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Thu 8 May 2014 8:04AM

Are we giving credit where credit is due?

SY Stuart Yeates Public Seen by 10

There are a ton of great looking people in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:New_Zealand_scientists almost none of whom seem to get talked about. Should we be talking more about our great scientists (living and dead)? Which ones?

TM

Tim McNamara Fri 23 May 2014 5:51AM

Tags on each post should be fine. Once we get a few posts up, we can create different views, etc.

TM

Tim McNamara Fri 23 May 2014 5:56AM

For house style, I recommend 4 sentences max, ideally a photo (we can be somewhat looser than Wikipedia re licencing), quite factual. Younger intended audience.

I am interested in the 'shareable' narrative, whereas I think that Stuart is interested in making sure that there is a 'discoverable' narrative. Discoverability is aided by being thorough with categorisation. Shareable is helped with imagery and terseness.

For live researchers, I recommend linking to their homepages where possible.

If we find lots of info, then I would add references to the Wikipedia's talk page. I wouldn't want our articles to become too biographical.

SY

Stuart Yeates Sat 24 May 2014 10:42AM

My email is syeates@gmail.com

I think we should be linking (a) to the most audience appropriate further reading and (b) to the sources used in the our writeup (which may or may not be the same).

SY

Stuart Yeates Mon 2 Jun 2014 8:39PM

Thanks for the invite @kimberleycollins. Looks like it requires flash, so I'll have to find a browser that supports that.