The recent community initiative with the highest impact I can think of
is surely what Platonides and other members of the global (technical)
community did on pt.wiki. Platonides noticed a configuration error on
pt.wiki: CAPTCHA was required for all edits since 2008. The error was
fixed in
I am an audience! Thanks and it really makes some broader points. We often
start from finding people who have a passion about a subject but don;t edit
yet. That at least solves the 'blank sheet of paper' fear. Liked the
discussion though.
On 4 July 2013 08:34, Federico Leva (Nemo)
Manuel Schneider, 22/06/2013 10:46:
Are there any chapters which are ISOC members? I only heard once about
WMIL cooperating with ISOC IL so far.
Frieda gave a talk at the Italian IGF in 2009, then I think they lost
momentum (or we did?).
Awesome will be when you and everyone interested to give their 2 cents
begins to participate in the discussions :)
Balázs
2013/7/3 Sydney sydney.po...@gmail.com
Awesome approach! Thanks for bringing attention to your community's
discussion. I'm eager to see the ideas you all collect.
Wait - removing the captchas lead to a decrease of reverted edits in terms
of absolute numbers? Woot? Anyone has an explanation for that?
2013/7/5 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com
The recent community initiative with the highest impact I can think of is
surely what Platonides and
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Denny Vrandečić
denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote:
Wait - removing the captchas lead to a decrease of reverted edits in terms
of absolute numbers? Woot? Anyone has an explanation for that?
Maybe a CAPTCHA is effective at demotivating bona fide editors and
Denny Vrandečić, 05/07/2013 17:42:
Wait - removing the captchas lead to a decrease of reverted edits in terms
of absolute numbers? Woot? Anyone has an explanation for that?
No, sorry if I was misleading: decrease in relative numbers only. :)
The tables are fairly readable even if you don't
On 07/05/2013 01:07 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
No, sorry if I was misleading: decrease in relative numbers only.
That's not surprising; someone with malice aforethought isn't going to
be stopped by a captcha, someone who just though Hey, I'll correct that
typo is likely to not want to
Hi, Nemo.
Certainly, this was an ENWP experiment, and it's not unreasonable that
there would be no learnings for other projects. The post's audience was
absolutely anyone in the movement who may care; after all, anyone can
replicate this experiment or something like it, in other countries, other
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Denny Vrandečić
denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote:
Wait - removing the captchas lead to a decrease of reverted edits in terms
of absolute numbers? Woot? Anyone has an explanation for that?
I think the explanation is pretty clear from the numbers Nemo shared.
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