Hey! I'm new here! Just joined today!
I'm known as "I dream of horses" on Wikipedia. My real name is Emily,
but a lot of people call me Em for short. I am 19 years old. I like
music, particularly rock, and instrumental music. I also like to
exercise, and to fidget. I am a lacto-ovo vegetarian.
I am in the uncategorized and stub sorting wikiproject. i have also
recent changes and new pages patrolled. However, I am becoming more
interested in the "social" aspect of wikipedia, which is why I joined
the list!
Would anyone like to introduce themselves? Is there any kind of
"mailing list etiquette" I should be aware of?
Emily
Hello!
I'm part of a research group at the University of Washington. In
April, we met with some local Wikipedians to learn what they would
like to know about other editors’ history and activities (within
Wikipedia) when interacting with them on talk pages. The goal of those
sessions was to gather feedback to help design an embedded application
that could quickly communicate useful information about other
Wikipedians. We have now created a few images that we feel represent
some of what our participants thought was important. We would
appreciate it if you took a few minutes of your time to complete an
online survey that investigates whether or not these images would be
useful to you. Your quick contribution would be very valuable to our
research group and ultimately to Wikipedia. (When finished, the code
for this application will be given over to the Wikipedia community to
use and/or adjust as they see fit.)
(One of our participants, an admin, recommended that we post this
message to this mailing list. We've been getting really thoughtful
and informative feedback, and hope you'll want to contribute to this
project, too!)
Willing to spend a few minutes taking our survey? Please visit https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/commprac/78947
Please feel free to share the link with other Wikipedians. The more
feedback, the better! The survey is completely anonymous and takes
less than 10 minutes to complete. All data is used for university
research purposes only.
Thank you for your time! If you have any questions about our research
or research group, our username is Commprac01 and we can be reached at commprac(a)u.washington.edu
.
Thanks!
The Communicative Practices in Virtual Workspaces Research Group
http://courses.washington.edu/commprac/
As per the licensing update decision by the community and the Board,
I've updated the site terms on the English Wikipedia (and the WMF
website) today, and posted a reference copy of the site-wide terms of
use to:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use
The Wikimedia Commons licensing task force has gone ahead and updated
the relevant GFDL templates on Commons to indicate that eligible media
files may also be available under CC-BY-SA.
The English Wikipedia roll-out serves as a reference implementation
and may lead to some final tweaks in the terms and language. In the
coming days, we'll begin the translation and roll-out in other
eligible projects and languages. Communities will be able to customize
the messages and terms within limits, as described here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Implementation
Our site-wide roll-out will likely override any project-local
bottom-up implementation between now and then.
--
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
Hello,
I am a researcher in the GroupLens lab (http://grouplens.org) at the
University of Minnesota. You might recognize previous work in Wikipedia
like "Creating, Destroying, and Restoring Value in Wikipedia"
(http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~reid/papers/group282-priedhorsky.pdf).
As part of our continuing work within Wikipedia, my colleagues and I are
conducting an academic (non-commercial) study in which we have developed
a modification that is designed to help users work together more
effectively by changing the interface for reverting other editors.
If you choose to participate in the study, you will be automatically
assigned a Wikipedia gadget that will consist of a subset of the
modifications we have developed. As part of the study, we will be
logging your usage of the tool (ie. when you are reverting other
editors). We will also be available for tech support and bug fixes.
Most likely there will be a survey at the completion and the complete
tool will be made available.
Consent form/installer: http://wikipedia.grouplens.org/NICE/consent/
-Aaron Halfaker
GroupLens Research
University of Minnesota