Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Reasonator use in Wikipedias

2014-01-22 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The mail I send is meant to be a warning in advance. If you are interested in the Reasonator, it is in continuous development and information is provided on an almost daily basis. When you have read it, you may understand the potential it has. It will help you understand why it can have a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Reasonator use in Wikipedias

2014-01-22 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, As far as I am concernted the redlink IS touched; it is the only way to ensure potential disambiguation. Well actually we could do this in Reasonator but that has not been considered so far. The problem is that you refer to the appropriate infoboxes, as far as I am aware they do not exist.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] European Commission Copyright Consultation

2014-01-22 Thread Luiz Augusto
It will be ok if I change a currently signed answer to a more neutral text and later expand it? Em 21/01/2014 14:12, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov dimitar.parvanov.dimit...@gmail.com escreveu: On the one hand, individual Wikimedians and EU chapters participating in the Free Knowledge Advocacy

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

2014-01-22 Thread James Salsman
Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote: ... we are trying to reach potential candidates in a different way Does Leonie Haimson want to interview to be co-director? http://www.classsizematters.org/about-us/ She started editing in the past year, after suffering from a paid advocacy-introduced inaccuracy

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

2014-01-22 Thread Strainu
2014/1/21 Jan-Bart de Vreede jdevre...@wikimedia.org: I am not going to debate the different kinds of movement representation in the board, but I would argue that the community directly and indirectly influences 100% of the board, as appointed members are appointed by (s)elected members and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

2014-01-22 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Sorry I cannot parse this suffering from a paid advocacy-introduced inaccuracy contrary to the peer reviewed secondary literature Thanks, GerardM On 22 January 2014 11:29, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote: ... we are trying to reach potential

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

2014-01-22 Thread
Thanks for the assurance that the community directly and indirectly influences 100% of the board. Could someone point me to where this happened for the founder of the Wikimedia Foundation? Thanks again, Fae On 21 January 2014 17:28, Jan-Bart de Vreede jdevre...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hey I am

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

2014-01-22 Thread Jeevan Jose
Founder of the Wikimedia Foundation = One who founded/established the foundation? Sorry; I didn't get your question. Regards, Jee On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the assurance that the community directly and indirectly influences 100% of the board.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

2014-01-22 Thread James Salsman
GerardM, please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Class-size_reductiondiff=563977349oldid=405118703 ...for starters. The editor from 2010 is a strident charter schools movement proponent who strongly prefers parochial education to public education in the U.S., which is a surprisingly

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

2014-01-22 Thread Luiz Augusto
Founder of a company that hosted the first wiki setup named as Wikipedia after someone else suggested it due to the failure of Nupedia. There is currently a Foundation where he is limited to the boy who sometimes talks to the press only after YEARS of internal wars, including press coverage of he

[Wikimedia-l] next Wikidata office hour

2014-01-22 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Hey folks :) Adam and I will be holding another office hour on February 3rd at 5pm UTC. See http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Wikidata+office+houriso=20140203T18p1=37ah=1 for your timezone. We will be meeting in #wikimedia-office on freenode IRC. The topics will be: *

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

2014-01-22 Thread Katie Chan
Oh for heavens sake, what does that have anything to do with this thread? -- Katie Chan Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the view of any organisation the author is associated with or employed by. Experience is a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

2014-01-22 Thread Luiz Augusto
The 100% being reduced to at least 90% but, in fact, my wording was friendly to start a flame war. Sorry for that. Em 22/01/2014 11:27, Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info escreveu: Oh for heavens sake, what does that have anything to do with this thread? -- Katie Chan Any views or opinions

[Wikimedia-l] Office hours today on VE

2014-01-22 Thread Maggie Dennis
Hi, guys I just wanted to shoot out a reminder that later today there will be another office hour for VisualEditor, featuring James Forrester. This meeting is at 2300 UTC ( http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=23min=00sec=0day=22month=01year=2014 ) You can read more about

[Wikimedia-l] Audio and video help for mobile users

2014-01-22 Thread Andy Mabbett
[cross-posted] Following discussion at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#FLAC_on_Apple_devices, about the difficulty of playing Wikimedia audio and video on mobile devices, we've added red links to: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Media_help for iOS and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [WikimediaMobile] Audio and video help for mobile users

2014-01-22 Thread Brion Vibber
Android should just work but there are some regressions since I last tested it, from what I hear. Hopefully we can get these examined and fixed soon. There are some possible things we can do launching files in the VLC app for iOS; some clever JavaScript could make this experience smoother. I plan

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [WikimediaMobile] Audio and video help for mobile users

2014-01-22 Thread Brion Vibber
I've added stub pages: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Media_help/iOS https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Media_help/Android Please feel free to add relevant background links, or a link to the MP4 discussion on the iOS page which may be of interest. -- brion On Wed, Jan 22,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours today on VE

2014-01-22 Thread Maggie Dennis
Office hour at 2300 UTC ( http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=23min=00sec=0day=22month=01year=2014) to discuss VE. Please stop by, if you can make it! Maggie On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Maggie Dennis mden...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi, guys I just wanted to shoot out

[Wikimedia-l] Alexandra Wang joins the WMF Grantmaking team

2014-01-22 Thread Asaf Bartov
Hi, everyone. I'm thrilled to announce that as of last week, WMF's new Project and Event Grants (PEG) Program Officer is Alex Wang. She will be supporting the PEG program's scaling up, and will enable us to offer our grantees a much higher level of support in project management and frequent

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Alexandra Wang joins the WMF Grantmaking team

2014-01-22 Thread Samuel Klein
Excellent news and artistry! Welcome, Alex. SJ On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, everyone. I'm thrilled to announce that as of last week, WMF's new Project and Event Grants (PEG) Program Officer is Alex Wang. She will be supporting the PEG

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Alexandra Wang joins the WMF Grantmaking team

2014-01-22 Thread Tonmoy Khan
Great news! Wish Alex all the best :) Ali On Jan 23, 2014 5:55 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Excellent news and artistry! Welcome, Alex. SJ On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, everyone. I'm thrilled to announce that as of last