Re: [Wikimedia-l] Time to simplify the Bureaucracy ?

2018-03-11 Thread John Erling Blad
I wonder if some of the problem is that we have made a mash-up of policies and guidelines on the same pages, thereby making it very hard for newcomers to figure out what they must know and all the stuff that is simply nice to know. Take a look at Verifiability at enwiki. [1] How much of this is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Grŵp Defnyddwyr Cymuned Wicimedia Cymru

2018-03-11 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:32:34 -0400 Kirill Lokshin wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized > Grŵp Defnyddwyr Cymuned Wicimedia Cymru (Wikimedia Community User Group > Wales) [1] as a Wikimedia User Group. The

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Grŵp Defnyddwyr Cymuned Wicimedia Cymru

2018-03-11 Thread Kirill Lokshin
Hi everyone! I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized Grŵp Defnyddwyr Cymuned Wicimedia Cymru (Wikimedia Community User Group Wales) [1] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group aims to promote the Wikimedia movement in Wales and support the development of Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Time to simplify the Bureaucracy ?

2018-03-11 Thread John Erling Blad
This is slightly more complex. Some projects have a very large and steady decline, especially in new contributors,[1] while some projects have an increase, especially in the established users group.[2] Why it is so is not clear at all, but some editors favor an idea that other sites like Facebook

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Time to simplify the Bureaucracy ?

2018-03-11 Thread Peter Southwood
Fair comment Cheers, Peter -Original Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pine W Sent: 11 March 2018 06:56 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Time to simplify the Bureaucracy ? Hi Zubin, I'd like to respond to this