Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] REMINDER: Invitation to upcoming office hours with WMF interim Executive Director

One additional follow-up on the video-based session. The notes are on Meta-Wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Executive_Director/May_2016_office_hours/Video-based_session_notes Additionally, the video recording has been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. We edited out the

[Wikimedia-l] WMF Blog post about Wikimedia Conference 2016

From the WMF Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/05/13/wikimedia-conference/ I anticipate that there will be more reports, blogs and op-eds in the weeks ahead. Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cross-wiki notifications beta feature now available on all wikis

If by old notifications you mean notifications from other wikis from a long time ago, you can dismiss those by clicking the X next to each notification on the right-hand side. Once dismissed they shouldn't come back. There's currently a bug with this though:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ArticlePlaceholder now live on first 4 Wikipedias

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 7:54 PM Alice Backer wrote: > We have a Kreyòl language translatathon in the works. Focus is unclear at > this point and will depend a lot on our Haitian Creolist partners and their > needs. > If there is anything we can help with from the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cross-wiki notifications beta feature now available on all wikis

They don't. It's a bug. Fae On 13 May 2016 19:26, "Peter Southwood" wrote: > When do the old notifications go away? > Cheers, > P > > -Original Message- > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On > Behalf Of Roan Kattouw > Sent:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cross-wiki notifications beta feature now available on all wikis

When do the old notifications go away? Cheers, P -Original Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Roan Kattouw Sent: Friday, 13 May 2016 8:04 PM To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cross-wiki notifications beta

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cross-wiki notifications beta feature now available on all wikis

Update: this has now graduated out of beta, and was enabled by default on all wikis yesterday. If you don't want to see notifications from other wikis on any given wiki, you can turn it off in your preferences (it's in the "Notifications" tab). For more information and some background, see the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ArticlePlaceholder now live on first 4 Wikipedias

We have a Kreyòl language translatathon in the works. Focus is unclear at this point and will depend a lot on our Haitian Creolist partners and their needs. A L I C E B A C K E R Founder, Afrocrowd | Vice President, Wikimedia NYC

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ArticlePlaceholder now live on first 4 Wikipedias

This is a tool that will be really useful to the AfroCROWD initiative that Alice Backer leads (cc'd, as well as Pharos) -- especially for the Haitian Creole community. I'm hoping AfroCROWD and WM NYC can support an intensive translatathon focusing on Wikidata, and really take advantage of this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] ArticlePlaceholder now live on first 4 Wikipedias

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 4:35 PM Lydia Pintscher < lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Right now you get there via Special:AboutTopic. Lucie is currently working > on fixing the search bug and then you will get there via search again. > Should be done in the next hours. > Ok search integration

Re: [Wikimedia-l] REMINDER: Invitation to upcoming office hours with WMF interim Executive Director

Personally I'm not a huge fan of the visual editor -- but during the presentation it was sort of awesome how quickly the notes shifted into Wiki Markup Anything that onboards folks into using more Wiki Markup, I'm a fan of that. But good to know this for going forward. - Erika *Erika