Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia's response to 2012 Aurora shooting

2012-07-25 Thread Kerry Raymond
Hi, James! Thanks for the link to your paper. It was interesting reading. I think your observations about FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) are very relevant also to Wikipedia. WP has many of the same characteristics, as both are based on information objects, an WP edit is pretty much the

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia's response to 2012 Aurora shooting

2012-07-25 Thread Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia
On 07/25/2012 10:17 AM, Kerry Raymond wrote: What WP appears to have is more people willing to do the housekeeping, those committed editors who roam around adding geo-locations and infoboxes and categories and standardising the capitalisation of article titles and the recent change patrol and

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] IRC office hours with the Analytics team, Monday, July 30, 2012 at 19:00 UTC

2012-07-25 Thread Dario Taraborelli
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