Re: [Foundation-l] Baidu Baike Wikipedia 百度百科與維基百科 (英文)

2011-04-19 Thread Thomas Dalton
2011/4/19 Dana Lutenegger dana.luteneg...@gmail.com: Actually, I'm pretty sure that on paper, Chinese law forbids this kind of copying without attribution. The issue is whether or not it can be enforced in practice. If it was strictly enforced, a lot of Baidu Baike and Hudong Wiki would have

Re: [Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications

2011-04-19 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 1:55 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Hi. I'm not sure about other people, but one of the primary reasons I get on Facebook is that Facebook reminds me to get on. It sends notification e-mails about a Wall post or a comment or whatever. Without these, I

Re: [Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications

2011-04-19 Thread David Gerard
On 19 April 2011 07:55, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: There's been a lot of talk about getting new editors and keeping them. I would think something like working e-mail notifications would be a high priority. There are plenty of features and enhancements that could improve the user

Re: [Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications

2011-04-19 Thread MZMcBride
Erik Moeller wrote: 2011/4/18 MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com: Even on some Wikimedia wikis, it's the e-mail notifications that get me to go back to the site. I only ever visit strategy.wikimedia.org when someone edits my talk page, as it triggers an e-mail notification to me. The smaller sites

Re: [Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications

2011-04-19 Thread Samuel Klein
it's just not enabled on larger sites such as the English Wikipedia. It's being tracked by bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5220. This is definitely needed. (I remember the debates about implementing this at all when it was first under development; I am quite glad that it

[Foundation-l] A designer? (was: Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications)

2011-04-19 Thread Milos Rancic
MZMcBride's email about emails reminded me that every automated email from Wikimedia servers looks like a bunch of programming code. The first idea was that it would be better to have some better formatted emails with some more information (for example, I would like to see diff inside of my email

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF privacy policy a third party web clone of et.wikipedia.org

2011-04-19 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Raul Kern, 19/04/2011 08:25: an unknown third party has made a web proxy of Estonian Wikipedia at his webaddress (let's not promote this address here any futher, but You can guess it -- it's in form of www.popularwebencyclopedianame.ee ). At least they aren't adding any banner, as happens

Re: [Foundation-l] A designer? (was: Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications)

2011-04-19 Thread Chris Keating
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: MZMcBride's email about emails reminded me that every automated email from Wikimedia servers looks like a bunch of programming code. The first idea was that it would be better to have some better formatted emails with

Re: [Foundation-l] A designer? (was: Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications)

2011-04-19 Thread Liam Wyatt
On 19 April 2011 11:59, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: MZMcBride's email about emails reminded me that every automated email from Wikimedia servers looks like a bunch of programming code. The first

Re: [Foundation-l] Dynamics of Online Interactions and Behavior

2011-04-19 Thread Jérôme Hergueux
Hi everyone! Thanks for your interest in our Harvard – Sciences Po study! I just wanted to jump in and add a few comments to Steven's answer. As Steven has rightly pointed out, we are currently conducting a quite large scale research project on the dynamics of online interactions and behavior,

Re: [Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications

2011-04-19 Thread Sage Ross
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: We have a range of ideas about how e-mail could be used for retention/engagement Here's one more for the idea pile... If the operations reasons for not mass-enabling email notifications can't be overcome (or even if they

[Foundation-l] HOWTO turn your scholarly journal into an open access journal

2011-04-19 Thread David Gerard
This is not directly relevant to WMF projects, but it's of great importance in helping the free content world along. http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/13/howto-turn-your-scho.html http://repository.alt.ac.uk/887/ Is there anything we can do to push this along?e.g. Would a blog post be apposite?

Re: [Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications

2011-04-19 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
See also https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28026 which could probably be fixed without too much effort. Nemo ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: