Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open Science Portal? And Other Open * Portals?

2019-03-19 Thread Svetlana Belkin
Quiddity, Thank you for your reply! On 3/19/19 9:06 PM, quiddity wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 3:58 AM Svetlana Belkin wrote: Hello all, I know there is a FOSS portal Links/examples almost always help! I'd guess you mean this page or the pages it links to: https://meta.wikimedia.org

[Wikimedia-l] Open Science Portal? And Other Open * Portals?

2019-03-19 Thread Svetlana Belkin
and have them in one place- which is Wikipedia. Would this idea be worth it for the other movements? Thank  you. -- Svetlana Belkin https://senseopenness.com/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Our final email

2014-12-19 Thread svetlana
. (The English = people from the UK = not American). -- svetlana ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

2014-12-15 Thread svetlana
UploadWizard lacks path from it to other sister projects - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78525 UploadWizard lacks gallery format output -- svetlana ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising campaign update

2014-12-15 Thread svetlana
is a great opportunity to ask readers, users, and contributors for feedback). -- svetlana ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMCH appeal to the Board on the recommendations of the FDC

2014-12-13 Thread svetlana
whether the timestamp I see is UTC or not. Please consider fixing it. -- svetlana Frieda Brioschi ubifri...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Wikimedia community, As the two Board Representatives on the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC), we want to publicly acknowledge the appeal that was submitted

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

2014-12-12 Thread svetlana
set up an easy keyword/tagging system, having users help us sort and tag media would be amazing. We already have such system. It's called categories. If we would like to build a prettier interface for it, I'm all ears (although I wouldn't call it a game). -- svetlana

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To donate or not

2014-12-05 Thread svetlana
have a say (?) in what the Chapters do. There is no Wikimedia membership, however. -- svetlana ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banners (again)

2014-12-04 Thread svetlana
Hi, On Thu, 4 Dec 2014, at 17:35, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: svetlana, 03/12/2014 23:20: It is already co-owned. It is just that people haven't bothered to try talking to the Fundraising Team. {{citation needed}} Go look at the number of people who tried on fundraiser

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banners (again)

2014-12-03 Thread svetlana
It is already co-owned. It is just that people haven't bothered to try talking to the Fundraising Team. Is it time to rename Teams to something else, something that suggests that they don't work in a cave on the Moon? -- svetlana On Thu, 4 Dec 2014, at 08:32, Lodewijk wrote: Hi Lila

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banners (again)

2014-12-03 Thread svetlana
approachable and was (and am!) a tiny bit happy with it). -- svetlana ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banners (again)

2014-12-03 Thread svetlana
Hi, On Thu, 4 Dec 2014, at 12:30, John Mark Vandenberg wrote: On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 7:46 AM, svetlana svetl...@fastmail.com.au wrote: John Mark Vandenberg wrote: i.e. specifically asking previously highly productive volunteers who have stopped contributing whether they feel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banners (again)

2014-12-03 Thread svetlana
it early). -- svetlana ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banners (again)

2014-12-03 Thread svetlana
of communicating it early -- svetlana On Thu, 4 Dec 2014, at 14:47, svetlana wrote: Hi all. I can see clear interest in everyone on this thread wanting to figure out the right way to do it. Let's not jinx it by painting WMF Fundraising as the guys who break and community as the gwho rage. Both

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banners (again)

2014-12-03 Thread svetlana
. It is probably a good one (although it lacks geometry specs or any kind of time or statistics suggestions or past analysis results). That's a wiki. It is just waiting for you to touch it and put it in better shape. -- svetlana On Thu, 4 Dec 2014, at 15:34, Ryan Lane wrote: svetlana svetlana

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WHO interested in evidence on the impact of CC licensing

2014-12-02 Thread svetlana
Not research, but it is a brief intro: http://www.plos.org/open-access/ http://www.plos.org/resources/ -- svetlana ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WaPo Wikipedia's 'complicated; relationship with net neutrality

2014-11-30 Thread svetlana
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediauk-l] Using list moderation as censorship

2014-11-24 Thread svetlana
I maintain that I would love to have a formal universal feedback channel for Chapters work. It has to be drama-free, but transparent, and not moderated. Feedback is occasionally not negative, and may contain thorough project ideas. -- svetlana On Mon, 24 Nov 2014, at 18:03, Gerard Meijssen

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediauk-l] Using list moderation as censorship

2014-11-24 Thread svetlana
, with an appropriate disclaimer: If you need help or have a problem with Firefox, please visit Firefox Support. We could be able to customize it for each project to fit our needs. (Include aggressive pointers to OTRS queues and village pumps for each project, as appropriate). Thoughts? -- svetlana On Tue, 25

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediauk-l] Using list moderation as censorship

