Hello All,
What I want is a wiki that indexes problems and each problem's wiki
page will also document solutions to that problem. Since problems and
their solutions are documented by humans, our remaining problem is how
can the wiki index problems efficiently?
Problem base (PB) wikis already exist, such as WikiHow and
WikiAnswers. But I think they're not well-organized enough. For
example, WikiHow has a category called "Air Conditioning" which
collects solutions related to air conditioning:
http://www.wikihow.com/Category:Air-Conditioning
As you see, there are no subcategories in this category. All solutions
are just listed in A-Z order. A person must scan these solutions one
by one to find a solution that matches his problem.
What's the ideal PB in my mind? Under a topic like "Air Conditioning",
the PB should further categorize problems in three ways:
1. By symptom ("What's wrong?")
2. By task ("What do you want to do?")
3. By component ("What component is your problem in?")
Each of the above can walk a user down several levels of subcategories
until actual problems come into sight. This is what I call
"well-organized".
"By symptom" and "by task" are actually approaches that categorize
objects (here, objects are problems) by function, while "by component"
is an approach that categorizes objects by structure.
Best Regards,
Ziyuan Yao
I am applying for a summer student to do a Wikipedia Medicine research
project through my department at UBC. One potentially project I am looking
it is having them review all the edits made to Wikiproject Medicine
articles. The student will go through each edit and a) determine if the
edit is okay and revert it/fix it if it is not b) determine which edits are
made from IP/new users verses long term edits c) calculate the percentage
of positive/negative edits from each group d) they will be going over edits
from more than one day old thus we will be able to determine how good
Wikipedia is at repairing itself. I am thinking of collecting a weeks worth
of edits.
While we have a list here
http://toolserver.org/~tim1357/cgi-bin/wikiproject_watchlist.py?template=Wi…
if multiple edits
are made to the same page in a single day it only shows the last one. Is it
possible to get a list of all edits? If should be possible to work with
this list if another is not available.
If I am able to get approval and funding from UBC I am hoping to run a
second round collecting the same data but with "pending changes" turned on
for a week on all medical articles. This students would be required to
handing all pending changes to all medical articles and will be collecting
the same data as before. This will allow us to determine 1) if pending
changes affects the numbers of IPs editing 2) if and to what degree pending
changes reduces the visibility of poor quality content. The proposed
student will be either between first and second year or second and third
year medicine and will be working 40 hours per week for 6-8 weeks during
the summer. If of course the last part of the project does not get approval
I will still try to go ahead with the first part and will have the student
join me on the "Medical Translation Project" as discussed here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MED/Translation_project
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
Klaus Graf, 25/01/2012 13:11:
> I think there is a much more important issue we should discuss.
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/All_files_copyr…
>
> The US-centric WS may neglect it because there is widespread opinion
> that human beeings can only live in the US but for all European
> Wikisource branches this is VERY VERY important. I cannot understand
> that the danger to loose important parts of our work doesn't matter.
> We can move the media from Commons to the local wikis but what if -
> worst case - the WMF decides not to tolerate media or TEXTS not PD in
> the US on WMF servers (without fair use rationale, see en WP)?
The WMF has already decided so in 2007, as mentioned just a few days ago
about it.source, which had to move texts to a WMIT-hosted server:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Anthere&oldid=769384…
(and section above, linked there).
Nemo
Klaus Graf, 25/01/2012 14:00:
> The law counsel recommandation of 2007 wasn't communicated to the
> other WS and WE SHOULD IGNORE IT. It's clear that WMF has NOW to say
> what is possible in the light of the Supreme Court Decision -
> regarding Commons and the other WMF projects.
>
> This is a clear issue of a WMF board resolution and not for an opinion
> peace on a talk page which is executed from an incompetent WS branch.
I mentioned a Wikisource-specific old decision, but that's always been
the established policy on all WMF wikis, which has just been confirmed
by the new terms of use draft: «For clarity, applicable law includes at
least the laws of the United States of America»
(<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use#1._Our_Services>).
I'm not expressing an opinion about this, I've just remembered that
you're not trying to prevent a possible future decision but to overturn
an old established one, so it will be more difficult than you envision.
Nemo
FYI - posted today at
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Orange_and_WMF_partner_o…
Orange and the Wikimedia Foundation partner to offer Wikipedia in Africa
and the Middle East at no extra cost
-
In the first partnership of its kind, Orange and the Wikimedia
Foundation will provide more than 70 million Orange customers in Africa and
the Middle East (AMEA) with mobile access to Wikipedia - without incurring
data usage charges
San Francisco, CA, and Paris, France -- January 24, 2012 -- Orange and the
Wikimedia Foundation today announced a major partnership designed to make
knowledge more easily available to Orange mobile customers throughout
Africa and the Middle East. In the first partnership of its kind for
Wikipedia, Orange and the Wikimedia Foundation will provide customers in
both remote and urban areas of AMEA with access to Wikipedia.
