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JURIST - Japan [JURIST] The Japanese government is planning to put English translations of its business-related laws on the internet in order to avoid their misinterpretation by foreign companies. Japan posting English translations of business laws to avoid misinterpretation Japanese Red Army founder sentenced to 20 years for French embassy attack jurist.law.pitt.edu /countries/japan.php   (665 words)

MediaWiki - MediaWiki To avoid a possible confusion between the words you may first want to read the article about the names where the differences are explained. But we suggest you rather exercise yourself only within the sandbox to avoid other visitors needing to clean up pages after you. MediaWiki is a free Wiki software package licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). www.mediawiki.org   (665 words)

Wikimania05/Paper-CL1 - Wikibooks I think that being critical also requires one to be open to criticism of oneself and to avoid defensive reasoning, which according to Argyris (1991) “encourages individuals to keep private the premises, inferences, and conclusions that shape their behavior and to avoid testing them in a truly independent, objective fashion” (p. Throughout, the focus is on how individual users communicate their opinions and feelings to other users and how these communications are read and/or understood by individuals and/or the community, especially in the light of it being mainly a text-only medium. It also goes somewhat for roles within the communities, like adminship or membership of the dispute resolution process, although these are based on community approval and usually involve a vote. en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Wikimania05/Paper-CL1   (6407 words)

Avoid Copyright Paranoia - Meta Certainly we should not endorse a laissez-faire attitude vis-a-vis copyright violations; however, we should be liberal in our interpretations of what we are allowed to do, and certainly not take any and every copyright claim at face value. Worst case scenario: A copyright holder says we are going beyond the bounds of fair use, and then we review it and decide to fight it or take it down. Being sued, or otherwise hassled, for copyright infringement is a known risk of publication which increases as the size, scope, and variety of the published work increases. meta.wikipedia.org /wiki/Avoid_Copyright_Paranoia   (4965 words)

Commons:Project plan - Wikimedia Commons The first user_id in the commons user table must be higher than the total number of users of all projects (to avoid attribution problems) The commons would always be the default, but the local wiki could be used for things which are useful only to one wiki, or which are not allowed under the terms of the commons. The goal of the Wikimedia Commons project is to provide a central repository for free images, music and, possibly, texts and spoken texts, to be used by all Wikimedia projects. commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Commons:Project_plan   (4965 words)

MediaWiki - MediaWiki To avoid a possible confusion between the words you may first want to read the article about the names where the differences are explained. MediaWiki is a free Wiki software package licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). wikipedia.sourceforge.net   (230 words)

Is the Wikipedia Neutral? Bob Scheifler, a developer of the X Windows System, … is often quoted for his useful maxim of "mechanism not policy." The application of this statement was towards the rather technical decision of how applications should avoid setting X resources directly, but instead allow these "policy" decisions to be controlled by the user (Scheifler, 87). In this case, both the mechanism and policy spoken of were largely technical: the mechanism might specify the rendering of a window element (e.g., size and color) while the policy was a user controlled specific rendering (e.g., large and blue). In the context of the W3C projects, the policies were associated with the social issues of speech/censorship and privacy. reagle.org /joseph/2005/06/neutrality.html   (2633 words)

Diary for mirwin I think the purpose of the wikipedia will be better served by some sort of weighted certification metric regarding the content certification (not creation, that is pure wiki) for distribution to casual users and customers who wish to merely use the content, rather than assist in its creation and maintenance. The GPL'd 'wikipedia technology solves much of this impending disaster: http://www.ping.be/jvwit/mondragondemocracy.html We can pursue spanish wikipedia first then go talk to them, or if we get the product quality code ready, sell installation, support, training and moderation services and let them do the spanish wikipedia. The wikipedia developer's list found a site working on integrating the standard math typesetter into a wiki. www.advogato.org /person/mirwin/diary.html?start=111   (3895 words)

Wikipedia vs. US Government: A case of plagiarism You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either commercially or noncommercially, provided that this License, the copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License applies to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other conditions whatsoever to those of this License. At this point some of you may ask just what the heck the US Dept. of State was doing, but let's take a moment to clear things up. Check it out, or view a Google cache (you never know when they might pull this to save their necks). c63.be /wikigov   (1248 words)

WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Chinese Wikipedia The neutral point of view is intended to avoid editing wars between contributors competing to impose their interpretation of various subjects on other readers. This could be because officials aren't yet aware of the project, or because the editors take great pain to keep the entries neutral in presentation. I visited China in 1997, a time when many local officials were hungry to get their communities hooked onto the Internet. www.worldchanging.com /archives/000807.html   (420 words)

CONIECTO But many people back home doubt about the reliability of the content and avoid using it, and every time I tried to encourage people to become wikipedians, their answer was either they don't feel they have the competence to do it, or they prefer to contribute information to the site of someone they already know. The first one, NPOV and meme evolution was an attempt to demonstrate how knowledge is distributed in wikipedia projects by proposing some so-called "real measurements". I browsed the list myself, and I was a bit surprised to discover an article on Adrian Paunescu, a Romanian poet turned into politician (a controversial character, but the dispute is about including or not in the article a phrase about his wife who provoqued a car accident!). coniecto.blogspot.com /2005_08_01_coniecto_archive.html#112490339028148884   (4286 words)

Mailing list - Meta Please respect Wikiquette and avoid personal attacks on the mailing lists, especially in the subject header as this is likely to be repeated by those replying. Mailing lists are available in a number of formats: via a web archive, by email, or by NNTP using the mail-to-news gateway Gmane. If you would like to become a mailing list admin and you feel the list you want to admin does not currently have enough admins, please contact the Developers on IRC in #wikimedia-tech. meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/Mailing_list   (552 words)

Wikipedia talk:Avoid weasel terms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Avoiding weasel words is a good idea that improves our authority and helps find hidden POV — do not use weasel words is a terrible, terrible idea that is impossible to implement. The designation "weasel term" is, in itself, inappropriate; it imparts negative connotations and stigma to a very common category of phraseology used to express consensus opinions or general knowledge. Weasels are cute and playful and furry and warm-blooded and they help control the rodent population. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Avoid_weasel_terms   (12588 words)

Help:Category - Wiktionary Category tags may be placed anywhere in the article, although they are typically added to the end of the article to avoid undesirable text display side effects. Category listings are alphabetical, for "What links here" this typically applies for the first part only, for the pages already linking to the given page at the time of the last rebuilding of the link tables in the database. Usually categories are applied in such a way that page A (hence, in particular, category A) is directly or indirectly a member of category B if and only if the set of information about A is a subset of the set of information about B. This would imply that categories form a directed acyclic graph. en.wiktionary.org /wiki/Help:Category   (3706 words)

Wikipedia: The Latest Threat To American Civilization antikoan.net These are both people in eroding professions, most likely looking to avoid challenges from "authorities" who aren't designated as "authoritative" by membership in their guild. In correspondence with Mike at Techdirt.com, Fasoldt used terms like "repugnant" and "outrageous" -- terms which are clearly driven by fear or anger (the latter in any case usually being driven by fear). All that said, and as a final word, the free and open creation and maintenace of public information resources by the public that uses them is an inherently good thing, provided the quality of the information remains high. antikoan.net /node/208   (868 words)

Wikipedia: Duplicate articles - Open Encyclopedia Many wikipedia users prefer to avoid having tags at the top of articles, particularly if it's not relevant to the reader of the article. Creating redirects for every term that is synonymous with the article's name, provided that it doesn't have to be disambiguated. Forest Hills, Queens into Forest Hills, Queens, New York, though articles about Queens, New York, neighborhoods lack a consistent naming convention and it's not clear which title should remain. open-encyclopedia.com /Duplicate_articles_oew   (868 words)

User:JHK : JHK I had hoped that the wikipedia would be a successful project and would avoid sinking to the demands of the lowest common denominator, instead becoming an up-to-date, useful online resource I could recommend to my students. Because the wikipedia is open to all comers, experts are not really welcome except by the few who are both open to constructive criticism and secure in their own abilities. As the wikipedia has grown, I have seen more and more people without those qualities take their places among us. www.freearchive.info /jh/jhk.html   (989 words)

PCWorld.com - Chinese Build Free Net Encyclopedia The neutral point of view is intended to avoid editing wars between contributors competing to impose their interpretation of various subjects on other readers. They consider their government to be reasonable, so long as one does nothing insane to offend the government," Menchi says, noting that some contributors from Mainland China have suggested toning down entries on politically sensitive topics, such as Tibetan independence. But wikis are essentially online databases of information and each modification is stored in the database, allowing information to be restored to the Web site if a page is deleted or defaced. www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,116323,00.asp   (1005 words)

Urbanzeitgeist Which allows the nuvi 350 to plot your course, call out turns by street name, and avoid traffic jams - all with a stunning color touch screen! The preloaded City Navigator NT v.7 maps contain detailed road maps throughout the entire United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Garmin nuvi 350 Personal Travel Assistant - This portable GPS navigator is a great companion and guide for traveling to new places, as well as making it easier to get to places you normally travel to. www.urbanzeitgeist.com   (594 words)

