Re: [Foundation-l] Again: January 15 retro?

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Re: [Foundation-l] IRC general meetings

We should definitely do this more often. Once a month sounds like a good start. On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Lodewijk wrote: > > Moderation would be very helpful, especially when the idea becomes a > success. +1 This was helpful in the past. SJ -- Samuel Klein          ide

[Foundation-l] Community maps

The OLPC community is currently using a custom map mashup to help volunteers and school projects around the world find one another.[1] It's not hard to skin. http://olpcmap.net http://code.google.com/p/olpc-map-net/ There was recently a discussion about using this tool on the cultural-partnershi

Re: [Foundation-l] Community maps

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote: > how we don't really have a good global calendar of activities This is true. > Wikiverse, and I think this falls into the same category... we don't really > have a good global "what has happened/will happen near me?" map. > However... it's pro

Re: [Foundation-l] Making wikimediafoundation.org more open to contributions

; -- Aaron Adrignola >> >> Here, here, for the namespace solution! Yes! Phoebe Ayers writes; > My solution to the challenge of combining everything would be to have > a global edit sprint -- "meta-cleanup-and-merge editing party > weekend!" This sounds like

Re: [Foundation-l] New General Counsel!: Geoffrey Brigham

er lists. Please note he's not on the job until March 7: > until then, he's only really available to us socially, not for work. > > Please join me in welcoming Geoff to the Wikimedia movement :-) > > Thanks, > Sue > > > > ___

Re: [Foundation-l] New General Counsel!: Geoffrey Brigham

he's only really available to us socially, not for work. > > Please join me in welcoming Geoff to the Wikimedia movement :-) > > Thanks, > Sue > > > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Samuel Klein          identi.ca:sj           w:user:sj          +1 617 529 4266 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikivideo-l] Universal Subtitles will caption your videos!

l get the ball rolling! > > Best regards, > > Ed > Participatory Culture Foundation > > ___ > Wikivideo-l mailing list > wikivide...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikivideo-l > > -- Samuel Klein          identi.ca:sj

Re: [Foundation-l] CC "open attribute" released

Congrats to Molly and everyone who worked on it. :) On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:33 AM, phoebe ayers wrote: > this is just awesome: > http://openattribute.com/ > > Born at the Drumbeat festival, just released! See the backstory: > http://mollykleinman.com/2011/02/07/announcing-open-attribute/ This

Re: [Foundation-l] Criticism of employees (was VPAT)

ansparency... > Maybe this is how I work but I feel like we want a culture where it is > perfectly acceptable for someone to respond without all the data, for them > to make mistakes and get corrected and have that debate and those arguments. So do I. -- Samu

Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)

Renata, I really loved this message of yours, and the reminder of how awesome PGDP is :-) On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Renata St wrote: >> We could emphasize a more positive engagement intended to get the >> message to these people about what an encyclopedia is, what Wikipedia >> is, and w

Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)

act on article quality stemming from being more welcoming (aside from 'No September!' fear-mongering), and in fact history suggests that more and more diverse participants likely has a positive effect on overall quality despite the need to teach newbies

Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)

I would estimate that we could reach a few thousand new people a day who are not editors, but would be glad to do something practical to help wikipedia. That's my mental baseline for how much support we could tap if we found a way to match each of those people to something they wanted to do. Whe

Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)

tl;dr: we can attract thousands of new contributors with almost any combination of skills and availability, if we ask nicely. what should we ask for first? == Herring talk == On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:50 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >> The idea that we have finite human/community resources is interes

Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)

To be clear about what I meant: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:33 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > Samuel Klein wrote: >> tl;dr:  we can attract thousands of new contributors with almost any >> combination of skills and availability, if we ask nicely. > > Hmm, prove it. :-)  You talk a

Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:26 PM, SlimVirgin wrote: Great examples :-) Building on them for a moment: > Just glancing at new articles now, I see (no sources): > > [[Quksace agjke]]: "quksace agjke is a term in ancient Chinese. > quksace means quick and agjke means aggies. Back to 1902, students

Re: [Foundation-l] retire the administrator privilege

Amir: your original idea is lovely. Reviving it for a moment: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:31 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > > Now, I found it. Indeed, I exaggerated (not several hundreds, just a > hundred, and not overnight, but over two or three days, but the idea is > > The poll: > http://meta

Re: [Foundation-l] FCForum Declaration: Sustainable Models for Creativity

forum.net/sustainable-models-for-creativity/declaration > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Samuel Klein          ident

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikisource's translation efforts, Babel and Translate extensions

on direct translations (of help messages, primary sources, &c), check out the kde example above. On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:01 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: >> John, if you don't mind, can we move this thread to foundation-l?

