Hey
There is no “community consultation” period in the selection proces. Its simply
not feasible or desirable to have someone have a public “vetting” phase. The
good news is that you elected representatives on the board who have a strong
voice in the selection process and final approval.
Hey Frederico
I will write an update for the meta page in the coming week or so but just to
give you a general sense of where we are at: we are trying to reach potential
candidates in a different way, and so far that looks like a good strategy. This
means more direct contact between the
Hello,
I would also prefer to avoid an expression such as fiasco. Having not
found a candidate in 2013 was unpleasant, unfortunate, undesirable...
Kind regards
Ziko
Am Dienstag, 21. Januar 2014 schrieb Jan-Bart de Vreede :
Hey Frederico
I will write an update for the meta page in the
Hi Jan-Bart,
I was unaware that the panel had gone back to the drawing board with
looking at new candidates. I gather from the tenor of Sue's original
posting that she was planning to have moved on by now, has she committed to
continuing to work on for the forseeable future while you continue to
Hi,
The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in December 2013 is
now available.
Wiki version:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/December
Blog version:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/21/engineering-report-december-2013/
We're also proposing a
Hi Pavel,
Thanks very much for clarifying the way you're thinking about the process.
It sounds like we're heading in the right direction together. :-) We'll get
feedback from everyone at the WM Conference, and use it as inputs into the
FDC Advisory Group meeting.
I'm not sure that the FDC
Hi everyone,
Just a quick reminder that we have 6 more days to collaboratively draft
answers to the European Commission's copyright consultation.
The idea is to give the global, online community a chance to come up with
answers that, if coherent enough, can then be officially given to the
Thanks for getting back to me.
Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote:
There is no community consultation period in the selection proces. It's
simply not feasible or desirable to have someone have a public vetting
phase.
I'm not sure I understand how it would be infeasible. It's 2014, not 1814.
I think we've
Hi! George Mason Univeristy is taking on a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar.
It's a position where you gain full and free remote library access to work
on Wikipedia articles by being granted 'research affiliate' or 'visiting
scholar' to do so.
GMU is looking for someone with an interest in history and
Thanks Jan-Bart for the answer.
Jan-Bart de Vreede, 21/01/2014 12:09:
[...] I am not sure what you are referring to as “avoid another fiasco”, [...]
Sorry, I'll clarify: it would be a fiasco (only) if you had the same
result again. I was just aiming for a summary of the previous and
current
Hi Nemo,
Well, as I said it is an experiment and we can't be sure someting coherent
will come out of it. Therefore, in a true liquid lobbying fashion, we're
running a two-tiered strategy.
On the one hand, individual Wikimedians and EU chapters participating in
the Free Knowledge Advocacy Group
Hoi,
At this moment Wikipedia red links provide no information whatsoever.
This is not cool.
In Wikidata we often have labels for the missing (=red link) articles. We
can and do provide information from Wikidata in a reasonable way that is
informative in the Reasonator. We also provide
Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov, 21/01/2014 16:19:
On the one hand, individual Wikimedians and EU chapters participating in
the Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU [1] have worked together to draft an
answering guide for the consultation. Each chapter, individual or other
organisation is free to use
On the one hand, individual Wikimedians and EU chapters participating in
the Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU [1] have worked together to draft an
answering guide for the consultation. Each chapter, individual or other
organisation is free to use these answers in whole or in parts to produce
Note: the [2] link goes to the test site. The correct link is:
tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?lang=ocq=35610
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote:
Hoi,
At this moment Wikipedia red links provide no information whatsoever.
This is not cool.
In
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote:
Hoi,
At this moment Wikipedia red links provide no information whatsoever.
This is not cool.
In Wikidata we often have labels for the missing (=red link) articles. We
can and do provide information from
Hey
I am sure it is technically feasible, its just not realistic from a hiring
perspective. I cannot tell a potential candidate that process includes a public
vetting process, this is something that is just not going to happen. We are
hiring an ED for the Wikimedia Foundation, and the Board of
I have to say that much as I would like to have the opportunity for us, as
the community, to participate in the process, I understand that this could
likely deter many quality people from applying (and we don't want only
those who are currently between jobs, right?).
best,
dariusz pundit
On
On a technical note, Reasonator is pure JavaScript, so should be easily
portable, even to a Wikipedia:Reasonator.js page (or several pages, with
support JS).
git here:
https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/reasonator
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Ryan Lane rlan...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan
Hoi,
Given that Reasonator requests services through Javascript, it will likely
piggy back on the Wikidata infrastructure. As caching is as far as I know
not implemented on Wikidata, it will benefit everyone when caching for
Wikidata gets on the WMF-Ops agenda.
Until now Wikidata is considered to
Can you explain how such a {{Reasonator}} template would actually work. You
say that it would be a stand-in until the article was actually written, but
how would it know when the article is actually written? Is there a way to
access the target article's state via Lua?
From a community
Hi folks,
I've just uploaded the wiki and PDF versions of the Foundation's most
recent, 2012-13 Annual Report, a project I was invited to work on after my
departure as comms director back in September. You can access a wiki and
PDF version here:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report
If I understand you correctly, the redlink wont be touched, but the empty
page will show reasonator data on it (ideally displayed using the
approptiate infobox). That would help readers and (source editor) writers,
as the important facts are on the screen for them to include into the prose
of the
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