2014-11-23 Thread svetlana
I disagree, the question raised is relevant to the Wikimedia movement as a whole. On Mon, 24 Nov 2014, at 02:37, Austin Hair wrote: Fae, Please do not drag this list into whatever trouble you've found yourself in on another. Wikimedia-l is neither a court of appeals for Wikimedia-related

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediauk-l] Using list moderation as censorship

2014-11-23 Thread svetlana
(such as, providing inadequate support to the Wikimedia movement). This feedback channel is probably not here, but I feel this list could be an appropriate place to discuss how the above could be implemented. On Mon, 24 Nov 2014, at 08:28, svetlana wrote: I disagree, the question raised is relevant

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FDC funds allocation recommendation is up

2014-11-23 Thread svetlana
way - with the Chapter supporting outreach and similar activities - for another while. -- svetlana ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

2014-11-12 Thread svetlana
Kirill Lokshin wrote: I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized Wiki Project Med [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2]. Could be a good idea for wikiproject folks to work on a RSS feed of recent changes (and recent new page creations) within a category and its

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

2014-11-12 Thread svetlana
Thanks Anthony for sharing your ideas! Anthony Cole wrote: Svetlana, presently we have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Lists_of_pages/Articles which reports all changes to articles tagged on their talk page as of interest to WikiProjedt

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Is Emerging as Trusted Internet Source for Information on Ebola

2014-10-27 Thread svetlana
language sisters, and do some proper statistics, as EN.WP ≠ WP... svetlana ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

[Wikimedia-l] personally communicating with new editors (was: Re: editor retention initiatives)

2014-08-26 Thread svetlana
the problem? svetlana [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Musings_about_unregistered_contributors [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gryllida/DraftsReview [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Artistintown [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:128.194.3.84 [5] https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Next steps regarding WMF-community disputes about deployments

2014-08-25 Thread svetlana
). svetlana ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Specifying office action in edit summary?

2014-08-23 Thread svetlana
On Sun, 24 Aug 2014, at 07:02, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:53 PM, svetlana svetl...@fastmail.com.au wrote: An undo with appropriate edit summary would also avoid a need in escalating the issue - local sysops would consciously hold off their edit. If they went

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Specifying office action in edit summary?

2014-08-23 Thread svetlana
On Sun, 24 Aug 2014, at 07:02, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:53 PM, svetlana svetl...@fastmail.com.au wrote: An undo with appropriate edit summary would also avoid a need in escalating the issue - local sysops would consciously hold off their edit. If they went

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Specifying office action in edit summary?

2014-08-22 Thread svetlana
Hi all, I'm sorry to repeat, but I would like to hear some thoughts on this question. Also added a clarification for one of the lines. On Thu, 21 Aug 2014, at 22:26, svetlana wrote: Hi all. I understand the Engineering folks used superprotect instead of /undoing/ the edit and adding

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Specifying office action in edit summary?

2014-08-22 Thread svetlana
they forgot to do it, but it doesn't mean that doing it wouldn't've been a good idea. I might perhaps even suggest going and removing superprotect, and actually going and using an edit summary /instead/, now. It's late, but better late then never. svetlana

[Wikimedia-l] Specifying office action in edit summary?

2014-08-21 Thread svetlana
still possible where superprotect only affects a single page and not a namespace. Or can entire namespaces be protected and this new user right was intended to be able to prevent that easily? Svetlana. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Options for the German Wikipedia

2014-08-21 Thread svetlana
removes superprotect from the wiki. Get local consencus on installing that. svetlana ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Options for the German Wikipedia

2014-08-21 Thread svetlana
BTW you should all love this idea: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_%28Product%29/Process_ideas#Get_local_consencus_for_your_changes svetlana ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Coming to a wiki near you

2014-08-18 Thread svetlana
a comparatively very small organization to a standard that can't even be met by IT giants. Risker/Anne No comment on this one. svetlana ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Coming to a wiki near you

2014-08-18 Thread svetlana
a comparatively very small organization to a standard that can't even be met by IT giants. Risker/Anne No comment on this one. svetlana ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] rfc guidelines (was: superprotect; was: 'everyone who tries to speak for 'community' is censored and trying to blame it for own lack of interest')

2014-08-16 Thread svetlana
it your good axe -- svetlana ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

2014-08-14 Thread svetlana
fullscreen is a misleading redundant step. It was not implemented. What more interest could I have? It's not like I care about this too much, but I'm curious as to what you expect me to be able to do to display my interest. svetlana ___ Wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

2014-08-14 Thread svetlana
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, at 09:47, svetlana wrote: On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, at 23:35, David Gerard wrote: On 14 August 2014 13:56, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: It would be more sensible to let contributors participate in the tech roadmap in more formal and empowered way than now

