I was describing to someone how Wikipedia works:
"anyone can edit" etc.
He answered with this argument:
"Wikipedia is the triumph of the average person!
of the man in the street!)"
(average meaning: not good, not bad, just OK)
I asked "why?"
His explanation:
"Great brilliant works are built by individuals.
Groups of people can only create average works.
If someone writes something good in the wiki,
other average persons will intervene with his/her
work and turn it into an average work. If someone
writes something bad in the wiki, the others will
again turn it into something of average value.
with your system (meaning: Wikipedia's system)
you can be sure that you will never create
something too bad but also never something too
good. You can create only average articles."
The idea behind his argument was that Wikipedia
will be a good resource as long as it attracts
good cotnributors. but it will soon become an
average site/encyclopaedia because it allows
anyone to join the project and edit, and most
people are just average persons and not brilliant
writers.
Do you think it's true? and how can we answer
this argument?
--Optim
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On Sunday 28 July 2002 03:00 am, The Cunctator wrote:
> What are the articles this person has been changing?
For 66.108.155.126:
20:08 Jul 27, 2002 Computer
20:07 Jul 27, 2002 Exploit
20:07 Jul 27, 2002 AOL
20:05 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
20:05 Jul 27, 2002 Leet
20:03 Jul 27, 2002 Root
20:02 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
19:59 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
19:58 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
19:54 Jul 27, 2002 Principle of least astonishment
19:54 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
19:52 Jul 27, 2002 Trance music
19:51 Jul 27, 2002 Trance music
For 208.24.115.6:
20:20 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
For 141.157.232.26:
20:19 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
Most of these were complete replacements with discoherent statements.
Such as "TAP IS THE ABSOLUTE DEFINITION OF THE NOUN HACKER" for Hacker.
For the specifics follow http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Special:Ipblocklist
and look at the contribs.
--mav
Forwarding because this (ambitious!) proposal may be of interest to people
on other lists. I'm not endorsing the proposal at this time, but I'm
curious about it.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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From: Denny Vrandečić <vrandecic(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 6:32 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Semantic Web languages allow to express ontologies and knowledge bases in a
way meant to be particularly amenable to the Web. Ontologies formalize the
shared understanding of a domain. But the most expressive and widespread
languages that we know of are human natural languages, and the largest
knowledge base we have is the wealth of text written in human languages.
We looks for a path to bridge the gap between knowledge representation
languages such as OWL and human natural languages such as English. We
propose a project to simultaneously expose that gap, allow to collaborate
on closing it, make progress widely visible, and is highly attractive and
valuable in its own right: a Wikipedia written in an abstract language to
be rendered into any natural language on request. This would make current
Wikipedia editors about 100x more productive, and increase the content of
Wikipedia by 10x. For billions of users this will unlock knowledge they
currently do not have access to.
My first talk on this topic will be on October 10, 2018, 16:45-17:00, at
the Asilomar in Monterey, CA during the Blue Sky track of ISWC. My second,
longer talk on the topic will be at the DL workshop in Tempe, AZ, October
27-29. Comments are very welcome as I prepare the slides and the talk.
Link to the paper: http://simia.net/download/abstractwikipedia.pdf
Cheers,
Denny
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Greetings!
Apologies for cross-posting. This is to introduce a new Wikimedia project called "The AfroCine Project".[1] This new project is dedicated to improving the coverage of the history, works, people, places, events, etc, that are associated with the cinema, theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. If you would love to be part of this (or you're already active in this area), by coordinating local programmes around African cinema (independently or otherwise) in your community or local Wiki, kindly list your username or organization as a participant on the meta project page cited above.
Furthermore, In the months of October and November, we are organizing a global contest and edit-a-thon tagged: "The Months of African Cinema".[2] If you would love to join this exciting event, also list your username as a participant on the English Wikipedia contest page. If you would love to lead this contest (or any other relevant program) for a non-English Wikipedia community, please feel free to translate the English Wikiproject page to your local language Wikipedia, or you can create one from scratch!
If you have any questions, complaints, suggestions, etc., please reach out to me personally or right here on the mailing list or the project talkpages.
Thank you!
Sam Oyeyele.
[1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_AfroCine_Project
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Months_of_Af…
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine
I'm forwarding this announcement to Wikpedia-l. I haven't asked what the
researchers' practices are for securing user data, and if privacy is
important to you then you may not want to participate. but if you're open
with your identity and location and would like to participate in a study
about mid-sized and small-sized Wikipedias then this study may interest you.
Pine
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From: Lucie-Aimée Kaffee <kaffee(a)soton.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 9:25 AM
Subject: [Wikidata] Participate in research to support Wikipedia editors
To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello everyone,
We are PhD researchers at the University of Southampton working on
supporting underserved language communities in Wikipedia with the help of
Wikidata information.
We need your help! We work on generating text and want to understand how to
support editors when creating new articles. We are currently conducting a
series of interviews to understand the needs of the community better.
We are looking for editors of Wikipedia, that would be available to do said
interviews remotely (via google hangout or skype) in English. (The editing
will still be in your native language of course.) We focus on
under-resourced languages, meaning any but the top 5 Wikipedias in terms of
article and editor count.
It should take about 30 minutes of your time and would get us a better
insight into how to support small-language communities better.
The interviews will take place in the next two weeks. All of the data will
be anonymized.
Please find more information in the Participant Information Sheet:
https://github.com/luciekaffee/Announcements/blob/master/Interviews-Partici…
If you want to participate and help us improving access to Wikipedia for
under-resourced language communities, just send me an E-Mail at
kaffee(a)soton.ac.uk or sign up to be contacted here:
https://goo.gl/forms/gL9wPuYAt8zcpVbA3 You don’t need any prior experience
beside Wikipedia editing.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Thanks,
Lucie (User:Frimelle)
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Web and Internet Science Group
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University of Southampton
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From: Johan Jönsson <jjonsson(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 5:02 PM
Subject: [Translators-l] MassMessage translation: Commons and GFDL
To: Wikimedia Translators <translators-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
If the wikis in your language allow local uploads, they probably want
to know that Commons has decided not to allow single-license GFDL
licensing for most files:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Alexis_Jazz/GFDL_MassMessage
I will send this out in a couple of days.
//Johan Jönsson
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From: Chris Koerner <ckoerner(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 3:53 PM
Subject: [WikimediaMobile] Feedback wanted on mobile web contribution
prototype
To: <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, mobile-l <mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>
Howdy,
The Readers web team at the Wikimedia Foundation is working on improving
the contribution features on the mobile website. [0] The team is working
on showing pages that are currently unavailable on mobile. We are starting
by designing improvements to the mobile navigation. We want your feedback
on the latest navigation prototype. If you have a moment, please visit the
project page and try out the demo on your mobile device. [1] Then help
answer a few questions about your experience.
Thank you!
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions/Na…
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
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