Carcharoth, David, Fred:
Thanks for the feedback!
I had heard about the Heavy Metal umlaut article, but did not realize there was such a sophisticated screencast.
I agree that telling the story of controversial articles is important as well; I would like nothing better than to have a variety of stories, perhaps in different media, about a variety of different kinds of articles. (Controversial/tame/highly-trafficked/demoted former FA's/etc. etc. etc. Also, different articles illustrating the different processes of various language Wikipedias.)
If we can produce a number of different stories, that will relieve any pressure of needing to tell "the entire" story in relation to any one article; and having a menu of options for any given outreach/educational opportunity will be a great benefit.
I'd like nothing more than to have you all make accounts on outreach.wikimedia.org and start a page on an article you've worked on, or whose development you've tracked.
Please let me know if I can help in that process!
-Pete
p.s. David, thanks especially for sharing the Greasemonkey script.
Talking of outreach and other wikis like the strategy wiki, can someone tell me whether they are part of SUL (single-user login), or whether (like bugzilla) you have to create separate accounts? In fact, a list of all the wikis where SUL doesn't exist, but where I or others might like to create accounts, would be good, if someone can think of some offhand.
Carcharoth
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Pete Forsyth pforsyth@wikimedia.org wrote:
Carcharoth, David, Fred:
Thanks for the feedback!
I had heard about the Heavy Metal umlaut article, but did not realize there was such a sophisticated screencast.
I agree that telling the story of controversial articles is important as well; I would like nothing better than to have a variety of stories, perhaps in different media, about a variety of different kinds of articles. (Controversial/tame/highly-trafficked/demoted former FA's/etc. etc. etc. Also, different articles illustrating the different processes of various language Wikipedias.)
If we can produce a number of different stories, that will relieve any pressure of needing to tell "the entire" story in relation to any one article; and having a menu of options for any given outreach/educational opportunity will be a great benefit.
I'd like nothing more than to have you all make accounts on outreach.wikimedia.org and start a page on an article you've worked on, or whose development you've tracked.
Please let me know if I can help in that process!
-Pete
p.s. David, thanks especially for sharing the Greasemonkey script.
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Strategy and outreach wikis are both in the SUL system. As far as I am aware all of the Wikimedia Foundation run MediaWiki wikis are (say that three times fast!). Just hit "log in". Bugzilla is a different kind of software.
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On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.comwrote:
Talking of outreach and other wikis like the strategy wiki, can someone tell me whether they are part of SUL (single-user login), or whether (like bugzilla) you have to create separate accounts? In fact, a list of all the wikis where SUL doesn't exist, but where I or others might like to create accounts, would be good, if someone can think of some offhand.
Carcharoth
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Pete Forsyth pforsyth@wikimedia.org wrote:
Carcharoth, David, Fred:
Thanks for the feedback!
I had heard about the Heavy Metal umlaut article, but did not realize there was such a sophisticated screencast.
I agree that telling the story of controversial articles is important as well; I would like nothing better than to have a variety of stories, perhaps in different media, about a variety of different kinds of articles. (Controversial/tame/highly-trafficked/demoted former FA's/etc. etc. etc. Also, different articles illustrating the different processes of various language Wikipedias.)
If we can produce a number of different stories, that will relieve any pressure of needing to tell "the entire" story in relation to any one article; and having a menu of options for any given outreach/educational opportunity will be a great benefit.
I'd like nothing more than to have you all make accounts on outreach.wikimedia.org and start a page on an article you've worked on, or whose development you've tracked.
Please let me know if I can help in that process!
-Pete
p.s. David, thanks especially for sharing the Greasemonkey script.
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Does that include the WMF wiki (that is restricted access to WMF staff or something, isn't it?) and the MediaWiki wiki (is that just developers?). I know I could go and look this up, but I don't tend to go outside en-wiki very much, though I have started and used accounts on Commons (not SUL because the name was taken) and Wikisource and Meta, but nothing else. Just point me to a list of the "meta" WMF wikis, if that would be easiest (i.e. the non-content orientated WMF wikis).
Carcharoth
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com wrote:
Strategy and outreach wikis are both in the SUL system. As far as I am aware all of the Wikimedia Foundation run MediaWiki wikis are (say that three times fast!). Just hit "log in". Bugzilla is a different kind of software.
wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.comwrote:
Talking of outreach and other wikis like the strategy wiki, can someone tell me whether they are part of SUL (single-user login), or whether (like bugzilla) you have to create separate accounts? In fact, a list of all the wikis where SUL doesn't exist, but where I or others might like to create accounts, would be good, if someone can think of some offhand.
Carcharoth
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Pete Forsyth pforsyth@wikimedia.org wrote:
Carcharoth, David, Fred:
Thanks for the feedback!
I had heard about the Heavy Metal umlaut article, but did not realize there was such a sophisticated screencast.
I agree that telling the story of controversial articles is important as well; I would like nothing better than to have a variety of stories, perhaps in different media, about a variety of different kinds of articles. (Controversial/tame/highly-trafficked/demoted former FA's/etc. etc. etc. Also, different articles illustrating the different processes of various language Wikipedias.)
If we can produce a number of different stories, that will relieve any pressure of needing to tell "the entire" story in relation to any one article; and having a menu of options for any given outreach/educational opportunity will be a great benefit.
I'd like nothing more than to have you all make accounts on outreach.wikimedia.org and start a page on an article you've worked on, or whose development you've tracked.
Please let me know if I can help in that process!
-Pete
p.s. David, thanks especially for sharing the Greasemonkey script.
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2009/12/19 Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com:
Does that include the WMF wiki (that is restricted access to WMF staff or something, isn't it?) and the MediaWiki wiki (is that just developers?). I know I could go and look this up, but I don't tend to go outside en-wiki very much, though I have started and used accounts on Commons (not SUL because the name was taken) and Wikisource and Meta, but nothing else. Just point me to a list of the "meta" WMF wikis, if that would be easiest (i.e. the non-content orientated WMF wikis).
Some of the private wikis (the WMF site is basically a private wiki that the world can read) aren't in SUL. Everything that should be world-editable is, I think. (I speak with no authority on this.)
- d.