(Not Andy, but a global interface admin in my volunteer capacity)
Hi,
The difference is that here the third party code is being run under the
context of Wikipedia. That means even with sandboxing mitigation such as
iframe (which has been broken before), it's much easier to break out and
collect
Hello,
Persian Wikipedia (fa.wikipedia.org) which recently celebrated its 20th
birthday just passed its 1,000,000 article milestone.
Many volunteers have built, contributed, protected and loved this wiki for
the past two decades and here's to many more decades to come.
It has been a bumpy road
Maybe people don't know but video donation happens in Wikimedia already and
it doesn't need to be from Youtubers.
Here is my favorite example: German public broadcaster (ARD) donates short
informational videos to Wikipedia and they are used in articles in German
Wikipedia. They get a lot of
I'm not an expert in multimedia codecs or patents so I leave the actual
decision to people who know better (maybe legal team in WMF?) but according
to tech news, major patents for mp4 have already expired and the rest will
expire soon, a large batch of them expired in November 2023 and a major
Regarding discoverability. I think there is a bigger problem: We have an
issue of discoverability of work for Wikipedians. I remember in my first
days as a Wikipedian, I would go to the main page and then click on random
pages until I would find something to improve. A friend of mine in his
early
Hi,
TLDR: There is now a tool that gives you list of articles to improve or
create based on WikiProjects of English Wikipedia. For example, articles of
top importance in WikiProject Mathematics that are missing or short in
Azeri Wikipedia:
https://whattodo.toolforge.org/?lang=az=Mathematics=Top
See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T325607#8846296 and onwards
Am Di., 1. Aug. 2023 um 17:27 Uhr schrieb Lauren Worden <
laurenworde...@gmail.com>:
> Has anyone tried telling the Google Search Console to index all the
> Wikisource language domains? Presumably a Foundation sysadmin would
>
t;>> to Romania or something)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hiring in countries with the worst labour laws and cheapest minimum
>>>>>> wages is totally immoral. Especially in a community where equity is part
>>>>&g
There always be gaps in ownership and there will be some critical software
left to individuals to keep the lights on. It's an ideal we need to move
towards but we might never reach.
That being said, it really doesn't need to be this bad.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of critical tech currently
This is not really about Selena's email but it's so nerdy I still want to
talk about what tech debt is and what it isn't.
The word tech debt at the beginning meant a very specific thing: When an
engineer takes a shortcut to deliver a feature faster. Daniel has a pretty
good essay on tech debt:
Repeating exactly what has been in the training data is not overfitting.
Overfitting is when the model fails to recognize the underlying pattern in
the training data leading to inaccurate or false results when used on new
data. Getting the exact same prediction from the training data set is
ank you for speaking out. You've articulated many of my vague concerns
> with the Foundation's communications.
>
> On Sun, Jan 8, 2023, 1:47 PM Amir Sarabadani wrote:
>
>> (putting my long-term volunteer of Persian Wikipedia hat on)
>>
>> I first want to mention that out
(putting my long-term volunteer of Persian Wikipedia hat on)
I first want to mention that out of 16 users banned by the office action,
10 were mostly active in Arabic Wikipedia and 6 were mostly active in
Persian Wikipedia. I know it’s confusing but Arabic and Persian are
completely different
Even if you don't want mediawiki for various reasons, you can set it up in
Wikimedia Cloud. We already hosted Discourse there for years.
Even if you can't host in WMCS for other reasons, you still can have
internationalized discussions in mediawiki. The Desktop improvements team
does this in
Here is a regular reminder that:
- You can't throw money at a problem and expect it to be solved
automatically.
- $100M is a lot of money but 1- Not all of it goes to personnel,
especially engineering personnel. 2- It's not that much money compared to
the rest of technology companies and their
So you're saying if WMF didn't have a human rights policy, the user would
have not been arrested? Similar to the "fact" that no Wikipedian has been
arrested before the inception of the policy?
What kind of logic is this?
On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 3:18 PM Philip Kopetzky
wrote:
> This situation
t;
> "Total number of individuals (including but not limited to those listed
> above) who received more than $100,000 of reportable compensation from the
> organization – *165*"
>
> That is more than half of all employees (actual employees, as opposed to
> freelancers).
The $200,000 average salary for each employee is plain wrong.
If you look at 2019 Form:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/8/85/Wikimedia_Foundation_2019_Form_990.pdf
In that form, there is a section (Section VII) for the highest paid
employees and requires WMF to report any
(Speaking in my volunteer capacity)
I doubt there is any malicious intent by WMF. I personally think the
underlying problem is time. Let me explain.
