Dear Wikibook Contributor,
Thank you for those who participated in the online questionnaire which aims to assess the motivation of Wikibooks' contributors.
I am pleased to advise that the analysis of the data from the completed online questionnaires has been finalized. The analysis provides some initial insights into the reasons Wikibookians
contribute to Wiki textbook projects. However, some of these results require further investigation to gain a better understanding of the motivation of Wikibooks' contributors.
Now, I would like to invite you to participate in the online interview. The interview will take from 30 to 45 minutes. This interview will be in the form of text chat.
Please read 'Research Information Sheet' @ http://easstudents.cw.unisa.edu.au/com/survey/Information_Sheet.pdf which provides more detailed information
about the research and interview. This research project has been approved by the University of South Australia's Human Research Ethics Committee.
Could you please reply to this email with the appropriate local time for you to meet with you online?
Date & Time: ----/----/2010 @---- AM or PM?
City: --------------------
Your reply will be considered as your consent (agreement) for the interview. When I receive your reply, I will add you to my messenger contact list,
and you will then receive an invitation from InterviewonWikibooks
I look forward to meeting with you online
Thank you
Kind regards
Amal Maher
PhD Candidate
School of Communication
University of South Australia
Email: Amal.Maher(a)UniSA.edu.au
Hi everyone,
Sorry for the late reminder. Strategic planning IRC office hours are tonight:
Wednesday from 04:00-05:00 UTC, which is:
Tuesday, 8-9pm PST
Tuesday, 11pm-12am EST
As always, you can access the chat by going to
https://webchat.freenode.net and filling in a username and the channel
name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be prompted to click through a
security warning. It's fine. More details at:
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
Thanks! Hope to see many of you there.
=Eugene
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Eugene Eric Kim ................................ http://xri.net/=eekim
Blue Oxen Associates ........................ http://www.blueoxen.com/
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Some folks at Wikipedia criticize the heck out of schools and don't trust
schools because schools let anyone in, including people who don't want to
learn. If schools tolerate people who don't learn, why do they exist? There
could be a billion disruptive students. And when the old ones graduate,
there are always new ones.
> Kids at my school are criticizing the heck out of your Foundation and will
> not trust Wikipedia because anyone can edit it. If anyone can edit, then
> why do you exist? There could be a billion vandals. When the old ones get
> banned, there could be new ones.
>
>
--Mike
Dear Wikibook Contributor,
Thank you for those who participate in the online questionnaire which aims to assess the motivation of Wikibooks' contributors.
I am pleased to advise that the analysis of the data from the completed online questionnaires has been finalized. The analysis provides some initial insights into the reasons Wikibookians contribute to Wiki textbook projects. However, some of these results require further investigation to gain a better understanding of the motivation of Wikibooks' contributors.
Now, I would like to invite you to participate in the online interview. The interview will take from 30 to 45 minutes. This interview will be in the form of text chat. I have attached a 'Research Information Sheet', which provides more detailed information about the research and interview. This research project has been approved by the University of South Australia's Human Research Ethics Committee.
Could you please reply to this email with the appropriate local time for you to meet with you online?
Date & Time: ----/----/2010 @---- AM or PM?
City: --------------------
Your reply will be considered as your consent (agreement) for the interview. When I receive your reply, I will add you to my messenger contact list, and you will then receive an invitation from InterviewonWikibooks
I look forward to meeting with you online
Thank you
Kind regards
Amal Maher
PhD Candidate
School of Communication
University of South Australia
Email: Amal.Maher(a)UniSA.edu.au
That thing you said about medication was hilarious. I bet Uncyc wants you. The number of articles in Wikiversity has dropped by several hundred thousand. I just checked Wikiversity ... It only has a good 16,000 regular articles.
Tiddly, Pop, pop, pop!
Tiddly, pop, pop, pop.
Wikipedia will never stop!
It cranks out new articles, fixes the old.
You can make text in Vetalics or bold.
With three hundred million or more edits on the whole site,
It will turn a guy's face blue, red or white.
Now no one on the mailing list has seen Uncyc,
Because I am the only one who thinks it's funny, Mike!
Hi I am interested please forward me mre details.
Regards
Rebecca
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
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From: Cary Bass <cary(a)wikimedia.org>
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Hello everyone!
Cross posting this to several lists, forgive me if you get it a number
of times.
Wikimania 2010 is going to require will be requiring a number of
volunteers to handle scholarship applications. Details of the Volunteer
commitments are at
<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Volunteering:Wikimania_scholarships_rev…>,
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We are looking for people to fill these volunteer positions soon!
Any questions may be presented to me directly at my email address.
Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
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Is Jimmy Wales on this list? Jimmy, what inspired you to do a WIKI pedia? Were you inspired by the earlier wiki encyclopedia known as WikiWikiWeb (c2.com)? Were there any other wikis before you besides that c2 wiki?
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Is Jimmy Wales on this list? Jimmy, what inspired you to do a WIKI pedia? Were you inspired by the earlier wiki encyclopedia known as WikiWikiWeb (c2.com)? Were there any other wikis before you besides that c2 wiki?