[WikiEN-l] Office Hours with Sue Gardner

2010-10-01 Thread Deniz Gultekin
Hi all, A reminder that Sue Gardner, the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, will be having office hours today (September 30) at 23:00 UTC (16:00 PT, 19:00 ET, 01:00 Friday CEST) on IRC in #wikimedia-office. If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Ambassadors of Morocco's debut single 'Wikipedia' will be released on 15th November 2010

2010-10-01 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
Can we have this in the fundraiser please? On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Fayssal F. szv...@gmail.com wrote: Hahaha... that's funny :) They are not my meatpuppets! Fayssal F. Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:09:58 +0530 From: Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com Subject: [WikiEN-l] The Ambassadors

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Ambassadors of Morocco's debut single 'Wikipedia' will be released on 15th November 2010

2010-10-01 Thread geni
On 1 October 2010 18:54, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: Can we have this in the fundraiser please? The Ambassadors of Morocco appear to be following a fairly conventional commercial band route. While RIAD Records appears to be a name for them self publishing there is nothing

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Ambassadors of Morocco's debut single 'Wikipedia' will be released on 15th November 2010

2010-10-01 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On the one hand, I agree. On the other, if I had a starting band, the massive exposure of Wikipedia might be hard to resist. If we would want them to release their song under a free licence for the fundraiser, (and that's if. I want them, but that doesn't mean other people want them) asking them

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Ambassadors of Morocco's debut single 'Wikipedia' will be released on 15th November 2010

2010-10-01 Thread Deniz Gultekin
With the lyrics being: Wikipedia, Wikipedia, has twisted my mind inside out and upside down. Wikipedia, Wikipedia, ain't work nothing but fun and laughter all around. Wikipedia, Wikipedia, I'm losing my way everyday tuned to the sound of Wikipedia, Wikipedia. I don't think it's a very

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Ambassadors of Morocco's debut single 'Wikipedia' will be released on 15th November 2010

2010-10-01 Thread John Du Hart
I agree, the song really has nothing to do with Wikipedia itself. They could of replaced Wikipedia with any internet website name and to me the song would have the same meaning. ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Ambassadors of Morocco's debut single 'Wikipedia' will be released on 15th November 2010

2010-10-01 Thread David Gerard
On 1 October 2010 21:39, Deniz Gultekin dgulte...@wikimedia.org wrote: Wikipedia, Wikipedia, has twisted my mind inside out and upside down. Wikipedia, Wikipedia, ain't work nothing but fun and laughter all around. Wikipedia, Wikipedia, I'm losing my way everyday tuned to the sound of

[WikiEN-l] Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia

2010-10-01 Thread Samuel Klein
Forwarding from foundation-l. David - thanks for the heads-up; this essay is brilliant, and not just about biology. Here's a shorter link: http://j.mp/ten-wiki-rules Magnus - I see your hand in this :-) I'd love to see the edit history... Have you or your co-authors also published this on

[WikiEN-l] I predict our biology articles are about to become superlative

2010-10-01 Thread David Gerard
http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1000941 These guys paid author's fees to get an article published in a peer-reviewed specialist journal that will net them no useful citation credits, just to make the Wikipedia articles on their science better. :-O This

Re: [WikiEN-l] The Ambassadors of Morocco's debut single 'Wikipedia' will be released on 15th November 2010

2010-10-01 Thread Risker
Well, Dick, it's got a good beat and you can dance to it... Maybe not fundraiser material, but it made me smile. :-) Risker/Anne On 1 October 2010 13:54, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: Can we have this in the fundraiser please? On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Fayssal F.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia

2010-10-01 Thread Carcharoth
That looks like the paper I read a preview copy of a few months ago at a wiki-meetup! I remember thinking much the same thing as David (Gerard) at the time, along the lines of this is great stuff!. :-) Carcharoth On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Forwarding