Fixing a big issue in software takes time (I wrote a long essay about it in
this thread) so it makes sense WMF annual planning to focus on issues
ad below):
> > - Uploads: Support for large file uploads / Keeping bulk upload tools
> online
> > - Video: Debugging + rolling out the videojs player
> > - Formats: Adding support for CML and dozens of other common high-demand
> file formats
> > - Thumbs: Updating thumb
the core mission of
> Wikimedia Commons
>
> On Wed, 29 Dec 2021 at 17:32, Amir Sarabadani wrote:
>
>> The wishlist survey is defined as:
>> > The Community Wishlist Survey is an annual survey that allows
>> contributors to the Wikimedia projects to propos
The wishlist survey is defined as:
> The Community Wishlist Survey is an annual survey that allows
contributors to the Wikimedia projects to propose and vote for tools and
platform improvements
That doesn't necessarily translate into just "new tools". The community can
wish for better support of
Well, if we need to have better support for multimedia, first we need to
give some attention to the existing system that is basically falling apart.
Let me give you some examples.
Thumbor, the software that builds small sizes of the images is on
deprecated infrastructure, on EOL python version
If anyone is interested to know about this incident. Send me a private
message and I can explain better.
Best
On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 8:17 PM 4nn1l2 <4nn1l2.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> Persian Wikipedia has reached a new level in their arbitrary and nonesense
> adminship.
That's it. That's the email.
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at 10:29, Florence Devouard
> wrote:
>
>> Nice outcome. Congrats to all
>>
>> Anthere
>>
>> PS: yet a little bit sad though :(
>>
>>
>> Le 01/04/2021 à 01:27, Amir Sarabadani a écrit :
>>
>> Hello,
>> After more than one year
pdate lag, accidental omission, or is it
> intentional?
>
You just need to clear the cache. Ctrl + Shift + R.
>
> Yours truly,
>
> *Rehman <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman>*
>
>
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> *From:* MediaWiki-l on behalf
> of Amir
Hello,
After more than one year of design, discussion, vote, iteration, and months
of legal work, I’m happy to announce that the logo of MediaWiki has been
officially changed. This applies to both the software and logo of
https://mediawiki.org.
The old logo of MediaWiki was adopted slightly more
, or that it can be empty and just keep the subject
> line the same?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Deb
>
> --
>
> deb tankersley (she/her)
>
> senior program manager, engineering
>
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 3:40 AM Pankaj Jangid
>
in/moderator).
Hope just one more password would be okay ;)
Best
>
> Whatever the case, fantastic news :-)
>
> Roger / Alphos
>
>
> Le 25 mars 2021 à 08:58, Amir Sarabadani a écrit :
>
> Hello,
>
> tl;dr: https://lists-next.wikimedia.org is running mailman3. Ple
Hello,
tl;dr: https://lists-next.wikimedia.org is running mailman3. Please help us
test the software before we upgrade the real mailing list server.
Kunal and I have been working on deploying the new mailman (version 3) to
replace mailman2 serving https://lists.wikimedia.org and powering all of
That's great news! Congratulations to everyone involved in the process!
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 12:14 PM Santiago Navarro <
santiagonava...@wikimedia.es> wrote:
> Hello. I have the pleasure to inform that last Friday, 19th February
> 2021, Wikimedia España was recognized as a charity (entidad de
ox" was never a userbox. It's still on
> display, so I'm unsure what actions you refer to.
>
> Thanks,
> Fae
> --
> fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
>
> On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 at 17:28, Amir Sarabadani wrote:
> >
> > And it got del
And it got deleted, in total it lived under a month and it would have been
deleted sooner if someone saw it sooner. Instead of using this as an
argument to say "this wiki is totally bad" assume good faith.
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:33 PM Amir Sarabadani wrote:
> Hello,
> I just
Hello,
I just want to mention that the userbox was created twenty days ago and is
now being discussed for deletion.
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:23 PM Fæ wrote:
> Hi Maggie,
>
> Thanks for publishing this nice and clear restatement of WMF's
> commitment to a safe and non-hostile environment for
I want to add a funny story. When I used to live in Iran, I couldn't join
any of Wikimedia telegram groups (including three or four wikimedia
hackathons when I was participating in them) because my phone number had
country code of Iran (duh) and Telegram banned users being able to join
large
I just want to say while I agree IMO there's a growing disconnect in some
parts of WMF with the communities but it's not happening here. In fact it's
also the other way around. Some people in communities and some communities
in general have been growing too disconnected from the framework they are
Hello,
Due to the current situation, there are more and more collaborations
happening online instead. and now you can see Wikimedia-related discussion
groups in Slack, Discord, Telegram, Facebook, and many more. Besides being
scattered and inaccessible to people who don't have accounts in those
Hey,
Can you elaborate what happened? if It's public of course. It's hard to
understand the problem without proper context.
Is it https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261133 ?
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 10:52 PM Strainu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems the WMF is going through another crisis of
chosen in 2017.
