Re: [WikiEN-l] Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia

2010-10-12 Thread Ron Ritzman
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
 Forwarding from foundation-l.

 David - thanks for the heads-up; this essay is brilliant, and not just
 about biology.
 Here's a shorter link:  http://j.mp/ten-wiki-rules

And to think I was only able to come up with 8.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:8_simple_rules_for_editing_our_encyclopedia

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia

2010-10-02 Thread Charles Matthews
  On 02/10/2010 01:36, Carcharoth wrote:
 That looks like the paper I read a preview copy of a few months ago at
 a wiki-meetup! I remember thinking much the same thing as David
 (Gerard) at the time, along the lines of this is great stuff!. :-)

Indeedy. Two of the authors were there, and I had been working on a 
third to come.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Cambridge_8

More to come, late October:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Cambridge_9

Charles


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[WikiEN-l] Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia

2010-10-01 Thread Samuel Klein
Forwarding from foundation-l.

David - thanks for the heads-up; this essay is brilliant, and not just
about biology.
Here's a shorter link:  http://j.mp/ten-wiki-rules

Magnus - I see your hand in this :-)   I'd love to see the edit
history...  Have you or your co-authors also published this on one of
the major wikis?

SJ


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From: David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?
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On 28 September 2010 12:38, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:

 Why are there any experts on Wikipedia?

I predict Wikipedia's biology articles will far outshine its
philosophy articles for the simple fact that the biologists bother:

http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1000941

(That article is great, by the way. It gives strong reasons for
experts to put in the effort to bother.)

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia

2010-10-01 Thread Carcharoth
That looks like the paper I read a preview copy of a few months ago at
a wiki-meetup! I remember thinking much the same thing as David
(Gerard) at the time, along the lines of this is great stuff!. :-)

Carcharoth

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
 Forwarding from foundation-l.

 David - thanks for the heads-up; this essay is brilliant, and not just
 about biology.
 Here's a shorter link:  http://j.mp/ten-wiki-rules

 Magnus - I see your hand in this :-)   I'd love to see the edit
 history...  Have you or your co-authors also published this on one of
 the major wikis?

 SJ


 -- Forwarded message --
 From: David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
 Date: Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:43 PM
 Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?
 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org


 On 28 September 2010 12:38, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:

 Why are there any experts on Wikipedia?

 I predict Wikipedia's biology articles will far outshine its
 philosophy articles for the simple fact that the biologists bother:

 http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1000941

 (That article is great, by the way. It gives strong reasons for
 experts to put in the effort to bother.)

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