[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania Scholarship committee and ambassadors

Hi, I was informed that my last mail was poorly formatted. I hope that this time it looks better. Cheers, Martin Dear Wikimaniacs, Thank you very much for all the many applications for the Scholarship committee for Wikimania 2016. We are happy to present the following committee members:

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference: Join us in Berlin in April 2016

Wikimedia Conference 2016 in Berlin https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016 Date: April 21-24, 2016 Registration: December 1–January 15, 2016 Dear Wikimedians, It is my pleasure to invite Wikimedia affiliates, the WMF Board of Trustees and staff, the Affiliations Committee,

[Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey - proposals phase ending soon

Hi everyone, There's just a few more days to add proposals on the Community Tech team's Wishlist Survey. We're looking for the most important features and fixes that our team can work on to help the core contributors on Wikimedia projects.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A personal note.

Wil Sinclair wrote: >With all due respect, no more of my time will be spent on this forum >whatsoever. > >I'm not at all comfortable with the direction that this thread has >taken. If my asking earnest questions makes anyone feel "unsafe" and >leads to requests to block me (yes, both things were

[Wikimedia-l] Language Engineering office hour and online meeting on 25 November 2015 (Wednesday) at 1300 UTC

[x-posted announcement] Hello, The next office hour of the Wikimedia Language Engineering team is scheduled for next Wednesday, November 25th 2015 at 13:00 UTC. Similar to our recent office hours, this is also going to be an online discussion over Hangout/Youtube with a simultaneous IRC

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A personal note.

No, I'm right here. Standing up for what I believe in, just like I stand up for the principles I value everywhere, including IRC, on-wiki, and off-. It seems y'all know where to find my opinion. So, if you're interested, go look. If you're not, then feel free to just put me down here, as per the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Conference 2016: Program Design Process and next steps

Thanks Nicole! Very glad to see a further increase in the level of focus of the Wikimedia Conference and in the streamlining of the planning process Chris On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Nicole Ebber wrote: > Dear Wikimedia friends, > > Following Christian’s

[Wikimedia-l] Quality issues

Hoi, At Wikidata we often find issues with data imported from a Wikipedia. Lists have been produced with these issues on the Wikipedia involved and arguably they do present issues with the quality of Wikipedia or Wikidata for that matter. So far hardly anything resulted from such outreach. When

Re: [Wikimedia-l] On toxic communities

I've started a thread on our "Revision scoring as a service" talk page regarding labeled conversation datasets & modeling work we could do. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Revision_scoring_as_a_service#Thread_on_Toxic_communities_from_wikimedia-l On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 12:41