> >
> > Thanks for your understanding,
> >
> > Ad Huikeshoven
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 8:33 PM Amir Sarabadani
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > Today I stumbled upon this public phabricator ticket [1] created
I understand but my question is "why". There is no other volunteer group
that has a private policy. How is it different from CU and OS?
On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 11:56 PM Jonatan Svensson Glad <
gladjona...@outlook.com> wrote:
> At the bottom of https://otrs-wiki.wikimedia.org/ you can see that
Hello,
This is the first time that I heard that the rules and policies of a
volunteer body are confidential. As a CU and OS we don't have any
confidential policy (confidential data, sure)
Can you elaborate more?
On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 7:52 PM Jonatan Svensson Glad <
gladjona...@outlook.com>
gt; If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make
> > sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.
> >
> > After a long wait. Been like this for several hours now.
> > Most sites no problem
> > Cheers,
> > P
> >
> > -O
is permitted to access the Web.
>
> After a long wait. Been like this for several hours now.
> Most sites no problem
> Cheers,
> P
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On
> Behalf Of Amir Sarabadani
> Sent: 2
Hey,
Can you elaborate more? I can access the website and graphs seems okay:
https://grafana.wikimedia.org/d/RIA1lzDZk/application-servers-red-dashboard?orgId=1=now-3h=now
On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 3:24 PM Peter Southwood <
peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
> Is anyone else unable to get
Thanks for the pointers, I personally disagree with some parts of it (e.g.
Twitter is a company and we are an NGO) BUT since it passed the community
consultation (and I somehow missed it to raise my feedback), I don't want
to be vocal about the high level reasoning behind the project.
What I
Hello,
Today I stumbled upon this public phabricator ticket [1] created by someone
from WMF starting with:
"My team is creating bi-weekly HTML Dumps for all of the wikis, except for
wikidata as part of the paid API project."
I have so many questions:
- What is the "paid API" project? Are we
This is awesome. It looks amazing. Thank you for doing this. Mobile support
is improved drastically too.
Thanks.
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 12:50 PM Erica Litrenta
wrote:
> Thanks Alexandros!
> I am assuming this is about our own instance - I made
> https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/TestNewUI to
share my username/password which sounds a bit weird
> (and people might be able to create meetings too with those) ?
>
> --
> Tony Thomas
> https://mediawiki.org/wiki/User:01tonythomas
> --
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 4:40 PM Amir Sarabadani
> wrote:
>
>
> Thanks
> Tito Dutta
> Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to remind
> me over email or phone call.
>
>
> On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 01:57, Amir Sarabadani wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> > "Wikimedia Meet" [0] (https://meet.wmclo
, Apr 25, 2020 at 10:26 PM Amir Sarabadani
wrote:
> Hey,
> "Wikimedia Meet" [0] (https://meet.wmcloud.org), is a project in
> Wikimedia CloudVPS for Wikimedians to meet virtually instead of using
> commercial services like Zoom which might have security and privacy
> impli
Hey,
"Wikimedia Meet" [0] (https://meet.wmcloud.org), is a project in Wikimedia
CloudVPS for Wikimedians to meet virtually instead of using commercial
services like Zoom which might have security and privacy implications
[1][2]. Currently it's a jitsi (jitsi.org) installation.
If you want to just
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 4:50 PM Pine W wrote:
>
> > I think that it's time for some people in WMF to move on. Without having
> > access to WMF internal discussions
So what you're saying is that you don't have lots of information on how
it's decided [1] but you still feel informed enough to at
Do you know about
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements ?
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:48 PM John Erling Blad wrote:
> Could we please update them with a slightly more up-to-date skin?
>
> Take a look at our Norwegian competitor in the lexicon field.
>
is very
small and non-existent comparing to website with similar traffic.
Best
On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 11:34 PM Amir Sarabadani
wrote:
> On the great things:
> - There are so many forms of volunteer contribution, you don't need to be
> an expert to be able to contribute to English Wikipedia
On the great things:
- There are so many forms of volunteer contribution, you don't need to be
an expert to be able to contribute to English Wikipedia (how can I
contribute, everything is there already). You can fight vandalism, you can
take pictures, you can write code, you can help other
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 23:16 Henry Wood wrote:
> >I don't know sending such emails of limited number of good
> > news cherry-picked by mostly one person all the time to hundreds of
> > wikimedians across the globe with very wide range of interests would be a
> > good idea.
>
> Leading inevitably
Seconding Cornelius here, I almost reached to the point a making a
dedicated filter to archive these emails because that they contain long
emails that are full of great things but doesn't interest me or make me
happy (there are ways to make me happy, for example technical improvements
or
There are several versions of TLS. TLS1.1 end of life is soon and it will
be out of support very soon, most browsers will remove it in 2020. You
should upgrade to support at least TLS1.2 which was released more than ten
years ago. Upgrading to a new version is not that complicated. Just update
I have no comment on Wikimedia Space. IMHO it's too soon to criticize it
but I want to point out to a pattern that I have been seeing in the past
couple of months by several people in this very mailing list.
