On 8/2/2014 1:37 AM, Keilana wrote:
To briefly go back to what Sarah and Marie have said, I do find that
in person hand-holding and social support are the most effective
factors in getting women to stick around. I don't know how to
translate that from the real-world environment I teach newbies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Rebooted_discussion
This whole topic is going hot on heave on his talk page, starting with
his proposal which I mention in my response on the proposalbelow:
What if it was far more limited: /WMF hires mediators to do
mediation and to
I saw this tweet Philip Cohen. from
https://twitter.com/familyunequal/status/495662217149546496
Attention, gender sociologists: Paula England has no Wikipedia page.
Someone should make one before she becomes president of @ASAnews
https://twitter.com/ASAnews.
What do we do when
Hi all,
I have put together a list of sessions which may be relevant to the
members of this list. If you are going to Wikimania in London (Aug 6-10),
you might find these sessions interesting :
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IRC is almost embarrassingly old technology; Wikimedia Foundation
projects are the only place I've seen it mentioned in the last five
years or more.
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
We already have #wikipedia-en-help which is remarkably good for a volunteer
That's exactly my point, Pine. This kind of inside-baseball geekery is
so much Choctaw to the ordinary new editor we are trying to recruit
and retain, people more likely to be using Pinterest or Skype or
Ravelry to communicate with peers and mentors.
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Pine W
Exactly. IRC is for the old school and ubergeek. And as Sue has said in the
past - we're only going to retain specific types of people to be long
term editors (ubergeeks like us) but, if we can figure out a solution to
help out the average joe/sphine editor...
then huzzah. That's what the
I think we are talking past each other. The issue I responded to was about
live help, which we offer, is used extensively for English Wikipedia, and
should be respected. Advertising the existing service to more editors is
surely better than not doing so. If we are talking about longer-term
Thank you, Sarah. I hope that subjects like this will be part of the
discussion in Washington, whether I get to go or not. (I have applied,
but I'm an old white male so….)
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com wrote:
Exactly. IRC is for the old school and
There are plenty of people using IRC, but many of them don't know it. There are chatroom/IRC hybrids, generally on forum
sites. You embed the chat window in a web page, and anyone can join in. Those who want can use any IRC client to get to the
same channel, but with more features.
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