[Wikimedia-l] Re: Community Wishlist Survey 2022 is coming. Help us and prepare

2022-01-26 Thread MusikAnimal
> Perhaps we can also have community discussion and !voting on the larger suggestions, to help Wikimedia at large to prioritize (or reflect on why tackling a popular set of challenges is hard to focus on). This seems like a useful enough list to want to come out with a rough ordering of the "large

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

2021-10-14 Thread MusikAnimal
A long time coming! The interface looks amazing and seems very well thought out. It's nice to have an official, single go-to for all things tools, user scripts, gadgets, etc. Huge thanks and kudos to everyone involved! ~ MA On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 3:37 PM Galder Gonzalez LarraƱaga < galder...@hot

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia was edited from the ISS

2020-01-01 Thread MusikAnimal
Hi! At the Wikimedia Technical Conference in Atlanta, I worked with Daren Welsh , a spacewalk instructor for NASA, to assist Christina Koch in making the edit. I am certain this is not fake news, and you definitely should not hesitate to celebrate thi

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

2019-09-13 Thread MusikAnimal
Hi! I just wanted to say that in principle, I'm a huge fan of this sort of "refactoring" (as developers might call it). However I've often worried about widespread use of it in the article space, because it makes it harder for instance to fix vandalism, and it's more difficult to find attribution o