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post Tue 25th August 2009, 5:16pm
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From the Wikipedia "foundation-l" mailing list:
QUOTE("Michael Snow")
We also appointed someone to one of the vacant expertise seats appointed
by the board. His name is Matt Halprin, and in brief, Matt is with the
Omidyar Network and a former eBay executive who was in charge of trust
and safety there. Matt has met with a number of us over the past several
months, and I invited him to join us in Buenos Aires and meet the entire
board. The Omidyar Network is very interested in supporting our strategy
development discussions, and I look forward to having Matt's experience
and insight as we continue with the process.

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post Tue 25th August 2009, 5:35pm
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Maybe he envisions a secondary market in used encyclopedia articles.
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post Tue 25th August 2009, 5:48pm
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Maybe he envisions a secondary market in used encyclopedia articles.

More likely a proving ground for new patent-pending online reputation systems.
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post Tue 25th August 2009, 10:21pm
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More likely a proving ground for new patent-pending online reputation systems.
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His extensive experience with online communities, trust, and reputation, will make him an excellent addition to our Board.

TOLD YOU SO!!

Coming soon: Admins to be renamed POWER EDITORS, barnstars to be replaced with GOLD STARS and RETALIATORY FEEDBACK to replace edit wars.
Of course the advertisements on the site will easily fund the patent licensing fees to Omidyar and his friends at ebay. Plus no more irritating and profit sapping mirror and forks as Omidyar effectively owns creative commons.
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QUOTE(A spatula said what? @ Tue 25th August 2009, 4:21pm) *

QUOTE(A spatula said what? @ Tue 25th August 2009, 1:48pm) *
More likely a proving ground for new patent-pending online reputation systems.
QUOTE(WMF)
His extensive experience with online communities, trust, and reputation, will make him an excellent addition to our Board.

TOLD YOU SO!!

Coming soon: Admins to be renamed POWER EDITORS, barnstars to be replaced with GOLD STARS and RETALIATORY FEEDBACK to replace edit wars.
Of course the advertisements on the site will easily fund the patent licensing fees to Omidyar and his friends at ebay. Plus no more irritating and profit sapping mirror and forks as Omidyar effectively owns creative commons.


