Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] Farewell, Erik!

2019-02-07 Thread rupert THURNER
Many thanks erik and all the best!! One sentence in eriks blog post cited i found surprising. What type of modesty you guys were talking about? "At Wikimania London (2014) I talked about how we should err on the side of modesty. That message never came across. I started to have a discussion on

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Thinking big: scaling up Wikimedia's contributor population by two orders of magnitude

2016-08-27 Thread rupert THURNER
On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > The English Wikipedia alone has hundreds of thousands of items to fix - > missing references, misspellings, etc. The problems are nicely sorted at >

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Paper: "Fostering Voluntary Contributions to a Public Good"

2016-05-13 Thread rupert THURNER
On May 13, 2016 09:43, "Pine W" wrote: > > Thanks to Ed Erhart for finding this: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2579118 > Ha I like the sentence "...standard economics would predict that rational individuals do not contribute to Wikipedia." Rupert