I don't think there is anything to fear at all and I am also not sad to see
the encyclopedias go the way of LP's. Goodbye and good riddance. I have
always been addicted to reading and get annoyed in the bus when it moves
too fast for me to read something I see outside somewhere. As a child I
On 2015-07-15 06:47, Pine W wrote:
I agree that finding correct, accurate, current, and NPOV information
can
be a challenging task, and media literacy is an important skill these
days.
Good research tasks today go beyond the goal of finding just any book,
magazine, journal or webpage that
Hi Pine and all,
to follow up you're question: We've just posted the learning pattern
distilled from our WMDE Fundraising Report. You can find it here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Developing_strong_relationships_with_donors_-_more_than_communication_via_banners
Yaroslav, I agree with the second part but disagree with the first part. I
think there is still lots and lots of low-hanging fruit, but because we
tightened up policies to only include new articles with links to digitized
and paper sources, we demand higher skills of Wikipedian editors. The
It is interesting to see the reactions, but it just shows the change in how
information is saved, disseminated and consumed, from analog to digital
medium.
I am more worried about how many encyclopedias have closed in the last
years. We are moving to a world where Wikipedia is the de facto
Oh, the encyclopedias in books, my childhood love and betrayed love!
I read encyclopedias as other read comic books, and even read books like
statistical yearbooks, table per table
And my sense of betrayal when I learnt that wile I thought I had learned
knowledge I instead had in way learned
sorry for crossposting, but not everyone is subscribed to Wikimania-l ;)
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Hello, hello,
for those who might haven't seen it:
Tomorrow (Thursday) I'm organising a follow-up day for topics discussed at
the Wikimedia Conference between 10:00 and 16:00. We will have six
sessions, each 90 min
Hey, Wikimedia Portugal, good news! Happy to read them.
Also, congratulations for WikiLovesEarth contest. Beautiful photos there!
Oona
2015-07-09 14:49 GMT-03:00 Vinicius Siqueira vinicius.sme...@gmail.com:
Congratulations to our friends from Portugal! We are very happy to hear
such good
