That's excellent. Kudos to the fellows team and good luck with your
project, Pete! SJ
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Siko Bouterse wrote:
> It is my pleasure to introduce our newest Wikimedia Community Fellow of
> 2012, Peter Coombe. As a fellow, Pete will be working with the community to
> i
Just a reminder this is happening in #wikimedia-office in about 15-20
minutes.
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Oh my god, I think I'll recommend the Germans to create a work group
to have a close look at all those materials. :-)
Thank's for the links
Ziko
2012/4/13 aude :
> Am Apr 11, 2012 um 9:28 AM schrieb Heather Ford :
>
>
>> Have a quick question for some work I'm doing on Wikipedia literacy:
>>
>> W
Am Apr 11, 2012 um 9:28 AM schrieb Heather Ford :
Have a quick question for some work I'm doing on Wikipedia literacy:
What resources are folks using to teach others how to edit
Wikipedia? At Wikipedia Academies etc?
Here are some materials we have used at workshop, especially the one-
da
Hello, I accompany people in real life mostly in an early phase, or I
supervise them in a way that the result is not problematic. How people
later survive onwiki on their own - I usually don't come to know. We
discussed this in Germany and thought that for privacy reasons we also
don't want follow
There is also a ton of case studies and best practices developed by the
GLAM WIKI volunteers:
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Get_started is a good place to
look for some inspiration and speaking points.
And Lori and the crew worked hard on t
> Have a quick question for some work I'm doing on Wikipedia literacy:
>
> What resources are folks using to teach others how to edit Wikipedia? At
> Wikipedia Academies etc?
>
>
Have a look at the Outreach Bookshelf:
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf
"Welcome to Wikipedia" is well-used
It is my pleasure to introduce our newest Wikimedia Community Fellow of
2012, Peter Coombe. As a fellow, Pete will be working with the community to
improve help documentation on English Wikipedia. He’ll be leading a 6 month
effort and taking a data-driven approach to reorganize and rewrite key help
On 12 April 2012 21:24, James Heilman wrote:
> With respect to audience, on Wikipedia we write for a general audience yet
> our medical content is still used by 50-70% of practicing physicians.
> Lonely planet lists hotels in different section based on price. On
> Wikipedia we use editorial judgem
Thanks, Ziko. That's really interesting and sounds like an effective way of
getting them started.
I'm curious what kinds of problems people contact you about when they start
editing for real?
On Apr 12, 2012, at 1:45 PM, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Myself, I have a presentation which
> [create some simple userspace articles for newbies to correct and edit]
Great idea, Ziko! Thanks for sharing. I'll definitely do this when I
do some training.
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On Thursday, April 12, 2012, Siko Bouterse wrote:
> It is my pleasure to introduce our newest Wikimedia Community Fellow of
> 2012, Peter Coombe. As a fellow, Pete will be working with the community to
> improve help documentation on English Wikipedia. He’ll be leading a 6 month
> effort and takin
Hi -
Just a reminder that we are still looking for volunteers to be nominated
for the Funds Dissemination Committee Advisory Group. This group will help
shape the initial setup of an important new committee to support funds
flows within the movement and will provide valuable advice and counsel to
Hello,
Myself, I have a presentation which shows a basic wiki principle; I
noticed that showing the same thing onwiki would make me jumping too
much from page to page.
Showing Wikipedia functionalities then onwiki I call "Wikipedia
surfing" (version history, talk pages etc.).
If it is a workshop w
With respect to audience, on Wikipedia we write for a general audience yet
our medical content is still used by 50-70% of practicing physicians.
Lonely planet lists hotels in different section based on price. On
Wikipedia we use editorial judgement about what to include and what not to
include. We
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Casey Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Mark Jaroski wrote:
>> We're under the impression that there are
>> other Wikimedia foundation projects which don't use NPOV, and so those of
>> us favouring approaching WMF have been able to argue that we wou
- What sort of size is the WT community at the moment?
I'll leave it to one of the others to answer that? Ryan?
