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First, good news, Florence is back on the blog scene. Yay! Second, she writes a very interesting post about the meaning of "free" as stressed in the Wikimedia Foundation's mission statement. Lire la suite :: Read further

dimanche 20 août 2006 à 13:38 in Wikimedia

Wikimania a fermé ses portes. Lire la suite :: Read further

mardi 8 août 2006 à 09:33 in Wikimedia

Patrice Létourneau, dont le blog est un havre de paix, a fait part sur la liste de discussion de la Wikipédia francophone de la sortie d'un article sur L'encyclopédie Agora intitulé Wikipedia : perspectives Lire la suite :: Read further

jeudi 25 mai 2006 à 18:02 in Wikimedia

And it was good

Hmmm, I am not even sure that this title reflects the utter irony with which I write those words. There has been of late a fantastic number of amazing threads on various Wikimedia mailing lists. Those all started because a team of good-willing people decided they would clean up meta. Lire la suite :: Read further

samedi 1 avril 2006 à 15:46 in Wikimedia

You just have to find out who knows what

Well, the Nobody knows everything, but everybody knows something has been a long standing slogan for the construction of Wikipedia. However, I am not going to linger on the Wikipedia aspect of it, but rather on the applications I see in other areas, and especially on the organisational area of Wikimedia. Lire la suite :: Read further

mercredi 22 mars 2006 à 15:27 in Wikimedia

Where you learn that well...there are people behind nicknames.

A very long time ago, when I started chatting on Yahoo!, I met a whole bunch of people. I was very naive, and the first time I entered a channel, with this notafish nickname, I actually said who I was, where I came from, in short, I did not hide behind the nickname, because I did not know to, and because I suppose I did not see any reason to. Lire la suite :: Read further

samedi 18 mars 2006 à 12:52 in Wikimedia

Or how Wikipedia addresses its "customers" and how the form reflects the content

N.B. I started this post more than a year ago and never put it on line, so some of the information is somewhat obsolete, but I decided today to take it up again and leave the first part as I had written it then. Lire la suite :: Read further

mardi 7 mars 2006 à 15:30 in Wikimedia

Où l'on se rend compte que le libre n'est pas toujours compris, parfois même par ses plus virulents défenseurs

Il fait pas beau. il fait même carrément froid. Il neige, pour tout vous dire. Et puis je me sens d'humeur trollesque. Donc j'ai pointé mon nez ce matin sur le bistrot Wikipédia. Depuis un certain temps déjà, mes activités au niveau organisationnel (Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia France) me laissent peu de temps pour contribuer. Lire la suite :: Read further

mardi 28 février 2006 à 16:21 in Wikimedia