[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

2024-04-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
check compliance with WCAG [1]? Or performance in screen-readers [2]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Content_Accessibility_Guidelines [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_reader -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikim

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Commons isn't working in Pakistan

2024-03-31 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Sun, 31 Mar 2024, 08:15 Asad Jogi, wrote: This problem is also reported by me on phabricator > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329264 I get "Access Denied: Restricted Task You do not have permission to view this object." at that URL. ___

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mopping with the tap open

2024-03-10 Thread Andy Mabbett
> sources for the information I added. English Wikipedia has a notice to this effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Editpage-head-copy-warn Discussion about improving it (and some objections to it) is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Editpage-head-copy-wa

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Bulk change of licence for Flickr images without paying: Can WMF help?

2024-03-07 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 at 23:13, Fiona Romeo wrote: > I agree that it would be good to make it easier for Flickr photographers to > relicense their images for use on our projects. I can raise this through our > collaboration with the Flickr Foundation. Thank you. I've replied off-list.

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Bulk change of licence for Flickr images without paying: Can WMF help?

2024-03-06 Thread Andy Mabbett
I've already asked George; it was she who suggested trying Flickr directly -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk On Wed, 6 Mar 2024, 23:16 Željko Blaće, wrote: > Hi George - would you be able to help with this? > (I came across same issue but for lower amount of

[Wikimedia-l] Bulk change of licence for Flickr images without paying: Can WMF help?

2024-03-06 Thread Andy Mabbett
d I wonder if it would benefit the movement for the Foundation to ask Flickr to make the feature available for non-Pro users, who wish to make their images freely reusable? Do WMF have a suitable contact at Flickr? Who at WMF should I talk with about this? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonth

[Wikimedia-l] Hiba Abu Nada, RIP

2023-10-28 Thread Andy Mabbett
I just learned that a Wikimedian, Hiba Abu Nada, was one of the casualties in Gaza. She was 32, and died on 20 October, during an airstrike. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiba_Abu_Nada May the region soon be at peace. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Launch of Justapedia

2023-09-11 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Sun, 10 Sept 2023, 14:31 Rey Bueno via Wikimedia-l, < wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: Justapedia > It's laughable, as the logo [1] that (inadvertently,?) shows "disinformation" and "lies" being given equal weight with "information" in determining "truth" suggests. But this [2] hints

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikinews Facebook page hacked?

2023-08-09 Thread Andy Mabbett
ge may still be viable. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/w

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimania Program schedule

2023-08-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Fri, 4 Aug 2023, 03:15 Butch Bustria, wrote: > ...the master copy of the schedule... Is this session really only two minutes long? https://pretalx.com/wm2023/schedule/#2023-08-16 -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org

[Wikimedia-l] Re: New draft chapters out for review

2023-07-13 Thread Andy Mabbett
kipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Colour_contrast Likewise, File:GC structure (1).jpg, which is an image of text, has no alt attribute. Please fix that, too. [1] Caption correctly applied, here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Movement_Charter/Content/Global_Council=prev=25298855 -- Andy Mabbett @pi

[Wikimedia-l] Re: ChatGPT as a reliable source

2023-05-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Wed, 17 May 2023 at 08:08, Kiril Simeonovski wrote: > Can ChatGPT be used as a reliable source and, if yes, how would the citation > look like? I asked Google Bard "who is Andy Mabbett" the other day. In three short paragraphs, there were five serious mistakes, includin

[Wikimedia-l] Saudi Arabia jails two Wikipedia staff [SIC] in ‘bid to control content’

2023-01-05 Thread Andy Mabbett
ccess to Wikipedia, including the ability to edit fully protected pages – have been imprisoned since they were arrested on the same day in September 2020..." -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list --

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Is GoogleTV violating Wikipedia's license?

2022-08-30 Thread Andy Mabbett
rue. > the WMF cannot That is not true. The WMF cannot sue Google as a copyright holder. However, there is nothing stopping WM from raising the issue with Google, and gently reminding them of their obligations. Indeed, that would probably be more effective than individual editors doing so.

[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

2022-08-05 Thread Andy Mabbett
ething? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing https://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

2022-07-16 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Wed, 13 Jul 2022 at 23:56, Lauren Dickinson wrote: > > thanks for these comments! Please could you also respond (here or on Meta) to the discussion on Meta that I linked to above? A reminder of the URL: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Twitter -- Andy M

[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

2022-07-13 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Wed, 13 Jul 2022 at 01:23, Samuel Klein wrote: > > +1, not just en:wp. I'd love to see community mods involved in maintaining > the core social accounts. We have a Facebook group (not the ideal venue, but it works for those of us on that site), "Wikimedia social media hub" [1], for that; but

[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

2022-07-12 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 at 15:45, Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga wrote: > Subject: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter See also the (unanswered) issue I raised, at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Twitter -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Legacy maintenance

2022-04-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
icon files: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MostLinkedFiles Even our most used photograph is used more than three times as much (Raafront.jpg Used on 185,058 pages) -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wi

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

2022-03-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
nd are we assisting them in their new host countries? Regarding sanctions, do WMF have salaried staff or freelancers in Russia, and what is their position now? Does WMF fund a chapter or any other grantees in Russia, and ditto? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing htt

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

2022-03-02 Thread Andy Mabbett
r > today on the crisis in Ukraine. I don't think any of us would disagree with the sentiments expressed there. But your post does not answer the questions I posed in the original post in this thread. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonth

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

2022-03-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
count as friends. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing https://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.or

[Wikimedia-l] Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

2022-03-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
How do US, Geman/EU (for Wikidata) and other sanctions affect our movement and its projects? How is WMF supporting Wikimedians in Ukraine? And - where sanctions allow - supporting Wikimedians in Russia, who are trying to disseminate facts and fight censorship and propaganda? -- Andy Mabbett

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month: We are back in 2022!

2022-02-24 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 at 00:58, 4nn1l2 <4nn1l2.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The timing of this campaign is of real concern and not prudent, I think, > especially for those of us who strive for neutrality. Neutrality doesn't mean we pander to aggressors. HTH. -- Andy Mabbett @pig

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wiki-research-l] The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

2022-01-08 Thread Andy Mabbett
he use of an open licence as a requirement. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing https://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: Auction at Christie's

2021-12-06 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Mon, 6 Dec 2021 at 13:34, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > Jimmy As an aside, it would be good if Jimmy, or someone in contact with Christie's on his behalf, could ask them to correctly attribute the open-licensed images they've used. "Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons" doesn't cu

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: Auction at Christie's

2021-12-06 Thread Andy Mabbett
legal staff that a post to wikimedia-l and to my talk page would be the right way to do it... I can equally imagine that if I had defied the board and refused to communicate with the community about it, someone would be getting inflamed over that. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewin

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Feedback requested on draft updated Wikimedia Foundation Conflict of Interest Policy

2021-11-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
back on the policy for the next three weeks: today > until 22 November. Is there a version which highlights the changes from the current policy? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wiki

[Wikimedia-l] Re: An Uzbek praktical joke and Wikimedia Enterprise

2021-10-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
ently, people who /needed/ such assistance told us they wanted it in the client, not the website; and that all they required of the websites was to be web-standards-complaint (by which they meant WCAG[1]). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Content_Accessibility_Guidelines -- Andy Mabbett

[Wikimedia-l] Re: An Uzbek praktical joke and Wikimedia Enterprise

2021-10-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
ngs in the user client (screen reader, browser, whatever), not in the subject website. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedi

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Toolhub 1.0 is launched! Discover software tools used at Wikimedia

2021-10-21 Thread Andy Mabbett
see where. For example, the entry for WikiShootMe is: https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/tools/mm_wikishootme which has a corresponding Wikidata item: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26964791 Note that the former has no screenshot image, but Wikidata does; the QID is not shown on the Toolhub page.

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees new resolution on branding

2021-10-16 Thread Andy Mabbett
e) "part of the Wikimedia Movement" > or "supporting Wikipedia in Nigeria" that enable partners, press, and members > of > the public to better understand an affiliate's work. Can they not do that already? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___

[Wikimedia-l] Re: (How) can I see the early revision history?

2021-10-08 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 at 01:57, Denny Vrandečić wrote: > > I wanted to see the beginning of the article about Jupiter. > I expect more history to be in the UseMod archives. There is a bug in the history of older articles. I raised a ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T292869

[Wikimedia-l] Re: About raising money

2021-09-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
terally, stop? Who has the > final word? How can the latter be anyone but the board? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimed

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Endowment reaches initial $100 million goal and welcomes new board members

2021-09-23 Thread Andy Mabbett
s been used to blow up Wikipedia's copyleft." 3. You do not explain what you mean by "blow up Wikipedia's copyleft." If you wish to discuss copyright and/or structured data, please start a new thread; and be clear there about the point you wish to make. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing ht

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Results for the most contended Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

2021-09-11 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Sat, 11 Sept 2021 at 16:45, Leo Z wrote: > Hope this clear some of your confusion. Which confusion would that be? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Results for the most contended Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

