thank you for sharing tight all my hopes that bassel is safe bachounda
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Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Arabic Wikipedia research-driven > improvement & Bassel (Tighe Flanagan) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 15:35:52 -0400 > From: Tighe Flanagan <[email protected]> > To: arwiki <[email protected]> > Cc: Mike Linksvayer <[email protected]>, Jon Phillips > <[email protected]> > Subject: [Wikiar-l] Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] Arabic Wikipedia > research-driven improvement & Bassel > Message-ID: > <CADc0-ooE+Djuh3ZVP1Y=- > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Forwarding message to the Arabic community list, as per the request to get > in touch with people growing the Arabic Wikipedia in terms of content or > community. See full message below. > > Original senders CC'd. > > -- > Tighe Flanagan > Manager, Wikipedia Education Program > Wikimedia Foundation > [email protected] > education.wikimedia.org > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Mike Linksvayer <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 1:49 PM > Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Arabic Wikipedia research-driven improvement & > Bassel > To: [email protected] > Cc: Jon Phillips <[email protected]> > > > Hi, you may have read > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/10/08/bassel-missing-syria/ about > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassel_Khartabil and focusing on one of > his projects, building free 3D models of Palmyra, before he was > detained. Bassel also did outreach for free/open projects throughout the > region and dreamed of projects to increase the number and quality of > articles on Arabic Wikipedia. But he is in prison, now taken to an > unknown location. :( > > Bassel's friend and advocate Jon Phillips (not on this list but cc'd) is > looking to talk to people who are actually engaged in efforts to grow > the Arabic Wikipedia community and articles, I believe in order to show > the kind of work Bassel would have been doing and that the world has > lost, and to be supportive of others carrying on that work. > > If anyone has such contacts who would be willing to talk to Jon, feel > free to reply on- or offlist as appropriate. > > This seemed to be the most appropriate list for me to ask on because it > is one of a few wikimedia ones that I'm on :) and because I figure that > best such efforts will be paired with research. I did look at > http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/Main_Page and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Projects -- I see lots of > papers doing some kind of semantic analysis of Arabic Wikipedia, one > study of the Arab spring > > http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/Collective_memory_building_in_Wikipedia:_The_case_of_North_African_uprisings > and a master's thesis that seems to be unavailable > > http://wikipapers.referata.com/wiki/Motivational_voluntary_knowledge_sharing_among_users_in_the_open_source_encyclopedia;_case_study_%28the_Arabic_Wikipedia%29 > -- the best lead might be > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Mapping_Wikipedia_in_the_Middle_East_and_North_Africa > which looks broad but potentially very relevant. Have I missed anything > obvious, or non-obvious because too new/ongoing? > > ... > > Another question, mostly out of (idle, but this seems like a good time > to ask) personal curiosity: is there a line of research about movements > that looks at responses to movement members in distress, perhaps in > order to characterize level of solidarity, maturity, or some other > feature of movement, or to map connections between movements? Or > concerning how vulnerable movement members are to various forms of > persecution, perhaps in order to characterize where movement operates > with regard to law and norms of society? I figure there must be but my > super naive searches haven't turned up anything. > > I'm curious because I wonder how free/libre/open/wiki movements compare > to other movements and member vulnerability/responses to member distress > seem like a potential thing to compare, and I notice how Bassel, who had > 'weak ties' to a whole bunch of open movements (and 'strong ties' to > Creative Commons) has gotten a fair amount of support from ... a whole > bunch (which is good of course). > > Thanks for reading. > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Wikiar-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiar-l > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Wikiar-l Digest, Vol 96, Issue 2 > *************************************** > -- *Mohammed Bachounda* Leader Wikimedia Algérie UG _______________________________________________ Wikiar-l mailing list https://ar.wikipedia.org [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiar-l
