http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194757,00.html
" I also met the guy who invented Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, and video game designer Rob Pardo, who couldn't believe he'd been invited. James, Wales and Pardo were all on the 100 list."
And
"Meantime, I left the Time Warner center just as my pal Ann Coulter was busy chastising Jimmy Wales about her Wikipedia entry, and finding out from him how to change it. Listen, you Wikipedians, be nice to Ann Coulter. I leave you with this thought: she's got great legs no matter what her politics are, and you're lucky she has a sense of humor, too."
How is it that Fox can get "Wikipedians" right, when even articles *about* Wikipedia came up with "Wikitopians"?
Steve
On 5/9/06, Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194757,00.html
" I also met the guy who invented Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, and video game designer Rob Pardo, who couldn't believe he'd been invited. James, Wales and Pardo were all on the 100 list."
And
"Meantime, I left the Time Warner center just as my pal Ann Coulter was busy chastising Jimmy Wales about her Wikipedia entry, and finding out from him how to change it. Listen, you Wikipedians, be nice to Ann Coulter. I leave you with this thought: she's got great legs no matter what her politics are, and you're lucky she has a sense of humor, too." _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
On 5/9/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
How is it that Fox can get "Wikipedians" right, when even articles *about* Wikipedia came up with "Wikitopians"?
Because Fox is fair and balanced. One day it's Wikitopians, one day it's Wikipedians.
Jimmy can't get outside the door without being accosted by some pissed-off semi-celebrity about their wikipedia entry, can he :P
Also, I LIKE wikitopeans. I wish we'd thought of it first.....
On 5/9/06, Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194757,00.html
" I also met the guy who invented Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, and video game designer Rob Pardo, who couldn't believe he'd been invited. James, Wales and Pardo were all on the 100 list."
And
"Meantime, I left the Time Warner center just as my pal Ann Coulter was busy chastising Jimmy Wales about her Wikipedia entry, and finding out from him how to change it. Listen, you Wikipedians, be nice to Ann Coulter. I leave you with this thought: she's got great legs no matter what her politics are, and you're lucky she has a sense of humor, too." _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
It's Fox's entertainment gossip. They aren't held to the same "reporting" standards as the "news". Equally ironic, the entertainment "reporters" apparently lack an actual sense of humor.
This does bring up the question, are "news" and PR broadcasters blocked from Wiki like congress? Or can Coulter, Rush, and Oreilly edit their entries with the aid of their staff?
Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
How is it that Fox can get "Wikipedians" right, when even articles *about* Wikipedia came up with "Wikitopians"?
Steve
On 5/9/06, Mathias Schindler wrote: > http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194757,00.html > > "Meantime, I left the Time Warner center just as my pal Ann Coulter > was busy chastising Jimmy Wales about her Wikipedia entry, and finding > out from him how to change it. Listen, you Wikipedians, be nice to Ann > Coulter. I leave you with this thought: she's got great legs no matter > what her politics are, and you're lucky she has a sense of humor, > too."
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On 5/9/06, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
Jimmy can't get outside the door without being accosted by some pissed-off semi-celebrity about their wikipedia entry, can he :P
Wait until her next book comes out. Then she might have a reason to be pissed off.
-- geni
On 5/9/06, Cheney Shill halliburton_shill@yahoo.com wrote:
It's Fox's entertainment gossip. They aren't held to the same "reporting" standards as the "news". Equally ironic, the entertainment "reporters" apparently lack an actual sense of humor.
This does bring up the question, are "news" and PR broadcasters blocked from Wiki like congress? Or can Coulter, Rush, and Oreilly edit their entries with the aid of their staff?
Is Jimbo and/or Danny (his staff) blocked from editing [[Jimmy Wales]]?
Anthony
On 09/05/06, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
On 5/9/06, Cheney Shill halliburton_shill@yahoo.com wrote:
It's Fox's entertainment gossip. They aren't held to the same "reporting" standards as the "news". Equally ironic, the entertainment "reporters" apparently lack an actual sense of humor.
