WikiEN-l June 2009

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Hi there, everybody!
by Emily Monroe 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

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

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Re: [WikiEN-l] I love SEOs
by Michael Gray 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

> Even our critics can't help but use our services. I'm entertained that y'all noticed and are talking about little ole' me :-) M. Gray aka Graywolf

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Image reuse
by Steve Bennett 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

A previous post inspired me to use tineye.com to see if any of my photos uploaded to Wikipedia have been reused anywhere. It's interesting to see that some have! http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2007/09/25/rbs-group-bulks-up-abn-amro-sharehold… Yes, a Wall Street Journal blog used my (featured) image of Luna Park in Melbourne. Metaphorically... http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/2008/06/gallery_roller_co… Wired carefully credits 7 out of the 8 photos in its half-arsed "Collest roller coasters" collection. Guess which one misses out? http://www.spoki.lv/foto-izlases/Pasi-briesmigakie-kalnini-pasaule/8989 Some latvian linkspam site probably earned a couple of cents from it... http://peccataminuta.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/mont-saint-michele/ The second image from the top (yes, the terrible one with the white sky) is surprisingly popular...god knows why. http://celticfestival.ie/programme_welsh.php The church illustrating "Dydd Iau Hydref 4" is from [[Image:Church_in_Kilkenny.jpg]] - I didn't even know which church it was when I uploaded it :) And now the locals are using the image for their own tourism site...cool! http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http://www.tunin… Heh, they're using my photo of a truck crash near Melbourne University to illustrate a story about car accidents in Bratislava... http://www.vidilife.com/video_play_995337_Real_Crashes_7.htm Oh and look, someone's made it the first image in a really crappy slideshow of vehicle accidents. How lovely. But the most popular image of all? http://tineye.com/search/7b34c1bae7eba7ca3d2cf92816047c937add7399 I'm not quite sure what to make of all this. I do wish we were using a much better image repository than Commons. Steve

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Request to help research group by providing feedback on Wikipedia-based visualizations
by Commprac 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

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/

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I love SEOs
by David Gerard 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

and never think they're spamming feckwits who should be nuked from orbit in short order. http://www.wolf-howl.com/grayhat-seo/invalidate-wikipedia-articles/ (I'm sure JEHochman would love a large anvil to fall on people like this ;-) - d.

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Google thinks Wikipedia is a news source
by David Gerard 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chiropractic/3601011581/ - d.

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RFC on paid editing
by David Gerard 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Paid_editing - d.

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Q&A with Andrew Lih on NYTimes
by Nathan 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

On the Freakonomics blog (the book is worth the read, if you haven't already): http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/by-a-bunch-of-nobodies-a-q… -- Nathan

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Licensing update roll-out
by Erik Moeller 16 Jun '09

16 Jun '09

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

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Call for Participants: NICE interface modification
by Aaron Halfaker 16 Jun '09

16 Jun '09

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

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