WikiEN-l September 2010

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Office Hours with Sue Gardner
by Deniz Gultekin 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

Hi all, A reminder that Sue Gardner, the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, will be having office hours today (September 30) at 23:00 UTC (16:00 PT, 19:00 ET, 01:00 Friday CEST) on IRC in #wikimedia-office. If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat using a web browser: First, using the Wikizine chat gateway at <http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>. Type a nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and #wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join. Or, you can access Freenode by going tohttp://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning, which you can click to accept. Please feel free to forward (and translate) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. -- Deniz Gültekin Community Associate Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge http://donate.wikimedia.org/

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The Ambassadors of Morocco's debut single 'Wikipedia' will be released on 15th November 2010
by Anirudh Bhati 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ46UXZUvL0 (LT: Fayssal F.) Yours sincerely, Anirudh Singh Bhati B.Com, LL.B. (Hons.), Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, India. Handphone: +919328712208 Skype: anirudhsbh If this email were legal advice, it would be followed by a bill.

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Citizendium charter ratified
by David Gerard 29 Sep '10

29 Sep '10

Citizendium is no longer Larry Sanger's personal project, but an independent group run by its community: https://lists.purdue.edu/pipermail/citizendium-l/2010-September/001510.html The regulars hope the Charter will help revitalise Citizendium. This would be good for everyone, I think. - d.

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Article feedback tool: Please join the work group
by Guillaume Paumier 29 Sep '10

29 Sep '10

Hi, As you may have read recently on this list a few days ago, the Wikimedia Foundation released an experimental Article feedback tool, currently enabled on a small subset of Public Policy articles (more details are included in the blog post < http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/09/22/article-feedback-pilot-goes-live/ >). The main reason why I'm coming to you today is because we're trying to build a small team of users and developers to assess the feature itself to see what we should do with it, if we should improve it (and if so, how) or simply abandon it. I realize you may want to focus on "bigger" features such as Pending Changes right now, but it's really important for us that some of you join the work group < http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/Workgroup > so we make sure it meets your needs. If you don't want to join the work group, but still want to provide feedback, please read the Q&A page < http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/FAQs > and leave comments on the work group's talk page. Many thanks in advance for your help! On behalf of the Features engineering team, -- Guillaume Paumier [[m:User:guillom]] http://www.gpaumier.org

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Pending Changes development update: September 27
by Rob Lanphier 28 Sep '10

28 Sep '10

Hi everyone, As many of you know, the results of the poll to keep Pending Changes on through a short development cycle were approved for interim usage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes/Straw_poll_on_interi… Ongoing use of Pending Changes is contingent upon consensus after the deployment of an interim release of Pending Changes in November 2010, which is currently under development. The roadmap for this deployment is described here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Pending_Changes_enwiki_trial/Roadmap An update on the date: we'd previously scheduled this for November 9. However, because that week is the same week as the start of the fundraiser (and accompanying futzing with the site) we'd like to move the date one week later, to November 16. Aaron Schulz is advising us as the author of the vast majority of the code, having mostly implemented the "reject" button. Chad Horohoe and Priyanka Dhanda are working on some of the short term development items, and Brandon Harris is advising us on how we can make this feature mesh with our long term usability strategy. We're currently tracking the list of items we intend to complete in Bugzilla. You can see the latest list here: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=25293 Many of the items in the list are things we're looking for feedback on: Bug 25295 - "Improve reviewer experience when multiple simultaneous users review Pending Changes" https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25295 Bug 25296 - "History style cleanup - investigate possible fixes and detail the fixes" https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25296 Bug 25298 - "Figure out what (if any) new Pending Changes links there should be in the side bar" https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25298 Bug 25299 - "Make pending revision status clearer when viewing page" https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25299 Bug 25300 - "Better names for special pages in Pending Changes configuration" https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25300 Bug 25301 - "Firm up the list of minor UI improvements for the November 2010 Pending Changes release" https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25301 Please provide your input in Bugzilla if you're comfortable with that; otherwise, please remark on the feedback page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes/Feedback Thanks! Rob

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Office hours with Sue Gardner
by Philippe Beaudette 28 Sep '10

28 Sep '10

Hi all, Sue Gardner, the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, will be having office hours this Thursday (September 30) at 23:00 UTC (16:00 PT, 19:00 ET, 01:00 Friday CEST) on IRC in #wikimedia-office. If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat using a web browser: First, using the Wikizine chat gateway at <http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>. Type a nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and #wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join. Or, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning, which you can click to accept. Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other relevant email lists you happen to be on. ____________________ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation philippe(a)wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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[Wikimedia Foundation Blog] Article feedback pilot goes live
by Guillaume Paumier 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

