Re: [Wikimedia-l] ELWP reaches 100000 articles
Outstanding. Well done everyone. On 10 April 2014 06:39, Nurunnaby Chowdhury n...@nhasive.com wrote: Wow..congratulations.. -- Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive Sysop, Bengali Wikipedia Member, IEG Committee Sent from my Android Tablet On Apr 10, 2014 3:19 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Callooh! Callay! Congratulations to the language that gave so many other languages[1] the word Encyclopedia. [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5292#sitelinks-wikipedia -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2014-04-10 0:13 GMT+03:00 Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org: Dear colleagues, Please join me in congratulating our colleagues of the Greek Wikipedia, upon reaching 10 articles, a symbolic milestone for Wikipedias. Some of them are on this list, but a lot more people would see and appreciate your message on-wiki, so you can sign and (if you like) add a message in your language, here: https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CF%85%CE%B6%CE%AE%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B7_%CE%92%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B9%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1:100.000_%CE%BB%CE%AE%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1 Cheers, Asaf -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] ELWP reaches 100000 articles
This is excellent news, well done to everyone involved! It's actually got me thinking a little. I wonder if it would be possible to do a study of the, say, 50 largest Wikipedias and get a handle on which articles are shared across all of them. This could then be used to analyse where there are gaps that might usefully be filled - both in terms of quality and content. Could be based around which articles are considered the most important in each Wikipedia, akin to the list of vital articles on EN:WP. Is this something that could easily be done? Would it be useful? Thanks and regards, Stevie On 10 April 2014 09:12, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Outstanding. Well done everyone. On 10 April 2014 06:39, Nurunnaby Chowdhury n...@nhasive.com wrote: Wow..congratulations.. -- Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive Sysop, Bengali Wikipedia Member, IEG Committee Sent from my Android Tablet On Apr 10, 2014 3:19 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Callooh! Callay! Congratulations to the language that gave so many other languages[1] the word Encyclopedia. [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5292#sitelinks-wikipedia -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2014-04-10 0:13 GMT+03:00 Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org: Dear colleagues, Please join me in congratulating our colleagues of the Greek Wikipedia, upon reaching 10 articles, a symbolic milestone for Wikipedias. Some of them are on this list, but a lot more people would see and appreciate your message on-wiki, so you can sign and (if you like) add a message in your language, here: https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CF%85%CE%B6%CE%AE%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B7_%CE%92%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B9%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1:100.000_%CE%BB%CE%AE%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1 Cheers, Asaf -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Stevie Benton Head of External Relations Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Which articles are widely shared accorss languages (was Re: ELWP reaches 100000 articles)
I'm no expert, but I would expect that finding which articles are and are not present in a given set of Wikipedias would be an easy task now that Wikidata handles all the interwiki links. Chris On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Stevie Benton wrote: This is excellent news, well done to everyone involved! It's actually got me thinking a little. I wonder if it would be possible to do a study of the, say, 50 largest Wikipedias and get a handle on which articles are shared across all of them. This could then be used to analyse where there are gaps that might usefully be filled - both in terms of quality and content. Could be based around which articles are considered the most important in each Wikipedia, akin to the list of vital articles on EN:WP. Is this something that could easily be done? Would it be useful? Thanks and regards, Stevie On 10 April 2014 09:12, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Outstanding. Well done everyone. On 10 April 2014 06:39, Nurunnaby Chowdhury n...@nhasive.com wrote: Wow..congratulations.. -- Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive Sysop, Bengali Wikipedia Member, IEG Committee Sent from my Android Tablet On Apr 10, 2014 3:19 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Callooh! Callay! Congratulations to the language that gave so many other languages[1] the word Encyclopedia. [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5292#sitelinks-wikipedia -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2014-04-10 0:13 GMT+03:00 Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org: Dear colleagues, Please join me in congratulating our colleagues of the Greek Wikipedia, upon reaching 10 articles, a symbolic milestone for Wikipedias. Some of them are on this list, but a lot more people would see and appreciate your message on-wiki, so you can sign and (if you like) add a message in your language, here: https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CF%85%CE%B6%CE%AE%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B7_%CE%92%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B9%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1:100.000_%CE%BB%CE%AE%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1 Cheers, Asaf -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Stevie Benton Head of External Relations Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe Chris
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanks to the people who made Echo, VisualEditor and Wikidata
