[Wikimedia-l] New designs for account creation and login rolling out gradually to all projects

Hi everyone, Per our blog post last month,[1] we've been testing redesigns for account creation and login across the projects. We've been doing so on an opt-in basis, but we've dealt with any major bugs and translations are complete for quite a few languages. Starting tomorrow and barring any las

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero in Google search result

All, My mistake. The pages in Google's index that I used for sampling - the ones that have "Sorry, ..." in their description in Google search results - are cached pages. I assumed incorrectly that those pages were based on recent indexing (e.g., in the past few days). I think we can actually stic

[Wikimedia-l] FDC IRC office hours on the LOI in 3 minutes!

Hi everyone, As announced earlier, the FDC support team is holding office hours on #wikimedia-office to speak about questions on the Letter of Intent process in a few minutes and again at 15:00 UTC (Wednesday May 29). * Wendesday, May 29 at 0:00 UTC * Wednesday, May 29 at 15:00 UTC We look forwa

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Grantmaking Quarterly Review notes posted on Meta

Hi all, The minutes and slides from the Quarterly Review meeting of the Grantmaking team have now been posted on Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Grantmaking,_2013-05-15 Cheers, Adele -- *Adele Vrana* Senior Project Assistant to the Grantma

Re: [Wikimedia-l] evaluation of electronics articles

...and engineering (theory ok to good, practical often very weak). And varies across fields radically... On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > On 28.05.2013 19:40, phoebe ayers wrote: > >> I ran across this paragraph in the preface to O'Reilly's new book >> "Encyclopedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] evaluation of electronics articles

On 28.05.2013 19:40, phoebe ayers wrote: I ran across this paragraph in the preface to O'Reilly's new book "Encyclopedia of Electronic Components." [1] I'm not sure that I've ever seen an evaluation of Wikipedia's electronics coverage before, but to me this sounds like a pretty good descriptio

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia Zero in Google search result

FWIW Adding debug=true on zero domains should show the canonical url to be present. As stated before this will fix itself within less than 30 days as the caches update. e.g. http://hak.zero.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A8u-Ya%CC%8Dp?debug=true As James points out the main site doesn't use canonical ur

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia Zero in Google search result

Sorry for the double post: For what it's worth It does not appear that we have a canonical url appearing on most pages. Mobile has canonical pointing to the main site but neither zero or the main site have a canonical expressly stated. James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Fo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia Zero in Google search result

At some level there seems to be a change in google (or our) settings that are doing this everywhere. I've also been seeing a lot of links indexed and appearing in google as the primary domain too (wikipedia.org/wiki/Bostonrather then en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston, seen it on Wikivoyage as well and I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero in Google search result

Hello All, We had shelved my patch, patch 64629 , in hopes that an earlier patch, patch 61809(bug 35233 ), would resolve the issue naturally as Google re-indexed. But i

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero in Google search result

As I mentioned on the bug report [1] I worry more about the fact that the content is not accessible to users on another IP. If a user of Wikipedia Zero shares a link do we not want that to be accessible to other people? By showing a message as we currently do "Sorry, zero.wikipedia.org is only supp

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero in Google search result

Adam Baso (copied on this email) is working on it and a fix is ready. He'll do some testing to make sure it's resolved. On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Tomasz Finc wrote: > Looping Dan Foy in who's managing the Zero backlog. > > On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 8:01 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > > K. Peachey

Re: [Wikimedia-l] evaluation of electronics articles

I usually say Wikipedia consist of some hundred different encyclopedias on different topics. And some of these are excellent and have full covering, like popes, birds, where wp is better then all other encyclopedia in all aspects Other subject area are more uneven both in covering and in con

Re: [Wikimedia-l] evaluation of electronics articles

I think that is a pretty good analysis of the entire project. It is directly related to lack of editorial control and the impossibility of being able to assign writers to problem areas. Fred > I ran across this paragraph in the preface to O'Reilly's new book > "Encyclopedia of Electronic Componen

[Wikimedia-l] Thoughts on Admin Rights on WMF Wiki (and other things)

I don't know what to do. I lost sleep thinking about this situation last night. I think I'm still in shock and I'm frustrated. The normal situation on wiki is to have this kind of discussion in public for actions that happen on any wiki that I know of. There were similarly public discussions abo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

Felicitaciones! -Dan Dan Rosenthal On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Victor Grigas wrote: > Great job on the video And congratulations for 1m articles! > > On May 27, 2013, at 9:50 PM, Ivan Martínez wrote: > > > In Puebla city, too :D > > > > > > 2013/5/27 Osmar Valdebenito > > > >> Thank

[Wikimedia-l] evaluation of electronics articles

I ran across this paragraph in the preface to O'Reilly's new book "Encyclopedia of Electronic Components." [1] I'm not sure that I've ever seen an evaluation of Wikipedia's electronics coverage before, but to me this sounds like a pretty good description of a lot of our engineering articles (at lea

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts on Admin Rights on WMF Wiki (and other things)

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Nathan wrote: > Pine says no one suggested firing Gayle or Philippe; I think it's > clear that whatever semantics are invoked, he did suggest just that. > That's beyond inappropriate, in my view, and an example of the toxic > environment that will lead to less fr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero in Google search result

Looping Dan Foy in who's managing the Zero backlog. On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 8:01 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > K. Peachey wrote: >>Can you please file this in bugzilla ? > > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48856 > > > MZMcBride > > > > _

