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Re: [Foundation-l] Wikis analysed
by WJhonson＠aol.com 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

In a message dated 12/14/2010 2:55:59 PM Pacific Standard Time, vam(a)fct.unl.pt writes: > The Wikimedia projects power structure is definitely a serious > candidate for such analysis. > What is this? Link ? Will

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Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered
by WJhonson＠aol.com 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

In a message dated 12/14/2010 8:21:09 AM Pacific Standard Time, steven.walling(a)gmail.com writes: > This is fantastic, and the timing could not be better. > > If anyone finds anything noteworthy, please add it to the timeline of > Wikipedia that we're building at the 10th anniversary wiki,[1] as well as > the other tools for cataloging interesting tidbits from our history.[2] > > 1. http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_timeline > 2. http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share > Hmm I wonder if some things can be added there.... (sound of feathers ruffling) Btw how does one *open* this tarball thing (on Windows) ?

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Re: [Foundation-l] 10 Years of Wikipedia: What's That Mean to You?
by Virgilio A. P. Machado 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

What has been written about 10 years of Wikipedia brought to my mind thoughts of victory disease (1), groupthink (2), hubris (3), narcissism (4), communal reinforcement (5), consensus reality (6), confirmation bias (7) or, more appropriately, Wikiality (8) as well as nemesis (9), Watergate (10), and WikiLeaks (11), not necessarily in this order. Happy Birthday. Enjoy the celebrations of 10 years of Wikipedia. Sincerely, Virgilio A. P. Machado (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_disease (2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink (3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubris (4) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism (5) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_reinforcement (6) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_reality (7) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias (8) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_in_culture#Wikiality (9) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_%28mythology%29 (10) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal (11) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks At 06:49 14-12-2010, you wrote: >Hi, everyone. > >I'm working with Steven Walling and the WikiX team to help get ready >for the coming celebrations. As you know, Wikipedias 10-year birthday >is coming up really soon! Weve got scores of events plannedat least >two on every continent so far[1]and were hoping for more. Now, we >just need to make sure the rest of the world knows about this amazing >milestone, too. > >Most people outside of the community dont fully realize were a >mission-driven, non-profit movement run by real, everyday people. >Often, Wikipedia is thought to be a static product or service, not a >living, breathing community of people, from all walks of life, who >care about providing a free public service to the world. We want the >rest of the world to know and understand us as a people-driven >movement, appreciate what were doing and --most importantly-- join >us. To help, we're asking volunteers [2] passionate about Wikipedia >to take a few minutes to write a bit about what it means to be a >Wikipedian. Telling your own story about your personal connection to >Wikipedia is about being proud of the time youve spent working on an >international pubic resource and vital necessity to over 400 million >people all over the world. Its about thanking the thousands of people >who work alongside you to keep this amazing project going. > >In addition, we're compiling information about Wikipedia in the form >of a historical timeline [3] , curating interesting data in the form >of top 10 lists [4][5] and searching for long-time Wikipedians who >might also be celebrating their 10th birthday as editors [6]. If you >have anything to add [7], please share! > >As always, if you have any questions or suggestions, let us know. > >Cheers, > >Moka Pantages >Wikimedia Foundation >Communications > > >[1] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Communications_Kit >[2] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Stories >[3] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_timeline >[4] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_by_the_numbers >[5] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia's_Top_Ten >[6] >http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedians_celebrating_their_tenth_WikiBirth… >[7] >http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share#Wikipedians_celebrating_their_tenth_Wik… > >_______________________________________________ >foundation-l mailing list >foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l Prof. Virgilio A. P. Machado vam(a)fct.unl.pt Engenharia Industrial http://web.archive.org/web/20070824105539/www.ipei.pt/GDEI/ DEMI/FCT/UNL Fax: 351-21-294-8546 or 21-294-8531 Universidade de Portugal or 351-21-295-4461 2829-516 Caparica Tel.: 351-21-294-8542 or 21-294-8567 PORTUGAL or 351-21-294-8300 or 21 294-8500 Ext.112-32 96-577-3726 Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia/UNL (FCT/UNL) (Dr. Machado is Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at the School of Sciences and Engineering/UNL of the University of Portugal)

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Re: [Foundation-l] Should we offer to host citizendium?
by Adam Cuerden 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

I'd seriously advocate against this. Citizendium is well known to have major, major problems. You may have heard about the Homeopathy situation, where not only was a dangerous article - it suggested homeopathy be used to treat life-threatening conditions - written by homeopaths, with nary a word of criticism that wasn't immediately "rebutted", put on the main page, but Larry Sanger ran around advocating for it. If you want to set up a service for small wiki hosting, it may not be a bad idea, but I wouldn't under any circumstances do it just for Citizendium.

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[Foundation-l] Should we offer to host citizendium?
by geni 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

Should we offer to host citizendium? Okey get over the instinctive reaction. ==The background== Those who have read this week's signpost will be aware that citizendium is in significant financial difficulties. If not see the end of the briefly section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-11-08/News_a… Now I know we haven't exactly had the best of relationships with citizendium but we are if not distant allies at least interested observers. Their mission and much of their product at this time coincides with ours. ==The proposal== We should offer to host citizendium on our servers at no cost for a period of 1 (one) year offering a level of support equivalent to our smaller projects. After one year the citizendium community/Editorial Council is expected to have sorted themselves out to the point where they can arrange their own hosting. At which point we lock the database and provide them with the dumps ===The pros=== *It is inline with out mission *It wouldn't cost very much. Given their traffic levels and database size the cost to host would probably be lower than some of our more prolific image uploaders. *It would be possible to effectively give them instacommons *Citizendium is an interesting project and gives us a way to learn what the likely outcome of some alternative approaches would be *It helps with positioning the WMF as more than just wikipedia *It prevents the citizendium project from dying which since they have useful content would be unfortunate ===The cons=== *They may still be on PostgreSQL rather than mysql which could create issues with compatibility *Some of their community are people banned from wikipedia *risk of looking like triumphalism over Larry (can be addressed by making sure jimbo is in no way involved) *keeping control of the relationship between the citizendium community/Editorial Council and the various WMF communities *Handing the password database back at the end of the year would need to be done with care. All in all other than the assuming we can deal with the database issue I think it is something we should do. The citizendium community/Editorial Council may well say no but at least we will have tried. -- geni

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[Foundation-l] 10 Years of Wikipedia: What's That Mean to You?
by Moka Pantages 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

Hi, everyone. I'm working with Steven Walling and the WikiX team to help get ready for the coming celebrations. As you know, Wikipedia’s 10-year birthday is coming up really soon! We’ve got scores of events planned—at least two on every continent so far[1]—and we’re hoping for more. Now, we just need to make sure the rest of the world knows about this amazing milestone, too. Most people outside of the community don’t fully realize we’re a mission-driven, non-profit movement run by real, everyday people. Often, Wikipedia is thought to be a static product or service, not a living, breathing community of people, from all walks of life, who care about providing a free public service to the world. We want the rest of the world to know and understand us as a people-driven movement, appreciate what we’re doing and --most importantly-- join us. To help, we're asking volunteers [2] passionate about Wikipedia to take a few minutes to write a bit about what it means to be a Wikipedian. Telling your own story about your personal connection to Wikipedia is about being proud of the time you’ve spent working on an international pubic resource and vital necessity to over 400 million people all over the world. It’s about thanking the thousands of people who work alongside you to keep this amazing project going. In addition, we're compiling information about Wikipedia in the form of a historical timeline [3] , curating interesting data in the form of top 10 lists [4][5] and searching for long-time Wikipedians who might also be celebrating their 10th birthday as editors [6]. If you have anything to add [7], please share! As always, if you have any questions or suggestions, let us know. Cheers, Moka Pantages Wikimedia Foundation Communications [1] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Communications_Kit [2] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Stories [3] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_timeline [4] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_by_the_numbers [5] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia's_Top_Ten [6] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedians_celebrating_their_tenth_WikiBirth… [7] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share#Wikipedians_celebrating_their_tenth_Wik…

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[Foundation-l] Downtime error message turned into monolingual
by KIZU Naoko 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Hi, I've got an error message in trying to access Japanese Wikipedia. It seems long, but it's not my topic. IIRC the message from server was multilingualized years ago and we have offered the message with links to other lang same messages. The message itself seems not changed from the past, but now it's in English and only without any links to any other language. What happened? Who decided to remove lang links? And what is the idea behind of this removal? Cheers, -- KIZU Naoko / 木津尚子 member of Wikimedians in Kansai / 関西ウィキメディアユーザ会 http://kansai.wikimedia.jp

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[Foundation-l] Comfort Zone
by Fred Bauder 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

"By shading his radicalism and collaborating with mainstream outlets, Mr. Assange created a comfort zone for his partners in journalism. They could do their jobs and he could do his." https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/business/media/13carr.html Fred User Fred Bauder

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[Foundation-l] The Signpost – Volume 6, Issue 50 – 13 December 2010
by Wikipedia Signpost 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

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[Foundation-l] Fwd: [WikiX-l] 10th anniversary merchandise is ready to ship!
by Jay Walsh 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Hi folks - fwding on behalf of Steven Walling for your consideration. Please respond on wikix-l (list link is below) or on the ten.wikipedia.org wiki itself. Thanks! Begin forwarded message: > From: Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org> > Date: December 13, 2010 3:09:30 PM PST > To: Planning for WP 10th anniversary <wikix-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [WikiX-l] 10th anniversary merchandise is ready to ship! > Reply-To: Planning for WP 10th anniversary <wikix-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > Hi everyone, > > So with little more than a month to go before Wikipedia's anniversary, I'm pleased to say that the kits of special Wikipedia 10 merchandise we've talked about previously (on this list and at ten.wikipedia.org) are ready to be shipped. To reiterate: > > * This merchandise is free. The WMF is paying all shipping and production costs. > * It's available to anyone that has confirmed publicly that they're holding an event that will celebrate Wikipedia's 10th anniversary. You don't have to be holding a particular size or type of event (we have conferences, film screenings, parties, plain old meet-ups etc.). > * Everyone is getting the same kit. > * Each box includes 50 t-shirts with a balance of sizes for men and women, as well as a mixed assortment of stickers and buttons. You can see mockups of the designs at Design/Merchandise on tenwiki. I'm going to get pictures of it all on Commons soon, under Category:Wikipedia 10. > > This means that if you're organizing one of the more than 60 events currently in the works, I need two things to be able to ship to you: > > 1. A public listing for your event on tenwiki. Just to be clear, this is merely a description and links to wherever you're organizing. If your wiki page exists but doesn't tell people the basics of who/what/when then please enrich it a little, so that logistically we can feel comfortable shipping a couple hundred dollars worth of merchandise to you. The New York City and Brasília events are good examples of the level of detail I'm talking about. > > 2. Contact information and your shipping address, plus an estimate of the size of your event so that we know how many boxes to send you. You can email this to me privately. > > The shipping takes roughly a week depending on location (of course), so the sooner you can send me your event information the better. We're hoping to get as many kits as possible sent before January 1. > > For those of you who've already done all of the above, thank you. I will contact you this week before we ship anything to you. > > -- > Steven Walling > Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation > wikimediafoundation.org > _______________________________________________ > WikiX-l mailing list > WikiX-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikix-l -- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org blog.wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609, @jansonw

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