service that is not geared to looking at
advertising.
Most webpages force you to look at ads, wikipedia does not. I think it
is a valuable resource and worth the donations.
We are working on tran
nglish name is the
> reason we call it Kosovo and not Kosovë or Kosova, the Albanian names;
> however in cases such as village and town names, names of mountains
> and bridges, etc. which may have been referred to both ways in English
> literature or barely mentioned or not mentioned at all i
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:19 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> 2. This is about en:wp only.
I am taking it to the english list. thanks for your attention.
A final point for the entire project, not just any language,
I would like point out that the sr.wikipedia and sq.wikipedia for
kosovo articles are b
Good Job !
We were inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GerardM who Spoke the
freesb.eu conf in Vlore Albania and motivated us to start our own Photo
Contest for Kosovo.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/BestPictureOfKosovoForWikipediaContestThere
is still alot to do, most of the activity
Sounds like we need to have a notable search engine that includes only
"approved and allowed" sources, that would be nice to have.
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:08 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 8 December 2010 15:26, Amir E. Aharoni
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, but that may also exclude sites that are useful a
I thought about this more,
It would be to extract a list of all pages that are included as
in the WP. We would use this for the search engine.
we should also make sure that all referenced pages (not linked ones)
are stored in archive.org or someplace permanent.
I wonder if there is some API to ext
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Domas Mituzas wrote:
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> On Dec 8, 2010, at 6:21 PM, Mike Dupont wrote:
>
>> Sounds like we need to have a notable search engine that includes only
>> "approved and allowed" sources, that would be nice to have.
>
> Sounds like a
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Domas Mituzas
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Dec 8, 2010, at 6:21 PM, Mike Dupont wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sounds like we need to have a notable search engine that includes only
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 6:02 PM, wrote:
> In a message dated 12/9/2010 2:51:39 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com writes:
>
>
>> yes it would be great. As i said, it could just include all pages
>> listed as REF pages and that would allow people to review the results
>> and
i mean google has copies, caches of items for searching.
How can google cache this?
Archive.org has copyrighted materials as well.
We should be able to save backups of this material as well.
mike
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:16 PM, wrote:
> In a message dated 12/9/2010 11:06:30 PM Pacific Standard
I am not talking about books, just webpages.
lets take ladygaga.com as example
Wayback engine :
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ladygaga.com
Google cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1720lEPHkysJ:www.ladygaga.com/+lady+gaga&cd=1&hl=de&ct=clnk&gl=de&client=firefox
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:54 PM, wrote:
> In a message dated 12/10/2010 12:48:31 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com writes:
>
>
> I am not talking about books, just webpages.
>
> lets take ladygaga.com as example
>
> Wayback engine :
> http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://w
I know all about the aspects of programming and copyright, I thought I
answered the questions.
Of course I can program this myself, and we can use open source
indexing tools for that. the translations of course are a separate
issue, they would be under the same restrictions as the source page.
If
Well, lets backtrack.
The original question was, how can we exclude wikipedia clones from the search.
my idea was to create a search engine that includes only refs from
wikipedia in it.
then the idea was to make our own engine instead of only using google.
lets agree that we need first a list of re
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:16 PM, wrote:
> In a message dated 12/10/2010 2:12:44 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com writes:
>
>
> Well, lets backtrack.
> The original question was, how can we exclude wikipedia clones from the
> search.
> my idea was to create a search engi
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:02 AM, wrote:
> In a message dated 12/10/2010 2:58:08 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com writes:
>
>
> my idea was that you will want to search pages that are referenced by
> wikipedia already, in my work on kosovo, it would be very helpful
> bec
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
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Can I make a humble suggestion about the banners, and some other things.
on my slow computer, the banner takes a while to load, and when i click on
the page the click lands on the banner.
I dont mind looking at the banner, but I do mind that i click on it all the
time by accident,
maybe a simple tr
I have read this article this morning,
Well this is a similar problem I am having with adding details to, or new
articles about Kosovo,
even my attempts are getting deleted. Having problems even getting the
Turkish, Bosnian or Albanian alternative names added without being deleted,
even if sources
About the foundation openness,
I wanted to write a comment on the foundation page, but it was not open.
So I wrote my comment on SJ talk page,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sj#Openness
Here is what I have to say about wikipedia and openness :
;
HI, I wanted to comment
Hi there,
look guys someone deleted my pages promoting our work in Kosovo and Albania
from my user page saying they are of no use to the wikipedia
can someone please comment on that?
Gerard was at the event in Albania that was supposedly not helping the
wikipedia to talk about wikipedia there.
Milo
Thanks, John,
I will move them to an outreach page, any tips are welcome.
thanks
mike
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:53 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Gerard Meijssen
> wrote:
> > Hoi,
> > Mike is a well know activist who promotes Open Source and Wikipedia in
> > Alb
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:56 AM, John Vandenberg wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Milos Rancic wrote:
> > On 04/25/2011 11:53 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
> >> I have restored a subset of these pages. Some of them would be better
> >> on the Meta or outreach wikis.
> >
> > Thanks, John!
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > look guys someone deleted my pages promoting our work in Kosovo and
> > Albania
> > from my user page saying they are of no use to the wikipedia
> > can someone please comment on that?
> > Gerard was at the event in Albania tha
Hello, sorry to bring this up, again, but this guy, mr whitewriter has
been wikihounding me, he just does not give up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Skier_Dude#Hi_dude.21_:.29
It really hurts me to be treated this way and I wonder if this
behavior of whitewriter will be tolerated and supp
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Tanvir Rahman wrote:
> formate. So, I think most of the YouTube videos need to be converted to ogv
> (from mpeg or flv). Can we do that automatically with script?
ffmpeg and or mencoder can do this,
in theory it could run on toolserver, but those tools burn cpu big
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