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Re: Gibraltarpedia is not profiting off work of contributors…

Laura — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 20:20:21 -0000

Miss Hale actually sees this. Sue Gardner, the staff of WMF, Pediapress and others are compensated too. This is nothing new. The people I've talked to who are casual users of Wikipedia, government people, non-profit organisations who might contribute all think this is a good thing: It improves the project credibility, encourages greater sharing of knowledge, provides people with tools to contribute. Thus, the arguement is negated. There is no wide spread outrage for this issue: People have ot mobilised like they have for other problems on the internet. The problem you mentioned is addressed. You are just chosing to ignore it.

Re: Gibraltarpedia is not profiting off work of contributors…

Alexandra — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 19:35:45 -0000

Ms Hale is missing a critical aspect. Roger Bamkin was compensated for his role. Therefore, he profited off the work of volunteers. Why is this difficult to understand?

Re: Gibraltarpedia is not profiting off work of contributors…

Vic — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 19:20:37 -0000

Stunning bit of research. Pleased to see Laura gets the "You are not a sheep" award. Nice to see an independant fact based view

Re: Sport culture shock: America vs. Australia

Melbourne football fan — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:05:53 -0000

The reason's is because your living in Canberra the smallest State or Territory where Australian football or Rugby league isn't anywhere near as popular as it is in the rest of the country. Go to Melbourne or Adelaide during football season's its nut's. Australians are as big of sports fan's than anywhere in the world, if not the biggest.

Re: The process of getting Wikimedians to the 2016 Rio Olympics

Hawkeye7 — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 06:00:24 -0000

It's ironic that the allegedly commercialised IOC supports free licences while WMF does not.I hope WMF feels some sense of shame and reforms its policy.

Re: The process of getting Wikimedians to the 2016 Rio Olympics

Graham Pearce — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 04:59:39 -0000

Commercial reuse is not an impediment to freely sharing knowledge; in fact it's just the opposite. PediaPress can do what it does precisely *because* Wikipedia's license allows commercial reuse. The lack of restrictions on commercial use is one of the cornerstones of free content licenses such as those used by Wikipedia. If the WMF were to budge on this point, it would abandon one of its founding principles—that all its content can be reused by anyone for any purpose. -- Graham87

Re: The process of getting Wikimedians to the 2016 Rio Olympics

LauraH — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 02:57:52 -0000

Correct. The WMF is not going to change their policy that allows them to create deals with commercial partners for monetary gain while monetising the work of a volunteer community base.

Re: The process of getting Wikimedians to the 2016 Rio Olympics

Tony1 — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 02:39:39 -0000

The WMF isn't going to change its licencing policy just because the olympics business model has been almost totally corrupted by commercial greed. Gobsmackingly, this corruption is in the face of the hurling of squilliions of public money at the event, which is never recovered for public good.

Re: The process of getting Wikimedians to the 2016 Rio Olympics

LauraH — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 02:35:55 -0000

Signpost criticisms of the IOC appear to disregard the economic model that allows them to function, while at the same time failing to highlight how fair their policy was. In a battle between the IOC and the WMF to see which one would change their license first, I can almost guarantee it would be WMF. If the pillar is making knowledge free, then absolutely, the WMF license policy should be changed because commercial re-use is an impediment to freely sharing knowledge. I don't actively promote this blog much, so readership not that much of a concern. The chances of any Wikimedians to engage in this process are slim and the WMF wants to start conversations on the IOC level, by talking to them about licensing issues.

Re: The process of getting Wikimedians to the 2016 Rio Olympics

Tony1 — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 02:30:51 -0000

More people will read it if it doesn't ramble. Half this size would be acceptable. The writing needs fixing. Your criticism of the WMF's licencing policy appears to disregard a major pillar concerning re-use.

Re: 2012 Summer Paralympic reporting tools

Brian McNeil — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:12:07 -0000

And, we have a bot doing the heavy lifting of grabbing files out of Dropbox and uploading them to the wiki. :D

Re: Location, location, location: Why can’t Twitter users standardize their locations?

LauraH — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 19:43:46 -0000

Every thing on this particular data set was manually done. It takes a long, long, long time to create it and needs to be written with a specific geographic bias because certain cities share the same name and the USA is not Australia. Australian Gold Coast is not the same as the USA. No easy way around it.

Re: Location, location, location: Why can’t Twitter users standardize their locations?

Kris Immig — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:16:15 -0000

hi,
thanks for th elist and the inof. I know this post is a bit old but I was wondering if you managed to get anywhere with the whole twitte location thing? I am asking becuase I am in a similar position like you, I want to "standardize the data from the profile of twitter users. I have about 150k user with the names for towns, vcities and countries pretty much at random. Did you find a way to do it?

Re: APC Wikipedia Training Session in Perth

Leighblackall — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:58:09 -0000

Nice Laura, thanks. I spotted a few typos that need correcting. Paragraph 2, sentence 3, did 3 paralympians attend, or 2? The others are not serious, and I think you'll spot them with a once over. The important bits are there, and you make very useful comments and suggestions, thanks.

Re: September 4 MLB Foursquare Checkin Totals

John Evers — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:28:28 -0000

This is great Laura. Your's is the only site I have found that tracks foursquare check-ins like this. It's fascinating.

