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/110842 <pre>Dear English speaking Wikipedia users, Sjarlot Stal and Nick Geurts, both Master students at Tilburg University, would like to gather more insight in the motives of your Wikipedia behaviour. This survey will be spread among the various Wikipedia sites of several cultures. The duration of the survey will be approximately 5-10 minutes. Participation is fully voluntarily and you are free to stop your participation at any time. Your information will be processed strictly confidential and will not be passed on to other people. By clicking on the following link, you will be directed to the survey: http://www.thesistools.com/web/?id=275775 If you have any questions you can contact either s.stal&lt; at &gt;uvt.nl or n.j.l.geurts&lt; at &gt;uvt.nl. If you wish to receive a copy of the whole research you can leave your e-mailaddress at the end of the survey. We would like to thank you in advance! Kind regards, Sjarlot Stal Nick Geurts _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedi</pre> N.J.L. Geurts 2012-05-22T11:07:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/110834 <pre>http://rjbs.manxome.org/rubric/entry/1959 _______________________________________________ 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> Martijn Hoekstra 2012-05-22T11:58:18 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/110815 <pre>Hi all, Just wondering if there is any published analysis from the "Page ratings" widget that appears on every page. My subjective impression is that the ratings data is pretty bad, but I'd be interested to read up. Thanks, Steve _______________________________________________ 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> Steve Bennett 2012-05-21T03:52:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/110769 <pre>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/05/how-the-professor-who-fooled-wikipedia-got-caught-by-reddit/257134/ Print: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/print/2012/05/how-the-professor-who-fooled-wikipedia-got-caught-by-reddit/257134/ pedia articles for the victims, carefully following the rules of the site. They concocted an elaborate story of discovery, and fabricated images of the trunk's contents. nity around the centralized exchange of information. Discussion isn't a separate activity but the sine qua non of the site. When one user voiced doubts, others saw the comment and quickly piled on. Indeed. Why *are* the skeptical geeks now on Reddit and not Wikipedia? </pre> Gwern Branwen 2012-05-16T15:49:59 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/110767 <pre>Hey all Just wanted to let you know that we're going to be doing an Office Hours session on the New Pages Feed (formerly New Page Triage/Page Triage).[1] This isn't just to discuss progress, so on and so forth - this is because, as promised,[2] we've deployed a functional prototype on en.wiki! We're taking this opportunity to run people through using it and get any feedback we can use to improve the tool. So, if you're involved in New Page Patrol, or not because you found it too opaque and want to see if this is any better for you, we'll be in #wikimedia-office from 21:00 UTC.[3] Hope to see you all then :). [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:New_Pages_Feed [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:New_Pages_Feed/Engagement_strategy [3] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=21&amp;min=00&amp;sec=0&amp;day=16&amp;month=05&amp;year=2012 </pre> Oliver Keyes 2012-05-13T01:31:59 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/110762 <pre>http://eol.org/info/press_releases/info/May_9 So - is EoL of any relevance to us? Is there any potential for synergy? - 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 2012-05-09T20:44:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/110754 <pre>This is a bit of a straw poll. Is there a need to tighten up notability guidelines for commercial organisations? Yes/No/Maybe? Alan Liefting _______________________________________________ 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> Alan Liefting 2012-04-27T04:17:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/110751 <pre>Dear Wikipedia contributors, We did it! For the past six weeks, you have all graciously tolerated my emails requesting participants for my undergraduate senior thesis project&lt;http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Motivations_to_Contribute_to_Wikipedia&gt; on users’ motivations to contribute to Wikipedia. On Monday, I reached out to this community, begging for just eighteen more participants to reach my target sample size of 100 respondents. We not only reached that goal, but exceeded it: 161 Wikipedia contributors responded to my questionnaire! Your insightful responses are invaluable to my project and I cannot express my gratitude for this community enough, so thank you, thank you, thank you! When my final paper is written in June, I will make it available to the Wikipedia community. Thank you once again for your insight, thoughtful questions, and feedback. Best, Audrey _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing </pre> Audrey Abeyta 2012-04-26T21:49:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/110748 <pre>http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/04/doctors-use-but-dont-rely-totally-on-wikipedia/ "According to recent research that has been shared with Wikimedia UK, use of Wikipedia for medical information is almost universal among a sample of doctors. Many of them praise its accuracy, but they are aware of its faults and that it needs to be read critically. The investigators conducted an online survey of medical staff at two large hospital trusts in England. Nearly all the 109 responses included free-text comments." - 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 2012-04-25T10:14:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/110745 <pre>Dear Wikipedia contributors, In the past few weeks, I have reached out to this community on numerous occasions, requesting help with my undergraduate honors thesis, which examines Wikipedians’ motivations to contribute. For anyone who would like more information about this project, a detailed description can be found here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Motivations_to_Contribute_to_Wikipedia . In my last email, I mentioned that I hoped to attain a sample size of at least 100 Wikipedians, but had only received 52 responses. I am ecstatic to report that I now have 82 responses – just 18 responses short of the targeted sample size. If you have not taken the questionnaire&lt;https://us1.us.