[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Facebook CTO on strategy, Internet access, Wikipedia

2016-08-18 Thread Pine W
Forwarding, since the subjects may be of interest to people on the Wikitech, AI, and Research lists. I'm unqualified to evaluate Damon's comments and the FB exec's comments about AI, so please refrain from shooting the messenger if these aren't helpful or interesting to those of you who do know en

[Wiki-research-l] Tips for doing wikipedia research

2016-08-18 Thread Stuart A. Yeates
In a parallel thread to this, things to avoid when doing wikipedia research are being discussed. That's turning quite negative, so I thought I'd start a contra-thead. This is all my personal experience and advice based on a decade in en.wiki and twice that in academia. Which account to use? =