Re: [Foundation-l] "antisocial production"

Fred Bauder wrote: >> 'Forget altruism. Misanthropy and egotism are the fuel of online social >> production. That's the conclusion suggested by a new study of the >> character >> traits of the contributors to Wikipedia. A team of Israeli research >> psychologists gave personality tests to 69 Wikipe

Re: [Foundation-l] "antisocial production"

Tisza Gergő wrote: > Eddie Tejeda writes: > > it, > >> Wikipedians are generally "grumpy," "disagreeable," and "closed to new >> ideas."' >> http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2009/06/the_

Re: [Foundation-l] Why "Wikipedia" and not "the Wikipedia"?

2009/6/28 Samuel Klein : > Wikipedia does not take an article, nor does Wikimedia. As far as I'm concerned "Wikimedia" doesn't exist as a proper noun. It's just an adjective: "the Wikimedia Foundation", "the Wikimedia movement", "the Wikimedia projects", "the Wikimedia community" etc. ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Why "Wikipedia" and not "the Wikipedia"?

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > ps - I am confused by the first sentence on wikimedia.org [what does > 'Wikimedia' mean there?], and the footer of wikimediafoundation says > "About Wikimedia Foundation" -- missing an article. > Well, the name of the foundation is "Wikimedi

Re: [Foundation-l] Why "Wikipedia" and not "the Wikipedia"?

Wikipedia does not take an article, nor does Wikimedia. When combined with an adjective modifying the project name, or a common noun modified by the name, the compound noun does take an article. "Wikimedia is a non-profit charitable corporation." is correct; so are "The English Wikipedia", "the

Re: [Foundation-l] "antisocial production"

Eddie Tejeda writes: > 'Forget altruism. Misanthropy and egotism are the fuel of online social > production. That's the conclusion suggested by a new study of the character > traits of the contributors to Wikipedia. A team of Israeli research > psychologists gave personality tests to 69 Wikipedia

Re: [Foundation-l] GFDL-only + OTRS

Hoi, The conditions have changed and consequently it should be clear that what we did in the past has a reduced relevance for what we do in the future. When material is not usable for our projects it has no place on Commons. One of the reasons why I feel so strong about it are the people who promis

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikizine at foundaiton-l?

2009/6/28 Walter Vermeir : > Probaly useful for those who do not know it; an expamle It comes out infrequently enough that I suggest that posting it here regularly would be an excellent idea. Could generate discussion, too. And reader submissions! - d.

Re: [Foundation-l] GFDL-only + OTRS

2009/6/27 Gerard Meijssen : > It is not obvious because a viral license assumes that all other content > will be contiminated with the same license. Hence when GFDL only is > incompatlible with our projects this material cannot be used in our > projects. This defeats the objective of Commons. Mere

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikizine at foundaiton-l?

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Re: [Foundation-l] "antisocial production"

> Marc Riddell wrote: >>> on 6/27/09 6:35 PM, David Moran at fordmadoxfr...@gmail.com wrote: >>> While not exactly science, having gone to more than one Wikipedia picnic to break bread with my fellow contributors ... the conclusions seem pretty accurate to me. DM >>> >>

[Foundation-l] Video and subtitles

Hoi, I am at the moment at a book sprint about Open Translation Tools. One of the topics in the books is how to deal with video. Subtitling and dubbing are the two obvious techniques to make video relevant for multiple languages. Kaltura was mentioned and, Kaltura has combined its platform with Sub

Re: [Foundation-l] "antisocial production"

You can find the original study at: http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/cpb.2007.0225?cookieSet=1 apparently they used a pre-existing questionairre called the BFI Questionnaire (probably stands for Big Five Inv