--- Steve Lefevre <lefevre.10(a)osu.edu> wrote:
> Hey folks -
>
> A PGP sign-off system will keep track of who wrote what, and who agrees
> with it. Authors who have had a lot of people sign off on their word
> will get bonus scores on their texts, and articles that well-reputed
> authors sign off on will get also get bonus scores.
I don't have any comments (yet) on your idea, but I thought I'd mention that
cryptographic signatures would be overkill here, IMO: it's quite reasonable to
trust the "history" function of a wiki to verify that someone wrote something,
or "voted" for an article fork, etc.
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>http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects#Wikikids
>
>This idea comes up regularly every three weeks, on the german mailing
>list, addressed to the german info team, on meta, or wherever else.
>
>Proposing projects is fine - are you actually willing to work on it and
>help to build it? How much experience do you have with children and wikis?
>
>greetings,
>elian
Yes I'm willing to work on it much time i have definitely for the next 4 Months!
What do you mean with experience with children? Me self I'm only 16 years old and I have done a school projekt for one year every week 2 hours in a kindergarten!
Wiki exoerince i have with the German Wikipedia and the Wiki of a Open source Application with a own Wiki (own Server) I have only a verry littel experience!
pentiumforever
--- Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
> Microsoft has extended an invitation for me to come and give a talk in
> Redmond. I'll also see if I can give a talk at the University of
> Washington Information School. It would be interesting to chat with
> these graduate students, I think, to learn more about their experience.
Great idea! We should learn from the Encarta wikish experience to see if it is
a viable model, which will be good for us to use in comparing and contrasting.
I really doubt it will be nearly as scalable as what we do, but we could still
learn from them nevertheless. Who knows, we could even eventually apply some of
what we learn from them to better handle our more complete and stable articles.
The point we need to keep in mind is our goal - our process is a means to
*that* end and should not be held sacrosanct for every article at each stage of
its development.
-- mav
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--- Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
> The original poster was interested primarily in a wikipedia in German
> for children. This raises a whole bunch of very interesting questions,
> I think, and we should not confuse those questions with the questions of
> simple language for adult learners.
The whole idea of Simple is now largely redundant due to the concept of having
lead sections that are maximally accessible and concise encyclopedia articles
in their own right.
Please, let's not make the same 'simple' mistake with any other language. Just
make sure that the first section of each article is non-specialist in language
and content while at the same time touches on the most important facts about
the topic.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lead_section
-- mav
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Dear all,
This is just an encouragement to everyone to try to refrain from
quoting more than necessary in their posts to this e-mail list.
Cheers,
Bjarte Sorensen
In response to Mark's comments on Fri Apr 15 06:10:23
UTC 2005:
>"I don't see mo: as the Moldovan Wikipedia. I see it
as the Moldovan Cyrillic Wikipedia..."
But mo: *is* the Moldovan Wikipedia, it can never be
seen as the Moldovan Cyrillic Wikipedia. Seeing it
that way would just be biased. If we look at how mo:
wiki started, it started because the ISO assigned the
Moldovan language a code of "mo" and therefore it was
created as such by Wikimedia. The language with the
code "mo" is Moldovan, which is officially written in
Latin script. Hence, the mo: subdomain cannot be seen
as the Moldovan *Cyrillic* Wikipedia.
>"So far, nobody who claims to speak
"Moldovan" as their mother tongue has challenged it.",
"You and your ro.wikipedian goon squad may care"
Firstly, just because no-one challenges an idea
doesn't mean it's right! Concerning the goon squad, I
found that notion quite amusing actually. We have so
far argued logically and, at least I believe so, in a
very good manner. I don't think anyone has acted like
a goon!
>"Why not "Moldoveneasca" in the Cyrillic alphabet?
Only a dunce would
think, without some prior experience, that a link to
"Moldoveneasca",
/in the Cyrillic alphabet/, would get them to
non-Cyrillic content."
Look, again you're thinking too pratically here. Maybe
I'm wrong because I think everything through too
politically. The issue about how to put the interwiki
link is not about dunces and practicality, it's about
what's right and correct. If you put a link with
Moldoveneasca in Cyrillic, people will think that
Moldovan is always written, or at least
majoritarily/officially written in Cyrillic. Plainly,
it is not, hence we need to specify that the version
they will be clicking on is Moldovan (Cyrillic) as
opposed to Moldovan Latin. If there was
"Moldoveaneasca" in both scripts, it would be OK, but
since only the Cyrillic will be present, then we must
specify.
Anyway, I don't understand why you're so committed
against forming a new subdomain for mo-cyr:. No-one
else has seemed to mind too much about its formation,
and it would surely delimit the issue much more
clearly. What's so wrong? I don't even see why it
would be detrimental to the Moldovan Cyrillic authors.
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> If you can send me the conversion tables/rules between Cyrillics and
> Latin alphabet for Serbian, I should be able to put out a preliminary
> test site quickly. Supporting multiple variants should be doable as
> well.
I have put up a test site for the Serbian language that supports
Cyrillics and Latin alphabets: http://s87257573.onlinehome.us/sr/
Just for the fun of it, I also made a English version, running at
http://s87257573.onlinehome.us/en/
--
zhengzhu
The lead blog story on Alexa's front page today is about Wikipedia
surpassing NY Times in terms of traffic rank. Traffic has spiked
upwards in the last month, and sits at #66 for today.
BTW, the blogger discovered this through my del.icio.us and flickr
tags, so keep tagging things out there as "wikipedia"
See:
http://www.alexa.comhttp://tinyurl.com/6gsa3 (Wikipedia vs. NY Times)
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
In the 'de' Wikipedia you can reference a piction from commons as
follows:
[[Bild:Hagen Osthaus Museum Traditional Main Entrance keichwa.jpg|thumb|Osthaus Museum]]
If you click on the thumb you will be taken to:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Hagen_Osthaus_Museum_Traditional_Main_Ent…
Where you read:
This file is a shared upload and may be used by other projects.
This is not enough. Please include the description from "commons" and
provide a back-link to
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Hagen_Osthaus_Museum_Traditional_Ma… ;
[[:commons:Image:Hagen Osthaus Museum Traditional Main Entrance keichwa.jpg]]
seems to do the trick.
If you do not provide some such info, you don't have the right to copy
the image from "commons". I release it under the conditions of the
"Attribution ShareAlike 1.0 License".
IIRC, you talked about the weakness of the current system soem months
ago - it is hard to believe that this rather serious issue is still not
fixed.
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