Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Jake Orlowitz/Ocaasi comes onto the Grantmaking team at WMF with The Wikipedia Library

2014-10-07 Thread Heather Ford
Great news! Ocaasi is a great asset to this community :) Congrats! Best, Heather. Heather Ford Oxford Internet Institute <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/> Doctoral Programme EthnographyMatters <http://ethnographymatters.net/> | Oxford Digital Ethnography Group <http://www.oii.ox

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [IEGCom] [Wikimedia Announcements] Jake Orlowitz/Ocaasi comes onto the Grantmaking team at WMF with The Wikipedia Library

2014-10-07 Thread Heather Ford
Great news! Congrats! Best, Heather. Heather Ford Oxford Internet Institute <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/> Doctoral Programme EthnographyMatters <http://ethnographymatters.net/> | Oxford Digital Ethnography Group <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/?id=115> http://hblog.or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Reclaimed the Logo (thanks)

2014-02-05 Thread Heather Ford
Congratulations :) This is a Great Thing *you all* did :) Heather Ford Oxford Internet Institute <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/> Doctoral Programme EthnographyMatters <http://ethnographymatters.net/> | Oxford Digital Ethnography Group <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/project

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF's New Global South Strategy

2013-10-01 Thread Heather Ford
Thank you so very much for your reply, Anasuya and Asaf. And sorry you've been ill :( Your message was so helpful - thank you for explaining how the decisions were made, and for writing that you are open to changes in the strategy as you learn more about this process. That is much appreciated :) I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF's New Global South Strategy

2013-09-16 Thread Heather Ford
I'm sorry I'm coming so late to this but I've been thinking about this a lot and there are two questions that I still have that have been bugging me that perhaps you might clarify, Asaf. The first is why South Africa isn't included in the strategy. The more I think about it, the more I think that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-13 Thread Heather Ford
On May 13, 2013, at 9:10 AM, Florence Devouard wrote: On 5/13/13 9:27 AM, Heather Ford wrote: On May 13, 2013, at 6:57 AM, phoebe ayers wrote: You know, it's kind of the ultimate Wikimedian tempest: arguing over who gets to add users and delete pages on what is quite possibly the world&#

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-13 Thread Heather Ford
t's needed here. Best, Heather [1] here I am whining and complaining but hopefully it is to make a point at least. Heather Ford Oxford Internet Institute Doctoral Programme www.ethnographymatters.net<http://www.ethnographymatters.net> @hfordsa on Twitter http://hblog.org ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Toolserver-l] [TS logo] Fwd: Free as in Wikimedia Foundation

2013-03-19 Thread Heather Ford
+1, Nathan. I think you very articulately pointed out the key problem that's been misidentified in this i.e. that the problem is *not* in WMF's protection of Wikimedia TM's generally (although I think there is still much to be improved about a process that results in stories like this https://w

[Wikimedia-l] WikiSym 2013: Wikipedia Research Track CFP

2012-12-13 Thread Heather Ford
(notification: May 17, 2013) • Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wikisym2013 (choose ‘Wikipedia Track’) As long as it is March 17 (or April 14) somewhere on Earth, the system will accept your submission. Committee Heather Ford - Co-Chair Affiliation: Oxford Internet

Re: [Wikimedia-l] new report on Wikipedia sources

2012-08-10 Thread Heather Ford
tors in this detailed way can lead to better understanding and empathy by others. Best, Heather. > > --Ocaasi > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] teaching people how to edit Wikipedia

2012-04-13 Thread Heather Ford
all those materials. :-) >> Thank's for the links >> Ziko >> >> >> 2012/4/13 aude : >>> Am Apr 11, 2012 um 9:28 AM schrieb Heather Ford : >>> >>> >>>> Have a quick question for some work I'm doin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] teaching people how to edit Wikipedia

2012-04-12 Thread Heather Ford
groups of 2 correct the language and content (I put in some errors for > them). > I prefer that because editing real WP makes people anxious, and I want > to be undisturbed with the newbies. > Kind regards > Ziko > > > > 2012/4/11 Heather Ford : >> Have a quic

[Wikimedia-l] teaching people how to edit Wikipedia

2012-04-11 Thread Heather Ford
Have a quick question for some work I'm doing on Wikipedia literacy: What resources are folks using to teach others how to edit Wikipedia? At Wikipedia Academies etc? Thanks in anticipation :) Best, Heather. Heather Ford Ethnographer: Ushahidi / SwiftRiver http://ushahidi.com |