Re: [Wikimedia-l] Donations - show the editors you care?

2020-12-07 Thread Željko Blaće
It would be awesome if this list could either have basic moderation and/or an option to opt out of threads. On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 23:37, Chris Keating wrote: > I think it would be great if this sub-thread could come to an end and we > could stop having the list clogged up with questions about

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Donations - show the editors you care?

2020-12-07 Thread Chris Keating
I think it would be great if this sub-thread could come to an end and we could stop having the list clogged up with questions about one person's editing history. Also, I can't quite remember the list policy on people who are blocked from one or more Wikipedias for disruptive behaviour

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Donations - show the editors you care?

2020-12-07 Thread Joseph Seddon
The simple answer to a simple question is that I created my User:Seddon volunteer account in 2006 and Visual Editor was first made available to users seven and a half years later. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Donations - show the editors you care?

2020-12-07 Thread Demian
On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 12:03, Dan Garry (Deskana) wrote: > Please let us avoid using misleading statistics to make a point. > > On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 14:02, Dan Garry (Deskana) wrote: > On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 12:38, Demian wrote: > >> [...], but to be exact, I was looking to understand why

[Wikimedia-l] WMF Community Events Team first office hours: Thursday December 10

2020-12-07 Thread Rachel Farrand
Hello everyone! The Wikimedia Foundation Community Events Team will begin holding monthly office hours for any community members who are interested. To start, this will be a place where people can come ask us questions, get to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Save the date! Coolest Tool Award 2020: December 11th, 17:00 UTC

2020-12-07 Thread Joaquin Oltra Hernandez
Hi Everyone! A reminder that the Coolest Tool Award event will happen online this Friday 11 December 2020 at 17:00 UTC[^1]. Here is more information about the venue: - The event will be live streamed on Youtube in the MediaWiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Donations - show the editors you care?

2020-12-07 Thread Dan Garry (Deskana)
On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 12:38, Demian wrote: > I'm assuming this points to the namespace of the edits, although it's not > clear. It's unfortunate that Visual Editor can only be used in mainspace, I > wish that wasn't the case, but to be exact, I was looking to understand why > only 2.8% (47 out

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Donations - show the editors you care?

2020-12-07 Thread Demian
On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 11:32, Joseph Seddon wrote: > I believe the nature of the edits speak for themselves. > > Seddon > I'm assuming this points to the namespace of the edits, although it's not clear. It's unfortunate that Visual Editor can only be used in mainspace, I wish that wasn't the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Donations - show the editors you care?

2020-12-07 Thread Dan Garry (Deskana)
On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 05:55, Demian wrote: > With these different aspects in mind I wonder why you find the Visual > Editor a dream to use, given that on average at most 4 in 500 of your > edits >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Donations - show the editors you care?

2020-12-07 Thread Joseph Seddon
I believe the nature of the edits speak for themselves. Seddon On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 5:55 AM Demian wrote: > Hey Seddon, > > On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 16:23, Joseph Seddon wrote: > >> Short answer: I don't think it's a cynical lie. I think that the >> donations our donors give do results in