Shouldn't this thread be in wikien-l ?
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An embarrassing note: all backup dumps of Wiktionary at least between
April and last week were corrupted because the backup script tried to
get data from the wrong database name. :P
From today, it should be fine.
As usual, dumps live at: http://download.wikipedia.org/
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Hello,
I am a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab and this summer I'm working on a Wiki related project that uses visualization to understand how Wiki pages evolve over time.
Because Wikipedia seems like such an interesting and thriving community, I would like to know whether any of you would be available to chat with me about how the community works and how consensus is achieved?
Also, I would be very appreciative of any pointers you might have to other academic work being done on Wikipedia.
thanks a lot,
Fernanda Viegas
http://web.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/
sociable media group
mit media laboratory
Oops I posted this on wikitech yesterday instead of here :)
Chuck Smith has graduated with a study on wiki's.
He is also the founder of the flourishing Esperanto Wikipedia and a very
active member.
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Chuck_SMITHhttp://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipediisto:Chuck_SMITH
-- Erik Zachte
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Chuck is travelling and may be out of contact for a bit... I think he
gets back to Rotterdam on the 25th.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
I am new to Wikipedia. I learned about it from news on the Internet. At
first I could access Encyclopedia entries and found some excellent
detailed information. I can no longer find any of these entries. They
told me that they are buying new equipment , and I hope to that will take
care of the situation.
I find myself in a strange, unfamiliar world and I dont know the
language or customs.
First I want to know how to look up information in the Encyclopedia. I
want to know how to read the information, select the desired part, and
either copy or print it.
Then I want to know how to write an article. I will need a title or
heading. Next I will give a brief description to be followed by the more
detailed body of the article. After I edit it the way I want it I will
need to have other people work at over to make corrections and provide
additional information.
I had a colonoscopy several months ago so I could write an article about
colonoscopy and what it is like for the patient. A nurse death could
provide more detailed information about preparation for the procedure and
a surgeon could provide pictures of hemorrhoids, polyps, and colon cancer
from his records.
I am self-employed and use my computers to write magazine articles that
are sent by e-mail to the editor along with drawings and pictures taken
with my digital camera.
I am interested in chat but dont have time to write more right now.
Merritt L. Perkins
Dear Fernanda;
For a list of academic studies on wikipedia, please take a look at small
list at my user page on English wikipedia (but no visualization study):
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tomos
Tomos
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> I miss at least one option here:
> ( ) The copyright holder is [textbox] and they have agreed to its
> publication
> on the following conditions: [textbox and/or more radio buttons]
>
How is that an applicable box? Only public domain, images licensed under
GFDL, or (maybe) fair use images are compatible with the GFDL and
Wikipedia's purposes.
http://home.bluemarble.net/~langmin/major.htm
Languages by percentage of population
thought this was interesting enough to use as a
comparison to how wikipedia is spread around.
We all know the figures there-- Eng-150k articles,
etc...
(Rough figures:)
1 Mandarin Chinese 15.0%
2 English 5.5%
3 Spanish 5.0%
4 Arabic 3.3%
5 Hindi 3.2%
6 Bengali 3.0%
7 Russian 2.8%
8 Portuguese 2.5%
9 Japanese 2.0%
10 German 1.6%
11 Javanese 1.25%
12 Korean 1.25%
13 French 1.25%
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I see someone already got it on the Press Coverage page, so I'm not the only
one to notice, but here I am, flipping through the copy of Time I got
yesterday.. and what do I see, but a section of the 'Your Time' page on
Wikipedia! Says it 'currently has 150,000 entries', however... hmmm.
-- Jake
tarquin wrote:
>isn't the use of the word "ambassador" a bit
>confusing, since we have the interlanguage
>ambassadors asell? could we pick a different
>word, or just say "PR"?
Aren't they performing the same role? "Ambassador" seems perfectly fine and
appropriate to me. But if you can think of a more befitting title, then
please propose it (sorry, "PR" doesn't work).
-- mav