Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not Foundation) matters

2012-04-04 Thread Lodewijk
I don't know if this makes sense, so I beg your patience for my ignorance. But would it be an option to duplicate the archive? Then both the old and the new links will work. It would be a Great Pity if the new list would not contain the archive of the old list. Best, Lodewijk No dia 4 de Abril

Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not Foundation) matters

2012-04-04 Thread Thehelpfulone
On 3 April 2012 07:04, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:37 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Will the archives be permanently split? Probably -- advanced mailman surgeries carry a high risk of fatal mistakes (e.g. we have a fancy pipermail URL alias,

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-04 Thread Lodewijk
I totally second SJ's poke for more new projects! Although our flagship project is highly successful, it would be good if we try to keep creating new communities. I have been sad for quite a while now that we don't create new projects any more. It would be great to see one new project every year

Re: [Foundation-l] first Wikidata office hour on IRC

2012-04-04 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Hey :) just a quick reminder that the english one will be in about 23 hours. Cheers Lydia On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Lydia Pintscher lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de wrote: Hi everyone! Next week the Wikidata team will be complete and start working at full speed. Finally! \o/  I will be

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-04 Thread Jürgen Fenn
Am 3. April 2012 22:22 schrieb Samuel Klein sjkl...@hcs.harvard.edu: Ziko: what would a WMF evaluation of Wikinews or Wikispecies say? Should we shut down such a project... cease to mention it on Wikipedia main pages... or invest money in promoting it? Good questions, subtle answers.  

[Foundation-l] WMF Engineering org charts

2012-04-04 Thread Erik Moeller
Hi folks, as I mentioned in a response to Liam the other day, we've been working on having org charts generated in a more automatic, scalable form. A contractor, Mark Holmquist, has been working on an open source tool for this the last few weeks to do this. It's still highly experimental. In

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF Engineering org charts

2012-04-04 Thread George Herbert
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi folks, as I mentioned in a response to Liam the other day, we've been working on having org charts generated in a more automatic, scalable form. ... Thank you for that. On a meta-question that raises - there are a lot

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF Engineering org charts

2012-04-04 Thread Erik Moeller
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:45 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: Has this been an observed issue within the WMF? In some areas. In my view, a well-functioning agile team is self-organizing and self-managed, and it's a manager's job to primarily set that team up for success, hire

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-04 Thread Pharos
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: I totally second SJ's poke for more new projects! Although our flagship project is highly successful, it would be good if we try to keep creating new communities. I have been sad for quite a while now that we don't

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process (James Heilman)

2012-04-04 Thread James Heilman
I would love to see two specific proposals taken up. One is The Wikipedia Journal as discussed here http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Journal_%28A_peer-review_journal_to_allow/encourage_academics_to_write_Wikipedia_articles%29 Currently working on corporate partners for this. And the

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF Engineering org charts

2012-04-04 Thread George Herbert
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:45 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: Has this been an observed issue within the WMF? In some areas. In my view, a well-functioning agile team is self-organizing and self-managed,

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-04 Thread Carlos Felipe Antonorsi
Hi everyone, I'm new on the list and this is my fist email, but I've been reading for a while(I'm from es.wiki). I support what Jürgen said, Most of the Wikimedia projects are not very popular (with the exception of Wikipedia and maybe commons). I talk about what I've read and listened to people

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-04 Thread John Vandenberg
The policies of each project are different for a very good reason. e.g. If English Wikiquote was merged into English Wikipedia, the vast majority of the quote pages would be deleted very quickly, for good or ill. I know I would be the first to get out the sickle. :P On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:22

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF Engineering org charts

2012-04-04 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 5 April 2012 02:05, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:45 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: Has this been an observed issue within the WMF? In some areas. In my view, a well-functioning agile team is self-organizing and self-managed, and it's