Has anyone used Loomio? (loomio.org)
It is a tool for consensus decision-making that currently focuses on making
decisions about a single question at a time. It looks pretty similar in
spirit to wiki-mediated consensus, but with automated visualization and
layout.
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The Berkman Center just came out with a report on the public
discussions surrounding the SOPA-PIPA actions; drawing on the Media
Cloud work by Yochai Benkler and others.
It provides context for the discussions on the English Wikipedia, and
captures the differences between the grassroots and
for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their
personal capacity.
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On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
On 26 April 2013 05:19, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
The thing is that if someone is in a subcategory they are then taken out
of the category. So, if the subcategories are applied, nearly everyone
should
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A fun mashup of WP and SeeClickFix that I was pointed to today: Fixipedia
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fixipedia/dgnfllcgpnfbgmmpfblehlgbbcmnhaac
via http://www.seeclickfix.com
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On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Ken Arromdee arrom...@rahul.net wrote:
If anything, it's worse for companies. Nobody tells BLP subjects that
because they have a COI, they can't even remove incorrect statements
about themselves.
A fair point.
I liked Andreas's way of putting this earlier:
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:12 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
I realize in my first note that I forgot to link Ben's meta page...
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tlogmer
a quick look at his contributions will remind some of us about the old
fundcom, Wikimania 2006 designs,
2010's 32-volume set will be its last. (Now I want to get one, to
replace my old set!) Future versions will be digital only.
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/after-244-years-encyclopaedia-britannica-stops-the-presses/?smid=tw-nytimesseid=auto
Cute:
http://toons.mit.edu/index.php?title=News
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On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
We've been talking about a potential throttle to deal with overuse.
These and other ideas are being collected here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiLove/Idea_Log
straight out of a 2003-era april fools story about the
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On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 5:16 PM, George Herbert
george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 4:47 AM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote:
On 12/23/10 1:31 PM, George Herbert wrote:
The social stuff which is complex is something which is a barrier, but
one that all western
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
in unfounded authority of claims.
Construction and analysis of a claim specific citation network may
clarify the nature of a published belief system and expose distorted
methods of social citation.
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On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/07/james-murdoch-british-library
James Murdoch criticises the British Library's plans to digitise old
newspapers. And I quote: public sector interest is to
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Date: Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:32 PM
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common
;
notable published works that are out of print; even, as DGG says,
modern notable businesses, or bands and other artists who don't have a
Wikipedia-savvy following.
SJ
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 5:34 AM, Samuel Klein meta
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net
wrote:
Yes, that disposes of them. The point is to have external links and
further reading available to users of the reference at the foot of the
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Ryan Delaney ryan.dela...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:45 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Running a mass deletion does have the unfortunate effect
that there's no time for anyone to scramble for sources, which folks
will do at least
Wikipedia has no management style because there are no managers. We
should not be a bureaucracy in any sense of the word.
Right.
That is the point of WP:BURO. It's not that We are a bureaucracy, but
if you cut some corners we'll look the other way. That's not what it
says at all.
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:46 AM, David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com wrote:
I do not consider that trivial. The deletion of improvable articles
because the small number of participants at AfD who are interested
and willing to rescue them is one of the reasons for people losing the
interest
Forwarding from foundation-l. This is lovely - bold of HuffPost to include
Wikimedia in its wide-angle view of today's media, and appropriate
considering the way WP helps make sense of the chaos of breaking news.
I also love Tina Brown's quote - I used to be the impatient type. Now I'm
the
Timwi -
That is indeed pretty egregious. I use that dialog all the time, but
usually upload my own images and so didn't really attend to whether
the other options are complete.
I agree that this should be fixed, and filed a bug:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20648
(I thought
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
That's a very good idea.
+1
The name strikes me as the biggest drawback of the current system.
Carcharoth
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:36 AM, FT2ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote:
I think there's a terminology issue.
We
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:59 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/9/4 FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com:
What I would think more likely to succeed? A Help us improve tab, not a
comment tab
Specifically with a header and edit notice If you can see a way to improve
this article, or better more
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:36 PM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/8/11 Steve Summit s...@eskimo.com:
d. wrote:
His approach was to recruit a pile of other XML experts, who he didn't
necessarily agree with.
Another important aspect of his approach was that he recognized
(and even
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Jay
Litwynbrewh...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote:
stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote in message
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:14 PM, stevertigostv...@gmail.com wrote:
It occurs to me that when people donate money to something, it is to
some degree with an
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Emily Monroebluecalioc...@me.com wrote:
I'd like it. Good for new page patrollers'.
+1 for neat little pop-ups and easy error reporting. Can we also do
something like this to report general interface and software bugs?
SJ
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Steve Bennettstevag...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com
wrote:
But still? A local library? I find it useful to look at things in
context with other similar institutions. So, I try and think of famous
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Anthonywikim...@inbox.org wrote:
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Steve Summit s...@eskimo.com wrote:
My own take on the deletionist/inclusionist divide (which,
admittedly, has little if anything to do with Wikipedia's
inclusion policies as currently
Do experts have an obligation? No. Educators and those whose goal is
to improve the world's knowledge, yes. And everyone has a motivation
to contribute driven by public interest, but not everyone recognizes
it.
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
On
This is a nice writeup. It would make a good addition to the lists
discussion page you link.
An essay on this that ties into other ways to convert reliable
datasources into pages via a list-creation step (sometimes resulting
in a list, sometimes resulting in a topic outline, and sometimes
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Ray Saintongesainto...@telus.net wrote:
Steve Bennett wrote:
So, can someone fill me in on why we're laughing at this? From the article:
That seems like a pretty reasonable concern to me. To destroy the
effectiveness of a test that has that kind of research
Is there a suitable place on-wiki to put a summary of some of the
points in this thread?
Carcharoth
If you don't mind the recursion, I've posted some of the discussion so far to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Issues/Long-term_discussions
which is part of the still-conceptual
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Gwern Branwengwe...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, the best way forward is probably to improve talk pages. They've
already proven that they can go the distance; so 'all' that's needed
Well, i think we still have a long way to go before we've successfully
copied that
Well, there is something in the original proposal that makes sense to me --
devoting specific attention to long-term facilitation of discussion and
resolution of difficult issues. There is something about wiki-time (to
borrow a term) that discourages measured discussion over time - if you miss
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
Ironically, wikis are so far the online medium which have done best at
long-term conversations: I routinely see talk page conversations where
the gaps between one message and another may be a year or three. This
is
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Philippe
Beaudettepbeaude...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Please, take the time to join in this exciting process. The
importance of your participation can not be overstated.
This still makes it sound as though community participation is
optional, and is input into
Brad : the practical implications are that we will lose the ability to
copy work from a set of familiar collaborative sites -- many of which
chose their license specifically to facilitate long-term exchange with
Wikipedia -- and they will slowly lose access to the latest WP
updates over months or
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