Re: [Wikimedia-l] Next steps regarding WMF-community disputes about deployments

2014-09-09 Thread Gergo Tisza
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: The team has pretty strong arguments why they don't want posts to be editable (the gist is, they fear that no other discussion system does this, and it will freak people out -- they see the introduction of a new system as

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow or not to Flow

2014-09-09 Thread Erik Moeller
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:22 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 September 2014 05:46, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: Those of us who presently use talk pages to get the work done. What is going to make us *love* Flow, for all its imperfections, and demand to have it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow or not to Flow

2014-09-09 Thread David Gerard
On 9 September 2014 10:45, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:22 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Those of us who presently use talk pages to get the work done. What is going to make us *love* Flow, for all its imperfections, and demand to have it for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow or not to Flow

2014-09-09 Thread Diego Moya
Thanks Erik for your mindful comment. Such high level technical, social and strategic vision is rare to find. It deserves being placed in a prominent position for increased visibility, and it helps in building bridges with the community. Inter-wiki conversation sounds indeed like a killer feature

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Feedback with Android on Commons

2014-09-09 Thread Wil Sinclair
Hi Pete. I agree that the app could do more to explain to the user what is appropriate for commons. And I'd hate to see this app sunsetted, because it makes it very convenient to snap pictures and upload them in a few gestures. A couple of questions, tho: * Pete, there's already a tour when you

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow or not to Flow

2014-09-09 Thread Wil Sinclair
I don't know how many people here remember their first discussion on WP, but I do. Probably because it was less than 6 months ago. :) My first impression was you have got to be kidding me. I was annoyed I had to learn a new markup dialect, but that didn't deter me. Since I had some experience

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open call for Individual Engagement Grant proposals

2014-09-09 Thread Nasir Khan
Dear Siko, Create a new idea button is not working in the https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Ideas page and Try a new tool to create your proposal button in the https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG page. I faced this form the Firefox and Chrome browser in Windows 8. is it only

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open call for Individual Engagement Grant proposals

2014-09-09 Thread Pine W
Hi, I just tried the Try a new tool to create your proposal button and it works for me. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Heather_Walls_should_get_a_design_award Siko, feel free to delete that page as a test edit. Pine On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Nasir Khan nasir8...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open call for Individual Engagement Grant proposals

2014-09-09 Thread Wil Sinclair
Where is it failing for you? The popup form works for me on both Safari and Chrome on OSX 10.8.5. I didn't go through the whole wizard, tho, because I didn't want to add dummy data to the database. ,Wil On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Nasir Khan nasir8...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Siko, Create a

[Wikimedia-l] Individual Engagement Grants Committee recruiting for members

2014-09-09 Thread Pine W
Dear all, The Individual Engagement Grants Committee is seeking new members. We are diverse, consensus-based committee with members on five continents and a variety of skills. As a group we speak 16 languages and have over 500,000 edits to a variety of Wikimedia sites. We review grant

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open call for Individual Engagement Grant proposals

2014-09-09 Thread Siko Bouterse
Hi Nasir, We've heard this from one other user, but have been unable to reproduce the bug so far. I'm going to connect you to the team so we can trouble-shoot off-list. Thanks for testing! Siko -- Message: 3 Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 23:06:31 +0600 From: Nasir Khan

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Where should we organize ideas for the Strategic Plan update?

2014-09-09 Thread Pine W
Hi Lila, Yes. You or one of your employees are welcome to contact me here or off-list. I'm glad to hear about the ground-up approach to strategy. Pine On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org wrote: We are planning to open a few pages for comments as we plan for this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Feedback with Android on Commons

2014-09-09 Thread Yann Forget
Hi, 2014-09-08 10:45 GMT+05:30 Wil Sinclair w...@wllm.com: I don't know what you mean by entering an email, but when you add I mean that the application asks how and where do I want to send my report. And could I know that? It seems obvious to me that, once I agree to send a report, the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow or not to Flow - it does not flow

2014-09-09 Thread Samuel Klein
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Flow is a long term bet that an architecture of structured comments will ultimately have fewer hard and fast limitations on how collaboration in wikis can work, and will accrue usability benefits very quickly (as it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow or not to Flow

2014-09-09 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Wil Sinclair w...@wllm.com wrote: FWIW, I signed my first comment by hand. I missed the comments about sigs in the wikitext editor interface. If it weren't for my family situation, I'm pretty sure I would have bailed. In any case, it was much easier to engage