Wikimedians of Colorado is proud to announce we've published our report
for the past year. See it here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/Annual_Report_2019
I'd make a joke about it being the world's shortest report, but I'm sure
we'll really outdo ourselves wi
I've submitted my final report for the third grant-funded round of
WikiProject X.
This round of the project was intended to see through finalising current
development in order to fully deploy CollaborationKit, a MediaWiki
extension intended to overhaul how users maintain and interact with
Wik
Are there any plans to add ticket options that are more affordable,
especially for volunteers?
Even with Early Bird discount, $270 is... a lot, frankly (and after
today, $375). Prior to Montreal two years ago (Cape Town last year was
also similarly expensive), the registration cost of Wikimani
On 16/05/2019 23:29, Joseph Fox wrote:
Maybe let's not turn this into a debate about what epistemology is.
Would this really be the Wikimedia we all know and love if we didn't?
Regardless, I'm glad Sati took the time to write this up. I thought it
was an excellent description of just how trul
Hello from Colorado!
We're happy to present our annual report for the past year! Please see:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/Annual_Report_2018
We may be scattered across something like five totally different cities,
but we do stuff.
Thanks, all! For the W
Also apt to be useful information for other affiliates - oh, they did or
didn't do blah and it added up to serious problems; we've been heading
in that sort of direction too and should probably stop, or similar -
often it's things we can all learn from, so if presented as such and
handled consi
Hey all,
The Wikimedians of Colorado User group has published our annual report
for 2017, so please check it out here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/Annual_Report_2017
Thanks!
-I
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Sorry, I apparently replied to the wrong mailing list.
On 14/08/18 18:19, Isarra Yos wrote:
As a total random, I'd also like to second this - as much as I think
the CoC and the committee in particular have room to improve in how
things are handled, this will never happen without proper su
As a total random, I'd also like to second this - as much as I think the
CoC and the committee in particular have room to improve in how things
are handled, this will never happen without proper support for the work
they're doing in the first place.
While some of us have been somewhat flabberg
Is there any way for us (others outside the team) to file bulk
tasks/apply fixes to this? Is the source in gerrit/tasks tracked in
phabricator, or is it somewhere else?
-I
On 02/08/18 01:51, Gregory Varnum wrote:
Hello,
After many months of work by over 100 individuals around the organizatio
Hey all,
For anyone not familiar, the Timeless skin has been available as an
option on Wikimedia wikis since november or so, and development of the
skin is now being funded by a Project Grant. If you're interested in
receiving updates about this, I've created a newsletter which should be
goin
On 10/06/18 05:01, Natacha Rault wrote:
Have a nice day, I have just bought myself a canoe kayak, which is the only way
for me not to get entangled in contributing on a bright sunny day.
I cant bring my computer on the river!
Yes you can, if you have the money for it. They make waterproof comp
Hey all,
I'm pleased to announce a proposed followup for WikiProject X, a project
previously funded by an Individual Engagement Grant. I have now
submitted a Project Grant, according to the new system, with which I
intend to complete and fully assess the development of CollaborationKit,
the e
Hey all,
As many of you know, the Timeless skin was deployed for testing across
all Wikimedia projects in late November last year. I submitted a Project
Grant proposal at the time seeking funding to more actively support for
this deployment as well as enable further development based on user
This is a great way for them to ensure the rest of the world sees those
articles. Sort of. Bit inconveniencing to everyone actually IN Turkey...
-I
On 30/04/17 12:40, geni wrote:
FWIW the two articles the Turkish state is apparently complaining about are:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-s
media Polska
pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tar_Lócesilion
<http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tar_L%C3%B3cesilion>
On 1 April 2017 at 05:18, Isarra Yos wrote:
I'm a bit confused what you're asking. My proposal should be covering
exactly what I aim to achieve. What, specifically, is u
that helps in determining this you have a
reason for another skin, a skin that will achieve greater quality for
multiple projects. The only question I have is how your skin would work for
other projects.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 29 March 2017 at 04:01, Isarra Yos wrote:
Hi,
I'm Isarra, a
Hi,
I'm Isarra, a volunteer MediaWiki developer, and I've submitted a grant
proposal to the WMF to support my work on a new responsive skin designed
for the Wikimedia projects, Timeless:
* Abstract: A new skin, Timeless, has been deployed to the Beta Cluster,
but to make it worth eventual de
Two things: VE has gotten really easy to install, as long as you don't
need the full restbase server (not going into that, not going into that,
not going into that). Which is really cool for third-party projects and
such.
Also a pair of ladies with no prior experience or affiliation with
Wiki
On 09/03/17 20:36, Antoine Musso wrote:
The RfC has been going on for almost two years already. Given the flood
of announces on a wide range of mailing lists, I don't see how one could
have missed it.
The flood might be exactly how. Keep being inundated with notices, many
people are likely to
On 26/02/17 18:21, MZMcBride wrote:
Then you and others should have no problem providing specific examples.
I'd like to see links to Gerrit changesets and Phabricator tasks where
this new policy and its committee would help. If you want to make claims
of serious unacknowledged problems, substanti
asked to help identify and resolve the major pain points - after
doing research, we agreed in conjunction with the design group that we
should pursue clarifying the purpose of design and validate it with their
stakeholders.
Does this answer your questions?
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 12:24 PM Isarra Y
I'm going to ask this here since the talkpage on-wiki is a flow board
and I find those very difficult to use, but I'm a bit unclear what the
purpose of this is. All the things listed sound good in theory, but the
language is ambiguous and very high level, to the point where it's hard
to see how
On a slow desktop connection, lazy-loading is generally the opposite of
what you want - unlike mobile, there's usually no data limit, it just
takes awhile getting the data. A common pattern is thus to start a large
page loading and then do something else, or just wait for it to finish
then. It'
He isn't asking Dariusz to leave the board, but the position of chair of
a particular committee on it. While I have no idea if this is called for
either, it seems an important distinction.
-I
On 03/05/16 04:23, Anthony Cole wrote:
Fae, I can see no reason for Dariusz to leave the board. He se
Oh, so we should actually start doing stuff? Oh dear.
I mean, we do stuff. Of course we do stuff.
And thanks everyone!
On 07/03/16 03:18, Alex Wang wrote:
Congrats! Excited to learn more about your activities.
Cheers,
Alex
On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Sydney Poore wrote:
Congratulatio
Interestingly, having them every other year would make it potentially
viable for an entirely new community group to start putting on their own
wikimanias, essentially forking the process.
On 09/02/16 07:01, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
I positively HATE the notion that Wikimania will be once ev
This:
On 20/01/16 10:41, Jane Darnell wrote:
Moving forward, more attention must be paid to documenting existing reader
and editor workflows, gnarly as this may sound to achieve. Once done
however, optimization of such workflows should be much, much easier. After
viewing that video from Mexico W
You just don't get it, do you? Even from the start this was all about
social issues with rollouts, and still you are contributing to the very
same social problems you so blindly condemned.
-I
On 20/01/16 14:16, Magnus Manske wrote:
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:58 AM Todd Allen wrote:
Once th
On 29/12/15 07:37, MZMcBride wrote:
Right, that part isn't surprising. But discounting the unsurprising vote,
it was a nearly unanimous decision (8 to 1). I have a good deal of respect
for many of the current Board of Trustees members and I have no doubt that
all of them understand and appreciate
On 24/11/15 09:47, Asaf Bartov wrote:
On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 1:37 AM, Fæ wrote:
Brandon's description of this looking like a 'kiss off', i.e. a spin
to make this disappear for another year, seems to meet the facts of
what can be observed and measured in a non-subjective way.
Yes. I encoura
I had a go at simplifying:
> We know spending less time on this is a problem, but we're going to
try to do better. In order to help with this, we'll also be looking at
what's happened in previous years in order to see where things fell
short then, comparing that to what the FDC standards say s
Isaac David makes good points, and writing it off as racist and
discrimination is ridiculous. The people who did these things may indeed
be bloodlusty assholes, but what led them to this is important too, and
denying that will only ensure that it is not understood, not addressed.
I don't care i
the building (coding) of interactive prototypes.
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Isarra Yos <mailto:zhoris...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Er, forgot to cc the main list, since I did cross-post in the
first place.
Sorry about that!
On 10/11/15 22:25, Isarra Yos wrote:
H
Er, forgot to cc the main list, since I did cross-post in the first place.
Sorry about that!
On 10/11/15 22:25, Isarra Yos wrote:
Hi, thank you for your response. This does clarify a lot.
Why do you make the distinction that UX designers also do visual when
you stated already that you also
From time to time I see references to the 'design team' on lists and on
phabricator. But what does this really mean now? As I understood it, the
previous monolithic Design Team was essentially disbanded toward the
beginning of the year, with the designers themselves distributed amongst
the othe
This is actually a good point in general. There are the average users,
who are important and then some, but there are always other use cases
too. Even if we can't reasonably support them, they're still there and
still merit considering, if nothing else, and without stories like these
we'd proba
On 14/01/15 04:01, Keegan Peterzell wrote:
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Ricordisamoa
wrote:
Sounds like just another enwiki-specific thing.
