Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia redefined -- typography and UX and such

2012-08-07 Thread Ed Erhart
I wonder what the wikipediaredefined people would think of Brandon Harris' Athena Project? cf. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-08-06/Op-ed>, , etc. --Ed On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > Yes indeed. C

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

2012-08-07 Thread phoebe ayers
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Barry Newstead wrote: > Dear Wikimedia friends and colleagues, > > It is bittersweet for me to share with all of you that I will be leaving the > Wikimedia Foundation at the end of August to relocate to Australia for > personal reasons. :( We will miss you greatly

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia redefined -- typography and UX and such

2012-08-07 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Yes indeed. Cool ideas ... and they look a bit more *professional* than our effort. ;) Andreas On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:55 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Michel Vuijlsteke wrote: > > Well, it's certainly a possible starting point for discussion: > > http://www.wikipediaredefined.com/ > > There are som

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

2012-08-07 Thread Steven Zhang
Hi all, Please disregard my previous correspondence, it was sent in error. Regards, Steve Zhang Community Fellow, Wikimedia Foundation szh...@wikimedia.org > On 08/08/2012, at 4:41 AM, Barry Newstead wrote: > >> Dear Wikimedia friends and colleagues, >> >> It is bittersweet for me to share w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

2012-08-07 Thread Steven Zhang
Hi Barry, It may not mean much, but I wanted to express my gratitude to you for all the hard work you've done over the past two years, both for the Foundation and for the entire Wikimedia movement. When you leave, I think your successor will have big shoes to fill. As you know, I'm in Australi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia redefined -- typography and UX and such

2012-08-07 Thread MZMcBride
Michel Vuijlsteke wrote: > Well, it's certainly a possible starting point for discussion: > http://www.wikipediaredefined.com/ There are some interesting and neat ideas in there. Any idea what the copyright/license status of the images used on that page is? It'd be nice to be able to upload the i

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia redefined -- typography and UX and such

2012-08-07 Thread Hay (Husky)
Yup, i think it's pretty nice. I especially like the 'edit' modus with the live edit view. And the colored bars on the top of the main page indicating the number of articles in a certain language. -- Hay On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Michel Vuijlsteke wrote: > Well, it's certainly a possible

[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia redefined -- typography and UX and such

2012-08-07 Thread Michel Vuijlsteke
Well, it's certainly a possible starting point for discussion: http://www.wikipediaredefined.com/ -- Michel Vuijlsteke http://blog.zog.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listi

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Follow-up to Barry's note

2012-08-07 Thread Sue Gardner
Hi folks, I want to thank Barry for everything he’s done for the Wikimedia movement, and express my regret that he’s leaving the Foundation. Barry’s done a lot for the movement. He's been involved for three years: first, as the Bridgespan lead for our strategy project, and afterwards as Chief Glo

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

2012-08-07 Thread Barry Newstead
Dear Wikimedia friends and colleagues, It is bittersweet for me to share with all of you that I will be leaving the Wikimedia Foundation at the end of August to relocate to Australia for personal reasons. It is difficult for me to leave Wikimedia and particularly leave the Global Development team

[Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours with the Localisation team 2012-08-15 16:30 UTC

2012-08-07 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan (WMF)
Hello everyone, You're invited to the IRC office hours with the Localisation team[1] at the Wikimedia Foundation. Date: 2012-08-15 Time: 16.30 UTC Venue: #wikimedia-office Agenda: 1. Universal Language Selector update. 2. Language teams. 3. Q & A For more logistical info and time conversion lin

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 8, Issue 32 -- 06 August 2012

2012-08-07 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
Op-ed: The Athena Project: being bold http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-08-06/Op-ed News and notes: FDC portal launched http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-08-06/News_and_notes WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Martial Ar