Re: [Wikimedia-l] an observation on economic biases in Wikipedia

2018-05-08 Thread Dennis During
At the level of generalization of the cited statement in the WP article, it is pretty much impossible to approach objectivity in economics articles. I doubt that an instance of bias should lead us to include the kind of unscientific economics that we happen to find agreeable. I specifically refer

[Wikimedia-l] an observation on economic biases in Wikipedia

2018-05-08 Thread James Salsman
The more I survey different language wikipedias, the more I am convinced an effort at the chapters level is needed to address this problem: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2018-April/006256.html It occurred to me that this Max Roser video might help: A Selfish Argument for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to deal with spam subscription to mailing list

2018-05-08 Thread Sam Walton
A couple of days ago we had exactly the same issue on the edit filter mailing list. It seemed to come through in a single burst and then stop, though. We haven't had any issues since. Sam *In my capacity as a volunteer* On 7 May 2018 at 13:58, Isaac Olatunde wrote: > Hi all, > > We have been re

[Wikimedia-l] Solve legal uncertainty of Wikidata

2018-05-08 Thread mathieu stumpf guntz
Hello everybody, There is a phabricator ticket on Solve legal uncertainty of Wikidata that you might be interested to look at and participate in. As Denny suggested in the ticket to give it more visibility through the discussion on the Wikidata cha