Re: [Wikimedia-l] 1Lib1Ref starts on Friday May 15

2020-05-12 Thread Rajeeb Dutta
Hi Felix, Hope you and family are doing well, thanks for the update. Best Regards, Rajeeb. (U: Marajozkee) (Sent from my iPhone pardon the brevity) > On 13-May-2020, at 1:48 AM, Felix Nartey wrote: > > Librarians and library lovers, > > We hope that you and your loved ones are taking care

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the WikiBlind User Group

2020-05-12 Thread Tito Dutta
Excellent. For quite some time, especially after being influenced by a couple of colleagues' and an English Wikipedia admin's work, I personally developed a feeling of strong support for activities related to accessibility, so this makes me delighted. Thanks for informing about this development.

[Wikimedia-l] 1Lib1Ref starts on Friday May 15

2020-05-12 Thread Felix Nartey
Librarians and library lovers, We hope that you and your loved ones are taking care during this challenging time. In just three days, starting from Friday May 15th, we will be joining together around the world to make Wikipedia more reliable through #1lib1ref! We have just a few reminders:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the WikiBlind User Group

2020-05-12 Thread Rajeeb Dutta
Congratulations to each and everyone behind this success, such an User Group was always needed and will further broaden participation in our Wiki movement. Best Regards, Rajeeb. (U: Marajozkee) (Sent from my iPhone pardon the brevity) > On 13-May-2020, at 12:43 AM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the WikiBlind User Group

2020-05-12 Thread Asaf Bartov
Congratulations to the new user group! It's great to have a clear destination to refer people to, on matters of vision-impaired use of and contribution to the Wikimedia projects. (I think it would be helpful, for this and other recent groups, to ensure that the designated contacts for the group

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the WikiBlind User Group

2020-05-12 Thread Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
Hi everyone! I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized [1] WikiBlind User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group aims to: WikiBlind User Group, is a new international online group in which our members, blind, low vision and sighted, can connect with each,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Feature from Community Tech: Enhanced Password Reset

2020-05-12 Thread Ilana Fried
@Jan: Hello! In February, we enabled the feature for two projects (Wiktionary and Wikivoyage). This was because we wanted to release incrementally and collect feedback before releasing to all wikis. This recent update confirms that the feature has been released to all wikis and the project is now

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: The recommendations are now online

2020-05-12 Thread Marc Miquel
Thank you, Katherine, for sending this e-mail, and thanks to you all for these positive and uplifting comments in these replies. As one of the participants who had been involved in the writing, it is an enormous pleasure to see these strategic recommendations finally released. I wanted to write

[Wikimedia-l] WikiGap Nigeria Online Contest extends to 27 May 2020.

2020-05-12 Thread Olushola Olaniyan
Dear friends, Greetings, We write to thank you for your immense contribution to the ongoing WikiGap online event in Nigeria organized to close the existing gender gap on Wikipedia. We have received feedback from some quarter of the community with the desire to join the contest. So, to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: The recommendations are now online

2020-05-12 Thread Isaac Olatunde
Thank you, Katherine, for this update and Nicole (and others) for these awesome recommendations. Regards Isaac On Tue, 12 May 2020, 11:45 Ilario valdelli, wrote: > Thank you Nicole > > for all that great job! > > On 12/05/2020 12:29, Nicole Ebber wrote: > > Thanks, Anders and Anton, for your

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: The recommendations are now online

2020-05-12 Thread Ilario valdelli
Thank you Nicole for all that great job! On 12/05/2020 12:29, Nicole Ebber wrote: Thanks, Anders and Anton, for your uplifting feedback. We'll update the overview section right away. We have documented the changes in this change log, I hope this is helpful:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: The recommendations are now online

2020-05-12 Thread Ilario valdelli
Thank you it was a big challenge and sometimes a lot of complicated issues but thank you to have given this good direction. Kind regards On 12/05/2020 10:40, Katherine Maher wrote: *=== Thank you ===* I want to extend my deep gratitude to every single person who has helped create these

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: The recommendations are now online

2020-05-12 Thread Nicole Ebber
Thanks, Anders and Anton, for your uplifting feedback. We'll update the overview section right away. We have documented the changes in this change log, I hope this is helpful:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: The recommendations are now online

2020-05-12 Thread Anton Protsiuk
Impressive work, thanks to all those involved. Were there any major changes to the content of recommendations as compared to the previous iteration? That is, apart from clarifying & condensing the text. Best Regards Anton Protsiuk On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 1:07 PM Anders Wennersten wrote: > I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: The recommendations are now online

2020-05-12 Thread Anders Wennersten
I find this final version much easier to get to grips with, both in language and structure/content. And to condense it into 10 recommendations instead of 13 complemented with 10 principles is a big improvement. It is a great base on which to build our "new" movement, and I expect it will be

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: The recommendations are now online

2020-05-12 Thread Camelia Boban
Thank you Katherine for the update and thank all people involved, from the beginning to the end, on writing, connecting with the community, and reviewing these recommendations. Immensely grateful for your work: effort, concentration and stay on focus. Camelia, Diversity WG -- *Camelia Boban* *|

[Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: The recommendations are now online

2020-05-12 Thread Katherine Maher
Hi everyone, I hope this finds you all as well as could be. It's been a while since I've sent a note out about movement strategy; so much has changed in the world since we started these conversations in 2017, including this global pandemic. Indeed, much has continued to evolve in our movement

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Feature from Community Tech: Enhanced Password Reset

2020-05-12 Thread Jan Ainali
I am a bit confused Ilana. Could you help me understand the difference from the February announcement? https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Community_Tech/Password_Reset_Update=19846904=19705484 Med vänliga hälsningar Jan Ainali Den tis 12 maj 2020 kl 00:01 skrev Ilana Fried : > Hello

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Feature from Community Tech: Enhanced Password Reset

2020-05-12 Thread Rehman Abubakr
This is a really useful feature, thank you. I hope https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153454 would also be considered sometime in the near future. It's not directly related, but related to password security. Tldr, if I use abc123 as my password, I would get my normal admin account. But if I