Hello, my name is Michael Tsikerdekis[1], currently involved as a student in full time academic research at Masaryk University. I am writing to you to kindly invite you to participate in an online survey about interface and online collaboration on Wikipedia. The survey has been reviewed and approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Research Committee.
I am contacting you because you were randomly selected from a list of active editors. The survey should take about 7 to 10 minutes to complete, and it is very straightforward.
Wikipedia is an open project by nature. Let’s create new knowledge for everyone! :-)
PS: The results from the research will become available online for everyone and will be published in an open access journal.
UPDATE: This is the second and final notification for participating in this study. Your help is essential for having concrete results and knowledge that we all can share. I would like to thank you for your time and as always for any questions, comments or ideas do not hesitate to contact me. --Michael Tsikerdekis (talk) 13:38, 19 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Invitation to events: bot, template, and Gadget makers wanted
I thought you might want to know about some upcoming events where you can learn more about MediaWiki customization and development, extending functionality with JavaScript, the future of ResourceLoader and Gadgets, the new Lua templating system, how to best use the web API for bots, and various upcoming features and changes. We'd love to have power users, bot maintainers and writers, and template makers at these events so we can all learn from each other and chat about what needs doing.
Jodi, you were highly recommended to me as someone with deep wiki knowledge and a diligent and organized professional style. Do you think you'd be interested (after your Ph.D.) in working with the Wikimedia Foundation as the bug wrangler? This person would be a key liaison between the development community and the larger Wikimedia reader and contributor community, and you could be just the person we're seeking. We're looking for someone to start in the next few months. And if you don't think you'd be interested, perhaps you know someone suitable?
USA report: World Digital Library Wikipedian in Residence
UK report: British Library update; UK representation at Wikimania 2012; brief news
Spain report: Wikipedian in Residence for a whole town; Backstage Pass at National Art Museum of Catalonia
Germany report: Wikipedian in Residence updates; WikiCon 2012; Hamburgmuseum workshop
Italy report: July's case studies shed new light on African GLAMs
Mexico report: Second editathon with Wikipedia Student Clubs; participation in Mexico City's Creative Commons Film Festival; private art gallery donates 650+ images
Open Access report: Open Access at Wikimania; Year 2 of Wikimedian in Residence on Open Science; Open Access Media Importer tested; WikiProject Medicine goes publishing
Hi Jodi.a.schneider! Women around the world who edit and contribute to Wikipedia are coming together to celebrate each other's work, support one another, and engage new women to also join in on the empowering experience of shaping the sum of all the world's knowledge - through the WikiWomen's Collaborative.
As a WikiWoman, we'd love to have you involved! You can do this by:
