A recent Signpost piece, "Good faith gibberish",
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2017-11-24/Humour&oldid=811658169
chooses to mock the claimed incomprehensibility of certain Wikipedia
articles, two of which are mathematics articles by the same author. There
Robert Fernandez thinks it is "remarkably inappopriate" to put the
phrase "*experts
**are scum"* in quotation marks as if it were a quotation from the
Signpost. No. This is a quotation, which perhaps he did not recognise, from
a rather long-standing and well-known essay,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
Why not simply raise this directly with the WMF strategic lead for
innovation?
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Dariusz Jemielniak
wrote:
> That'd be pretty cool.
>
> On Dec 29, 2017 17:44, "James Heilman" wrote:
>
> > Also all the underlying software is also under an open license,
> > specif
I'm surprised that this whole thing is even an issue at this late date.
Considering the importance to the projects of recruiting and retaining
contrbutors, how is it possible to be in a position where the various
projects do not have a comprehensive understanding of, and well-researched
evidence-ba
I'm glad to hear that as Chief Creative Officer, Heather will "oversee the
organization and movement’s voice, tone, and visual assets, and how they
are incorporated into everything from our recent awareness videos to our
press statements." It would be good to know exactly who "we" are in this.
It
The list can be summarised as
- Spend more on staff
- Spend more on chapters
- Get more money
- Get more money
- Get more money
- Spend more money
We notice that such minor matters as produce more content, produce better
content, support content contributors, disseminate knowled
Looking at a couple of situations that have arisen recently on one of the
projects, where the health and well-being of volunteers might have been
affected by their participation, I wonder where we can find a clear
statement of the Foundation's Duty of Care towards the volunteers? I
looked on Meta,
Does the Foundation have any standing to enforce the copyright, since that
belongs to the individual contributors?
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 12:12 AM, James Salsman wrote:
> Attribution is often considered impractical, but providing the source
> date along with e.g. the article name can be used to
Does it make sense to have more articles in a language than can be curated
by the volunteers who speak that language? This has already happened on
the Englisg-language Wikipedia where the five million articles have simply
overwhelmed the capability of the few thousand active contributors to
self-o
