Wiki-research-l December 2010

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Reminder-Survey Invitation (with Prize): Investigating User Contribution in Wikipedia
by [[User:Unforgettableid]] 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

2010/12/6 jingzhao2 <jingzhao2(a)student.cityu.edu.hk>: > Dear Unforgettableid, > > We found your email on your user page in Wikipedia. > No software/tools are used to generate an email list. > > Thanks and Best Regards, > Sesia Ah. I see that text now on my user page: it says "My email address is unforgettableid at gmail.com - feel free to email me." I forgot that I wrote that. :) I apologize for writing the accusatory questions in my previous emails. Don't forget to see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_resources_for_researchers and also to contact wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org for advice on how to get more people to join your study. Cheers, --unforgettableid

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] Reminder-Survey Invitation (with Prize): Investigating User Contribution in Wikipedia
by [[User:Unforgettableid]] 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

2010/12/6 jingzhao2 <jingzhao2(a)student.cityu.edu.hk>: > Dear [[User:Unforgettableid]], > > I feel so sorry for disturbing you. > We found your email on some Wikipedia sites, and your contribution to Wikipedia has been highly recognized. Since you are not interested in this survey, I guarantee that no more emails will be sent to you in the future. > > Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Have a nice day! > > Best Regards, > Sesia Hi Sesia, Thanks for unsubscribing me. I'm curious: Which sites did you look for email addresses on? What tool did you use to find the addresses? Cheers, -unforgettableid

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ProveIt - Wikipedia references made easy
by Kurt Luther 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Hi all, We at Georgia Tech are happy to announce the release of ProveIt, our free, open source tool for finding, editing, adding, and citing references on Wikipedia. You can try out, install, or learn more about ProveIt here: http://proveit.cc.gatech.edu/ You may have seen our demo of an early version of ProveIt at WikiSym 2009, but this release is much improved on a number of fronts: * greatly improved user interface and feature set * as a Wikipedia user script, it shows up whenever you log in to Wikipedia -- install once, use forever! * works in most browsers, including Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera * updates instantly and automatically This release represents nearly two years of development by the ProveIt team -- congrats to all involved: Amy Bruckman, Matt Flaschen, Andrea Forte, Terris Johnson, and Chris Jordan. Please give ProveIt a try and give us your feedback! We are excited to hear what you think and to respond to bug reports promptly. You can file a bug report at http://proveit.cc.gatech.edu/users/bugreport or email the team at proveit(a)cc.gatech.edu . If you are an OSS developer, please also check out our Google Code project at http://code.google.com/p/proveit-js/ -- we hope to start building a sustainable community around ProveIt. Thanks so much for considering it! -- Kurt and the ProveIt team -- Kurt Luther, Ph.D. Candidate School of Interactive Computing Georgia Institute of Technology http://www.kurtluther.com/ "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." -- Theodore Roosevelt

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Re: [Wiki-research-l] ProveIt - Wikipedia references made easy
by Steven Walling 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

This is fantastic! I'm going to be trying it out more, but here are two pieces of immediate feedback: 1. It would be great to have the list of references indicate in some way how many times a particular reference is used. The highlighting is great, but you would still have to scroll through an article and count the number of times it is used to get an overview. One of the most confusing things about using references heavily is editing a reference once it is used repetitively (typically via the <ref name="Name"> function). 2. Distinguishing between footnotes (see: Wikipedia:Citing Sources#Foonotes) and references felt a tad rough. It clearly marked out the bare ref tags (i.e. the <> icon), but in large and high quality articles, especially Featured Articles, the separation between footnoted citations and references becomes quite important. Demo the sheep article for an example of what I'm talking about. Kudos on a useful project, Steven Walling On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Kurt Luther <luther(a)cc.gatech.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > > We at Georgia Tech are happy to announce the release of ProveIt, > our free, open source tool for finding, editing, adding, and citing > references on Wikipedia. You can try out, install, or learn more about > ProveIt here: http://proveit.cc.gatech.edu/ > > You may have seen our demo of an early version of ProveIt at WikiSym > 2009, but this release is much improved on a number of fronts: > > * greatly improved user interface and feature set > * as a Wikipedia user script, it shows up whenever you log in to > Wikipedia -- install once, use forever! > * works in most browsers, including Firefox, Chrome, Internet > Explorer, Safari, and Opera > * updates instantly and automatically > > This release represents nearly two years of development by the ProveIt > team -- congrats to all involved: Amy Bruckman, Matt Flaschen, Andrea > Forte, Terris Johnson, and Chris Jordan. > > Please give ProveIt a try and give us your feedback! We are excited to > hear what you think and to respond to bug reports promptly. You can > file a bug report at http://proveit.cc.gatech.edu/users/bugreport or > email the team at proveit(a)cc.gatech.edu . If you are an OSS developer, > please also check out our Google Code project at > http://code.google.com/p/proveit-js/ -- we hope to start building a > sustainable community around ProveIt. > > Thanks so much for considering it! > > -- Kurt and the ProveIt team > > > -- > Kurt Luther, Ph.D. Candidate > School of Interactive Computing > Georgia Institute of Technology > http://www.kurtluther.com/ > > "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, > even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor > spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in > the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." > -- Theodore Roosevelt > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >

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