Re: [WikiEN-l] strategy QOTW

2009-12-03 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Charles Matthews wrote: > No, but I can think much better ways of framing the question than > following up WSJ article would lead to. Studies and articles written by > people not really aware of how our communities function are not really > good places to start, if

Re: [WikiEN-l] strategy QOTW

2009-12-03 Thread Charles Matthews
Philippe Beaudette wrote: > On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:00 AM, wikien-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > > >> Apparently people should use edit summaries and only use American >> English. Agree with the first, disagree with the second (Americans >> asserting ownership on spelling is a negative rath

[WikiEN-l] strategy QOTW

2009-12-03 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:00 AM, wikien-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > Apparently people should use edit summaries and only use American > English. Agree with the first, disagree with the second (Americans > asserting ownership on spelling is a negative rather than a positive > factor); but bo

[WikiEN-l] Interwiki

2009-12-03 Thread Bohgosity BumaskiL
"stevertigo" wrote in message news:7c402e010911271703r1285a9a7gb87af201c346c...@mail.gmail.com... > Bod Notbod wrote: >> Could change, of course: >> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_awards_and_rewards > > Which leads us to the question - is that "peer to peer" logo David > made open sou

Re: [WikiEN-l] Technology Guardian article on global article distribution

2009-12-03 Thread geni
2009/12/3 Charles Matthews : > http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/02/wikipedia-known-unknowns-geotagging-knowledge > > Mark Graham writes. Map of density by geo-tagging round the world, and a > sensible comment that broadband is only just coming to parts of Africa, > meaning we can expec

[WikiEN-l] Technology Guardian article on global article distribution

2009-12-03 Thread Charles Matthews
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/02/wikipedia-known-unknowns-geotagging-knowledge Mark Graham writes. Map of density by geo-tagging round the world, and a sensible comment that broadband is only just coming to parts of Africa, meaning we can expect more editing from there in future.