[Wikimedia-l] [tangential] Why voting is evil
Rick Falkvinge has been writing a book, Swarmwise, on how the Pirate Party organised. He's been posting it a chapter at a time to his blog. You know how Wikipedia/Wikimedia has (or had) the meme that voting is evil? This sets out why. http://falkvinge.net/2013/07/01/swarmwise-the-tactical-manual-to-changing-the-world-chapter-six/ tl;dr: voting creates winners and losers, and losers are unhappy and disengage. - d. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland Monthly Report May 2013
Hi all, it's never too late for a monthly report. Please note that the report for May from Wikimedia Deutschland has been translated and is now available on Meta. In May, we dealt with the following topics: - the new and revised edition of the GLAM brochure - WMDE's experiences at the Amsterdam Hackathon - the various workshops which took place at the Open Sunday at WMDE's office in Berlin Of course, you can find much more at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Deutschland/May_2013 . Best, Katja -- Öffentlichkeitsarbeit - Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstraße 72 | 10963 Berlin Telefon 030 - 219 158 26-0 www.wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [tangential] Why voting is evil
David Gerard, 01/07/2013 12:38: tl;dr: voting creates winners and losers, and losers are unhappy and disengage. Right; to be added to the list of reasons why ranked voting like Schulze was better than the last antagonistic support/oppose for WMF board elections (which also adds incentives to oppose a lot). Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [tangential] Why voting is evil
Rick Falkvinge has been writing a book, Swarmwise, on how the Pirate Party organised. He's been posting it a chapter at a time to his blog. You know how Wikipedia/Wikimedia has (or had) the meme that voting is evil? This sets out why. http://falkvinge.net/2013/07/01/swarmwise-the-tactical-manual-to-changing-the-world-chapter-six/ tl;dr: voting creates winners and losers, and losers are unhappy and disengage. - d. And what is the difference when any Wikipedian with good sense avoids participation in any policy discussion unless there is massive consensus. Practical experience with anarchic decision-making shows that aggressive idiots rule. Fred ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [tangential] Why voting is evil
tl;dr: voting creates winners and losers, and losers are unhappy and disengage. We see this effect anyway. Correlation does not imply causation. :) Tom ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Picturing Canada: historic Canadian photography now on Commons
Hi all, Today, the British Library announced the Picturing Canada project to mark Canada Day (1st July). Those of you who were at GLAM-Wiki in April may remember this collection: it's a digitisation of the Canadian Copyright Collection, 1895-1924, covering photographs deposited for copyright registration in Canada during this period. There's currently about 2,000 photographs, many of which are composites of multiple images stuck together; all are available as full-resolution TIFFs and JPEGs. There's more files still trickling up - including some interesting aerial photographs, panoramas, and a collection of official photographs from WWI - but almost all of the general images are now online, and we're now just adding the oddities. Including the official photographs, this will total around 4,000 works. Please do take a look - there's some marvellous material in there. WMF: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/01/picturing-canada/ (in English and French; translation by Benoit Rochon) BL: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/americas/2013/07/happy-canada-day.html Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picturing_Canada Thanks to Wikimedia UK and the Eccles Centre for American Studies for funding this, and to Phil Hatfield at the British Library for championing the collection! Andrew. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Picturing Canada: historic Canadian photography now on Commons
Very interesting. Congrats! 2013/7/1 Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk Hi all, Today, the British Library announced the Picturing Canada project to mark Canada Day (1st July). Those of you who were at GLAM-Wiki in April may remember this collection: it's a digitisation of the Canadian Copyright Collection, 1895-1924, covering photographs deposited for copyright registration in Canada during this period. There's currently about 2,000 photographs, many of which are composites of multiple images stuck together; all are available as full-resolution TIFFs and JPEGs. There's more files still trickling up - including some interesting aerial photographs, panoramas, and a collection of official photographs from WWI - but almost all of the general images are now online, and we're now just adding the oddities. Including the official photographs, this will total around 4,000 works. Please do take a look - there's some marvellous material in there. WMF: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/01/picturing-canada/ (in English and French; translation by Benoit Rochon) BL: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/americas/2013/07/happy-canada-day.html Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picturing_Canada Thanks to Wikimedia UK and the Eccles Centre for American Studies for funding this, and to Phil Hatfield at the British Library for championing the collection! Andrew. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Picturing Canada: historic Canadian photography now on Commons
On 1 July 2013 19:29, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: Hi all, Today, the British Library announced the Picturing Canada project to mark Canada Day (1st July). Those of you who were at GLAM-Wiki in April may remember this collection: it's a digitisation of the Canadian Copyright Collection, 1895-1924, covering photographs deposited for copyright registration in Canada during this period. There's currently about 2,000 photographs, many of which are composites of multiple images stuck together; all are available as full-resolution TIFFs and JPEGs. There's more files still trickling up - including some interesting aerial photographs, panoramas, and a collection of official photographs from WWI - but almost all of the general images are now online, and we're now just adding the oddities. Including the official photographs, this will total around 4,000 works. Please do take a look - there's some marvellous material in there. WMF: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/01/picturing-canada/ (in English and French; translation by Benoit Rochon) BL: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/americas/2013/07/happy-canada-day.html Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picturing_Canada Thanks to Wikimedia UK and the Eccles Centre for American Studies for funding this, and to Phil Hatfield at the British Library for championing the collection! Andrew. Hmm are we going to need to include a dislaimer with regards to some of the captions? Eg: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scalp_dance,_Blackfoot_Indians_%28HS85-10-18743%29_original.tif -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
