MZMcBride, I agree with you, but let me split out one thing:
On 20 August 2014 04:09, MZMcBride wrote:
the one complaint I _never_ hear is that
Wikipedia has a readership problem.
Then you'll hear it from me.
First, let's make one thing clear: the reader doesn't exist; it's just a
rhetorical
2014-08-21 9:30 GMT+03:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com:
It would *seem* that every user
converted to the mobile site is a step towards extinction of the wiki.
That is an excellent point Frederico. In addition to the inherent
difficulties of editing on small screen, especially large
On 21 August 2014 10:31, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote:
the mobile
website arbitrarily skips some elements visible on desktop, such as
navboxes
I've noticed this; and other deficiencies (such as no did you know
on main page, not even as a link to a subpage).
and significantly alter some
On 21 August 2014 05:31, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote:
2014-08-21 9:30 GMT+03:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com:
It would *seem* that every user
converted to the mobile site is a step towards extinction of the wiki.
That is an excellent point Frederico. In addition to the
Hi all.
I understand the Engineering folks used superprotect instead of /undoing/ the
edit and adding 'This is a WMF action.' in edit summary. Could I please be
enlightened on the reasoning behind that?
I suppose people could go and try editing other JS pages and cause havoc, but
that's
Editing via the mobile view is made more painful by the use of navboxes, tables
and complex templates of any kind. Even the {{cite}} template can occupy
several lines of the display on a mobile device making it hard to discern the
text. Maybe Wikidata will solve some of this by shifting the
On 21.08.2014 14:26, Risker wrote:
On 21 August 2014 05:31, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote:
...
I went to look at some of those same articles using my smartphone with
the
desktop option turned on. Many of them timed out without fully
loading;
others took several minutes. There was a
On 21 August 2014 09:18, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
On 21.08.2014 14:26, Risker wrote:
On 21 August 2014 05:31, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote:
...
I went to look at some of those same articles using my smartphone with the
desktop option turned on. Many of them
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
On 21 August 2014 05:31, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote:
2014-08-21 9:30 GMT+03:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com:
It would *seem* that every user
converted to the mobile site is a step towards extinction of the
On 21.08.2014 15:24, Risker wrote:
On 21 August 2014 09:18, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
On 21.08.2014 14:26, Risker wrote:
On 21 August 2014 05:31, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote:
...
Many of these templates have over 100 links in them; a surprisingly
large
number
re the birth anomalies, we have been running a process for several years now
that looks for people alive according to certain wikipedias and dead according
to up to 80 others. The format works well and has been broadened to various
other anomalies such as being dead but not born.
I find navboxes useful as an editor, and frequently use them to keep track of
the related articles I edit. I would prefer to keep the functionality, but
would not have a problem with it being opt-in.
Cheers,
Peter
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Hi all,
I note that a new Wikimedia organisation has been setup in Michigan, called
the Wikipedia Editors Foundation Inc, as of about a week or two ago.
It seems (by the filings) to be a nice nonprofit org set up by sensible
people who care about the movement.
That said - is this a new chapter,
On 21/08/14 13:24, Risker wrote:
On 21 August 2014 09:18, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
For me the conclusion would be not that we should drop them altogether in
the mobile version (most of them are useful navigation means after all) but
that the mobile version should be
Hi Richard, any links to where you found this information?
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Richard Symonds
richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Hi all,
I note that a new Wikimedia organisation has been setup in Michigan, called
the Wikipedia Editors Foundation Inc, as of about a week
I would also like that information.
I can confirm that the Affiliations Committee does not have an active (or
past) application from them for affiliation. I am checking if anyone on the
AffCom heard about it from other channels.
-greg aka varnent
Vice Chair, Wikimedia Affiliations Committee
On
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 12:21 PM, James Forrester jdforres...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 21 August 2014 09:13, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Richard, any links to where you found this information?
The ever-excellent OpenCorporates has its entry:
On 21 August 2014 12:21, James Forrester jdforres...@gmail.com wrote:
On 21 August 2014 09:13, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Richard, any links to where you found this information?
The ever-excellent OpenCorporates has its entry:
https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_mi/71656Y
Thanks all!
I have passed this over to WMF legal to deal with as it's a trademark issue.
Richard Symonds
Wikimedia UK
0207 065 0992
Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and
Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered
Office 4th Floor,
Thank you Richard for bringing this to everyone's attention.
So folks know, WMF Legal and the Affiliations Committee are investigating
and will be reaching out to the group soon.
Thanks!
-greg aka varnent
Wikimedia Affiliations Committee Vice Chair
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Richard
On 21 August 2014 17:08, Isarra Yos zhoris...@gmail.com wrote:
Man, I forgot how over the top some projects get
with their navigation templates.
Perhaps the answer is to refactor them as separate pages to which
mobile (and even desktop) pages can use a single link?
--
Andy Mabbett
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Or, have them filled from Wikidata. Then, {{Infobox}} would be all the
wikitext you need. This could also help to abstract infoboxes to load a
placeholder/hint on mobile, then loading the box on request
On 21.08.2014 21:17, Steven Walling wrote:
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Magnus Manske
magnusman...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Or, have them filled from Wikidata. Then, {{Infobox}} would be all
the
wikitext you need. This could also help to abstract infoboxes to
load a
placeholder/hint on
On 21 Aug 2014, at 13:03, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 21 August 2014 10:31, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote:
the mobile
website arbitrarily skips some elements visible on desktop, such as
navboxes
I've noticed this; and other deficiencies (such as no did you know
I was talking about navboxes, not infoboxes.
On 21 August 2014 19:04, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
Or, have them filled from Wikidata. Then, {{Infobox}} would be all the
wikitext you need. This could also help to abstract infoboxes to load a
placeholder/hint on mobile, then
2014-08-21 15:03 GMT+03:00 Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk:
On 21 August 2014 10:31, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote:
and significantly alter some infoboxes because it doesn't
look good.
I'd not noticed this; can you give examples, please?
It seems this is not the case at en.wp, but
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 6:29 AM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com
wrote:
*But*, that only works on the normal website. On the mobile website,
I cant figure out how to disable the Media Viewer. To check I wasnt
missing something, I asked someone at the Wikimedia Indonesia office
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014, at 12:12, MZMcBride wrote:
Hi.
The German Wikipedia has evaluated and decided against the default use of
MediaViewer on its project (preferring opt-in, rather than opt-out). Erik
has made it his mission to impose MediaViewer on the German Wikipedia
using Wikimedia
BTW you should all love this idea:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_%28Product%29/Process_ideas#Get_local_consencus_for_your_changes
svetlana
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
I am curious to hear your thoughts about the proposed Technology Committee.
That idea has some community support and had been discussed at some length
on the WMF Board Noticeboard.
I think it has merits if it's mostly used as
Am 22.08.2014 04:18 schrieb Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org:
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
I am curious to hear your thoughts about the proposed Technology
Committee.
That idea has some community support and had been discussed at some
length
on the WMF
The page is already overly long and in places impenetrable, and I speak as
a systems analyst with Agile development experience. A shift to plain
English might be useful and more care to avoid dropping in fringe jargon
like Wiki markup is not Turing complete.
On 22 Aug 2014 01:39, svetlana
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