Re: [Foundation-l] help.wikimedia.org - QA site

2012-04-07 Thread Jan Kučera
FD seem to collect lots of crappy feedback... Why WMF promis always think a wiki interface will save the world? It definitely will not, because newbies will never touch this interface... and this is a BIG BIG problem nobody wants to acknowledge. We do need services that are easier to use than a

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

2012-04-06 Thread Jan Kučera
languages for concepts we are lacking.  For all I know this might mean something slightly different in French!) On Apr 5, 2012, at 4:42 PM, Jan Kučera kozuc...@gmail.com wrote: You are still doomed as WMF with your new job probram unless you allow remote work or start a reasonable grant

[Foundation-l] help.wikimedia.org - QA site

2012-04-06 Thread Jan Kučera
Hi there, new projects suck, because there are (close to) none asked some time ago already with few positive replies bug was already filled at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29923 is there someone who can help move on? not really expecting tremendous action(s), but just giving

Re: [Foundation-l] help.wikimedia.org - QA site

2012-04-06 Thread Jan Kučera
, April 6, 2012, K. Peachey wrote: On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Jan Kučera kozuc...@gmail.comjavascript:; wrote: new projects suck, because there are (close to) none Well propose a non sucky one then? TBH I don't class a QA site really as a new project. Since that bug (if memory serves

Re: [Foundation-l] help.wikimedia.org - QA site

2012-04-06 Thread Jan Kučera
with this project from a third-party wiki and MediaWiki developer perspective. -greg aka varnent On Apr 6, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Jan Kučera kozuc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, new projects suck, because there are (close to) none

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

2012-04-05 Thread Jan Kučera
You are still doomed as WMF with your new job probram unless you allow remote work or start a reasonable grant-program to general public... you will never find the best talents in a limited space... (mainly US now) go to the full globe instead... 2012/3/28 birgitte...@yahoo.com: It seems to me

Re: [Foundation-l] A fundraiser for editors

2012-01-03 Thread Jan Kučera
Full support here! 2012/1/3 Pharos pharosofalexand...@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Przykuta przyk...@o2.pl wrote: I agree cities are probably better, but I don't think that's really the best place to start editing Wikipedia either, because it's an area where it's really

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia's secret wikis

2011-12-30 Thread Jan Kučera
I see following wikis hold secred information: http://internal.wikimedia.org http://office.wikimedia.org http://board.wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can NOT freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment.