Glad to read this question here, have often wondered about this myself.
User:Emelian1977, an African American PhD student named Brenton Stewart,
conducted a survey of Black American Wikipedians in 2008. I can only find a
short write-up of his study online:
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If the Foundation wanted to enquire, or do something about the relative
dearth of African American editors, a good person to contact would probably
be Henry Louis Gates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates
He's a Harvard professor, famous for having been arrested on the front
porch
jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:
So I think one reason why we don't see more diversity is that the
established, predominantly white user base is giving editors from other
backgrounds a pretty hard time!
You could also add in the photo of the bare chested African adolescent that was
proposed as
On 22 November 2010 11:10, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:
Glad to read this question here, have often wondered about this myself.
User:Emelian1977, an African American PhD student named Brenton Stewart,
conducted a survey of Black American Wikipedians in 2008. I can only find a
short
On 22 November 2010 07:26, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
What are some examples of particular current problems that you feel
this position would fix?
I'm not sure I agree that this position is designed to fix any current
problems. The task of fixing the problems
On 22 November 2010 03:18, Yann Forget yan...@gmail.com wrote:
BTW, I am looking for financial support, or some free hosting solution.
My idea was and still is that this project should be managed by a community,
not by myself alone. I am open to any proposition.
Sounds like something that
If the Foundation wanted to enquire, or do something about the relative
dearth of African American editors, a good person to contact would
probably
be Henry Louis Gates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates
He's a Harvard professor, famous for having been arrested on the front
On 22 November 2010 05:00, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 22 November 2010 11:10, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote:
Glad to read this question here, have often wondered about this myself.
User:Emelian1977, an African American PhD student named Brenton Stewart,
conducted a
For those who miss Jimmy while surfing other sites.
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Hello,
A coincidence: last weekend, in Germany and the Netherlands both the
winners of photo contests were made public. In Germany the Zedler
Medaille jury gave no first and second prize, while in the Netherlands
the competition Wiki loves monuments honoured quite a number of
winners.
(In English
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:13 AM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
For some time I am a bit puzzled by the fact that I don't know any
African American Wikimedian. For some time just because I am living in
a
A couple quick points:
* Average rent for an apartment in San Francisco is $2,282/month. If you
exclude the neighborhoods where you're likely to get shot, it's more
like $2500-$3000.
* I believe Salary and other compensation includes payment to
contractors, of which we currently have about
In a message dated 11/22/2010 10:33:53 AM Pacific Standard Time,
rkald...@wikimedia.org writes:
* I believe Salary and other compensation includes payment to
contractors, of which we currently have about 20-30 (which aren't
counted as employees).
Why so many, and contractors generally
(also including foundation-l as this isn't really a commons-specific discussion)
On 22 Nov 2010, at 21:04, Samuel Klein wrote:
A wikidata project could use semantic mediawiki from the outset, and
be seeded with data from dbpedia.
A lot of existing proposed projects would benefit from a
On 11/22/2010 1:08 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 11/22/2010 11:31:50 AM Pacific Standard Time,
wikipe...@frontier.com writes:
On 11/22/2010 10:47 AM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 11/22/2010 10:33:53 AM Pacific Standard Time,
rkald...@wikimedia.org writes:
* I
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote:
Could this be part of dbpedia?
dbpedia is about collating the information available on Wikipedia and
providing that as a database for others to use. This is about having a
central information store that can be edited
In a message dated 11/22/2010 2:10:05 PM Pacific Standard Time,
wikipe...@frontier.com writes:
They aren't - as a
member of the audit committee, I have full confidence that the Wikimedia
Foundation's tax reports are using the appropriate categories for
expenses.
So auditing is now
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:42 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 11/22/2010 2:10:05 PM Pacific Standard Time,
wikipe...@frontier.com writes:
They aren't - as a
member of the audit committee, I have full confidence that the Wikimedia
Foundation's tax reports are using the
As it is the first new project in quite a long time, having a WMF
staff member assigned to it would be brilliant.
As this would/should involve the first deployment of semantic
mediawiki by WMF, it would be good for that someone to already
experienced with semantic medawiki.
Agree. Starting
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 5:31 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote:
Could this be part of dbpedia?
dbpedia is about collating the information available on Wikipedia and
providing that as a database for others
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.comwrote:
As it is the first new project in quite a long time, having a WMF
staff member assigned to it would be brilliant.
As this would/should involve the first deployment of semantic
mediawiki by WMF, it would be good
I started this thread to discuss Wikimedia's CSR. Unfortunately, people are now
debating salaries for the major part of this thread...
~Abbas.
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:53:32 -0500
From: nawr...@gmail.com
To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Corporate Social
News and notes: No further Bundesarchiv image donations; Dutch and
German awards; anniversary preparations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-11-22/News_and_notes
In the news: Jimbo Wales interviewed and parodied; Wikipedia in politics
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Brian J Mingus
brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote:
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.comwrote:
As it is the first new project in quite a long time, having a WMF
staff member assigned to it would be brilliant.
As this
Good Job !
We were inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GerardM who Spoke the
freesb.eu conf in Vlore Albania and motivated us to start our own Photo
Contest for Kosovo.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/BestPictureOfKosovoForWikipediaContestThere
is still alot to do, most of the activity
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What I thought was a simple question has generated a volley of strong
answers, even some hostility. This was not the original topic. So I will
wrap my intervention and be gone for a while.
==Representation==
As far as I know, there is no survey of
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