http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/111515 <pre>This is all the Visual Editor edits in en:wp: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&amp;tagfilter=visualeditor It's not many. So please switch it on (you can still click "Edit source" to do references and templates) and give it a good kicking. A bug discovered now saves endless newbie pain later. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l </pre> David Gerard 2013-05-11T20:43:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/111514 <pre>Hello everyone, The Wikipedia community is invited to comment on the main page's design, content, and purpose: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:2013_main_page_redesign_proposal/RFC Thanks, User:Ushau97 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l </pre> Deutschaneo Ushau 2013-05-09T05:46:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/111511 <pre>I am pleased to announce that self-nominations are now being accepted for the 2013 Wikimedia Foundation Elections. This year, elections are being held for the following roles: - Board of Trustees The Board of Trustees is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long term sustainability of the Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. There are three positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at &lt; http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2013/Board_elections/2013&gt;. - Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)&lt;http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Framework_for_the_Creation_and_Initial_Operation_of_the_FDC&gt;makes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement &lt;http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia&gt; funds to eligible entities. There are two positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at &lt; http://meta.wikimedia.or</pre> Risker 2013-05-02T04:53:46 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/111495 <pre> Wikipedia's overwhelmingly male user-editors began the bizarre forced gender migration on Tuesday The New York Times:: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism-toward-female-novelists.html http://www.salon.com/2013/04/25/wikipedia_moves_women_to_american_women_novelists_category_leaves_men_in_american_novelists/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l </pre> Kathleen McCook 2013-04-25T14:59:11 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/111493 <pre>There is extended discussion in England and Wales regarding whether journalists should identify suspects that have been arrested. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/apr/21/press-intrusion-name-suspects See also http://www.official-documents.gov.uk/document/hc1213/hc07/0780/0780_ii.pdf Fred _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l </pre> Fred Bauder 2013-04-22T11:11:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/111491 <pre>I think of interest to this discussion list. ============= Luyt, B. (2012). The inclusivity of Wikipedia and the drawing of expert boundaries: An examination of talk pages and reference lists. *Journal Of The American Society For Information Science &amp; Technology*, *63*(9), 1868-1878. *Wikipedia* is frequently viewed as an inclusive medium. But inclusivity within this online encyclopedia is not a simple matter of just allowing anyone to contribute. In its quest for legitimacy as an encyclopedia,* Wikipedia* relies on outsiders to judge claims championed by rival editors. In choosing these experts, Wikipedians define the boundaries of acceptable comment on any given subject. Inclusivity then becomes a matter of how the boundaries of expertise are drawn. In this article I examine the nature of these boundaries and the implications they have for inclusivity and credibility as revealed through the talk pages produced and sources used by a particular subset of *Wikipedia*'s creators-those involved in writing art</pre> Kathleen McCook 2013-04-21T14:37:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/111481 <pre>I am working on a project to duplicate a standardized economic report for all 196 countries. Here is the United States: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economy_of_the_United_States. Here is China: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economy_of_China Here is Japan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economy_of_Japan Is there anybody who is willing to add more countries to the list and help edit existing country reports? I am contacting professors around the world in order to complete every country. I think the collaborative product would be a great educational resource to the public. The official project page is here with the list of other country reports: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Economic_Map#Proposal Alex _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l </pre> Alex Peek 2013-04-16T17:50:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/111476 <pre>I agree with you, Charles. These fallacies are quite transparent. And it is too bad that much good effort and input to the Wikipedia initiative can be lost due to those who feel it is their to be "forthright" (wiggle word) rather than helpful. There is nothing wrong with being helpful. There is everything wrong with a nasty officious edge. Even the Rutgers coach behaviors was finally seen as unacceptable and he sure wasn't as "forthright" as some editors. On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Charles Matthews &lt; charles.r.matthews&lt; at &gt;ntlworld.com&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l </pre> Kathleen McCook 2013-04-16T13:20:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/111470 <pre>Right--and this would make all the difference. I am teaching a college class for which an optional assignment is to learn to edit in Wikipedia. Most of the students have had good experiences. Only a few have felt "incivility consciously as a tactic. " We discuss this in class and a few snide/bullying editors do great damage. There just isn't any reason for it. Good people will not tolerate bullying. It's no rite of passage that people must undergo. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Charles Matthews &lt; charles.r.matthews&lt; at &gt;ntlworld.com&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l </pre> Kathleen McCook 2013-04-15T23:06:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/111464 <pre>I am looking for a Wiki representative to assist in a change that needs to be made to Tom Strickland's Wikipedia page&lt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Strickland&gt;. I need assistance because he requested that his page be locked several years ago because outside contacts were maliciously tampering with the content. He now needs a few edits to the page, but is not able since it has been locked for content protection. Can you please let me know who can, or who I can contact, to make the changes? -Brecke Brecke Latham | WilmerHale Senior Public Relations Specialist 1875 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20006 USA +1 202 247 2492 (t) +1 202 663 6363 (f) brecke.latham&lt; at &gt;wilmerhale.com Please consider the environment before printing this email. ________________________________ This email message and any attachments are being sent by Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, are confidential, and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately-by replying to this message </pre> Latham, Brecke 2013-04-15T15:51:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/111453 <pre>I just stumbled upon this (from a user asking help on #wikimedia-commons): an en.wiki supposedly respected user shows gross incivility on Commons, a surprised local admin doesn't know what to think and is insulted in return, the user continues and gets two blocks.[1] Until a few months ago I would have been suprised too, but I'm not after the case where a steward had to lock for security reasons a probably compromised en.wiki sysop and oversighter account, who was insulting people in all caps, only to be told that the behaviour is absolutely normal (the lock was quickly reversed).[2] So I'm wondering, would we benefit from some sort of communication 101 to help understanding between the continent (Wikimedia projects) and the island (en.wiki), in which inhabitants of the latter are reminded their communication standards may be misunderstood, and inhabitants of the former to "keep calm and carry on"? Nemo [1] Excerpts: * Go fuck yourself [...] Tony1 (talk) 03:14, 15 April 2013 (UTC) * I repeat: Go</pre> Federico Leva (Nemo 2013-04-15T14:50:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/111423 <pre>This is not very helpful for someone trying to find assistance..I guess you think this is funny, but it really seems like a bunch of 8th grade middle-school boys. On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Gwern Branwen &lt;gwern&lt; at &gt;gwern.net&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l </pre> Kathleen McCook 2013-04-13T16:19:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/111419 <pre>Hi everyone, here are two draft wiki articles I created: Economy of U.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economy_of_the_United_States Economy of China http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/sandbox My goal is to complete all 196 countries in this standardized format and have it become a Wikimedia project. This project could be further expanded into the local level. I am looking for volunteers and to help out. Here is a link for the project proposal page. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Economic_Map _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l </pre> Alex Peek 2013-04-13T04:34:48 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/111418 <pre>There is a lack of economic knowledge in the world and this project attempts to solve this problem. I would love to see map out the global economy in a simplified format. Under a standardized structure, local/country economic data would be collected. Economists can help determine the most concise and educational way to present the data. Education and simplicity is the top goal of this project. This project is designed for anybody to be able to understand. Here is link to 'Economy of the United States' sample article. This exact format can be repeated for all 196 countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economy_of_the_United_States Here is a link to the project proposal page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Economic_Map _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l </pre> Alex Peek 2013-04-10T15:47:19 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/111416 <pre>Some recent musings reminded me that I never did find a good answer for an old question of mine: does anything predict whether an editor will lean towards deletionism? More specifically, it seems to me that attitudes towards articles take on almost emotional or moral dimensions, perhaps related to various psychological factors. Does