This does bring up the question, are "news" and PR broadcasters blocked from Wiki like congress? Or can Coulter, Rush, and Oreilly edit their entries with the aid of their staff?
Is Jimbo and/or Danny (his staff) blocked from editing [[Jimmy Wales]]?
No. Wales has controversially done so before, and has been accused of attempting to play down Sanger's involvement with founding the Wikipedia project.
Rob Church
On 5/9/06, Cheney Shill halliburton_shill@yahoo.com wrote:
This does bring up the question, are "news" and PR broadcasters blocked from Wiki like congress? Or can Coulter, Rush, and Oreilly edit their entries with the aid of their staff?
See WP:AUTO. Editing your own article is strongly discouraged, as is editing any topic which you are too close to. If one of them edited their own article they would probably get a warning from the other editors. If they edited their own articles they way the write/speak, it would get reverted anyway, even if no one knew it was them. But most celebrities have too big egos to edit anonymously.
Mathias Schindler wrote:
"Meantime, I left the Time Warner center just as my pal Ann Coulter was busy chastising Jimmy Wales about her Wikipedia entry, and finding out from him how to change it.
Does anybody else find it interesting how so many of these people's top concerns about WP revolve around the articles about themselves? No doubt Coulter could find a thousand articles that represent conservative viewpoints poorly and need improvement, but in this little episode she reveals what she really cares about the most.
Stan
On 5/10/06, Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com wrote:
Mathias Schindler wrote:
"Meantime, I left the Time Warner center just as my pal Ann Coulter was busy chastising Jimmy Wales about her Wikipedia entry, and finding out from him how to change it.
Does anybody else find it interesting how so many of these people's top concerns about WP revolve around the articles about themselves?
Seems reasonable. If you had a Wikipedia article about you, wouldn't you be concerned about it?
Anthony
On Wed, 10 May 2006 17:02:28 -0400, you wrote:
If you had a Wikipedia article about you, wouldn't you be concerned about it?
If there was one about me I'd AfD it - why would anyone want to know about me?
Guy (JzG)
On 5/10/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
If you had a Wikipedia article about you, wouldn't you be concerned about it?
If there was one about me I'd AfD it - why would anyone want to know about me?
Heh, good call.
(I've often speculated about what is the least effort I would need to go to do do something notable enough to get a Wikipedia article. What's sad is my father and my best friend are both notable enough, as is my mother if all academics are notable. I work for a notable company, producing a notable product. I have participated in notable events, been photographed by a notable photographer, ...but I'm not notable. Guess the best I can do for my ego is sneak a photo of myself in somewhere, pretending I'm an innocent bystander who got in the way of a photo...)
Steve
On 5/10/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
Heh, good call.
(I've often speculated about what is the least effort I would need to go to do do something notable enough to get a Wikipedia article.
Get a gun start killing people (idealy kids) in a first world anglophile nation. Or just kill one person of significance. In terms of short term effort crime is probably your best bet. Second would be dying in some notable way. Throw yourself under GWB's motercade or something.
Assumeing you want to do something that would not completly mess up the rest of your life politician may be an option. Some of the less major olympic sports might be worth a try.
What's sad is my father and my best friend are both notable enough, as is my mother if all academics are notable.
They are not. All academics above a certian level are generaly accapted as notable
I work for a notable company, producing a notable product. I have participated in notable events, been photographed by a notable photographer, ...but I'm not notable. Guess the best I can do for my ego is sneak a photo of myself in somewhere, pretending I'm an innocent bystander who got in the way of a photo...)
Steve
Find somewhere near you with an article then take a photo of yourself next to some monument there and upload it to wikipedia.
-- geni
On 10/05/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/10/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
Heh, good call.
(I've often speculated about what is the least effort I would need to go to do do something notable enough to get a Wikipedia article.
Get a gun start killing people (idealy kids) in a first world anglophile nation. Or just kill one person of significance. In terms of short term effort crime is probably your best bet. Second would be dying in some notable way. Throw yourself under GWB's motercade or something.
