From Ziko's note about this:
There will be a special list 'WCA-announcements. If you want to be
informed about Bulletins and discussions, join the list and you will
get links to Meta Wiki. It's a one-way-list, because the discussions
are supposed to be on Meta Wiki. This is a WCA service for
Hello,
In fact this mailing list has already been created since a while, it's just
not used for the moment.
The question of the hosting hasn't been discuss in this way, for the WCA WMCH
is offering the hosting of chapters mailing list, chapters wiki, and some
chapter wiki. So it has just
Le 2013-02-19 18:06, Jan Engelmann a écrit :
Let’s get started and talk about this challenge! Your input and ideas
on the aforementioned Meta page are highly appreciated. To discuss
the
working methods of an EU Policy Group and develop a project plan
together, we suggest to meet face-to-face
Why do we need two announce mailing lists? Can't we all use
wikimedia-announce ?
Christophe
--
Christophe
On 20 February 2013 09:22, Charles Andrès charles.andres.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
In fact this mailing list has already been created since a while, it's just
not used for the
Hi, just for the sake of history in 2007 or 2008 we tried to do
that, we had a meeting in Brussel (in a really nice hostel) and we set
up a working group... but we didn't do a thing in the end.
So even though I believe it could be a good idea, I'm still not sure
volunteers are able to handle such
Welcome, Luis, from all of us in the UK!
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Hi Christoph,
thanks for your comment. I am absolutely aware of the fact that there
have been various efforts in the past to get things done, or even:
slightly better. But in my view, it's always a matter of the burden of
suffering if you get active or not. The EU-legislation on musical
On 20 February 2013 12:03, Jan Engelmann jan.engelm...@wikimedia.de wrote:
Hi Christoph,
thanks for your comment. I am absolutely aware of the fact that there
have been various efforts in the past to get things done, or even:
slightly better. But in my view, it's always a matter of the burden
Le 2013-02-19 23:59, rupert THURNER a écrit :
hi jan,
nice to hear that! i am wondering how such very active advocacy fits
with wikimedia's educational, non-political mission statement,
I wonder how one may split education and politic as they are – in my
humble opinion – deeply intertwinned.
On 20 February 2013 08:59, Christophe Henner
christophe.hen...@gmail.com wrote:
Why do we need two announce mailing lists? Can't we all use
wikimedia-announce ?
I don't really care much about how it works, just that it does. Manuel
Schneider took an action at the weekend to advise on points of
I'm sorry but Ii tend to disagree to some extent.
We're non-political in the sense we don't pick side. We don't support
one or the other party. But that doesn't mean we must not get involved
regarding legislation that could tamper with our ability to achieve
our goals.
Quick exemple, in France
Hi all,
I guess the non-partisan part is not even a quesiton, but rather a
precondition. The question is how to balance it on a case-to-case basis.
For now I have just included the wording *commitment to* *political
neutrality except regarding the most serious things that directly impact
our
[...]
It began with reference to a newspaper article about a country church
building with an electric beer sign hanging right over the front
entrance. The building had been sold and was being used as a bar. One
can guess that some classroom laughter started at this point.
The college was well
The primary goal of the Church of Reason, Phaedrus said, is always
Socrates's old goal of truth, in its ever-changing forms, as it is
revealed by the process of rationality.
I'm sorry, but that ship sailed long ago. Wikipedia is compendium of
information published in reliable sources. You
I believe this will be the task of the future Belgian chapter what is - if
I'm correct - just forming. No need to have two chapters there.
Balazs
2013/2/20 Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov dimitar.parvanov.dimit...@gmail.com
Hi all,
I guess the non-partisan part is not even a quesiton, but rather a
Hi Balázs,
I believe this will be the task of the future Belgian chapter what is - if
I'm correct - just forming. No need to have two chapters there.
We're not talking about an overlapping or even overstretch of chapters.
The territorial perspective is not very productive if you search for new
On 02/20/2013 07:53 AM, Mathieu Stumpf wrote:
I wonder how one may split education and politic as they are – in my
humble opinion – deeply intertwinned.
+1 Insightful
Indeed, our Imagine slogan is -- fundamentally -- both highly
political and quite radical (even in this age of easy
Hi everyone,
We've been testing banners at a low level for about two weeks now. We've
been showing just one banner impression to 5% of anonymous users (excluding
the 5 countries where banners ran in December: US, UK, Canada, Australia,
and New Zealand).
Hiding banners after one impression is
I would like to remind that the fundraising has been done in 8 countries and
not 5 , you forget France, Germany and Switzerland.
Thanks
Charles
Le 20 févr. 2013 à 15:50, Megan Hernandez mhernan...@wikimedia.org a écrit :
Hi everyone,
We've been testing banners at a low level for about two
Hi, Megan.
Wouldn't be better to add our data on some wiki page or spreadsheet?
By the way, I've seen the banner once yesterday on the Portuguese
Wikipedia (blue background), but I seldom use Wikipedia logged out. I
am in São Paulo.
Tom
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Megan Hernandez
Sorry for the confusion. The chapters in Germany, France, and Switzerland
ran banners at the end of 2012. WMF is not showing banners in those
countries.
I added a section to the fundraising meta page for comments if you've seen
banners over the last two weeks:
Le 2013-02-20 14:11, Christophe Henner a écrit :
I'm sorry but Ii tend to disagree to some extent.
There's really nothing to be sorry about here, I gave my point of view,
you share yours, and we may end up both grown by conversation we build
together.
We're non-political in the sense we
Hi,
if there ever will be a WCA or something like that, then this will be a
task for them imo. For the time being, mapping could be done by the
future Belgian chapter or by some interested local volunteers.
Balazs
2013/2/20 Jan Engelmann jan.engelm...@wikimedia.de
Hi Balázs,
I believe this
News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation declares 'victory' in Wikivoyage lawsuit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-02-18/News_and_notes
In the media: Sue Gardner interviewed by the Australian press
Megan Hernandez wrote:
Sorry for the confusion. The chapters in Germany, France, and Switzerland
ran banners at the end of 2012. WMF is not showing banners in those
countries.
I added a section to the fundraising meta page for comments if you've seen
banners over the last two weeks:
Sounds like a great choice for WMF Legal. Welcome :) Watch out for that guy
you'll probably see quite a bit of, Philippe, pure troublemaker ;) I
haven't seen the product of him and Geoff together, but you'll probably be
in for a double slam if they join forces. :P
DeltaQuad - Mobile phone
English
Hi again,
if there ever will be a WCA or something like that, then this will be a
task for them imo. For the time being, mapping could be done by the
future Belgian chapter or by some interested local volunteers.
I strongly disagree. As a local volunteer doing monitoring and as someone
who is
I've replied on two things: regarding info collecting, that you were
discussing, I believe WMBE can handle it (collecting names and numbers), no
need for a chapter to the EU there imo. Regarding actual lobbying,
representation and stuff - an international cooperation, like WCA (but not
in its
An area perhaps for the Legal and Community advocacy department ?
Alex
2013/2/20 Balázs Viczián balazs.vicz...@wikimedia.hu
I've replied on two things: regarding info collecting, that you were
discussing, I believe WMBE can handle it (collecting names and numbers), no
need for a chapter to
Hi.
OTRS (https://ticket.wikimedia.org/) is a critical piece of Wikimedia's
infrastructure. It currently handles nearly all customer service inquiries
directed at Wikimedia. Trusted volunteers triage and respond to this
e-mail.
Wikimedia is currently running OTRS version 2.4. The most recently
This could be a good project for one of the developing MediaWiki Groups.
MediaWiki Group San Francisco is already approved by AffCom and eligible for
grants.
-greg aka varnent
On 20 Feb, 2013, at 11:25 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Hi.
OTRS (https://ticket.wikimedia.org/) is a
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:25 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Hi.
OTRS (https://ticket.wikimedia.org/) is a critical piece of Wikimedia's
infrastructure. It currently handles nearly all customer service inquiries
directed at Wikimedia. Trusted volunteers triage and respond to this
+1, the interface still confuses me at somepoints today.
But I have to ask, are we getting everything we need with an OTRS update to
the new version, or are we settling for a medioker (excuse my spelling, it
is late). Is it a better idea to have wikimedians (maybe through grants,
idk) build
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Rjd0060 rjd0060.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:25 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Hi.
OTRS (https://ticket.wikimedia.org/) is a critical piece of Wikimedia's
infrastructure. It currently handles nearly all customer service
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Rjd0060 rjd0060.w...@gmail.com wrote:
To clarify, the Foundation support that would be appreciated here is from
the tech/ops group. We've had good response from other staff on related
issues, and that is much appreciated.
--
Ryan
User:Rjd0060
To
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:18 AM, DeltaQuad Wikipedia
deltaquadw...@gmail.com wrote:
Is it a better idea to have wikimedians (maybe through grants,
idk) build something open source and cc-whatever? That way fixes can be
made and we can get many devs (broad sense of the term) fixing bugs of a
Keegan Peterzell wrote:
I've been an Volunteer Response Team agent since 2009, and a leader (OTRS
admin) since 2010. In that time the control of OTRS moved from a
function that had a designated staff role of control to one of community
management. In the past two and a half years Philippe has been
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:02 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
But OTRS is ultimately a big piece of software. Maybe the Wikimedia
Foundation can buy a support contract for it if nobody is willing/able to
support/maintain it internally? Or maybe that's something a chapter or
grant
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:02 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
This also isn't a criticism of the Wikimedia Foundation engineering folks.
They've got plenty on their plate as well, of course. But _somebody_ has
to be supporting the technical portion of OTRS. If the Wikimedia
Foundation
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:36 PM, Rjd0060 rjd0060.w...@gmail.com wrote:
To clarify, the Foundation support that would be appreciated here is from
the tech/ops group. We've had good response from other staff on
This conversation should shift to meta sooner rather than later. I'm not
on my PC, but perhaps /Talk:OTRS/Software?
~ Keegan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan
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