With due thanks, I would like to specifically point to these two bugs, as I believe they're changing the style of talking unnecessarily. I would like you to see the potential for fixing these early. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49446 - Notifications: Linking a username in an Edit-Summary should trigger a notification https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30750 - Notify user when username used in an edit summary gry ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanks to the people who made Echo, VisualEditor and Wikidata
And I'd like to thank those who are working on making default settings saner, because at the last presentation I gave in March I could just tell them how easy it is for them to follow what happens to pages after their edits. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=50039maxdepth=1hide_resolved=0 (We were not able to see VisualEditor because the library doesn't have money to upgrade their Windows computers...) Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure
Hello dear all, now the second mail Funding of international operating organizations is a very complicated issue. The Wikimedia movement is not the first and not the last one to face this topic. There are as many models on how this can be handled as there are international organizations. Currently the Wikimedia movement adapted a strong centralized model with the Foundation as the only organization that does the fund distribution. In the official text it is said that the Foundation only does payment processing and the FDC does the fund distribution, I think this is misguiding. The part of money that the FDC distribute is at the end defined by the annual financial plan of the Foundation, and not by FDC itself, in this way FDC doesn't really have financial sovereignty and is only distributing a very small part of the whole movement funding. There is a long way for us to come to this model, and yes, every critics is correct who says that I am personally responsible for this model. The model was introduced and adapted during my chair's personship on the Foundation board and I defended this model during this time. I remember lively the Wikimania in Haifa and in Washington. But it doesn't mean that I cannot rethink this decision. Indeed, today I think that it is mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. As I said earlier there is a history how we got into this result. At the beginning, when WMDE was the only partner organization that did fund raising beside of WMF there was an agreement between WMDE and WMF that the amount of money raised inside of Germany (independent on who raised it) will be split 50:50 between the two organizations. In year 2009 this model was used to all organizations who wanted to do fund raising. I won't speak for anyone else, I just want to speak for myself. I was worried by the end of 2009. The reason why I was worried was the funding of WMF, not that of the chapters, especially in the light of at that time very vividly discussed WMUSA. The model we used for 2009 cut off the Foundation from half of the funds from Europe outside of Germany, especially from UK. In the light of higher funding result this was not very much a problem for the WMF, because the biggest part of the funding came from US. But in case that there would be a WMUSA and it would participate in fund raising in the same way it would mean that the WMF will lose almost half of its funding (given the case, that the fund raising target will not be raised), and I want to remind the readers that at that time the WMF budget in total was still quite low. That was my worry. Let me emphasize that it was my private thought. As I said I won't speak for anyone else. And I didn't talk with anyone in this respect. I didn't hear anyone speak out a similar concern so I take I was alone with this worry. There were no talk that I am aware of, official or unofficial, that was related to this concern. Even though at that time WMDE signaled to the Foundation that they were willing to change the 50:50 splitting in benefit to the WMF, it seemed to me still very worrisome. In the end, some other issues came up. I think all concerns that were publicly made in this context are valid. And as I said in the other mail I think that at the end it is good that we have set up those standards and all organizations inside of the movement are profitable from these standards. But I think that the end result of the whole process is a very radical centralized one. And as this it is not compatible to the value that we declared for ourselves: That our movement should be decentralized. Concrete I find a few points especially problematic with the approach we currently have: * The WMF is currently the only body that is empowered and is able to distribute the funds * The grants are limited in one year's term and doesn't really help long term development and strategy * Almost all grants are conditioned and doesn't give the partner organization the necessary freedom and financial sovereignty that a healthy independent organization needs * The lack of a from all partner organizations agreed strategy I won't say that we won't get into these issues if we have a different funding model, but I think that the current radically centralized funding model makes these problems worse and almost impossible to resolve. Even though the FDC and the GAC are run by volunteers, this does not make them the ones that really distribute the funds of the movement. The part of the funds that the FDC and the GAC can distribute, is only a very small part of the entire fund raising result. And the amount of this part is at first defined by the WMF annual planning. Even though by the annual planning the feedback of the FDC and the GAC is taken into account the final decision about the portion and amount of this part lies entirely in the measure of the WMF. So, in the end only the WMF has
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure
Ting, On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de wrote: Hello dear all, I believe you have sent this to the wrong list. I believe applications for the Executive Director position were supposed to be sent to j...@wikimedia.org ... but good luck with your application all the same ... some interesting thoughts above :) Cheers russavia ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure
Thanks for this Ting. I won't offer an opinion but this is certainly food for thought and will no doubt generate discussion. When you say Who remembers CHIP?, what are you referring to? I don't remember anything called CHIP but I was not very active in movement organisations before 2 years ago. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* On 10 April 2014 12:23, Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de wrote: Hello dear all, now the second mail Funding of international operating organizations is a very complicated issue. The Wikimedia movement is not the first and not the last one to face this topic. There are as many models on how this can be handled as there are international organizations. Currently the Wikimedia movement adapted a strong centralized model with the Foundation as the only organization that does the fund distribution. In the official text it is said that the Foundation only does payment processing and the FDC does the fund distribution, I think this is misguiding. The part of money that the FDC distribute is at the end defined by the annual financial plan of the Foundation, and not by FDC itself, in this way FDC doesn't really have financial sovereignty and is only distributing a very small part of the whole movement funding. There is a long way for us to come to this model, and yes, every critics is correct who says that I am personally responsible for this model. The model was introduced and adapted during my chair's personship on the Foundation board and I defended this model during this time. I remember lively the Wikimania in Haifa and in Washington. But it doesn't mean that I cannot rethink this decision. Indeed, today I think that it is mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. As I said earlier there is a history how we got into this result. At the beginning, when WMDE was the only partner organization that did fund raising beside of WMF there was an agreement between WMDE and WMF that the amount of money raised inside of Germany (independent on who raised it) will be split 50:50 between the two organizations. In year 2009 this model was used to all organizations who wanted to do fund raising. I won't speak for anyone else, I just want to speak for myself. I was worried by the end of 2009. The reason why I was worried was the funding of WMF, not that of the chapters, especially in the light of at that time very vividly discussed WMUSA. The model we used for 2009 cut off the Foundation from half of the funds from Europe outside of Germany, especially from UK. In the light of higher funding result this was not very much a problem for the WMF, because the biggest part of the funding came from US. But in case that there would be a WMUSA and it would participate in fund raising in the same way it would mean that the WMF will lose almost half of its funding (given the case, that the fund raising target will not be raised), and I want to remind the readers that at that time the WMF budget in total was still quite low. That was my worry. Let me emphasize that it was my private thought. As I said I won't speak for anyone else. And I didn't talk with anyone in this respect. I didn't hear anyone speak out a similar concern so I take I was alone with this worry. There were no talk that I am aware of, official or unofficial, that was related to this concern. Even though at that time WMDE signaled to the Foundation that they were willing to change the 50:50 splitting in benefit to the WMF, it seemed to me still very worrisome. In the end, some other issues came up. I think all concerns that were publicly made in this context are valid. And as I said in the other mail I think that at the end it is good that we have set up those standards and all organizations inside of the movement are profitable from these standards. But I think that the end result of the whole process is a very radical centralized one. And as this it is not compatible to the value that we declared for ourselves: That our movement should be decentralized. Concrete I find a few points especially problematic with the approach we currently have: * The WMF is currently the only body that is empowered and is able to distribute the funds * The grants are limited in one year's term and doesn't really help long term development and strategy * Almost all grants are conditioned and doesn't give the partner organization the
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure
Thanks Ting for some very interesting thoughts and for giving a few ideas of alternative set up of the movement. It ought to be a good input to the sessionre-imagine Wikipedia movement on Saturday at the Chapter Meeitng My reflection is that you are discussing a more decentralized approach, thinking todays is too centralized. But I do not see that you discuss the real radical decentralized model. Skip WMF and the Board, and let each project take care of it self including steering and financing. And as all info and software is free this can be realty momentary, if wished, the only hindrance is the use of the Logo I have in my mind worked through this for my pet project: Wikipedia for Swedish language And as far as I can see it would be doable. The cost for running that project on completely separate servers would be very moderate and the operations and board for WMSE is already a good way in professionalization and would probably be able to handle, both the issue of server operations and getting financing, a few million dollar/year would probably be enough to run both chapter and servers But would I as a committed contributer like this scenario. No (at least not for now). I am very happy that software is developed in one place to ensure it is not getting out of date. And I am happy all servers are run by one organization, bot to ensure quality but also good interconnection between the servers/project. Wikidata (as commons) also shows there are opportunistic in getting the project more integrated. Also I am very impressed in the professional way WMF runs the funding activities, and to be honest I know that even a rich country like Sweden is an net receiver of fundings from the people in US (shame on us swedes). So I have no interest of having the funding more decentralized (besides utilizing some local sponsors better). And I would be unhappy if the divergence between project became too big, POV paid editing etc we will be stronger as a totality if we abide to the same base guidelines So I question your urge and need to decentralize. For am as a contributer the most important part is that I know my inputs is securely stored and will not be misused by actors like google or plain advertising. And for this reason I believe in a centralized structure as about today (for now) Anders Ting Chen skrev 2014-04-10 13:23: Hello dear all, now the second mail ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure
Hi, Message du 10/04/14 15:28 De : Anders Wennersten A : wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Copie à : Objet : Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure (...) And I would be unhappy if the divergence between project became too big, POV paid editing etc we will be stronger as a totality if we abide to the same base guidelines So I question your urge and need to decentralize. For am as a contributer the most important part is that I know my inputs is securely stored and will not be misused by actors like google or plain advertising. And for this reason I believe in a centralized structure as about today (for now) Anders I don't tink that Ting Chen is disputing that the WMF should keep the core work. Yet the core work may mean about 20% of the movement resources instead of 90%... Mathias [[User:Astirmays]] ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Kadamba Dynasty
12th century Kadamba Jayakesi I, Velliapura site in present day Velim, South Goa . There is lot of information translated by Kannada language experts from ancient stone inscriptions on Velliapura of which they themselves don’t know the whereabouts of this place, as this place being under Portuguese for 451 years is almost foreign to them. Very little information about Velliapura is written by world renowned Historian George M. Moraes in Kadamba Kula, the history of Ancient and Medieval Karnataka as he never came across the 'coterie'. This place is very well known to small number of members of the Coterie who come across the ghats to Velliapura Jayakesi site present day Velim every year as pilgrim and link Roque Santana ancestors as the descendant of Hangal section of this ancient family so as a search for this link as to why this pilgrims who come to pay homage to this ancient place call themselves as 'Pilgrims'? and If this site belongs to Jayakesi of Goa, why the family living in it is linked to the descendants of Hangal?. As gathered from the available resource that the Kadamba sovereigns were hailed as 'Kadambarasa' meaning supreme or Gods or Godly or sovereign therefore the members of this coterie call themselves as pilgrims. The inscription stones in kannada found at Velim site tell that descendant of Jayakesi of Goa, Suriya-Deva'1345CE slain-ed sovereign of Chandrapura ' his wife 'Vinomaih-devi' was the daughter of 'Kadambarasa of Hangal', Purandara-Deva, died and was cremated in Velliapura by her nephew Jayesha, grandson of Purandara of Hangal. According to Haliyal stone inscription this same Jayesha founded a small timber business in Haliyal, over the centuries family owned and operated this business which was only source of income for them and their workers by hereditary who call themselves as coterie, was confiscated by the British Governor George Harris in 1840's and most of this pilgrims are the descendants of those workers . According to their resource after the 1345 massacre the surviving Queen 'Vinomaih devi' moved away from the furious Mohammedans in Chandrapura present day Chandor and was taken into hiding in this royal compound by the foothills of Velliapura by the kingdoms blacksmiths, her father and brother joined her sometime thereafter. After their death the descendants were converted to Nazrani Christianity for fear of Muslims from there on they are in possession and actually still lives here on this historical site. therefore they hold that the family living in Velliapura site are the descendants of Purandarai of Hangal. Jayakesi I son of Shashtha-Deva was a very powerful ruler, 12 century copper carvings tell us that princes and lords from neighbouring kingdoms traveled in to Chandrapur present day Chandor to pay homage to Jayakesi who was the Sovereign of Konkan. Velliapura viragal tell that Jayakesi I himself in a battle with his rival to retain this place Velliapura won a decisive victory, which was his southern capital, three horses stables and few officials residences were destroyed in the battle according to the Kannada version the days following the victory the wives of the commanding officers or soldiers celebrated in the royal compound by lighting and floating ‘ponti’ in the royal pond ‘Toloai’ in front of the capital building. According to Portuguese record of 1922, a complaint was filed with the Portuguese ‘Regdor’ by the ancestors of Roque Santana following the excavation of that toloai. The Coterie has always objects to the family members contesting direct elections in present day Democratic setup saying it is of the people, by the people and for the people and this family is not, In1962 they objected to Roque Santan contesting the first ever election in Goa, earlier they hailed his 'Satyagraha' to bring Democracy to the people of Goa. I first visited 12th century Kadamba Jayakesi I, Velliapura, site in Sept of 2006, the compound gates were secured when I inquired with the neighbours they directed me to a man who was looking after the house, he had given me the email address of Roque Santana as (roquesan...@legislator.com). I had written to Mr.Roque Santana seeking an appointment at this site in Velim to which he replied to me that at that time he was in NY and he will get back to me when he returns to Velim, It was very sad to read the news from the news papers of his sudden untimely demise. A year later I wrote to his daughter Maria Suhashini in London she gave me the London based house address of Venkatesha Upadhiaya who was member of the Coterie he never replied to me, I wrote to one of his sons in USA but no reply. People in Velim had told me that the Portuguese installed road side direction stone leading to the site went missing or destroyed in late 60’s and were never replaced by the Archaeological survey of India. It is important that the family or well wishers
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se wrote: Thanks Ting for some very interesting thoughts and for giving a few ideas of alternative set up of the movement. It ought to be a good input to the sessionre-imagine Wikipedia movement on Saturday at the Chapter Meeitng My reflection is that you are discussing a more decentralized approach, thinking todays is too centralized. But I do not see that you discuss the real radical decentralized model. Skip WMF and the Board, and let each project take care of it self including steering and financing. And as all info and software is free this can be realty momentary, if wished, the only hindrance is the use of the Logo I have in my mind worked through this for my pet project: Wikipedia for Swedish language And as far as I can see it would be doable. The cost for running that project on completely separate servers would be very moderate and the operations and board for WMSE is already a good way in professionalization and would probably be able to handle, both the issue of server operations and getting financing, a few million dollar/year would probably be enough to run both chapter and servers But would I as a committed contributer like this scenario. No (at least not for now). I am very happy that software is developed in one place to ensure it is not getting out of date. And I am happy all servers are run by one organization, bot to ensure quality but also good interconnection between the servers/project. Wikidata (as commons) also shows there are opportunistic in getting the project more integrated. Also I am very impressed in the professional way WMF runs the funding activities, and to be honest I know that even a rich country like Sweden is an net receiver of fundings from the people in US (shame on us swedes). So I have no interest of having the funding more decentralized (besides utilizing some local sponsors better). And I would be unhappy if the divergence between project became too big, POV paid editing etc we will be stronger as a totality if we abide to the same base guidelines So I question your urge and need to decentralize. For am as a contributer the most important part is that I know my inputs is securely stored and will not be misused by actors like google or plain advertising. And for this reason I believe in a centralized structure as about today (for now) Anders The thing that I'm most concerned about with regards to local fundraising is the target audience and the fundraising entity. Who is (for example) WMDE to have the monopoly on fundraising on de.wiki? (just as who is the WMF to have the total monopoly on fundraising?) With a radically distributed funding infrastructure, would that mean that the entities that do the fundraising and collect the funds also become responsible for that part of the infrastructure they are raising funds on? If so, who becomes responsible for overarching infrastructure? Would it lead to inefficient fracturing of the communities, and possibly infrastructure (not only the hardware infrastructure, but also programmatic work)? Should we give the donors the choice who they want to fund, WMDE or WMF (or some thorg, or a different chapter)? Isn't this massively confusing? I have no answers to any of these questions, but I'm happy it's on the agenda. --Martijn Hoekstra Ting Chen skrev 2014-04-10 13:23: Hello dear all, now the second mail ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure
Imo having a centralized funding model is very good against corruption (we had a couple of cases already and unfortunately we will some in the future) As a side comment, it would be nice if we could learn the total donations/country figures ( for example: Hungary 2013: $12,345.67) If this info is already public then sorry, I was unable to locate it myself. Balazs 2014-04-10 16:20 GMT+02:00 mathias.dam...@laposte.net: Hi, Message du 10/04/14 15:28 De : Anders Wennersten A : wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Copie à : Objet : Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure (...) And I would be unhappy if the divergence between project became too big, POV paid editing etc we will be stronger as a totality if we abide to the same base guidelines So I question your urge and need to decentralize. For am as a contributer the most important part is that I know my inputs is securely stored and will not be misused by actors like google or plain advertising. And for this reason I believe in a centralized structure as about today (for now) Anders I don't tink that Ting Chen is disputing that the WMF should keep the core work. Yet the core work may mean about 20% of the movement resources instead of 90%... Mathias [[User:Astirmays]] ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure
On 10 April 2014 16:23, Dariusz Jemielniak dar...@alk.edu.pl wrote: ... I do not think that decentralized funding is very good against corruption. ... I would add a far more common issue than fraud, and one that costs us far, far more money. Competent management. Our Foundation and Chapters make mistakes, all organizations do, and hopefully they can demonstrate to us unpaid volunteers that they appreciate the importance of recognizing failures, are learning from them, and do not keep on making the same old mistakes every year. However the more decentralized we are, the more likely we are to suffer with poor value for money and making the same mistakes over and over in different organizations. Two years ago I asked the Chapters to report on Efficiency, the number replying could be counted on two fingers, some of the others have vigorously defended ways of not reporting on Efficiency and carefully explained how it would be terrible for them to even attempt to report these numbers (which are already available in their annual reports were anyone motivated to pull them out) or define efficiency in such as way as you would think that closed trustee board meetings were just as effective as delivering