From geert at desk.nl  Thu Sep  6 12:09:22 2012
From: geert at desk.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 12:09:22 +0200
Subject: <CPOV> the culture of tech/tech or culture?
Message-ID: <3B4425C5-D922-42C6-8882-EBC8232CE389@desk.nl>

Hi CPOV,

I was a bit behind because of the holidays season here in Eurostan but  
now I finally worked my way through these two interesting documents:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2012-13_Goals

There is a more general text on the proposed changes by Brandon Harris  
on The Signpost of August 6 2012:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-08-06/Op-ed

Brandon writes:

"I'm certain many people are asking, "Why do we need a change? Why is  
this important?" Simply put: the software is a barrier and it is  
dragging you down."

If I think of the problems of Wikipedia along the lines of the CPOV  
research over the past years, I see a lot of cultural and political  
issues. Are they now resolved and can the outcome now be translated  
into technical solutions, new interfaces etc? I wonder. Yes, the  
Wikimedia software is ten years old and hasn't changed much. But is it  
dragging us down? I would say that engineering-male-Western culture  
inside Wikipedia is dragging us down, the organized and systematic  
arrogance and hostile attitudes towards newcomers, that's what is  
dragging Wikimedia/Wikipedia down.

What do you think? Are good intentions on the tech level enough?

Ciao, Geert







From majava at ifi.uio.no  Mon Sep 17 10:14:09 2012
From: majava at ifi.uio.no (Maja van der Velden)
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:14:09 +0200
Subject: <CPOV> Paper: The Power of Wikipedia: Legitimacy and Territorial
	Control
Message-ID: <249ACE3A-5A35-468F-9C92-738A54153D85@ifi.uio.no>

Hi,

Interesting article by Iolanda Pensa: The Power of Wikipedia: Legitimacy and Territorial Control. Written for the Wikipedia Academy meeting in Berlin this year. There are plenty of references to the CPOV Reader. 

Greetings,

Maja



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From geert at xs4all.nl  Wed Sep 19 09:41:03 2012
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:41:03 +0200
Subject: <CPOV> hardwired hypocracy inside Wikipedia: edits for personal
	profit
Message-ID: <D4CD5441-6E00-4345-86EF-B615A4097D39@xs4all.nl>

http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/09/19/0414235/wikipedia-scandal-high-profile-users-allegedly-involved-in-paid-editing

"A new Wikipedia scandal: two high profile users, one of them board  
member of Wikimedia UK seem to have been caught doing edits for  
personal profit. It was also discovered that they ran an SEO business  
related to Wikipedia. Quoting: 'Roger Bamkin, trustee of the Wikimedia  
Foundation UK, whose LinkedIn page describes him as a high-return- 
earning PR consultant, appeared to be using Wikipedia's main page "Did  
You Know" feature and the resources of Wikipedia's GLAM WikiProject  
(Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) initiative to pimp his  
client's project. Bamkin's current client is the country of Gibraltar.'"

(true or not true? double standards? geert)




From geert at xs4all.nl  Wed Sep 19 12:44:47 2012
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:44:47 +0200
Subject: <CPOV> hardwired hypocracy inside Wikipedia: edits for personal
	profit
In-Reply-To: <D4CD5441-6E00-4345-86EF-B615A4097D39@xs4all.nl>
References: <D4CD5441-6E00-4345-86EF-B615A4097D39@xs4all.nl>
Message-ID: <3C0FDCCB-280C-464C-B94F-FF8DDBBF4BA7@xs4all.nl>

More details here:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57514677-93/corruption-in-wikiland-paid-pr-scandal-erupts-at-wikipedia/

On 19 Sep 2012, at 9:41 AM, Geert Lovink wrote:

> http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/09/19/0414235/wikipedia-scandal-high-profile-users-allegedly-involved-in-paid-editing
>
> "A new Wikipedia scandal: two high profile users, one of them board  
> member of Wikimedia UK seem to have been caught doing edits for  
> personal profit. It was also discovered that they ran an SEO  
> business related to Wikipedia. Quoting: 'Roger Bamkin, trustee of  
> the Wikimedia Foundation UK, whose LinkedIn page describes him as a  
> high-return-earning PR consultant, appeared to be using Wikipedia's  
> main page "Did You Know" feature and the resources of Wikipedia's  
> GLAM WikiProject (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums)  
> initiative to pimp his client's project. Bamkin's current client is  
> the country of Gibraltar.'"
>
> (true or not true? double standards? geert)
>
>
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From esalor at gmail.com  Mon Sep 24 14:23:10 2012
From: esalor at gmail.com (Erinc Salor)
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:23:10 +0200
Subject: <CPOV> Thesis defense: Wikipedia and the Encyclopedic Urge
Message-ID: <7FF70B6B-01AB-49B5-94DF-9515663B1CFC@gmail.com>

Dear all,

I would like to announce and invite those of you who can come to the upcoming public defense of my dissertation: 
"Sum of All Knowledge: Wikipedia and the Encyclopedic Urge".

The ceremony will be held on Thursday, October 4 at 14:00 at the Agnietenkapel, Amsterdam.

A summary of my thesis can be found at my website: esalor.net/dissertation
For more information, please do not hesitate to contact me.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the CPOV community for providing so many useful directions and links during the writing of this thesis. Also, my special thanks to Joseph Reagle and Felipe Ortega, whose respective dissertations proved to be incredibly helpful resources for my work.

Looking forward to seeing you again.

Best,
Erinc Salor
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