This article starts as a complaint about external links being moved to
talk pages and never making it back to the main page, and then becomes
a rant against deletionism.
About external links, the real question is: what is a good number of
links to have at the end of an article? Everyone will sure
I have just completed and written up a little research project of mine:
http://www.gwern.net/In%20Defense%20Of%20Inclusionism#the-editing-community-is-dead-who-killed-it
Summary:
1. Talk pages are where references/links/citations go to die; less
than 10% ever make it back
2. In just the sampled e
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:29 AM, Erik Moeller wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote:
>> One thing I'd like to ask (which may be in the on-wiki documentation, sorry
>> if you've
>> already answered there) is what is going to happen to the other articles
>> that are not
>> pa
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote:
> One thing I'd like to ask (which may be in the on-wiki documentation, sorry
> if you've
> already answered there) is what is going to happen to the other articles that
> are not
> part of this new test group?
Hi Liam,
this is the first time
The Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce Sarah Stierch as our newest
Community Fellow. Sarah's fellowship begins in January, and she'll be
working on projects focused on the gender gap and editor retention. Read
all about it in our blog post:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/20/announcin
This is happening in about 30 minutes.
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From: Steven Walling
Date: Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 4:28 PM
Subject: IRC office hours with the Head of Reader Relations, Thursday Dec.
22nd
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Hey all,
I think most Foundation-l subsc
Hi,
may I use this image
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_affiliativemark_w_v1.png
to create a Portuguese version of this one
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia-Ambassador-Program-Logo.png
to the ambassadors program in Brazil, please?
I kindly suggest to we use a fr
News and notes: Anti-piracy act has Wikimedians on the defensive, WMF annual
report released, and Indic language dynamics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-12-19/News_and_notes
In the news: To save the wiki: strike first, then makeover?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi
Thanks for the notice Oliver. Glad to see the work is coming along with the
tool and I'm looking forward to seeing the data on how these new,
qualitative-focused, versions perform. Which one generates the best reader
feedback that is useful for editors and which generates good reader-to-newbie
Hey guys
Just dropping everyone a note to let you know that the new version of the
Article Feedback Tool -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5 - is
now live on a subset of articles, in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Article_Feedback_5 :). This may not
impa
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