That's a reasonable assumption. I'm only guessing, but I think the project
is based on the English Wikipedia because that's the area where the
These are important points, and well said. Thank you.
-I
On 10/01/15 07:41, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
I do not care one whit who you are or why you think you are provoked. What
I care about is arguments that are put cleanly without much fanfare. When
you think that you have permission to be
On 08/01/15 20:04, Austin Hair wrote:
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Risker wrote:
Frankly, there's not a single thing I've read, or a single objection I've
seen raised, that wasn't about how unnecessary it is to focus on women. I
don't think we've ever heard that about the global south, or n
I'm just going to preface this by pointing out that I didn't actually
read all of the OP due to a philosophical opposition to giant walls of
text, but I think you've kind of missed the point in a few places.
Also please don't call people names. That's not nice.
On 08/01/15 10:52, geni wrote:
On 11/09/14 22:06, Pete Forsyth wrote:
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Alice Wiegand wrote:
Is this really a discussion about the name of a conference or is it more a
discussion about inclusion and exclusion with the underlying question if
this conference, which once was set up as a meeting f
On 11/09/14 18:42, Ilario Valdelli wrote:
On 11.09.2014 20:06, James Forrester wrote:
On 11 September 2014 10:52, Ilario Valdelli wrote:
Against the funds of WMF.
A second conference open to the public would be a second yearly
Wikimania,
and to open it means to have a budget more or less e
On 06/09/14 17:06, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
On 09/06/2014 12:34 PM, Isarra Yos wrote:
if the designers do not even understand the basic principles behind a
wiki, how can what is developed possibly suit our needs?
You're starting from the presumption that, for some unexplained r
On 06/09/14 07:41, Erik Moeller wrote:
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Isarra Yos wrote:
Why in the world would posts not be editable? I've never used a platform
where discussion was important in which users couldn't at least edit their
own posts (along with mods) where the la
On 06/09/14 06:13, Erik Moeller wrote:
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Risker wrote:
The major deficiencies that have long been identified in the current
discussion system (and that can be addressed by technology) are all able to
be addressed in MediaWiki software or by extensions. Automatic s
On 02/09/14 10:56, Ricordisamoa wrote:
Il 26/08/2014 12:18, Craig Franklin ha scritto:
The editor retention problem will not be solved with technological
gizmos
and doodads, nor with top-down solutions imposed from above. It will be
solved with positive human contact and creating a collaborati
On 21/08/14 13:24, Risker wrote:
On 21 August 2014 09:18, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
For me the conclusion would be not that we should drop them altogether in
the mobile version (most of them are useful navigation means after all) but
that the mobile version should be improved to parse them a
On 14/08/14 16:07, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
This is actually not correct. Take pending changes on the English
Wikipedia as an example - people used to complain a lot on how RfC's
were closed, but this is the business of the community. I have never
heard anybody complaining that the trial suck
I got a 404 too.
On 09/08/14 14:57, Alex Monk wrote:
Not for me...
On 9 August 2014 15:27, svetlana wrote:
On Sat, 9 Aug 2014, at 23:11, James Forrester wrote:
[..]
https://imgur.com/a/JFN9y
404
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On 14/07/14 15:11, Quim Gil wrote:
On Thursday, July 3, 2014, Isarra Yos wrote:
What can we, as volunteers, do when we believe staff have gone too far
(besides create drama on a mailing list)?
It depends on the area and the problem, but there are enough WMF employees
with public exposure
I don't really have anything to add, but I think Fae makes some good
points here.
On 12/07/14 08:04, Fæ wrote:
On 12/07/2014, Russavia wrote:
...
the door completely with their backdoor continued accusations which are
made without a shred of proof.
Referring to Richard's post, the general li
On 10/07/14 18:01, David Gerard wrote:
On 10 July 2014 17:36, Isarra Yos wrote:
And those who do log in, edit, and comment on RfCs generally do so with the
understanding, on some level, that everything they do, that the entire
encyclopedia, is for the readers, because without an audience
On 10/07/14 15:53, Brion Vibber wrote:
Perhaps it's time to stop calling self-selected surveys of a tiny subset of
our user base "community consensus".
The vast majority of our user base never logs in, never edits, and never
even hears about these RfC pages. Those are the people we're making an
On 03/07/14 18:16, Pine W wrote:
In the past, this mailing list has been used for discussions of staff
conduct, which I am not sure is the best idea when identifiable people are
involved. I suggest that a first line of approach would be to discuss the
matter civilly with the people directly invol
Hey, all. Bit of a question, here.