edit-a-thons. If 85% of the donor's money is being spent on project work (i.e. NOT administrators, consultants, lawyers, rent, internal facing meetings, non-transparent bureaucracy) then that would be great value. When this drops below 50% (or perhaps 60%) we should ask questions and seriously challenge the continued funding of these incredibly poor value organizations, where the money is being drained away on things that do not directly help our objectives, before it can reach our volunteers and our open knowledge projects. For small chapters that are entirely driven by volunteers, they are astonishingly efficient, as there is no rent, no staff costs, they just need some money to pay for direct expenses for projects = 100% efficient (if you don't count how much it costs the WMF/FDC to give them money in the first place and how much tax is lost in that process). In large chapters having employees is a boon, however making a charity/not for profit registered organization anything more efficient than 75% is very hard work indeed, and requires focused competent managers running a lean team. Few of our chapters with 2 or more employees can claim to be as efficient as this, I suspect none, I would be *delighted* to be corrected. Honestly reporting how efficient we are in spending the donor's money on what they believe they are donating to (preserving and providing access to the sum of human knowledge) and from that learning and publishing their best practices so that growing chapters can benchmark their procedures for non-end-project overheads is something, in my view, our movement has yet to get anywhere near. I see a lot of talk, a lot of meetings and hard to understand over-complex analysis, and sadly increasingly a lot of political dodging of direct simple questions, but I have yet to see reports of *end to end* efficiency that were credible or useful to apply to the majority of our movement's organizations. PS Ting, you should write more of these emails, your views are engaging. :-) Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia UK monthly report, February 2014
Hi everyone, Below is the Wikimedia UK monthly report for the period 1st to 28th February 2014. If you want to keep up with the chapter's activities as they happen, please subscribe to our blog https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/, join a UK mailing list, and/or follow us on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/wikimediauk. If you have any questions or comments, please drop us a line on this report's talk pagehttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Talk:Reports/2014/February . If you prefer to see the report on wiki, you can do so here - https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Reports/2014/February Regards, Richard Nevell Program activities Community Project grants outcome 12,126 images have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons using the Macmini that was approved and purchased under the Wikimedia Commons Geograph and Avionics batch upload projects support granthttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Macrogrants/Wikimedia_Commons_Geograph_and_Avionics_batch_upload_projects_support . Wikimania Over a hundred submissions have been made for Wikimania and more are expected by the deadline of the 31st March 2014. click here to submit a proposal for a talk https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions GLAM activities We currently have Wikipedians in Residence in Yorkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/YMT/4th_Month_Report, Scotland and at the Royal Society Editathons On the 1st of February Art and Feminism meetups were held in both Londonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/London/ArtAndFeminism_2014 and Dundeehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism_2014#Wikipedia:Meetup.2FArtAndFeminism.23Dundee:_Duncan_of_Jordanstone_College_of_Art_and_Design as part of the global Art + Feminism 2014 eventhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism; the Dundee meetup has inspired an additional editathon on Scottish Women in Contemporary Arthttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Scottish_Women_in_Contemporary_Art_Wikifest_and_Editathon,_Dundee_2014 to be held 13 March at the University of Dundee. Fæ https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/User:F%C3%A6 lead a Cornwall GLAMs workshop https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Cornwall_GLAMs_workshop at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth, which was attended by a number of museums in Cornwall. Martin Poulter https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/User:MartinPoulter ran a Wellcome Library editathon https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wellcome_Library_editathon on the 26th February. Preparations are advancing for Wikimania with a London Libraries pagehttps://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/London/Libraries listing specialist libraries in London that Wikimanians can visit. Image Releases Education and expert outreach As a result of the York Museums Trust WIR the W.A. Ismay Studio Ceramic Collectionhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:W.A._Ismay_Studio_Ceramic_Collection was loaded to Commons. Discussions continue with various partners for the first mass uploads with the new mass upload tool Expert outreach Ally Crockford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ACrockford spoke at the Edinburgh City Libraries' Edge Conference 2014 on 28 February about the Wikimedian in Residence programme at the National Library of Scotland and the value of GLAMWiki collaborations more broadly. Conference delegates consisted of Information Professionals from across the UK, as well as from the US and Europe. Education activities *Please see respective links for each of these activities for futher details.