My Wiki Business

See the reaction to this very rational Spanish law:

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/...

It seems that Wikipedians hate the very right of creative content producers to protect their handiwork. Why is that?

Sometimes on Wikipedia and related projects, high-placed administrators (and in this case, he's even a trustee of the Wikimedia UK charity) will get caught red-handed, lying about how they've plagiarized other people's copyrighted content. Is this current situation...

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion...

...another such case of a Wikipedian telling falsehoods and claiming that the criticisms are "harassment"?

It appears that now that the Wikimedia UK has gotten their government's permission to operate as a "charity", they don't want to answer any questions about the possibility that they fraudulently misstated to the Charity Commission their role in controlling the content on Wikipedia. It's all over the news: http://www.examiner.com/wiki-edits-in-national/wik...

I'm coaching a team of 11 girls, mostly 7 and some 8 years old. A few of them have the "eye of the tiger" and really get after the ball to take control of it, and the game. However, most of my girls are still hesitant to really attack the ball, unless it is exactly in front of them, and it's not being contested by any other player. Are there some drills that will build assertiveness with the ball? Some motivational thing I can say?

I heard that he owes a colleague a personal loan of $30K, but I'd need to see substantive proof.

If you search for Jimmy Wales, Google even tries to autocomplete the query as "Jimmy Wales net worth". So, obviously this is a popular question. Why hasn't the mainstream media done any investigative journalism to find out once and for all?

Here's the page: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fil...

Obviously, it was censored. What is the Wikimedia Foundation trying to cover up this time?

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-an...

The news has revealed that (likely) Mark Bolland's PR firm has been caught editing Wikipedia to spruce up articles about clients. Not that there's anything wrong with that, wasn't it rather unprofessional to work on multiple clients' articles, all from the same IP address, thus bringing down the whole portfolio when the account came into question?

Isn't there some sort of manual or e-book that will help businesses learn how to more successfully manipulate Wikipedia?

Danese Cooper lasted only 16 months with the Wikimedia Foundation as the Chief Technical Officer. Do you think she was asked to submit her resignation, or is she leaving of her own volition?

Some sources:

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaanno...

http://www.examiner.com/wiki-edits-in-national/wik...

Our business group manages about 200 projects per year, with each of them lasting anywhere from two to ten weeks. We're disappointed with managing the project status with Microsoft Excel, as it's not an elegant way to query the database for more useful sub-sets like "new projects", or "projects that Fred is working on", or "projects about customer satisfaction".

Is there a free, password-protected web application that allows for simple project status management, without getting too complicated? Each project would only have about 10 fields to fill, such as:

* Start date

* Statement of work received

* Purchase order number

* Cost

* Vendor

* Key stakeholder(s)

* Project manager

* Current status (Design, Fielding, Reporting, Closed)

* Topic(s) addressed

* Summary of results

* Close date

Any solution has to be simple, or the internal managers are going to balk about having to learn yet another software application.

I'd like to read what a citizen journalist has to say about Wikipedia, and I trust Examiner to provide reliable work in this area, but I can't seem to find if there's someone on Examiner who is dedicated specifically to Wikipedia as his or her beat.

We're talking about Jimmy Wales, Sue Gardner, and Erik Moeller, all of the Wikimedia Foundation, of course. And don't belittle the chances of this hypothetical happening -- it already came terrifyingly close, once already: http://www.flickr.com/photos/frieda/1729725629/

Now that Mike Godwin is gone, and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees is the ineffectual Ting Chen, who would assume command of the Wikimedia Foundation operations?

If you check out this link as an example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0...

How is it that Amazon is the only bookseller that got to be listed (along with Google) in the "Online text" portion of the tool results? Who developed that Special:BookSources tool? Who specifically determined that Amazon is the only bookseller that displays online text? Is Amazon the only online bookseller that features some previews of book text? It would appear not:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/From-the-Mixed-up...

Could any of this have to do with the fact that in late 2006 Amazon invested $10 million into Jimmy Wales' for-profit corporation, Wikia, Inc.?

It seems like it might have been a failure to solicit competitive bids on the part of Philippe Beaudette, former employee of Q2 Consulting:

http://www.examiner.com/wiki-edits-in-national/wik...

There seems to be a pattern with the Wikipedia edits of co-founder Jimmy Wales, when he decides to monkey with the article biographies of attractive, dark-headed women:

http://www.examiner.com/wiki-edits-in-national/wik...

What gives?

Supposedly, this was in the news --

http://www.examiner.com/wiki-edits-in-national/wik...

Can we believe that, though? The guy sounds like a critic of Wikipedia, and I've been told that Wikipedia critics only lie, never tell the truth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8xe9E8RxBk

I'm most interested in knowing where the waterfall locations were (there are two distinct spots, at 3:03, and at 3:36). Also, would like to know which geyser that is (2:06).

Wikipedia apparently allows a subject to create an article about themselves, a swing band:

http://www.examiner.com/wiki-edits-in-national/swi...

However, they will not allow an article about SEO 2.0, which is covered by multiple reliable sources and over 20,000 Google hits:

http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=306...

What would be the reason for that?

Seriously, what is wrong with people like Augusto Antonio and OlEnglish?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_tal...

You would think they were brought up with not enough praise from their parents, so they desperately seek it in the most illogical places.