ckoerner

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by ckoerner 3y ago
>but know that they were genuinely trying to shape their country into what they thought was best. But _were_ they? (That's rhetorical, they were not.)
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by ckoerner 3y ago
Which is also against the rules and undermines the systems in place to make the encyclopedia more reliable.
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by ckoerner 3y ago
[[citation needed]] :p
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by ckoerner 3y ago
Wikipedia relies on reliable secondary sources to write an article. If the majority of sources were to claim X came from Y, then yes, but without that, we can't state it as fact.
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by ckoerner 3y ago
Representation matters. Many people are not represented in the worlds knowledge, much less the creation of it.
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by ckoerner 4y ago
I think this is the article they are referring to. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/06/04/apple-remote-wo...
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by ckoerner 4y ago
At some point the message has to change. It has to become something a little more like: Look, so far we've done this which you thought was cool. Now we want to do X, Y and Z. Will you support us? I think this is a perfectly valid ide
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by ckoerner 4y ago
True, but would you agree that the number of editors who take umbrage with the wording is a small minority of the tens of thousands who edit and thousands (hundreds?) who are aware of the fundraising messages?
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by ckoerner 4y ago
>they have never written a Wikipedia article. Some can't even figure out how to leave a talk page message, and they couldn't tell you which side of a diff shows the new version of an article and which the old. None of those thi
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by ckoerner 5y ago
I wrote up a whole page about my workspace. https://clkoerner.com/tiny-studio/
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by ckoerner 5y ago
I'm on the opposite end of experience than you and find a drone is often unpredictable in its flight. I just got a small (DJI Mini 2) drone in March and have been learning and flying as a recreational flyer as often as weather and time
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by ckoerner 6y ago
There’s an SLA involved in this service. Business people like SLAs. :)
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by ckoerner 6y ago
The Foundation has already considered this. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise/FAQ#How...
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by ckoerner 6y ago
Most markets? That’s a very privileged view. Research by the WMF in 2019 shows incredibly low rates of awareness in large parts of the world. I doubly you will read it, nor to I seek to argue this with you, but here are the findings: https
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by ckoerner 8y ago
None. They don't need to know that. The feature is on by default without logging-in.
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by ckoerner 8y ago
>And the post seems extremely proud, and self-congratulatory about it. Well, yeah. Doing anything successfully at the scale of Wikipedia is worthy of some praise - and I say that as a US midwesterner - a culture not exactly known as the
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by ckoerner 8y ago
> mediawiki on the other side is horribly undesigned spaghetti code But like my mom's spaghetti, it's my favorite. :) Think you can make it better? https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Work_with_us I work
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by ckoerner 8y ago
We're very transparent (I work for the Wikimedia Foundation). You can see the specific dashboard for the Page Preview feature here (Last 6 hours): https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/eventlogging-sche..
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by ckoerner 8y ago
Perhaps you had enabled the beta feature and when the feature went to production the setting was kept enabled? Check under Preferences>Appearance>"Reading preferences".
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by ckoerner 8y ago
As someone who works on the team that built this feature, thank you for saying this. As for feedback, we've had 4 years of it and welcome more. Check out the FAQ and if you have something constructive to say, leave a note on the talk
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by ckoerner 8y ago
IIRC the delay value is set at 500ms before a preview is shown.
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by ckoerner 9y ago
I don't mean to challenge you, but I think your assumptions about how easy it is for others to do something you consider rudimentary are based in an undeclared set of privileges and fortune. A few possible scenarios where getting help
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by ckoerner 12y ago
The comparison to the play "My Fair Lady" is not very convincing. I would suggest the author remove it as it weakens the argument. First, the fictional character states 'no fewer than' as an admittance that there are mor
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by ckoerner 12y ago
"Even if a project doesn’t require communication" Every project requires communication.
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by ckoerner 14y ago
I'm the author and I'd like some feedback. I was interested to see how the information we put online can be used to paint a portrait of a person. This was a small experiment that I hope generates more discussion around identity, sharing of
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How Would You Describe Someone You've Never Met?(clkoerner.com)
1 points by ckoerner 14y ago|1 comments