Re: [Wikimedia-l] What community initiatives have made an impact on editor engagement?

Steven Walling writes: > > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Erik Moeller wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Steven Walling wikimedia.org> > > wrote: > > > On July 11th at the next WMF Metrics & Activities meeting, myself, Erik > > > Möller, Howie Fung, Maryana Pinch

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "How I got addicted to Wikipediocracy…"

I actually laughed a bit at the post, because there's a small amount of truth to it. At its worst, I've seen enwiki's WP:AN's degrade into a drama-laden dump, with bad faith assumed on entire posts. Just my two-cents worth, but I'd suggest stepping back, laughing at ourselves, and taking a lesson f

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What community initiatives have made an impact on editor engagement?

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Steven Walling >> wrote: >> > On July 11th at the next WMF Metrics & Activities meeting, myself, Erik >> > Möller, Howie Fung, Maryana Pinchuk, and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What community initiatives have made an impact on editor engagement?

Tim Starling, 12/07/2013 01:14: Of course, the pt.wp community was well aware of the situation. I don't think so. Some community members were, but very few. It took 7 months to get a local discussion/vote on the matter start and conclude. Proceurally, the absence of consensus for the configura

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What community initiatives have made an impact on editor engagement?

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: > On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Steven Walling > wrote: > > On July 11th at the next WMF Metrics & Activities meeting, myself, Erik > > Möller, Howie Fung, Maryana Pinchuk, and Dario Taraborelli are going to > > deliver a short update on t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open call for new ideas in the Grants:IdeaLab

The idealab is amazing. Keep it up! For years people have discussed having a separate idea-site to capture project ideas, half-baked and fully-formed; it is wonderful to see this happening now, and in fact implemented in mediawiki itself. Your new templates and icons are making meta beautiful.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What community initiatives have made an impact on editor engagement?

On 05/07/13 22:09, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > The recent community initiative with the highest impact I can think of > is surely what Platonides and other members of the global (technical) > community did on pt.wiki. Platonides noticed a configuration error on > pt.wiki: CAPTCHA was required for

[Wikimedia-l] Open call for new ideas in the Grants:IdeaLab

Hi all, We've updated the Grants:IdeaLab to make it easier to find and share ideas for projects to improve Wikimedia, and connect with potential collaborators. Please come have a look and share your ideas! http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab Some of the ideas being collaboratively deve

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What community initiatives have made an impact on editor engagement?

On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > On July 11th at the next WMF Metrics & Activities meeting, myself, Erik > Möller, Howie Fung, Maryana Pinchuk, and Dario Taraborelli are going to > deliver a short update on the state of Wikimedia editor communities. (For > those not familia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] *** DATE CHANGE *** Invitation to WMF June 2013 Metrics and Activities Meeting: Thursday, July 11, 18:00 UTC

REMINDER: This meeting starts in 30 minutes. On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Praveena Maharaj wrote: > Dear all, > > The next WMF metrics and activities will take place on Thursday, July 11, > 2013 at 6:00 PM UTC (11 AM PDT). Please note that on this occasion we are > holding this meeting o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "How I got addicted to Wikipediocracy…"

Le 2013-07-11 01:14, Tomasz W. Kozlowski a écrit : … writes Amanda Filipacci, the writer behind the recent Wikipedia novelists sexism scandal: . I'm not sure if it's still funny or maybe already depressing. To me it so