In 2009, Orange and the Wikimedia Foundation formed the world’s first
mobile and Internet partnership to expand the reach of Wikimedia’s projects
through channels on Orange mobile and web portals in Europe. This new
partnership will be gradually launched throughout 2012 across 20 African
and Middle Eastern countries where Orange operates, with the first markets
launching early in the year. The initiative is part of the Wikimedia
Foundation's mobile strategy that aims to reach the billions of people
around the world who access the Internet solely through mobile devices.
Any customer with an Orange SIM and mobile internet enabled phone will be
able to access the Wikipedia site either through their browser or an Orange
widget. They can access the Wikipedia encyclopedia services for as many
times as they like at no extra charge as long as they stay within
Wikipedia’s pages.
"Wikipedia is an important service, a public good -- and so we want people
to be able to access it for free, regardless of what device they're using,"
said Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. "This
partnership with Orange will enable millions of people to read Wikipedia,
who previously couldn't. We're thrilled to be Orange's partner in this
important endeavour."
Marc Rennard, Group Executive Vice President, Africa, Middle-East and Asia
at Orange, commented, “In countries where access to information is not
always readily available, we are making it simple and easy for our
customers to use the world’s most comprehensive online encyclopaedia. It is
the first partnership of this kind in the world where we are enabling
customers to access Wikipedia without incurring any data charges; and shows
Orange’s ability, once again, to innovate in Africa and the Middle East,
and bring more value to our customers.”
Stephanie Hospital, Executive Vice President, Orange Audience & Advertising
division, commented, "Since we first partnered with the Wikimedia
Foundation two years ago, we have remained committed to helping them spread
knowledge to as many people in the world as possible. We're proud to once
again be the Wikimedia Foundation's first partner in Africa and the Middle
East."
**
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operators with 170,000 employees worldwide, including 102,000 employees in
France, and sales of 33.8 billion euros in the first nine months of 2011.
Present in 35 countries, the Group had a customer base of 221 million
customers at 30 September 2011, including 145 million customers under the
Orange brand, the Group's single brand for internet, television and mobile
services in the majority of countries where the company operates. At 30
September 2011, the Group had 162 million mobile customers and 14 million
broadband internet (ADSL, fibre) customers worldwide. Orange is one of the
main European operators for mobile and broadband Internet services and,
under the brand Orange Business Services, is one of the world leaders in
providing telecommunication services to multinational companies.
Conquests 2015 is Orange’s new corporate initiative to simultaneously
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Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation
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Dear all,
I want to remind everyone to officially start a bid for the locale of
Wikimania 2013. All bids made so far are *unofficial* and cannot be
considered, as long as they are not in the list of official bids on
this page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids
The possibility to make an official bid closes at ***January 28, 23:59
UTC***, this is in less than five days! So hurry up if you want
Wikimania to happen at your place. :)
Note that you then have two more months to make your actual bid (and
one more month to refine it). You don't need to have everything
completely ready by now, so don't worry. :) For now, just create the
bid page and list it under "Official bids". Please don't forget to
list your organizing team members on the bid page. (All of them should
enable their email function on the Meta wiki, so that we can reach all
of you easily.)
On behalf of the jury
Thomas.
(User:Thogo)
On 23 January 2012 14:53, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On the surface this is a very frivolous post. Funnily enough I have
> a serious point I have been nursing along for a while. Any
> list moderators listening? There are times when the mailing
> list itself can be a source of infighting and internal politics. I submit
> this is not one of them, and as such, I think modified rules to the
> soft moderation rules should be adopted. Blatant trolling should
> get a "one strike and you are on hard moderation" response,
> and monthly moderation limits should be lifted entirely. We really
> are on war footing. Not bean-bags at 50 yards footing. We need
> to sort things out, and more talk is a good thing, not a bad thing.
I'm splitting this out into a new thread, since it's off-topic for the
lobbying thread.
The problem with zero tollerance for blatant trolling (which is a
policy everyone would agree to) is that there is often a lot of
disagreement over what actually constitutes blatant trolling. If you
aren't careful, you can end up with more heated debates about
moderation than you ever had about the actual controversies that were
being discussed.
I agree that more talk is a good thing. The moderation limits serve
two purposes - to keep the total volume down and also to avoid a small
number of people dominating discussion. I don't think the former is
necessarily desirable, but a case can be made for the latter. I
suggest the moderation limits be set at 5% of the emails so far in
that month (with some common sense applied in the first week or so -
obviously the first person to send an email in a month would be at
100% until the next email!). In most months, that would be around 30
emails, but it means that when there is simply a lot of discussion
going on people can contribute to it without being unnecessarily
silenced half-way through the month.
I was looking at the statistics last night (I'm not too far off 30
posts so far this month, so wanted to keep an eye on it) and apart
from two people (who know who they are!) it's currently rare for
anyone to go over 30 posts except in particularly busy months. I don't
think anyone has actually been put on moderation in those busy months,
so the policy might as well reflect actual practice.