Rick Falkvinge has been writing a book, Swarmwise, on how the Pirate
Party organised. He's been posting it a chapter at a time to his blog.
You know how Wikipedia/Wikimedia has (or had) the meme that voting is
evil? This sets out why.
Hi all,
it's never too late for a monthly report. Please note that the report for
May from Wikimedia Deutschland has been translated and is now available on
Meta.
In May, we dealt with the following topics:
- the new and revised edition of the GLAM brochure
- WMDE's experiences at the
David Gerard, 01/07/2013 12:38:
tl;dr: voting creates winners and losers, and losers are unhappy and disengage.
Right; to be added to the list of reasons why ranked voting like Schulze
was better than the last antagonistic support/oppose for WMF board
elections (which also adds incentives to
Rick Falkvinge has been writing a book, Swarmwise, on how the Pirate
Party organised. He's been posting it a chapter at a time to his blog.
You know how Wikipedia/Wikimedia has (or had) the meme that voting is
evil? This sets out why.
tl;dr: voting creates winners and losers, and losers are unhappy and
disengage.
We see this effect anyway. Correlation does not imply causation. :)
Tom
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Hi all,
Today, the British Library announced the Picturing Canada project to
mark Canada Day (1st July). Those of you who were at GLAM-Wiki in
April may remember this collection: it's a digitisation of the
Canadian Copyright Collection, 1895-1924, covering photographs
deposited for copyright
Very interesting. Congrats!
2013/7/1 Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk
Hi all,
Today, the British Library announced the Picturing Canada project to
mark Canada Day (1st July). Those of you who were at GLAM-Wiki in
April may remember this collection: it's a digitisation of the
Canadian
On 1 July 2013 19:29, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
Hi all,
Today, the British Library announced the Picturing Canada project to
mark Canada Day (1st July). Those of you who were at GLAM-Wiki in
April may remember this collection: it's a digitisation of the
Canadian Copyright
