Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:14:00 -0500
From: Emily Monroe bluecalioc...@me.com
Holy cow. Is Jimbo aware of this?
Jimbo is irrelevant. We're cooking and eating him next week.
I'll bet he'll be delicious with BBQ sauce and a side of mashed
potatoes and baked beans. Mmm mmm
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 8:47 PM, genigeni...@gmail.com wrote:
Most people are not going to want to read a book before editing
wikipedia. Your problems are:
-1) Getting people to realise that it's possible to edit
0) Getting people to want to edit
1)getting people to click the edit link in
Keegan Paul wrote:
People truly do have no clue about how to edit or the community and how it
functions. Actually, I don't think the functionality of the community can
be described.
Folks are amazed to be told that they can edit willy nilly, make an account
and all that. For all our
The reason for this is, when Flagged Revisions got into the press
last week, a number of sources reported that Wikipedia would be
recruiting 20,000 unpaid expert editors as staff to check the
articles
Holy cow. Is Jimbo aware of this?
Emily
On Aug 28, 2009, at 10:04 AM, FT2 wrote:
2009/8/28 FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com:
The reason for this is, when Flagged Revisions got into the press last week,
a number of sources reported that Wikipedia would be recruiting 20,000
unpaid expert editors as staff to check the articles
Google:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Emily Monroebluecalioc...@me.com wrote:
The reason for this is, when Flagged Revisions got into the press
last week, a number of sources reported that Wikipedia would be
recruiting 20,000 unpaid expert editors as staff to check the
articles
Holy cow. Is
Don't you mean is the Wikimedia Foundation aware of this?
Yes, that's exactly what I mean!
Emily
On Aug 28, 2009, at 10:19 AM, Carcharoth wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Emily Monroebluecalioc...@me.com
wrote:
The reason for this is, when Flagged Revisions got into the press
last
FT2 wrote:
The reason for this is, when Flagged Revisions got into the press last week,
a number of sources reported that Wikipedia would be recruiting 20,000
unpaid expert editors as staff to check the articles
I am actually curious as to where precisely did they pull that
particular
No, I haz no link. By we I meant the Foundation, ticket numbers are
available upon private request if you have access to the system.
-- Sent from my Palm Pre
Carcharoth wrote:
Could you link to an example?
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Keegan Paullt;kgnp...@gmail.com wrote:
...and they
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Jussi-Ville
Heiskanencimonav...@gmail.com wrote:
FT2 wrote:
The reason for this is, when Flagged Revisions got into the press last week,
a number of sources reported that Wikipedia would be recruiting 20,000
unpaid expert editors as staff to check the
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Emily Monroebluecalioc...@me.com wrote:
Do we have a welcome mat rolled out and some magic pixie dust to
tell people to please not be BITE-y?
*pixie dust pixie dust* ;-D
We don't want a large influx of editors arriving to help after
reading about things in
In a message dated 8/28/2009 8:10:34 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
bluecalioc...@me.com writes:
Holy cow. Is Jimbo aware of this?
--
Jimbo is irrelevant. We're cooking and eating him next week.
W.J.
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Jimbo is irrelevant. We're cooking and eating him next week.
I'll bet he'll be delicious with BBQ sauce and a side of mashed
potatoes and baked beans. Mmm mmm mmm. X-D
Emily
On Aug 28, 2009, at 1:12 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 8/28/2009 8:10:34 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
2009/8/28 Emily Monroe bluecalioc...@me.com:
Jimbo is irrelevant. We're cooking and eating him next week.
I'll bet he'll be delicious with BBQ sauce and a side of mashed
potatoes and baked beans. Mmm mmm mmm. X-D
And we can always revert to the previous Jimbo, so lots for everyone!
- d.
And we can always revert to the previous Jimbo, so lots for everyone!
When we are done, we can revert and voila! Wikipedia has food forever!
Emily
On Aug 28, 2009, at 1:18 PM, David Gerard wrote:
2009/8/28 Emily Monroe bluecalioc...@me.com:
Jimbo is irrelevant. We're cooking and eating him
In a message dated 8/28/2009 11:20:44 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
bluecalioc...@me.com writes:
When we are done, we can revert and voila! Wikipedia has food forever!
-
Just imagine how many Terabytes of data are hiden under the iceberg tip
that is what the casual reader
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:25 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
Just imagine how many Terabytes of data are hiden under the iceberg tip
that is what the casual reader sees. I have yet to see any paper about
say,
The Twisty Turny Biography of Lincoln Evolves Over Six Years
Will Johnson
2009/8/28 wjhon...@aol.com:
Just imagine how many Terabytes of data are hiden under the iceberg tip
that is what the casual reader sees. I have yet to see any paper about say,
The Twisty Turny Biography of Lincoln Evolves Over Six Years
There's something related that's been floating
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Positives to publicity
I'm serious.
FT2
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:09 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
Only if I get to write the Drama chapter.
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To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent
-stone around and
around and around.
I'm like that. Only with a whip.
W.J.
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From: Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk
To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Fri, Aug 28, 2009 4:24 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Positives to publicity
2009/8/28
For what it's worth, we are getting a good amout of email asking about how to
help the project because of the BBC and NYT. Here's to that.
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Yes. We need all the help we can get!
Emily
On Aug 26, 2009, at 7:33 PM, kgnp...@gmail.com wrote:
For what it's worth, we are getting a good amout of email asking
about how to help the project because of the BBC and NYT. Here's to
that.
-- Sent from my Palm Pre
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:33 AM, kgnp...@gmail.comkgnp...@gmail.com wrote:
For what it's worth, we are getting a good amout of email asking about how to
help the project because of the BBC and NYT. Here's to that.
Do we have a welcome mat rolled out and some magic pixie dust to tell
people to
Do we have a welcome mat rolled out and some magic pixie dust to
tell people to please not be BITE-y?
*pixie dust pixie dust* ;-D
We don't want a large influx of editors arriving to help after
reading about things in the news, only to run into someone
unfriendly or rules-bound.
I
Can't do anything but help as possible, from whatever forum. These are the
folks interested enough to click contact us, so there's certainly more.
-- Sent from my Palm Pre
Emily Monroe wrote:
Do we have a welcome mat rolled out and some magic pixie dust to
tell people to please not be
Can't do anything but help as possible, from whatever forum.
Perhaps I'm obsessing a bit, but clearly Signpost would at least run
an article about the increase of new users after the news. I would
assume you would be on Wikipedia longer, though, so yeah.
These are the folks interested
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Emily Monroebluecalioc...@me.com wrote:
I agree. Maybe have a Signpost-like note to everyone subscribed to
Signpost? Maybe have that actually in the Signpost? Something like
Editors note: There's an influx of newbies, so please be patient.
How will that work?
It would be interesting if someone did a study on initial interactions
between newcomers and oldbies to see if anything can be improved. But
IMHO the best way to avoid newbies getting bitten is to help them
avoiding newbie mistakes in the first place - a good interface, the
right help and a
Correction, it was a blog. I just don't remember where. If'n anyone else
does, please post. It was a good read.
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Keegan Paul kgnp...@gmail.com wrote:
It would be interesting if someone did a study on initial interactions
between newcomers and oldbies to see
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