Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Announcement] Voice and exit in a voluntary work environment

2017-07-26 Thread Pine W
Hi Kerry, Thanks for the comments. I hope that Leila will respond. I have a few thoughts: 1. Have you tried the New WikiText Editor (NWTE, which I want to call NEWT so that it's easily pronounceable), particularly on talk pages? I think that new users will find it to be considerably easier to

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC

2017-07-26 Thread Pine W
For what it's worth, I noted that when I tended the State of the Map USA conference last year, there seemed to be a *higher* representation of women in the conference than there were at the WikiConference USA events that I've attended. I was surprised to hear the presenter say that OSM has 95%+

Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC

2017-07-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 25 July 2017 at 19:38, Sarah R wrote: > Freedom versus Standardization: Structured Data Generation in a Peer > Production CommunityBy *Andrew Hall* There's some discussion of the talk , on the UK OSM mailing list:

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Research Showcase Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC

2017-07-26 Thread Sarah R
Just a reminder, the July 2017 Research Showcase will begin in one hour. Hope to see you there! On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Sarah R wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, July 26, > 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: research trying to influence real-world outcomes by editing Wikipedia

2017-07-26 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, There was a recent blogpost where a company used Wikidata to combine data from multiple sources to provide information to people listening to music. I know it is not Wikipedia but Wikipedia information is provided as a result. Thanks, GerardM On 26 July 2017 at 09:23, James Salsman

[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: research trying to influence real-world outcomes by editing Wikipedia

2017-07-26 Thread James Salsman
Is there any other research studying whether editing wikipedia(s) produces real-world changes? -- Forwarded message -- From: James Salsman Date: Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 6:10 PM Subject: Re: research trying to influence real-world outcomes by editing Wikipedia