On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:43 AM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case
danc...@frontiernet.net wrote:
This system keeps the categories more straightforward, and pretty well
avoids the sort of subtle bias Wikipedia has been caught with here.
Defining the precise intersection of interest is up to the
On the issue of using tags instead of categories (which is mentioned in
Joseph Reagle's article), I've been involved in some discussions on this
issue. The two major hurdles for this are how do you make tagging work
across languages (for projects like Commons and Meta), and figuring out
On 04/30/2013 12:03 AM, Risker wrote:
Michael, you miss my point entirely. This is exactly the kind of
nastiness - trashing someone who takes umbrage at the way Wikipedia does
something that directly relates to her own real life - that brings the
project into disrepute, and that women in
It's official! The Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, has a Wikipedian in Residence...and it's a woman! They told
me it's official, and encouraged me to share the news (it's not online
yet).
This marks, as far as I know, the third woman Wikipedian in Residence in
the US!
Very awesome news!!
Sydney
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote:
It's official! The Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, has a Wikipedian in Residence...and it's a woman! They told
me it's official, and encouraged me to share the
Please see below.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Snyder, Sara snyd...@si.edu
Date: Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 8:57 AM
Subject: [GLAM-US] Reminder: Smithsonian Institution - paid Wikipedian in
Residence applications are due today
To: glam...@lists.wikimedia.org glam...@lists.wikimedia.org
Indeed Mike, how dare you accuse the august NYT of being influenced by
so-called class privilege. That's ridiculous. The New York Times is not
biased and publishes op-eds solely based on their individual merits. The
opinions contained within have nothing to do with the privileges their
authors may
Compare it to the weaknesses of the current category system. 98% of editors
don't know what they are doing. Categories and subcategories are applied
inconsistently all the time. Nobody has an overview of the entire tree
structure, or even a major branch of it.
And would this be any less truer
