Re: [Commons-l] Moving toward Special:MediaSearch as the default search landing page

> On 24 Feb 2021, at 06:55, Federico Leva (Nemo) via Commons-l > wrote: > > Keegan Peterzell via Commons-l, 23/02/21 22:36: >> Special:Search also functions at its best in English, and is not >> necessarily friendly to other languages. > > This is not true. I think you meant to say that the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF transfers $8.7 million to "Wikimedia Knowledge Equity Fund"

> do regarding grants. > > Best, > Lisa > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 12:55 PM Michael Peel <mailto:em...@mikepeel.net>> wrote: > Hi Lisa, > > Isn’t this the oversight work that the WMF wanted to be able to do when it > changed from Wikimedia affiliates b

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF transfers $8.7 million to "Wikimedia Knowledge Equity Fund"

Hi Lisa, Isn’t this the oversight work that the WMF wanted to be able to do when it changed from Wikimedia affiliates being able to fundraise directly to the FDC process? Why has WMF chosen to outsource this to Tides rather than continuing to do it in-house? And why does Tides now get to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedistas de Uruguay

Hi Mehman, Could you share a summary of what happened to turn Wikimedia Uruguay into a user group, please? Thanks, Mike > On 14 Dec 2020, at 18:49, Mehman Ibragimov wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized [1] > Wikimedistas de

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF transfers $8.7 million to "Wikimedia Knowledge Equity Fund"

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Endowment ? > On 13 Dec 2020, at 08:33, Yair Rand wrote: > > According to the recent Independent Auditors' Report of the WMF [1], at some > point prior to the end of June 2020, an entity called the "Wikimedia > Knowledge Equity Fund" was established,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustees elections, membership, quorum, and

That the WMF *isn’t* a membership organisation already is rather weird. It may be specific to US organisations (in which case, references please), but it really isn’t normal on an international basis, nor within the Wikimedia movement (most/all affiliates have members). Having to provide legal

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Moving the technical infrastructure out of the US

… hence the existence of Wikimedia chapters? I suspect at least WMDE could take this on if it becomes necessary, although other chapters aren’t as technologically developed as I’d have liked to have seen. Thanks, Mike > On 30 Sep 2020, at 19:35, Steven Walling wrote: > > SJ hinted at a

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Request for a volunteer to upload Councillor photos to Commons

Hi all, The files are now at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Politics_of_the_London_Borough_of_Lambeth Anyone interested in improving their categorisation and adding them to articles/Wikidata

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Foundation and affiliates disclosing salaries on job ads & the effect of this on workplace equity

This seems to be a restriction against employers asking for someone’s salary history, not against including the expected salary range in a job advert. Having occasionally looked at WMF job adverts, it’s always seemed odd to me that the salary ranges haven’t been mentioned at all (my occasional

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] British Museum, copyright and public domain images

Hi Fae, The reuse seems to be by the British Library, not the British Museum, here. Asking them for £400 seems a bit odd/steep (https://twitter.com/Faewik/status/1293503130987122688). Thanks, Mike > On 12 Aug 2020, at 13:05, Fæ wrote: > > Dear Lucy, > > It's just over 3 months ago that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New essay on the ambiguity of NC licenses

I remember reading Erik’s blog post a decade or so ago, which convinced me that -NC was useless due to its ambiguity - where exactly is the line drawn between what is commercial and what is not? I can’t find it now, but perhaps

[Wikimedia-l] 3,000,000 Wikidata Infoboxes in Commons categories

Hi all, We’ve just reached a milestone with the deployment of Wikidata Infoboxes in Wikimedia Commons categories: there are now over 3 million uses! [1] These infoboxes are completely multilingual, and they automatically expand as more information is added to Wikidata. (I think enwp has

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Giving Commons a bigger public

Hi Gerard, I mostly agree with you. However, I disagree with this: > This proof of concept is largely based on existing WMF functionality so it > takes very little for the Wikimedia Foundation to adopt the code, do it > properly particularly for the Internationalisation. Turning prototype code

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Giving Commons a bigger public

Hi all, It’s worth remembering that this functionality is built in to Commons, it’s just not as user-friendly. From the example below, if you put "haswbstatement:P180=Q191931” into the Commons searchbox, you will get the same results. Thanks to the structured data on commons project+team!

