Posts Tagged ‘wikipedia ’
The buzz around Q&A startup Quora has been building steadily over the past couple of months. I measure this not only by the number of Follow messages received concerning people randomly sampled from my Facebook connections which are now flooding my inbox, but also by the heated debate that is developing about the site’s usefulness, much of which is chronicled in this TechCrunch article about the “Quora Backlash Backlash”.
I’m embedding a presentation I gave at a recent “Data Lunch” about how to analyze responses to Likert items. As I am not a stats expert in any respect, I learned a number of things while putting this together – one of the most important is that Likert isn’t actually pronounced “Like-ert”, it’s pronounced “Lick-ert”, which is still tough for me to remember to say. Anyways, hope you enjoy, I’ll include some summary below as well.
Yesterday, I attended a pretty interesting PARC Forum where the speakers were three members of the Wikimedia Foundation. For those, that don’t know, Wikipedia is actually part of a larger group of projects (including Wiktionary, Wikiquotes, Wikiversity, etc.) which are all under the umbrella of the Wikimedia foundation, but the talks primarily focused on Wikipedia and how the foundation leverages the community of editors and developers to help build the content and tools that make the site work. PARC will have the video up in a couple days if you want to watch, and you can find the presentation here, but I’m presenting a short summary of some of the interesting tidbits and points here, organized by speaker:
