Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow: on featured article discussions

2014-09-16 Thread Diego Moya
On 15 September 2014 19:24, Danny Horn dh...@wikimedia.org wrote: Some people are seeing Flow messages as really important, something that they want to get updates on right away -- and right away can mean either in their watchlist where they go all the time, or in Echo where they'll see the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF initiatives

2014-09-16 Thread Tilman Bayer
Minutes and slides from the recent quarterly review of the Foundation's Language Engineering team are available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Language_Engineering/September_2014 . On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Erik Moeller

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow: on featured article discussions

2014-09-16 Thread Danny Horn
Diego, that is definitely what we're thinking about for the subscriptions options -- giving users the ability to choose whether they want to subscribe to every new thread, or just get a notification that a new thread has been created. The balance that we have to figure out is how to provide

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Will Flow eliminate wikitext sandbox practice?

2014-09-16 Thread quiddity
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Jan Ainali jan.ain...@wikimedia.se wrote: 2014-09-15 23:54 GMT+02:00 James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com: In the recent discussion of editor engagement effectiveness on wiki-research-l, the question of Flow's affect on talk page wikitext practice arose. I

[Wikimedia-l] Lsjbot+Bot Acadeny

2014-09-16 Thread Anders Wennersten
Lsjbot has now completed its run of generating articles for all species, with 310 000 on plants, making the total number generated above 1 300 000 (source used: Catalogue of Life). With Naskobot, having earlier generated some 85 000 articles on Swedish lakes and French communes etc., the

[Wikimedia-l] The Lighter Side of the Movement

2014-09-16 Thread Wil Sinclair
Howdy all, One thing I've noticed in my short time as an active part of our community is that the more welcoming and likable aspects of our individual personalities aren't reflect in our most public conversations. For example, if a new editor went by this forum alone, we might come off as taking