[Foundation-l] Strategic Planning Office Hours

2010-06-21 Thread Philippe Beaudette

Hi Everyone -

Our next strategic planning office hours will be: 04:00-05:00 UTC,
Wednesday, 23 June. Local timezones can be checked at 
http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2010month=6day=23hour=04min=0sec=0p1=0

As always, you can access the chat by going to
https://webchat.freenode.net and filling in a username and the channel
name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be prompted to click through a
security warning. It's fine. More details at:

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours

Topics that may be addressed: The Call for Action, mobilizing people
around proposals, Wikimania.

Thanks! Hope to see many of you there.




Philippe Beaudette  
Facilitator, Strategy Project
Wikimedia Foundation

phili...@wikimedia.org


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Re: [Foundation-l] Encouraging participation

2010-06-21 Thread Noein
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On 20/06/2010 23:23, Keegan Peterzell wrote:
 If you're never read it, you'd probably enjoy this article from the Journal
 of American History penned by the late, great Dr. Roy Rosenzweig from June
 2006:
 
 http://chnm.gmu.edu/essays-on-history-new-media/essays/?essayid=42

Lot of useful information, thank you. I'd like to pinpoint a few
arguments from it:

Among other things, the no original research policy limiting expert
implication... I was always bothered by Wikipedia being a repository of
traditional knowledge but not novel, challenging, trying ideas. Why not
add a tab for each article, called hypothesis where original research
is tolerated, though all the other wp rules still apply? People who
don't want speculation or dubious content would read the main tab,
people who want to know possible interpretations and hypothesis would
also read the secondary tab.

Also, it seems that experts and academicians don't like being challenged
by profanes. (I think they need to learn to be)

The Internet would now grind to a halt without such free and
open-source resources as the operating system Linux, the Web server
software Apache, the database MySql, and the programming language php.
If someone can backup this affirmation with studies and sources, I would
be grateful. I think there is a direct link between free software and
free knowledge and culture. The transformation of solutions and ideas
into proprietary goods with monetary value is a dead end, I think, and
the major obstacle to progress and freedom. But it's extremely difficult
to prove or disprove this theory because of the magnitude and complexity
of its scope.
However, it is essential to try to understand what is happening and what
may happen with knowledge, both with the traditional systems and the
free ones like wp. If we manage to have a clear idea and model of it,
we can build better our philosophy, explain it better, and possibly
achieve a bigger consensus.


Back on the subject of encouraging participation, a general consideration:
Practical solutions are immediate and efficient, but usually lead to
unwanted deviations from the principles. So one should always ask
himself or herself, what are the consequences of this practical
solution? How strong is the change of perspective it introduces?
Is this change desirable, mergeable with our main goals, or at least
reversible? Or will we corrupt our direction for too long (or forever)
if we implement this working approach?

This questioning is notable with the recent questions of attracting more
users, of censorship and of attracting experts.
Should we retain our policies and stall our development or should we
introduce change to keep growing?
My point is to judge the impact of the change comparing it to our
long-term direction. We cannot trade a short-term benefit for a
long-term goal (expressed in our policies) if the modifications cannot
be changed later.
If we cede to censorship, can we regain our loss of independance? If we
invite frivolous minds, can we educate them? If we give privileges to
experts, can we teach them to rescind them later?




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Re: [Foundation-l] Gmail - List messages flagged as spam

2010-06-21 Thread Erik Moeller
I reached out to Google about this, and they tell me it should be
fixed later today, at least for misclassified listserv messages.
According to our contact there, the misclassification happened because
spammers have included images from Wikimedia projects in spam
messages. Let me know offlist if you see additional false positives
from here on.
-- 
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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[Foundation-l] interesting article on anonymous internet posting (and 3 for Erik)

2010-06-21 Thread James Alexander
First so that I don't do a separate email on the subject Thank you Erik for
getting a hold of google :)

