Thanks for this email Birgitte. I greatly enjoyed reading it, it gives
insight in not just your own motivation, but mine and several others who I
have come to know. I apologize for my following lengthy response as well.
This is a well-articulated, reasoned response, that should stand apart from
the
Spotted this because it one of the demonstrated uses was with wikimarkup. How
useful it actually is or is not is a different question.
"Writing documents using markup languages isn't always easy. Take Wikipedia, for
example: one often needs time to relocate the current focus when they switch
betw
Some academics need conferences to be sponsored by / associated with an
academic institution to receive time off and funding to attend conferences.
Is this something that Wikimania has ever attempted? Ie. having Wikimania
hosted by the local chapter plus a local University?
--
James Heilman
MD, C
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 5:24 AM, En Pine wrote:
> MF-Warburg, at the risk of making myself sound unusually dense in front
> of everyone on foundation-l, I'm not yet an expert on cross-wiki Wikipedia
> research so I need some clarification. My understanding is that Incubator
> is only for entire n
Phoebe,
As important as the ongoing discussions and debate over fundraising
and funds dissemination are, it concerns me that the WMF board is
using one of its few in-person meetings to discuss almost nothing but
fundraising and funds dissemination. Fundraising is a means to an end,
nothing more. S
Hi all,
The next WMF Board of Trustees meeting is scheduled for March 30-31,
2012 in Berlin, held with the chapters meeting.
The agenda is now posted here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Board_meetings/March_30-31,_2012
Wikimedia Chapters Meeting information:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w
2012/3/25 En Pine
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> MF-Warburg, at the risk of making myself sound unusually dense in front
> of everyone on foundation-l, I'm not yet an expert on cross-wiki Wikipedia
> research so I need some clarification. My understanding is that Incubator
> is only for entire new wikis and not experiments
> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:18:04 +0100
> From: Ziko van Dijk
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:05:18 +0200
From: MF-Warburg
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd:
Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!
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2012/3/25 En Pine
> Also, Steven, could you send the link to the place where we can look at
> your “not-so-secret effort to make the current user talk template system
> more human”? I’m not clear on which page is the main one,
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template_A/B_testing or
> https://in
For those who are interested in quantitative studies on the subject of editor
motivation, I suggest looking at the list of academic papers at
http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/Motivations. I learned about that list from
a recent post to research-l. I assume that Steven Walling and the other WM
Birgitte, I have greatly enjoyed all of your replies in this thread;
this one in particular. Thank you for sharing.
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 2:37 AM, wrote:
> I simply see the bigger concern to be: What if we don't add 1,000 new
> curators who care to learn how to interpret copyright law and
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