Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising updates?
Indeed, a good start, that I already checked. The statistics shows only WMF data. Last year we had google docs file that the chapters shared their numbers every day also. And there is no indication to which banners running and their performance, things that I'll like to see. The fundraising team did some interesting changes this year, which will be interesting to know their performances. Itzik. 2012/12/13 Till Mletzko till.mlet...@wikimedia.de and: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2012 Till Am 13.12.2012 15:12, schrieb Theo10011: On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il wrote: Hi, Could we get some updates (or that I missed them?) about how the fundraising goes? WMF and Chapters will be great. Since we only focus on few countries this year, the discussions regarding it is very low, but it still very interesting to know how much we collect and how the banners works (and which one of them) http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics - is a good start. -Theo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Till Mletzko Fundraiser - Wikimedia Fördergesellschaft Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin Telefon 030 - 219 158 26 -19 www.wikimedia.de Helfen Sie mit, dass WIKIPEDIA von der UNESCO als erstes digitales Weltkulturerbe anerkannt wird. Unterzeichnen Sie die Online-Petition unter https://wke.wikimedia.de/wke/Main_Page! Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch freien Zugang zu der Gesamtheit des Wissens der Menschheit hat. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Gemeinnützige Wikimedia Fördergesellschaft mbH. Eingetragen beim Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 130183 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/603/54814. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] And you thought the Amazon Wikipedia books were bad
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:25 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: http://singularityhub.com/2012/12/13/patented-book-writing-system-lets-one-professor-create-hundreds-of-thousands-of-amazon-books-and-counting/ He's patented the method, too. Hopefully he will enforce the patent. Noam Cohen wrote about him in 2008: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/business/worldbusiness/14iht-14link.11952478.html?pagewanted=all_r=0 Little has changed since then. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] And you thought the Amazon Wikipedia books were bad
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Mathias Schindler mathias.schind...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:25 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: http://singularityhub.com/2012/12/13/patented-book-writing-system-lets-one-professor-create-hundreds-of-thousands-of-amazon-books-and-counting/ He's patented the method, too. Hopefully he will enforce the patent. Noam Cohen wrote about him in 2008: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/business/worldbusiness/14iht-14link.11952478.html?pagewanted=all_r=0 Little has changed since then. This, if I recall correctly, is some Wikimedians geeking out over how cool his methods were: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aaron,_SJ_and_Mako_at_Boston_Wikipedia_Meetup,_2009-08-18.jpg :-) -Sage ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] And you thought the Amazon Wikipedia books were bad
Extraordinaire... 2012/12/13 Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Mathias Schindler mathias.schind...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:25 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: http://singularityhub.com/2012/12/13/patented-book-writing-system-lets-one-professor-create-hundreds-of-thousands-of-amazon-books-and-counting/ He's patented the method, too. Hopefully he will enforce the patent. Noam Cohen wrote about him in 2008: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/business/worldbusiness/14iht-14link.11952478.html?pagewanted=all_r=0 Little has changed since then. This, if I recall correctly, is some Wikimedians geeking out over how cool his methods were: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aaron,_SJ_and_Mako_at_Boston_Wikipedia_Meetup,_2009-08-18.jpg :-) -Sage ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Marie-antoine RIEU 50 rue Offenbach 31500 Toulouse France 00(33) 5 61 48 90 55 00(33) 6 61 98 86 42 Mail : marie.r...@gmail.com Merci de me confirmer bonne réception des fichiers attachés le cas échéant ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] WikiSym 2013: Wikipedia Research Track CFP
WikiSym 2013: Wikipedia Research Track Call for Papers = WikiSym, the 9th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration OpenSym, the 2013 International Symposium on Open Collaboration August 5-7, 2013 | Hong Kong, China About the Conference The 2013 Joint International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym + OpenSym) is the premier conference on open collaboration research, including wiki and social media, Wikipedia, open source, open access, open data and open government research. WikiSym is in its 9th year and will be complemented by OpenSym, a new conference on open collaboration research and an adjunct to the successful WikiSym conference series. WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 will be held jointly in Hong Kong, China on August 5-7, 2013. The joint conference will contain peer-reviewed research tracks on • Wikis, social media, and open collaboration research (WikiSym 2013) • Wikipedia research (WikiSym 2013) • Open source research (OpenSym 2013) • Open access, open data, and open government research (OpenSym 2013) You are looking at the call for papers for the Wikipedia research track. For the other call for papers, please see http://www.wikisym.org/email In addition, the conference will provide open space (“unconference meetings”), experience reports, tutorials, workshops, panels, demos as well as a Doctoral Symposium. For community track information as well as the Doctoral Symposium please see http://www.wikisym.org/email The open space track is a key ingredient of the event that distinguishes WikiSym + OpenSym 2013 from other conferences. It is an integral part of the program that makes it easy to talk to other researchers and stretch your imagination and conversations beyond the limits of your own subdiscipline, exposing you to the full breadth of open collaboration research. The open space track is entirely participant-organized, is open for everyone, and requires no submission or review. For more information please see http://www.wikisym.org/openspace/ Finally, the conference will feature exciting invited speakers and a social program in Hong Kong, one of the most interesting cities on this planet. For more please see http://www.wikisym.org/email Submissions Sought Topics of interest to the Wikipedia research track include, but are not limited to: • What do particular articles or groups or articles tell us about the norms, governance and architecture of Wikipedia and its impact on media, politics and the social sphere? How is information on Wikipedia being shaped by the materiality of Wikipedia infrastructure? • What is the impact of all/some of Wikipedia’s 211 language editions having on achieving the project’s goal to represent the “sum of all human knowledge”? Do smaller language editions follow the same development path as larger language editions? Can different representations in different languages tell us anything about cultural, national or regional differences? • What are the gendered dimensions of Wikipedia editing? How are issues around power, knowledge and representation drawn into focus by gender, geography and other gaps and imbalances in Wikipedia editing? • What skills/competencies/connections/world views are required to become an empowered member of the Wikimedia community? What does a Wikipedia literate person look like? How are those skills/competencies/connections/world views obtained and enacted? • Does Wikipedia enact an open source of authoritative knowledge that impacts learning in formal and informal settings? For instance, how do students employ Wikipedia as a covert/overt source in their papers or as a generative site for problem formulation? Or how is Wikipedia being used as a serendipitous experience of knowledge acquisition? What methods can be employed to understand these varied utilizations? • What is the effect of outreach initiatives involving the growing institutionalisation of Wikipedia activities? As galleries, libraries, archives and museums hire Wikipedians-in-residence to digitize, showcase and/or represent their collections, is Wikipedia able to fill some its key knowledge gaps? Or are there unintended effects of this institutionalization of knowledge? • What are the methodological challenges to studying Wikipedia? How are researchers engaging with innovative methodologies to solve some of these problems? How are other researchers using traditional or well-established methods to study Wikipedia? • How are wiki projects other than Wikipedia evolving? What are the benefits to studying other wiki projects and can comparisons and generalisations be made from our observations of these systems? • How does information contained in Wikipedia shape our understanding of broader social, economic, and political practices and processes? What theoretical frameworks in social, economic, legal and other relevant theoretical traditions can be