I found an interesting article that was in the Boston Globe Magazine this
weekend about anonymous posting on the internet. The article focuses on
those who post on Boston.com but I obviously jumped to comparing it to us
(myopic perhaps?) . I actually think it's a better article on the subject
then I've seen for a while with some good video as well.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2010/06/20/inside_the_mind_of_the_anonymous_online_poster/?page=full

James Alexander
james.alexan...@rochester.edu
jameso...@gmail.com
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Re: [Foundation-l] Encouraging participation

2010-06-21 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Noein prono...@gmail.com wrote:

 If we cede to censorship, can we regain our loss of independance? If we
 invite frivolous minds, can we educate them? If we give privileges to
 experts, can we teach them to rescind them later?


I think if we've learned anything, it is our ability to right the ship.  At
one point I thought of Wikimedia as a pontoon, with a motor.  At this point,
it is a catamaran, with a sail hanging high.  In the long run we'll reach
shore, until then we're sailing in any direction.  Which is fine, because
for some reason it works.  When we wind up at a strange island, we'll figure
out the language.  Magellan taught us that :)

-- 
~Keegan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan
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Re: [Foundation-l] encouraging women's participation

2010-06-21 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:

 [...]
 Besides that, contemporary term for site is social network. There
 are just more and less successful social networks. Wikimedia is
 successful social network for a very specific type of demographics:
 young middle class males. Actually, not so young anymore. I think that
 we are loosing males from younger generations, too.

 That means that we have to work on diversification of our editor
 demographics. And one edit in ten days is better than no edits at all.
 We need cleverly created concepts which would make editing easy, fun,
 causal. With a lot of interesting content around; probably, based on
 existing Wikimedia content, but not necessary.

 The time when wiki concept was new and interesting passed a few years
 ago. And even Microsoft has better sense for new technologies than us.

 For example, our goal is not to make a possibility to read Wikipedia
 from iPhone. Apple did that. The goal is to have easy access to
 editing from iPhone.

Isn't an iPhone one of those gadgets with about 10 cm of
screen and no keyboard? Why would we want to encourage some-
one to edit with such a device? It must be very frustrating
to do so properly, and we don't profit, in fact it is to our
disadvantage if it's done improperly.

  While I appreciate the efforts to encourage wider partici-
pation, IMHO we should make sure that we keep the quality of
our products and our human resources in mind. No edits
at all may be better than one edit in ten days for probably
99% of the population. And I don't think that we will at-
tract the right 1% who will wander the libraries and the web
in search of the missing pieces of information, tackle thick
books and pause before clicking on the Save button to es-
timate whether their edit will find the approval of their
peers, by emphasizing that editing is easy or fun - because
it isn't. And it probably shouldn't be.

Tim


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[Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

2010-06-21 Thread Jeffrey Peters
Dear List,

My name is Jeffrey Peters, a professional researcher who is currently
working on my dissertation (dealing with Romantic poetry) and in addition
Masters in Classical Lit. I am writing to you today to announce the donation
of two fully written pages on two important poems of the English language:
Wordsworth's *Ode: Intimations of Immortality* and Coleridge's *Kubla Khan*.
Their current pages are almost stub level and contain many errors and
problems. Both rewrites/expansions can be found on Simple Wikipedia, a
project that is noble and deserves more involvement by the community as a
whole:

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ottava_Rima/Ode:_Intimations_of_Immortality

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ottava_Rima/Kubla_Khan

The above are works of love, and I dedicated dozens of hours at multiple DC
university libraries compiling research that, as far as I can tell, cannot
be found elsewhere in such a complete and concise form in print or on the
internet. I have provided my time and abilities to produce the page for the
betterment of the WMF and Wikipedia as a whole. I do so because of four
individuals who have inspired me over the last year: Jimbo Wales (for his
dedication to the idea of a free and complete encyclopedia), Samuel Klein
(for his dedication to the projects and valiant effort to ensure high
quality), Cary Bass (for the massive amount of time he puts in ensuring that
volunteers are able to succeed), and Philippe Beaudette (for striving to
make the WMF more academic friendly).