* - On Saturday 1 February 2014 Toni Sant and Katherine Bavage led the training for the TaPRA Wikipedia Workshop at the VA Reading Room in Londonhttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/TaPRA_Wikipedia_Workshop_February_2014 . - On Tuesday 5 February 2014 Charles Matthews supported Luke Surl with a training session at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. - A number of volunteer trainers led by Chris McKennahttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/User:Thryduulf delivered a series of events called Wikipedia Takes UCLhttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikipedia_Takes_UCL between 17-20 February 2014. - Students at University of Hull in Scarborough participated in a WWI editathonhttps://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/University_of_Hull_at_Scarborough_2014 as part of their use of Wikipedia in the classroom. - Magnus Manske spoke about Wikidata to the Cambridge University Wikipedia Societyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Cambridge_University_Wikipedia_Society on Thursday 27 February 2014. Wikimedia Ambassador at Jisc Dr Martin Poulter continues as Wikimedia Ambassador with Jisc. See his 6th report covering February 2014https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Expert_outreach/Jisc_Ambassador/Summary_18_March_2014 . Future of Education at Wikimania 2014 Preliminary planning for a fringe/hack event ahead of Wikimania (21-22 June) is ongoing. WMUK is participating in this through Stuart Prior and Toni Sant but other UK-based Wikimedians are also involved.Details
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanks to the people who made Echo, VisualEditor and Wikidata
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Wikidata, because many people there wrote translations of articles, and adding interlanguage links was easy and natural. Click Add links, pick a language, write the title, that's it. Two years ago I would have to explain about square brackets and colons. Some of them just did it by themselves without even asking me. So thank you so much. Thank you, Amir! That's great to hear :) -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Which articles are widely shared accorss languages
On 4/10/14, Chris McKenna cmcke...@sucs.org wrote: I'm no expert, but I would expect that finding which articles are and are not present in a given set of Wikipedias would be an easy task now that Wikidata handles all the interwiki links. Chris You are right. There is already even a request for a special page to do just that https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46217. Here is the result of the SQL query Maarten suggested https://tools.wmflabs.org/paste/view/c6f4b3f0 (note that top results are main pages and templates!) It is also possible to view the pages with the most interwiki links on a specific wiki, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MostInterwikis. This is nothing new, and shows more relevant article results than the query I ran. -- PiRSquared ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee leadership
Hi all, It is with great pleasure that I can announce today that the Affiliations Committee has appointed Carlos Colina as the chair (who previously served as the vice-chair), and Cynthia Ashley-Nelson as the vice-chair of the committee for a one year term ending in April 2015. I am happy to leave the committee in the very capable hands of Carlos and Cynthia, and will remain an ordinary member of AffCom going forward. Best regards, Bence Damokos Member, Affiliations Committee ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This Month in GLAM: March 2014
*This Month in GLAM* is a monthly newsletter documenting recent happenings within the GLAM project, such as content donations, residencies, events and more. GLAM is an acronym of *G*alleries, *L*ibraries, *A*rchives and *M*useums. You can find more information on the project at glamwiki.org. *This Month in GLAM - Issue III, Volume IV - March 2014* -- Australia and New Zealand report: Summer is over http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2014/Contents/Australia_and_New_Zealand_report Germany report: GLAM ship; Open GLAM hackathon; Science 2.0 conference; GLAM meetup http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2014/Contents/Germany_report Mexico report: New GLAM projects in Mexico and Reynosa's City Hall donation of historical photos http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2014/Contents/Mexico_report Netherlands report: Education; Libraries; Museums; Maps, Earth http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2014/Contents/Netherlands_report Norway report: GLAM edit-a-thon at Preus museum http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2014/Contents/Norway_report Sweden report: Many ways to meet Wikipedia http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2014/Contents/Sweden_report UK report: Art, Women, the Police and the build up to Wikimania http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2014/Contents/UK_report USA report: Women's History Month http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2014/Contents/USA_report Open Access report: Open Access at Wikimania; Open Access Button; Topic Pages http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2014/Contents/Open_Access_report Calendar: April's GLAM events http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2014/Contents/Events -- Single page view http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2014/Single Twitter http://twitter.com/ThisMonthinGLAM Add your story / Work on the next edition http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/Newsroom -- The *This Month in GLAM* team http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee leadership
Bence! Thank you very much for all the valuable work that you did for the AffCom and for the movement as a whole in your role as a chair. And also for being such a helpful mentor and reliable friend when it comes to all those questions, ideas and discussions around all things Wikimedia. I am glad that you remain on the committee! Congratulations to Carlos and Cynthia, I am looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow. :) Warmest regards, Nicole On 10 April 2014 23:20, Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, It is with great pleasure that I can announce today that the Affiliations Committee has appointed Carlos Colina as the chair (who previously served as the vice-chair), and Cynthia Ashley-Nelson as the vice-chair of the committee for a one year term ending in April 2015. I am happy to leave the committee in the very capable hands of Carlos and Cynthia, and will remain an ordinary member of AffCom going forward. Best regards, Bence Damokos Member, Affiliations Committee ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Nicole Ebber Leiterin Internationales Head of International Affairs Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49 30 219158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee leadership
