Hello all,
Olaf Simons, a literature researcher and Wikipedian, wrote a mail on the
mailing list of the German chapter about his experience both as a
researcher and as a Wikipedian. I find his experience very insightful
and got his allowance to forward the mail here, because I think these
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 18:13:56 +0100, Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de wrote:
Hello all,
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I think it is very important for us to understand the difficulties
academics face if they want to join the Wikimedian community. And maybe
we should rethink about our strategy and approach on working
In a message dated 11/25/2010 9:14:20 AM Pacific Standard Time,
wing.phil...@gmx.de writes:
I think it is very important for us to understand the difficulties
academics face if they want to join the Wikimedian community. And maybe
we should rethink about our strategy and approach on
It happens more and more often that books copy from Wikipedia. I found verbatim
parts of an article I had written in a book published by John Wiley Sons the
other day. No attribution whatsoever.
It's a headache for the copyright team on en:WP because they have to figure out
which came first.
In a message dated 11/25/2010 10:57:11 AM Pacific Standard Time,
jayen...@yahoo.com writes:
It's a headache for the copyright team on en:WP because they have to
figure out which came first.
First there should be a presumption that established editors (I've been
in-project for seven
On 25 November 2010 22:15, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
We have Geni, many ways to determine if someone is an established editor.
Name one that doesn't boil down to editcountitis
We have flags already to mark people as established editors in addition to
that.
I for one have no wish to turn
In a message dated 11/25/2010 3:31:07 PM Pacific Standard Time,
geni...@gmail.com writes:
On 25 November 2010 22:15, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
We have Geni, many ways to determine if someone is an established
editor.
Name one that doesn't boil down to editcountitis
We have flags
Dear Mr. Will Johnson,
Three hurrays for the separations of powers, checks and balances and
full accountability to oneself, others and the foundations of a
civilized community.
You got my attention and my empathy.
Virgilio A. P. Machado
At 19:43 25-11-2010, you wrote:
In a message dated
In a message dated 11/25/2010 3:31:07 PM Pacific Standard Time,
geni...@gmail.com writes:
On 25 November 2010 22:15, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
We have Geni, many ways to determine if someone is an established
editor.
Name one that doesn't boil down to editcountitis
We have flags
Okay, but that's just to control the power of the monopoly federal
government, which is STRICTLY limited in what it can do (unfortunately, most
Americans have forgotten that part). To control the power of the states
(which is where nearly everything SHOULD be done), there is nothing that a
state
We at Wikipedia are not by ourselves going to reform or replace the
reward structure of the academic world.
The suggestion I have recently been making, is that when someone in
the academic world wants to write something general, they publish one
version under their name , at least on their own
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