anyone remember ever seeing any research touching on this? For example, perhaps someone surveyed editors, asking for self-identified preference and doing an inventory measuring personality factors like the OCEAN/Big Five? Of course I checked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionism_and_inclusionism_in_Wikipedia and Google but nothing particularly germane appears to have popped up besides random speculation and analogies to Adorno's famous http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Authoritarian_Personality </pre> Gwern Branwen 2013-04-13T04:10:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/111414 <pre>Somewhat interesting new journal article: * http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0060584 The researchers found that political discussions among openly Wikipedians who declare a U.S. party affinity on their user pages don't follow some of the common patterns observed in other online communities. For example, researchers have documented that among bloggers, those affiliated with the same party tend to discuss amongst each other much more commonly (what they gloss as " cyberbalkanization"); and they also reference the "other side's" in a way that's much more likely to be argumentative, dismissive, and/or negative. But on Wikipedia neither appears to be true: those who declare a U.S. party affiliation don't seem to either segregate into more discussion with others on "their side", or to have a clear pattern of more acrimonious interactions with the "other" side than with "theirs". Taken for whatever it's worth, of course. One hypothesis is the one the paper offers, tha</pre> Mark 2013-04-04T22:59:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/111411 <pre>Sent this message now. Comments are welcome, after the fact, as a way to learn from my mistakes. Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 13:18:33 +0300 From: Shlomi Fish &lt;shlomif&lt; at &gt;shlomifish.org&gt; To: brian&lt; at &gt;LH7management.com Subject: [Christina Grimmie] Please provide a photo of Ms. Grimmie under a licence suitable for Wikimedia Projects ( e.g: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Grimmie ) Dear sirs or madams, I am an editor of the English wikipedia and other wikimedia projects and currently we have this page about Ms. Christina Grimmie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Grimmie ( Christina is my favourite YouTube artist, and Team Grimmie rocks! ) However, one thing lacking from there is a photograph, and I was unable to find any good photograph of Ms. Grimmie under a suitable licence (e.g: Creative Commons CC-by-sa, CC-by, Public Domain, etc.) on Flickr. I know some localised wikipedias (where Ms. Grimmie also has some presence - see the translations) require photos to be under a libera</pre> Shlomi Fish 2013-04-03T10:20:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/111409 <pre>Trying to spread the word about this new conference. I hope some Wikipedians from near Louisville can have a presence there. It's not too late to send in a quick proposal for speaker/presentation (but hurry), and exhibit space is very reasonable: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Preparations are in full swing for the very first Midwest Open Source Software Conference (MOSSCon), to be held in Louisville on May 18-19. This is an "All-Things-Open" conference, including open knowledge, open, data, open source hardware, as well as open source software. Your help in spreading the word and helping us fill out our schedule of presentations and workshops would be appreciated. This is going to be a great networking event for the whole east-central region! (Louisville lies almost equidistant from from Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Chicago/Milwaukee, and St. Louis.) We have a great venue: the University of Louisville's Student Activities Center, with several large halls, a number of smaller meeting rooms, and plenty of exh</pre> John Hicks 2013-03-28T16:47:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/111407 <pre>A blog post by Benjamin Mako Hill http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/the-institute-for-cultural-diplomacy-and-wikipedia alerted me to some COI editing that has been going on, rather blatantly. The deletion debate associated with the [[Institute for Cultural Diplomacy]] speaks for itself, and I see some cleanup going on now. But how far does the issue stretch? For example [[Colin Evans]] links to [[Freelance Diplomacy]], which is questionably referenced; and itself is questionably referenced, with links that look to me as if they are gaming our notability criteria. (Easy to do with enough money ...) Looking around at some of the accounts involved suggested to me that some problem editors may be active in this whole area. I think we should be concerned. Charles _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l </pre> Charles Matthews 2013-03-27T21:07:30 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/111400 <pre>I've unsubscribed my old Yahoo account from that mailing list. (I hadn't sent anything from that account since 2007.) I now return you to your regularly scheduled mailing list. Nick _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l </pre> Nicholas Moreau 2013-03-09T22:00:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/111398 <pre>http://www.bk-games.com/xatqb/yl.kd Nicholas Moreau _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l </pre> Nicholas Moreau 2013-03-09T18:25:59 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english