Thank you, James.
Anthony Cole
On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 10:33 AM, James Alexander
wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 6:27 PM, Anthony Cole wrote:
>
> > When one's available, would someone please post a link to the transcript?
> >
> > Anthony Cole
>
>
>
ot the memo. I
think "advised" is enough, and if the board wants more engagement, they can
initiate it - presuming the notification is clear and comprehensive, of
course.
Anthony Cole
On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Risker wrote:
> Well, I'm not sure about that, Anthony. B
the ED needs to engage better with
her crew. Those who have been demonstrating gross disrespect for the ED
over the last few days need to leave.
Anthony Cole
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 1:02 AM, James Heilman wrote:
> I agree having all board members engage with the community in their o
I know.
Anthony Cole
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 7:17 AM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Anthony Cole wrote:
>
> > * The Community Resources Team is in place - it surveyed the community
> and
> > discussed with them their technical priorities, an
e on her front.
>
> James
> [[User:Jamesofur]]/[[User:Jalexander-WMF]]
>
> Personal capacity, as signaled by my email address, but since some complain
> I don't make it clear my role in WMF when I send this type of email: I am
> also the Manager of Trust &
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Cardy's comment here:
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I hope to see some rigorous, independent analysis of the current crisis,
once the dust has settled. It'd be nice for that to be initiated and funded
outside the WMF but with their full cooperation. Is there a charitable
foundation whose mission would cover this?
Anthony Cole
On Mon, F
I found this response interesting. It highlights the imbalance we, on the
outside, are having to deal with. It is OK for anyone to criticize the ED
on this list and elsewhere but if she says something that implies
shortcomings on the part of one or more of her staff or former staff - and
if WMF had
Danny, four months ago the board decided to give her time. The vocal staff
have responded by rejecting that. The board needs to reconsider, in light
of that response, and either confirm their commitment to the ED or come to
a different resolution. Soon, preferably.
On 23 Feb 2016 12:09 am, "Danny H
I've just received this from someone called billinghurst:
"Please stop this rebuttal of people's statements. Their opinions are as
valuable, if not more valuable than yours as statements. Your name is
appearing too often IMNSHO."
I thought I was bringing a sorely under-represented perspective to
me I've ever made public a private email. Literally.
Ever. I assume it will be the last. That kind of thing, bullying people
into silence, quietly, off-list, is IMNSHO, poor behaviour, billinghurst.
Anthony Cole
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Benjamin Lees wrote:
> Someone complained
he uses it. I was wrong.
(Sorry about calling the board names in my last post. Habit. I'll reign it
in, a bit.)
Anthony Cole
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Theo10011 wrote:
> I am totally with Benjamin on this.
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016, Oliver Keyes wrote:
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Wrong link. It's here.
http://wikipediocracy.com/2015/02/08/the-dream-that-died-erik-moller-and-the-wmfs-decade-long-struggle-for-the-perfect-discussion-system/
On Wednesday, 24 February 2016, Anthony Cole wrote:
> This time last year, Scott Martin wrote up a history on Wikipediocrac
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; doing the work in the future.
>
> What I think is most valuable is the *learning process*, not merely the
> *collection of factual/historical information*. The latter is valuable, of
> course; but the learning is the key to an organization getting better at
> what it does over
That's an excellent post. Thank you for the clarity. I, too, support the
creation of a body to represent the volunteer community.
Anthony Cole
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Denny Vrandecic
wrote:
> I disagree very much with Dariusz on this topic (as he knows). I think that
> a b
e are
atomised, the latter is our only option. Organised, forking becomes a
serious possibility. Of course, I hope it never comes to that. But without
that possibility, we are in the position of just having to take whatever
from the WMF - good and bad.
Anthony Cole
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Sa
ture
contractor to "keep the servers running." Organised, we - the people who
actually created this thing and actively maintain it - could set the course
for its development.
Anthony Cole
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Anthony Cole wrote:
> Sarah, if the volunteer community w
7;s model. I don't really care. But
this tail-wagging-dog thing is just not right.
Anthony Cole
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Anthony Cole wrote:
> Sarah, I'd prefer to see the "keeping the servers running" role completely
> separate from the community. As an orga
Sorry, the above post is initially addressing Sarah.
Anthony Cole
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Anthony Cole wrote:
> WMF is a technology company. We are an encyclopaedia, an educational
> institution. We need them like I need a mechanic to keep my car on the
> road. That
l the
encyclopaedia-makers have generated. If the WMF decides to hold on to all
that moolah, shame on them.
But I assume it won't come to that: neither the parting of the ways nor, if
that does come to pass, the WMF keeping the money.
Anthony Cole
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Keegan
make this thing should be overseeing it, not the people who
keep the servers running.