2021-09-11 Thread Andy Mabbett
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bylaws [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021 -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing https://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at:

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming the first round of grants from the Equity Fund

2021-09-08 Thread Andy Mabbett
,000) so three of the six recipients - receiving $760,000 of $1,360,000; or more than half - are in the United States. [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2021/09/08/wikimedia-foundation-announces-first-grant-recipients-of-new-4-5-million-equity-fund/ -- Andy Mabbett @pig

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Conflict of Interest - Transition from Trustee to Staff

2021-06-29 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 at 20:58, Chris Keating wrote: > Mistakes will always be made where human judgement is involved, but it seems > that this one is being remedied and learned from both quickly and openly. For those of us not on the call; how so? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Moving Wikimania 20201 to a Virtual Event

2021-02-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021, 14:02 Janeen Uzzell, wrote: > Moving Wikimania 20201 to a Virtual Event Good to see you're taking the long view... ;-) -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guideli

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New collaboration with the World Health Organization

2020-10-23 Thread Andy Mabbett
gories where I can. May I ask other people to assist in the latter process, especially for files using non-English texts? I'm also marking the file pages as patrolled, whenever I edit them - again, this needs more hands. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonth

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A Universal Code of Conduct draft for review

2020-09-08 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 at 20:06, Dan Szymborski wrote: > The only tiniest shred of direct accountability on the board, the community > board elections [...] They're not elections; we get to vote on nominations, the board decide whether to accept them. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sexual harassment

2020-08-23 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 at 21:50, ktsquare wrote: >> they must report this to AN/I > What is AN/I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sexual harassment

2020-08-23 Thread Andy Mabbett
g to: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Harassment and particularly: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Harassment#Contact_the_Foundation%E2%80%99s_Trust_and_Safety_team -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Operation and oversight of OTRS system

2020-07-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
I'd like to think I know Tomasz well enough - having met him several times, including being his guest in Warsaw - to know he's not that fickle. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: ht

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Operation and oversight of OTRS system

2020-07-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
us who else might have access to the same or higher (c/f 'crats) levels of admin permissions that they have. Thanks for your other comments. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Operation and oversight of OTRS system

2020-07-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
we are asking to see the rules and policies *that already exist*. > And the system will never be 100% transparent - as > its idea is to answers E-mails under general WMF privacy policy umbrella. ...and no-one is asking to see anything that falls under the general WMF privacy policy umbrella; in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Diff – a blog by and for the Wikimedia volunteer community

2020-07-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 at 12:23, Quim Gil wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 12:54 PM Andy Mabbett > wrote: > > > > > > > What consultation was carried out with contributors, and the > > > > > > wider the Wikimedia community, to inform this change? >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Operation and oversight of OTRS system

2020-07-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
nted and overseen? are "overly broad"; but if you think they are, how would you narrow their focus? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Operation and oversight of OTRS system

2020-07-17 Thread Andy Mabbett
he interests of OTRS agents and the Wikimedia movement overall to address this list of questions in a forthright way, and make some adjustments (such as publishing policies and a process for amending policies) shortly after I posted it. Or did you have some other unclear post in mind? --

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Operation and oversight of OTRS system

2020-07-17 Thread Andy Mabbett
ecause we have been told that there are (now) polices, but they are (partly, perhaps mostly) on a non-public wiki. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Diff – a blog by and for the Wikimedia volunteer community

2020-07-17 Thread Andy Mabbett
ming from the Wikimedia Blog", then text saying "This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org" will suffice. > > > > What consultation was carried out with contributors, and the > > > > wider the Wikimedia community, to inform this change? Although you q

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Operation and oversight of OTRS system

2020-07-16 Thread Andy Mabbett
have not been answered. Although we have been told, in the last hour or so "we do not have a process where we monitor what other OTRS volunteers does [sic]". -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Diff – a blog by and for the Wikimedia volunteer community

2020-07-15 Thread Andy Mabbett
Still curious to learn more? Yes: What consultation was carried out with contributors, and the wider the Wikimedia community, to inform this change? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guideli

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Operation and oversight of OTRS system

2020-07-10 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 10:05, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: > > czw., 9 lip 2020 o 18:53 Andy Mabbett > napisał(a): > > > On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 07:46, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: > > > > > > I’m unable to answer this due to the Confidentiality Agreement all OTRS > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Operation and oversight of OTRS system

2020-07-09 Thread Andy Mabbett
e reported to the Ombudsman > Commission and during my serving in this Commision there were cases related > to OTRS. Indeed - but I'm not asking about just privacy issues. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Operation and oversight of OTRS system

