On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Posted! (although I would encourage choosing a different word than
"crowdsource" next time; I fully agree with Jimmy and many other
community members who think it has all the wrong connotations:
http://www.quora.com/Wikipedia/Why-does-Jimmy-Wales-think-crowdsourcing-is-a-horrible-term
- basically, of "making basement-dwelling losers work for you for
free" instead of "empowering a volunteer community to do awesome
things")

 

Something to put on our social media practices list. We are full of mystery.

 

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:55 AM, James Alexander
<jalexander@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> LGTM with Katherine's tweaks.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Jun 3, 2014, at 10:52, Katherine Maher <kmaher@wikimedia.org> wrote:
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> Suggest:
>
> T: Can digital democracy be crowdsourced? @wikimediauk & @Demos
> calling on Wikimedians to prove it can. Get involved!
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connecting_knowledge_to_power:_the_future_of_digital_democracy_in_the_UK
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> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Tilman Bayer <tbayer@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> Forwarding from Stevie (CC'ed), via ComCom:
>>
>> T: Can digital democracy be crowdsourced? @wikimediauk & @Demos
>> calling on Wikimedians to prove it can, get involved!
>>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connecting_knowledge_to_power:_the_future_of_digital_democracy_in_the_UK
>>
>> Stevie, you suggested it for @wikipedia, but note that we often post
>> the more Wikimedia-focused stuff - i.e. not specifically about WP -
>> from @wikimedia first, then retweet from @wikipedia. Which category do
>> you think this falls under? (I haven't yet had time to look at the
>> linked page myself, perhaps someone else on this list will.)
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