{"id":710,"date":"2009-11-30T06:52:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T10:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-11302009\/"},"modified":"2009-11-30T06:52:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T10:52:34","slug":"biweekly-links-for-11302009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-11302009\/","title":{"rendered":"Biweekly links for 11\/30\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronsw.com\/weblog\/hiring\">How I Hire Programmers (Aaron Swartz&#8217;s Raw Thought)<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Much more interesting than the traditional approach, which seems to be a hybrid of the Microsoft and Google approaches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wikimedia.org\/2009\/11\/26\/wikipedias-volunteer-story\/\">Wikimedia blog \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archive \u00c2\u00bb Wikipedia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Volunteer Story<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happening to Wikipedia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s volunteer community? Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. The article is a comprehensive description of the challenges and opportunities facing the Wikipedia community&#8230; A quote from the article: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In the first three months of 2009, the English-language Wikipedia suffered a net loss of more than 49,000 editors, compared to a net loss of 4,900 during the same period a year earlier, according to Spanish researcher Felipe Ortega.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\n<p>Other news stories have further focused on this particular number, some going so far to predict Wikipedia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s imminent demise&#8230;  It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s understandable that media will look for a compelling narrative. Our job is to arrive at a nuanced understanding of what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going on. This blog post is therefore an attempt to dig deeper into the numbers and into what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happening with Wikipedia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s volunteer community, and to describe our big picture strategy.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/nielsen\/\">here<\/a> for all of my del.icio.us bookmarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How I Hire Programmers (Aaron Swartz&#8217;s Raw Thought) Much more interesting than the traditional approach, which seems to be a hybrid of the Microsoft and Google approaches. Wikimedia blog \u00c2\u00bb Blog Archive \u00c2\u00bb Wikipedia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Volunteer Story &#8220;What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happening to Wikipedia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s volunteer community? Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Volunteers Log Off as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/biweekly-links-for-11302009\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biweekly links for 11\/30\/2009<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}