Re: [Wikimedia-l] SOPA related bill in Taiwan

or the record, I just read the news that Taipei City Information Office > decided to put the block to its own free public WiFi service in a month > from now, long before the TIPO amend the Copyright Act of Taiwan. The > Taipei Free WiFi service has 200M+ users and has 300M+ visitors each m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts on Admin Rights on WMF Wiki (and other things)

Hi, I strongly believe that the Foundation shouldn't do actions like this on a Friday. In this case there was a major discussion about it and nobody from the foundation was there to respond. But this week the new MediaWiki version is released on Friday, there is a bug (wrong version details) the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts on Admin Rights on WMF Wiki (and other things)

Pine says no one suggested firing Gayle or Philippe; I think it's clear that whatever semantics are invoked, he did suggest just that. That's beyond inappropriate, in my view, and an example of the toxic environment that will lead to less fruitful communication from the WMF and not more. It's not i

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts on Admin Rights on WMF Wiki (and other things)

On May 28, 2013, at 12:38 AM, ENWP Pine wrote: > However, I have concerns about keeping Gayle in the Chief Talent and Culture > Officer position. This type of conversation is really not helpful in any way. I don't know what you're expecting here. --- Brandon Harris, Senior Designe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] SOPA related bill in Taiwan

Fi service has 200M+ users and has 300M+ visitors each month. > > News - Taipei City Government would follow TIPO to block websites within a > Month (in Chinese): > http://www.ettoday.net/news/20130528/213815.htm > > Regards, > Ted > > > > > &g

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

Great job on the video And congratulations for 1m articles! On May 27, 2013, at 9:50 PM, Ivan Martínez wrote: > In Puebla city, too :D > > > 2013/5/27 Osmar Valdebenito > >> Thanks for the announcement, Salvador. >> It was a really hard work to coordinate the recordings in Buenos Aires,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] SOPA related bill in Taiwan

Fi service has 200M+ users and has 300M+ visitors each month. News - Taipei City Government would follow TIPO to block websites within a Month (in Chinese): http://www.ettoday.net/news/20130528/213815.htm Regards, Ted ___ Wikimedia-l mailing li

Re: [Wikimedia-l] SOPA related bill in Taiwan

On 28 May, 2013, at 11:32 PM, Ted Chien wrote: > As I previously point out in my first question: can it be geo-targeting? With CentralNotice, yes you can make it target Taiwan users only. Regards, Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]] ___ Wikimedia-l ma

Re: [Wikimedia-l] SOPA related bill in Taiwan

Hi Benjamin, Thanks for the reply. 2013/5/28 下午10:02 於 "Benjamin Chen" 寫道： > > On 28 May, 2013, at 9:43 PM, Ted Chien wrote: > > > (from what we have discussed on zh.wp, the Chinese > > community has agreed on such blackout, but the date is still on discussion) > > For the record, I doubt if th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts on Admin Rights on WMF Wiki (and other things)

Hi. There's also the viewpoint that a person being fired could go overboard and do irreparable harm to the site and the public's view of the WMF. There's of course the possibility to revert the changes on the website, since it is a wiki, but very hard to do on the public opinion, like if a soon-to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] SOPA related bill in Taiwan

On 28 May, 2013, at 9:43 PM, Ted Chien wrote: > (from what we have discussed on zh.wp, the Chinese > community has agreed on such blackout, but the date is still on discussion) For the record, I doubt if there is clear support/strong participation in the discussion. It is still to early to call

[Wikimedia-l] SOPA related bill in Taiwan

My dear colleagues, Recently on May 21 the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office has announced that they will amend the Copyright Act to demand local ISPs to block illegal contents on foreign websites, just like the SOPA bill in USA last year. For more information, you can read the following news re

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts on Admin Rights on WMF Wiki (and other things)

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Bence Damokos wrote: > > > Personally I think this line of the conversation (people resigning/fired) > > is taking the situation a bit too far. > > At the least not having volunteers administer the WMF's wiki is just > > punishment already. > > > > It seems that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts on Admin Rights on WMF Wiki (and other things)

(typo fix) On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Bence Damokos wrote: > Personally I think this line of the conversation (people resigning/fired) > is taking the situation a bit too far. > At the least not having volunteers administer the WMF's wiki is just > punishment already. > > It seems that t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts on Admin Rights on WMF Wiki (and other things)

Personally I think this line of the conversation (people resigning/fired) is taking the situation a bit too far. At the least not having volunteers administer the WMF's wiki is just punishment already. It seems that the WMF is unlikely to change its policy, so the best they can do to heal the hurt

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts on Admin Rights on WMF Wiki (and other things)

On 26 May 2013 12:18, Tomasz W. Kozlowski wrote: > You cannot expect people to stop bringing this topic up until they get — in > their feeling — satisfactory answers, and it is my impression that at least > some people don't feel that way. +1 - d.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Google Planning Wireless Networks To Connect The Next 1B People

Kul Wadhwa wrote: > Microsoft with other partners has also been working on bringing broadband > to Kenya (and ultimately other African countries) via white spaces > However, every party has their own agenda so hopefully competition lowers > prices and gives people more choices. And having many

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts on Admin Rights on WMF Wiki (and other things)

Sigh. This is a difficult situation. I don't think anyone has suggested that firing Gayle or Philippe should happen. However, I have concerns about keeping Gayle in the Chief Talent and Culture Officer position. I directed that concern to her and I want to hear what she thinks. There may be g