Anthony Cole
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:46 AM, George Herbert
wrote:
> More focused but where I was trying to go. Thank you.
>
> Perhaps two C level positions, Chief Editor Officer to liase and
this host
- chapters, WMF, sister-projects - too often lose sight of the fact that
all of them have yet to prove they have had any significant measurable
impact on the distribution of knowledge.
So, forgive me if I sometimes forget to include them in my thinking.
Anthony Cole
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at
Yes, I guess Commons is kind of useful - as an adjunct to Wikipedia.
Leaving aside its usefulness to Wikipedia, though, would anyone else notice
if it disappeared tomorrow? If they did, Flickr and Google would fill any
gap overnight.
Anthony Cole
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Gerard
I think we agree on the important points. There's a huge potential in
Wikidata, and it looks like it's in good hands. Commons could be so much
better than it is.
Anthony Cole
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:
> Hoi,
> Nice that you prove my point. My poi
Thanks for your support over your time here, Lila. It's been invaluable.
All the best for the future.
Anthony Cole
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 4:36 AM, Leinonen Teemu
wrote:
> Thank you Lila for keeping things moving. Continuous development is the
> only way to keep movements, organi
There will be an AllHands staff discussion about recent events tomorrow,
per Katherine Maher on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/permalink/963758547005310/?comment_id=963762980338200&reply_comment_id=963831903664641&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R3%22%7D
Anth
this thread, I think, Pete Forsyth recommends that
the interim ED be clearly and purely an interim, not a probationary ED, and
I'm persuaded by his arguments.
Anthony Cole
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Balázs Viczián wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> reading all the above, my 2 cents would be:
Can we see your NDA please, Oliver?
Anthony Cole
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Pine W wrote:
> Something that I would like to understand is why so much WMF information is
> cloaked under NDAs. It seems to me that this is philosophically at odds
> with the values of the community,
ot; (about 33,000 so far). I'd like all our
medical articles to have a button at the top saying "email me when this
article changes", so interested experts could easily adopt a few articles.
(But we're getting a bit off-topic here.)
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User
Agree with all that, Svetlana - though we don't have a button at the top of
articles making it easy for readers to enable email alerts. 99.999% of
readers wouldn't know it was available. (This is something BLP subjects
would appreciate too, I'm sure.)
Anthony Cole <http://en.
Anne, it's under
> Preferences
> User profile
"Email me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed".
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Risker wrote:
> Actually, as I recall, email alerts for
rve immortality, based on its performance up
to now. Consider an endowment fund when you have a track record that
justifies one.
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 9:58 PM, K. Peachey wrote:
> On 6 December 2014
t more than $680,000 on office furniture – a $2,862
allowance for each of its 239 paid employees. Presumably, the “small
non-profit” organisation doesn’t shop at Ikea.
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 6:14 AM, svetlana wrote:
>
us in fostering
partnerships that improve the reliability of Wikipedia's articles.
Welcome aboard. It's great to have you here.
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 a
ps has
the foundation taken to address the capture of Kazakh Wikipedia by the
Kazakh government?
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Austin Hair wrote:
> Okay, but seriously, please stop resurrecting this thread. If you
&
ommunications/State_of_the_Wikimedia_Foundation#2015_Call_to_Action
4.
https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Movement_Strategic_Plan_Summary/Improve_Quality
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>
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3.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/State_of_the_Wikimedia_Foundation#2015_Call_to_Action
4.
https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Movement_Strategic_Plan_Summary/Improve_Quality
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No one would care about Wikipedia Zero if Wikipedia was a reliable source.
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 1:44 AM, Cristian Consonni
wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> 2015-04-02 18:25 GMT+02:00 Andreas Kolbe :
> > On Thu
(I've got the Adblock Plus free add-on on Firefox/Windows 8 and it seems to
filter out the ads - as it does for YouTube.)
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Ivan Martínez wrote:
> James, the restriction was o
ality and to nurture strategic
initiatives aimed at making Wikipedia more reliable.
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 2:03 AM, Anders Wennersten
wrote:
> For medical articles we at svwp are very wary as there exist very good
&g
Oliver: I mean "I'm working on a comprehensive answer to your question
(singular)".
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Anthony Cole wrote:
> Thank you for your thoughtful replies.
>
> Oliver: I'
James: Wow. Like wow. Do you have screen shots of that Google Hep C thing?
That's appalling. Is there any indication of what the source was? My mate
runs the local Hep C council and that particular canard is something they
fight very hard to debunk.
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.
thony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 12:40 AM, Anthony Cole wrote:
> James: Wow. Like wow. Do you have screen shots of that Google Hep C thing?