2020-07-09 Thread Andy Mabbett
ee’s purview, There is nothing sayng so on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications_committee > and perhaps T ...nor on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia

[Wikimedia-l] Operation and oversight of OTRS system

2020-07-06 Thread Andy Mabbett
ttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/OTRS - which is a set of 214 pages -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and h

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Citizendium shutting down

2020-07-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
least 1 edit in the previous month." How's Everipedia getting on, BTW? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Preventing conflicts of interest in Wikimedia organizations' employment and financial relationships

2020-05-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 20:21, Pine W wrote: > For example, is there any monitoring of the bank accounts of board > members and executives I very much hope not. That would be an outrageous intrusion. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons

2020-05-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
l to operate, or to use depicts statements in the manner it is - including in the very post you reply to here. Most significantly, you have yet to answer requests to explain how the tool, or the invitation to tag, can be turned off." My post was eventually archived, with no response to it.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Updates from Wikimedia Foundation Board

2020-05-02 Thread Andy Mabbett
eply; "We plan to present the Board’s vision and hold a community discussion as part of the process for the Bylaws change." -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism

2020-04-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 at 16:44, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 07:27, Yair Rand wrote: > > > Also importantly, the Foundation's Policy and Political Association > > Guideline, which was written by WMF Legal in the aftermath of SOPA > > Link, please. A

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism

2020-04-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 07:27, Yair Rand wrote: > Also importantly, the Foundation's Policy and Political Association > Guideline, which was written by WMF Legal in the aftermath of SOPA Link, please. -- Andy Mabbett@pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal towards a multilingual Wikipedia and a new Wikipedia project

2020-04-14 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 01:52, Denny Vrandečić wrote: > As some of you know, I have been working on the idea of a multilingual > Wikipedia for a few years now. What's the elevator pitch for this? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.

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

2020-03-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
will be able to apply for scholarships for next year's event? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikime

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiProject COVID-19 (English Wikipedia) is started

2020-03-15 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 at 21:07, Paulo Santos Perneta wrote: >> Covid is an abreviaton for coronavirus disease. > No, it's an abbreviation for *Coronavirus Disease 2019* [1] That would make "COVID-19" mean "Coronavirus Disease 2019-19". -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiProject COVID-19 (English Wikipedia) is started

2020-03-15 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 at 20:56, Paulo Santos Perneta wrote: > Even worst, it's contaminating other projects, like Wikidata and Wikimedia > Commons, with teams of wiki.en editors going there to revert anyone that > dares to move the disease to its proper name. Diffs, please. -- And

[Wikimedia-l] World Health Organization licences & COVID-19

2020-03-12 Thread Andy Mabbett
witter.com/pigsonthewing/status/1238124060145483777 [much of their published material is under NC restrictions - https://www.who.int/publishing/copyright/en/ ] -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Treatment of newbies with mild CoI

2020-02-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
, both in order to avoid a pile-on, and to avoid us being distracted by the minutiae of the incident concerned. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why renaming to Wikipedia will wreak havoc on otherprojects

2020-02-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
d at, and how it can be changed, remain unanswered. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wi

[Wikimedia-l] Treatment of newbies with mild CoI

2020-02-19 Thread Andy Mabbett
, and sandwiching one notifying her of a discussion about her on the COI noticeboard. These total 4094 characters or 665 words. How do other projects deal with such cases? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Snøhetta and Wikimedia

2020-01-17 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 23:04, John Erling Blad wrote: > > This is out in several newspapers now. > > "Snøhetta shall create new visual profile for Wikipedia-owner" This edit made 10 January 2020, is relevant:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome back, Turkey

2020-01-17 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 01:13, Amanda Keton wrote: > Of course, there are other blocks around the world still in place, and our > efforts in addressing this type of censorship of knowledge is far from > over. Do we have a central log of these blocks; and steps taken to overcome them?

Re: [Wikimedia-l] default import sources

2019-12-22 Thread Andy Mabbett
gt; versions to exist that were not created on their own wiki). Does that mean that they don't want to give proper attribution when they use others' work? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guideline

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Remember Wikipedia Zero.. Where is the research about the effects of its demise?

2019-12-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 at 13:03, Andy Mabbett wrote: [...] > Your statement, made in ignorance of the facts, is offensive not only > to me, but chiefly to the many other volunteers who are busy growing > Wikidata in Africa and Asia, both as a result of my voluntary > activities and othe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Remember Wikipedia Zero.. Where is the research about the effects of its demise?

2019-12-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
to me, but chiefly to the many other volunteers who are busy growing Wikidata in Africa and Asia, both as a result of my voluntary activities and otherwise. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guid

[Wikimedia-l] .org TLD for sale?

