notablog

Where I am reassured that there are still people with imagination in the Wikimedia projects

I am one of those tedious defenders of the integrity of the Wikimedia logo. It is not, in itself, the best logo ever, but well, the Wikimedia Foundation has enough problems as is trying to differentiate itself from Wikipedia, it deserves at least its own visual identity. Lire la suite :: Read further

mardi 14 novembre 2006 à 15:27 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

Where I hope that 0 mistake is what we're all striving for

This is a post I sent to the Wikimedia foundation-l mailing list, when Nature published a study comparing a few entries of Wikipedia and Britannica. Full thread can be found here. Lire la suite :: Read further

jeudi 15 décembre 2005 à 20:23 in Wikimedia

Where we learn that free does not always mean easy Lire la suite :: Read further

jeudi 21 avril 2005 à 10:41 in Wikimedia

Where one learns that addiction can be "free" Lire la suite :: Read further

lundi 8 novembre 2004 à 06:21 in Wikimedia