Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Iranian Wikimedians UG

2015-07-19 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sat, 18 Jul 2015 13:20:56 -0700 Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Congratulations and much success! A. Congratulations, good luck, and welcome aboard! Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of WikiWomen's User Group

2015-07-19 Thread Tanweer Morshed
Congratulations WikiWomen's UG! Hope you'll put great efforts towards reducing gender gap in Wikimedia projects. Regards, Tanweer On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Carlos M. Colina ma...@wikimedia.org.ve wrote: Dear all, I am pleased and honoured to announce on behalf of the Affiliations

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of WikiWomen's User Group

2015-07-19 Thread Carlos M. Colina
Dear all, I am pleased and honoured to announce on behalf of the Affiliations Committe the recognition [1] of a new member of the family of Wikimedia affiliates: The WikiWomen's User Group. Among their goals are providing a collaborative space for women to work on projects, discuss

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of WikiWomen's User Group

2015-07-19 Thread Katherine Casey
Awesome news, I'm always glad to see more efforts to be welcoming to women! ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

[Wikimedia-l] Geohack

2015-07-19 Thread Nou Nouill
Hi ! So today Geohack don't work few hours, once gain. It has been many times that Geohack is down these last months (and years). The previous issue was linked with the Tools labs problems (but not today, Tools Labs was working). In addition to that maintenance problem, I don't see Geohack

[Wikimedia-l] press edit in facebook to edit wikipedia, how many?

2015-07-19 Thread rupert THURNER
hi, for the first time i tried pressing edit in facebook and came out in the wiki-text editor. are there statistics available how many persons come along this way? best, rupert ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 400 days of lila tretikov and 60 million dollars spent - where is mobile editing?

2015-07-19 Thread rupert THURNER
i created two tasks in phabricator for it, hope that is ok like this: * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106266 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106267 i did not find the correct project though? best, rupert On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 11:02 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of WikiWomen's User Group

2015-07-19 Thread Jan-Bart de Vreede
Congratulations ! Jan-Bart On 19 Jul 2015, at 06:24, Carlos M. Colina ma...@wikimedia.org.ve wrote: Dear all, I am pleased and honoured to announce on behalf of the Affiliations Committe the recognition [1] of a new member of the family of Wikimedia affiliates: The WikiWomen's User

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of WikiWomen's User Group

2015-07-19 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 14:24:55 +0300 Carlos M. Colina ma...@wikimedia.org.ve wrote: Dear all, I am pleased and honoured to announce on behalf of the Affiliations Committe the recognition [1] of a new member of the family of Wikimedia affiliates: The WikiWomen's User Group. Among their goals

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedia Community UG Belarus

2015-07-19 Thread Raymond Leonard
Welcome to the Wikimedians of Wikimedia Community User Group Belarus! Yours, Peaceray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Peaceray Cascadia Wikimedians User Group http://cascadia.wiki On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Congratulations, Belarusian

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Iranian Wikimedians UG

2015-07-19 Thread Raymond Leonard
Welcome to the Iranian Wikimedians User Group! Yours, Peaceray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Peaceray Cascadia Wikimedians User Group http://cascadia.wiki On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: On Sat, 18 Jul 2015 13:20:56 -0700 Asaf Bartov

[Wikimedia-l] Book Grant program

2015-07-19 Thread Keilana
Announcing: Wikimedia DC's Exciting New Program: BOOK GRANTS! http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Book_Grants We are offering book grants to people in the United States to support their editing. Please contact me at keilanaw...@gmail.com if you have any questions. -Emily Temple-Wood

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Geohack

2015-07-19 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Nou Nouill nounou...@gmail.com wrote: [...] So, I want to ask if the Foundation have a plan to improve Geohack ? I have the impression when I see https://tools.wmflabs.org that Geohack was mainly maintain by volunteer, but for me Geohack is a core item of the Wikimedia sphere. So I don't

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation quarterly reviews for April-June 2015

2015-07-19 Thread Pine W
Hmm. It seems to me that having WMF create a policy for conduct that it imposes on non-WMF wikis would effectively be an office action https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Office_actions, and the policy for office actions doesn't seem to contemplate them being expanded in to general moderation of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation quarterly reviews for April-June 2015

2015-07-19 Thread James Alexander
How can you experiment and explore while going through processes like that? The policy already applied for the IdeaLab areas during inspire (including letting the community know beforehand). I think process for processes sake, especially on meta, does more harm then good. Sent from my iPhone

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation quarterly reviews for April-June 2015

2015-07-19 Thread Pine W
As well-intentioned as that policy was, I can't find that there was ever an authority (the Board or the community) who ratified the policy. It's well intentioned and it seems to me that it might very well pass an RfC. The Board or the community might agree to expand it to cover all grants name

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation quarterly reviews for April-June 2015

2015-07-19 Thread Kirill Lokshin
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Will the friendly-space expectations (policy?) for grants spaces on Meta be proposed as an RfC on Meta? The documentation on the rollout plan doesn't mention and RfC. My understanding is that the right way to implement a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation quarterly reviews for April-June 2015

2015-07-19 Thread Dan Garry
On 19 July 2015 at 15:42, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: 11. I like the overall QR format, the notes on Meta, and their consolidation in to the format presented here. This makes it relatively easy to understand what's happening inside of WMF. The evolution of the QR process is very nice to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Geohack

2015-07-19 Thread Dan Garry
Hello Nouill! Thanks for reaching out! With the tools that are on Tool Labs, the responsibility for maintenance is on the person who wrote the tool and put it on Tool Labs. For that, you can look at https://tools.wmflabs.org/. In this case, you can see that the people that wrote that tool are

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of WikiWomen's User Group

2015-07-19 Thread Samir Elsharbaty
Awesome!! Congratulations! On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Peter Southwood peter.southw...@telkomsa.net wrote: Welcome, P -Original Message- From: wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Katy Love Sent: 19 July 2015

Re: [Wikimedia-l] press edit in facebook to edit wikipedia, how many?

2015-07-19 Thread Pine W
My understanding is this information has not been tracked. I think it would be good to do so and to think about how to recruit contributors through Facebook. Pine On Jul 19, 2015 6:03 AM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: hi, for the first time i tried pressing edit in facebook

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation quarterly reviews for April-June 2015

2015-07-19 Thread Pine W
I appreciate the combined QRs. Questions and comments: 1. Will the friendly-space expectations (policy?) for grants spaces on Meta be proposed as an RfC on Meta? The documentation on the rollout plan doesn't mention and RfC. My understanding is that the right way to implement a policy change like

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of WikiWomen's User Group

2015-07-19 Thread Peter Southwood
Welcome, P -Original Message- From: wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Katy Love Sent: 19 July 2015 05:02 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of WikiWomen's User Group Congratulations and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of WikiWomen's User Group

2015-07-19 Thread Katy Love
Congratulations and welcome!! Katy On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Patrick Earley pear...@wikimedia.org wrote: Congrats, WikiWomen! On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Raymond Leonard raymond.f.leonard...@gmail.com wrote: Welcome to the WikiWomen's User Group! Yours, Peaceray

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Book Grant program

2015-07-19 Thread Tito Dutta
That's great. :) if you add something for queries please contact joh@example.org or something like that on the Book Grant page too ( http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Book_Grants), non-members and non mailing list readers can easily contact from there. On 19 July 2015 at 22:15, Keilana