It is interesting because I've never got those connotations from "crowd-sourcing" either. To me it sounds a bit more magnetic and charming!

Thanks very much for pushing the tweet out, it's appreciated. Would it be possible for the WP account to retweet please?

Thanks and regards,

Stevie

On 3 June 2014 20:57, Heather Walls <hwalls@wikimedia.org> wrote:

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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