Re: [Wikimedia-l] Encyclopedic Writing Guide

2017-09-25 Thread Tanweer Morshed
Hi Michal, Thanks for the resource. Such a guide is indeed essential for producing quality content in Wikipedia. But the website seems to be in Hebrew only, is there an English version of the guide? On Monday, September 25, 2017, FULBERT wrote: > This looks great;

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Encyclopedic Writing Guide

2017-09-25 Thread FULBERT
This looks great; I can only wish it were in English!! Perhaps it is and I missed a link for it? Sounds like a useful resource!! - With Incredulity toward Metanarratives, Jeffrey User:FULBERT fulb...@fulbert-avebury.com > On Sep 25, 2017, at 12:13 PM, Michal Lester

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Encyclopedic Writing Guide

2017-09-25 Thread Asaf Bartov
On Sep 25, 2017 18:57, "Jean-Philippe Béland" wrote: This should have been posted to the Wikipedia mailing list since it doesn't have anything to do with the other projects or the movement in general. Um, no. This list is a general list, and content about Wikipedia,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries in Wikipedia

2017-09-25 Thread James Salsman
Jean-Philippe, yes, absolutely: http://blogs.oii.ox.ac.uk/policy/how-well-represented-is-the-mena-region-in-wikipedia/ As biases go, omitting notable subjects in the global south doesn't have the deleterious real-world consequences that reenforcing erroneous economic hegemony does. On Mon, Sep

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women through the glass ceiling: gender asymmetries in Wikipedia

2017-09-25 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
Good day, This is not related to gender bias, but an observation I made from reading this paper. Table 1 shows the different percentage of overlap between different languistic versions of Wikipedia with the English Wikipedia. Do anybody know if there are studies or reports focussed on that? For

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Encyclopedic Writing Guide

2017-09-25 Thread Jean-Philippe Béland
This should have been posted to the Wikipedia mailing list since it doesn't have anything to do with the other projects or the movement in general. JP On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Anna Torres wrote: > As always!!! Thanks you so much > > We will review it and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Encyclopedic Writing Guide

2017-09-25 Thread Anna Torres
As always!!! Thanks you so much We will review it and adapt it!!! Hugs!! 2017-09-25 13:13 GMT-03:00 Michal Lester : > Hi all, > > I’m excited to share with you our new interactive tool *teaching > encyclopedic writing*[1]. Encyclopedic writing differs from other

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Encyclopedic Writing Guide

2017-09-25 Thread Samuel Klein
How I needed this last week :) Are you looking for translations? Have any in progress? On Sep 25, 2017 12:14 PM, "Michal Lester" wrote: > Hi all, > > I’m excited to share with you our new interactive tool *teaching > encyclopedic writing*[1]. Encyclopedic writing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Presentation of Wikimédia France new Board members

2017-09-25 Thread Pierre-Selim
Thank you Nadine for the update, Kudos to all the newly elected board and lots of courage for the months to come. It won't be easy, but it will be interesting. 2017-09-25 6:49 GMT+02:00 Natacha Rault : > Dear Nadine, > > As a member of Wikimedia France and a Wikimedian, I want