Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paris

Hi everyone, Thhank you all for your kind words. We've had confirmation from almost every wikimedians living in Paris that they're safe. The one we're waiting from are the one we don't have a way to reach them. At the same time, keep some thoughts for all the people in the Middle-East that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

It's nice to hear of these changes. Thanks, Andreas and Lisa. Pine On Nov 15, 2015 5:52 AM, "Andreas Kolbe" wrote: > Hi Anna, > > Thanks for your note. For what it's worth, Lisa Seitz Gruwell[1] said[2] a > couple of days ago on Meta, in response to Liam Wyatt, > > > Thanks

Re: [Wikimedia-l] On toxic communities

> > The League of Legends team collaborated with outside scientists to > analyse their dataset. I would love to see the Wikimedia Foundation engage > in a similar research project. Oh! We are! :) When we have time. :\ One of the projects that I'd like to see done, but I've struggled to find

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

Hi Anna, Thanks for your note. For what it's worth, Lisa Seitz Gruwell[1] said[2] a couple of days ago on Meta, in response to Liam Wyatt, > Thanks for the feedback. I think you are referring to language about "keeping Wikipedia ad-free." We have taken that language out of the banner. She

[Wikimedia-l] Celebrating Parisian culture and libertarianism

As an international community we have an opportunity to respond in a positive and healing way to the attacks in Paris as well as sharing our feelings of shock and sympathy. Perhaps by planning open knowledge events to celebrate Parisian and GLAM-related Islamic culture, which we could announce in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Celebrating Parisian culture and libertarianism

Hoi, I blogged earlier .. Thanks, GerardM http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2015/11/wikipedia-on-syria-and-iraq-in-light-of.html On 15 November 2015 at 12:12, Fæ wrote: > As an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Celebrating Parisian culture and libertarianism

Not sure we should be making such a link as the events in Paris are not about Islam just as the actions of the women in Kentucky was not a reflection of Christianity. Paris is not the only place its unfortunately its not even the latest place to fall victim to ISIS. Wikimedia is a world wide

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paris

Thanks for all the updates, Christophe and WMFR. Two Indonesian wikimedians currently studying in Paris are also safe and have been in contact with us. Stay strong and take care. Best regards, Isabella On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Christophe Henner < christophe.hen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] On toxic communities

On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Benjamin Lees wrote: > This article highlights the happier side of things, but it appears > that Lin's approach also involved completely removing bad actors: > "Some players have also asked why we've taken such an aggressive > stance when

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Celebrating Parisian culture and libertarianism

On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 11:17 PM, Gnangarra wrote: > Not sure we should be making such a link as the events in Paris are not > about Islam just as the actions of the women in Kentucky was not a > reflection of Christianity. Paris is not the only place its unfortunately > its

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Celebrating Parisian culture and libertarianism

Yes, because there are many nice self-avowed Jewish, Muslims, Christians, etc. around the world. Therefore when some bad people do something horrible in the name of their cultural and ideological identity it actually has nothing to do with the ideas themselves, it's always got to be some

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Celebrating Parisian culture and libertarianism

Hoi, Your sarcasm is nothing but discrimination. You throw everybody who beliefs on one pile. Just as if a religion, any religion is needed for people to get off the rails. There are plenty of examples of that. As to who is an actual Muslim and who understands the sunna and its interpretation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Celebrating Parisian culture and libertarianism

Le dim. 15 nov. 2015 à 23:06, Gerard Meijssen a écrit : Hoi, Your sarcasm is nothing but discrimination. You throw everybody who beliefs on one pile. I don't know how anyone could be more explicit on his treatment of the problems of making an overt

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Celebrating Parisian culture and libertarianism

I'm sorry but just shut the fuck up about "religion". They're bloodlusty assholes that wanted to kill and divide. Nothing more. It's not a religious thing (Paris isn't à holy city) or a cultural thing. It's hate. Simple and plain hate. They'd like us to say it's about religion and culture.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Celebrating Parisian culture and libertarianism

Just +1 on the stfu. Le 16 nov. 2015 7:53 AM, "Christophe Henner" a écrit : > I'm sorry but just shut the fuck up about "religion". > > They're bloodlusty assholes that wanted to kill and divide. Nothing more. > > It's not a religious thing (Paris isn't à holy city)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help on Yoruba Wikipedia Project

Dear all, I don't know if it is appropriate to discuss this here but I believe I can get a useful advice here. The Nigerian language Wikipedia projects (Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo) need urgent attention. English language is the official language in Nigeria but the Yoruba language constitutes one of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help on Yoruba Wikipedia Project

> The Content translation tool is currently unsupported by Yoruba Language. Had it been its working, I would have translate hundreds of English Wikipedia contents. Actually, it is supported in Yoruba, and in all the languages in which there is a Wikipedia. It doesn't yet have support for machine

Re: [Wikimedia-l] On toxic communities

I am going to quote Joseph Reagle, who responded to a similarly titled threat on Wiki-en-L: date:13 November 2015 at 13:48 It's been great that Riot games has had someone like Lin (an experimental psychologist) to think about issues of community and abuse. And I appreciate that Lin has been

Re: [Wikimedia-l] On toxic communities

I'd be happy to offer my admin/oversighter experience and knowledge to help you develop the labeling and such, Aaron! I just commented on Andreas's proposal on the Community Wishlist, but to summarize here: I see a lot of potential pitfalls in trying to handle/generalize this with machine

Re: [Wikimedia-l] On toxic communities

The figure quoted is quite interesting, but do we have a comparable metric for the Wikimedia projects? : "... incidences of homophobia, sexism and racism ... have fallen to a combined 2 percent of all games" 2% sounds "low", but do we indeed know if this is better or worse than us? Would our