Welcome to Wikipedia. We endorse mindless violence and a disregard for others in exchange for free-licencing of contributions and a brief altruistic feeling.
Assumeing you want to do something that would not completly mess up the rest of your life politician may be an option. Some of the less major olympic sports might be worth a try.
What? Politicans DON'T have messed-up lives? I want some of what you're smoking.
They are not. All academics above a certian level are generaly accapted as notable
Irony is to die for.
Rob Church
On 5/10/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
Welcome to Wikipedia. We endorse mindless violence and a disregard for others in exchange for free-licencing of contributions and a brief altruistic feeling.
Assumeing you want to do something that would not completly mess up the rest of your life politician may be an option. Some of the less major olympic sports might be worth a try.
What? Politicans DON'T have messed-up lives? I want some of what you're smoking.
They are not. All academics above a certian level are generaly accapted as notable
Irony is to die for.
Rob Church
No, no, no- it's "publish or perish".
~maru
On 5/10/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/05/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/10/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
Heh, good call.
(I've often speculated about what is the least effort I would need to go to do do something notable enough to get a Wikipedia article.
Get a gun start killing people (idealy kids) in a first world anglophile nation. Or just kill one person of significance. In terms of short term effort crime is probably your best bet. Second would be dying in some notable way. Throw yourself under GWB's motercade or something.
Welcome to Wikipedia. We endorse mindless violence and a disregard for others in exchange for free-licencing of contributions and a brief altruistic feeling.
No. But due to our notabilty requirements on some level reflecting the media, killers in first would countries get noticed. For maxium visibilty make sure your victems are white, minors and female.
For a rather extream example more people have herd of [[Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold]] than [[Lars Onsager]]
Assumeing you want to do something that would not completly mess up the rest of your life politician may be an option. Some of the less major olympic sports might be worth a try.
What? Politicans DON'T have messed-up lives? I want some of what you're smoking.
They mess up thier lives somewhat less then serial killers. A backbench MP who servers for only one term may well walk away with only minor scars. A back bench EMP may do even better.
-- geni
On 5/10/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Wed, 10 May 2006 17:02:28 -0400, you wrote:
If you had a Wikipedia article about you, wouldn't you be concerned about it?
If there was one about me I'd AfD it - why would anyone want to know about me?
That completely avoids the question though. Even celebrities don't like to be publically criticised, we just happen to have a right to do it anyway.
What I'm saying is, while I think the public's right to know about Ann Coulter outweighs any embarrassment she might suffer, I don't blame her for being concerned over the way she's depicted. I don't even find it particularly surprising or "interesting".
Anthony
On 5/11/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Get a gun start killing people (idealy kids) in a first world anglophile nation. Or just kill one person of significance. In terms of short term effort crime is probably your best bet. Second would be dying in some notable way. Throw yourself under GWB's motercade or something.
That's a lot of effort. Actually I suspect that causing a Seigenthalergate would be the easiest.
They are not. All academics above a certian level are generaly accapted as notable
Which level? How many papers do you need?
Find somewhere near you with an article then take a photo of yourself next to some monument there and upload it to wikipedia.
Yep. Best to make it look accidental, lest anyone catch onto my devillish plan.
Steve
On May 10, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Steve Bennett wrote:
Guess the best I can do for my ego is sneak a photo of myself in somewhere, pretending I'm an innocent bystander who got in the way of a photo...)
Actually, there are pictures of me on Wikipedia, mainly modeling certain gestures on [[Gesture]].
On 5/11/06, Philip Welch wikipedia@philwelch.net wrote:
Actually, there are pictures of me on Wikipedia, mainly modeling certain gestures on [[Gesture]].
Better [[Gesture]] than [[Penis]] ... !
Steve
On 5/11/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/11/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Get a gun start killing people (idealy kids) in a first world anglophile nation. Or just kill one person of significance. In terms of short term effort crime is probably your best bet. Second would be dying in some notable way. Throw yourself under GWB's motercade or something.
That's a lot of effort. Actually I suspect that causing a Seigenthalergate would be the easiest.
Doubtful. You would have to be rather lucky. Most bio errors don't have that effect.
Which level? How many papers do you need?
Equivert to UK proffessor
Yep. Best to make it look accidental, lest anyone catch onto my devillish plan.
Personal I tend to avoid uploading photos that contian people that can be linked to me in any way shape or form.
On Thu, 11 May 2006 00:01:02 +0200, you wrote:
Guess the best I can do for my ego is sneak a photo of myself in somewhere, pretending I'm an innocent bystander who got in the way of a photo...
Ah, there you've got me. There are a couple of pictures in Wikipedia which have me in them. But there is a good reason in each case, namely lack of a better free-use picture. In my collection, at any rate. There was one contributor who made a point of being photographed in front of notable objects, then including the picture in the articles for those subjects with a link in the caption to his own article (he has one). I think I did away with most of them by now, though.
Guy (JzG)
On 11/05/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/11/06, Philip Welch wikipedia@philwelch.net wrote:
Actually, there are pictures of me on Wikipedia, mainly modeling certain gestures on [[Gesture]].
Better [[Gesture]] than [[Penis]] ... !
The maturer response to this:
Well, he could still be being...what's that word..."offensive". Depends on the gestures, doesn't it?
The immature response to this:
Why not combine both?
Rob Church
On 5/11/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
Ah, there you've got me. There are a couple of pictures in Wikipedia which have me in them. But there is a good reason in each case, namely lack of a better free-use picture. In my collection, at any rate. There was one contributor who made a point of being photographed in front of notable objects, then including the picture in the articles for those subjects with a link in the caption to his own article (he has one). I think I did away with most of them by now, though.
Heh. I think that's a case of "a bad picture is better than no picture", but yeah, I would certainly replace that kind of image with one without the person. Unless of course, the person was subtle enough (like I was suggesting) to make themselves look like they were accidentally caught in the picture, and they were only surreptitiously present.
Hey, there's a great wikiproject. WikiProject:WheresWally (or WheresWaldo as appropriate). Try and spot wikipedians in images spread around Wikipedia :)
I love it...I love it...try and spot my foot face in the crowd of people at Mont St-Michel, catch my backpack next to the cathedral at [[Rennes]]... (fictitious examples...for now...)
Steve
On Thu, 11 May 2006 11:32:27 +0200, you wrote:
Heh. I think that's a case of "a bad picture is better than no picture", but yeah, I would certainly replace that kind of image with one without the person. Unless of course, the person was subtle enough (like I was suggesting) to make themselves look like they were accidentally caught in the picture, and they were only surreptitiously present.
At last count, I was only in [[Recumbent Bicycle]] and [[Velovision]]. The former because my friend Liz sent me a truly excellent action shot of Sacha lapping me in a race, and the latter because the current issue has me on the cover. My bikes (without me) are featured in [[Brompton Bicycle]] (must get some better ones now it's not dark in the evenings), [[Bicycle lighting]] and [[Hub dynamo]] I think.
Guy (JzG)
On 5/11/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
At last count, I was only in [[Recumbent Bicycle]] and [[Velovision]]. The former because my friend Liz sent me a truly excellent action shot of Sacha lapping me in a race, and the latter because the current issue has me on the cover. My bikes (without me) are featured in [[Brompton Bicycle]] (must get some better ones now it's not dark in the evenings), [[Bicycle lighting]] and [[Hub dynamo]] I think.
Hmm, [[Brompton Bicycle]] could do with a visit from the NPOV fairies...
:)
Steve
On Thu, 11 May 2006 13:02:33 +0200, you wrote:
Hmm, [[Brompton Bicycle]] could do with a visit from the NPOV fairies...
Indeed. It entirely fails to communicate the utter elegance of the design. It is far too negative.
Guy (JzG)