2019-11-22 Thread Andy Mabbett
I have just seen this: https://savedotorg.org/ "The .org domain is about to be sold to a private equity firm. "Join the coalition of nonprofits opposed to this blatant disregard of the public interest." WMF are among the signatories. -- Andy Mabbett @pig

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [LGBT] Best practices for awarding scholarships

2019-10-10 Thread Andy Mabbett
nflict of interest, it has never been restored. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Saint Petersburg User Group

2019-10-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 23:02, Paulo Santos Perneta wrote: > Andy Mabbett escreveu no dia quinta, 3/10/2019 >> On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 20:45, Paulo Santos Perneta >> wrote: >> > > Why isn't it a department of Wikimedia Russia, if apparently it's > >bas

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Saint Petersburg User Group

2019-10-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
/f Wikimedia UK). -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Huhall] Viola wikipedia

2019-10-01 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 16:46, Samuel Klein forwarded: > Here is a plant name (*Viola Wikipedia*), which may be first name to honor > Wikipedia. I have reciprocated with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_wikipedia -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcoming Wikimedia Foundation’s new CTO, Grant Ingersoll

2019-09-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
e (a > black lab mix). ...without linking to at least one cute pic of Allie ;-) -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki loves SDGs

2019-09-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 09:24, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Calling someone "flippant" is a direct attack - Nobody called you flippant. Fæ said "your comments are flippant" Please stop this, now. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations are here!

2019-09-13 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 at 14:19, Diane Ranville wrote: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 2:28 PM Andy Mabbett > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Frequently_asked_

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations are here!

2019-09-13 Thread Andy Mabbett
The section remains unchanged. Is anyone planning to update it? On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 at 14:29, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 at 19:48, Jeff Hawke wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 7:41 PM Andy Mabbett > > wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 19

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations are here!

2019-09-13 Thread Andy Mabbett
?" be rewritten to actually reflect the proposal's real and significant risks. I've just checked, and it's unchanged. On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 at 17:52, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 at 16:51, Nicole Ebber wrote: > > > This is a > > process for all of us to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Collaboration with Indonesian Air Force

2019-09-12 Thread Andy Mabbett
ovide the QR code to their collection. Can you confirm that you will be using QRpedia? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guideline

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations are here!

2019-08-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
ocal level, e.g. via the Regional Hubs." -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations are here!

2019-08-22 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 at 19:48, Jeff Hawke wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 7:41 PM Andy Mabbett > wrote: > > > On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 at 09:55, Jeff Hawke wrote: > > > > > the WG then collate them and decide the final form of the > > > recomm

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations are here!

2019-08-20 Thread Andy Mabbett
imedia community. While some of the changes recommended may be in the gift of the WMF to apply unilaterally, others are not, and there is ample evidence that attempting to do so would be far from advisable. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations are here!

2019-08-14 Thread Andy Mabbett
members of the community". -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations are here!

2019-08-13 Thread Andy Mabbett
hing which would prevent such cultural appropriation. > It's my conclusion these "explain the need" for *some* solution to disallow > such usages. NC and ND is one way to express this prohibition. I see no basis for concluding that NC or ND address the probelm to which you refer. Perha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations are here!

2019-08-12 Thread Andy Mabbett
of answers to the question "Could this Recommendation have a negative impact/change?". -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations are here!

2019-08-12 Thread Andy Mabbett
iew and reflection", nor "in the spirit of collegial collaboration", and I do not think anyone could plausibly argue that it is any of those things. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, gui

Re: [Wikimedia-l] An updated design for the Wikimedia Foundation website

2019-07-10 Thread Andy Mabbett
ht has been given to accessibility in general. What kind of accessibility audit was undertaken on the new design? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Banning real identities

2019-07-05 Thread Andy Mabbett
; On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 at 12:25, Thyge wrote: > > - and please explain the meaning of 'doxxed" as well. Is that US slang? If only there was some sort of free online encyclopedia, where such things could be looked up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing --

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fram en.wp office yearlock block

2019-06-14 Thread Andy Mabbett
t action are those whose style of behaviour would see them sanctioned if a civility policy were properly enforced. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fram en.wp office yearlock block

2019-06-13 Thread Andy Mabbett
any basis of truth in this. > See also: Gamergate, a clearly apt and apposite > comparison. Indeed. And blaiming WMF for this is ridiculous. -- Andy Mabbett Pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fram en.wp office yearlock block

2019-06-12 Thread Andy Mabbett
you have that right then? What about Facebook, Twitter, or Flickr? -- Andy Mabbett @Pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia

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