A friend is looking for a project lead with MediaWiki and
community-building experience, for a global dispute resolution
project. Part of a rare Harvard-UN collaboration; based in Boston or
NYC.
Naturally I thought of wikien. Hmm, wait -- dispute *resolution*. Ah
well. Please take a look, and feel free to pass it on and reply
directly to Caroline.
SJ
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Caroline Nolan <cnolan(a)cyber.law.harvard.edu>
Date: Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:43 AM
Subject: Job Opportunity: The Corporate Social Responsibility
Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School
A job opportunity from the CSR Initiative at KSG--please feel free to
pass it on to your network.
PROJECT LEADER FOR GLOBAL WIKI ON DISPUTE RESOLUTION
The Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative at Harvard Kennedy
School is recruiting a project leader to take forward the global wiki
it is developing about dispute resolution between companies and
communities. The project is run on behalf of the UN
Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Business and Human
Rights, Prof. John Ruggie.
The site – BASESwiki (www.baseswiki.org) - is currently being
transferred to a new platform with new design and functionality. The
transition will be complete by early November. The project leader
will oversee the bedding down of the new site and handle any technical
problems that arise, together with the developers. He/she will drive
forward a new discussion forum and build the interactive aspects of
the site; manage interns; build on and develop new institutional
partnerships around the world, help with the development of additional
language portals; conduct outreach to potential users; assess the
site’s performance; and develop strategies, together with the Program
Director, for its future development.
The successful candidate will demonstrate:
- strong project leadership skills
- experience in social media and programming, particularly
with MediaWiki
- an interest in corporate responsibility and dispute
resolution, and preferably some background experience
- strong team-working skills
- good written and oral communication skills
Job term: the position will commence on 15 November, subject to
negotiation. An initial contract will be for one year with the
possibility of a limited further extension.
Location: Boston or New York
Salary: $60,000-68,000 plus benefits, depending on experience
Please send applications to caroline_rees(a)harvard.edu by 21 October
2009, including a letter of interest, CV and 3 references
I'm about to move [[WP:OTRS]] to a new location, [[WP:Volunteer response
team]]. The term "OTRS" is pretty obscure for newbies, doesn't adequately
describe what the team does, and will become obscure if we ever switch our
ticket-management software. This new name solves those problems and is much
easier to work into our help text.
We're borrowing this idea from the German Wikipedia, who moved their
[[WP:OTRS]] page to [[Wikipedia:Support-Team]] about a year and a half ago.
It seems to have been very helpful there.
This page move won't affect any existing mailing lists, IRC channels, or
wiki names. There will still be redirects from [[WP:OTRS]] to the new
location, but I'd appreciate any help updating links or text.
--
Jim Redmond
[[User:Jredmond]]
I'm sure many of you caught the news
article(http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/wikitrust/) about
Adler and Alfaro's research(http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1242572.1242608)
in wiki trustability being applied to live Wikipedia. It just so happens
that I have been working on a similar problem from a completely
different direction during my research and am ready to share this work
with the community. I have designed and implemented a user script
modification that I call HAPPI and am currently running a
non-profit/academic analysis of its usefulness. The script adds a
couple of new controls that will appear over the edit pane. These
controls will allow you to toggle the highlighting of wiki text while
you edit it. If you'd like to give it a try, please see the
documentation page and consent form for more information.
Screenshot: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/37/HAPPI_example.png
Documentation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EpochFail/HAPPI
Consent form: http://wikipedia.grouplens.org/HAPPI/consent
-Aaron Halfaker
Grouplens Research
University of Minnesota
Reminder: Strategic Planning office hours will happen at:
04:00-05:00 UTC, Wednesday, October 7.
That is:
Tuesday (6 Oct), 9-10pm PDT
Wednesday, 12am-1am EDT
We'll meet in the channel #wikimedia-strategy on IRC. More details
are available at http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_Office_Hours
We will provide some overview into the next phase of the strategic
planning process, as well as some ideas on how to have a local
discussion about strategic planning.
Join us!
To find the time in your local time zone, go to: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=10&day=07&year=2009&…
____________________
Philippe Beaudette
Facilitator, Strategic Planning
Wikimedia Foundation
philippe(a)wikimedia.org
Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
'''Show the door to trolls, vandals, and wiki-anarchists, who, if
permitted, would waste your time and create a poisonous atmosphere
here.''' - Larry Sanger
I found this classic comment again, while looking through the history
of WP:DISRUPT -- digging around to find out who the genius was that
first misconstrued the concept of an "edit" to mean "edits and|or
comments," and thus had blurred all canonical, traditional, and
logical distinctions in the minds of thuglodyte admins everywhere.
(WP:DE, by the way, should be "No disruptive editing").
Larry's above comment came as one of his recommendations upon his
exit. In the same message he prophetically forewarned us Wikipudlians
to to "be open and warmly welcoming, not insular." Larry had been
growing frustrated with types of people, and had been making some
quasi-draconian overtures. In retrospect, these seemed to have had a
large influence in his subsequent sudden funding restrictions.
ITEHO,
-Stevertigo
If you want to know how Flagged Revisions feels from an unprivileged
position, go to Wikinews and fix typos. I just did this on
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Geelong_win_2009_Australian_Football_League_Gra…
- check the history. I'm not an admin or reviewer on en:wn.
What did it feel like? Curiously unsatisfying. The fix not going live
immediately left me wondering just when it would - five minutes/? An
hour? A day? It felt nothing like editing a wiki - it felt like I'd
submitted a form to a completely opaque bureaucracy for review at
their leisure.
Don't take my word for it - go typo-fixing on Wikinews and tell me how
it feels to you.
So, yeah. I remain a big fan of flagged revisions for those times when
we need it - basically, as a less-worse alternative to protection or
semiprotection. But it really does kill the wiki motivational buzz
dead.
- d.
