We've got an advisory up now:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/14/ads-on-wikipedia-your-computer-infected-malware/
Please don't hesitate to respond to tweets complaining about ads with
a link to this blog post.
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
Su
This is a pretty exciting project for those of you who care about offline
content distribution. It's text only for now, but very cool:
http://offline-wiki.googlecode.com/git/app.html
In modern browsers, this gives you access to the most popular
WParticles offline without any additional software.
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On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote:
> Some of you might have followed the recent improvement with Artcle Feedback
> Tool v5 (AFTv5) , for those who didnt please read[1]. Even before reading
> the entire page, something struck me. The design is strangely synonymous
> with I
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Bala Jeyaraman wrote:
> So stating the truth is being unconstructive?. You could have rolled this
> out in phases or as a "dark launch" as you are contemplating now, done more
> testing and saved us all this bitterness and trouble. Instead you decided to
> go liv
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Bala Jeyaraman wrote:
> Agree with Srikanth on WebFonts. We at the Tamil Wiki projects have already
> tried the webfonts out and found the Lohit Tamil - the font available via
> webFonts extension has serious readability/rendering issues in most
> operating systems
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote:
> Tamil Wiki Community is currently organizing a 3 month long media
> contest[1][2] with the aim of increasing media files related to Tamil /
> Tamilians / Tamil culture to be used in Tamil Wiki Projects and
> encouraging non-text contrib
The Mumbai hackathon was awesome and really productive, with lots of
improvements to internationalization, mobile (including SMS delivery)
and offline content distribution. Thanks to everyone on this list who
came out. If you did, please add links to your work product here:
https://www.mediawiki.o
Well said, Hisham, Srikeit at al. Nobody's asking for rah-rah
excitement. Being dispassionate and critical is the goal. Being
hostile and dickish is unhelpful -- there's no possible useful end
that could serve.
So: If you're adding more heat than light to a conversation, please
don't join the conv
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Bala Jeyaraman wrote:
> This sums up the problem of the IEP - designed by people clueless about how
> en wiki works and run by "campus ambassadors" who view wikipedia as a giant
> sandbox to play with students.
Speaking of playing in sandboxes, just for you, a n
Thought some of you might be interested in these developments :-)
We'll be doing lots of additional mobile hacking at the India
Hackathon this week:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011
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Date: Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Hisham wrote:
> Announcement of Wikimedia India Program Trust
Congratulations, Hisham. I know this has been a lot of work for you
and the team over the last few months. I look forward to seeing the
programs that the trust and the chapter develop together.
There's
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Akshay Agarwal
wrote:
> Hi Erik,
> Thanks for putting up the form. I am having a problem with the
> last field 'Are you attending WikiConference India 2011 on Friday 18
> November? *
Silly form! Should be fixed now, thanks for the report :)
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Erik
Hello all!
Please note that registration for the India Hackathon, taking place
adjacent to the WikiConference India, is now open. We do not require
payment, but we may need to limit attendance, so please tell us why
you'd like to come and what you'd like to work on :-)
The form is on Google Docs
As GerardM noted the other day, we're planning a hackathon adjacent to
the WikiConference in Mumbai.
We'd love feedback on some logo ideas that one of our designers put
together, particularly with an eye to picking a design that resonates
with the largest number of people without triggering any pa
Fantastic news - a warm welcome to both of you. :-)
A small team, with the help of our vast community of volunteers, can
make a huge difference. Really excited to see what you will come up
with.
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Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundati
Thanks Santhosh!
Since one of the questions on people's mind here is going to be: Are
you considering remote candidates for those jobs? In general, the
answer is: If you're really, really, really good, we can probably find
a way to make it happen, either as a remote role, or by providing
support f
A very warm welcome to the movement, Hisham. :-) I really enjoyed our
first conversations and am looking forward to doing what I can to help
you succeed. The India community is amazing and I think you will
greatly enjoy the passion, energy and intellect that are there. I
can't wait to see how much
2011/2/7 A Kumaran
> But let me just clarify the reasons for adding the comment snippet so we
> could track
> the articles that were changed by contributors using the tool, and to track
> if any of the
> changes made by the tool actually were reverted ultimately.
As has been suggested, adding a
Awesome project! Good luck with the first uploads. Let us know if you
need help working with the Wikimedia Commons community to make this a
successful project, I'm sure the experienced Wikimedians on this list
as well as the community dept. at WMF would be happy to help in case
there are any proble
Looking for something to read on my flight to Delhi, I saw a magazine called
"Digit" with 3 DVDs for 250 Rs. On one of the DVDs was the Wikimedia logo,
so I had to check it out.
Turns out that the DVD contained a small number of featured pictures from
Wikimedia Commons. One of the other DVDs had a
Hi folks,
Unfortunately my flight out of Bangalore leaves at 520 on Saturday, so I am
planning to leave the city around 230. The meetup on Saturday is currently
scheduled for 3PM. I'd hate to miss all of it, so I hope some folks can make
it early. I will plan to be there at 130 or so.
This only a
Hello India Wikimedians!
Time is getting short for organizing Wikipedia 10th anniversary
events. January 15, 2011 will not come again - it's a
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be there as Wikipedia marks this big
milestone. :-). If you manage to put together an event, you may still
be able to get
LOL - note that we're not giving any interviews during this trip. This
is cobbled together from a conversation at a meetup yesterday, and
only bears some remote resemblance to anything I actually said :-).
But it's not too bad, except for the "staff checking things round the
clock" part ;-)
Erik
Hi all,
this is just to update you all on an upcoming visit to India by Danese
Cooper, Alolita Sharma, and myself. Danese is our Chief Technical
Officer, and Alolita program-manages the features development team.
I'm the Deputy Director and also responsible for our product strategy.
The purpose o
Achal,
congratulations - this is an amazing debut! When you're ready to
"officially" disseminate it, can I ask you to send a note to
WikimediaAnnounce-l (at) lists (dot) wikimedia (dot) org?
Thanks!
Erik
2010/9/24 Achal Prabhala :
> Greetings,
>
> On behalf of Shiju Alex, here is... the first e
2010/8/10 Ravishankar :
> Eric,
> Good tool.
> Can this be used to display banners country wide or state wide?
> Many Indian Wikipedian users don't even know about the existance of regional
> language Wikipedias. So, if we can display a banner at the top giving links
> to regional Wikipedias, it wi
Hello all,
we're experimenting with geolocation tools. For the purpose of
supporting the coordination of meetups and events, we want to add
functionality that will make it easy to run banners in a particular
region (e.g. a city and surrounding area).
To do so, we need to license a database that w
2010/2/5 Ganesh Krishnamurthy :
> We have to make it easier for participants to upload the photos and
> release them under CC. Commons upload tool is too complicated for a
> novice. Flickr copyrights photos by default. People forget to set the
> copyright to CC or tag them correctly.
>
> My suggest
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