Re: [Wiki-research-l] [Foundation-l] How about WikiMedia in Google Summer of Code 2008

, but they are issues that wiki technology doesn't exactly excel in yet so it would be a start. Improved referencing methods in wiki's may also be another topic which could be investigated at the technical level. Peter Ansell ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Building an academic network for Wikimedia

for discouraging them. Getting them to use wiki's in general however is a much easier task though and should be promoted more widely even if on-Wikipedia networks don't pick up. Peter Ansell ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Help to solve three doubts on Wikipedia research data

The fact that there are only a few wikimedia personell who are able to access the information about browsing trails, and a few community representatives who can check the IP's for registered users doesn't mean Wikimedia doesn't spy. It spys heavily on editing, and then offers some of the

Re: [Wiki-research-l] long in tooth.

On 3 May 2012 06:08, Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com wrote: I'm not seeing a problem with running out of ideas.  I do see a bit of a culture that discourages people from using red links though. I blame that on teachers that tell students not to use Red pens for historical reasons (which they

Re: [Wiki-research-l] real scholarship is expensive

On 23 May 2012 14:47, Richard Jensen rjen...@uic.edu wrote: Making them pay $1000 to $5000 so their article is open access is a very unwise way to promote their scholarship. (Few if any prestigious history journals are now open access; this seems more an issue in sciences.) Some open access

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gender bias in GitHub (but not entirely what you expect)

One theory may be that outsiders contribute trivial fixes, which are virtually assured to have a 100% acceptance rate by communities that wish to expand. Even if the trivial fix is slightly broken the maintainer can patch it up after the merge and give the contributor a sense of achievement by

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Gender bias in GitHub (but not entirely what you expect)

On 20 February 2016 at 12:44, Samuel Klein wrote: > The full paper is very much worth reading. > > Peter writes: >> One theory may be that outsiders contribute trivial fixes, which are >> virtually assured to have a 100% acceptance rate by communities that >> wish to expand. >