Re: [WikiEN-l] A reader's experience with "The Closed, Unfriendly World Of Wikipedia"

2011-12-04 Thread Fred Bauder
> http://daggle.com/closed-unfriendly-world-wikipedia-2853 > > Now whatever the merits of his case, this chap does have a point about > the unfriendliness of the environment. It isn't so much that we've > gone out of our way to be unfriendly, but the tool we use to > interact--the wiki, in other wo

Re: [WikiEN-l] A reader's experience with "The Closed, Unfriendly World Of Wikipedia"

2011-12-04 Thread Marc Riddell
> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Tony Sidaway wrote: >> Now whatever the merits of his case, this chap does have a point about >> the unfriendliness of the environment. It isn't so much that we've >> gone out of our way to be unfriendly, but the tool we use to >> interact--the wiki, in other wor

Re: [WikiEN-l] A reader's experience with "The Closed, Unfriendly World Of Wikipedia"

2011-12-04 Thread Charles Matthews
On 4 December 2011 03:56, Tony Sidaway wrote: > http://daggle.com/closed-unfriendly-world-wikipedia-2853 > > Now whatever the merits of his case, this chap does have a point about > the unfriendliness of the environment. Well covered in The Signpost, in fact. But I came away thinking that there

Re: [WikiEN-l] A reader's experience with "The Closed, Unfriendly World Of Wikipedia"

2011-12-04 Thread Tony Sidaway
On 4 December 2011 16:58, Charles Matthews wrote: > On 4 December 2011 03:56, Tony Sidaway wrote: > >> http://daggle.com/closed-unfriendly-world-wikipedia-2853 >> >> Now whatever the merits of his case, this chap does have a point about >> the unfriendliness of the environment. > > > Well covered

Re: [WikiEN-l] A reader's experience with "The Closed, Unfriendly World Of Wikipedia"

2011-12-04 Thread Will Beback
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Tony Sidaway wrote: > http://daggle.com/closed-unfriendly-world-wikipedia-2853 > > Now whatever the merits of his case, this chap does have a point about > the unfriendliness of the environment. It isn't so much that we've > gone out of our way to be unfriendly, bu

[WikiEN-l] Reminder: IRC office hours about FeedbackDashboard starting in a few mins

2011-12-04 Thread Steven Walling
Hi all, As I noted in my previous email and Village Pump (technical) announcements, we're holding an office hours in #wikimedia-office to talk about Special:FeedbackDashboard as a tool for responding to new editors, specifically with the help of the the informal taskforce WP:RESPONSE. Please join

[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia, Tintin, and The Amazing Race

2011-12-04 Thread Daniel R. Tobias
In tonight's episode of The Amazing Race (a US reality show where contestants race around the world solving clues, treasure-hunt style), one of the puzzles for the contestants while they were in Belgium involved the comic strip Tintin. While the host (Phil) explained a little bit about that st