From the MLA (Modern Languages Association) via the Atlantic:
"Begin the entry in the works-cited list with the author's real name
and, in parentheses, user name, if both are known and they differ. If
only the user name is known, give it alone.
Next provide the entire text of the tweet in quo
Dear Gregory,
Congratulations on WikiQueer - this is a valuable project, and the very
best wishes for it. I'd like to bring your attention to a discussion
held at the recently concluded WikiConference India:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Submissions/Documenting_Indi
Andrew Lih and Steven Walling and Timothy Messer-Kruse on NPR,
discussing exactly this today:
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=147261659&m=147261652
On Thursday 23 February 2012 08:11 AM, Robin McCain wrote:
Well, I'm not an active academic, but I have
On Thursday 23 February 2012 01:10 AM, Thomas Morton wrote:
Splitting this off, Achal, I hope that's OK :)
There's a discussion on at the reliable sources notice board, for instance,
which highlights some of the interpretive problems you raise:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Wikipedia:Reliabl
On Thursday 23 February 2012 12:58 AM, Sarah wrote:
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Achal Prabhala wrote:
Thank you Tom, and Sarah, for your very helpful explanations - they are
extremely useful.
There's a discussion on at the reliable sources notice board, for instance,
which highl
hat's asking a lot :)
On Wednesday 22 February 2012 08:56 PM, Sarah wrote:
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Achal Prabhala wrote:
An aside: there are millions of oral testimonies hosted at thousands of
extremely reputable organisations - on Native American life at the
Smithsonian, or Holocau
On Wednesday 22 February 2012 08:08 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
Journals pose a particular problem as they are often, as in the case of
the three journal articles in this case, behind pay walls. Those are peer
reviewed, while his book by a commercial publisher has not received
academic reviews.
Som
On Wednesday 22 February 2012 06:59 PM, Thomas Morton wrote:
On 22 February 2012 13:11, Achal Prabhala wrote:
On Wednesday 22 February 2012 03:45 PM, Thomas Morton wrote:
Jokes aside :) the problem here is exemplary of what Wikipedia *doesn't*
do well, which is to find ways to a
On Wednesday 22 February 2012 03:45 PM, Thomas Morton wrote:
Jokes aside :) the problem here is exemplary of what Wikipedia *doesn't*
do well, which is to find ways to assess the legitimacy of
not-yet-legitimised knowledge
I'm not seeing a good argument that we *should* assess the legitimacy.
On Wednesday 22 February 2012 01:36 PM, Peter Gervai wrote:
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 03:35, George Herbert wrote:
By far the majority of people who come up and "buck the system" or
challenge established knowledge in this manner are, in fact, kooks or
people with an agenda. This started - as
There's an interesting article out in the current issue of the Chronicle:
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Undue-Weight-of-Truth-on/130704/
It's behind a paywall, but in the spirit of fair use and in keeping with
the author's intent (the article is on Wikipedia, and I believe the
author would
A useful update on this situation, for anyone interested:
http://blogs.outlookindia.com/default.aspx?ddm=10&pid=2665*
*
On Wednesday 07 December 2011 04:09 AM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
> On 06/12/2011 4:21 PM, WereSpielChequers wrote:
>> Unless he casts his net wider I'm personally more concerned
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Kim Bruning wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 09:25:03PM +0530, Achal Prabhala wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 06 December 2011 08:27 PM, Kim Bruning wrote:
>>>> I do not believe that the Indian internet community shares Kapil
>>>
On Tuesday 06 December 2011 08:27 PM, Kim Bruning wrote:
> (Also: seeing reporting on facebook and twitter activity, and
> having viewed pages from eg. Hindi Wikipedia, I do not
> believe that the Indian internet community shares Kapil
> Sibal's position. Though they'll have to speak for
> themse
lquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
> livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a
> construir esse sonho.<http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos>*
>
>
> On 15 November 2011 14:19, Achal Prabhala wrote:
>
>> Can we not pick on a person whose "POV&qu
Can we not pick on a person whose "POV" is that he wishes to participate
in the Wikimedia movement in the fullest way possible?
Pick on me instead. Oh wait...
Best wishes,
Achal
On Tuesday 15 November 2011 07:40 PM, Béria Lima wrote:
> OMG Gomà, can´t you leave any thread in peace without push
gt; Internal-l however, I would be happy to go into much more detail for your
> elucidation.
>
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 3:26 AM, Achal Prabhala
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Theo
> >
> > On 11 November 2011 14:10, Theo10011 wrote:
> >
> > > Ohai Achal
> &
vement" is or where it should be headed.
>
I'm not entirely sure if you're being sarcastic here, Theo, but assuming
good faith, I'll assume that you mean (like Sue pointed out) that the media
does tend to confuse terms that sound and look similar.
> Theo
>
Best wishes,
Hallo Anirudh, Lodewijk,
While I think that this discussion is very useful, it has been happening
for some time - I know that Anirudh has raised these questions before,
for instance. In that sense, I'm not sure how the registration of a
trust changes the situation at all; I think that for anyon
A friend of mine in South Africa, Isabel Hofmeyr, passed on this image
of the first page of the first edition of the English translation of
Gandhi's "Hind Swaraj" - or "Indian Home Rule" in translation. (Hind
Swaraj was the blueprint for India's freedom movement).
The book was published in Sout
On Friday 30 September 2011 11:47 PM, Theo10011 wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Achal Prabhalawrote:
>
>>
>> On Friday 30 September 2011 11:19 PM, Theo10011 wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Achal Prabhala>> wrote:
>>>
>>&g
On Friday 30 September 2011 11:19 PM, Theo10011 wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Achal Prabhalawrote:
>
>>
>> On Friday 30 September 2011 10:54 PM, Theo10011 wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Bishakha Datta>> wrote:
>>>
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Milos Rancic
>>
On Friday 30 September 2011 10:54 PM, Theo10011 wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Bishakha
> Dattawrote:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 16:24, Risker wrote:
Milos, I believe this is exactly the kind of post that Sue was ta
On Thursday 15 September 2011 01:43 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 14 September 2011 21:02, Achal Prabhala wrote:
>
>> It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the world now follows the
>> Wikinews model.
>
> No, you're describing bare skimming of the uned
On Thursday 15 September 2011 12:40 AM, Andrew Lih wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Sarah wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:34, Andrew Lih wrote:
>>> And, in Wikipedia's crowdsourced way, potentially a re-oriented,
>>> mobilized Wikinews could produce in one week what National Geog
On Monday 12 September 2011 02:01 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> [subject changed]
>
>
> On 12 September 2011 08:46, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
>
>> Right, but we do have this systemic bias already in place: in ALL our
>> projects, the articles on localities in Sweden are longer and better
>> written
On Saturday 10 September 2011 06:07 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 14:17, Achal Prabhala wrote:
>> This is an excellent idea. However, to cut down on frivolous closure
>> requests, will you also make more explicit on the page (within the
>> policy) that
On Saturday 10 September 2011 05:28 PM, Ilario Valdelli wrote:
> Good execpt some errors.
>
> Italian is national language in switzerland.
>
> Ilario
>
> On 10 Sep 2011 00:54, "Robin Pepermans" wrote:
>
> An idea that I raised during a discussion between the language
> committee and Wikimedia So
On Monday 05 September 2011 03:53 AM, Kim Bruning wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 11:54:44PM +0100, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>>> Yes, exactly! You're smart! :-)
>>>
>>> Now, one definition of censorship is :
>>> * Filtering on the basis of prejudicial labels.
>>>
>>> We're not actually allowed to cen
An interesting thing happened today. I started receiving frantic calls
this morning from an officer at the National Gallery of Modern Art in
Bangalore, who shall go unnamed. She had got my number from a colleague,
who I met in the course of a GLAM meeting we organised earlier in the
year. This
Dear friends,
A quick update on the oral citations project.
1) We have now posted sample articles in all 3 project languages,
Malayalam, Sepedi and Hindi:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Oral_Citations#Articles.2F_Discussions_.28in_development.29
2) A full English subtitle track for the
Dear Castelo,
On Thursday 28 July 2011 12:25 AM, CasteloBranco wrote:
> Tom,
>
> The fundamental difference in our views is that you talk about
> translation, and i'm talking about another thing. The projects are not
> bare translations of another language version (let's say, the English
> version
his is a possibility, there is no policy on citation of primary
sources on Wikipedia. In academia, field work and interviews are often
paraphrased; they definitely do not have to be reported inside quotes,
though of course, they may be.
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Achal Prabhala
Hallo, (responses inline)
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 11:57 PM, Wjhonson wrote:
> For actual quotations from sources, you should quote the source exactly.
> Then you will never be using original research.
I don't actually understand what this means. If you look at the articles
created:
http://met
Dear Ziko,
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 09:38 PM, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Today I found the time to read the messages about the "Oral Citations"
> project and watch the film "People are Knowledge". I hope that we can
> go on in this discussion without accusations about racism etc. In
> scie
meone on the team. Anyway the english wikipedia seems to be the
> > appropriate place for your original research. I can't wait to read all
> about
> > it.
> >
> > I still think a research project in emesis in the global south or
> something
>
hink a research project in emesis in the global south or something
>> would have suited english wikipedia better but that's just me.
>>
>> Your fan
>>
>> Elizabeth
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Achal Prabhala wrote:
>>
>>
Dear Tom and David,
On Wednesday 27 July 2011 03:03 PM, Thomas Morton wrote:
> This is a really interesting and thoughtfully complete project.
>
> As an editor I am cautious of how well these could be used as citations
> without falling afoul of "original research".
>
> The first problem I see is
Dear friends,
At the beginning of 2011, a group of us began working on a project to
explore alternative methods of citation on Wikipedia. We were motivated
by the lack of published resources in much of the non-Anglo-European
world, and the very real difficulty of citing everyday aspects of lived
r
Sreejith's point is that proving the date of authorship in commonly used
religious iconography is difficult; it's also difficult to work through
the dates of derivatives of the 'original' work in order to establish
which versions have what period - if any - of copyright validity left.
For what
This visualization - 'A History of the World in 100 Seconds' - is
fascinating. And instructive. (The missing byline is that it's a history
of the world according to Wikipedia). Apologies for cross-posting and/or
if you've seen it before - it seems to have been made about 2 months ago.
From the m
On Friday 21 January 2011 07:26 AM, MZMcBride wrote:
> Achal Prabhala wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I'm happy to tell you a little more about myself and the scope of this
>> short-term research project I'm undertaking, and I'm as happy to assume
>> t
ill anyone else from the Advisory board or maybe even the board, past or
present members included, going to receive a "fellowship" now? Does it
matter that they are mostly unknown by the community, obviously not.
E. Forrester
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