(Forwarding from my gmail address to avoid moderation, since I'm not subscribed with the other one.) On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Guillaume Paumier <gpaumier(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Link to the original article: > > http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/09/22/article-feedback-pilot-goes-live/ > > As recently announced on the tech blog and in the Signpost, we're > launching an experimental new tool today to capture article feedback > from readers as part of the Public Policy Initiative. We're also > inviting the user community to help determine its future by joining a > workgroup tasked with evaluating it. > > The "Article Feedback Tool" allows any reader to quickly and easily > assess the sourcing, completeness, neutrality, and readability of a > Wikipedia article on a five-point scale. It will be one of several tools > used by the Public Policy Initiative to assess the quality of articles. > We also hope it will be a way to increase reader engagement by seeking > feedback from them on how they view the article, and where it needs > improvement. > > The tool is currently enabled on about 400 articles related to US public > policy. You can see it in action at the bottom of articles such > as /United States Constitution/, /Don't ask, don't tell/ or /Brown v. > Board of Education/. > > Another goal of this pilot is to try and find a way to collaborate with > the community to build tools and features. As main users of the > software, Wikimedians are in a unique position to evaluate how a feature > performs, and what its strengths and limitations are. The Article > Feedback Tool is still very much in a prototype state; we're hoping the > user community can help us determine whether resources should be > allocated to improve it (and if so, how), or if it doesn't meet the > users' needs and should be shelved or completely rethought. > > More information about the tool is available on our Questions & Answers > page [1]. > > If you want to try the tool to assess an article, pick a subject you're > familiar with from the full list [2] and rate it! If you'd like to > participate in the evaluation of the tool itself and what becomes of it, > please join the workgroup [3]. If you're interested in article > assessment in general, please also join the Public Policy Initiative's > Assessment Team [4]. > > Thank you, > > Guillaume Paumier, > on behalf of the Features Engineering team > > [1] > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/FAQs > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Article_Feedback_Pilot > [3] > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Public_Policy_Pilot/Workgroup > [4] > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_United_States_Public_Pol… > > -- > Guillaume Paumier > Product Manager, Multimedia Usability > Wikimedia Foundation > Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -- Guillaume Paumier [[m:User:guillom]] http://www.gpaumier.org

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“Can you imagine the president of the American Camellia Society having three stuffed bears in the courthouse?”
by Tony Sidaway 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

I just heard about this from Keith Olbermann's show. Rush Limbaugh's researchers apparently grabbed a story from Wikipedia about Judge Roger Vinson and used it in one of his rants against health care. The story, describing the judge as a keen hunter and taxidermist who hung stuffed bear heads above his courthouse in order to put "the fear of God" into defendants, turned out to be false. Apparently the judge doesn't hunt that much and prefes horticulture. “I’ve never killed a bear,” he told the New York Times on Wednesday, “and I’m not Davy Crockett.” He is the president of the American Camelia Society. The source cited in the Wikipedia article was dated June 31, 2003. "Thirty days hath...June." The New York TImes also reported that the editor who added the bogus story to Wikipedia at the weekend recently removed it. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/16/us/16judge.html

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Re: [WikiEN-l] WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 86, Issue 15
by Waterfox 18 Sep '10

18 Sep '10

I prefer doing *a couple* of big edits, but not just one, to avoid edit conflicts. In any case, though, I do mostly anti-vandalism and gnome work, so this is not my area of expertise. -Waterfox > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:31:36 -0500 > From: MuZemike <muzemike(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [WikiEN-l] Little edits or big edits in the mainspace? > To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: <4C93D028.1080704(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > As the title indicates, when working on articles, do you prefer making a > bunch of small edits or one or a couple of big edits? > > Personally, I started out making lots of small edits, but lately I've > been the opposite of that. > > -MuZemike

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Little edits or big edits in the mainspace?
by Aude 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

On Sep 17, 2010, at 4:31 PM, MuZemike <muzemike(a)gmail.com> wrote: > As the title indicates, when working on articles, do you prefer > making a > bunch of small edits or one or a couple of big edits? When editing directly on the wiki, I like to save often, in case my browser crashes or freezes (lighter, less JS please) or in case of edit conflicts. In case of articles where I am essentially the primary editor, I might copy the text to my own local wiki on my computer and work locally. That way I can edit offline, its faster, I can have however much or little JS, can use the drafts extension, etc. Then, I can sync my changes once in a while with the wikipedia page, in a bigger edit Editing on a local wiki is newer for me. In the past, I have just copied article text to a local text file and simply work on editing the text file, then sync my edits. The text file approach still works perfectly fine and could use git to have revision control on text files. (would be neat to have more git-like functionality integrated w/ mediawiki and be able to do git push origin master of wiki articles) @aude > > Personally, I started out making lots of small edits, but lately I've > been the opposite of that. > > -MuZemike > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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