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] British Museum makes 1.9m images available under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

This is a difficult problem to solve. Remember that the WMUK was talking with the British Museum way back in 2009/2010, which led to the first Wikipedian in Residence. That they are now using a CC licence is a good step forward, however I suspect the ’NC’ difficulty is related to the existence

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day is not the same as https://www.earthdaylive2020.org/ - but the link was to the latter. Thanks, Mike > On 24 Apr 2020, at 21:26, Robert Fernandez wrote: > > FFS who is against Earth Day? Every organization and company > probably mentions it or observes

Re: [Wikimedia-l] คุณมีความสุขกับอะไรในสัปดาห์นี้? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 19 April 2020)

> On 23 Apr 2020, at 20:21, Pine W wrote: > > What’s making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any > language. You are also welcome to start a WMYHTW thread next week. A few years ago, I took some photos of some abandoned and heavily-decayed trains in Paranapiacaba, an old

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Brand Project: Who are we as a movement?

I think it’s important to realise that there *is* a big issue here. How we want to be perceived and how we are actually perceived are *not* the same. We can argue about WMF vs. community as much as we want, but that won’t change reality. Please can we focus on how we solve the problem instead

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiProject COVID-19 (English Wikipedia) is started

There was discussion at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:2019%E2%80%9320_COVID-19_pandemic_by_country_and_territory - I’m not sure where it was on enwp. It does seem

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Brand Project: Who are we as a movement?

Hi all, I’m on the other side of things - I think it would be good to simplify our branding, and ‘Wikipedia’ is the obvious brand to go with. I’d love to see us talking about ‘Wikipedia Data’, and ‘Wikipedia Media, etc. (maybe with obvious cross-wiki tabs at the top of the projects!), without

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Status of APG and FDC?

As I understand it, the FDC was basically suspended at the start of the movement strategy discussions, and hasn’t met since. The funding for affiliates was apparently maintained at a constant level during the suspension, and the future of the program depends on whatever the movement strategy

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Launch of Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal

Hi Dumi, This looks interesting, but I’m worried that the WMF is still trying to exclude itself from reporting its metrics. Will this new tool also make it easier for the WMF to post its reports? Thanks, Mike > On 6 Mar 2020, at 17:51, Dumisani Ndubane wrote: > > TL;DR: Launch of Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] SEEKING A WIKIPEDIAN IN RESIDENCE! (U.S.)

> This position can only be based > remotely from the following states: CA, OR, OH, NV, NC, WA, WI, CO, MA, PA, > NY, HI, or MT. > > PLEASE APPLY! You might have a slight mismatch between the audience that reads this mailing list, and your rather arbitrary geographic location requirement.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Next steps on Wikimedia Space

> On 18 Feb 2020, at 19:53, Pharos wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 8:49 AM Samuel Klein wrote: > >> Phase V confirmed! -- I hope this means related features (a calendar + >> forum :) are getting included in mediawiki propre... >> >>  >> > > Indeed, it has been a mistake to keep

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK's 2019 AGM - agenda, board elections, voting papers & lightning talks

Thanks Michael, that resolves my concern. Thanks, Mike > On 10 Jul 2019, at 20:40, Michael Maggs wrote: > > Hello Mike > > I'll be taking the chair during the election portion of the AGM, and in that > role I'll be responsible for the proxy votes. > > Michael &g

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK's 2019 AGM - agenda, board elections, voting papers & lightning talks

Hi Katie and all, I’ve just noticed that the proxy vote is given by default to the chair of the meeting. However, the WMUK board chair, Josie Fraser, is also standing in the election. It doesn’t seem right for proxy votes to be cast by a person who is standing in the election - is there a way

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fram en.wp office yearlock block

Hi all, I'm torn on this issue. I'm not a fan of Fram. Having been attacked by them in the past, I'm somewhat relieved to hear that they have been banned from enwp. I’m also dismayed by the poor response from the enwp community about this issue, particularly the inflammatory remarks and

Re: [casper] Issues with setting up a ROACH2

this procedure? > > https://casper.ssl.berkeley.edu/wiki/ROACH_kernel_uboot_update > <https://casper.ssl.berkeley.edu/wiki/ROACH_kernel_uboot_update> > > Did you manage to solve it? > > Heystek > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 5:45 PM Michael Peel <mailto:em...@mikepe

[casper] Issues with setting up a ROACH2

Hi all, I’m currently trying to set up a ROACH2 (for the first time), and have run into a number of problems. The bottom line is that I’m currently getting this memory error message: U-Boot 2011.06-rc2-0-g2694c9d-dirty (Dec 04 2013 - 20:58:06) CPU: AMCC PowerPC 440EPx Rev. A at 533.333 MHz

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] UK Wiki

It’s a http vs https configuration issue: https://qrpedia.org works http://qrpedia.org does not work. Thanks, Mike > On 5 Feb 2019, at 09:56, John Lubbock wrote: > > Hi all, QRpedia seems to be working for me. The only problem appears to be a >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Suspensions of affiliates

Hi all, As a daft question, why doesn’t affcom say to the affiliates something like "we won’t publish this, but if you want to, then please go ahead and do so yourself”? That way, it’s up to the affiliate to work out what works best in their culture/country/community and to go with that,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia Foundation website has soft launched!

Huh? it’s already been live at https://wikimediafoundation.org/ for the last week or so - that’s not a “soft launch”, that’s a full launch (maybe without the trimmings). Should I repost the comments/bug reports I sent to wmfcc-l last week more publicly? Thanks, Mike > On 10 Aug 2018, at

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Historic Prisons database

> On 18 Jul 2018, at 22:26, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > On 18 July 2018 at 16:44, Magnus Manske wrote: > >>> A heads up that there is a new database of historic (c19th) >>> English prisons: > >> I am importing the list here: >> https://tools.wmflabs.org/mix-n-match/#/catalog/1505 > > Is anyone

Re: [Wikimania-l] Nelson Mandela events today?

Isn’t there a Freedom of Panorama issue here? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Freedom_of_panorama#South_Africa Thanks, Mike > On 18 Jul 2018, at 12:59, Deb Tankersley wrote: > > The unveiling will happen today at 3pm, along with a parade: >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimédia France Governance review

Nominally, the WMF is going to be the next Wikimedia organisation to do a governance review, as per: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_recommendations/2015-2016_round_2#Wikimedia_Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2017-11-17,18,19#Governance_Review Thanks, Mike

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikivoyage page for Wikimania 2018

Are the "Wow Capetown Travel and Tours” prices correct? They seem really expensive (e.g., US$45 is around 600ZAR, compared to 400ZAR for an Uber in both directions without sharing - the US$80/day tours seem extremely expensive!). BTW, I’ve put some currency conversion estimates at:

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] GDPR?

part of the Wikimedia UK community and please let us know if you have any questions. The Wikimedia UK team" > On 22 May 2018, at 22:48, Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net> wrote: > > I haven’t spotted any emails from WMUK about this yet, are they coming soon > or is everything

[Wikimediauk-l] GDPR?

I haven’t spotted any emails from WMUK about this yet, are they coming soon or is everything already OK here? Thanks, Mike ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The fact-checked encyclopedia

Maybe it’s by an affiliate (WMAU?). Presumably it has to be someone with permission to use the trademark, otherwise a request to google to turn it off should be made? Thanks, Mike > On 25 Apr 2018, at 05:54, Anthony Cole wrote: > > Thanks Joseph. How weird. > > On Wed,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Copyright of the the Wikimedia UK blog!