Previously, I donated the material for Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
but I did not compile one whole page with every aspect but included material
in a piecemeal fashion. This did not work as well as I hoped, so I put in
the additional effort to ensure that the pages can be considered complete,
though they may need additional minor copyedits to remove any final errors.

I hope that my donation today will aid Wikipedia's continuing quest to
provide a free and educational encyclopedia, and I hope that the level of
effort and critical eye, to an extent that appears unrivaled in any current
poetry page (even in my previous works), will attract more people to
Wikipedia who shall do the same.

Sincerely,
Jeffrey Peters
aka Ottava Rima
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Re: [Foundation-l] encouraging women's participation

2010-06-21 Thread geni
On 22 June 2010 00:10, Tim Landscheidt t...@tim-landscheidt.de wrote:
 Isn't an iPhone one of those gadgets with about 10 cm of
 screen and no keyboard? Why would we want to encourage some-
 one to edit with such a device? It must be very frustrating
 to do so properly, and we don't profit, in fact it is to our
 disadvantage if it's done improperly.

Augmented reality.

Wikipedia's coverage of local history and geography benefits if we can
get edits from people on the move.

  While I appreciate the efforts to encourage wider partici-
 pation, IMHO we should make sure that we keep the quality of
 our products and our human resources in mind. No edits
 at all may be better than one edit in ten days for probably
 99% of the population.

Given that 99% of the population is over 6 billion people 1 edit every
ten days would result in a lot of worthwhile edits.

 And I don't think that we will at-
 tract the right 1% who will wander the libraries and the web
 in search of the missing pieces of information, tackle thick
 books and pause before clicking on the Save button to es-
 timate whether their edit will find the approval of their
 peers, by emphasizing that editing is easy or fun - because
 it isn't. And it probably shouldn't be.

If wikipedia is to survive it needs to be fun. If wikipedia is going
to get a broad coverage it needs to be easy.

-- 
geni

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Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

2010-06-21 Thread MZMcBride
Jeffrey Peters wrote:
 Both rewrites/expansions can be found on Simple Wikipedia, a project
 that is noble and deserves more involvement by the community as a
 whole:
 
 
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ottava_Rima/Ode:_Intimations_of_Immortalit
y
 
 http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ottava_Rima/Kubla_Khan

Neither article appears to be written in Simple English (or whatever the
Simple English Wikipedia has contrived to mean Simple English).

MZMcBride



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Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

2010-06-21 Thread geni
On 22 June 2010 01:25, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
 Jeffrey Peters wrote:
 Both rewrites/expansions can be found on Simple Wikipedia, a project
 that is noble and deserves more involvement by the community as a
 whole:


 http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ottava_Rima/Ode:_Intimations_of_Immortalit
 y

 http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ottava_Rima/Kubla_Khan

 Neither article appears to be written in Simple English (or whatever the
 Simple English Wikipedia has contrived to mean Simple English).

 MZMcBride

I assume Ottava is using the pages in question as a holding ground
until they can be moved over to en. If you really need to know the
details see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Ottava_Rima_restrictions#Ottava_Rima_banned

But the short version is that in an environment full of people with
poor social skill's Ottava's approach to interactions has caused
problems. Good content editor mind.

-- 
geni

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Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

2010-06-21 Thread Jeffrey Peters
Dear MZMcBride,

As you can see from *The Author's Farce* (
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Author's_Farce), I work first by
writing a standard page then simplify it. It is currently at the 11th grade
level, which is actually below many Simple English DYK noms that I have
simplified from other people before to allow them to proceed. It would be
difficult to write a scholarly work straight into Simple English, but, as I
have shown, it is easy to write it first in standard scholarly language them
simplify.

