[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikianswers Proposal

On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 11:05, Lauren Worden wrote: > > user-editable cache of multimodal answers > > Apologies, but that's a terrible idea. Who wants to edit keeping up to > date, for example, "teams currently in the playoffs"? I haven’t much comment on the proposal but … Wikipedians are

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Women's History Month Conversation

Forwarding this invitation to wikimedia-l, since I don't think wikipedia-l has as wide a readership. *Joseph Fox *(user:fox <http://enwp.org/user:fox>) -- Forwarded message - From: Masana Mulaudzi Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 at 06:03 Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Women's History

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thank you and farewell

Maybe let's not turn this into a debate about what epistemology is. *Joseph Fox* enwp.org/user:foxj On Thu, 16 May 2019 at 16:26, John Erling Blad wrote: > > To be an organization so devoted to knowledge, Wikimedia as such (the > projects communities included) knows very lit

Re: [Wikimedia-l] convert from BitCoin to FoldingCoin and other proofs of useful work

Please please please take this conversation to another venue. It has little to nothing to do with this movement. Joe On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 18:15, geni wrote: > On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 at 07:23, James Salsman wrote: > > > > Geni, it's the "Day of the Dead" now so I want to attempt to resurrect > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] August 2018 "Community Metrics and Activities Meeting"

That does sound like a pretty cool idea. :) Joe On Mon, 6 Aug 2018 at 13:23 Pine W wrote: > Thanks for the input. I had been thinking of this as a meeting where > useful communications and discussions would happen, but maybe going in the > opposite direction would have more appeal. I could

Re: [Wikimedia-l] List management

Thehelpfulone hasn't died. :) He's been hugely busy in real life, is all. Joe. On Wed, 8 Feb 2017 at 21:25 Pine W wrote: > I regret seeing THO fade away. I found him to be likable, polite, and > competent. > > I think well of Shani, and as she already has some experience

Re: [Wikimedia-l] De-Recognition of Affiliates with Long-standing Non-Compliance

It looks like the page Maor refers to near the end there is this one: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports Joe On Sat, 4 Feb 2017 at 15:06 Maor Malul wrote: > Dear all, > > Recognition as a Wikimedia affiliate - a chapter, thematic organization, > or user group - is a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment Kick-Off

Hey Lodewijk - looks like there is at least some indication on the "Work with us" page here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Work_with_us They're looking for two of: - Growing a Global Movement - Engaging New Communities - Social Sector Governance Joe On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] documentaries about Wikipedia

There's the GLAM-Wiki documentary that Rock drum and I put together back in 2013 with the support of Wikimedia UK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlNT16gqHyo https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_GLAM-Wiki_Revolution.webm It has translatable subtitles in a bunch of languages too :) best,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] [Wikimania Committee] Wikimania 2018

Gnangarra - perhaps it should be wikimania-...@lists.wikimedia.org ? On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 at 01:27 Gnangarra wrote: > well tried to submit Perth bid to the email supplied and the response was; > > Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight

Gerard, I feel like you are basically describing the role of the Wikimedia Blog. Is that incorrect? Joe On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 at 11:35 Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Wikipedia is not my thing. I hardly ever write on articles. The article > states that Rosie wrote 1000

Re: [Wikimedia-l] “Reliable”, “Notable”, and “Encyclopaedic” Sources for Automated Solvers for FreeCell

Yes, that would be original research and not permitted on the English Wikipedia. Joe On Tuesday, 8 March 2016, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Dear Ruslan, > > please reply to my questions below. I've been waiting all along. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > On Mon, 25 Jan

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Anybody alive?

Y'know, maybe it's a good thing when this list is quiet. Saves my inbox some. On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 at 18:11 Lydia Pintscher wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 6:44 PM Yaroslav M. Blanter > wrote: > > > On 2016-02-24 18:39, Milos Rancic wrote: > > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] In Support of Community

Thanks, Damon. It all makes sense now. On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 at 15:55 Damon Sicore wrote: > To All, > > Just to mark this moment, or maybe remind those who paid attention when I > published these, some long before I vanished in silence: > > https://damon.sicore.com/proof-0/ > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

I imagine it would take something quite extraordinary for the board to reject the community election result outright, as it happens. I would assume the "nomination v selection" differential is to allow the board to remove members without fear of breaking Florida law, rather than some nefarious

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interesting - and helpful - blog post

Hera is an awesome person. So happy to see her doing well! Joe On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 at 22:56 Richard Symonds < richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > All, > > I thought it would be helpful to share with you all this blog post from a > key volunteer at Wikimania 2014, who has gone on to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost

My argument to that is that eventually we'd be in the situation where no bids are viable. The proposed rotation system would hopefully provide enough prep time to alleviate that. On Wed, 7 Oct 2015 at 16:07 Gnangarra <gnanga...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7 October 2015 at 22:54, J

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost

wrote: > > > > > > > > > A small poll on meta would be enough. > > > > > > > > > > > From: josephfoxw...@gmail.com > > > > > > Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 19:14:59 + > > > > > > To: wikim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost

If you want the views of everyone on every project... then yes, I do. On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 at 20:14 MF-Warburg <mfwarb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Do you really believe the community consists of several 100.000 people? > Am 06.10.2015 21:01 schrieb "Joseph Fox" &l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost

On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 at 17:27 Steinsplitter Wiki wrote: > To be honest: I am not surprised at all. > > Wikimedia Foundation is becoming moor and moor centralized. They no longer > care about the community, even if there is huge community consensus about > something. >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cebuano and Waray-waray Wikipedias among Top 10

I think these wikis have been on that list for a while. I don't know the specifics of why they're there, though, or comment on the depth/quality of the articles on the wikis. Joe On Sun, 5 Jul 2015 at 22:32 Salvador A salvador1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I just I noticed that Cebuano and