hanks!
Craig Newmark
founder, craigslist
On Nov 2, 2016 12:44 PM, "FRED BAUDER"
wrote:
Craig,
I don't expect you to do anything about it, but Hillary Clinton
presidential campaign, 2016 has been so much an object of political
editing
by Clinton supporters that it looks more li
from the election. How
about...reminding me two weeks from today. I might've recovered by
then,
seriously...
Thanks!
Craig Newmark
founder, craigslist
On Nov 2, 2016 12:44 PM, "FRED BAUDER"
wrote:
Craig,
I don't expect you to do anything about it, but Hillary Clinton
p
Craig,
I don't expect you to do anything about it, but Hillary Clinton
presidential campaign, 2016 has been so much an object of political
editing by Clinton supporters that it looks more like an ad for
Hillary than a Wikipedia article.
Fred Bauder
On Wed, 2 Nov 2016 11:43:32 -0400
If we could somehow create such a good and engaging game that money in
our "game" could somehow be valuable enough that Europeans and Americans
would buy it from Asian gold farmers who were doing lots of routine
updating, or sophisticated editing for that matter, on Wikipedia I
wouldn't see that as
> Will this move (inviting gamers to contribute to Wikipedia in "gamified"
> interfaces) further skew the gender demographics of Wikipedia
> contributors?
> Is there any alternative that provide customized interfaces that are
> more
> inviting to existing gender-balanced or even female-dominant su
There is resistance to including material with no published reliable
source. They can also edit Wikia which is to a certain extent devoted to
gaming.
Fred
> I think there might be some resistance within the WP community to
> encouraging detailed game content in WP. There are plenty of other wikis
It was interesting to notice that Wikipedias ideas and principles did
not work (...) Almost none of the students edited the articles during a
period of three month.
True of Wikipedia viewed on a global basis, less than .1% edit.
Fred
> Hello,
>
> I have already discussed this work on the mai
"No more than 10% really played the game: they actually produced half of
the wiki content." An example of the relentless elitism the software
encourages.
Fred
> Hello,
>
> I have already discussed this work on the mailing list two months ago.
> You may now find the preprint on Wikipapers:
> http:
"meaning is not the product of a one-sided teaching, but of a dialogical
exchange between two seemingly equal human consciousness" Again, we do
not aspire to "meaning" nor to "dialog" only to consensus regarding the
corpus of generally-accepted information. Even calling it knowledge is a
stretch. I
"Truth is a relative virtue, that mostly depends on the effectivity of
social procedures and norms." Wikipedia makes no such claim; only that it
is a summary of generally accepted knowledge.
Fred
> Hello,
>
> I have already discussed this work on the mailing list two months ago.
> You may now fin
I've just started reading this, but a few thoughts right off:
"As every experiment it should be reproducible"
This is not possible because Wikipedia has a world-wide audience and is a
top 10 website. No comparable can be expected to develop.
Also, compared to using Wikipedia in junior high or co
> Piotr says "Let me repeat: editors, authors and reviewers are not
> paid" That's completely false. They are all paid professional
> salaries by their home universities, and the kind of work they do is
> counted in terms of getting jobs, promotions, pay raises and
> tenure. Furthermore for the
We have about as much talent and personnel as one journal. And an
operation of about the same order of magnitude.
Fred
> There seems to be a great deal of misunderstanding among Wikipedians
> how academe actually works. Piotr thinks a grad student can produce a
> scholarly journal. Look at histor
> Thanks everyone! I knew that one should be careful with Alexa but I
> didn´t expect it could be THAT wrong. It´s a pity because otherwise it
> could be a convenient and interesting tool. The next question is: is
> this rather an exception or is Alexa in general not reliable? Maybe I
> shouldn´t u
> Hi,
> I realized today that surprinsingly the Russian Wikiversity is better
> ranked by Alexa than the English version (ru.wikiversity.org = 53.66% of
> wikiveritsy.org´s traffic, en.wikiversity.org only 33.28%).
> The description says:
> "(...) it is relatively popular among users in the city o
e
nearly always amateur editors, although they may be enrolled in sophomore
mathematics classes. A good textbook, or Wikipedia article requires a
skilled teacher who can gradually introduce the reader to the concepts,
and jargon of mathematics.
Fred Bauder
> So far, the best phrasing I've
Watchlist behavior is complex confidential behavior. It is probably
impossible to obtain a representative sample. What could be done is
investigate patterns of watchlist, and article maintenance, behavior.
Fred
> James Howison wrote:
>
>> Currently my plan is to assume that anyone who has edited
d of
a nuisance, essentially whackamole.
Investment in articles varies greatly.
Fred Bauder
> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on a study for which I'd like to know more about editors'
> watchlisting practices. Of course what I'd really like is to know who
> had what
The point is well taken that the proposal was not that well advertised
and I still haven't found a link to the RFC.
Fred Bauder
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Piotr Konieczny wrote:
>> Bryan Song wrote:
>>> The Wikipedia:Research policy on subject recruitment on Wik
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