Wikipedia-l March 2006

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exicornt switch
by Gerard Meijssen 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Hoi, On the en:Wiktionary there is a bozo who thinks it funny to create articles with titles like "exicornt switch". This is a non existing word. The guy insists to create this article and uses any means to get his way. I have been told that this guy is a user on the en.wikipedia as well. As the frustration of this guy is getting to a level where AOL is being blocked, I would like to know if we can cooperate and do something about this vandal. It is a daily annoyance. :( Thanks, GerardM

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] exicornt switch
by Craig Franklin 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

Scríobh Mark Williamson : >The current situation seems to be that all AOL users are blocked >pending cooperation from AOL in trying to stop vandalism. This seems >like a good approach to me. Frankly, I have to agree. I can't see any problem with this. Cheers, - Craig [[en:Lankiveil]] ------------------- Craig Franklin PO Box 764 Ashgrove, Q, 4060 Australia http://www.halo-17.net - Australia's Favourite Source of Indie Music, Art, and Culture.

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ipod thing
by Conor G 20 Mar '06

20 Mar '06

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academic inquiry msg
by Vedant Lath 19 Mar '06

19 Mar '06

I received the following email today: ---- Hello: I am writing to you to ask you about your objectives as a Wikipedia contributor. My name is Mai Pattarawan. I am an academic at the City University of Hong Kong, researching Wikipedia. Specifically I am interested in the objectives and motivation of Wikipedians who take the time and make the effort to contribute. I would like to ask you just three questions and hope you will be able to answer: 1. Why do you contribute to Wikipedia? Would you say it is a personal matter, where you enjoy the opportunity to reveal your knowledge on a subject, or a collaborative goal where you enjoy sharing knowledge with others? 2. In what ways do you find your contributing to Wikipedia beneficial? (E.g., satisfaction of building the world's largest encyclopedia). Would you say these benefits (personal or for the entire community) are felt right away, or do you expect the benefits to arise as time goes by? 3. Do you expect that your contributing more to Wikipedia will lead to others to contribute more? Please just type your answers right behind the questions, or below, if you like. I am sending this email only to about 100 Wikipedians, so I very much hope you will answer me and allow me to gain some insights. I found you via Google, by searching for Wikipedians who post their email address in Wikipedia. If you like to receive feedback about the results of this inquiry, please let me know and I will email it to you. Of course, yours and everyone else's personal information will not be disclosed. I will only share non-personalized and summary information. Thank you very much. Regards, Pattarawan (Mai) Prasarnphanich, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Information Systems City University of Hong Kong ---- The IP address of the sender (219.79.22.41<http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=219.79.22.41>) is from Hong Kong, and AFAIK, China blocks wikimedia projects. So, how can a person from Hong Kong possibly access wikipedia extensively so as to analyse the contributions and nature of wikipedia? and moreover, he says that he is sending it to only 100 wikipedians. This can make the result very different from the actual fact. should i participate in the enquiry? i am also posting the msg. header as it may interest you: X-Gmail-Received: 11b8396eb5824772da6c80e6cf069014796fc9e1 Delivered-To: vedant.lath(a)gmail.com Received: by 10.66.255.10 with SMTP id c10cs16807ugi; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 22:12:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.89.10 with SMTP id r10mr351875pyl; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 22:12:14 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: <pprasarn(a)cityu.edu.hk> Received: from obav02.netvigator.com (obav02.netvigator.com [218.102.62.130]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id v53si740577pyv.2006.03.18.22.12.11; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 22:12:14 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: neutral (gmail.com: 218.102.62.130 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of pprasarn(a)cityu.edu.hk) Received: from obav02.netvigator.com (obav02.netvigator.com [127.0.0.1]) by obav02.netvigator.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 866481B1605 for <vedant.lath(a)gmail.com>; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 06:12:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from Mai ([219.79.22.41]) by imsm058dat.netvigator.com (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060319061210.SCJT22606.imsm058dat.netvigator.com@Mai> for <vedant.lath(a)gmail.com>; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:12:10 +0800 Message-ID: <008801c64b1c$0e8ac220$6501a8c0@Mai> From: "Pattarawan (Mai) Prasarnphanich" <pprasarn(a)cityu.edu.hk> To: <vedant.lath(a)gmail.com> Subject: Academic inquiry on your objectives and motivation as Wikipedian Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:12:09 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0085_01C64B5F.1C4491F0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Vedant Lath http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vedant_lath http://vedant.lath.in/icse/User:Vedanta

