WikiEN-l November 2009

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Strategy Planning Office Hours
by Philippe Beaudette 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Reminder: Strategic Planning office hours will happen at: 04:00-05:00 UTC, Wednesday 25 November. That is: Tuesday, 8-9 pm PDT Wednesday, 11pm - 12am EDT We'll meet in the channel #wikimedia-strategy on IRC. More details are available at http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_Office_Hours You can access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net/ and filling in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine. Another option is http://chat.wikizine.org. Join us! ____________________ 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

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Re: [WikiEN-l] BLP task force meeting
by Daniel R. Tobias 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:29:14 +0000, Giacomo M-Z wrote: > Troling? what is trolling about pointing out that IRC is not the place to be > dicusisng Wikipedia policy affairs? Secondly, it may be free now (I have no > idea), but it certainly was not in the past - ?15 was the figure at one > time. For somebody who's always criticizing IRC, you certainly seem to be quite ignorant of it. IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a free and open protocol for real-time discussions, going back to the late 1980s, and based on an earlier Bitnet Relay protocol that goes back even further (I remember it from my college days in the '80s). There are pleny of entirely free IRC clients (such as the Chatzilla add-on for Firefox); the Mozilla SeaMonkey browser suite has it built in; and there are Web interfaces to it using applets. The servers you connect to are also free to use. The only charges that could possibly be involved are the normal Internet access charges from your ISP, which you would incur for any sort of Internet use. As for whether Wikipedia matters ought to be discussed only on-wiki, lots of people including yourself have, on occasion, chosen other forums (including this mailing list) to discuss things related to Wikipedia. There are many pros and cons of different venues and media. -- == Dan == Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/

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BLP task force meeting
by Keegan Paul 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

We're have a free for all discussion about BLPs, located on IRC at #wikipedia-blptf . No agenda for this get together, more of a brainstorming amongst the many scenario. The meeting starts at 02:00 UTC, Nov 23 (in four an a half hours of this writing). Attendance is highly encouraged, for more information on the task force visit < http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BLP_Task_Force> ~Keegan -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan

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My most reused piece of free content
by Steve Bennett 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Five words: "This policy in a nutshell". A true piece of open source software, a derivative version, "This page in a nutshell" has become much more popular. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Nu… Strangely, it's even turning up in article space now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocats_Sans_Frontières It just amused me.

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activity
by stevertigo 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

Your not so active on enWiki these days? Checked your contributions, when I got curious about wikien's traffic seeming to be slowing down. -Stevertigo

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The Internet? Bah!
by stevertigo 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

http://www.newsweek.com/id/106554 Linked and digged from a current article. Quite chuckleworthy. -S

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New site for meta-discussion
by Jake Wartenberg 21 Nov '09

21 Nov '09

I've created website to complement these mailing lists a venue for discussion. It's at wikien.net <http://www.wikien.net/>. Please let me know if you have any feedback or questions. --- Jake Wartenberg

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on why encyclopedias matter
by phoebe ayers 21 Nov '09

21 Nov '09

Karen Christensen, editor in chief of Berkshire Publishing, on why encyclopedias are important: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6707595.html Christensen was scheduled to speak at Wikimania 2006 about the encyclopedia publishing business (sadly, she had a family emergency and couldn't make it). Maybe Wikipedians in the Northeast could get her to guest lecture sometime. -- phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers <at> gmail.com *

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Ad-free forever?
by Magnus Manske 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

I'm not here to discuss the wording of the fundraising slogans yet again, but this one screams "legal trouble": Wikipedia. Ad-free forever. [Progress bar] [Donate now button] I'd interpret this as "if we reach $7.5M, Wikipedia will be ad-free forever". I really wish that'd be the case, but if not, people (from simple dudes to legal trolls) might come out of the woodwork screaming fraud. Or maybe I'm just too paranoid. Cheers, Magnus

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Usability Study Round Two!
by Parul Vora 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hi all! The Wikipedia Usability Initiative conducted an evaluative study of our progress thus far in mid-October. Highlights are posted to the blog here: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/11/18/ux-usability-study-take-two/ and if you really want the skinny, the full report is here: http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usability,_Experience,_and_Progress_Stu…; full videos (all 8 hours of the lab interview action) are forthcoming. Great quotes: "It was easy, I wouldn't have thought it would be that easy" "Websites don't have common sense, but programmers do!" "I feel more empowered now." And things we've heard before (though this time around, at least they were more contained to tools and features we haven't changed yet): "This is where I'd give up" "That's a lot of html that makes my eyes dance all over the screen" "I don't know what that means, but maybe it will tell me" (it didn't) We'd love to hear any thoughts, comments, and feedback you have! Sense and Simplicity, Parul + the Usability Initiative Team

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