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF 2015 strategic plan and multilingualism

Hi Teofilo, Thanks for raising all of these points. I agree that we should have our important essays and communication in multiple languages. And I was wishing myself that we had a multilingual blog planet that combined all of the monolingual ones... sometimes we segment ourselves by language in

Re: [Foundation-l] 2006-2011: Mexican, Argentinian, Brazilian governments distance themselves from freedomdefined 1.0

Property%20Watch%29 >> >> ___ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______ &g

Re: [Foundation-l] (OT) Wael Ghonim TED talk on the Egyptian Revolution

t; -- >> >> Sue Gardner >> Executive Director >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> 415 839 6885 office >> 415 816 9967 cell >> >> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in >> the sum of all knowledge.  Help us make it a reality! >> >> http://wikimediafo

Re: [Foundation-l] 2006-2011: Mexican, Argentinian, Brazilian governments distance themselves from freedomdefined 1.0

>> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > >> _______ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mai

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF 2015 strategic plan and multilingualism

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Jay Walsh wrote: > Multilingualism is at the core of our design thinking, as is the concept that > everyone be able to take simple graphic forms and turn them into their own > works. That's a nice way of putting it. Has anyone thought of making icons for the co

Re: [Foundation-l] 2006-2011: Mexican, Argentinian, Brazilian governments distance themselves from freedomdefined 1.0

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Birgitte SB wrote: > > - Original Message >> From: Ray Saintonge >> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List >> Sent: Sun, March 6, 2011 3:54:11 AM >> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] 2006-2011: Mexican, Argentinian, Brazilian >>governments distance themselves fr

Re: [Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)

vement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_(publishing) > which advocates for public access to publicly funded research. > > Hopefully the research which is being made available through open access > can help to support the work of the community. > > Melissa &g

Re: [Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote: >> >> We certainly have many individual contacts with the OA community, >> including Melissa Hagemann, who is on our advisory board :)  This is >> also an area of professional work for me. What kinds of lobbying did >> you have in mind? >> >> I w

Re: [Foundation-l] [Announce] Brion Vibber to rejoin Wikimedia Foundation

n other major language families. However, Maria's emails haven't indicated that she knows anything about this list, nor has she posted to wikies-l... not the best test case. SJ -- Samuel Klein          identi.ca:sj           w:user:sj          +1 617 529 4266 ___

Re: [Foundation-l] [Announce] Brion Vibber to rejoin Wikimedia Foundation

s from now we'll all appreciate it. Brion's blog post about the parser bits was great. I hope it's indicative of a series. -- Samuel Klein          identi.ca:sj           w:user:sj          +1 617 529 4266 ___ foundation-l mailing list foun

Re: [Foundation-l] multilingual mailing list

all. It might not be a bad idea to have a multilingual foundation list where the expectation is inverted -- that most people won't use English unless it is their best language, or they find it necessary to communicate. -- Samuel Klein          identi.ca:

[Foundation-l] Movement roles notes on Meta

The movement roles working group met again yesterday, and the main meta pages are being updated as a result. One point of note -- Sue recently shared her long-form answers to some questions about the process (thank you!), which are worth reading: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_roles_pro

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcing Wikimedia Education List

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Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

outside the realm of financial risk. "Declining participation" was the top risk in late 2009, and helped drive related strategic research and discussion. Thanks to that group for helping to focus attention on this. (http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Top_risks_2009) -- Samuel

Re: [Foundation-l] "How many articles have you created?"

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 8:37 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 10 April 2011 13:14, David Moran wrote: > > For that matter, the contents of > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikipedia_ads might be nice for > the site notice. Yes, we should start doing this. Most wikiproject banners are fun for

Re: [Foundation-l] Outdated manual

ikis. Those are all aggregates of multiple projects. Most of the others use a single TLD but they aren't single 'sites'. [for SEO purposes, we would probably do better if every project shared the same TLD the way Google's do, but that's a

Re: [Foundation-l] Strategy wiki

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 2:34 AM, WereSpielChequers wrote: > project within meta.  In fact if we are serious about the > simplification agenda then migrating the contents of Strategy to meta > would be a logical step to take, perhaps also with a rename to "new > ideas" as that was what it effectiv

Re: [Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications

>> it's just not enabled on >> larger sites such as the English Wikipedia. It's being tracked by bug >> . This is definitely needed. (I remember the debates about implementing this at all when it was first under development; I am quite glad tha

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Re: Do WMF want enwp.org?]

