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

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html > > As well as dopamine works during the work, not when the prize has been > get: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrCVu25wQ5s Watch this, too: http://g4tv.com/videos/44277/dice-2010-design-o

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

THANK YOU . RANDY R. PARR HAVE A NICE D. -Original Message- From: Samuel Klein To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Sent: 21-Jun-2010 23:26:13 + Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Jeffrey Peters <17pet..

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Jeffrey Peters <17pet...@cardinalmail.cua.edu> wrote: > Dear List, > > My name is Jeffrey Peters, a professional researcher who is currently > working on my dissertation (dealing with Romantic poetry) and in addition > Masters in Classical Lit. I am writing to you t

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oh Kubla Khan! Jorge Luis Borges was fond of the palace's story and the poem. Thank you for your hard work. On 22/06/2010 02:05, Jeffrey Peters wrote: > Dear List, > > My name is Jeffrey Peters, a professional researcher who is currently > working on

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Jeffrey Peters <17pet...@cardinalmail.cua.edu> wrote: >.. > > I would like to ask more writers of quality content on the standard > Wikipedia to simplify their material, after returning to the sources to make > sure the simplifcation falls within the source materia

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

> If wikipedia is to survive it needs to be fun. If wikipedia is going > to get a broad coverage it needs to be easy. Exactly! > Given that 99% of the population is over 6 billion people 1 edit every > ten days would result in a lot of worthwhile edits. As to the best of my belief the healthier

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

Jeffrey Peters wrote: > I would like to ask more writers of quality content on the standard > Wikipedia to simplify their material, after returning to the sources to make > sure the simplifcation falls within the source material, so that Simple > English will have more high quality pages. That sou

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

Dear MZMcBride, As you can see from *The Author's Farce* ( http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Author's_Farce), I work first by writing a standard page then simplify it. It is currently at the 11th grade level, which is actually below many Simple English DYK noms that I have simplified from other

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

On 22 June 2010 01:25, MZMcBride wrote: > Jeffrey Peters wrote: >> Both rewrites/expansions can be found on Simple Wikipedia, a project >> that is noble and deserves more involvement by the community as a >> whole: >> >> > http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ottava_Rima/Ode:_Intimations_of_Immor

Re: [Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

Jeffrey Peters wrote: > Both rewrites/expansions can be found on Simple Wikipedia, a project > that is noble and deserves more involvement by the community as a > whole: > > http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ottava_Rima/Ode:_Intimations_of_Immortalit y > > http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us

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

On 22 June 2010 00:10, Tim Landscheidt wrote: > Isn't an iPhone one of those gadgets with about 10 cm of > screen and no keyboard? Why would we want to encourage some- > one to edit with such a device? It must be very frustrating > to do so properly, and we don't profit, in fact it is to our > dis

[Foundation-l] Donation of Encyclopedic Entries on Famous Poems

Dear List, My name is Jeffrey Peters, a professional researcher who is currently working on my dissertation (dealing with Romantic poetry) and in addition Masters in Classical Lit. I am writing to you today to announce the donation of two fully written pages on two important poems of the English l

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

Milos Rancic wrote: > [...] > Besides that, contemporary term for "site" is "social network". There > are just more and less successful social networks. Wikimedia is > successful social network for a very specific type of demographics: > young middle class males. Actually, not so young anymore. I

Re: [Foundation-l] Encouraging participation

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Noein wrote: > > If we cede to censorship, can we regain our loss of independance? If we > invite frivolous minds, can we educate them? If we give privileges to > experts, can we teach them to rescind them later? I think if we've learned anything, it is our abil

[Foundation-l] interesting article on anonymous internet posting (and <3 for Erik)

First so that I don't do a separate email on the subject Thank you Erik for getting a hold of google :) I found an interesting article that was in the Boston Globe Magazine this weekend about anonymous posting on the internet. The article focuses on those who post on Boston.com but I obviously jum

Re: [Foundation-l] Gmail - List messages flagged as spam

I reached out to Google about this, and they tell me it should be fixed later today, at least for misclassified listserv messages. According to our contact there, the misclassification happened because spammers have included images from Wikimedia projects in spam messages. Let me know offlist if yo

Re: [Foundation-l] Encouraging participation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/06/2010 23:23, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > If you're never read it, you'd probably enjoy this article from the Journal > of American History penned by the late, great Dr. Roy Rosenzweig from June > 2006: > >

[Foundation-l] Strategic Planning Office Hours

Hi Everyone - Our next strategic planning office hours will be: 04:00-05:00 UTC, Wednesday, 23 June. Local timezones can be checked at http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2010&month=6&day=23&hour=04&min=0&sec=0&p1=0 As always, you can access the chat by going to https://webcha