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8ixU9RkozemzC4s&gt;, please consider donating approximately five minutes of your time to complete it. I am so grateful for the Wikipedia community’s support in this project and will make a final draft of the paper available to the community. If you have any questions or concerns about this</pre> Audrey Abeyta 2012-04-24T01:01:18 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/110743 <pre>I want to add some stuff to [[Wikipedia:Statistics]] about article creation and deletion. I know there is a bit of stuff out there but I can't for the life of me find it. Anyone got some links at their fingertips that they can send my way? Thanks Alan _______________________________________________ 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> Alan Liefting 2012-04-23T22:26:55 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/110737 <pre>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Justin_Knapp_Day Jimbo proclaimed on April 20, 2012: Greetings everyone! I hereby proclaim, in my usual authoritarian and bossy manner, that today (April 20) shall forever been known as Justin Knapp Day. Wikipedians of the distant future shall marvel at the first person to ever make 1,000,000 edits. Tonight at dinner, every Wikipedian should say a toast to Justin and his many edits. In countries which celebrate Easter, which is sometimes at a similar time of year, and indeed will fall on Justin Knapp day in 2014 for both the Eastern and Western traditions, children will be allowed to eat up to 1 million candies each. - 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 2012-04-20T18:41:19 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/110732 <pre>On Conservapedia, a parodist came up with this template: http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Template%3ANohearsay&amp;action=historysubmit&amp;diff=976114&amp;oldid=976104 Mr Schlafly approves: http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:CPalmer&amp;curid=72836&amp;diff=976121&amp;oldid=975547 - 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 2012-04-19T22:21:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/110711 <pre>Dear Wikipedia contributors, Your valuable opinions are needed regarding users' motivations to contribute to Wikipedia. This topic is currently investigated by Audrey Abeyta, an undergraduate student at the University of California, Santa Barbara. You can read a more detailed description of the project here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Motivations_to_Contribute_to_Wikipedia Those willing to participate in this study will complete a brief online questionnaire, which is completely anonymous and will take approximately ten minutes. The questionnaire can be accessed here: https://us1.us.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8ixU9RkozemzC4s. The researcher hopes to attain a sample size of at least 100 Wikipedians; as of now, only 52 have responded. Your contributions to this project's validity are invaluable! A final draft of the paper will be made available to the Wikipedia community. If you have any questions or concerns about this study, please contact Audrey Abeyta at audrey.abeyta&lt; at &gt;gmail.com. Thank you i</pre> Audrey Abeyta 2012-04-19T01:44:19 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/110654 <pre>http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3adoi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002446 How's this effort look from the Wikipedia end? - 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 2012-04-08T19:06:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/110649 <pre>Well, not really. Apparently it's common in some US elementary schools. http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/10557/ - 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 2012-04-04T19:39:30 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/110633 <pre>Dear Wikipedia contributors, Your valuable opinions are needed regarding users' motivations to contribute to Wikipedia. This topic is currently investigated by Audrey Abeyta, an undergraduate student at the University of California, Santa Barbara. You can read a more detailed description of the project here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Motivations_to_Contribute_to_Wikipedia Those willing to participate in this study will complete a brief online questionnaire, which is completely anonymous and will take approximately ten minutes. The questionnaire can be accessed here: https://us1.us.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8ixU9RkozemzC4s. If you have any questions or concerns about this study, please contact Audrey Abeyta at audrey.abeyta&lt; at &gt;gmail.com. Thank you in advance for your participation! _______________________________________________ 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> Audrey Abeyta 2012-04-03T22:54:41 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/110625 <pre>Just a quick straw poll: When was the last time you looked at the Wikipedia Manual of Style for use in your own writing? And not to tell someone else they were wrong about something. Me, I can't remember. I think I *have*, but it would have been years ago. - 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 2012-03-30T18:23:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/110607 <pre>Hello, Saudi Arabian authorities censor certain articles on the English and Arabic editions of Wikipedia. A Saudi volunteer did a great job making a list of these articles. On the English Wikipedia, all currently-known articles are related to sex education, but notability on the Arabic Wikipedia, the article about evolution is censored! Here is the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_articles_censored_in_Saudi_Arabia --Osama Khalid _______________________________________________ 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> Osama Khalid 2012-03-27T21:17:56 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/110584 <pre>https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedian.png By Guillaume Paumier. - 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 2012-03-24T22:36:39 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english/110574 <pre>Wikipedia seems to be down... http://wikistatus.ezyang.com/ Anyone know what's happening? Carcharoth _______________________________________________ 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> Carcharoth 2012-03-24T16:27:05 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.english