[WikiEN-l] Positives to publicity

For what it's worth, we are getting a good amout of email asking about how to help the project because of the BBC and NYT.  Here's to that. -- Sent from my Palm Pre ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing

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Yes. We need all the help we can get! Emily On Aug 26, 2009, at 7:33 PM, kgnp...@gmail.com wrote: > For what it's worth, we are getting a good amout of email asking > about how to help the project because of the BBC and NYT. Here's to > that. > > -- Sent from my Palm Pre > >

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On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:33 AM, kgnp...@gmail.com wrote: > For what it's worth, we are getting a good amout of email asking about how to > help the project because of the BBC and NYT.  Here's to that. Do we have a welcome mat rolled out and some magic pixie dust to tell people to please not be B

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> Do we have a welcome mat rolled out and some magic pixie dust to > tell people to please not be BITE-y? *pixie dust pixie dust* ;-D > We don't want a large influx of editors arriving to help after > reading about things in the news, only to run into someone > unfriendly or rules-bound. I

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Can't do anything but help as possible, from whatever forum.  These are the folks interested enough to click contact us, so there's certainly more. -- Sent from my Palm Pre Emily Monroe wrote: > Do we have a welcome mat rolled out and some magic pixie dust to > tell people to please not be BI

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> Can't do anything but help as possible, from whatever forum. Perhaps I'm obsessing a bit, but clearly Signpost would at least run an article about the increase of new users after the news. I would assume you would be on Wikipedia longer, though, so yeah. > These are the folks interested eno

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On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Emily Monroe wrote: > I agree. Maybe have a Signpost-like note to everyone subscribed to > Signpost? Maybe have that actually in the Signpost? Something like > "Editors note: There's an influx of newbies, so please be patient". > How will that work? Nah. We need p

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> > > It would be interesting if someone did a study on initial interactions > between newcomers and oldbies to see if anything can be improved. But > IMHO the best way to avoid newbies getting "bitten" is to help them > avoiding newbie mistakes in the first place - a good interface, the > right he

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Correction, it was a blog. I just don't remember where. If'n anyone else does, please post. It was a good read. On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Keegan Paul wrote: > >> It would be interesting if someone did a study on initial interactions >> between newcomers and oldbies to see if anything

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...and they are continuing to roll in. Any more firm ideas? They seem to think that they are applying for "staff". I haven't the time to read all reporting, feedback would be great. On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Keegan Paul wrote: > Correction, it was a blog. I just don't remember where.

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Could you link to an example? On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Keegan Paul wrote: > ...and they are continuing to roll in.  Any more firm ideas?  They seem to > think that they are applying for "staff".  I haven't the time to read all > reporting, feedback would be great. > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009

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> They seem to think that they are applying for "staff". Maybe we need to make it more obvious that there's no "staff" at Wikipedia, at least for the time being. Emily On Aug 28, 2009, at 2:49 AM, Keegan Paul wrote: > ...and they are continuing to roll in. Any more firm ideas? They > seem

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The reason for this is, when Flagged Revisions got into the press last week, a number of sources reported that Wikipedia would be recruiting 20,000 "unpaid expert editors" as staff to check the articles Google: http://news.google.com/news/search?um=1&hl=en&q=wikipedia+%22expert+editors%22 Ex

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> The reason for this is, when Flagged Revisions got into the press > last week, a number of sources reported that Wikipedia would be > recruiting 20,000 "unpaid expert editors" as staff to check the > articles Holy cow. Is Jimbo aware of this? Emily On Aug 28, 2009, at 10:04 AM, FT2 wr

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2009/8/28 FT2 : > The reason for this is, when Flagged Revisions got into the press last week, > a number of sources reported that Wikipedia would be recruiting 20,000 > "unpaid expert editors" as staff to check the articles > > Google: > > http://news.google.com/news/search?um=1&hl=en&q=wikipe

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On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Emily Monroe wrote: >> The reason for this is, when Flagged Revisions got into the press >> last week, a number of sources reported that Wikipedia would be >> recruiting 20,000 "unpaid expert editors" as staff to check the >> articles > > Holy cow. Is Jimbo awar

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> Don't you mean "is the Wikimedia Foundation aware of this?" Yes, that's exactly what I mean! Emily On Aug 28, 2009, at 10:19 AM, Carcharoth wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Emily Monroe > wrote: >>> The reason for this is, when Flagged Revisions got into the press >>> last week, a n

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FT2 wrote: > The reason for this is, when Flagged Revisions got into the press last week, > a number of sources reported that Wikipedia would be recruiting 20,000 > "unpaid expert editors" as staff to check the articles > I am actually curious as to where precisely did they pull that partic

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No, I haz no link.  By "we" I meant the Foundation, ticket numbers are available upon private request if you have access to the system. -- Sent from my Palm Pre Carcharoth wrote: Could you link to an example? On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Keegan Paul wrote: > ...and the

