Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome messages at arwiki

There are a lot of SUL issues that are waiting to be addressed. One for example is the definition of what is not "appropriate" as a name. Another one is a centralized interface for preferences, a third one is a centralized management of key user information, a forth one is the possibility to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome messages at arwiki

FYI for those on WIkimedia-l who may be interested, conversation about this matter is ongoing. I am waiting a response from WMF Legal, and there may be others who have opened their own lines of inquiry. If I don't receive a reply from WMF Legal that I feel is satisfactory, or if I don't receive

[Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 21 January 2018)

What's making me happy this week -- I will reword this to say, "what's making me grateful this week" -- is the summary from Andre Klapper about results from Google Code-in 2017. I say "grateful" rather than "happy" because, although I'm grateful for the contributions of these developers and the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Siamese networks and image classification

Hi John, I am having a little trouble with understanding your email from January 15th. Could you perhaps state your question or point in a different way? Pine On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's map capacities! (Announcing the CCM)

I agree with Tomasz that some UI love would be beneficial. I think that simplification of the language for people who are not native English speakers might also be beneficial. As I said before, I like the general concept. If affiliates and online communities can be persuaded to use this tool or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] New Affiliations Committee appointments

Congratulations to you all !! *Gerbet Rémy* *Chargé de Mission Politique Territoriale**07 84 37 91 04* *---**-* *WIKIMEDIA FRANCE*Association pour le libre partage de la connaissance *www.wikimedia.fr * *40 rue

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lower page views

Perhaps our readers aren't getting their topics of interest on Wikipedia, partly because Wikipedia is becoming nothing more than a biographical encyclopedia. Regards, Isaac. On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 5:54 PM, James Heilman wrote: > Our data is only comparable between May 2015

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Publicpolicy] Update on FISA 702 reauthorization

Hoi, First, what the Foundation does is not in order to protect itself but to protect its readers, its authors. Second, when you consider security theatre, consider the other countries and then consider the countries where security has a better chance than the USA. Be advised that in many, most

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The 2016-2017 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report

Hoi, As a document targeting donors it is effective. For me, it is indeed an accomplished selly thingie that does not connect. It is all Wikipedia and Wikipedia is not that shiny. It is a community where infighting is common, where external knowledge and tools are seen as problematic because they

Re: [Wikimedia-l] January Wikimedia Foundation Metrics & Activities meeting

Agree with James, this is a great idea and I'm looking forward to seeing Wiki DE do their thing. Sam On Tuesday, January 23, 2018, James Heilman wrote: > Excellent idea. Super cool to see. > > J > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 6:09 PM, Gregory Varnum >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] January Wikimedia Foundation Metrics & Activities meeting

Excellent idea. Super cool to see. J On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 6:09 PM, Gregory Varnum wrote: > Hello everyone, > > The currently-scheduled January metrics and activities meeting is scheduled > to occur during the Wikimedia Foundation's annual meeting for staff and >

[Wikimedia-l] January Wikimedia Foundation Metrics & Activities meeting

Hello everyone, The currently-scheduled January metrics and activities meeting is scheduled to occur during the Wikimedia Foundation's annual meeting for staff and contractors (known as All Hands). Given this, we have a need to reschedule, and decided to use that change to experiment. So, I am

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost – Volume 14, Issue 1 – 16 January 2018

News and notes: Communication is key http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-01-16/News_and_notes In the media: The Paris Review, British Crown and British Media http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-01-16/In_the_media Featured content: History,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee appointments

Congratulations and good luck to the new and the re-elected members. And thanks to Galio for his work during these six years. El 2018-01-23 17:00, Galileo Vidoni escribió: Hi all, Thanks to Kirill and to the rest of the committee for their kind words. I'm very fond of having served AffCom

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Community of Republic of Srpska_Annual Report 2017

Hello, The Wikimedia Community of Republic of Srpska annual report is now available in English. This time, we made two types of reports - *an interactive* and *standard one*

[Wikimedia-l] Updates on the new Wikimedia Foundation website

Greetings! As mentioned in the Annual Plan and past Metrics and activities meeting updates, this year the Wikimedia Foundation has been actively working to refresh the organization’s website (wikimediafoundation.org).[1] It has been a long time coming, as the current version was created more than

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lower page views

Our data is only comparable between May 2015 and Dec 2017 so: Nov/Dec/Jan 15/16 total 15.7, 14.6, 16.2 Nov/Dec/Jan 16/17 total 16.4, 15.5, 17.0 Nov/Dec/Jan 17/18 total 15.3, 14.3, 16.4 (last number an estimate) So went up from 15/16 to 16/17 and now come down in 17/18 to about were it was in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee appointments

Hi all, Thanks to Kirill and to the rest of the committee for their kind words. I'm very fond of having served AffCom and I'm always available if you think my past experience could be useful. As to Stu's question —yes, there have been cases of outgoing committee members not being re-appointed.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee appointments

Congratulations to those re-selected and newly appointed, and commiserations to those unsuccessful. I do have one question spurred on by the consistent re-selection of existing members for the past two rounds which will might require a little collective institutional memory to answer. Has anyone

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee appointments

Congratulations to all newly appointed and reappointed members. Cheers, Nabin On 23 January 2018 at 19:33, Kirill Lokshin wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm pleased to announce that Derick Ndimnain Alangi, Biplab Anand, and Sami > Mlouhi have appointed to the Affiliations

[Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee appointments

Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce that Derick Ndimnain Alangi, Biplab Anand, and Sami Mlouhi have appointed to the Affiliations Committee as new members. In addition, two incumbent members -- Maor Malul and Emna Mizouni -- have been re-appointed for an additional term. Please join me in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lower page views

In order to have at least a partial answer we would need to know how the pageviews relate to actual database traffic I assume? That would explain Google and I do not know whether there are any other services worldwide that use the datastram without actually displaying pages. Wojciech 2018-01-23

[Wikimedia-l] Lower page views

We are seeing a steady decrease of page views to our projects (Wikipedia). Nov-Dec-Jan it is decreasing in a rate of 5-10% (year-year), and for big languages like Japanese,  Spanish close to 10%, or some months even more  [1] Is there any insights of why this is so? Could it be that Google