Try wp-admin -> ‘Appearance’ -> ‘Editor’, select ‘Theme Footer' on the right, and edit the info there. Make a backup of the changes, though, as they will be lost if you later update the theme. You might want to consider adding a CC-BY-SA license while you’re there. ;-) For screenshots of the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] BabelNet is remixing Wikimedia content without following CC-By-SA terms

They also appear to be using photos from Wikimedia Commons without paying attention to the license. I can find photos of mine that are CC-BY-SA-4.0 licensed that are being used without any metadata at all, let alone attribution and the correct CC license info… The same is also true for

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimediauk-l Digest, Vol 153, Issue 7

Hi John, I think you’re sending emails in HTML format, which come through to the list OK as an individual email, but HTML-formatted emails are removed from the digest ("An HTML attachment was scrubbed”). So there are two options: change to using plain text format for the emails you send to the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikimedia Foundation's FY18-19 Annual Plan is on Meta-wiki

Hi, This seems to be an increase of $15 million USD in the WMF’s budget, with a $0.2 USD million increase in the international Wikimedia budget (through grants to chapters and other affiliates). That goes against the movement direction of "As a social movement, we will focus our efforts on

[Wikimediauk-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Grŵp Defnyddwyr Cymuned Wicimedia Cymru

Forwarding from wikimedia-l, where there’s some discussion happening about this. Presumably WMUK’s consent was obtained first, per the chapter’s agreement? Thanks, Mike > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Kirill Lokshin > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Grŵp

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Notification about problem identified with a recent CentralNotice banner

Hi Gregory, Thank you and the WMF for sharing this information so quickly after the event. It’s regrettable that this happened, but openness is the best way forward here. The WMF is being exceptional both with spotting this kind of issue so quickly and being publicly open about the fact that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Esra’a Al Shafei to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

Thank you, Esra’a, for volunteering! However, I’m very concerned by this: "P.S. Due to the nature of Esra’a’s work, sharing photos or videos of Esra’a may endanger her safety or the safety of others. To help ensure the privacy and safety of Esra’a and her colleagues, we are not sharing any

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Day 1 Update - Fundraising

Thank you to everyone that is working on this year’s fundraiser! Can I ask, which other Wikimedia organisations aside from the WMF are involved this year? Presumably WMDE and WMCH, but who else? Thanks, Mike > On 28 Nov 2017, at 22:27, Megan Hernandez wrote: > > I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Requiring the interlinking of accounts involved with paid editing

; blocking accounts on this terms. > > Feel free to believe otherwise. > > On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 3:21 AM, Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net> wrote: > >> >>> On 13 Sep 2017, at 22:19, John Erling Blad <jeb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> S

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Requiring the interlinking of accounts involved with paid editing

> On 13 Sep 2017, at 22:19, John Erling Blad wrote: > > Sorry, but this is a horribly bad idea, and anyone that try to do what you > propose runs a serious legal risk. {{citation needed}} > I guess you will have a few support, but I really hope this will newer be >

[Wikimedia-l] How can we fix the two-stage page loading problem?

This is possibly the most annoying feature of the Wikimedia projects at the moment. You access a page. Then you start reading or editing it. And then suddenly the page jumps when a fundraising banner / central notice / gadget / beta feature loads. So you have to start reading the page again, or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New style banner - A heads up

> On 23 Aug 2017, at 13:36, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Hi all, > > On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:51:02 -0400 > "Brad Jorsch (Anomie)" > > wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Joseph Seddon >>

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Open-licensed images of UK MPs are coming!

Here's a list of MPs with the images that are set on Wikidata, and also their commons categories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/MPs (Using Listeria - so also thanks to Magnus.) Thanks, Mike > On 27 Jul 2017, at 17:01, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > On 27

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Odd? Peter Tatchell aritcle.

> On 26 Jul 2017, at 12:06, Gordon Joly wrote: > > On 26/07/17 09:07, geni wrote: >> Template vandalism on. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Official_URL >> >> If you are still getting issues purge the page. > > Thanks. Now fixed. > > * > > This

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] AGM

Hi all, My thruppence: 1p: There are things that can be learnt from how WMF board elections are run, and also elections for other UK charities. A clear process that lets members cast votes online ahead of the AGM (instead of / in addition to proxy votes) would be very good. Being able to

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK Annual Report and Accounts

That's an excellent turn-around to see. :-) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMUK_membership_over_time.jpg Thanks, Mike > On 15 Jul 2017, at 09:44, Lucy Crompton-Reid > wrote: > > Yes, and today :) > > On 15 July 2017 at 12:39, Gordon Joly

