Re: [Foundation-l] Editor retention (was Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!)

2012-03-23 Thread En Pine
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 22:01, En Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: think that we should move in the opposite direction, permitting and possibly even encouraging people to be social (within reasonable limits) while working collaboratively on our collective project of Wikipedia. I agree.

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Video codecs and mobile

2012-03-23 Thread geni
On 21 March 2012 08:41, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: (This is harder than it sounds, but is apparently in progress, in the coming-some-day Timed Media Handler.) At that point we can start on serious programs to add video. Every article on a street should have video of the street, for

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Video codecs and mobile

2012-03-23 Thread David Gerard
On 23 March 2012 20:13, geni geni...@gmail.com wrote: Every article on a non extinct animal species is a somewhat viable and useful goal (and it keeps us one step ahead of web of life) Goodness yes. My 4yo loves videos of animals, and there's e.g. just about no fish that can be filmed that

[Foundation-l] What 'movement role' for Esperanto?

2012-03-23 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Dear all, Here a little contribution to the discussion about new organizations for the Wikimedia movement. As far as I know, at this point there are not many groups who consider seriously about becoming such a new organization. Sometimes people mention the Esperanto Wikipedians because they

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

2012-03-23 Thread Samuel Klein
There are many good reasons to attract new contributors - from countering systemic bias to higher quality over time to new forms of collective wisdom that emerge as people currently overwhelmed with admin work have time to reflect and find better ways to work. Technically, we could attract raw

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

2012-03-23 Thread John Vandenberg
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: .. Technically, we could attract raw contributors with the flick of a finger: by encouraging editing via sitenotices. But attracting people who won't contribute well... That sounds like a great idea for projects where the

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

2012-03-23 Thread Theo10011
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 7:36 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: That sounds like a great idea for projects where the readership and/or editorship is low. On those projects, it is very likely that a reader with even a tiny interest in editing can be converted to a good editor, and

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

2012-03-23 Thread MZMcBride
Samuel Klein wrote: Technically, we could attract raw contributors with the flick of a finger: by encouraging editing via sitenotices. But attracting people who won't contribute well, or will have a bad experience -- or doing so when there is no good way to integrate them into the project --