Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Community Tech: New Format for 2020 Wishlist Survey

2019-10-05 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The disappointing you show and the grotesque conclusions are imho based in a sense of entitlement. You had it your way for so long and they are now robbing you from your cookies... It is easy to "forget" that a program where a majority decides what is on a "community wish list" favours the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Community Tech: New Format for 2020 Wishlist Survey

2019-10-05 Thread Johan Jönsson
Den lör 5 okt. 2019 kl 22:46 skrev Chris Keating : > the wishlist only reflects > the needs and perceptions of highly active contributors [at present I think > it only accepts submissions in English ,which is another obstacle, but that > could be addressed]. The wishlist has explicitly accepted

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Community Tech: New Format for 2020 Wishlist Survey

2019-10-05 Thread Chris Keating
Hi Yuri, I just wanted to respond to this as I think there are two levels of issue here, and on one level I agree and on another I disagree! On the more immediate level about "ok, there's a technical wishlist, what should we do with it" - I think it's a reasonable decision for the WMF to opt to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Saint Petersburg User Group

2019-10-05 Thread Paulo Santos Perneta
Hi Farhad, Very interesting, thank you very much for sharing your insight. The advantages at an organizational level are quite obvious, indeed, and it's a smart way to deal with those membership limitations. I'm glad that the WMF & Wikimedia is abandoning the very rigid chapter model as the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Saint Petersburg User Group

2019-10-05 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Thanks for the clarification and the insights. This could be a really interesting organizative model for huge countries, even for countries with more than one chapter but not a country level one, as happens in the USA. 2019 urr. 5 4:38 PM erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du (Фархад Фаткуллин / Farhad

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Saint Petersburg User Group

2019-10-05 Thread Фархад Фаткуллин / Farhad Fatkullin
Hi folks, I can probably comment this, as a member of both Wikimedia Russia and a Tatar language-specific UG. On top of participation in Wikimedia Language Diversity initiative on meta, I am also contemplating and working towards starting a territory-specific UG for my region + an incubator UG

[Wikimedia-l] She Did It — Writing Challenge Devoted to Ukrainian Women

2019-10-05 Thread Anton Protsiuk
Hi all, Wikimedia Ukraine is organizing an international Wikipedia writing challenge aimed to improve worldwide coverage of Ukrainian women — https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/She_Did_It. The marathon has already started and will run for a week — by the end of October 11th. Please help counter