[Wikimediauk-l] uk.wikimedia.org is no more

It looks like uk.wikimedia.org just got turned off and redirect to wikimedia.org.uk , as per https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170005 . This was long overdue as the last part of moving over to wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/ and I'm just mentioning it in case anyone wonders where it went. (And I was

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 28 May 2017)

> On 31 May 2017, at 17:16, Pine W wrote: > > What's making you happy this week? 11 candidates are standing for 5 seats on the Funds Dissemination Committee: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Candidates Q is

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Designs for T shirts

> On 22 May 2017, at 10:25, Gordon Joly wrote: > > On 20/05/17 01:42, John Lubbock wrote: >> . Wikimedia Nederland does one with a the Wikimedia logo as a >> stroopwafel, a Dutch caramel biscuit. > > > Perhaps I should explain a little more about this sweet Dutch snack.

Re: [Wikimania-l] Granting Scholarship to same persons every year

To put this into perspective with some numbers: in 2014-17, out of 378 people awarded scholarships, 309 people have been awarded one scholarship, 55 have been awarded two, 14 have been awarded three, and 0 have been awarded four. Caveat that this is solely from the WMF lists on meta, so isn't

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] CC licenses for PhD theses

I remember looking into CC-licensing my PhD thesis back in 2009-10, and found that it wasn't possible as I had to include a copyright statement in it that included restrictions that weren't compatible with CC licenses (without the copyright statement, I couldn't have submitted it to the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

Why should that feature in the WMF's annual report, though? I also agree that this has been over-politicised, whether intentionally or not. :-( Thanks, Mike > On 1 Mar 2017, at 21:13, Dan Rosenthal wrote: > > Florence -- Trump's executive orders also involved the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK policy updates - consultation

Hi Lucy, I've added a few comments to the google docs - sorry for not quite meeting your deadline. I see that the new volunteers policy removes a key phrase that was often used in WMUK's past: "staff should only do things that volunteers either cannot do or do not want to do". That's OK -

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Guardian obituaries feed

> On 26 Feb 2017, at 20:14, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: > > On 26 February 2017 at 21:33, Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net> wrote: > >> How about something like this: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/Guardian_obits &g

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Guardian obituaries feed

Hi Andy, How about something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/Guardian_obits There seem to be some redlinks showing up there! Other sources might be a bit more difficult to incorporate. E.g., the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF advanced permissions for employees

Hi all, I've written a short Python script that fetches the spreadsheet using the CSV link (as John suggested), and now updates the page at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Advanced_Permissions The code is at:

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Media enquiry from the BBC re editing/vandalism

It's not the first time this kind of thing has happened: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/03/peking-duk-fan-infiltrates-backstage-by-fooling-security-guard-with-wikipedia-edit

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Niels Christian Nielsen appointed to Wikimedia Endowment Advisory Board

people managing it, unless it was "our" website(s). >> >> Also I disagree with Wikipedia doing something similar to investigative >> journalism (above all for "internal" usage) rather than being a "simple" >> encyclopedia. >> >>

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Niels Christian Nielsen appointed to Wikimedia Endowment Advisory Board

Not quite what you were after, Fæ, but I've started a draft of an enwp article on the endowment at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel/Wikimedia_Endowment If anyone else wants to help write this, then please edit away!

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Moderation notice

> On 11 Feb 2017, at 19:08, rupert THURNER wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 7:49 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote: >> Hello, everyone. >> >> I share the opinion that moderation actions should be transparent. So: >> >> I have now placed Gerard Meijssen

Re: [Wikimedia-l] De-Recognition of Affiliates with Long-standing Non-Compliance

Hi Maor/Kirill/AffCom, Which organisations are we talking about here? From the crosses on the reports page on Meta, it looks like it is: - Wikimedia Chile - Wikimedia Hong Kong - Wikimedia India - Wikimedia Macedonia - Wikimedia Macau - Wikimedia Mexico - Wikimedia Philippines - Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] guidance from Foundation leadership as to where to draw the line on policy requests?

