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by cooper12 9y ago
So how would you prefer Wikipedia be funded? git-scm is mainly just a book put online and man pages, not a wiki. The archlinux wiki is obviously funded from donations to the project itself. Wikipedia can't have a enterprise model like
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by cooper12 9y ago
You might have skipped over this part of the article: > “Based on guidance from the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, our reserve amounts to one year of operating budget,” said Samantha Lien, a spokeswoman for the Wikimedia Foundat
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by cooper12 9y ago
You do know that each Wikipedia is community-run right? You'd rather the foundation take away the autonomy of each wiki and force it's own standards? That goes completely against what the project was started for and would quickly
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by cooper12 9y ago
Nobody else does that because they're not ad-free. Regarding the more money thing, they have to still ask for more because it's financially prudent for every non-profit to have a reserve in case of emergency or bad years. They mak
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by cooper12 9y ago
Your logic is that they're a cancer because they ask for donations? Would you rather they run ads?
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by cooper12 9y ago
Sorry, but sometimes companies do indeed need to take political positions if their existence is threatened. SOPA was a huge example of this and net neutrality is an upcoming partisan issue. If you'd rather they sit back and get shackle
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by cooper12 9y ago
It's funny how you're using this post for soapboxing as the op-ed has nothing at all to do with what you said. This is why vitriolic titles like that shouldn't be allowed.
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by cooper12 9y ago
> Bad experiences for new and established contributors mean less motivated contributors. This has nothing to do with the financials of the foundation and is completely a community issue. > Not enough focus. This is a valid point but
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by cooper12 9y ago
Thank you for this rebuttal. Wikipedia is no longer the small platform it was. It's international, has to expand to developing markets, has multiple sister projects like Wikidata, and tools like VisualEditor that require developers. Su
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by cooper12 9y ago
They're not so photogenic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Ferlini#/media/File:S...
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by cooper12 9y ago
> I guess this behavior has a name but I don't know what to search for. Eternal September?
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by cooper12 9y ago
Random slashdot comments aren't a source and don't back up what you portrayed as a conscious effort by Jimmy Wales to forbid trivia sections for his own personal gain. Maybe it's just possible that the editors themselves deci
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by cooper12 9y ago
Except a Nature study comparing Wikipedia to the Encyclopedia Britannica found them comparable in accuracy. [0] It's also funny that you think a lot of news hasn't already reached that point. [0]: https://www.cnet.com
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by cooper12 9y ago
One thing Jimbo said in the Wired interview he did is that since the site will be crowdsourced, the donors will be able to decide what the journalists cover. So more niche topics might get covered this way if there is demand (the example he
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by cooper12 9y ago
> It's seems to be carved out of news section from Wikipedia frontpage Other than the fact that WikiTribune will use actual journalists doing original reporting? Wikinews just summarizes current events. > suddenly Wikipedia chang
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by cooper12 9y ago
It's more like their competitors were always encouraging and spreading the negative press, and eventually it reached a tipping point that emboldened insiders to speak out and everyone went all out because it's a scandal and a way
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by cooper12 9y ago
That's your interpretation of what the workshop actually is. Read what I quoted again, it focuses on the technical side of things: how to flag, how to moderate comments, and how to deal with hate speech. Talking about an issues doesn&#
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by cooper12 9y ago
> Photoshop has nearly undermined photographic evidence No it hasn't, not at all.
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by cooper12 9y ago
Huh? The workshops are about promoting awareness of the issue and the article says they'll "teach teens how to deal with offensive speech, flag inappropriate content, and moderate comments". The European Commission issue was
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by cooper12 9y ago
Look at the sources for the Rotherham Wikipedia article. How are you going to honestly say that the media is omitting the story? It's more likely that you didn't see it in your own filter bubble[0] and I'd also guess you&#x27
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by cooper12 9y ago
Ah, that is a reasonable suggestion. I would but unfortunately I don't feel technically competent to do so. (I'm more the type of programmer who would rely on MDN rather than write anything on it) It's too bad there's no
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by cooper12 9y ago
Does anyone else find it a bit problematic that documentation, which should mainly be descriptive, is taking an ideological stance? It's one thing to describe known bugs around an implementation, but reading the MDN docs on accept-head
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by cooper12 9y ago
Overzealous copyright law extension in the farcical goal of the "advancement of the arts and sciences" has truly been a travesty to human knowledge.
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by cooper12 9y ago
That's only possible to do if you're the copyright holder. What Google would have been doing would have been specifically for orphan works, meaning no known copyright holder was able to be found. (as for public domain works, in Am
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by cooper12 9y ago
The problem with self-publication is that your book might as well not exist[0] unless you already have a significant following (in which case you could easily secure a publisher). This isn't an issue unique to the digital age, there&#x
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by cooper12 10y ago
I wasn't, and your quote of me should make that clear. And like I said, it still happens all over the world. Discrimination is also well and alive in America.
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by cooper12 10y ago
I think you're talking about a track stand.
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by cooper12 10y ago
I said in the past. In America, they were called Jim Crow laws. Though this has happened all over the world.
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by cooper12 10y ago
Sorry for overreacting, your comment was so outlandish I was really taken aback. (detecting tone on the internet can be quite difficult, especially if you don't know anything about the commentator) The thing about moral judgments I was
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by cooper12 10y ago
Ah the good ol' tired "why don't you take refugees into your own home" argument. Why would I need to host them when I don't need to host a jail? The same thing with orphans and refugees. The government provides spac

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