[Wikimedia-l] Re: Collection / Special:Book usage

2022-04-24 Thread Samuel Klein
1000 per month! Interesting. Do we have readership / download data for those created? On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 4:24 AM Mike Peel wrote: > > > On 17/4/22 17:40:35, Strainu wrote: > > > > > > Pe duminică, 17 aprilie 2022, Tito Dutta > > a scris: > > > Hello, > > >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2022 election - updates

2022-04-24 Thread Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l
Last year the community voted that way putting diverse candidates at 5th and 6th position because the election method could not work properly, even assuming (as it was) a general attempt of diverse choice by the electorate. The main issue was in the low threshold for the candidatures. As soon

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

2022-04-24 Thread Lane Chance
On Sat, 23 Apr 2022 at 21:45, Vi to wrote: > "lack of infrastructure" and lack of "current volunteers" weren't > addressed in your email at all, given that you're relying upon wrong > premises by assuming checkusers' bad faith and non-existing practices. > > The paragraph that starts with "If

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2022 election - updates

2022-04-24 Thread Todd Allen
No. I would prefer them to be selected in open, at-large elections, as they should have been in previous years. On Sun, Apr 24, 2022, 04:25 Chris Keating wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 1:13 AM Todd Allen wrote: > >> Yes, and let me say it in stronger terms: This is unacceptable. >>

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2022 election - updates

2022-04-24 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 9:40 AM Chris Keating wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 11:32 PM Andreas Kolbe wrote: > >> There is no longer any distinction between community and affiliate >> trustees. For reference, see the "Type of seat" column in the current board >> member table on Meta, as well as

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2022 election - updates

2022-04-24 Thread Uwe Herzke
I've asked for the reasons to mix those two totally different type of seats in 2021 on the discussion page of the board[1], but I never got any answer besides ''the board decided this way'', which is in no way a valid decision process for community matters in the Wikiverse. I've asked again on

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2022 election - updates

2022-04-24 Thread Chris Keating
On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 1:13 AM Todd Allen wrote: > Yes, and let me say it in stronger terms: This is unacceptable. > Community-selected seats have nothing to do with affiliates; affiliates are > absolutely not the community. Community-selected seats must be an at-large > election from Wikimedia

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2022 election - updates

2022-04-24 Thread Chris Keating
On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 11:32 PM Andreas Kolbe wrote: > Chris, > > There is no longer any distinction between community and affiliate > trustees. For reference, see the "Type of seat" column in the current board > member table on Meta, as well as the footnote under the table.[1] > > What Dariusz

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Collection / Special:Book usage

2022-04-24 Thread Mike Peel
On 17/4/22 17:40:35, Strainu wrote: Pe duminică, 17 aprilie 2022, Tito Dutta > a scris: > Hello, > This was a very useful tool for the readers. I used it a lot when it was working. > User namespace books page category shows 50,000 subpages: