Re: [Wikimedia-l] Surveys

2014-09-20 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Pine W wrote: > This issue might be revisited as strategic planning gets underway, so I'm > a asking Philippe for an update. The strategic plan update is being is led > by Lila and I have seen little in the way of outward-facing WMF actions > so far. Hopefully Phi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Surveys

2014-09-20 Thread Pine W
Rand, I have raised this issue previously and I believe that large scale surveys stopped because they were expensive and updates are felt by WMF to be of low value. This issue might be revisited as strategic planning gets underway, so I'm a asking Philippe for an update. The strategic plan update i

[Wikimedia-l] Surveys

2014-09-20 Thread Rand McRanderson
Hi everyone, I was just curious, I did not see the survey results for the 2012 survey, and it seems there has not been any general editor surveys since then (with the exception of the more narrowly focused Global South User Survey), I was wondering if there was any reason for this lack of sur

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to beta-test HHVM

2014-09-20 Thread Rand McRanderson
Thank you, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Dashboard This is exacly the sort of thing I had in mind. Although I do have a few suggestions. 1. The sizes of the rows are unwieldy. Maybe take the top X amount of characters from each status summary, instead of the full statu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to beta-test HHVM

2014-09-20 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Rand McRanderson, 20/09/2014 21:32: Here is one idea. A dashboard of top level Wikimedia projects https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering with statuses, estimates, and a key to terms. Or does this exist? No:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to beta-test HHVM

2014-09-20 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hello, On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Rand McRanderson wrote: > Here is one idea. A dashboard of top level Wikimedia projects with > statuses, estimates, and a key to terms. Or does this exist? There is https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Dashboard It doesn't have everything

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to beta-test HHVM

2014-09-20 Thread Rand McRanderson
Here is one idea. A dashboard of top level Wikimedia projects with statuses, estimates, and a key to terms. Or does this exist? On Sep 20, 2014 3:37 AM, "Pine W" wrote: > Do we have a published guideline somewhere about MediaWiki quality > standards for pre-alpha, alpha, beta, and production rele

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

2014-09-20 Thread Tilman Bayer
Minutes and slides from Wednesday's quarterly review meeting of the Foundation's Growth team are now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Growth/September_2014 . On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > Hi folks, > > to i

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2016 - Jury Announcement and Start of Bidding

2014-09-20 Thread Manuel Schneider
Dear Wikimedians, Wikimania is the global, annual conference of the Wikimedia movement, organised by the Wikimedia community. Organizing team and location are chosen by a jury in a public bidding process. Due to the growing requirements and complexity for this growing conference the Wikimania Com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to beta-test HHVM

2014-09-20 Thread Pine W
Do we have a published guideline somewhere about MediaWiki quality standards for pre-alpha, alpha, beta, and production releases of elements like MediaViewer, VisualEditor, Flow, Winter, and HHVM? Pine On Sep 20, 2014 12:14 AM, "Jon Work" wrote: > :} I am always impressed by those of you for w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to beta-test HHVM

2014-09-20 Thread Jon Work
:} I am always impressed by those of you for whom English is not your native tongue. It can be very complicated to understand some of the shortcuts we use. Sent from my iPad > On 20 Sep 2014, at 02:22, MZMcBride wrote: > > Anders Wennersten wrote: >> I also did soma very subjective test on