I would like to ask more writers of quality content on the standard
Wikipedia to simplify their material, after returning to the sources to make
sure the simplifcation falls within the source material, so that Simple
English will have more high quality pages.

Sincerely,
Jeffrey Peters
aka Ottava Rima

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:25 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:

 Jeffrey Peters wrote:
  Both rewrites/expansions can be found on Simple Wikipedia, a project
  that is noble and deserves more involvement by the community as a
  whole:
 
 

 http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ottava_Rima/Ode:_Intimations_of_Immortalit
 y
 
  http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ottava_Rima/Kubla_Khan

 Neither article appears to be written in Simple English (or whatever the
 Simple English Wikipedia has contrived to mean Simple English).

 MZMcBride



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Re: [Foundation-l] encouraging women's participation

2010-06-21 Thread Pavlo Shevelo
 If wikipedia is to survive it needs to be fun. If wikipedia is going
 to get a broad coverage it needs to be easy.

Exactly!

 Given that 99% of the population is over 6 billion people 1 edit every
 ten days would result in a lot of worthwhile edits.

As to the best of my belief the healthier (more natural, organic)
future of WP and all other projects is contribution of wast amount of
people who work not so regularly - mainly when curiosity strikes
versus fierce/fanatic :-P activity of (relatively) very small ...tribe
of wp-geeks (like we are :) ).

pavlo

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:21 AM, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 22 June 2010 00:10, Tim Landscheidt t...@tim-landscheidt.de wrote:
 Isn't an iPhone one of those gadgets with about 10 cm of
 screen and no keyboard? Why would we want to encourage some-
 one to edit with such a device? It must be very frustrating
 to do so properly, and we don't profit, in fact it is to our
 disadvantage if it's done improperly.

 Augmented reality.

 Wikipedia's coverage of local history and geography benefits if we can
 get edits from people on the move.

  While I appreciate the efforts to encourage wider partici-
 pation, IMHO we should make sure that we keep the quality of
 our products and our human resources in mind. No edits
 at all may be better than one edit in ten days for probably
 99% of the population.

 Given that 99% of the population is over 6 billion people 1 edit every
 ten days would result in a lot of worthwhile edits.

 And I don't think that we will at-
 tract the right 1% who will wander the libraries and the web
 in search of the missing pieces of information, tackle thick
 books and pause before clicking on the Save button to es-
 timate whether their edit will find the approval of their
 peers, by emphasizing that editing is easy or fun - because
 it isn't. And it probably shouldn't be.

 If wikipedia is to survive it needs to be fun. If wikipedia is going
 to get a broad coverage it needs to be easy.

 --
 geni

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Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

2010-06-21 Thread John Vandenberg
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Jeffrey Peters
17pet...@cardinalmail.cua.edu wrote:
..

 I would like to ask more writers of quality content on the standard
 Wikipedia to simplify their material, after returning to the sources to make
 sure the simplifcation falls within the source material, so that Simple
 English will have more high quality pages.

I would like more people who care about plays printed in 1730 to scan
and transcribe them... ;-)

--
John Vandenberg

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Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

2010-06-21 Thread Noein
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Oh Kubla Khan! Jorge Luis Borges was fond of the palace's story and the
poem. Thank you for your hard work.

On 22/06/2010 02:05, Jeffrey Peters wrote:
 Dear List,
 
 My name is Jeffrey Peters, a professional researcher who is currently
 working on my dissertation (dealing with Romantic poetry) and in addition
 Masters in Classical Lit. I am writing to you today to announce the donation
 of two fully written pages on two important poems of the English language:
 Wordsworth's *Ode: Intimations of Immortality* and Coleridge's *Kubla Khan*.
 Their current pages are almost stub level and contain many errors and
 problems. Both rewrites/expansions can be found on Simple Wikipedia, a
 project that is noble and deserves more involvement by the community as a
 whole:
 
 http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ottava_Rima/Ode:_Intimations_of_Immortality
 
