Interview met Jimbo Wales op 5 december 2005: verschil tussen versies

* Wiki-aanpassen leeft van lokale kennis, maar "lokaal" in de epistemologische zin, niet noodzakelijk in de geografische zin. Bijvoorbeeld, persoonlijk weet ik veel meer over wereldnieuws over onderwerpen die mij interesseren, en kan veel beter synthetizeren in die onderwerpen, dan dat ik kennis heb over lokale politici waar ik woon.

; Gelooft u dat Wikinews, of enige van de Wiki projecten gezien kunnen worden als meritocratie?

; "Actueel" is niet "encyclopedisch" genoeg om op Wikipedia te staan! Op veel wikipedia-projecten is inhoud verplaatst naar Wikibooks en Wikisource. Moet "Actueel" dan niet op dezelfde wijze worden verplaatst naar Wikinews?

* Ik heb hier geen sterke mening over. Encyclopedische artikelen over actuele zaken zijn op veel verschillende manieren anders dan nieuwsartikelen over actuele zaken. Ik vermoed dat we hier wat parallel werk moeten hebben, en aan Wikinieuws zou meer prominent aandacht moeten worden besteed op deze manier op de Wikipedia-homepage. Maar dat is een grote interne gemeenschapsdiscussie waar andere mensen meer van af weten dan ik.

; Zou u wat willen uitweiden over "het beste uit de oude modellen"?

* Nou, om uit te weiden over "het beste uit de oude modellen" -- iets dat vaak naar boven komt is dat er in de traditionele pers een reputatiemechanisme is, een mechanisme dat soms niet werkt, maar meestal wel. Burgerjournalistiek moet manieren zoeken om dezelfde soort reputatiemechanismes tot stand te brengen. Blogs ondervinden dat, tot op zekere hoogte.

* Nee.

 

; The fundraiser is very low-key, and barely visible. If raising money is so important to the future of the project, why doesn't WMF put it front and center, giving it real space and bandwidth on the main pages and even article pages? : Well, we do that during the actual fund drive, but we're hopelessly tasteful of course, so I doubt we will ever be too horribly glaring about it. :-)

; The current fundraiser is manually updated, takes place exclusively online, and so on. It's rather like a high school prom fundraiser in the USA. Have you considered developing an integrated campaign with feedback, for example automating a graph of the funds raised and tracking the donations across countries and currencies? : Yes, we would love to have a fancier system. It is my feeling that we're going to have to pay for the development of such a system, because volunteer developers are (quite rightly) more interested in more intellectually challenging programming issues. So part of why we need to raise money is so we can be more efficient about raising money in the future.

* Ja. Ik ben nu full-time aalmoezenier <!--beggar-->. :)

; Many traditional charity programs spend the majority of fundraising dollars on fundraisers. What is the estimate for the cost of this fundraiser, versus what you expect to raise? To qualify this question; some of the fundraising ratios seen are upwards of 80% of funds raised go for fundraising. : For the exact numbers, it will be best to consult with Mav (our CFO) and Michael (our Treasurer) as well as published results from past efforts. But obviously since the fund raising is done almost exclusively on the website itself (which costs no money), our efficiency is very very high. I don't know the exact numbers, but our costs are mostly just the bank fees and paypal fees.

; The mainland People's Republic of China has blocked WP, and today Onet.pl has removed WP from their search engine. Will changes in accessibility harm the fund drive? : We don't traditionally get much money from mainland China, and I doubt if the Polish search engine example will hurt the traffic of pl.wikipedia very much. (It will probably hurt the search engine more!)

; Mr. Seigenthaler's bio, and we've just discovered Mr. Graham's, were posted by anons. The first was a smear campaign, the second a copyvio of a press release. Obviously the former is a problem, but doesn't the latter also open Wikipedia up to being an advertising site? : We don't have a huge problem with people using Wikipedia for pr purposes, although I'm sure a little of it goes on here and there. I've never seen a really convincing case.

: What I do to try to be useful to other languages is communicate with people as much as I can, visit people in person as much as I can, and monitor the statistics pages to see what is going on.