All,
this is a quick note to let you know that we've signed on two people,
William Pietri and Howie Fung, to help us on a contract basis with the
deployment of Flagged Revisions on the English Wikipedia.
William is an IT consultant and systems/software engineer; see his
userpage at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:William_Pietri --
he is also a long-time Wikipedian. He will support the overall
roll-out coordination and requirements planning.
Howie is an experienced Product Manager who previously worked with
Real Networks/Rhapsody and PayPal; see LinkedIn profile here:
<http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=3830901>.
We met Howie during our search for the Multimedia Usability Product
Manager position, and were impressed by his background, particularly
with regard to user focused product development, and some great first
thoughts he sent us on how to improve the usability of Wikimedia
Commons. Given his background, we thought it would be great to have
his help in doing some more systematic analysis of usability,
terminology and workflow issues with the proposed English Wikipedia
roll-out.
We are eager to roll out the "Flagged Protection" functionality soon.
As Howie and William get up to speed, they'll post info on remaining
work, and get community feedback on what's vital to have before the
first release.
--
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
This may have come up before so if there's a previous discussion on en
or here, please direct me to it.
Do we have an official stance on using primary sources like the US
census and the Social Security Death Index to prove a case of [[age
fabrication]]? My take on it is that it is prohibited original
research, using primary sources to disprove secondary ones, compounded
by the fact that we could easily confuse the subject of the article
with another person of the same or similar name.
If you want to be specific, here it is: Every published source has a
birthdate of 1918 for the late psychic Jeane Dixon. However the SSDI
has her birthdate as 1904 and the brother-in-law of her nephew swears
on the talk page that the 1904 date is the correct one. I think the
1904 is correct, and it's frustrating because likely no journalist or
historian is going to bother publishing something about such a minor
matter, but my opinion is irrelevant and we should defer to published
sources. Verifiability not truth and all that. Or should we IAR in
cases like this and go with the "correct" date?
Editor assistance:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geno_Delafosehttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geno_Delafose&diff=227724744&oldi…
- 18:21, July 24, 2008
Geno Delafose's birth year was changed from 1971 (as documented in
"MusicHound Folk", page 212, by Walters & Mansfield, 1998) to 1972, by
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/68.84.78.64
This user has no Talk page. How do I contact this user to find out
the source of this update, a more recent book, the artist Geno Delafose
himself, other? I am attributed on the current page as the source of the
1972 date, but I am not. I will not change Wikipedia's year back to 1971
if I feel someone may have better information, and I will not change the
year to 1972 on my site until I know the MusicHound verified 1971 I have is
incorrect.
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Doug Henkle - mailto:henkle@pobox.com
P.O. Box 1447, Oshkosh, WI 54903-1447
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This Thursday's office hours will feature Mike Godwin, the Wikimedia
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read about him at <http://enwp.org/Mike_Godwin>.
Office hours this Thursday are from 1600 to 1700 UTC (9:00AM to 10:00PM
PDT).
The IRC channel that will be hosting Mike's conversation will be
#wikimedia-office on the Freenode network.
If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat
using a web browser: First is using the Wikizine chat gateway at
<http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>. Type a
nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and
#wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join.
Also, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/,
typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as
the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning.
It should be all right.
Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other
relevant email lists you happen to be on.
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Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation
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Date: Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:51 AM
Subject: [openmoko-announce] WikiReader
To: announce(a)lists.openmoko.org, List for Openmoko community
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Just a reminder that it's time for strategic planning office hours
again....
Today's office hours are 20:00-21:00 UTC, which is: Tuesday, 1-2pm
PDT, Tuesday, 4-5pm EDT.
You can access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net/ and
filling in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-strategy). You
may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine.
Another option is http://chat.wikizine.org.
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 17:47:33 +0100, Tony Sidaway wrote:
> Note also that principle 4, "Utilize Powerful Conservative Terms",
> links to another of Schlafly's crackpot projects, to prove that since
> 1612, "Powerful, insightful new conservative terms have grown at a
> geometric rate, roughly doubling every century"
>
> http://conservapedia.com/Essay:Best_New_Conservative_Terms
What definition of "conservative" is being used? Creating anything
"powerful, insightful, new" seems like a very liberal, progressive
thing to do as opposed to conservatively sticking to what is tried
and true.
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On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 13:31:28 -0400, Anthony wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
>
> > The requirement that Social Security Numbers of newborn children appear
> > on a tax return is relatively recent. Before 1989 the person applied
> > himself.
>
> I thought your parents could still apply for you back then, but maybe I'm
> wrong.
Mine did in the 1970s when opening a bank account in my name.
Actually, I think it was my grandparents opening an account in my
name, but I think my parents had to submit the application. I had
actually had other bank accounts going back to the 1960s with no SS#,
so I think the requirement of having one for every bank account was
later than my earliest accounts.
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