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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