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by swalling 4y ago
Actually there is a huge amount of local support for these camps politically. Both in issue polling [1] and in terms of which candidates won election to city council, etc. Part of this has to do with the fact that there have been persistent
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by swalling 4y ago
The funniest part of this quote is that Steve Martin is just not very good. Never has been. Even his early comedy is uncomfortably dumb. This is one of Martin's breakout performances on the Tonight Show: https://www.youtube.
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by swalling 4y ago
This is a good example in particular because state and federal agencies have been extremely judicious when it comes to doing reintroductions since then. In the rest of the West (CA, OR, WA, ID, MT) there have been basically zero wolf reintr
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by swalling 4y ago
It's not "adulteration" so much as fraud by mixing it with cheaper oils or labeling oil as "extra-virgin" when it's not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_oil_regulation_and_adult...
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by swalling 4y ago
Adulteration of olive oil typically happens in transit/shipping by wholesalers, not by producers. Spanish or Italian olive farms aren't diluting with corn oil or whatever during production on the farm/when pressing, it's
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by swalling 7y ago
Taxing founders and employees even more (on top of CA's very high income tax and capital gains) seems like a ridiculous proposal when corporate net taxes are low or zero in many cases.
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by swalling 8y ago
What would happen if everyone who wanted to recreate on this beach simply ignored his signs, took down the gate, and treated the road like the public right of way it should be? The police already declined to press charges on one group of su
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by swalling 8y ago
I think one point you're missing is that the vast majority of people use Pinterest for reasons that are different than a social network. Even if it may have some of the same surface-level mechanisms (like a personalized feed or share b
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by swalling 9y ago
http://www.gq.com/story/the-male-romper-is-here You're welcome
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by swalling 9y ago
Their Annual Plan with spending breakdown is published every year on wikimediafoundation.org. The draft for the upcoming year is https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_... TL;DR: the largest chunk
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by swalling 9y ago
[Former product manager at the Wikimedia Foundation and longtime Wikipedia editor/admin here.] The author of the op-ed is a devoted editor but seems almost totally ignorant of how development is conducted. The Foundation has been doing
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First transparency report for Wikipedia and related projects(transparency.wikimedia.org)
6 points by swalling 12y ago|0 comments
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by swalling 13y ago
Do you have Liberation Sans or Arimo installed? Or are you on XP with ClearType off?
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by swalling 13y ago
If this is interesting, you might also like to read the longer post by Wikimedia's Director of UX about the change. https://medium.com/p/1724cb2b7402
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by swalling 13y ago
That would be welcome to hear, as a Mozilla user and someone who wants to trust the org to stand for inclusive, humanist values in Internet technology.
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OAuth now available on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites(blog.wikimedia.org)
1 points by swalling 13y ago|0 comments
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by swalling 13y ago
> We still have not taken the step of building a wikipedia page for our startup, and instead have continued to focus on making it notable. Wikipedia admin here. This is the right way to go about it, though I would add "making it not
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by swalling 13y ago
One cheap (in time and money) complement to A/B or multivariate testing that the author doesn't mention is usability testing, specifically remote testing. Before we launch a test, we always run remote usability tests. Feedback lik
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by swalling 13y ago
It's no surprise the author of this piece is from San Francisco. SF is a particularly dangerous city to cycle in, at least for commuters. Riding on the main drags of Market street, Mission, and others is exceedingly dangerous, since dr
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by swalling 13y ago
For me, the moral precedent is giving millions of people free access to vital educational information. People who want and need access to Wikipedia Zero are like these South African high school students, living in a slum: https:/&#x2F
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Information Imbalance: Africa on Wikipedia(geography.oii.ox.ac.uk)
4 points by swalling 13y ago|1 comments
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by swalling 13y ago
So you take a picture of each sketch, and upload them to Dropbox, perhaps automatically with that "upload photos from my phone to Dropbox by default" feature. It seems to me that one of things this app might enforce is the idea th
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by swalling 13y ago
Yes, this is an idea we definitely want to try at Wikimedia. Right now, some of our most popular articles in English are perpetually semi-protected, meaning anonymous or brand new contributors can't edit. That means millions of pagevie
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by swalling 13y ago
People want to create content, not fix other people's grammatical mistakes. Hey, I'm the product manager for that work (also quoted in the article). I thought I might mention that we've A/B tested our task suggestion w
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by swalling 13y ago
Related post previously on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6580333
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by swalling 13y ago
Wikimedia also provides several sources of data and infrastructure for hosting potential tools like this, if you'd like to take it on. In addition to public data streams like RecentChanges and public API access, we provide hosting infr
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by swalling 13y ago
There are related terms in the current Terms of Use, namely that you may not edit "With the intent to deceive, posting content that is false or inaccurate" and that also disallowed is "Attempting to impersonate another user o
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by swalling 13y ago
"Take a look at almost any living famous person's profile and chances are you'll see a large amount of spin and fluff." Citation needed. According to recent traffic reports,[1] some of the most popular biographies of liv
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by swalling 13y ago
Interesting. One opposite experience: anonymous Wikipedia editing. Most registered Wikipedians today (59%) say they edited anonymously before registering. That doesn't mean they all necessarily did, but it suggests it's being used
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by swalling 13y ago
Full list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Redirects_from_Unicod... Perhaps most interesting is that it's not a search engine feature or anything really built in to the software beyond Unicode support. Rath

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