Re: [Wikimedia-l] [discovery] USA elections in real time - as viewed by Wikipedia users

2016-02-17 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 11:53 PM, Àlex Hinojo wrote: > Love it! Thanks for sharing it! > > ​Yup yup, this is a very cool little project with a lot of future potential for other applications. -- ~Keegan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan This is my personal email

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [discovery] USA elections in real time - as viewed by Wikipedia users

2016-02-17 Thread Àlex Hinojo
Love it! Thanks for sharing it! 2016-02-18 6:47 GMT+01:00 Yuri Astrakhan : > Max, it seems Vermin Supreme is no longer running :) > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 8:30 AM, Max Semenik > wrote: > > > W00t! I had to add an important candidate though: >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [discovery] USA elections in real time - as viewed by Wikipedia users

2016-02-17 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Max, it seems Vermin Supreme is no longer running :) On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 8:30 AM, Max Semenik wrote: > W00t! I had to add an important candidate though: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=15358086 ;) > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 8:48 PM, Yuri Astrakhan

[Wikimedia-l] USA elections in real time - as viewed by Wikipedia users

2016-02-17 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/US_Politics_Real_Time Thanks Dario Taraborelli for the idea. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A Massive Online Open Course about Wikipedia

2016-02-17 Thread Jens Best
Inspiring idea. Good luck with the progress. Jens Best 2015-12-14 17:02 GMT+01:00 Berard Myriam : > Hello everyone, > > For a few months now, 15 French-speaking Wikipedia editors, supported by > Wikimédia France, have been working to design a Massive Online Open

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Your questions about KE.

2016-02-17 Thread MZMcBride
Lila Tretikov wrote: >There are a lot of questions still floating around around the Knowledge >Engine, in a lot of different places. I want to answer them fully, >directly and in one central place. To that end, I’m going to be putting >together an FAQ page

[Wikimedia-l] Initial eligibility announced for 2015-2016 Round 2 of the APG process

2016-02-17 Thread Winifred Olliff
Dear colleagues: Applications for Annual Plan Grants are accepted twice each year and assessed by the volunteer Funds Dissemination Committee. Initial eligibility has been assessed for the five organizations submitting Letters of Intent for 2015-2016 Round 2 of the APG process. 3 of 5

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Outcomes from the Consultation on Wikimedia movement conferences/Wikimania

2016-02-17 Thread Chris Schilling
> > 3) I am still really unsure who is owning this process, either within the > WMF or in general. Generally, I think clear responsibility and > accountability *eases* difficult conversations and so far as I can tell > they are lacking in the conversation about "what should happen with >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Reducing the net cost of Wikimania

2016-02-17 Thread Pharos
Thanks, Ellie and Chris, this historical experience should be very helpful for future discussions! Best, Pharos On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Chris Schilling wrote: > Hey folks, > > Ellie has put together a summarized budget including revenue and expenses > from

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Your questions about KE.

2016-02-17 Thread SarahSV
Lila, thank you for setting this up. I think it will help a lot. Sarah On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Bence Damokos wrote: > Thanks Lila for posting this. > Just as a courtesy to those who follow the topic here on the mailing list, > can you please send an update to this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Reducing the net cost of Wikimania

2016-02-17 Thread Chris Schilling
Hey folks, Ellie has put together a summarized budget including revenue and expenses from Wikimania 2014 in London[1] and Wikimania 2015[2], which I've gone ahead and posted to the summary pages of these conferences on meta. Thanks, Chris [1]

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A Massive Online Open Course about Wikipedia

2016-02-17 Thread Sydney Poore
That great to hear! Thanks for the update. Looking forward to hearing more as the course progresses. Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Christophe Henner < christophe.hen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A Massive Online Open Course about Wikipedia

2016-02-17 Thread Anna Stillwell
Congratulations. Looking forward to hearing about how it goes. /a On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Christophe Henner < christophe.hen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > A quick update on this project, we've just crossed the 5 000 registered > students. > > We'll see how much will complete

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Your questions about KE.

2016-02-17 Thread Bence Damokos
Thanks Lila for posting this. Just as a courtesy to those who follow the topic here on the mailing list, can you please send an update to this list whenever there is new content on the page, or at least when there are significant changes? Best regards, Bence 2016-02-17 18:40 GMT+01:00 Lila

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A Massive Online Open Course about Wikipedia

2016-02-17 Thread Christophe Henner
Hi everyone, A quick update on this project, we've just crossed the 5 000 registered students. We'll see how much will complete the course, but so far we're really happy with this number :) Of course we'll share more insights once this program is over. Best, -- Christophe On 14 December 2015

[Wikimedia-l] Your questions about KE.

2016-02-17 Thread Lila Tretikov
Hello, everyone. There are a lot of questions still floating around around the Knowledge Engine, in a lot of different places. I want to answer them fully, directly and in one central place. To that end, I’m going to be putting together an FAQ page

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wmfall] CTO Search | Status

2016-02-17 Thread James Forrester
On 17 February 2016 at 00:03, aude wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Lila Tretikov wrote: > >- In collaboration with the ED and the Technology group, own and > advance > >the overall architectural roadmap, setting the vision and long-term

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Simple English please! was The conversation is happening elsewhere :(

2016-02-17 Thread Dan Andreescu
At our all-hands meeting this year, Risker [1] gave a moving talk in which she pointed out that the Wikimedia movement is a part of the open knowledge movement. She showed us a picture of Pando, which is a remarkable organism as you can see for yourself in that article. And she said that the

[Wikimedia-l] Simple English please! was The conversation is happening elsewhere :(

2016-02-17 Thread James Heilman
It is not only people who speak English as a second language who are likely confused. The confusion comes partly from the fact that we have an ED and some board members saying one thing and official documents submitted to a funder saying something different. These two sources of information about

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Simple English please! was The conversation is happening elsewhere :(

2016-02-17 Thread Michel Vuijlsteke
Aspen grove: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Pando_(tree) On 17 February 2016 at 10:14, Anders Wennersten wrote: > I second this opinion, please remember we are many not having English as > our mother language > > Also besides being all lost in the discussion of Knight

[Wikimedia-l] Simple English please! was The conversation is happening elsewhere :(

2016-02-17 Thread Anders Wennersten
I second this opinion, please remember we are many not having English as our mother language Also besides being all lost in the discussion of Knight grant application, I do not understand a word from the poem of Yates, neither do I understand the meaning of Aspen grove Please, please go

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The conversation is happening elsewhere :(

2016-02-17 Thread Yury Bulka
I can't access it too (I don't have an account on Facebook). Adam Wight writes: > Thanks for the note! Fwiw, I can't read that without a login. Feel free > to urge the owners to make the thread public, if base crook even supports > such a thing. > On Feb 16, 2016 4:47

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The conversation is happening elsewhere :(

2016-02-17 Thread Andrea Zanni
Thanks Asaf, I didn't know about that group. May I also mention that the conversation is also becoming *exhausting*, being in English and at very high level? I know we can't do nothing about it, but it's worth noting, IMHO, that the more we go on the fewer people with incredible stamina, analytic

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wmfall] CTO Search | Status

2016-02-17 Thread aude
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Lila Tretikov wrote: > Hi all, > > Earlier this week Amy Elder -- our head of recruiting -- has shared a > preview of the CTO role with the staff and I would like to share it with > you early as well, before the job description is posted and