Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan for FY 15-16

2015-06-01 Thread Pine W
Since Wikimania is in July this year, perhaps we could do this there: public review discussion of the WMF plan, and using that as a point of departure to continue the discussion of planning from WMCON. Sam I would suggest not using this WMF proposed plan as a starting point for talking

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-06-01 Thread Anders Wennersten
Just a clarification on numbers In James (internal) table enwps share of total number of eligible votes is 35,4% Participation rate state from enwp was 8,26% against mean for all 9,5%. If enwp is excluded the participation rate for all of the rest stands at 10,2% Enwp users also include

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-06-01 Thread Milos Rancic
So, there are two good news and one bad. The most important good one is that efforts made by James, Philippe and EC have given [global] results. It's always good to hear that we depend less on weather conditions and more on our own work. So, thank you for your good work! :) I agree with you in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FDC annual plan grant recommendations for 2014-2015 Round 2

2015-06-01 Thread Risker
Minor correction: Appeals are due JUNE 8, 2015, not July 8.[1] Risker/Anne (Member of the FDC) [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Information#Calendar On 1 June 2015 at 11:18, Dariusz Jemielniak dar...@alk.edu.pl wrote: Hello Wikimedians, The Funds Dissemination Committee

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan for FY 15-16

2015-06-01 Thread Dariusz Jemielniak
hi, as a stepping down FDC member I agree with Risker only to some extent. Sure, the FDC will have trouble with capacity for evaluation of the whole plan. However, it is possible to single out some programs (the famous 'core' vs. 'non-core' division) and comment on them. It does not exclude a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-06-01 Thread Luis Villa
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote: 3. Participation in the mailing list may be a misleading indicator of activity or interest, as other regional or specialized forums (eg. Facebook, GLAM-oriented lists, etc) have emerged in recent years. Let me second

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-06-01 Thread Ed Erhart
Hi Milos, I think you're overestimating the importance of this list, which is read by only a small portion of the community. Many people in the wider community have no idea this exists. Best, --Ed On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-06-01 Thread Milos Rancic
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote: 3. Participation in the mailing list may be a misleading indicator of activity or interest, as other regional or specialized forums (eg. Facebook,

[Wikimedia-l] Election Announcement

2015-06-01 Thread Pharos
My fellow Wikimedians, I am pleased to announce the results of the most vital exercise in democracy in the Wikimedia movement for many years: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MCOTM The first-ever Meta Collaboration of the Month (MCOTM) for June 2015 will be on the [[Events]] page, a particularly

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Priority languages

2015-06-01 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: * MediaWiki is developing and messages are changing. While it doesn't matter a lot for the main language to have 99% and not 100% of translated most used messages, the new one won't get a project if it's not 100%. (The

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Priority languages

2015-06-01 Thread Milos Rancic
On Jun 2, 2015 00:39, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: * MediaWiki is developing and messages are changing. While it doesn't matter a lot for the main language to have 99% and not 100% of translated most used

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-06-01 Thread MZMcBride
Ed Erhart wrote: I think you're overestimating the importance of this list, which is read by only a small portion of the community. Many people in the wider community have no idea this exists. Sort of. :-) In absolute numbers, of course the total number of list subscribers/readers is a very

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Priority languages

2015-06-01 Thread MZMcBride
Milos Rancic wrote: On Jun 2, 2015 00:39, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote: Won't get a project? Are you saying that new project language editions are only approved if the MediaWiki messages for that language are all translated already? (Maybe I'm misunderstanding.) [...] It would be

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Priority languages

2015-06-01 Thread Milos Rancic
On Jun 2, 2015 02:08, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Milos Rancic wrote: On Jun 2, 2015 00:39, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote: Won't get a project? Are you saying that new project language editions are only approved if the MediaWiki messages for that language are all

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Priority languages

2015-06-01 Thread MF-Warburg
Actually, currently the requirements are - most-used messages for the first project in a language - continuing translation activity on TWN for all others Am 02.06.2015 02:18 schrieb Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com: On Jun 2, 2015 02:08, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Milos Rancic wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-06-01 Thread Luis Villa
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote: 3. Participation in the mailing list may be a misleading indicator of