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Hi folks!
I felt like Sue did a nice job earlier of responding in an earlier thread
of http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-May/125807.html,
but here’s my response as well. Wikimedia Foundation wiki has always been
uniquely governed among the family of Wikimedia wikis, with de
I would like to remind everyone that many blog posts are now drafted
in public at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts .
Pre-publication copyedits or comments on better structuring etc. are
welcome there, so don't feel restricted to posting armchair advice on
mailing lists ;) For
Version 1.0 is out:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-announce
Source: https://github.com/quimgil/mailman-templates
Propagation is welcome. Thank you TheHelpfulOne for the original push
and to the other feedback reporters!
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
Quim Gil, 22/05/2013 18:48:
[...]
We can probably add "The Microblogging Sharing Test" to our headlines. :)
[...]
I believe this is one of the methods used by the fundraising team
(unless I'm confused by someone else's campaign; perhaps the German
anti-AFTA campaign).
Nemo
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On 05/22/2013 08:39 AM, Florence Devouard wrote:
My main suggestion (valid for all posts, technical or not) would be to
start with a clearly identified cap as summary. And put an extra effort
so that this cap is written in simple and straightforward message.
Yes! Don't assume readers will reach
Hi
My main suggestion (valid for all posts, technical or not) would be to
start with a clearly identified cap as summary. And put an extra effort
so that this cap is written in simple and straightforward message.
In that regards, this post is pretty good generally
http://blog.wikimedia.org/20
Quim Gil, 21/05/2013 23:15:
[...] Good journalism is mostly about a lead paragraph for the masses followed
by an increasingly dense body text (aka the 5 Ws and the inverted
pyramid). You can adapt and change these rules at will, as long as you
are aware of them.
Paying more editorial attention t
Erik Moeller, 24/04/2013 08:29:
[...]
Could open source MT be such a strategic investment? I don't know, but
I'd like to at least raise the question. I think the alternative will
be, for the foreseeable future, to accept that this piece of
technology will be proprietary, and to rely on goodwill f
I agree with everyone here and would add that no matter how hard to
read, *any blog entry at all* on this Tech stuff is highly welcome,
because it also serves as a written record to refer back to in various
ongoing technical projects. Any documentation at all is better than
none. I find myself regu
I think what is even more helpful to people, is to avoid abbreviations as
much as possible, or explain them. For example:
* Up-Goer 5 (but there was a link next to it - which allows you to guess
what it means)
* SMOG (the stuff that is in the air, right?)
* FKT
Usually this kind of abbreviations (
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