OST on Wikipedia

Harrison Owen hhowen at verizon.net
Tue Jun 17 14:43:36 PDT 2008


Good work Jeff! I can see a space is open and something could happen. Who
knows what ???

 

ho

 

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Jeff
Aitken
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 4:06 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: OST on Wikipedia

 

Here's John Abbe's response about Wikipedia, with advice to engage the
editors at the discussion page, which  is an "always-open space"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Open_Space_Technology. 

 

Jeff

> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:59:13 -0700
> To: magic.teams at hotmail.com; lisaheft at openingspace.net
> Subject: Re: FW: OST on Wikipedia (was: OST becoming mainstream)
> From: johnabbe at gmail.com
> 
> At 9:01 PM -0700 on 6/16/08, Jeff Aitken typed:
> >Hi John -
> >
> >People on the OSTLIST are editing the OST entry on Wikipedia and 
> >have Q's for editors - can you help connect to the appropriate 
> >wikipedia folk?
> 
> Phoebe Ayers <phoebe.ayers at gmail.com>, Evan Prodromou 
> <evan at prodromou.name> and Steven Walling <steven at aboutus.org> are
the 
> most Wikipedia-connected people who were at RecentChangesCamp. Oh, 
> and Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org> - he's probably the #1 
> programmer on MediaWiki, but i don't know how much he mucks about 
> with *content* process.
> 
> Lisa wrote:
> > > Sometimes when new stuff is put on Wikipedia the folks who review 
> >it think it's commercial sources putting stuff on driving business 
> >to their webistes, and they delete things. Anyone know how to let 
> >them know that we are a worldwide learning community with open 
> >source shared materials and learning rather than a commercial source?
> 
> And the answer to this question is in some ways simple - engage them
> on the discussion page 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Open_Space_Technology>. Think of 
> it as an always-open space for people who want to talk about such 
> issues (and whoever comes are the right people, etc.). If no one's 
> already linked there to the policy pages they're trying to follow by 
> deletions, etc., just ask to be pointed to them.
> 
> Life,
> John
> p.s. *Great* fun to be in a position to in this way help OST have a 
> good WP article :-).
> -- 
> 
> /\/\ http://ourpla.net/
> \ / Cat Herder
> \/ John Abbe

 

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