Wikipedia:Mention of Wikipedia in articles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Else wikipedia can never improve, denial spreads, and ideology (in this case of wikipedia promoters) is allowed to triumph over neutrality. Keeping articles that mention the wikipedia up to date is especially important. If we can avoid at least these major mistakes, and look critically at ourselves, this will be a much better project, and it will be very hard to make it fail, or hijack it, for any purpose other than those we consciously adopt ourselves. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:mention_of_Wikipedia_in_articles   (594 words)

Talk:Mizrahi Jew - Enpsychlopedia It seems to be that the only thing for you now is to struggle in finding nuances as reasons to avoid the inclusion into the article of specific (pro-"Arab Jewish" to neutralise the anti-"Arab Jewish") elements, which have otherwise been proven to you to be true. For example, Mizrahi Jews are often referred to as Oriental Jews, while the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies focuses on Africa as well as the Middle East and East Asia. One common Hebrew transliteration scheme is to use kh for chaf, and h for chet (often with a dot or line underneath). www.grohol.com /psypsych/Talk:Mizrahi_Jew   (594 words)

Wikipedia talk:Subpages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This case seems to me to avoid all the objections to subpages that involve content belonging to multiple hierarchies. To find all subpages of Manifold, for instance, go to Special:Allpages and type "manifold/" in the box labelled "Display all pages starting with:" (I learned this trick from R. In mathematics, there appears to be an occasional need to provide supporting evidence, documentation and derivations for certain complex mathematical statements. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Subpages   (543 words)

internet_movie_database.html Using filtering software to avoid the display of advertisements from the site is also explicitly forbidden. The latter restrictions on the use of data are likely to be unenforceable, as the U.S. Supreme Court in Feist v. One popular feature of the IMDb is the Top 250, a listing of the top 250 feature-length films of all-time as voted by the registered users of the website. www.informationgenius.com /encyclopedia/i/in/internet_movie_database.html   (543 words)

Wikipedia:Templates for deletion Comment It will save wikipedia disc space because the history will only be spread out over the template rather than the whole article (it not being able to be in a section). These merely invoke Template:Infobox Country (not duplicate it), none of them act in any 'non-standardised' way, and all of them avoid having large slabs of infobox code at the start of every country article. The fact that the proposed WP:COMIC guidelines are often spoken of as if they were iron-clad rules generates a lot of confusion, and this template is no help whatsoever. vb.game-host.org /en/Tfd.htm   (543 words)

Wikipedia timeline - From Meta; discussion about Wikimedia projects This coverage is carefully kept skin-deep to avoid anticipating events or reporting overly speculative predictions. February 26 - Iraq crisis coverage begins to attempt to comprehensively list reputed impacts and outcomes of the crisis, e.g. Older lists such as en:List of atheists and en:List of fictional cats provoked protest as well. meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/History_of_Wikipedia   (543 words)

Delete : this page does not belong to meta - Meta respect of other participants (please try to stay polite, to avoid personal attacks, to avoid lying, to avoid cheating, to avoid threatening => instead, think wikilove) Meta not being under the NPOV requirement, the reason why the user was banned on wikipedia itself is irrelevant on meta. It may be that banning on meta is more likely, if the user does not follow basic rules of civility and guidelines of wikilove. meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/Delete_:_this_page_does_not_belong_to_meta   (543 words)

Naming conventions - Theopedia Convention: Do not capitalize second and subsequent words unless the title is a wikipedia:proper noun (such as a name) or is otherwise almost always capitalized.e.g. Convention: Avoid the use of acronyms in page naming unless the term you are naming is almost exclusively known only by its acronym and is widely known and used in that form (NASA and radar are good examples). Convention: In general only create page titles that are in the singular, unless that noun is always in a plural form in English (such as wikipedia:scissors_scissors or trousers). www.theopedia.com /Naming_conventions   (1590 words)

Questions about Project Scud While I understand the intention of Project Scud is to avoid this, the possibility is still there, and I feel very uneasy at the thought. According to wikipedia wikipedia.org/wiki/Scud>, this is the NATO name of a Soviet ballistic missile, coming from a comic 'Scud: The Disposable Assassin'. No, the fact that Scud is the name of a missile too unfortunately didn't occur to me until after the name was already chosen. debian.edv-bus.at /vote-2005/project-scud.html   (3064 words)

Kevin Wen's Web Chinese Culture Archives After some of interviews with active contributors in Chinese wikipedia, the article point out why wikipedia was not blocked in China at that time, and predicted potential risks of blocking by Chinese censors. The neutral point of view is intended to avoid editing wars between contributors competing to impose their interpretation of various subjects on other readers. The problem is mainland Chinese and Taiwan Chinese have different practice to write in Chinese. www.wen-xin.net /archives/cat_chinese_culture.php   (3064 words)

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