Re: [Wikimedia-l] How the Dutch language WP handles COVID-19 (just some inspiration for other small communities)

> > Therefore, the community decided to take a different approach: through our > featured article section on the main page < > https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoofdpagina>, we now highlight articles to > put the COVID-19 in a broader perspective. > -- That's interesting. It also highlights if

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Message to readers from the Wikimedia Foundation regarding COVID-19

Like Lane, I also could saw the content security error, anyway... I looked at the Meta-Wiki translate page to understand the template. I completely agree that Wikimedians, specially WikiMed team and volunteers are doing excellent work on Wikipedia and other projects. Other than (English

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Message to readers from the Wikimedia Foundation regarding COVID-19

Hello Worth it if someone also took the time to craft us a message to relay on social media. Maybe a good punchy visual reusing that site notice message. Le jeu. 19 mars 2020 à 21:27, Joseph Seddon a écrit : > Dear list, > > Given the unfolding global events, the Wikimedia Foundations feels it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Message to readers from the Wikimedia Foundation regarding COVID-19

Perfect, thanks! The plural was indeed part of the confusion :) -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ ‫בתאריך יום ה׳, 19 במרץ 2020 ב-23:26 מאת ‪Joseph Seddon‬‏ <‪

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Message to readers from the Wikimedia Foundation regarding COVID-19

The latter I believe to be the most applicable, I have dropped the "plural" which does more imply the former in english. Thanks Seddon On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 9:13 PM Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > Hi! > > Thanks for the invitation. > > In the part that says "We are

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Message to readers from the Wikimedia Foundation regarding COVID-19

Hey Sam! Rough headline numbers are being run for pageviews, editors and edits globally but we will get those numbers tomorrow. Seddon On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 9:19 PM Samuel Klein wrote: > > "The article has been read more than 30 million times, in English alone. > " > > Can you run the count

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Message to readers from the Wikimedia Foundation regarding COVID-19

> "The article has been read more than 30 million times, in English alone. " Can you run the count for everything in that category, and across all languages? Should be a good deal more! On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 4:27 PM Joseph Seddon wrote: > Dear list, > > Given the unfolding global events, the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Message to readers from the Wikimedia Foundation regarding COVID-19

Please don't use the "coronavirus pandemic" misnomer, at least in the version in Portuguese. "Coronavirus" is a group of virus, not the disease. It's proper name is COVID-19. Using that misnomer is akin as calling "retrovirus epidemic" to AIDS, and fertile ground for all kinds of fake news, such

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Message to readers from the Wikimedia Foundation regarding COVID-19

Hi! Thanks for the invitation. In the part that says "We are proving that, even in a time of social distancing, we can celebrate our human bond by coming together online to share our knowledge and experiences.", the word "experiences" - is it more like "life experiences, such as travel, raising

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Message to readers from the Wikimedia Foundation regarding COVID-19

Hey Lane, That's just a warning by centralnotice in preview that it's detecting an external script. Nothing to worry about! Seddon On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 8:47 PM Lane Rasberry wrote: > I see this error message > > Content Security Policy violation detected! Tried to load something from > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Message to readers from the Wikimedia Foundation regarding COVID-19

I see this error message Content Security Policy violation detected! Tried to load something from https://xtools.wmflabs.org/api/page/articleinfo/en.wikipedia.org/NASA?format=html=en . On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 4:27 PM Joseph Seddon wrote: > Dear list, > > Given the unfolding global events, the

[Wikimedia-l] Message to readers from the Wikimedia Foundation regarding COVID-19

Dear list, Given the unfolding global events, the Wikimedia Foundations feels it is important to reassure readers across the globe. We'll be displaying a short message at the top of the projects reaffirming our commitment to keep Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects online, open and free for

[Wikimedia-l] How the Dutch language WP handles COVID-19 (just some inspiration for other small communities)

Hi! I read about the beautiful COVID-19 Wikiproject here on wikimedia-l, and through Twitter, about the Italian, German en English Wikipedia giving the relevant articles on COVID-19 their own box on the front page, to inform readers looking for information. We discussed this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Launch of Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal

Hello Pine Thank you for your response. We appreciate the stewardship that the community has on meta, and this is not in dispute. In this case because we are working with a system that aims to collect Affiliates data in a structured form, as well as make it accessible to the community via query

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] [Covid-19] Postponing Wikimania Bangkok until 2021

Hi all, We are indeed investigating remote options not just for Wikimania, but for many events, meetups and conferences for 2020 and beyond. Please feel free to join the meta page and conversation around the tools and paradigms for doing remote events. Meta page:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Education Office Hours, March 2020

Hi everyone, A gentle reminder, we have the education office hours today at 12:00 PM UTC, in the next 6 hours. It is a good time to check-in with each other and see how we can better support our work. Also, as you know that the pandemic is affecting more than 500 Million students worldwide.