Re: Rethinking my literature review

Marthawelch79 — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:01:35 -0000

I am really enjoying your blog, it has provided me an immense information I was searching for months. I am working on my literature review and it seems that with your blog's help,I will come up wiht a perfect review.Regards

Re: Review of literature first complete draft rewrite

LauraH — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:29:44 -0000

Tennis players are also very active on Twitter. There are some weird differences with how individual sports vs. team sports operate and that is hard to address in something like this...

Re: Review of literature first complete draft rewrite

Adelaide La Blanche-Dupont — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 04:30:09 -0000

There's a key point!

"Until the rise of the Internet [my emphasis: specific timelines? general point?] sports fandom was mediated through three perspectives: managers, media, sponsors".

Great quotes from Solon and a good example about the Chicago Cubs. The Chicago Clubs example shows in a fan-friendly form why you might barrack for your team.

Identity and relationships are strongly presented: events are not, even though they might be more tangible. The time element worked well in the Canberra Raiders jersey paragraph.

This paragraph is very revealing of where the research has been and is going:

<quote>Online analysis of sport fans may provide the best insight into how fans respond to events though little actual research appears to have been done to provide such insight. Berg and Harcourt (2008) talk about how analysis of sport fandom online offers what cannot be done in other situations: providing context for sport fan behavior. Berg and Harcourt (2008) also claim that studying sport fandom online also helps to give a “more well-rounded understanding of sports fandom and its expression by illuminating new areas for understanding and for studying both online and offline fandom.” Behaviors, not identity issues, connect to actions, and thus can be better understood in context of events that behaviors happen in response to.</quote> [Hale 2011].

Sports scholars and fans treat the element of time very differently based on their other focuses. (like identity, relationships, behaviour).

An example of Favorito's point came when I was looking at Wimbledon results on sites for WTA players (like Dellacqua; Stosur and Dokic). Stosur lost in the first round; Dokic was still there as of the second; Dellacqua was injured. I noticed that they were all made by a company called Pro Tennis Internet Services, and I was impressed with the way they captured the individual spirit of the players (Australian and non-Australian) and allowed opportunities for fan interaction. I had not seen it in this sport before 2008 and only with Venus and Serena Williams. Now an example of time would be relative contributions during Slam and non-Slam events. For example, the July calendar between Wimbledon and the US Open looks dry to a casual, moderately knowledgeable, not overly interested in hard court style and strategy fan; but I observed that Sania Mirza has had a US tour in April 2011. Svetlana Kuztensova also has a calendar of events, which I was able to connect to LiveJournal.

There were four tennis stories in today's Herald-Sun. Tennis has classically been dependent on the media; however Tennis Australia [managers] have become much more active especially in the last 24-36 months. [Probably an example of the medium-term priorities!]

Re: Rethinking my literature review

Adelaide La Blanche-Dupont — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:29:20 -0000

Glad to see sport sociology in there and that as the first thing.

There were only 4 fields before.

"Fans and the media" probably does fit in well in the narrative between "Sport marketing" and "Popular culture".

Athletics is very similar to cycling in that the goal is participation, especially for young people and for charity (this could come into sports sociology).

This rewriting is exciting because it seems that nobody else has done it in this way. That's what a dissertation is all about: crystallising knowledge and experience and putting new knowledge into the field.

Sport tourism: think about the Grand Final, and big events... It is even more important for smaller events.

Re: Sport studies: Where do fans fit into the academic model?

Adelaide La Blanche-Dupont — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:24:46 -0000

Yes!

Timelines and conflict are very important.

They could serve as a way to organise the dissertation.

As for "where fans fit", just reading the title, "We don't".

Good points on sport tourism and sport marketing.

Re: About

Laura — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:04:57 -0000

Will add you to the list. Just haven't posted it in a while because been busy. :/

Re: About

Donna — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 23:35:11 -0000

Hi, I randomly came across your article on "Most popular female Australian athletes and teams on Twitter".. and you said to let you know if you missed anyone out.. I think you missed me out, I'm a proffessional squash player. Also, one of my best friends is one of Aus's top ironwomen in surf life saving - Alyce Bennett. Just thought I'd let you know anyway :)
Donna Urquhart.

Re: Popular cultures studies is not the right approach to understanding sport fandom online

LauraH — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:01:59 -0000

If a movie was already out on DVD and the television rights had already been sold, I don't think that a movie being stripped of its Oscar would have any impact on fandom in terms of its reflection back on the needs of the producers and their ability to make money. Depending on how long ago the source was released, I 'd think the fan reaction might be less just because people would have moved on. (Which might be a point worth looking into if I can find a source: Length of time in a fandom.)

I think the sport literature makes it clear that sport allegiances are tied up into identity and the body total of popular cultures towards fandom is about production. Just seems very apple/orange.

Re: Popular cultures studies is not the right approach to understanding sport fandom online

Adelaide La Blanche-Dupont — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:45:46 -0000

Some great points especially inherited allegiances and the production aspect of sport.

In literary awards at least, all texts may be held as "not good enough" for that particular year according to the award's criteria. Or the author/producer might decline that award, like Jean-Paul Sartre and the Nobel Prize.

(I too wonder about the Oscars and what might happen if the awards got stripped).

Does sport have an impact on core personal identity and behaviour that popular culture doesn't? How do you meditate that in the research methodology?

Re: Most popular Australian (and New Zealand) netball related Twitter accounts (March 23)

Adelaide La Blanche-Dupont — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:52:27 -0000

Is Cranbourne really in New South Wales?