> That's appalling. Is there any indication of what the source was? My mate
> run
Thanks Lane. Bloody Mayo Clinic. Google can dump them, too, in my opinion.
Has anyone told Google?
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 12:51 AM, Anthony Cole wrote:
> James: Google obviously made a bad choice of source there,
acing
Wikipedia. Denial isn't helping.
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
> On 15-04-07 12:51 PM, Anthony Cole wrote:
> > Wikipedia
> > should not be trusted for anything - l
That's a really good point, Anders. I agree 100%.
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:37 AM, Anders Wennersten
wrote:
> Back in 1989-90 I was working in a telecom company. We then said mobile
> phones can never reall
Who has been tasked with summarising the themes in the feedback from the
2-week community consultation that was held in February/March?
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Strategy/Community_consultation
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhc
tion is coming soon, I hope.
>
> pb
>
>
> *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia
> Foundation, Inc.
> T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 | phili...@wikimedia.org | :
> @Philippewiki
> <https://twitter.com/Philippewiki>
>
> On Wed, Apr 29,
Does anyone here know if any research has been done relating Wikipedia
article daily page views to their Google ranking? I'm particularly
interested in medical articles, but any topic or an average sample would
interesting too.
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anth
ty of that content?
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:56 PM, Fæ wrote:
> On 16 April 2014 15:19, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> ...
> > Apparently, Tim Sandole complains of not having been managed properly by
> > an
Sorry. I just realised what the heading of this thread is. I'll email
LiAnna directly.
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 10:12 PM, Anthony Cole wrote:
> The press release, signed by LiAnna Davis, Head of Communications
ot;
Thanks LiAnna
I think you're saying 7,000 printed pages (equivalent) in total was added
to the encyclopedia during the 2013 fall term by the education program. If
I've got that right, is it accurate to say it was all high quality?
[1] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/4
Could someone please point me to all the studies the WMF have conducted
into the reliability of Wikipedia's content? I'm particularly interested in
the medical content, but would also like to look over the others too.
Cheers.
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk
ght,
I'd then like us all to consider seriously doing a survey whose design is
sufficiently rigorous to give us an answer.
Thanks for your thoughts and attention everyone.
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Andr
Thanks Anne.
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Risker wrote:
> In answer to the question of the WMF funding research:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:FAQ
>
> Risker/Anne
>
>
> On 8 May 2014
ipedia_talk:MED#This_conversation_is_notable
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 3:02 PM, rupert THURNER wrote:
> > > Andreas, you seem to have pre-determined that Wikipedia's medical
> articles
> > > are all terrible and riddl
But it is time for us to
start thinking carefully and talking amongst ourselves about the question
of scholarly review.
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>
Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>
On Fri, May 9, 2014
Russian is an/the official language in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan,
Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Moldova, and Romania, and spoken in yet other
parts of the world. If Russian was only spoken within the borders of
Russia, then tailoring the articles to that country's censorship laws would
be pragmati
I was relying on the infobox in English Wikipedia's article, "Russian
language." Is it safe to say Russian is spoken in many regions outside
Russia?
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:42 AM, Russavia wrote:
> > Right, one might always read the English Wikipedia article and find
> > out we were both right
hip pressure. But of
> course, I'm talking from a country who doesn't have these problems so
> openly...
>
> Strainu
>
> 2013/5/9 Anthony Cole :
> > I was relying on the infobox in English Wikipedia's article, "Russian
> > language." Is
Hey Tarc!
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 4:55 AM, Fred Bauder wrote:
> I've also done a great deal of editing of Tibetan articles. I wish there
> was a way to transport you back in time to old Tibet.
>
> Fred
>
> >
> > Highlighting the fact that such an old hand was making a rookie-like
> > "mistake"
rule-bound. Generally, because of large language diasporas, we have
no choice but to print and be damned, but there will be cases where
dropping a bit of "how to" information will allow an article to skirt the
censor, and in such a case, I'd drop it.
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:05
There is a report on English WP:ANI that English, French and Swedish
versions of Wikipedia have been blocked by all ISP and government servers
in the Republic of Togo, and small areas of the Republic of Benin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ANI#Wikipedia_has_been_blocked_in_Togo.2C_and_pa
Yep.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Technoquat&oldid=561103028#22_June_2013
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 4:33 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
> That seems to have been trolling. The ANI thread has been updated. SJ
>
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 1:4
fication is dispensed with, this gap in
knowledge *may* be able to be filled simply by judicious private reading.
Boardsource (and I assume other specialist organisations) produce a range
of books aimed directly at the very questions you cover in your description
of the problem.
Anthony Cole <
#x27;t confirm the copyvio, they can let it go.
But an editor whose "contributions" list is peppered with such warnings
would stand out like a sore thumb.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SCV>
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