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*[[User talk:MyWikiBiz/Archive 3|Archive 3]] ''(June 2007 - June 2008)''
 
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== On Interpretation ==
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== Math Biz ==
  
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=De_Interpretatione&diff=264917696&oldid=257325112 Adding chapter 10] to the Wikipedia version. 
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Hi Greg,
  
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Currently [http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22Aristotle+enumerates+the+affirmations+and+denials%22&meta= Google  search] only returns the MWB version.  I am not sure what happens here.  Normally Google gives precedence to the original version.
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Do you think there's any chance you'll be updating the math parser, whatever it is, any time soon? I'd like to keep MyWikiBiz as my main work wiki and I've been trying to fix all the problems with MathJax or whatever it is, but it just doesn't look doable anymore. Here's how one of my math sections looks on three different wikis:
  
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[[User:Ockham|Ockham]] 11:17, 18 January 2009 (PST)
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* MyWikiBiz
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: http://mywikibiz.com/Directory:Jon_Awbrey/Differential_Logic_and_Dynamic_Systems_2.0#Terminological_Interlude
  
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:Google is very strange.  Just by [http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Aristotle+enumerates+the+%22affirmations+and+denials%22&btnG=Search&meta= rearranging the quotation marks], I can make the MyWikiBiz page disappear. Best to let the Google spiders do their work for at least 14 days before you draw any firm conclusion. (In the meantime, though, we already '''knew''' that MWB is better than Wikipedia in so many ways!) -- [[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 12:15, 18 January 2009 (PST)
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:: Yes - the current cached version is Dec 11 so the spiders still have to do their work.  Then I will experiment with changing first on the MWB version, then propagate to the WP version, so it is clear what the proper source is.  [[User:Ockham|Ockham]] 02:30, 19 January 2009 (PST)
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: http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Differential_Logic_and_Dynamic_Systems_2.0#Terminological_Interlude
  
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=== Google likes Nicholas of Paris ===
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* Wikiversity
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: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:JonAwbrey/Sandbox
  
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[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22nicholas+of+paris%22&meta= Reaches #2]  [[User:Ockham|Ockham]] 04:12, 25 January 2009 (PST)
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Aside from the overall readability issues, there's problems with underlining and failure to distinguish serif and sans serif characters that I use for a critical math distinction.
  
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===But unfairly ignores the addition to Wikipedia 'On Interpretation'===
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Regards, [[User:Jon Awbrey|Jon Awbrey]] ([[User talk:Jon Awbrey|talk]]) 22:00, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
  
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As reported above, I added [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=De_Interpretatione&diff=264917696&oldid=257325112 some material] to the Wikipedia version of ''On Interpretation'', which before was only in MWB version.  At that point, a
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:Frankly, there is zero chance that I would personally update the math parser, because I'm not technically inclined. The last time we had a major overhaul to the platform was in 2014.  That took an outside contractor to execute, and the cost was around $900.  I am just guessing that a math parser update would potentially set off a domino effect of requiring an update to the Mediawiki root platform, and thus I could be "in" for another $1,000-ish cost.  Your most popular page, '''Logical graph''', got 62 hits from around the globe in the past month.  For 2 hits a day, I really can't justify the potential budget outlay.  Is there any way you would commit to splitting the cost and working with me to find an appropriate contractor? - [[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] ([[User talk:MyWikiBiz|talk]]) 16:50, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
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[http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22Aristotle+enumerates+the+affirmations+and+denials%22&meta= search on a key phrase] only returned the MWB version.  But now (as of new cache, 20 Jan) you see it is attributed to Wikipedia, and the MWB version is hidden.  That is outrageous.  Previous experiments with other sites suggested that Google always respects the provenance of material.  Here it is the other way round. Google is a thief!
 
