Hi,
three people reviewed Randall Livingstone's "Understanding the
Editor/Bot Relationship".
I have opened a poll and waited for far too long to approve this.
At this moment I advise Randall to move the project from "planned" to
"in progress" status.
Best regards,
Goran
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Goran and I were talking yesterday and it reminded me on the need
which I have from time to time in relation to the Language committee:
Wikimedia peer reviewed journal. A couple of months ago I thought to
push it as Language committee issue, but yesterday we've released that
it's more logical to have it under RCom umbrella.
The journal should publish papers needed by Wikimedia. If we need a
research or even a review about anything, we could offer to a
researcher or scientist publishing the paper in our journal (of
course, if it passes some minimums). Creating infrastructure for peer
reviewed journal shouldn't be too hard or costly.
Thoughts?
Hi,
I have reviewed this project and opened a poll:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Understanding_the_Editor/Bot_Relati…
Thus far, only Mayo Fuster Morell provided her opinion on the
project's discussion page. Randall needs to start his recruitment
procedures very soon.
Could anyone please take another look at this so that we can say that
this is a go if no additional concerns arise? I have also reviewed
Randall's interview guides and I think everything is in place there.
Thank you very much.
Best,
Goran
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Wikipedia Enables HTTPS for Privacy in Browsing
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikipedia_enables_https_for_privacy_in…
By Marshall Kirkpatrick
Wikipedia visitors can now leverage a new level of security and privacy
regarding their reading habits, thanks to the site's newly announced support
for HTTPS browsing. Ryan Lane, a Wikipedia Operations Engineer, writes that
HTTPS "allows you to visit our sites without having your browsing habits
tracked, and you can log in without having your password or user session
data stolen." Visitors seeking to navigate the site securely can simply
visit https://en.wikipedia.org to begin.
Wikipedia has made several steps away from the growing trend of encouraging
users to share their data with one another, in some cases explicitly
contrasting the giant encyclopedia's policies and ethos with Facebook's.
"Things like sharing what you're reading, that's where Facebook bumps up
against the line of what people find slightly weird and creepy," Wikipedia
Co-founder Jimmy Wales said in an interview with the Huffington Post's
Bianca Bosker last week. "If I go to read something on Wikipedia, that's my
own personal business...You should feel safe and private knowing that
whatever you want to learn, you go to Wikipedia to learn it and you don't
have to worry that you've accidentally told Facebook you want to learn it."
Facebook itself began offering HTTPS as an optional setting in January.
Twitter did the same in March.
There are down sides to using HTTPS connections, however. Some third party
apps that you do want to allow access to your browsing data, the fabulous
Apture for example, are unable to access and thus provide services on top of
data on HTTPS pages.
Many people will welcome the change none the less.
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