Congratulations to Carlos and Cynthia. :-) Bence, the decisions made by Affcom are not always easy or happy ones for volunteers, and I am grateful for the care you take bearing this responsibility. Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee leadership
Congratulations Carlos and Cynthia, and thank you Bence for your work. El 2014-04-10 23:20, Bence Damokos escribió: Hi all, It is with great pleasure that I can announce today that the Affiliations Committee has appointed Carlos Colina as the chair (who previously served as the vice-chair), and Cynthia Ashley-Nelson as the vice-chair of the committee for a one year term ending in April 2015. I am happy to leave the committee in the very capable hands of Carlos and Cynthia, and will remain an ordinary member of AffCom going forward. Best regards, Bence Damokos Member, Affiliations Committee ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Santiago Navarro Sanz Wikimedia España http://www.wikimedia.org.es/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Which articles are widely shared accorss languages
There's a tool for that: http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-terminator/index.php Check the third row (Top 1000 items with missing articles). On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:47 PM, PiRSquared17 pirsquare...@gmail.comwrote: On 4/10/14, Chris McKenna cmcke...@sucs.org wrote: I'm no expert, but I would expect that finding which articles are and are not present in a given set of Wikipedias would be an easy task now that Wikidata handles all the interwiki links. Chris You are right. There is already even a request for a special page to do just that https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46217. Here is the result of the SQL query Maarten suggested https://tools.wmflabs.org/paste/view/c6f4b3f0 (note that top results are main pages and templates!) It is also possible to view the pages with the most interwiki links on a specific wiki, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MostInterwikis. This is nothing new, and shows more relevant article results than the query I ran. -- PiRSquared ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- undefined ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee leadership
I have been incredibly impressed with Bence's leadership of AffCom (and I don't offer that praise lightly). It was not an easy year to be chair, and he handled it with a level of grace and wisdom which I envy. I appreciate everything you continue to do for our movement. Carlos and Cynthia have the complete support of AffCom - I am very confident they will not disappoint us. I look forward to helping execute AffCom's plans for this year and excited to see our new officers in action. :) -Greg aka varnent AffIliations Committee Member ___ Sent from my iPhone - a more detailed response may be sent later. On Apr 10, 2014, at 11:20 PM, Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, It is with great pleasure that I can announce today that the Affiliations Committee has appointed Carlos Colina as the chair (who previously served as the vice-chair), and Cynthia Ashley-Nelson as the vice-chair of the committee for a one year term ending in April 2015. I am happy to leave the committee in the very capable hands of Carlos and Cynthia, and will remain an ordinary member of AffCom going forward. Best regards, Bence Damokos Member, Affiliations Committee ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee leadership
Thanks, Bence, for your work! And congrats Carlos and Cinthia! Looking forward to work with you. Patricio 2014-04-10 21:08 GMT-03:00 Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com: I have been incredibly impressed with Bence's leadership of AffCom (and I don't offer that praise lightly). It was not an easy year to be chair, and he handled it with a level of grace and wisdom which I envy. I appreciate everything you continue to do for our movement. Carlos and Cynthia have the complete support of AffCom - I am very confident they will not disappoint us. I look forward to helping execute AffCom's plans for this year and excited to see our new officers in action. :) -Greg aka varnent AffIliations Committee Member ___ Sent from my iPhone - a more detailed response may be sent later. On Apr 10, 2014, at 11:20 PM, Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, It is with great pleasure that I can announce today that the Affiliations Committee has appointed Carlos Colina as the chair (who previously served as the vice-chair), and Cynthia Ashley-Nelson as the vice-chair of the committee for a one year term ending in April 2015. I am happy to leave the committee in the very capable hands of Carlos and Cynthia, and will remain an ordinary member of AffCom going forward. Best regards, Bence Damokos Member, Affiliations Committee ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Patricio Lorente Blog: http://www.patriciolorente.com.ar Identi.ca // Twitter: @patriciolorente ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee leadership
2014-04-10 23:20 GMT+02:00 Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com: Hi all, It is with great pleasure that I can announce today that the Affiliations Committee has appointed Carlos Colina as the chair (who previously served as the vice-chair), and Cynthia Ashley-Nelson as the vice-chair of the committee for a one year term ending in April 2015. I am happy to leave the committee in the very capable hands of Carlos and Cynthia, and will remain an ordinary member of AffCom going forward. Congratulations to Carlos and Cynthia and thank you Bence and also to all the other committee members for your work. Cristian ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
