Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Stewards elected

Congratulations, welcome, and thank you for all you do. On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 7:56 AM Johan Jönsson wrote: > 2018-02-28 22:14 GMT+01:00 Mardetanha : > > > Hey Wikimedia community > > after a long election we finally have couple new stewards

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Stewards elected

2018-02-28 22:14 GMT+01:00 Mardetanha : > Hey Wikimedia community > after a long election we finally have couple new stewards elected > > >1. علاء > ( >talk

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Stewards elected

My best wishes to the new stewards! Enjoy the ride, with all these exciting communities... Lodewijk On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 9:14 PM, Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l < wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Compared to the low point of 2016, it is glad that for another year we had >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Stewards elected

Compared to the low point of 2016, it is glad that for another year we had enough elected candidates.  Five is a good number. Il Giovedì 1 Marzo 2018 1:36, Md. Ibrahim Husain ha scritto: Congrats to the new stewards. On Thursday, March 1, 2018, Mardetanha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] About Facebook Linked in some of Wikimedia projects

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 5:31 PM, James Heilman wrote: > I am not seeing any link to Facebook here? > > https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeniyetm%C9%99_(roman) It's part of a banner, not sure the banner is set to 100%. It says: "Azərbaycanca Vikipediya ilə daim əlaqədə olmaq üçün

Re: [Wikimedia-l] About Facebook Linked in some of Wikimedia projects

I am not seeing any link to Facebook here? https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeniyetm%C9%99_(roman) James On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 2:14 PM, mathieu stumpf guntz < psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote: > Ok, thank you. To my mind the main problem with that kind of practice > pertain to the lake of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Stewards elected

Congrats to the new stewards. On Thursday, March 1, 2018, Mardetanha wrote: > Hey Wikimedia community > after a long election we finally have couple new stewards elected > > >1. علاء > ( >talk

Re: [Wikimedia-l] knowing English is a privilege (was Re: Paid translation)

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 1:09 PM James Salsman wrote: > > We are not *teaching* encyclopedia articles. > > What is the difference between delivering the text of an encyclopedia > article and teaching it? Depending on one's understanding of "teaching", and its expected

[Wikimedia-l] New Stewards elected

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] About Facebook Linked in some of Wikimedia projects

Ok, thank you. To my mind the main problem with that kind of practice pertain to the lake of Free-Libre-Archivable-Infrastructure-Rack (FLAIR) alternative along the proprietary platform. One problem with this platform, is that – as far as I know – we don't have comprehensive archives, let

[Wikimedia-l] knowing English is a privilege (was Re: Paid translation)

> building an authoritative dictionary is considerably > harder than building a (de facto) authoritative encyclopedia. What reason is there to think that? My any measure of editor hours, or the amount of money it would take to replicate the effort, or the maintenance load going forward, I'm sure

Re: [Wikimedia-l] About Facebook Linked in some of Wikimedia projects

At your service https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeniyetmə_(roman) Cheers Yaroslav On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 9:26 PM, mathieu stumpf guntz < psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote: > Saluton, > > Can we actually have a link to a page with a concrete example so we can > judge this factually? > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] About Facebook Linked in some of Wikimedia projects

Le 28/02/2018 à 20:44, Dariusz Jemielniak a écrit : My personal preference is to NOT link to Facebook. I think they use the energy of people enough already. However, I also think it is up to local communities to decide what works for them best, there is no "one size fits all" here, IMHO Sure,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] About Facebook Linked in some of Wikimedia projects

Saluton, Can we actually have a link to a page with a concrete example so we can judge this factually? Vikiame Le 28/02/2018 à 20:43, Asaf Bartov a écrit : Facebook is a de-facto major venue of communication for a great majority of Internet users. Many communities, user groups, and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] About Facebook Linked in some of Wikimedia projects

My personal preference is to NOT link to Facebook. I think they use the energy of people enough already. However, I also think it is up to local communities to decide what works for them best, there is no "one size fits all" here, IMHO best, DJ "pundit" On Feb 28, 2018 20:06, "Jimmy Wales"

Re: [Wikimedia-l] About Facebook Linked in some of Wikimedia projects

Facebook is a de-facto major venue of communication for a great majority of Internet users. Many communities, user groups, and chapters have some kind of formal presence on Facebook -- "groups" or "pages". Directing visitors to your wiki to *your own wiki's* presence on this other major

Re: [Wikimedia-l] About Facebook Linked in some of Wikimedia projects

Speaking only for myself, not as a member of the board, I don't know of any legal or other reason why this should not be done. I think we should be very careful about links or appearance of endorsement especially on article pages, but outreach to people in the world should take place wherever we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

The Wikimedia movement is more than encyclopedias... We already have Wikiversity for teaching, no? Are efforts to contribute to Wikiversity and other sister projects making us lose focus? I'm not sure to understand what you are saying. JP On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 2:32 AM Amir E. Aharoni <

Re: [Wikimedia-l] About Facebook Linked in some of Wikimedia projects

I know it based on local consensus, but what I mean here is: those consensus valid for WMF Term of Use and others policies or not? Because it same with Wikipedia have linked with 3rd party, which is a commerical website. Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy Vietnamese Wikimedian 2018-02-28 18:52 GMT+09:00 James

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

Le 27/02/2018 à 18:51, Jean-Philippe Béland a écrit : Amir, I agree with everything you said, especially that languages are knowledge in themselves, but I must say that Wikimedia is not doing much in an effort to teach languages to people. Why isn't there more effort at the WMF or as a movement

Re: [Wikimedia-l] About Facebook Linked in some of Wikimedia projects

IMO this is based on local community consensus. It is not a global policy. James On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 9:14 AM, Minata Hatsune wrote: > Hello, I have a question: is it legal and valid for Wikipedia communities > put promotion links to their Facebook pages on public