Hi all,
I know Steven just sent out a note for Barry's Friday office hours
but this is in addition.Sorry for the late notice and for sending
them out of order.
Sue Gardner, the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation,
will be having office hours this Thursday (Tomorrow) at 17:00 UTC
(10:00 PDT, 13:00 EDT 19:00 CEST) on IRC in the #wikimedia-office channel.
If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat
using a web browser: First, using the Wikizine chat gateway at
<http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>. Type a
nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and
#wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join.
Or, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/,
typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing #wikimedia-office as
the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning,
which you can click to accept.
Please feel free to forward and translate this email to any list I may
have missed and I hope to see everyone online!
--
James Alexander
Associate Community Officer
Wikimedia Foundation
Greetings all,
The next IRC Office Hours will be with Barry Newstead, Chief Global
Development Officer (CGDO) of the Wikimedia Foundation, on Friday
October 15th, 17:00 UTC. As usual, this chat will be informal and in an
open format. You can learn more about past Office Hours and how to
connect at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours.
See you in IRC!
--
Steven Walling
Wikimedia Foundation Fellow
(wikimediafoundation.org)
Forwarding from foundation-l.
David - thanks for the heads-up; this essay is brilliant, and not just
about biology.
Here's a shorter link: http://j.mp/ten-wiki-rules
Magnus - I see your hand in this :-) I'd love to see the edit
history... Have you or your co-authors also published this on one of
the major wikis?
SJ
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
On 28 September 2010 12:38, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Why are there any experts on Wikipedia?
I predict Wikipedia's biology articles will far outshine its
philosophy articles for the simple fact that the biologists bother:
http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.100…
(That article is great, by the way. It gives strong reasons for
experts to put in the effort to bother.)
http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/social-software-sundays-2-the-evaporative-coo…
Warrens versus plazas. The former scales (writing articles), the
latter doesn't (the project space areas of Wikipedia, participating in
which sets you firmly on the path to working through your
eighteen-month wikiburnout).
- d.
>>
> This is totally understandable, especially on the basis of 1 focus
> group. The one thing that is nice is that a lot of the data that we
> got
> from the focus group matched up with the data from the donor survey
> which helps validate it some. But again the real important data is
> actual concrete testing data that we've both gotten and will be
> getting
> a lot more of over the next month. It is THAT data that will really
> inform us on what messages, landing pages, design etc work the best.
>
> James
James speaks my mind here as well. It's not the fact that we did a
focus group that's important - it's the fact that the findings from
that focus group lined up and correlated with data from a past donor
survey (which was conducted by an entirely separate firm with no
interaction to the firm that conducted the focus group) and our own
testing. Instead of having a single data point, we have several.
We'll keep gathering data, of course, and constantly re-evaluating our
findings, but this was the first time we were able to define - in a
data-driven way - these common themes.
Oh, and ... regarding another post on this thread...
zOMG! jedi effects? I can haz?
pb
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Greetings everyone,
Just a reminder that Zack Exley, Chief Community Officer at the
Wikimedia Foundation, will be holding IRC office hours today (October 5)
at 21:00 UTC (14:00 PT, 17:00 ET, 23:00 CEST) in #wikimedia-office on
irc.freenode.net.
Instructions for accessing the discussion for those without an IRC
client can be found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours.
Please feel free to forward and translate this message to any relevant
list, and we look forward to chatting with you!
--
Steven Walling
Community Fellow
Wikimedia Foundation (wikimediafoundation.org)
Hi all,
Zack Exley, the Chief Community Officer [1] of the Wikimedia
Foundation, will
be having office hours this Tuesday (October 5) at 21:00 UTC
(14:00 PT, 17:00 ET, 23:00 CEST) on IRC in #wikimedia-office.
If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat
using a web browser: First, using the Wikizine chat gateway at
<http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>. Type a
nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and
#wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join.
Or, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/,
typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as
the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning,
which you can click to accept.
Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other
relevant email lists you happen to be on.
[1] - http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Chief_Community_Officer
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Head of Reader Relations
Wikimedia Foundation
philippe(a)wikimedia.org
Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in
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http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.100…
These guys paid author's fees to get an article published in a
peer-reviewed specialist journal that will net them no useful citation
credits, just to make the Wikipedia articles on their science better.
:-O
This article is fantastic. It even gives strong reasons for experts to
bother doing this.
Is there an academic field this article doesn't apply to?
- d.
Hahaha... that's funny :) They are not my meatpuppets!
Fayssal F.
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