Re: [Wikimedia-l] Featuring the edit tab in Vector (by making it red)

2013-01-10 Thread Jérémie Roquet
Hi everyone, 2013/1/9 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il: I believe that Polish and French had special designs for it in the past, but they appear to be regular now. On the French Wikipedia, It has been bold, white on blue, then green, then we removed everything in 2009¹. How

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention (was Re: Big data benefits and limitations (relevance: WMF editor engagement, fundraising, and HR practices))

2013-01-10 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: David Gerard, 09/01/2013 00:32: On 8 January 2013 23:27, Kim Bruningk...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote: I think that the requirements for a wiki (open, welcoming, anyone can edit, eventualism) are always going to be

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention (was Re: Big data benefits and limitations (relevance: WMF editor engagement, fundraising, and HR practices))

2013-01-10 Thread Richard Symonds
Hi Andreas/Nemo Which column are you looking at to give you the growth numbers on those projects? 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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention (was Re: Big data benefits and limitations (relevance: WMF editor engagement, fundraising, and HR practices))

2013-01-10 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote: I think that the requirements for a wiki (open, welcoming, anyone can edit, eventualism) are always going to be at tension vs the requirements for an encyclopedia (reliable, good sourcing, etc). Right now,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention (was Re: Big data benefits and limitations (relevance: WMF editor engagement, fundraising, and HR practices))

2013-01-10 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Andreas Kolbe, 10/01/2013 17:24: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: The main pattern, ie a turning point in 2007, is the same in all projects, and almost in all language versions of them: [...] Actually, Nemo, I don't think that is right at all. If you look at the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention (was Re: Big data benefits and limitations (relevance: WMF editor engagement, fundraising, and HR practices))

2013-01-10 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Hi Andreas/Nemo Which column are you looking at to give you the growth numbers on those projects? I am mostly looking at the column for editors making more than 100 edits a month, as that is where the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention (was Re: Big data benefits and limitations (relevance: WMF editor engagement, fundraising, and HR practices))

2013-01-10 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:24:12 +, Andreas Kolbe wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: David Gerard, 09/01/2013 00:32: This has often made people wonder if the causes are external (Facebook? Facebook is also almost non-existing in Russia,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention (was Re: Big data benefits and limitations (relevance: WMF editor engagement, fundraising, and HR practices))

2013-01-10 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: Here are the French charts: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaFR.htm Here are the English ones: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaEN.htm I've fixed the link to the English charts: I accidentally

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention (was Re: Big data benefits and limitations (relevance: WMF editor engagement, fundraising, and HR practices))

2013-01-10 Thread Yann Forget
Hello, I agree totally with Tim's assessments of the situation, and it is quite the same on the French WP, and that's why I stopped editing there. Some people like power more than anything else (well, that's not surprising, because it is quite the same IRL), including the growth of the project.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention (was Re: Big data benefits and limitations (relevance: WMF editor engagement, fundraising, and HR practices))

2013-01-10 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:59:28 +0100, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Yaroslav M. Blanter, 10/01/2013 18:11: On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:24:12 +, Andreas Kolbe wrote: On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:41 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: No, incorrect. Facebook exists in Russia and is somehow

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention (was Re: Big data benefits and limitations (relevance: WMF editor engagement, fundraising, and HR practices))

2013-01-10 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 23:34:46 +0530, Yann Forget wrote: Hello, I agree totally with Tim's assessments of the situation, and it is quite the same on the French WP, and that's why I stopped editing there. Happy New Year to all, Yann Welcome to the club. I retired from Russian Wikipedia about

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention (was Re: Big data benefits and limitations (relevance: WMF editor engagement, fundraising, and HR practices))

2013-01-10 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: Andreas Kolbe, 10/01/2013 19:21: Open these two pages: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/**ChartsWikipediaFR.htmhttp://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaFR.htm

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia engineering December 2012 report

2013-01-10 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi, The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in December 2012 is now available. Wiki version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2012/December Blog version: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/10/engineering-december-2012-report/ We're also proposing a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Featuring the edit tab in Vector (by making it red)

2013-01-10 Thread Mono
On vi.wikipedai.org the non mainspaces are green - maybe just a tab like that? On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Jérémie Roquet arkano...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, 2013/1/9 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il: I believe that Polish and French had special designs for it in the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Featuring the edit tab in Vector (by making it red)

2013-01-10 Thread Bence Damokos
The correct link is vi.wikipedia.org This vi.wikipedAI.org domain should be checked out by Legal at WMF, though... Best regards, Bence On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Mono monom...@gmail.com wrote: On vi.wikipedai.org the non mainspaces are green - maybe just a tab like that? On Thu,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's non-disclosure agreement

2013-01-10 Thread MZMcBride
Salvidrim wrote: This is the Wikimedia UK version: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Non_Disclosure_Agreement Also relevant may be this discussion: http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Water_cooler/2012#Comparison_of_UK_NDA_with_W MF_NDA Thanks for the links. :-) I started an index page at