Re: [Wikimedia-l] Education Extension

2015-02-03 Thread MZMcBride
Quim Gil wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:23 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: The proposed concept called collections, Now the project has a different working name: Gather https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gather Thanks, good to know. doesn't really leverage the fact that we already have

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Education Extension

2015-02-03 Thread Samir Elsharbaty
Hello everyone, As a user of the Education extension, for both Wikipedia Education Program work and non-WEP work, I would recommend using it for other different purposes. I know many people, including me, who used it to track editathon activity, working groups and many other projects. It seems

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Education Extension

2015-02-03 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Samir Elsharbaty, 04/02/2015 03:08: It seems that the extension already covers most of what was suggested here: - A teacher or wiki-mentor could make a shared watchlist of their student's draft pages. - An editathon organiser could create a shared watchlist of all the articles within the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Education Extension

2015-02-03 Thread Liam Wyatt
On 3 February 2015 at 10:23, Fabian Tompsett fabian.tomps...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: We need an extension where users easily can form groups (namespace Groups: or something, used by an extension), where they easily can see the recent changes of edits of group members only Not precisely

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Education Extension

2015-02-03 Thread Quim Gil
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:23 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: The proposed concept called collections, Now the project has a different working name: Gather https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gather doesn't really leverage the fact that we already have shared lists of pages called

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons / OTRS is broken

2015-02-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 3 February 2015 at 06:56, Jeevan Jose jkadav...@gmail.com wrote: We have a 57 days backlog now ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS/backlog) and we are processing first-come, first-served Perhaps if OTRS volunteers weren't treated so badly *by OTRS admins*, you'd have more

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons / OTRS is broken

2015-02-03 Thread Andreas Kolbe
While this may be a different OTRS queue, people have told me in the past that OTRS can take weeks to reply, even in the case of acute BLP problems such as the one described in this BBC Newsnight interview (time code 2:54): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg9O-e5KGdQ#t=174 I've heard this both

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Education Extension

2015-02-03 Thread MZMcBride
Liam Wyatt wrote: Fabian Tompsett wrote: We need an extension where users easily can form groups (namespace Groups: or something, used by an extension), where they easily can see the recent changes of edits of group members only Not precisely this, but related... Is there any plan to have

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Education Extension

2015-02-03 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Liam Wyatt, 03/02/2015 14:06: Not precisely this, but related... Is there any plan to have folders in a watchlist, and then the ability to make a specific folder visible (a.k.a. shared) to others? [...] Has this been discussed/suggested before? Only a few dozens times. See

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

2015-02-03 Thread Tilman Bayer
Minutes and slides from last week's quarterly review meeting of the Foundation's Collaboration team (which was formerly called the Core features team and is working on the Flow project) have appeared here:

[Wikimedia-l] Help launch the Inspire Grants Campaign in March 2015

2015-02-03 Thread Siko Bouterse
Hi all, During March we will be running an Inspire Campaign to proactively source and support new projects aimed at addressing Wikimedia’s gender gap: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire_Grants_%E2%80%93_Gender_gap_campaign Our goals are two-fold: 1. Experiment with running

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Education Extension

2015-02-03 Thread Quim Gil
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Fabian Tompsett fabian.tomps...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: At Wikimedia UK we are looking at taking this up in broader context, editathons etc. and it would be great to hear of other peoples experiences and their views. Just a comment aside about the etc. It is

[Wikimedia-l] Education Extension

2015-02-03 Thread Fabian Tompsett
Thanks to Romaine for his comment: The education extension is a primitive form of what is needed. We need an extension where users easily can form groups (namespace Groups: or something, used by an extension), where they easily can see the recent changes of edits of group members only, to be able

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Promote GSoC, Outreachy, and Wikimedia Hackathon in France

2015-02-03 Thread Quim Gil
Exceptional cross-post. Your help spreading this message is welcome. -- Forwarded message -- From: Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 10:17 AM Subject: Promote GSoC, Outreachy, and Wikimedia Hackathon in France To: Wikimedia developers