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Moldovan wikipedia?
by Jacky PB 19 Mar '06

19 Mar '06

Hello, it appears that the discussion on the moldovan wikipedia just stopped, without a decision being reached. Don't mean to bother you, but we came here for a solution to this problem. :) Yours, Dpotop --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] [WikiEN-l] To Randall Stross re: "Anonymous Source Is Not the Same as Open Source"
by David Gerard 18 Mar '06

18 Mar '06

I wrote to Randy Stross and to the lists: >Re: "Anonymous Source Is Not the Same as Open Source" >(http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/business/yourmoney/12digi.html): >Thanks very much for this thoughtful article on Wikipedia. And I just got a nice answer back from Mr Stross thanking me for my comments and agreeing we'd get there. And that he hadn't heard of the German DVD, so I'm about to write telling him about it. Another press contact informed :-D - d.

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] [Foundation-l] MobilED update
by daniwo59＠aol.com 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

Thank you for your email. I am happy to announce that the Special Projects committee has taken responsibility for the MobilEd effort and that Jean Baptiste Soufron will chair our first subcommittee, which will be handling this. I thank everyone who has participated in this so far, and urge them to provide Soufron with all the information and support necessary to make this an outstanding example of collaboration between the Wikimedia Foundation and the other participants in this exciting project. Danny

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MobilED update
by Erik Moeller 16 Mar '06

16 Mar '06

Some of you may remember the project to bring spoken (synthesized speech) Wikipedia content to mobile phones. Teemu Leinonen of the University of Art and Design Helsinki, who is leading the project, has informed me: "We already have the phone system to receive the SMS, to do the calls back, TTP and system to record callers contributions." The project now also has a website at: http://mobiled.uiah.fi/ They want to run a school pilot in South Africa soon. This is a very important project as it can bring Wikipedia content to nations with insufficient Internet access but reasonable cell phone coverage, which includes some developing countries. Given that the system operates by providing a free callback after you send an SMS requesting an article, it provides almost completely free access to the content. As noted above, the project is envisioned to allow people to contribute in their native language, so at some point we'll have to talk to Teemu's team about dealing with call-in contributions on the level of our project communities. The website has a couple of (slightly campy) demonstration videos. Browsing around, it seems that they are using Asterisk and a nifty-looking open source tool called "Dialog Palette" to develop the telephony server: http://dialogpalette.sourceforge.net/ The idea is that anyone can set up similar telephony services for any kind of content, using only open source software. To keep up to date on the project's progress, you can subscribe to their RSS feed at: http://mobiled.uiah.fi/?feed=rss2 Regards, Erik

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To Randall Stross re: "Anonymous Source Is Not the Same as Open Source"
by David Gerard 14 Mar '06

14 Mar '06

Re: "Anonymous Source Is Not the Same as Open Source" (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/business/yourmoney/12digi.html): Thanks very much for this thoughtful article on Wikipedia. One thing I would like to note: although the English edition is not at 1.0 release stage yet, the Wikipedia model can in fact produce a finished product - as proven by the German edition, which has just done its third release on DVD, selling several tens of thousands of copies at 10 euros each. And DigitalMedia, the company that released the DVD is now working on doing a 100-volume paper edition, to be released from 2007 to 2010. I'll be first to admit we're nowhere near Britannica in quality (although we tested about as good in science coverage in a recent survey by 'Nature'), the Wikipedia model does produce publishable results that people will pay real money for. - thanks, David.

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Re: [Wikipedia-l] RFC: Principles of mass content adding on small Wikipedias
by daniwo59＠aol.com 14 Mar '06

14 Mar '06

I think countries of teh world would be a fine place to start. There are already good tables in the major languages that can be translated easily. The various elements would be another godo place to start, or the planets, all of which have similar tables and basic formats. Some advantages to all of this is that these are articles that every language should have, they are neutral, and they are similarly formatted. They are also finite, so that there is a sense of accomplishment when they are done. Danny

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