Greetings, all.
And apologies. This resolution approving the Wikimedia Chapters' selections
to the Board of Trustees was unanimously approved, in-person, on July 11,
2012.
It took much longer to publish than it should have due to a procedural
issue.
It has finally been published at:
On 07/24/12 4:32 PM, Juergen Fenn wrote:
FYI: Spanish Wikinews today bears a site notice in protest against the
Mexican government signing the ACTA agreement. It says: The internet
must remain free. The Freedom of the internet is in peril.
The Spanish Wikinews community has issued a press
2012/7/25 Thomas Souza-Buckup thomassouzabuc...@gmail.com:
Lodewijk
I agree with you. It makes a lot of sense to start now a negotiation with
the IOC in order to prepare for the next Olympic Games taking place in
Brazil in 2016.
The winter games in Sochi 2014 are supposed to be quite
Just checking
The meta page
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/2012_Round_1_Eligibility_Status
outlines that amongst the obligations is the fact of providing financial
reports in English
What we have considered as 'financial reports' : financial reports
in
See
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Talk:Resolution:Personal_image_hiding_feature
Votes were initially cast on 11 July with Phoebe and Arne still on the
board. Then Jimmy changed his vote on 16 July.
On 25 July 2012 14:50, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote:
If they got confirmed at July
Hi Beria,
I am sure Bishakha will give a more thorough answer if I am mistaken, but
from what I heard from Board members when I asked the same question: the
new board members fully participated in the meeting on the 11 July, but for
technical reasons and simplicity's sake, they only assumed the
2012/7/24 birgitte...@yahoo.com:
On Jul 24, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com
wrote:
2012/7/24 birgitte...@yahoo.com:
[...] So I definitely believe what it.WM wants to do, to connect people
with local events, has real value. And that it has value for the
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Cristian Consonni
kikkocrist...@gmail.comwrote:
2012/7/24 birgitte...@yahoo.com:
On Jul 24, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com
wrote:
2012/7/24 birgitte...@yahoo.com:
[...] So I definitely believe what it.WM wants to do, to
2012/7/25 aude aude.w...@gmail.com:
There also are infoboxes and categories that people use to indicate where
they live.
I think this solutions has the same drawbacks of using an opt-in gadget.
It could also be a preference, to make it private info. (and would be nice
to get geonotices for
Hello,
In accordance with the Chair, I have published a new proposal for
standing orders of the WCA Council. More explanations here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Standing_Orders
Kind regards
Ziko
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I think the clear moral of this story is that, as accommodating and
reader-friendly you can be, you just can't make everyone happy.
We should listen to all opinions and suggestions, but expect to decide most
of the time that the suggestions are simply dumb or unhelpful.
On 25 July 2012 16:22,
Reminder that this meeting begins in 15 minutes.
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Date: Fri, Jul 20, 2012
On 17 July 2012 00:46, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
I honestly don't understand why it is taking so many years to develop a
WYSIWYG editor, for example, or a new Commons search function. Honestly,
people, if you want to create paid jobs, don't inflate the chapter
structure, but
Hello Nathan,
Thanks for having looked at my proposal. Of course I think too that
this project won't be affiliate to the fundation. I have already talk
about this with Anthere. But I think it's important to do this step,
one
day maybe things will evolve, so no matter if the affiliation is not a
Hoi,
Most people are stupid and they still deserve a great reading experience..
Our aim is to share in the sum of all knowledge with everyone. When people
fail to read Wikipedia.. and they do.. there is a reason to do better for
them. Any effective measure that provides a better experience for
One of the key problems with the interface is that it doesn't do a lot to
seperate editing and reading.
I know the point is to make editing easy - and to encourage readers to
become editors. But realistically most of them will not - and we could do
significantly better in streamlining our anon.
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Deryck Chan deryckc...@wikimedia.hkwrote:
On 17 July 2012 00:46, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
I honestly don't understand why it is taking so many years to develop a
WYSIWYG editor, for example, or a new Commons search function.
Honestly,
On 25 July 2012 20:48, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
So there were how many years of faffing about before they hired *one guy*
for this project? This is an organisation with a $20m annual budget, now
acquiring umpteen paid chapter officials.
Wikipedia is about as user-friendly as
Where is the WMF annual plan? My understanding was that it was
supposed to be published by the end of last week.
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On 25 July 2012 20:44, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:
One of the key problems with the interface is that it doesn't do a lot to
seperate editing and reading.
I know the point is to make editing easy - and to encourage readers to
become editors. But realistically most of
On 25 July 2012 21:01, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 25 July 2012 20:44, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:
One of the key problems with the interface is that it doesn't do a lot to
seperate editing and reading.
I know the point is to make editing easy - and to
David,
Here is a different approach. Ask the Foundation's paid programming staff
if there is ever so much for them to do that other things they know should
be done, or that other people have asked them to do, fall by the wayside;
or how often it happens that project dates slip and deadlines are
Hi Thomas,
it is indeed already approved by the Board and will be published
simultaneously with the usual accompanying QA very soon - expect it
before the end of this week.
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
Where is the WMF annual plan? My
Thanks, Tilman. That matches the timeline I understood, thanks to
Wikimania-related lag. Sam.
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Tilman Bayer tba...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Thomas,
it is indeed already approved by the Board and will be published
simultaneously with the usual accompanying QA
On 25 July 2012 22:04, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 25 July 2012 21:01, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
(This is why I'm so disappointed the mobile app doesn't do editing,
for example. Or, indeed, some way to take a photo and quickly add it
to an article.)
Thomas Morton, 25/07/2012 22:04:
We also need to be understanding of the 99% - the ones who just want to
read.
Our interface should suit the reader - with a prominent prompt to edit.
Which once clicked opens things up into the world of editing Wikipedia.
But if you don't click that prompt then
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Jessie Wild, 26/07/2012 00:54:
Hello everyone!
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There's plenty of feedback also on
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 09:04:46PM +0100, Thomas Morton wrote:
This all ties back to my view that we don't think of the average reader
enough :)
What do we want the average reader to do? Who do we want them to be.
Do we want them to be an encyclopedia reader, a wiki editor,
or ... something
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 09:48:50PM +0200, Svip wrote:
Oh and here is a fun fact I have discovered over the years; reading
large texts of a serif typeface is a lot easier than a sans-serif
typeface.
See, I'm *not* crazy to think that! phew
That's why I still use the classic skin, it's the
Hi all,
you are cordially invited to the first ever IRC office hours of the
Foundation's recently formed Analytics team, taking place in
#wikimedia-analytics on Freenode on Monday, July 30 at 19:00 UTC /
noon PT
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On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Michel Vuijlsteke wikipe...@zog.orgwrote:
And we may want to consider if it is really _everyone_ we want
to edit our articles.
I don't believe you actually said this.
I would say this is a theme that I have seen on the wikipedia. People dont
have time to
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