[Foundation-l] Fwd: Judd Bagley presentation on Wikipedia
-- Forwarded message -- From: Charles Ainsworth cl...@yahoo.com Date: Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:04 AM Subject: Judd Bagley presentation on Wikipedia To: foundation-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org If you aren't familiar with the history behind this episode, Judd Bagley was banned from en.Wikipedia for trying to out a financial journalist who had created several user accounts in Wikipedia to promote naked short selling. Partly as a result of his experience, Bagley has created a presentation which he gave recently to a class of business students at the University of Texas. The presentation is here - http://antisocialmedia.net/lecture1/player.html. The first part of the presentation concerns the efforts by several individuals in the finance industry to manipulate the Internet to promote naked short selling (NSS). Starting on slide 52, Bagley describes an attempt by one of the NSS proponents to use Wikipedia as a promotional tool for himself as well as for NSS. Bagley then describes what happened when he attempted to intervene. I believe that personally hearing Bagley's experiences and lessons learned would be of benefit for the WMF. I suggest that the WMF consider inviting Bagley to give his presentation to WMF's staff and boardmembers. I believe that Bagley's contact information is available on his website- http://antisocialmedia.net/. Charles Ainsworth (Cla68 on en.Wikipedia) -- Michael Bimmler mbimm...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Flagged Revisions, Report on german WP
Listening to Wikipedia Weekly (71) and reading the discussions on en.WP and nl.WP about implementation, it strucks me how inaccurate the discussions are. I do not know what is the reason for it, a poor presentation in the first place, a confusing terminology, hidden ideological motives... It is difficult to discuss something when people claim that it would take ages until an article is sighted, that people are prevented from creating articles, talk about the sighting of autoconfirmed people (has nothing to do with that). With my mentees in de.WP I never experienced that someone complained about the sighting process, the newbies took it as something normal and asked me friendly to do the sighting (often it was already done by someone else). Of course, if someone creates an article about a less interesting subject, it can take some days or even one, two weeks until sighting, but I don't see the tragic of that. Kind regards Ziko 2009/2/19 P. Birken pbir...@gmail.com Creation of new articles by IPs was never disabled on de-WP. However, the number of articles coming is has been steady for years now with about 1.500, of which around 1.000 are speedy deleted, so an overall net growth of slightly less than 500 per day. Otherwise, we are were indeed able to come down to a maximal waiting time of 5 days and will try to keep it there or even lower. Best, Philipp ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- Ziko van Dijk NL-Silvolde ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