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Martijn Hoekstra wrote: > A while back, I think the WMF got offered the enwp.org domain for > free, which is a fairly oft used shortener. Does anyone remember what > ever happened to that offer? I love this service, btw. Thanks for the offer, Thomas. SJ ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Welcome Wikimedia Macau

Congratulations and welcome! On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > > May you create and share much knowledge! Now that's a lovely general-purpose cheer :-) SJ ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] User talk page email notification

Thank you, that is just great! On 5/14/11, Orionist wrote: > I suggest to make it on by default for all new users. That will hopefully > help us bring back some of those editors lost before their fifth edit. > > And for registered users, we can spread the news through a site notice. +1 to both

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language (Milos Rancic)

o slowly bootstrap their > language sophistication It seems to me that most countries in the world have it in their interest to develop excellent intro-literacy courses to help people learn their language, which could then be disseminated far and wide. As Casey says, Wikiversity would

Re: [Foundation-l] readership draft for feedback

i Pande, PhD > Head of Global Development Research > Wikimedia Foundation > Twitter: manipande > Skype: manipande > > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mai

Re: [Foundation-l] readership draft for feedback

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Mani Pande, 24/05/2011 18:53: >> The draft of the survey, and a FAQ section is available on meta, if you >> are interested. Here is the link to meta space that I have set up for >> the survey. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Readership_

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia at events

dation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Samuel Klein          identi.ca:sj           w:user:sj          +1 617 529 4266 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] The Wikipedia-Ready Essay

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: > An interesting technique: > > http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2011/30/c8623.html This is so true! My highschool sweetheart is a science prof, and recently pointed me to this essay that one of her students published to Wikipedia

Re: [Foundation-l] The Wikipedia-Ready Essay

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:04 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 1 June 2011 10:42, Sarah wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 02:46, Samuel Klein wrote: > >>> Those who toil away in the depths of style guide subpages and cite >>> templates should be reminded from time to tim

[Foundation-l] [OT: OSM] State of the Map, Sep 9-11 - discount for early birds, scholarships

nver! Henk Hoff -- Organising Committee State Of The Map 2011 http://www.stateofthemap.org/ http://www.openstreetmap.org/ h...@stateofthemap.org phone +31 6 4808 8925 -- Samuel Klein          identi.ca:sj           w:user:sj          +1 617 529 4266 _

[Foundation-l] Fwd: DPLA Beta Sprint: Calling all Submitters!

ublic unless otherwise noted. -- Maura Marx Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society Executive Director, Open Knowledge Commons ** direct: 617-384-9131 mobile: 617-835-3510 email: ma...@knowledgecommons.org -- Samuel Klein     

Re: [Foundation-l] Site Notices Phase 2 - Annual Fundraiser 2008

That would be worth trying. SJ On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Robert Rohde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I realize that many of the people working on this are new, but have > you given any thought to replicating / updating the "Personal Appeal" > approach from 2005. Adjusted for changes in traf

Re: [Foundation-l] Moving towards a more usable MediaWiki

Indeed -- and the [[usability group]] is still the first link on that page to people working on the topic. But I see only four interested members there and the page is stale. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usability_group SJ On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Ting Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [Foundation-l] Britannica became free

Do we know people at Arvato? SJ On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Mathias Schindler wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:21 PM, David Gerard wrote: > >> Eek! What's happening to the content? >> > > There are/were several ways to access the content of the actual core > Brockhaus encyclopedia: > >

Re: [Foundation-l] Britannica became free

y attribution of its sources [something the projects currently are poor at - contribute text or media to WM and you get an almost negligible mention]. SJ On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Mathias Schindler wrote: > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: >> Do we kno

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikistats is back

Woo!! Thank you belatedly for my new years' dose of infodisiac. --SJ On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Erik Zachte wrote: > New wikistats reports have been published today, for the first time since > May 2008. The reports have been generated on the new wikistats server > 'Bayes', which is opera

Re: [Foundation-l] Who The Hell Writes Wikipedia, Anyway?

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Mark Williamson wrote: > I do. Bots do. > 2009/1/7 Milos Rancic : >> A friend of mine put my attention to this blog post [1]. I didn't read >> it as it is too late now (I just heard friend's description of the >> article), but I think that there is no sense to w

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