Hoi,
There was the other day a one day seminar at the US National Institutes of
Health. Some really interesting presentations were given about Wikis as used
in government and in health care. There is a whopping 5:41 hour video about
it. Missing are the timestamps when a particular presentation starts. Barend
Mons and Larry Sanger gave two presentations that were of special interest
to me. I had a look at most of the presentations, I blogged about it and
noted the times of the start of their presentations.
I had another look at some of them and, I liked them a lot. I think Larry is
not a great presenter and after some more thought, the biggest reason why
they are only a thousand articles at the moment is because of them operating
in stealth mode. They had an article in Nature and I am convinced that a lot
of their good will evaporated over time.
Thanks,
GerardM
Resources:
video: http://videocast.nih.gov/PastEvents.asp?c=998
website: http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?NIHWikiFair_2007_02_28http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2007/02/nih-wiki-fair.htmlha
Here's a thought... could all new Wikimedia sites, no matter what language
or project, be created under a Creative Commons license, instead of GFDL? We
of course cannot change existing sites over to that slimmer, trimmer
license, but it would be a good idea for any new works.
Nick
I have integrated the wikix program that extracts image files and
analyzes image template usage in the enwiki dumps into the AI engine I
use for machine translation projects. I use wikix to sync up with the
Wikipedia Image repository. It has yielded some useful results as a
side affect which may be useful for the Wikipedia community on the
English Wikipedia.
During analysis of the last dumps posted as enwiki-20070206, the program
identified all tag usages in templates for image tagging in use on the
English
Wikipedia as well as all suspect image files which may be trojans,
viruses, and other types of content which has been uploaded as images to
the site.
The image files and data are grouped into the following output logs from
the English Wikipedia. Not all the files are trojans and some of them
are probably ok , but a some may not be, particularly files named
"spoof" and MS word files which can contain VB5 virus code if downloaded
from Wikipedia. At any rate, the list of files and the articles which
they link to are provided and it may be useful for someone to review
these files since they appear to be file types which can harbor viruses
and trojans. They are files I will not be hosting or pulling into
Wikigadugi since they may contain malicious code.
images.log - all image files referenced in the last enwiki dumps
reject.log - all suspect files which may be viruses or trojans listed by
article title which link to the image files
fragment.log - all templates and image tags used in templates which
alias to the Image: directive as some point through the website logic
and the first article title in which they appear. (this is interesting
to see how many tags people create in templates to map to Image:)
These logs can be downloaded from:
ftp://www.wikigadugi.org/wiki/xml/wikix-logs.tar.gz
Jeff