In reference to people wanting to be nicer to newbies, (and next to the obvious step of us really needing
to make it more frelling obvious that YES YOU CAN EDIT)
... that doesn't help much if the entire community has come down with adminitis and kicks anyone who
tries to edit out of the wiki and up into low earth orbit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adminitis
So qua editor retention, 2 things are needed:
* Make editing more obvious and easy, and bring the fun back. :-)
* Work on The Cure For Adminitis (tm). O:-)
sincerely,
Kim Bruning
--
Hi all !
The Public Domain Working Group <http://publicdomain.okfn.org/> and the Open
Bibliographic Data Working Group <http://openbiblio.net/> of the Open
Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/> have started the drafting of a
Bibliographic Metadata Guide.
The goal is to produce something that can be hand in to various GLAM
institutions to help them setting up a proper metadata model for their
works.
We want to provide them a few simple steps that illustrates the best
practices (or second-best practices) in terms of bibliographic metadata for
each category of works.
The current draft is available here
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Bibliographic_Metadata_Guide
We would like to involve the Wikimedia community in this project, so please
feel free to contribute it any way you like, and if you know someone that
might be interested in contributing to this guide, please don't hesitate to
forward the link to them.
Also, are also trying to set up a small task-force of contributors who
would be assigned specific sections or tasks. If you are interested in
joining the task force, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Thanks !
New Wikipedia gender gap research has been posted to Meta.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mind_the_Gap
This research was a collaborative effort of user:LauraHale, User:Hawkeye7, User:Pine, and others.
"...This analysis will focus on characteristics of female
participants on English Wikipedia. The analysis will look to see if
these participants are representative of the female English speaking
population. The analysis will also explore, through some existing
literature and in the conclusion, the question of whether these
potential differences could matter when planning strategy to target the
gender gap. …"
*Apologies for cross posting*
Hi everyone -
We are quickly approaching the launch of the 2011 Wikimedia annual
fundraiser. These past few months have been critical to ramp up our
operation in preparation of the year-end campaign.
Here is where we are at now: Starting Monday November 7, we would like to
launch the fundraiser to only logged-in users. Last year, we took down
banners for logged in users about a month into the fundraiser. This year,
we want to take the banners down even earlier for logged in users and
starting next week will allow us to do that.
We are asking every community member who is planning to donate, to make
their donation in this first week to help us test our donation forms in all
different countries and languages. We have put a lot of effort into
localizing our messages and forms. If you see any errors or ways we can
improve the setup in your country or language, please get in touch with us
on the the fundraising meta talk page [1] in the next week so we can make
these improvements before we put up banners for all users on Monday,
November 14.
We will be sending out notices about the logged-in launch/test to mailing
lists and village pumps this week. Please help us spread the word!
Thanks for helping us get off to a strong start.
From
The Fundraising Team
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising_2011
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On 10/31/2011 6:01 AM, foundation-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
> On 31 October 2011 12:30, Oliver Keyes<scire.facias(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > Not sure about that specific change, but one illustration might be the
>> > Article Feedback Tool, which contains a "you know you can edit, right?"
>> > thing. Off the top of my head I think 17.4 percent of the 30-40,000 people
>> > who use it per day attempt to edit as a result of that inducement.
>> > Admittedly only 2 percent of them*succeed*, but it's not a lack of
>> > motivation, methinks.
> What's the definition of "succeed" there - they save an edit with a change?
>
> Is that 2% of the 17.4%, or 2% of those giving feedback?
>
> I wonder if there's a way to detect a failure to edit and ask what went wrong.
In a text driven interface it is a little difficult to float an
interactive window asking if a reader saw any errors and if they'd like
to fix them - yet that's the level most readers are on.
We must also remember that the wiki edit interface and markup can be a
little intimidating to a newbie, so opening an edit window and making no
changes may be more common than we think. Are there any stats on this?
Hi all,
Geoff's inaugural IRC office hours, for discussion his legal strategy for
2011-12, has been moved to December 2nd because he will be traveling with
Sue on her Europe trip this month.
See: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
--
Steven Walling
Community Organizer at Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org
I’ve been into Wikipedia for several years, and all my friends know
this. I *still* find myself having to explain to them in small words
that that “edit” link really does include them fixing typos when they
see one.
So my suggestion: tiny tiny steps like this: things people can do that
have a strong probability of sticking.
Anyone else got ideas based on their (admittedly anecdotal) experience?
[inspired by Oliver Keyes' blog post: http://quominus.org/archives/524 ]
- d.
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/11/st_essay_wikipediawonders/
"At the Wikimedia Conference in March, a German coalition proposed that
Wikipedia become the first digital World Heritage site. A petition was
drafted, declaring Wikipedia “a masterpiece of human creative genius.”
Unesco was not impressed (...) the truth is that Wikipedia doesn’t need the
World Heritage List. The World Heritage List needs Wikipedia."
_____
*Béria Lima*
<http://wikimedia.pt/>(351) 925 171 484
*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que
estamos a fazer <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos>.*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-10-31/Techn…
Wikimedia proposes Wikipedia Zero
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I know that it is the flagship, however, it becomes a
self-fulfilling philosophy that nothing else exists at WMF when _WMF_ cannot even seem to
present the whole package.
Think if we expanded our visions and our message
* Quick and easy dictionary (wiktionary)
* Read a classic, a history, from science geniuses (Wikisource),
** or even download the work! Well only if there were resources provided so we could
explore the Epub extension
* grab a free lecture (wikiversity)
Different sites, different scopes, different experiences ... synergism of knowledge.
Regards, Andrew <- crawling back into his hole, and pulling the rock back over the top
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikipedia_is_a_mess_wikipedians_say_1_…
Now, we have a lot of work to do, it's obviously encyclopedic and it
would be hard to get really wrong.
What needs to be in place to make it possible to recruit newbies for
the task of referencing things? (Alleviate the citation syntax
problem. Make the results easily checkable by the experienced. Ban the
use of Twinkle or similar semi-botlike mechanisms on the resulting
edits, as nothing repels good-faith new users like instant reversion.
What else?)
- d.