 http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ottava_Rima/Kubla_Khan
 
 The above are works of love, and I dedicated dozens of hours at multiple DC
 university libraries compiling research that, as far as I can tell, cannot
 be found elsewhere in such a complete and concise form in print or on the
 internet. I have provided my time and abilities to produce the page for the
 betterment of the WMF and Wikipedia as a whole. I do so because of four
 individuals who have inspired me over the last year: Jimbo Wales (for his
 dedication to the idea of a free and complete encyclopedia), Samuel Klein
 (for his dedication to the projects and valiant effort to ensure high
 quality), Cary Bass (for the massive amount of time he puts in ensuring that
 volunteers are able to succeed), and Philippe Beaudette (for striving to
 make the WMF more academic friendly).
 
 Previously, I donated the material for Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
 but I did not compile one whole page with every aspect but included material
 in a piecemeal fashion. This did not work as well as I hoped, so I put in
 the additional effort to ensure that the pages can be considered complete,
 though they may need additional minor copyedits to remove any final errors.
 
 I hope that my donation today will aid Wikipedia's continuing quest to
 provide a free and educational encyclopedia, and I hope that the level of
 effort and critical eye, to an extent that appears unrivaled in any current
 poetry page (even in my previous works), will attract more people to
 Wikipedia who shall do the same.
 
 Sincerely,
 Jeffrey Peters
 aka Ottava Rima
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Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

2010-06-21 Thread Samuel Klein
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Jeffrey Peters
17pet...@cardinalmail.cua.edu wrote:
 Dear List,

 My name is Jeffrey Peters, a professional researcher who is currently
 working on my dissertation (dealing with Romantic poetry) and in addition
 Masters in Classical Lit. I am writing to you today to announce the donation
 of two fully written pages on two important poems of the English language:
 Wordsworth's *Ode: Intimations of Immortality* and Coleridge's *Kubla Khan*.
 Their current pages are almost stub level and contain many errors and
 problems. Both rewrites/expansions can be found on Simple Wikipedia, a
 project that is noble and deserves more involvement by the community as a
 whole:

 http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ottava_Rima/Ode:_Intimations_of_Immortality

 http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ottava_Rima/Kubla_Khan

Delightful.  Thank you, Jeffrey - I hope you don't mind them being
used to update en:wp as well.

And I agree that Simple Wikipedia deserves more involvement from the
community as a whole, and from expert writers in particular.

SJ

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Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

2010-06-21 Thread randallparr5000
THANK YOU . RANDY R. PARR   HAVE A NICE D.


-Original Message-
From: Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: 21-Jun-2010 23:26:13 +
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous 
Poems

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Jeffrey Peters
17pet...@cardinalmail.cua.edu wrote:
 Dear List,

 My name is Jeffrey Peters, a professional researcher who is currently
 working on my dissertation (dealing with Romantic poetry) and in 
addition
 Masters in Classical Lit. I am writing to you today to announce the 
donation
 of two fully written pages on two important poems of the English 
language:
 Wordsworth's *Ode: Intimations of Immortality* and Coleridge's *Kubla 
Khan*.
 Their current pages are almost stub level and contain many errors and
 problems. Both rewrites/expansions can be found on Simple Wikipedia, a
 project that is noble and deserves more involvement by the community 
as a
 whole:

 
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ottava_Rima/Ode:_Intimations_of_Immortality

 http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ottava_Rima/Kubla_Khan

Delightful.  Thank you, Jeffrey - I hope you don't mind them being
used to update en:wp as well.

And I agree that Simple Wikipedia deserves more involvement from the
community as a whole, and from expert writers in particular.

SJ

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Re: [Foundation-l] encouraging women's participation

2010-06-21 Thread Milos Rancic
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
 http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html

 As well as dopamine works during the work, not when the prize has been
 get: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrCVu25wQ5s

Watch this, too:
http://g4tv.com/videos/44277/dice-2010-design-outside-the-box-presentation/

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