Hi Geoff,
I'm delighted and pleasantly surprised to see that the Foundation staff has
listened to the community and changed course on this important issue. My
commendations for this, and I urge the Board of Trustees to accept this
recommendation quickly so that this issue can finally be put to
Dear Wikimedians,
Here is the monthly report of Wikimedia Argentina for November 2013.
You can read the full report (in Spanish and English) here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Argentina/Reportes/2013-11
Also, the full reports of past months are available at
In various research and media articles is written that in several subject
groups Wikipedia is missing a lot of articles and those groups are relatively
unrepresented.
How can we as Wikipedia get clear which subject groups are missing?
How can we get lists of less represented subject groups and
There are probably be some common trends over all language version like
we are stronger in areas like Server software and Skateboard tricks then
Fashion and Cosmetics. But to really find the weak areas you need to
find out this by each language version. And here I believe we will find
quite
Dear all,
I just wanted to let you know that Michael Maggs has taken over from me as
Chair of Wikimedia UK. Michael has served as chair of the Governance
Committee since his election to the Board in June, is a long-serving
Wikimedia Commons bureaucrat, and I am sure he will do an excellent job.
I'm not aware that there ever was such an agreement. Annoyance to users is
certainly something that we do try to minimise, and we've actually rejected
a number of designs so far this year for that reason. However we thought
carefully about this banner before testing it and considered it okay for a
Love it! Looks like there's more than one banner too:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/store_news/store_gd_g1_QG5Z.png
--
Peter Coombe
Fundraising Production Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
On 8 December 2013 19:52, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Largely unrelated: it looks like xkcd
The English Wikipedia has attempted a (non-exhaustive) list at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Systemic_bias
Peter
On 9 December 2013 07:35, Romaine Wiki romaine_w...@yahoo.com wrote:
In various research and media articles is written that in several subject
groups Wikipedia is
Original Message
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK Board update
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2013 22:15:57 +
From: Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info
Reply-To: UK Wikimedia mailing list wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org
To: wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org
On 09/12/2013 22:01, Fæ
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:
To clarify the term long-serving Wikimedia Commons bureaucrat,
Michael had both rights of admin and bureaucrat restored seven months
ago, without a community vote, after retiring in December 2010.[2]
Links
1.
On 9 December 2013 22:39, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:
To clarify the term long-serving Wikimedia Commons bureaucrat,
Michael had both rights of admin and bureaucrat restored seven months
ago...
There was indeed a community
Dear all:
A proposed amendment to the Industrial Property Law, Federal Law on
Copyright and the Federal Penal Code, recently presented at the Chamber of
Deputies of Mexico, very similar to SOPA and the Sinde Law in Spain, would
affect the functioning of the Wikimedia projects in Mexico.
Our
If the number of donations and the total amount donated stayed the same,
how did the amount of the average donation spike by a factor of 10? Looks
like a data glitch, not some special strategy.
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:39 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm still very interested in
Peter Coombe wrote:
I'm not aware that there ever was such an agreement. Annoyance to users is
certainly something that we do try to minimise, and we've actually
rejected a number of designs so far this year for that reason. However we
thought carefully about this banner before testing it and
Interesting. Thank you for taking a public stand and for keeping us
informed. Is there any international movement so far to support the
advocates in Mexico that are arguing against this amendment?
Sam.
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Ivan Martínez gala...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all:
A
Related: There are some issues with the design of these banners, especially the
floaty thing.Why are you using a table element? It's really wrong for this
kind of thing. Also, please commit to just one color for the floater - the
highlighting thing doesn't make sense in that space. (See a
I also forgot to mention those annoyingly ugly 'Credit Card'/PayPal buttons
with the double borders. I suggest making the border 1px solid and then reduce
the border radius to 5px.
User:Mono
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Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 19:36:31 -0700
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