Comments for David Gerard

Comment on The Wikipedia/Wikimedia Press Coverage Bingo Card. by Spela bingo « Wikimedia Sverige

Spela bingo « Wikimedia Sverige — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:27:15 +0000

[...] Publicerat av Lennart Guldbrandsson den 01 mars 2010 Användaren David Gerard som är aktiv på engelskspråkiga Wikipedia, och har hanterat massvis med möten med press och TV, har skapat en bingobricka som man kan använda för att pricka in vad media skriver om Wikipedia. Hur många prickar du in i nästa reportage om Wikipedia eller Wikimedia? Du hittar originalet här. [...]

Comment on Who says paper encyclopedias are obsolete? by Luke Faraone

Luke Faraone — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:31:05 +0000

Of course, if we had a *real* paper wikipedia at that store, structural problems would be solved!

Comment on Wikileaks is in trouble. by Links 21/12/2009: Release of KDE Software Compilation 4.4 Beta 2, Parted Magic 4.7 | Boycott Novell

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:55:09 +0000

[...] Wikileaks is in trouble. Despite frequent press confusion, Wikileaks is nothing to do with Wikimedia at all — “wiki” is a generic term for “mass-editable website” and they use MediaWiki, but there’s no connection. [...]

Comment on Andrew Landeryou appears to be a waste of skin. by David Gerard

David Gerard — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:37:13 +0000

Indeed. From the Scientology school of public relations. A lot of projection going on there.

Comment on Andrew Landeryou appears to be a waste of skin. by Benno Rice

Benno Rice — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:27:24 +0000

He sent me one too:

Dear Benno Rice

I don’t think I know you but it was pointed out to me today that you have felt free to Twitter about me, apparently about altering a Wikipedia entry to say absurd things about me. True, not the biggest deal in the world but I would appreciate you not saying absurd things about me and if you are involved in Wikipedia to ensure that they are removed/corrected. If not, I’ll have to take action to find out what could possibly have motivated such behaviour on your part and that does seem like a totally unproductive exercise of no great benefit to either of us.

I have also sent you a message via facebook prior to obtaining your email, please ignore that as I have conveyed in this email all I intended to convey by phone.

Yours sincerely,

Andrew Landeryou

Comment on So what does Flagged Revisions actually feel like? by David Gerard

David Gerard — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:50:00 +0000

@bawolff - I hadn’t thought of that, it could make new users less afraid of clicking “edit”!

Comment on So what does Flagged Revisions actually feel like? by bawolff

bawolff — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:57:41 +0000

For comparision’s sake, we’ve had one (relatively new) user who says they like flagged revs because it allows them to not worry about doing something wrong: http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Bawolff&oldid=899735#RE:_.7B.7Bimage_source.7D.7D

Comment on So what does Flagged Revisions actually feel like? by William Pietri

William Pietri — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:40:22 +0000

That’s an interesting point. I still remember my first Wikipedia edit, and how thrilling it was to have it go live right that instant. A heady mix of excitement and fear. I sure found it compelling.

Of course, it’s hard to generalize. I’d love to do an A/B test on this, as well as some qualitative tests with live users.

Comment on So what does Flagged Revisions actually feel like? by David Gerard

David Gerard — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:46:11 +0000

Oh yeah, it was quick, I’m not complaining about response time! I’m talking about how jarring it is not to have edits go live immediately.

Comment on So what does Flagged Revisions actually feel like? by bawolff

bawolff — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:43:52 +0000

Although to be fair, our response time is pretty good. Your first edits didn’t even wait five minutes. Your first edit went live in 2 minutes, your second one went live in one minute ( Compare the history with http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Geelong%20win%202009%20Australian%20Football%20League%20Grand%20Final&diffonly=0&diff=cur&oldid=887360 to see where i’m getting my numbers from)

Comment on So what does Flagged Revisions actually feel like? by me

me — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:42:12 +0000

I logged out and edit an article as an IP at de:WP. After saving the edit I saw the new version and I got an information at the top of the page that all users will see the new version after sighting.

Comment on So what does Flagged Revisions actually feel like? by Guillaume Paumier

Guillaume Paumier — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:33:00 +0000

Wikimedia Deutschland is in the process of evaluating the effect of FlaggedRevisions : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMDE_contract_offers/Evaluate_the_impact_of_using_flagged_revisions

Comment on So what does Flagged Revisions actually feel like? by Brian

Brian — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:04:33 +0000

Yes, I sighted those revisions.

If you are a logged in user you can set preferences to show latest revisions in preference to the flagged ones. This may not always work following links from the front page where a Dynamic Page List *should* only offer up the latest flagged version.

Comment on To cover the world. by Infodisiac » Partipication level, a new metric

Infodisiac » Partipication level, a new metric — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:14:51 +0000

[...] very useful bots. How far this will go in the future is a matter of taste and under debate [1] [2]: in 2008 FritzpollBot was approved to create stub articles on the English Wikipedia for most or [...]

Comment on The IWF’s failure: being noticed. by mr r newton

mr r newton — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:59:29 +0000

y cant i report child images to iwf wen i cant even access thier web site

Comment on Wikimedia writes on the NPG legal threat. by John Nagle

John Nagle — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:21:16 +0000

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is defending the uploader and the Wikimedia Foundation against the National Portrait Gallery:

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/07/eff-defends-wikipedi

The National Portrait Gallery has not been heard from since that letter.

Since Bridgeman vs. Corel was decided, nobody seems to have tried to pursue a copyright case involving a photo of a public-domain image. (There was Toyota vs. Meshwerks, which bolstered Bridgeman vs. Corel at the appellate level and extended it to 3D scans of solid objects, in that case autos.) There’s ongoing huffing and puffing from supposed copyright holders of images of public-domain works, but nobody has actually brought a lawsuit. Probably because their lawyers tell them they will lose. Meanwhile, pictures of old paintings are all over the Web, as they should be.

That’s what will probably happen here.

Comment on Sue and be damned. by cearta.ie » Ding, ding! Seconds out, round one: National Portrait Gallery Wikipedia v Wikipedia

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:10:31 +0000

Comment on Disaster recovery planning. by David Gerard

David Gerard — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:48:46 +0000

Yeah, I mentioned the post to you because so little had changed in two years!

(And I did run it past a pile of WMF techies before posting it originally …)

Comment on Disaster recovery planning. by Milos Rancic

Milos Rancic — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:29:14 +0000

:)))) I’ve just realized that this post had been made two years ago. Ah, something has been changed since that time :)

Comment on Disaster recovery planning. by Milos Rancic

Milos Rancic — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:25:58 +0000

Just a brief answer about storage: In Serbia storage computer (6×1.5TB, good tower and power supply, dual core processor, something like 2-4GB RAM) is somewhat less than 1000 EUR. I suppose that such configuration may be less than $1000 in USA, maybe close to $500. And I suppose that there are enough of enthusiasts who are able to buy that.

With 16Mbps link it is possible to synchronize file repository (images and so on) in less than 20 days.

BTW, backups are not just about disaster recovery, but, also, about doing something useful with them. Like categorizing and describing images may be. If we have a client program for such purpose, similar to Google Picassa, but also connected to Wikipedia, we would be able to have millions of copies of everything. In a couple of years, updating Wikipedia (and Commons, and Wikibooks, and…) may become the same sort of thing like updating Debian. And we need P2P implementation for that.