hi wiki researchers,
i'm currently writing a piece that covers some of the 2002 spanish fork of wikipedia. in particular, i'm trying to find out a little more about what kind of figure edgar enyedy was and his exact role in the fork.
from the archives i can see that he was very much the voice of the fork, but i haven't found much about how active he was before the fork and whether or not it was him that actually set up the new fork.
for example, was he an (unofficial) community leader? did he have technical expertise?
any help, including contact information, would be much appreciated.
best
Nate Tkacz
School of Culture and Communication University of Melbourne
Twitter: http://twitter.com/__nate__
Research Page: http://nathanieltkacz.net
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How's your Spanish? I might try the Spanish Wikipedia list: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikies-l/ You could always try one of the spanish-speaking chapters for help translating or more info too. If all else fails try sending a message to Foundation-l, at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l; but it's often hard to track down information about people from that time period as many folks have moved on, and f-l can be pretty english-centric.
Also I assume you've seen http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Transwiki:Wikimania05/Paper-AS1 ? Juan David's username is http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Zuirdj; he's still active and I think Ascander is too. That might be a good place to start.
-- Phoebe
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 4:39 PM, nathaniel tkacz nathanieltkacz@gmail.com wrote:
hi wiki researchers,
i'm currently writing a piece that covers some of the 2002 spanish fork of wikipedia. in particular, i'm trying to find out a little more about what kind of figure edgar enyedy was and his exact role in the fork.
from the archives i can see that he was very much the voice of the fork, but i haven't found much about how active he was before the fork and whether or not it was him that actually set up the new fork.
for example, was he an (unofficial) community leader? did he have technical expertise?
any help, including contact information, would be much appreciated.
best
Nate Tkacz
School of Culture and Communication University of Melbourne
Twitter: http://twitter.com/__nate__
Research Page: http://nathanieltkacz.net
Current project: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/about-2/
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How's your Spanish?
none existent, i'm afraid.
I might try the Spanish Wikipedia list:
You could always try
one of the spanish-speaking chapters for help translating or more info too. If all else fails try sending a message to Foundation-l, at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l; but it's often hard to track down information about people from that time period as many folks have moved on, and f-l can be pretty english-centric.
this particular fellow certainly did move on!
Also I assume you've seen http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Transwiki:Wikimania05/Paper-AS1 ? Juan David's username is http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Zuirdj; he's still active and I think Ascander is too. That might be a good place to start.
yes, i am familiar with that paper, and as far as i can tell, all the other "traces" of this event. i was looking for some more info about edgar, but have not been able to find a current email address. the lack of spanish language doesn't help in this regard!
approaching Juan and Ascander is a good idea, and might be all i need.
thanks a lot Phoebe,
nate
On Monday, December 20, 2010, nathaniel tkacz wrote:
any help, including contact information, would be much appreciated.
You might try the authors of a Wikimania 2005 talk on the subject: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Transwiki:Wikimania05/Paper-AS1
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