Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedia Community of Tatar Language User Group

2018-12-05 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Congrats Farhad :-) On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 12:51, Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin < f...@yandex.com> wrote: > Our St.Petersburg colleagues wrote a Russian Wikinews article dedicated to > the event. > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Page views of male/female biographies?

2018-12-05 Thread Risker
Hmm. I think the subject of what you call "audience bias" is far more general than the tiny targeted area you're talking about. I'm pretty sure that readers from Poland are thousands of times more likely to access the Wikipedia article about [name any town in Poland] than readers in Indonesia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Croatian Wikipedia: persisting far-right bias?

2018-12-05 Thread Dennis During
Yes the method can miss bias. But if the references* used are* biased, it would provide clear, objective (though not irrefutable) evidence of a general bias. The more factual the discussion, the more likely it will be that any conclusions of the process will be accepted, if not by all at Croatia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Page views of male/female biographies?

2018-12-05 Thread David Cuenca Tudela
Hi Tilman, I disagree with your appraisal that there are better venues for my question. The gendergap mailing list is technically dead, before your message the last one was from April. The other mailing list is related to research, not to stats that should be readily available. From your answer

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Croatian Wikipedia: persisting far-right bias?

2018-12-05 Thread Tomasz Ganicz
I don't clearly understand Gerard what is your idea. Do you want to measure NPOV by calculating how often the sources are used after somehow marking them to belong to one or another group of political, religous or other type of POV? And when you find that one group of them are more often cited

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Summit 2019 - Registration closes December 17

2018-12-05 Thread Cornelius Kibelka
Hi J. Balaji, indeed, the Wikimedia Conference 2018 had this option. However, as we are changing the whole concept of the event (also a reason for a name change) and limiting the number of participants to 200 max., we cannot invited unaffiliated groups ( = groups that do not have an affiliate

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Summit 2019 - Registration closes December 17

2018-12-05 Thread Michelle Poltier
Dear Wikimedians, If you wish to be part of the Wikimedia Summit 2019 [1] and you have not yet registered, please be reminded that registration closes on Monday, December 17, 2018. You can sign up using the link below [2]. == Eligibility criteria == Please have the eligibility criteria [3] for

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [mySociety-community] New Wikiproject Proposal/Wikidata post-election updating toolkit

2018-12-05 Thread Edward Saperia
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedia Community of Tatar Language User Group

2018-12-05 Thread Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin
Our St.Petersburg colleagues wrote a Russian Wikinews article dedicated to the event. https://ru.wikinews.org/wiki/Татарские_викимедийцы_создали_четвёртую_в_России_юзер-группу_Викимедиа It's English translation is available in November 2018 CEE Newsletter @

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mobile fundraising ads

2018-12-05 Thread vermont--- via Wikimedia-l
Hello all, Please see: https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=6334670=6327710=source This is not an isolated incident. I've seen it on-wiki in other locations, although did not record the links. Entering Wikipedia while not logged in, from both a PC and mobile device, lead to an