Hoi,
When the Wikimedia Foundation is to be the centre of a movement, then it has
challenges as an enabler. The first most obvious thing to do is make it
visible. This means that we do not only reach out to people but also to
organisations. When GLAM (gallereies, libraries, archives and museums)
The most enjoyable dialogue this morning.
Keep up the good work to both of you!
John =D
Mark Williamson wrote:
Ray, I appreciate your honesty. I'll agree with you that I was not a
very pleasant presence on the ML. Reading archives from, say, 2005
makes me cringe. I'm glad that people were not
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Ray Saintongesainto...@telus.net wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
This is precisely one of the problems that is holding us back.
Individual prejudices against younger individuals may have scared
younger users away from the project.
All in all, I feel that we
I'm glad it was enjoyable for you also :-)
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:44 AM, John at Darkstarvac...@jeb.no wrote:
The most enjoyable dialogue this morning.
Keep up the good work to both of you!
John =D
Mark Williamson wrote:
Ray, I appreciate your honesty. I'll agree with
The company I work for employs a large number of people with with
Doctorates in mathematics and quantum mechanics. Most are opinionated
and argumentative but do not read wikipedia in areas that they have
expertise in. The last discussion I had with one of them over a
wikipedia article went If
Ray Saintonge wrote:
When I first encountered you you showed a great capacity to be a pain in
the ass. You shared that ability with a few others who were already
well passed their teen years. Your tenacity through all this has been
commendable, and your continuing presence has had a
Just curious...where in WP do you think POV and specialist works
could fit?
Well,
1) POV (best of them being articulated properly) are the only
possible ingredients (raw materials) for NPOV producing. Are you able
to create NPOV from scratch (from nothing)?
2) Specialists will (and they
Greetings,
The IRC Group Contacts decided last year to hold a surgery every three
months where general IRC matters could be brought up for discussion in
an environment in which IRC people able to put those into action
(which includes all the contacts themselves) were present and
involved.
Fowarding to Foundation-l, just so more people are in the loop
and don't swarm #wikimedia-tech with ZOMG SITE BROKEN!
:)
-Chad
-- Forwarded message --
From: Mark Bergsma m...@wikimedia.org
Date: Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:35 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Downtime due to network
The Wikimedia Foundation was originally envisaged as a membership
organization. Per my recollection, everyone who ever edited would become a
member. That didn't happen for legal reasons, however, I believe in the
spirit of it being a membership organization. Unfortunately we now subscribe
to the
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote:
Recentist? Ignoring the, ahem, fanciful language you've chosen, I'd like to
throw my support behind the voting qualifications wholeheartedly.
For me, the analogy is simple: just because you get a driver's license
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Steven Walling
steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote:
Recentist? Ignoring the, ahem, fanciful language you've chosen, I'd like
to
throw my support behind the voting qualifications
I'm taking Stevertigo off moderation. He has agreed by private email
not to continue the dispute resolution mailing list thread. Stevertigo
is a long-serving and trusted (if passionate) member of the community.
-- Tim Starling
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foundation-l mailing
It occurs to me that when people donate money to something, it is to
some degree with an expectation that the recipient entity grows to
eventually gain a certain kind of financial self-sufficiency. Is this
not also the case with Wikimedia and many charitable donations to it?
-Steven
stevertigo wrote:
It occurs to me that when people donate money to something, it is to
some degree with an expectation that the recipient entity grows to
eventually gain a certain kind of financial self-sufficiency. Is this
not also the case with Wikimedia and many charitable donations to it?
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Brianbrian.min...@colorado.edu wrote:
The second sentence should read: There is no information in the current
heuristic that indicates that editors who are allowed to vote are more or
less familiar with the candidates than those who are not.
Who says there
I have no opinion on whether the rule should exist, but it is something that
deserves to be looked at. There are valid reasons for requiring a minimum
recent edit count, of course, but perhaps there are better ways to handle
it.
The rules did disenfranchise me, for example. It doesn't bother me
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