Re: [Foundation-l] Encouraging participation

2010-06-20 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Noein wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 20/06/2010 01:49, Milos Rancic wrote: > > * At another faculty we have a teaching assistant among Wikimedians. > > After two projects, we've concluded cooperation because students > > didn't qui

Re: [Foundation-l] Encouraging participation

2010-06-20 Thread Mariano Cecowski
--- El sáb 19-jun-10, Milos Rancic escribió: > Any idea how to improve their motivation? Considering how similar we Argentines are to the Serbs I would suggest to take a far less scientific approach: Motivate them to write about their home towns, football teams, favourite players, pop-singe

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia trade mark misuse

2010-06-20 Thread Mariano Cecowski
If the Czech Wikimedia things the newspaper is abusing of the 'wiki' concept to sell something that is not, and really wishes to do something about it, I recommend to contact "consumer protection" and present the case to them; it's a free services in all the countries I know. You can claim that

Re: [Foundation-l] Encouraging participation

2010-06-20 Thread Noein
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/06/2010 03:25, Pavlo Shevelo wrote: > But now it's standard for any site to have well-structured "facepages" > (profiles) to provide for academic the mean to: > * properly introduce himself/herself; > * get the idea about who is some other contri

Re: [Foundation-l] Encouraging participation

2010-06-20 Thread Noein
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/06/2010 01:49, Milos Rancic wrote: > * At another faculty we have a teaching assistant among Wikimedians. > After two projects, we've concluded cooperation because students > didn't quite understand work on Wikipedia and started with > confrontat

Re: [Foundation-l] encouraging women's participation

2010-06-20 Thread Noein
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/06/2010 04:33, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > Attracting consumers is a much more complicated issue than attracting > editors. Editors seem to find their niche or go away. > > Attracting readers takes a constant vigilance over how Wikimedia projects

Re: [Foundation-l] Cultural awareness and sensitivity

2010-06-20 Thread Delphine Ménard
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > >>> reaction to what to me was actually a rather funny comment. However, >>> Mariano's following reaction as well as Yaroslav's came across to me >>> as unecessarily aggressive and actually shocked me in what I perceived >>> as a lack o