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

Very well, I just deactivated the gadget from the Spanish Wikipedia and removed the now broken template from the two articles that used it, until some decision is made about it. I shared my views at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:OWID_Gadget#Three_ideas, in case anyone's interested. Kind

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Book Creator

Hi again, Galder! I just "globalized" the template gadget for downloading PDFs, so now it can be easily installed in the Basque Wikipedia if you feel like it. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Download_PDF for the documentation. Cheers! ___

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

Amazing work, James and Galder! Today I was bold, made it fully multilingual and generalized it so that it can be easily installed in any wiki (Wikimedia or not). See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:OWID for the documentation and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-OWID.js for

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

ms that a good option to add some > interactive content. Anyway, I have tried to replicate it and can't make it > work (https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Txantiloi:Vivarium). Is the > documentation right? > > Best > > Galder > -- > *From:* Fel

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

Hi everyone, good news! Thanks to this humble change (deployed today) it is now possible to load a specific gadget when a specific template is used in a page. This opens the door (or perhaps a window?) to interactive

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

Thanks Benoit, I'm so happy to see the Editing Team and the WMF are working on this! I think it will be another great success, just like the talk pages project. Keep up the good work !! El sáb., 9 de mar. de 2024 9:43 a. m., Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga < galder...@hotmail.com> escribió: > Hello, >

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

I couldn't agree more, it reminds me of a principle in UX/UI (can't recall its "name" or exact wording) that emphasises the importance of giving help exactly when it's needed, not before nor after. On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 10:59 AM Romaine Wiki wrote: > In the past days, a new Wikipedia

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Disparity of official statistics: Stats vs Pageviews

Hi! I think the discrepancy is because Wikimedia Stats counts all views by default, whereas Siteviews only counts User views (excluding Bots and Spiders) by default. Once you exclude Bots and Spiders from Wikimedia Stats, or include them in Siteviews, the figures match. On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at

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

gt; system. > > On Thu, 1 Feb 2024 at 01:35, Felipe Schenone wrote: > >> I also think the WMF should prioritize hiring more developers over other >> roles and expenditures. The WMF has only a few hundred developers while >> other top sites have many thousands. While this e

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

I also think the WMF should prioritize hiring more developers over other roles and expenditures. The WMF has only a few hundred developers while other top sites have many thousands. While this efficiency is something to be proud of, it evidently comes at a cost. El mié., 31 de ene. de 2024 4:08

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Book Creator

Hi! Today I coded a simple template that is able to generate something like a book and prompt the user to print or download it. See https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Template:Download_PDF for usage and https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/MediaWiki:TemplateScript-DownloadPDF.js for the code. As you can

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Hackathon 2024: Register and Apply for Scholarships Now!

Hi! I'm a MediaWiki developer from Argentina and I've refrained from going to any more Wikimedia Hackathons since Vienna 2017, because of the high carbon emissions that my participation would cause. I'd also love to see a solution that allows me to participate without having to travel half the

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

FYI, yesterday I stumbled upon Perplexity , an AI that cites its sources for its answers. After a couple tests, I'm not convinced on how tight the connection is between the generated text and the sources, but they seem at least to broadly support the claims. On Thu,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Reflecting on my listening tour

tions that primarily come from those more expensive countries. Much >> like we talk about equity but decide that some places arent worth engaging >> in because its too far to travel leaving others to shoulder the burden of >> travel. >> >> On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 at 19:35, F

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Reflecting on my listening tour

Yet in some countries, like mine, paying for food, renting a place, buying a house, etc. is far cheaper than in the US, so paying a lower salary (in USD) wouldn't amount to a lower standard of living at all, and doesn't feel immoral, at least to me. On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 8:00 AM Gnangarra

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Bing-ChatGPT

FYI, there's an open letter requesting a 6-month pause on AI development , with reasonable arguments (in my opinion) and signed by several big names too. The basic rationale, as I understand it, is that similar to human cloning,

[Wikimedia-l] Wikivideos - New project proposal

Hi! I just proposed https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikivideos This project proposal is based on an extension I developed recently called https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiVideos that basically introduces a tag that generates videos with a syntax quite similar to tags. I also

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Inc. design staff

nd ad-free" or > "sustaining Wikipedia's independence", but at least it would help the > volunteers who actually write Wikipedia. > > Best, > Andreas > > [1] https://www.indiafoodbanking.org/hunger > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 1:18 PM Felipe Schenone >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Inc. design staff

I agree with the diagnosis, but maybe not with the solution. If Wikimedia is getting "overfunding" and doesn't quite know what to so with it, there's probably plenty of good things to do. We could start a community process to decide it, because as you say, reducing funding efforts or saving

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

At appropedia.org I developed a simple but effective JS script that: 1. Gathers all links in the current page 2. Transcludes them all though an API call 3. Replaces the content of the current page for the transcluded content 4. Calls window.print() so that the user can download or print the

[Wikimedia-l] Wikidebate: from the existence of God to the legality of polygamy

Hi all! For some time now there's been a project called Wikidebate on Wikiversity: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikidebate The project has matured over the years, receives occasional contributions, drives some 7000+ views a month and ranks first on some search keywords like "objective

[Wikimedia-l] Using excerpts to reduce maintenance and foster collaboration

Hi all! I would like to share a simple editing technique that's in use on the Spanish Wikipedia and I think should be in use on other Wikipedias and Wikimedia projects. It's basically a template that transcludes the lead section (or any section)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiJournal project

Awesome advice Brad, I can't think of a better solution than that, thanks! On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 12:26 PM Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjor...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:45 PM, Felipe Schenone <scheno...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > If we migrate th

[Wikimedia-l] WikiJournal project

Hi! So there's a sprouting project called WikiJournal , the basic idea of which is to develop an open peer-reviewed academic journal, where we can all publish our research, and also, maybe, permalinks to Wikipedia articles that have been