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thunkpedia blog: 'Beyond the Encyclopedia' Video & Slides

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Aka ' Infinithree Project'). Nov 2, 2011. Lsquo;Beyond the Encyclopedia’ Video and Slides. Here’s the presentation I did last Friday at the Books-in-Browsers. Video: Infinithree: Beyond the Wiki Encyclopedia. I’ve added a few screenshots to the slides below to simulate the brief demo given. As you’ll see on slide 25, the name of the site at launch will be ‘Thunkpedia’, as the central organizing principle will be small 'thunks’ of standalone reference information. Updated 11/2 with video.).

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thunkpedia blog: ∞³: Not just a remainder bin for Wikipedia

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Aka ' Infinithree Project'). May 30, 2011. Infin;³: Not just a remainder bin for Wikipedia. Welcome to all the new followers arriving after this HN thread. Emilio Velis ( @dubsnipe. Asks via the Tumblr question function:. As far as I understand, Infinithree aims to be a non-rigorous source of information, instead of a source full of data that has to be validated by a crowd. How about if the project aims to be some sort of an add-on or sister page based on Wikipedia URLs? Rsquo; or '1st of the Five Pillars.

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thunkpedia blog: This sounds great, but how do I get started? Is...

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Aka ' Infinithree Project'). Jan 15, 2011. Anonymous asked: This sounds great, but how do I get started? Is it acceptable to upload an existing Wikipedia article, and if so is there a standard mechanized way to submit it? Or will you begin with ALL of Wikipedia as it exists? Or all plus the history and use an automated feature to flag large deletions from the article's history for review? I wish you the best. - - Wnt. Infinithree will operate in the same social/legal environment as Wikipedia, and will ne...

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thunkpedia blog

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Aka ' Infinithree Project'). Jan 5, 2011. Liotier asked: How does ∞³ compare to Everything² and Deletionpedia which both seem to overlap its purpose quite a bit? Those are certainly kindred projects. Infinithree is still being defined, but here are some of my thoughts on how ∞³ should or must be different. So neither of these projects aspired to be an expansive postencyclopedic reference work. Infinithree has that aspiration. Jan 2, 2011. Why, you may ask? Infinithree will use the same open license and a...

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thunkpedia blog: ∞³, I¹⁸N, L¹⁰N: Infinithree in many languages?

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Aka ' Infinithree Project'). Jan 29, 2011. Infin;³, I¹ N, L¹ N: Infinithree in many languages? Via the Tumblr suggest-a-post system,. Start with a multilingual version. I’m very interested about a “inclusionist” “encyclopedia”, but I would like to contribute in French, my native language. I would love to follow the Wikipedia model, with focused sites for every language where there can be an editing community. But the deciding factor for Infinithree’s success in. So please, let your fellow francophones (a...

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thunkpedia blog: But really, what's with this word 'thunk'?

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Aka ' Infinithree Project'). Oct 22, 2013. But really, what’s with this word ‘thunk’? Is a portmanteau neologism, combining. As a word, it’s nounable – “this oughtta be a thunk” – and verbable – “you should thunk that”. The homonymic collision with either the jokey future-perfect tense of. As in, “who’d have thunk it? Rdquo;), or the computing term. Don’t hurt, and possibly help. Had a related domain name been available, this project would have been called “ unkunk. Blog comments powered by Disqus.

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thunkpedia blog: Behind the text: thunk annex & metadata

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Aka ' Infinithree Project'). Oct 12, 2013. Behind the text: thunk annex and metadata. Other than the words-only. What makes up a thunk? Here’s an expanded view of the last post’s example thunk, as it would appear after toggling the ‘links’ footer control. These extra details displayed only when requested are called the thunk’s. Elinor Ostrom, American political economist. Nobel laureates, Nobelists, female economists, tragedy of the commons. Elinor Ostrom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The last edit...

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thunkpedia blog: Infinithree license: CC-BY-SA or other?

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Aka ' Infinithree Project'). Jan 23, 2011. Infinithree license: CC-BY-SA or other? I asked for suggestions about how an avowedly-inclusionist sibling of Wikipedia should work. Marius Kempe has offered a bunch of thoughtful ideas. Including the recommendation that rather than any license, Infinithree consider putting all material into the public domain:. I am personally partial to CC0 over CC-BY for reasons I’ve described in Should scientific writing be put into the public domain? Separately, I don’...