You have been repeating the word "WMF" (four time, for four different
purposes) and
Yes, I don't see those to be contradictory. All members need to identify
themselves to WMF but not to each other or public.
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019, 18:36 Thomas Townsend wrote:
> Amir
>
> > The committee is a body of volunteers and they can't be forced to
> disclose
> > their real identities.
efraining themselves)
>
> Lodewijk
>
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 9:32 AM Amir Sarabadani
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > (As a member, not talking on behalf of the committee)
> > The committee is a body of volunteers and they can't be forced to
> disclose
> > their re
might be involved in a complaint.
>
> The Turnip
>
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 at 10:39, Amir Sarabadani wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> > The deadline for the public feedback was yesterday. Some objections have
> > raised but committee decided not to change the s
on thanking Nuria and Rosalie for their service and welcome
Tonina and MusikAnimal to the main members of the committee.
Best
On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 9:13 PM Amir Sarabadani wrote:
> Hello,
> The committee has finished selecting new members and the new committee
> candidates are (In alphabeti
Are you comparing banning someone to participate at conference(s) with
hanging innocent people?
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 4:34 PM Paulo Santos Perneta <
paulospern...@gmail.com> wrote:
> " In other words, the best way to ban anyone from any event is to start a
> rumour about them" - that's
People who oppose the ban: Are you aware of all aspects and things Fram has
done? Do you have the full picture? It's really saddening to see how fast
people jump to conclusion in page mentioned in the email. I personally,
don't know what happened so I neither can support or oppose the ban. As
IMO commons need either a Clue Bot NG for new uploads or ores support for
images that might be copyright violation, or both.
Best
On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 1:10 PM Yaroslav Blanter wrote:
> Just the active community itself is too small, compared with the amount of
> material it has to deal with.
Hello,
The committee has finished selecting new members and the new committee
candidates are (In alphabetical order):
- Amir Sarabadani
- Lucie-Aimée Kaffee
- MusikAnimal
- Tonina Zhelyazkova
- Tony Thomas
And auxiliary members will be (In alphabetical order):
- Huji
I wrote a quick explantation why it's almost impossible to make a new wiki
now, in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210752#5167695
One problem is that this part of the codebase doesn't have a clear
maintainer/owner. That needs to be fixed.
Best
On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 6:00 PM Brad Jorsch
Hello all,
It's coming close to time for annual appointments of community members to
serve on the Code of Conduct (CoC) committee. The Code of Conduct Committee
is a team of five trusted individuals plus five auxiliary members with
diverse affiliations responsible for general enforcement of the
Adam,
Working with you on everyday basis was a bliss and I wish you all the best
in the future.
Keep in touch with us please.
Best
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 6:38 PM Adam Wight wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> This is just a courtesy notice that I'm no longer employed by the Wikimedia
> Foundation as of
Dario, I will never forget all of your help when I started working on AI
projects in Wikimedia. Thank you!
Hope to see you soon in one of conferences and Good luck in your new job!
Best
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 2:00 AM Daniel Mietchen via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
On Wed, Jan 16, 2019, 19:48 James Salsman wrote:
> The "agenda" is shared by a majority of the survey respondents so far.
You just disclosed results of the survey before it ends, meaning people who
fill out the survey are biased on what majority thinks and vote under peer
pressure.
Here's my 2c:
Calling gay people "subhuman" is so vile that needs direct action from
outside of the wiki but IMO this is a symptom of a larger issue.
The issue is that different wikis are disconnected and don't have proper
oversight by a central (volunteer-based) authority.
This sometimes lead to
Given the response on the talk page [1] I think it's clear violation of
nondiscrimination policy [2]
[1] "promotion of homosexuality will not be tolerated here nor will it be
forced down our throats to suit anyone's international political agenda if
you expect Ethiopians to take part."
[2]
Even I agree we need more donations from mobile but more aggressive banners
doesn't usually lead to more donations coming. At least, if it's more
aggressive than a certain threshold and I think these banners pass that
threshold by far.
Best
On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 5:00 PM David Gerard wrote:
>
It might sound naive but Singapore also has lots of potential. Please
correct me if I'm wrong.
Best
On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 10:12 PM Andrew Lih wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 12:24 PM Ilario Valdelli
> wrote:
>
> > Yes but India has probably 2 times the population of the whole Europe...
> >
or request new features, feel free to file a phabricator
ticket tagged with ores-support-checklist (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/ores-support-checklist/)
Best
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Software Engineer
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Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
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