Re: [Foundation-l] Participation of intellectual professions

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > Exactly what David said. > -- > ~Keegan > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan > > Aye, there is a group who will never really be able to fit in (I generally think of them as the "elitist" side of the academics but that isn't really

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 74, Issue 129

Re: Participation of intellectual professions I see a number of issues holding professionals back from contributing: 1) Some do not realize that it is possible to edit Wikipedia ( I hear this at work when people ask me how I became an editor ). Maybe we should advertise the fact that yes you too

Re: [Foundation-l] Participation of intellectual professions

Exactly what David said. -- ~Keegan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Participation of intellectual professions

The traditional academic system is based upon status differences between pupils and teachers. One of the problems is the reception they get--a great many experts do not take it kindly when they are challenged by the ignorant, and get no respect for their qualifications, or even negative comments ab

Re: [Foundation-l] Participation of intellectual professions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/05/2010 22:42, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > >> 3. High level physicists also stay away from it. (for example most of >> the theoretical information about [[quasars]] comes from the 1960's. >> Current information on the net is frequently only ava

[Foundation-l] Renaming "Flagged Protections" to "Pending Changes"

Hi everyone, After much debate, we've settled on a name for the English Wikipedia implementation of FlaggedRevs: "Pending Changes". This is a slight variation on one of the finalists ("Pending Revisions") which has the benefit of using the less jargony term "changes" instead of "revisions". The

Re: [Foundation-l] Participation of intellectual professions

> With wikipedia, any expert could reach and teach millions of persons. In > ten or twenty years, every literate person with internet access could > use an interdisciplinary, edge-cutting database of knowledge for their > diary reasoning. > The knowledge and understanding of mankind could make gia

Re: [Foundation-l] Participation of intellectual professions

> 3. High level physicists also stay away from it. (for example most of > the theoretical information about [[quasars]] comes from the 1960's. > Current information on the net is frequently only available through > pay-to-read sites.) > Well, I am a university professor in physics and a Wikipedia

[Foundation-l] Wikidata

Hello. I've just joined the list, as soon as I've known about the Wikidata subject. I've been thinking about a Wikidata project even before I knew about the ideas proposed at Meta. I've explained it to several people in Spanish wikipedia, and there I've begun work on "Wikidata-compliant" populatio

[Foundation-l] Participation of intellectual professions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The premises: 1. I just had a short chat with [[Erik Orsenna]], a member of the [[Académie française]] who "loves to learn and pass along knowledge". He's also interested in the adventure of knowledge and in the democratic processes and appreciate bein

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikidata

I see the highest interest in statistical data that can be automatically updated from official sources. > Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 16:51:27 +1000 > From: John Vandenberg > Subject: [Foundation-l] Wikidata > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > > Cc: peter...@gmail.com, Wikimedia Commons