On 20 February 2016 at 12:44, Samuel Klein wrote:
> The full paper is very much worth reading.
>
> Peter writes:
>> One theory may be that outsiders contribute trivial fixes, which are
>> virtually assured to have a 100% acceptance rate by communities that
>> wish to expand.
>
> Did you read the p
One theory may be that outsiders contribute trivial fixes, which are
virtually assured to have a 100% acceptance rate by communities that
wish to expand. Even if the trivial fix is slightly broken the
maintainer can patch it up after the merge and give the contributor a
sense of achievement by acce
On 23 May 2012 14:47, Richard Jensen wrote:
> Making them pay $1000 to $5000 so their
> article is open access is a very unwise way to promote their scholarship.
> (Few if any prestigious history journals are now open access; this seems
> more an issue in sciences.)
Some open access journals waiv
On 3 May 2012 06:08, Laura Hale wrote:
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> I'm not seeing a problem with running out of ideas. I do see a bit of a
> culture that discourages people from using red links though.
I blame that on teachers that tell students not to use Red pens for
historical reasons (which they would never seem
The fact that there are only a few wikimedia personell who are able to
access the information about browsing trails, and a few community
representatives who can check the IP's for registered users doesn't
mean Wikimedia doesn't spy. It spys heavily on editing, and then
offers some of the informatio
Wikipedia for academics maybe not given the inbuilt mechanisms
made specifically for discouraging them. Getting them to use wiki's in
general however is a much easier task though and should be promoted
more widely even if on-Wikipedia networks don't pick up.
Peter Ansell
rought up before,
but they are issues that wiki technology doesn't exactly excel in yet
so it would be a start. Improved referencing methods in wiki's may
also be another topic which could be investigated at the technical
level.
Peter Ansell
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This sounds like the way the SKOS ontology is used in dbpedia.org.
They don't have that level of analysis worked out though.
Peter Ansell
On 26/02/2008, Kotaro Nakayama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To Wikipedia researchers,
>
> My name is Dr. Kotaro Nakayama from Osaka Un