Are you really so naive to not know that what actual has been going on within the Wikipedia "community" for a long tie is much worse than what you describe? Wikipedia is a MMORPG. All MMORPGs are driven by reputational economies based on exchanges of favors and influence. See Castronova. All this nonsense about editors writing articles for an encyclopedia is just the game board and is only true in a virtual sense. If you ever met SlimVirgin or JzG you already know this. Encyclopedic concepts like sourcing and neutrality only exist as tokens in the form of "WP:NOR" and "{{fact}}" to be wielded by avatars who could not hope to engage in sustained intellectual activity outside this virtual world. At least one board member might now understand this.
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A spatula said what?   Getting on the Wikimedia Board   Tue 25th August 2009, 5:16pm
Somey   That's unfortunate - Pierre Omidyar was the gu...   Tue 25th August 2009, 5:32pm
anthony   The appointment of one of his people to another e...   Tue 25th August 2009, 10:53pm
anthony   [quote name='Somey' post='191074' date='Tue 25th ...   Tue 25th August 2009, 11:56pm
Apathetic   That's unfortunate - Pierre Omidyar was the g...   Tue 25th August 2009, 10:57pm
RMHED   That's unfortunate - Pierre Omidyar was the ...   Tue 25th August 2009, 11:46pm
EricBarbour   That's unfortunate - Pierre Omidyar was the g...   Wed 26th August 2009, 2:54am
GlassBeadGame   Maybe he envisions a secondary market in used enc...   Tue 25th August 2009, 6:06pm
tarantino   Well at least he is not a Wikipedian. This is pr...   Tue 25th August 2009, 8:33pm
dtobias   might bring libertarian ethos with them. ...and...   Mon 31st August 2009, 10:31pm
Moulton   His extensive experience with online communities, ...   Wed 26th August 2009, 12:25am
Malleus   [quote name='Moulton' post='191169' date='Wed 26th...   Wed 26th August 2009, 1:05am
Kelly Martin   Jimbo's biggest fear is that the project falls...   Wed 26th August 2009, 3:47am
The Adversary   [quote name='Moulton' post='191169' date='Tue 25t...   Wed 26th August 2009, 4:47pm
Limey   [quote name='Moulton' post='191169' date='Wed 26th...   Wed 26th August 2009, 2:40am
Milton Roe   Academics really tend to respect other academics....   Wed 26th August 2009, 2:58am
Malleus   The saddest thing, in my opinion, about the WMF is...   Wed 26th August 2009, 3:11am
The Joy   The saddest thing, in my opinion, about the WMF i...   Wed 26th August 2009, 3:19am
Cock-up-over-conspiracy   What a load of cock. You called, sir? May be Jimb...   Wed 26th August 2009, 9:57am
GlassBeadGame   What a load of cock. You called, sir? May be Jim...   Wed 26th August 2009, 1:11pm
anthony   Positions on the boards of non-profits are unpaid...   Wed 26th August 2009, 3:22pm
GlassBeadGame   Positions on the boards of non-profits are unpai...   Wed 26th August 2009, 4:36pm
Eva Destruction   [quote name='anthony' post='191329' date='Wed 26t...   Wed 26th August 2009, 4:43pm
anthony   [quote name='anthony' post='191329' date='Wed 26t...   Wed 26th August 2009, 11:47pm
Cock-up-over-conspiracy   Positions on the boards of non-profits are unpaid....   Wed 26th August 2009, 10:36pm
GlassBeadGame   [quote name='GlassBeadGame' post='191297' date='W...   Wed 26th August 2009, 10:41pm
Limey   The saddest thing, in my opinion, about the WMF i...   Wed 26th August 2009, 4:18am
Limey   Academics really tend to respect other academics...   Wed 26th August 2009, 4:30am
Moulton   It wouldn't surprise me if WMF ginned up some ...   Wed 26th August 2009, 1:26pm
NuclearWarfare   It wouldn't surprise me if WMF ginned up some...   Wed 26th August 2009, 1:54pm
Moulton   Now imagine there were a system for rating the rep...   Wed 26th August 2009, 2:09pm
Limey   Now imagine there were a system for rating the re...   Wed 26th August 2009, 2:42pm
Moulton   If there is one yawning gap in Jimbo's "o...   Wed 26th August 2009, 2:55pm
Limey   A seat on Ebay's Board of Drectors would be...   Thu 27th August 2009, 12:20am
GlassBeadGame   [quote name='GlassBeadGame' post='191431' date='W...   Thu 27th August 2009, 3:06am
tarantino   From the Wikipedia "foundation-l" maili...   Sun 30th August 2009, 2:34am
Somey   Well, [i]that settles that. Thank goodness they cl...   Sun 30th August 2009, 3:53am
GlassBeadGame   http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...old...   Sun 30th August 2009, 4:43am
tarantino   Obviously $2 million is chicken feed to some...   Sun 30th August 2009, 5:07am
Nerd   Obviously $2 million is chicken feed to some...   Sun 30th August 2009, 1:20pm
Milton Roe   Obviously $2 million is chicken feed to som...   Mon 31st August 2009, 9:26pm
thekohser   Akahele: [url=http://akahele.org/2009/08/omidyar-v...   Mon 31st August 2009, 7:15pm
GlassBeadGame   Wikipedia acting in a socially responsible maneer,...   Mon 31st August 2009, 9:46pm
thekohser   It seems that one Austrian is not willing to perce...   Fri 11th September 2009, 1:38pm
thekohser   One thing is clear... $2 million buys Halprin...   Mon 28th December 2009, 7:41pm
CharlotteWebb   One thing is clear... $2 million buys Halpri...   Mon 28th December 2009, 8:24pm
thekohser   I don't know how we missed this big employment...   Mon 27th June 2011, 6:35pm

 

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