Have you seen Katherine's statement at: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/30/knowledge-knows-no-boundaries/ ? I know gmail has an option to hide email threads, but it's not a standard email application feature, and it's not

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia developers discussion

Back in the day (a few years ago) there was a UK tech mailing list. Sadly it became disused. Things were also posted on the WMUK wiki - again, sadly, those pages are now disused. They were nice while they lasted. Thanks, Mike > On 17 Jan 2017, at 13:34, Fæ wrote: > > I'm

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board approval of FDC recommendation 2016-2017- Round 1

The missing links: [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_approval_of_FDC_recommendation_(2016-17,_Round_1) [2]

Re: [Wikimedia-l] English Fundraiser Update

Hi Lisa, Thanks for the update - it's great to hear that the target has been achieved so quickly! Continuing the English fundraiser as part of reaching the global fundraising target makes sense to me. Continuing the fundraiser after the global target has been reached is rather more concerning

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] BBC 100 Women and Wikimedia

An interesting question that could do with a speedy response (and maybe a copyright release email from the BBC to OTRS) has been posted at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:100_Women_(BBC)#Is_it_not_a_copyright_violation_to_publish_this_list.3F Thanks, Mike > On 8 Dec 2016, at 11:37, Lucy

Re: [Commons-l] [WikimediaMobile] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Pebble smartwatch tool for finding Wikipedia photo opportunities

Is there a similar app for iOS? A quick search there shows up mostly Wikipedia readers.* * Although, the search found 'Time Machine for Wikipedia' - showing old versions of Wikipedia articles - which is pretty cool! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/time-machine-for-wikipedia/id1088508414?mt=8

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wiki (not) Mania?

There is now the Wikimania Committee: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee Perhaps a decision/formal consultation on a name change could come from them, if they feel it's appropriate? Personally, I've always been a bit uneasy

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Could Wikimedia UK keep an eye on which museums are going to close and give us the heads up?

It's worth noting that there have been Wikimedia events at several of these museums in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Queen_Street_Mill_Museum/event

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New functionality: cross-wiki search results

> On 7 Sep 2016, at 20:24, geni wrote: > > On 7 September 2016 at 18:51, Gerard Meijssen > wrote: >> Hoi, >> It is a pity because Wikidata has so much more to offer in missing >> information in any language. > > Fixed the citation issue yet?

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Changes to current chapter and thematic organisation criteria

> On 23 Aug 2016, at 11:48, Asaf Bartov wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:01 AM, Chris Keating > > wrote: > >>> Does the Affiliations Committee have a list of existing chapters which do >>> not meet

[Wikimediauk-l] WMUK office move - alternative locations?

Hi all, From recent-ish WMUK board minutes [1], it looks like WMUK has to move offices in the near future. I hope that this is being seen as an opportunity for WMUK, and the fact that the minutes indicate that other fellow-traveller organisations are being approached with regards options is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] An example where search could be improved

> On 28 Jul 2016, at 17:17, Jimmy Wales wrote: > > On 7/28/16 9:04 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: >> I've made the former a disambiguation page (not a redirect) linking to: >> * The [[History of Wells Fargo]] >> * The [[Wells Fargo History Museum]] >> >> You could have done

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] What Volunteer Equipment should we buy?

> On 22 Jul 2016, at 10:54, geni wrote: > > > > On 21 July 2016 at 23:53, Katie Chan > wrote: > > > It's not so much the need for a bigger one, but rather another one. There's > currently one for the 3 cameras that can use

Re: [Wikimania-l] warning: green USB sticks

Error 404: I wasn't given a USB stick. But maybe I didn't lose out there? For future Wikimanias, maybe solely providing local travel info via a wiki rather than a USB stick is a better approach? (Not that I have much to complain about with local travel info - except for not being told that

Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania - annually, with South Africa in 2018?