[Wikimedia-l] Special:PageLanguage (was: [Translators-l] We have an awesome Translation Tools....made for English speakers first)

2014-08-14 Thread svetlana
that? svetlana ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

2014-08-13 Thread svetlana
On Wed, 13 Aug 2014, at 12:01, Romaine Wiki wrote: 2014-08-13 2:46 GMT+02:00 svetlana svetl...@fastmail.com.au: [..] [...] instead of talking properly then the superprotect wouldn't exist at all you seeing the problem there? whose problem is it? desire to act out of the blue

[Wikimedia-l] Writing an RFC is a complicated process. Thoughts? (was: [Wikitech-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you)

2014-08-13 Thread svetlana
On Wed, 13 Aug 2014, at 20:36, svetlana wrote: On Wed, 13 Aug 2014, at 12:01, Romaine Wiki wrote: 2014-08-13 2:46 GMT+02:00 svetlana svetl...@fastmail.com.au: [..] [...] instead of talking properly then the superprotect wouldn't exist at all you seeing the problem

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

2014-08-13 Thread svetlana
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, at 00:50, Pete Forsyth wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 3:27 AM, svetlana svetl...@fastmail.com.au wrote: [...] Surely this issue can be solved by talking without force: if you don't think so, you get force applied to YOU; you started a fight, and lost it. I have

[Wikimedia-l] how global.js works? (was: Re: [Wikitech-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you)

2014-08-13 Thread svetlana
edit override user preference in the first place? I would expect user preferences to run after global.js, and set the onClick event back to what it should be (such as, something meaningful where a user has MV enabled). svetlana ___ Wikimedia-l mailing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

2014-08-12 Thread svetlana
On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, at 23:42, Romaine Wiki wrote: That the community reacts the way it does now, is because they care very much about the site and they notice something is terrible going wrong on WMF side and too less is done to fix those problems/issues! if the community was not so willing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

2014-08-12 Thread svetlana
On Wed, 13 Aug 2014, at 10:46, svetlana wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, at 23:42, Romaine Wiki wrote: That the community reacts the way it does now, is because they care very much about the site and they notice something is terrible going wrong on WMF side and too less is done to fix those

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

2014-08-11 Thread svetlana
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014, at 08:42, Tomasz W. Kozłowski wrote: Someone is definitely forgetting that Wikimedia wikis are not the Foundation's personal playground. It is becoming one for a long time now. svetlana ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Options for the German Wikipedia

2014-08-11 Thread svetlana
One more option: wait for WMF to make wiki unbreakable and scriptable *properly*, using something like Firefox's jetpack (which is fool proof) ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Translators-l] Thank you for Tech News see you soon

2014-08-10 Thread svetlana
On Mon, 11 Aug 2014, at 04:07, Tomasz W. Kozłowski wrote: Philippe, the patch is not for the MediaWiki software but for the configuration of Wikimedia wikis (it's in the operations/mediawiki-config repository on Gerrit). It has been merged and deployed on the production cluster. The user

[Wikimedia-l] slow death of anyone can edit concept (was: let's elect people to serve on the wikimedia engineering community team! (brainstorming))

2014-08-09 Thread svetlana
On Fri, 8 Aug 2014, at 11:47, MZMcBride wrote: [...] For comparison, we now have MediaViewer, which moved through as a beta feature. They say MediaViewer may one day be as feature-ful as the file description pages we've had for a long time (editing capability, oh my!). [...] MZMcBride

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] slow death of anyone can edit concept (was: let's elect people to serve on the wikimedia engineering community team! (brainstorming))

2014-08-09 Thread svetlana
On Sat, 9 Aug 2014, at 23:11, James Forrester wrote: [..] https://imgur.com/a/JFN9y​ 404 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] slow death of anyone can edit concept

2014-08-09 Thread svetlana
is flat and two-color again which is a pain: http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/dakirby309/windows-8-metro/256/Apps-Notepad-Metro-icon.png can we please go away from flat one- or two-color icons in web design? svetlana ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimedia-l] let's elect people to serve on the wikimedia engineering community team! (brainstorming)

2014-08-06 Thread svetlana
On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, at 15:44, Steven Walling wrote: The community liasons put in a lot of blood, sweat, and tears to advocate not only *to *the community, but *for it* within the Foundation. This activity should be redundant. If someone in the Foundation fails to see the community, it should

Re: [Wikimedia-l] let's elect people to serve on the wikimedia engineering community team! (brainstorming)

2014-08-05 Thread svetlana
out if they start doing rubbish and fail to hear the said feedback). -- This is very unclear and unspecific. I would expect others to come up with a specific mechanism for such cases. Svetlana. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https