The English language WT version is the largest and gets around 500-1000
edits each day. There are 69,046 registered users and 48 admins, but on
any given day it's probably fair to
On 10 April 2012 17:51, Barry Newstead wrote:
> If we simply select an FDC (btw - how would this happen?) and ask them to
> figure out the issues for themselves, this would be a recipe for serious
> challenges that could doom the FDC from the start. A relatively brief, but
> structured process tha
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Mark Jaroski wrote:
> We're under the impression that there are
> other Wikimedia foundation projects which don't use NPOV, and so those of
> us favouring approaching WMF have been able to argue that we wouldn't be
> forced to use it. If that's wrong then we should
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 16:16, Michael Peel
wrote:
> It's not just you; the Wiki Travel Guide emails are also appearing in
> multiple email threads for me. And they're all over the place in the
> archive:
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-April/thread.html
>
> Might be an iss
It's not just you; the Wiki Travel Guide emails are also appearing in multiple
email threads for me. And they're all over the place in the archive:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-April/thread.html
Might be an issue with the list settings?
Thanks,
Mike
P.S. This project sou
>
> > - What are the policies/approach to copyright violations and other issues
> > such as slander, etc?
> >
>
> http://wikitravel.org/shared/Copyleft
>
>
>
I was more looking for the communities approach to hunting down, removing
or otherwise investigating copyright issues. (this is quite an impo
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 14:39, Thomas Morton
wrote:
> Just to highlight my earlier point about sourcing, the article on Florence
> currently says:
>
> Opera was invented in Florence.
>
>
> This happens to be true - but I have no proof of it, and it may well simply
> be the opinion of the original
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 14:33, Thomas Morton
wrote:
> p.s. I read your "fair" link with interest - I think that is a good way to
> resolve the issue with clashing of personal experience. However one thing a
> bigger community brings is a difficulty in resolving these problems (or,
> they crop up m
Just to highlight my earlier point about sourcing, the article on Florence
currently says:
Opera was invented in Florence.
This happens to be true - but I have no proof of it, and it may well simply
be the opinion of the original writer. Much of the rest of the historical
section is the same; it
>
> > What I think would be important to avoid is too much subjective
> information
> > from one individual; for example, where I to write about York, UK I would
> > recommend not going to the Jorvik centre (a main attraction) because I
> > thought it overpriced and boring.
> >
>
>
> > Whilst my vi
We've mainly approached this issue encouraging the different groups of
travellers to add relevant content for their areas. We specifically try to
mix it all in, because we don't want to section anyone off. There was
considerable controversy back in 2005 or so about adding an LBGT section to
the gui
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:04:27 +0200, Mark Jaroski wrote:
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:41, Thomas Morton
wrote:
So in summary I don't see that there is any real difference in our
stance
on this - it might just need a bit of rethinking.
We'd like to express it as "Traveller's Point of View".
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:41, Thomas Morton
wrote:
> What I think would be important to avoid is too much subjective information
> from one individual; for example, where I to write about York, UK I would
> recommend not going to the Jorvik centre (a main attraction) because I
> thought it overpr
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Mono wrote:
> Can we please have a Wikidata logo contest? They're such a waste of time,
> but they've made some really great logos and are always fun/
Yes. We're already collecting ideas at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikidata#WikiData_logo_candidate
and t
>
> First, NPOV would probably be a deal-breaker. The travel wiki community
> (usually working at Wikitravel) have long used Traveller's Point of View.
> This point of view is not neutral at all, but favours the traveller.
> Hoteliers, restaurateurs, etc. have different points of view, but for us
>
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:30:45 -0600, James Heilman wrote:
@Yaroslov
1) A merger within a WMF project is supported by admins from both WT
and
WV. WV is going to be meeting on the possibility of merging June 9th
in
Germany
2) Wikimedia's mission is to provide freely available educational
conte
On 4/12/2012 12:04 AM, rupert THURNER wrote:
I am not to deep into this, so please bear with me if it already was
mentioned before: what are the main issues you face with the current
setting?
As with any diverse community different individuals will have different
opinions, but some of the issu
Hi Rupert,
The current hosting provider (who also own a trademark on the site name,
and the right to place advertisements on the site) have become unresponsive
to requests for server maintenance and especially software upgrades,
feature requests, etc.
Speaking for myself, one of the main interest
I am not to deep into this, so please bear with me if it already was
mentioned before: what are the main issues you face with the current
setting?
Am 12.04.2012 08:53 schrieb "Mark Jaroski" :
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a long-standing editor/admin/etc. at Wikitravel, though I've been less
> active in recen
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