[Foundation-l] Re: Fwd: [Ticket#: 125437] Request forHIGHLIGHTING THE ACHIEVEMENT OF E- [...]

Tue May 24 11:52:47 UTC 2005

> DrShyam Bihari Saraswat <sbs1 at rediffmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >Dear Sir,
> >Subject: HIGHLIGHTING THE ACHIEVEMENT OF E-COMMERCE OF YOUR ORGANIZATION  AS A VERY SPECIAL SUCCESS STORY IN MY BOOK
> >REFERENCE: Your organization is among the first one to implement e- commerce as per internet reports
> >
> >  Please  find attached my  request letter for  reply at your end  as per advice by wikimedia mail.
> >May i assure you that your contribution to e-commerce will bring your achievements to  the knowledge of more  e-commerce community  particularly in devlloping contries like India .  This shall be advantageous for further growth of business
> >
> >  We may remain in touch for further co-operation on issue. I like to refer your articles in my writing for which your cosent may be accorded.
> >Looking for your response
> >with kind regards
> >DR SARASWAT SB
> >
> >
> >Note: Forwarded message attached
> >
> >-- Orignal Message --
> >
> > From: Wikipedia information team <info-en at wikimedia.org>
> >To: "DrShyam Bihari Saraswat" <sbs1 at rediffmail.com>
> >Cc: jwales at wikia.com
> >Subject: [Ticket#: 125437] Request forHIGHLIGHTING THE ACHIEVEMENT OF E- [...]
> > > I will be grateful if you kindly could send me  success story of
> > > implementing e-commerce in your organization in details for including in
> > > my proposed publication of the book. There is no fixed format for
> > > presenting this success  story ,therefore, you may present the document
> > > in best possible meaningful and highlighting  manner. However, some
> > > general points are given for your consideration for inclusion in the
> > > success story
> >
> >Dear Dr Saraswat,
> >
> >Thank you for your mail. It may be best for such a report on our projects to
> >be written collaboratively. Would you be happy for your mail to published on
> >our community mailing list, and for editors to write the success story of
> >Wikipedia on a public wiki before submitting it? If so, you may wish to make
> >this post to the Foundation's mailing list at
> ><http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l>.
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >Angela Beesley
> >
> >--
> >Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org
> >

Surely the success of Wikipedia isn't in the field of e-commerce but
in many other areas, including collaborative work, publication,
discourse praxis etc? The last fundraising venture went well, but this
doesn't seem so relevant. More relevant, I think, is the notion of
Wikipedia as a 'Community of practice', which has masses of
literature, the most prominent author being Etienne Wenger. This is a
big theory in the field of information/knowledge management and is
being taken on by managers in large companies trying to improve their
own practice/business. I'm writing my own paper for Wikimania partly
about the success (and shortcomings) of this notion in Wikipedia and
furthering it in my masters, and there's much more research going on;
see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research

Is this helpful or is there an e-commerce aspect to wikimedia that I'm
not aware of?

Cormac / Cormaggio