[Foundation-l] IRC office hours with Sue Gardner, Thursday April 14th

2011-04-11 Thread Steven Walling
Hi everyone, Just a notice that on Thursday the 14th at 23:00 UTC, we'll have IRC office hours with Sue Gardner in #wikimedia-office. The loose topic is new editor retention, in light of the recent resolution passed by the Board. We'd especially love to chat with people on the front lines of activ

Re: [Foundation-l] Outdated manual

2011-04-11 Thread MZMcBride
Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > MZMcBride, 11/04/2011 01:23: >> Or better yet, focus on something that's actually meaningful. Does it make a >> difference to anyone whether Wikipedia is the sixth most-visited website or >> the tenth? > > Yes. For instance, if you don't acknowledge that Facebook has

[Foundation-l] university of innsbruck, institute of zoology, combines teaching, science and wikipedia

2011-04-11 Thread THURNER rupert
hi, thorsten schwerte and stefan stolz from the institute for zoology, university of innsbruck, austria, launchsted an interesting program to combine teaching, e-learning, science and wikipedia during the biology course by preparing articles in an internal wiki and then transferring it to wikipedi

[Foundation-l] [Fwd: [i-announce@ischool] Design Futures talk, April 13: Parul Vora (Wikimedia Foundation) - Participation, Collaboration, and Engagement]

2011-04-11 Thread Fred Bauder
--- Original Message Subject: [i-announce@ischool] Design Futures talk, April 13: Parul Vora (Wikimedia Foundation) - Participation, Collaboration, and Engagement From:"Elizabeth Goodman" Date:Mon, April 11, 2011 1:05 pm To: design-

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

2011-04-11 Thread phoebe ayers
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Quim Gil wrote: > On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 14:50 -0400, ext Pharos wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: >> > Perhaps it would be helpful if, when creating a new account, a user could >> > write a short message about what would they like

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

2011-04-11 Thread Quim Gil
On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 14:50 -0400, ext Pharos wrote: > On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: > > Perhaps it would be helpful if, when creating a new account, a user could > > write a short message about what would they like to do on Wikipedia (this > > would become their user pa

Re: [Foundation-l] Outdated manual

2011-04-11 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
MZMcBride, 11/04/2011 01:23: > Or better yet, focus on something that's actually meaningful. Does it make a > difference to anyone whether Wikipedia is the sixth most-visited website or > the tenth? Yes. For instance, if you don't acknowledge that Facebook has now more visits than Wikipedia you d