WikiEN-l June 2009

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Wikipedia Statistics
by Muhammad Abdul-Mageed {محمد عبدالمجيد} 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

Hi all, I am writing up an academic paper on Wikipedia and need to include some statistics in the background section about the encyclopedia. What I am looking for includes, *but is not limited to*: 1. The number of articles in English and the following hugest 3 or 4 language versions, 2. The number of unique users, say in June 2009 3. The number of editors in English and perhaps some other versions. I have made some search and found that the "Wikipedia statistics" page ( http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/), for example, provides some of this information. But I thought some of the people in the list will probably have related good advice as well. Thank you in advance! Regards, --muhammad abdul-mageed, Ph.D. student, Computational Linguistics Program, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington

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NY Times: Wired Editor Apologizes for Copying from Wikipedia in New Book
by William King 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/editor-of-wired-apologizes… Chris Anderson, the author, summarized the situation in two words: "Mea culpa." Your thoughts? William King (Willking1979)

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Using english-Wikipedia XML dump
by akhil1988 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

Hi All! Here's a newbie to this forum. I am looking for some references to help me use Wikipedia XML dump. Here's what I have to do with the XML dump: I will set up a server on which people can browse Wikipedia articles and also a processed version of the corresponding Wikipedia article. By processed version means a wikipedia article with some additional information with each line. eg A line in a Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago) goes as: Chicago (pronounced /ʃɨˈkɑːɡoʊ/ or /ʃɨˈkɔːɡoʊ/) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and with over 2.8 million people is the third largest city in the country. My processed version of wikipedia page would be like this: Chicago (pronounced /ʃɨˈkɑːɡoʊ/ or /ʃɨˈkɔːɡoʊ/) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and with over 2.8 million people is the third largest city in the country. <Some additional information about this line> Dont bother about "Some additional information about this line". This is some NLP (natural Language Processing) stuff which processes the line and generates some additional information about the line. So, if somebody wants to access the processed version of any Wikipedia article, he can go to: http://myserver/wiki/processed_Chicago I hope I am clear what I intend to do with the wikipedia XML dump. For this I need to know the following things: 1. How should I extract articles from the XML dump, process them by extracting plain text from them and then insert the processed page back line by line at the same place in the XML article as before along with the additional information that will be generated by the NLP stuff. In this whole process, I want to maintain the look of the wikipedia page as the original version. 2. How to render a wikipedia page from the XML dump just like as we see in the online version of the Wikipedia. 3. XML dump does not have images in it, so how will I render images when a page on my server is accessed. Any references or ideas in this regard will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Akhil -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Using-english-Wikipedia-XML-dump-tp24236727p24236727.… Sent from the English Wikipedia mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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FW: [Foundation-l] "antisocial production"
by Marc Riddell 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

Very appropriate to this discussion. MR ---------- From: Eddie Tejeda <eddie(a)visudo.com> Reply-To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:57:44 -0700 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Foundation-l] "antisocial production" 'Forget altruism. Misanthropy and egotism are the fuel of online social production. That's the conclusion suggested by a new study of the character traits of the contributors to Wikipedia. A team of Israeli research psychologists gave personality tests to 69 Wikipedians and 70 non-Wikipedians. They discovered that, as New Scientist puts it<http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16349-psychologist-finds-wikipedian s-grumpy-and-closedminded.html>, Wikipedians are generally "grumpy," "disagreeable," and "closed to new ideas."' http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2009/06/the_sour_wikipe.php I wonder how the mailing list will react.... _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Dispute resolution mailing list
by stevertigo 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

Risker wrote: > It's on the arbcom-L private mailing list, I suspect, Steve. A link won't >> be >> possible, sorry. >> > Yes I knew that. I was simply making an obverse point about the mis-usage of > "private" lists for sweeping public project announcements. > In any case, I try to avoid closed-source technology wherever I can. -Stevertigo

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FRONDS (AWB tool)
by Carcharoth 28 Jun '09

28 Jun '09

Bit of a cryptic heading? I thought so too when I saw it, but it's actually quite an interesting use of AWB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FRONDS Find/Replace ON Demand Services, in case anyone hadn't worked it out. Carcharoth

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia slags off Palmerston North
by WJhonson＠aol.com 28 Jun '09

28 Jun '09

In a message dated 6/28/2009 8:35:38 AM Pacific Daylight Time, fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net writes: > Please finish the job, if you can. Clearly, business, organizations, and > towns can also suffer both embarrassment and damages from libel and > unfounded negative information.>> Hold on. You said "enterprises" *failed* to reach consensus. A business is not an organization but an enterprise. A town, as a corporation is more analagous to an enterprise as well. Will ************** Make your summer sizzle with fast and easy recipes for the grill. (http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood00000005)

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Wikipedia slags off Palmerston North
by Steve Bennett 28 Jun '09

28 Jun '09

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/2516472/Wikipedia-entries-slag-off-Palmer… Maybe I'm getting old and jaded, but when I read that the local council altered the Wikipedia article about their city to be more favourable, my reaction was "oh, good, that was the right thing to do". Heh. I also particularly like the final line of the article. Steve

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Re: [WikiEN-l] FW: [Foundation-l] "antisocial production"
by WJhonson＠aol.com 28 Jun '09

28 Jun '09

In a message dated 6/27/2009 6:37:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time, WJhonson(a)aol.com writes: > > How dare you! Go away and be quiet! > > On a lighter note, I've never met anyone I couldn't piss off. > > Will "grumpy" Johnson>> > ------------------ Wait a moment. I think maybe I've confused "grumpy" with "aggressively obnoxious". In other words, not only am I obnoxious, but I try to recruit others to my cause by aggressively proselytizing, that is, I annoy them to the point where they also become equally obnoxious. The ultimate plan of course is for everybody to be hostile all the time. That would be the pure world of hatred and animosity (and redundancy) that my dark overlord requires for his return. On a second note, I wonder how they selected their sample. Complacent Wikians would be less likely I would think to respond than newly-created activists. Will "grumpy and dopey all in one" Johnson ************** Make your summer sizzle with fast and easy recipes for the grill. (http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood00000005)

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Re: [WikiEN-l] FW: [Foundation-l] "antisocial production"
by WJhonson＠aol.com 28 Jun '09

28 Jun '09

In a message dated 6/27/2009 3:20:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time, michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net writes: > Wikipedians are generally "grumpy," "disagreeable," and "closed to new > ideas."'>> --------------------- How dare you! Go away and be quiet! On a lighter note, I've never met anyone I couldn't piss off. Will "grumpy" Johnson ************** Make your summer sizzle with fast and easy recipes for the grill. (http://food.aol.com/grilling?ncid=emlcntusfood00000005)

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