Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

2012-03-27 Thread Birgitte_sb
It seems to me that there has been a quite a variety of results to booster activities, and that the poorest results have come from random educators who decide to make a "Wikipedia class project" without consulting any veteran editors rather than from people more thoroughly exposed to the sausage

Re: [Foundation-l] Wiktionary App, beta release (Android v1.0.1b)

2012-03-27 Thread Samuel Klein
This is brilliant. Thanks for the update Patrick, and looking forward to the final! On 3/27/12, Patrick Hayes wrote: > Hi everyone! > > The first beta release of the Wiktionary mobile app for Android has been > released! You can download the .apk file here > (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4187555/Wikt

[Foundation-l] Wiktionary App, beta release (Android v1.0.1b)

2012-03-27 Thread Patrick Hayes
Hi everyone! The first beta release of the Wiktionary mobile app for Android has been released! You can download the .apk file here (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4187555/WiktionaryActivity-v101b.apk) and load it onto your device. Please use it and report any bugs to the Wiktionary App bug list: ht

Re: [Foundation-l] The People’s Encyclopedia Under the Gaze of the Sages: A Sys tematic Review of Scholarly Research on Wikipedia

2012-03-27 Thread Fred Bauder
They have a wiki: http://wikilit.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page Fred > Abstract: > Wikipedia has become one of the ten most visited sites on the Web, and > the world’s leading source of Web reference information. Its rapid > success has inspired hundreds of scholars from various disciplines to > st

[Foundation-l] The People’s Encyclopedia Under the Gaze of the Sages: A Sys tematic Review of Scholarly Research on Wikipedia

2012-03-27 Thread Fred Bauder
Abstract: Wikipedia has become one of the ten most visited sites on the Web, and the world’s leading source of Web reference information. Its rapid success has inspired hundreds of scholars from various disciplines to study its content, communication and community dynamics from various perspective

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 8, Issue 13 -- 26 March 2012

2012-03-27 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
News and notes: Controversial content saga continues, while the Foundation tries to engage editors with merchandising and restructuring http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-03-26/News_and_notes WikiProject report: WikiProject Rock Music http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip