[Foundation-l] Wikipedia Middle East Workshop in Amman

2012-03-18 Thread Heather Ford
Friends from the Oxford Internet Institute well-known for their global 
Wikipedia research, including Mark Graham, are organizing a workshop for Middle 
East contributors to Wikipedia in Amman next month. But interest in 
participating has been so low that they may need to postpone. If you edit 
Middle East articles and are from the region, or if you know anyone who fits 
the criteria, please see the invites below: 

http://www.zerogeography.net/2012/02/open-invitation-to-workshop-in-amman.html
http://www.zerogeography.net/2012/02/blog-post_01.html

There are some travel grants available too. This is a really great initiative 
and it would be sad for them to have to cancel! 

Best,
Heather.

Heather Ford 
Ethnographer: Ushahidi / SwiftRiver
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Re: [Foundation-l] On Wikinews

2011-09-14 Thread Heather Ford
On Sep 14, 2011, at 2:21 PM, Theo10011 wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Sarah  wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 14:28, Theo10011  wrote:
>> 
>> Adding video-taped interviews is the next step. Imagine articles about
>> the Second World War containing video interviews by Wikipedians of
>> people who lived through certain parts of it. There is no inherent POV
>> issue there, so long as we observe NPOV, just as we do with text.
>> Primary sources are already allowed, so long as used descriptively and
>> not interpreted.
>> 
>> Sarah
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> I had no idea we were so liberal about original research/primary sources
> from the countless hours I spent in #wikipedia-en-help telling new users why
> their cited references were rejected. Well, now we can finally have those
> thousands of articles about cure-alls and diet-pills, and penis-enlargement
> exercises, since the manufacturer's own research would satisfy those
> standards.

I'm not sure how this is related to the multimedia and images question? Will 
having multimedia illustrating an article mean that we have more cure-alls and 
diet-pills articles? Or is this a slippery-slope argument? 

> 
> Now I wonder who I can cite for this picture of Bigfoot(allegedly) I found
> somewhere.
> 
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Heather Ford 
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