Basically, how does "comment on the content, not the contributor" apply
to staff and contractors? What can we, as volunteers, do when we believe
staff have gone too far (besides create drama on a mailing list)?
In many of our communities, we have a saying:
On 07/06/14 06:36, Risker wrote:
Yep, I'm not happy with that particular quote. But you know what? It was
a set-up. Any reporter worth her salt attending a conference like this
knows how to spot the person in the room that will give them the story they
want to tell, and this is what happened he
On 02/06/14 20:14, Andy Mabbett wrote:
On 2 June 2014 19:39, Ed Erhart wrote:
There is one person in charge of making the final calls of every issue—me.
This is troubling, Wikipedia is supposed to be an open,
community-driven initiative.
We've seen problems in the past with single-person gat
On 20/04/14 11:50, Liangent wrote:
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Amir E. Aharoni, 20/04/2014 08:39:
Silly technical remark: Everybody, please stop doing this with
parentheses.
It breaks in right to left languages. Gary-WMF is just as readable, and
doesn't have
Why not? People know what the words 'read' and 'only' mean. Putting them
together should be pretty self explanatory: It can only be read.
On 10/03/14 22:32, Michael Peel wrote:
Probably not. How about 'archived'?
Thanks,
Mike
On 10 Mar 2014, at 22:22, User Mono wrote:
Closed isn't the best
Who exactly would the webmaster of fi.wikipedia.org even be?
On 08/02/14 00:24, Kevin Gorman wrote:
My Finnish is hardly perfect, but the letter essentially outlines the
Finnish law regarding what is and what isn't money collection activities,
and then compares what goes on with fi.wikipedia.org
On 13/01/14 20:37, Risker wrote:
Of course there already exists a way to thank IP
editors. It is to go to their talk page and leave them a message that says
"Thanks for your edit here [link to diff]." It is far more personal, far
more likely to encourage the user to edit further (and maybe crea
On 10/01/14 19:21, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
These are two reason we don't have Thanks for anonymous editors:
1. Anonymous editors don't get notifications
2. Multiple editors often share the same IP address
Problem #2 isn't as prominent as it use to be, but there are still many
large companies and scho
On 10/12/13 14:57, David Gerard wrote:
True. However, do read the blog post on the need for caution in
answering such concerns with metrics.
- d.
And it's an excellent point to bring up. While I'm sure the fundraising
team tries to keep in mind the balance between analytics results and and
l
On 30/10/13 16:32, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
* Risker wrote:
Just to clarify, since UTC is a confusing time for most of us...is
that the minute after 2359 UTC on November 2 (i.e., 7 hours after the first
session), or is it the minute after 2359 UTC on November 3?
I've seen it used both ways
Employees have a separate wiki specifically for employee things. The
foundationwiki is different from that, serving as a forefront to the
movement itself, something which we are all a part of - and that admin
access should be reflecting people's specific type of association with
the movement do
Woot!
On 06/05/13 17:44, Erik Moeller wrote:
Hi folks,
It’s my great pleasure to announce that today, Jared Zimmerman will
start as Wikimedia Foundation’s Director of User Experience. As UX
Director, Jared will lead the design team and have a hands-on role on
the team, contributing his own desi
I agree that a restyle is in order, but I'd advise against using this,
at least in its current form, due to usability problems presented by the
contrast. Solid black background, white foreground, and grey text all
add up to eyestrain, and on lower-quality monitors it can make the grey
text quit
One needn't stick around to establish and maintain a working framework
for such - continuity and knowledge-transfer sounds rather like
consistency and maintainability of code, where if it is well set up and
documented anyone can reasonably pick up where someone else left off.
So to ensure that
It's odd, but I think I'm glad - not so much that you're leaving, but
where you're going, what you intend to do... somehow I find that
comforting...
On 27/03/13 22:00, Sue Gardner wrote:
Hello Wikimedia community members,
This is not an easy e-mail to write, and it’s been a very hard
decision
On 23/03/13 21:49, Everton Zanella Alvarenga wrote:
The India Education Program was really useful for my learnings before
I started coordinating the education program in Brazil. Without them,
I could have made similar mistakes. And this is one really important
thing about the nature of Wikimedia
On 20/03/13 21:09, James Alexander wrote:
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Isarra Yos wrote:
On the other hand, how hard could it be to just write an extension to
integrate a wordpress database and interface into a mediawiki? Call it a
new namespace on the mediawiki end, and... uh... horrible
On the other hand, how hard could it be to just write an extension to
integrate a wordpress database and interface into a mediawiki? Call it a
new namespace on the mediawiki end, and... uh... horrible things on the
wordpress end...
I was going to say that if I had enough spare time I could pro
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