Hi all, I don't want to take away from the huge amount of work and movement contributions that were made by the Mexico, London, and other Wikimania teams, but: it's worth noting that we could organise a Wikimania with the same number of attendees for a lot less amount of volunteer time (and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts on WMF Governance reviews

Hi Gnangarra, (and a reply to one of Anders' points below) > On 3 Jun 2016, at 01:34, Gnangarra wrote: > > I have a couple of concerns, a review has the potential to stagnate the WMF > as indicated from WMConf in Berlin thats already a problem and its > impacting regular

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] "Among mobile sites, Wikipedia reigns in terms of popularity"

> On 11 May 2016, at 22:07, James Forrester <jforres...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > On 11 May 2016 at 12:50, Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net> wrote: > >> Isn't it time to start moving to responsive mediawiki templates ( >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respon

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] "Among mobile sites, Wikipedia reigns in terms of popularity"

Isn't it time to start moving to responsive mediawiki templates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design), rather than having a separate mobile interface/URL? For a practical example, see the BBC News website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news), which is the same website on all devices, it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising Testing Update (Friday 6th May) - Hopefully the first of Many

> On 9 May 2016, at 18:36, Béria Lima wrote: > > My 2 cents :D > > 1. I can't see the banner (not using the link posted or going by > CentralNotice) Could someone who can see it take a print please? :D Here's a screenshot as it appears on my computer:

Re: [Wikimania-l] Bus from Airport to the Venue

According to the page at: https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Journey/Airports it's 12 + 6.45 + 2.40 = €19.85 - but the price of a taxi might be a better comparison, since it's direct travel, avoiding changes, travel uncertainties, etc., and I'm sure that would be a lot more than €25.

Re: [Wikimania-l] Comitato Wikimania Esino Lario 2016

Couldn't Wikimedia Italia do this? Thanks, Mike > On 15 Mar 2016, at 11:44, Iolanda Pensa wrote: > > Here is the explanation of why we created a Committee which is an association > managing Wikimania[1]. > > I’ll add the answers also online: > 1. we needed an institution

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Disabe Media Viewer for non-logged-in users and logged-in users on Wikimedia Commons

That's a good point. I've started a discussion on Commons' VP about this at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#2014_RfC_for_the_Media_Viewer Thanks, Mike > On 14 Mar 2016, at 17:03, Anthony Cole wrote: > > That RFC is 20 months old. That media viewer

[Wikimediauk-l] Wikimeet survey results

Hi all, I'm pleased to announce the results of the wikimeet survey that ran late last year. The summary and full details are now on Meta at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/UK_Wikimeet_survey_2015 The key results from the survey that should affect future wikimeets are: - Organising wikimeets in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open and recorded WMF Board meetings

They were doing this regularly until January: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_board_meetings/2016-01-30 and see: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_meetings I suspect this dropped a bit in priority since then, for obvious reasons, but

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] ? template press release for local press

There was an old system for WMUK press releases at: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Press_releases but I don't think that's been used for a number of years now. There might be something there that could be salvaged. Thanks, Mike > On 21 Feb 2016, at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Can we see the Knight grant application and grant offer?

> On 16 Feb 2016, at 00:26, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > > Here is another such example. Jimmy Wales has tonight told[1] a volunteer > > ---o0o--- > > First the idea that Wikidata could be used to "construct articles" with "no > need for editors to edit actual article content"

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Can we see the Knight grant application and grant offer?

> On 15 Feb 2016, at 17:10, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > > Hoi, > The notion that WMF should out google Google is stupid, certainly at that > kind of money. I'm still confused about what kind of 'search engine' is actually being proposed here. Is it: 1) Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Elsevier?

> On 15 Feb 2016, at 19:08, Leinonen Teemu wrote: > >> On 15.2.2016, at 18.07, Pete Forsyth wrote: >> Apart from brand affiliation, what do you see as a potential benefit from >> partnering with PLoS? > > I think brand affiliation would be a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Meta is apparently down

Also Commons, and anything else at *.wikimedia.org. Apparently, "Bad deployment, being reverted currently." Thanks, Mike > On 26 Jan 2016, at 18:44, Pharos wrote: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > Thanks, > Pharos >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Meta is apparently down

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124804 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124804> > On 26 Jan 2016, at 18:45, Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net> wrote: > > Also Commons, and anything else at *.wikimedia.org. Apparently, "Bad > deployment, being reverted cu

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