  
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Next experiment.  Perhaps either remove the paragraph from Wikipedia version.  Or change the MWB version.  Or put in another para into Wikipedia so Google gets the hint?  [[User:Ockham|Ockham]] 04:19, 25 January 2009 (PST)
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== Wikipediocracy ==
  
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:JA: Google's ranking algorithm, apart from transient recency effects that disappear after a few weeks, is exclusively biased toward graph-theoretic connectivity over any other factor. That is why Google ranks Wikipedia high on any given search cue even when the original articles that snagged those cues have been reduced to stubs or even redirects — so long as all the links from other Wikipedia pages are still there.  Google is clueless about the contents of the garbage bin at the other end of the links.  Google's algorithm is blind to provenance when it does not issue in connectivity, it is blind to both content quality and logical quality (in the Kantian sense).  "There's is no such thing as a negative link" is its sole maxim.  [[User:Jon Awbrey|Jon Awbrey]] 05:54, 25 January 2009 (PST)
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Hey dude what's up? Did you quit Wikipediocracy? [[User:Emperor|Emperor]] ([[User talk:Emperor|talk]]) 20:00, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
  
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::I am tickled pink that you guys are curious about this Google phenomenon, as am I.  It is rather offensive that the "original source" would be deprecated by Google in favor of the "borrowing site", no matter how much of a gorilla it is in PageRank.  But, them's the breaks, I'm afraid.  It all comes down to: ''In order to show you the most relevant results''.  Google has determined that popularity equals relevance, not originality nor quality.  The only real solution to prevent this offense is to copyright your work here (in a Directory network, since the Main Space is governed by GFDL) and see to it that it doesn't find its way to Wikipedia.
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:Hey bro what's hangin?  No, I still read it regularly and talk with numerous members at great length! [[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] ([[User talk:MyWikiBiz|talk]]) 14:52, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
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::If you don't mind, I'd like to toy around a little with these articles you've mentioned, to pump in a few semantic tags, so that maybe — '''maybe''' — it might out-compete Wikipedia once again.  I doubt it, but it would be an achievement worthy of note. —[[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 09:36, 25 January 2009 (PST)
 
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::: Yay that's the spirit. [[User:Ockham|Ockham]] 11:38, 25 January 2009 (PST)
 

Latest revision as of 14:52, 3 February 2018

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Math Biz

Hi Greg,

Do you think there's any chance you'll be updating the math parser, whatever it is, any time soon? I'd like to keep MyWikiBiz as my main work wiki and I've been trying to fix all the problems with MathJax or whatever it is, but it just doesn't look doable anymore. Here's how one of my math sections looks on three different wikis:

  • MyWikiBiz
http://mywikibiz.com/Directory:Jon_Awbrey/Differential_Logic_and_Dynamic_Systems_2.0#Terminological_Interlude
  • InterSciWiki
http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Differential_Logic_and_Dynamic_Systems_2.0#Terminological_Interlude
  • Wikiversity
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:JonAwbrey/Sandbox

Aside from the overall readability issues, there's problems with underlining and failure to distinguish serif and sans serif characters that I use for a critical math distinction.

Regards, Jon Awbrey (talk) 22:00, 4 October 2017 (UTC)

Frankly, there is zero chance that I would personally update the math parser, because I'm not technically inclined. The last time we had a major overhaul to the platform was in 2014. That took an outside contractor to execute, and the cost was around $900. I am just guessing that a math parser update would potentially set off a domino effect of requiring an update to the Mediawiki root platform, and thus I could be "in" for another $1,000-ish cost. Your most popular page, Logical graph, got 62 hits from around the globe in the past month. For 2 hits a day, I really can't justify the potential budget outlay. Is there any way you would commit to splitting the cost and working with me to find an appropriate contractor? - MyWikiBiz (talk) 16:50, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Wikipediocracy

Hey dude what's up? Did you quit Wikipediocracy? Emperor (talk) 20:00, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Hey bro what's hangin? No, I still read it regularly and talk with numerous members at great length! MyWikiBiz (talk) 14:52, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
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