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On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > FT2 wrote: >> The reason for this is, when Flagged Revisions got into the press last week, >> a number of sources reported that Wikipedia would be recruiting 20,000 >> "unpaid expert editors" as staff to check the articles >> > > I

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On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Emily Monroe wrote: >> Do we have a welcome mat rolled out and some magic pixie dust to >> tell people to please not be BITE-y? > > *pixie dust pixie dust* ;-D > >> We don't want a large influx of editors arriving to help after >> reading about things in the news, o

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In a message dated 8/28/2009 8:10:34 AM Pacific Daylight Time, bluecalioc...@me.com writes: > Holy cow. Is Jimbo aware of this?>> -- Jimbo is irrelevant. We're cooking and eating him next week. W.J. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@l

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> Jimbo is irrelevant. We're cooking and eating him next week. I'll bet he'll be delicious with BBQ sauce and a side of mashed potatoes and baked beans. Mmm mmm mmm. X-D Emily On Aug 28, 2009, at 1:12 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 8/28/2009 8:10:34 AM Pacific Daylight Time

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2009/8/28 Emily Monroe : >> Jimbo is irrelevant.  We're cooking and eating him next week. > I'll bet he'll be delicious with BBQ sauce and a side of mashed > potatoes and baked beans. Mmm mmm mmm. X-D And we can always revert to the previous Jimbo, so lots for everyone! - d.

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> And we can always revert to the previous Jimbo, so lots for everyone! When we are done, we can revert and voila! Wikipedia has food forever! Emily On Aug 28, 2009, at 1:18 PM, David Gerard wrote: > 2009/8/28 Emily Monroe : > >>> Jimbo is irrelevant. We're cooking and eating him next week. > >

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In a message dated 8/28/2009 11:20:44 AM Pacific Daylight Time, bluecalioc...@me.com writes: > > When we are done, we can revert and voila! Wikipedia has food forever!>> - Just imagine how many Terabytes of data are hiden under the iceberg tip that is what the casual reade

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On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:25 PM, wrote: > > Just imagine how many Terabytes of data are hiden under the iceberg tip > that is what the casual reader sees. I have yet to see any paper about > say, > "The Twisty Turny Biography of Lincoln Evolves Over Six Years" > > Will Johnson > > >

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I'd be all up for writing a wikibook introduction to Wikipedia. Anyone else interested? :) FT2 On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Keegan Paul wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:25 PM, wrote: > > > > > Just imagine how many Terabytes of data are hiden under the iceberg tip > > that is what the ca

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Only if I get to write the Drama chapter. -Original Message- From: FT2 To: English Wikipedia Sent: Fri, Aug 28, 2009 1:40 pm Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Positives to publicity I'd be all up for writing a wikibook introduction to Wikipedia. Anyone else interested? :) FT2 O

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I'm serious. FT2 On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:09 PM, wrote: > Only if I get to write the Drama chapter. > > > -Original Message- > From: FT2 > To: English Wikipedia > Sent: Fri, Aug 28, 2009 1:40 pm > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Positives to publicity >

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2009/8/28 : > Just imagine how many Terabytes of data are hiden under the iceberg tip > that is what the casual reader sees.  I have yet to see any paper about say, > "The Twisty Turny Biography of Lincoln Evolves Over Six Years" There's something related that's been floating around for a fe

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The last book of Wikipedia was too fluffy. I prefer reality. Gritty, in the trenches, kick sand in your face, thumb wrestle to the death! Tabloid style. -Original Message- From: FT2 To: English Wikipedia Sent: Fri, Aug 28, 2009 2:13 pm Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Positives to publicity

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t look at their faces as they push that grind-stone around and around and around. I'm like that. Only with a whip. W.J. -Original Message- From: Andrew Gray To: English Wikipedia Sent: Fri, Aug 28, 2009 4:24 pm Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Positives to publicity 2009/8/28

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Keegan Paul wrote: > People truly do have no clue about how to edit or the community and how it > functions. Actually, I don't think the functionality of the community can > be described. > Folks are amazed to be told that they can edit willy nilly, make an account > and all that. For all our pop

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2009/8/28 FT2 : > I'd be all up for writing a wikibook introduction to Wikipedia. Anyone else > interested? :) > > FT2 Most people are not going to want to read a book before editing wikipedia. Your problems are: 1)getting people to click the edit link in the first place (polish style tab highlig

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On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:47 PM, geni wrote: > Most people are not going to want to read a book before editing > wikipedia. Your problems are: > -1) Getting people to realise that it's possible to edit 0) Getting people to want to edit > 1)getting people to click the edit link in the first place

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> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:14:00 -0500 > From: Emily Monroe > > Holy cow. Is Jimbo aware of this?>> >> Jimbo is irrelevant. We're cooking and eating him next week. >> > I'll bet he'll be delicious with BBQ sauce and a side of mashed > potatoes and baked beans. Mmm mmm mmm. X-D >