Re: [WikiEN-l] Announcement: Survey study on the categorization of contributors to Wikipedia

2011-02-18 Thread Bob the Wikipedian
The first survey's fine. :-) I'm merely suggesting you put out a second survey once this one's harvested. The second survey, of course, would focus more on exploring what we like about anonymity, as you've indicated you're seeing that unexpected trend. Sorry for the confusion! God bless, Bob

[WikiEN-l] List of includipedias

2011-02-18 Thread David Gerard
Every now and then something gets nominated for deletion and fans of it go feral and say "I'm going to start an inclusionist fork! No notability policy!" Do we have a list of these anywhere? - d. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikiEN-l] List of includipedias

2011-02-18 Thread Angela
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:44 PM, David Gerard wrote: > Every now and then something gets nominated for deletion and fans of > it go feral and say "I'm going to start an inclusionist fork! No > notability policy!" > > Do we have a list of these anywhere? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Alte

Re: [WikiEN-l] List of includipedias

2011-02-18 Thread Tom Morris
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 09:44, David Gerard wrote: > Every now and then something gets nominated for deletion and fans of > it go feral and say "I'm going to start an inclusionist fork! No > notability policy!" > > Do we have a list of these anywhere? > The ones off the top of my head: Citizendi

Re: [WikiEN-l] Announcement: Survey study on the categorization of contributors to Wikipedia

2011-02-18 Thread WereSpielChequers
Hi Jeroen, you might also want to look at some of the forks of Wikipedia such as Citizendium and Conservapedia and see how "successful" they have been with their policies of restricting IP editing and even pseudonymous editing. Also there was some discussion about this on the Strategy project. For

[WikiEN-l] Missing Wikipedians: An Essay

2011-02-18 Thread aude
Heather Ford, a former Wikimedia advisory board member and researcher/writer in South Africa has written an essay, "The Missing Wikipedians" about systematic bias on English Wikipedia (especially) against new users and topics pertinent to Africa and other diverse places/people. As an example, she