Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliation in username

Silly technical remark: Everybody, please stop doing this with parentheses. It breaks in right to left languages. Gary-WMF is just as readable, and doesn't have this problem. Thanks for the attention. בתאריך 20 באפר 2014 02:17, מאת "Gryllida" : > On a second thought, do we want to add an optional

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How Wikimedia could help languages to survive

On 20 April 2014 04:46, Milos Rancic wrote: > > I'd say that Scots Gaelic could be a good test (Wikimedia UK help > needed!). It's a language with ~70k of speakers and if it's possible > to achieve 100 active editors per month, we could say that it could > somehow work in other cases, as well. >

[Wikimedia-l] How Wikimedia could help languages to survive

There are ~6000 languages in the world and around 3000 of them have more than 10,000 speakers. That approximation has some issues, but they are compensated by the ambiguity of the opposition. Ethnologue is not the best place to find precise data about the languages and it could count as languages

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliation in username

I hear where you're coming from, Gryllida. This only works if there is some mechanism by which the affiliation can be confirmed. The (WMF) affiliation is easily confirmed, and in fact anyone adding that affiliation to their account name who isn't a WMF staffer gets blocked pretty quickly. Howeve

[Wikimedia-l] Affiliation in username

On a second thought, do we want to add an optional "affiliation" field to the signup form, so the affiliation goes at the end of username in braces? - DGarry (WMF) - Fred (DesignSolutionsInc) - David (MIT) - ... So the signup form would look like this: -

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Timothy Sandole and (apparently) $53, 690 of WMF funding

> > On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 10:12 PM, Anthony Cole > wrote: > > > > Can anybody point to a source for the 7,000 printed pages of new, > > high-quality content during the fall term - particularly the evidence > > for the high quality of that content? > Replying on-list since you asked on-list. :)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] VisualEditor Office Hours for March & April

Hi, guys. The April office hour for VisualEditor is coming up in about 90 minutes. :) Hope to see you there! Maggie On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Maggie Dennis wrote: > Just a reminder: the April office hour for VisualEditor is taking place in > a few days, on Saturday April 19 at 2000 U

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Timothy Sandole and (apparently) $53, 690 of WMF funding

Bear in mind her email address has now changed as she's moved to @wikiedfoundation.org E.g. this link re: quality http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/10/04/spring-2012-wikipedia-education-program-quality/ but I've seen more recent stuff Simon -Original Message- From: wikimedia-l-boun...@li

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Timothy Sandole and (apparently) $53, 690 of WMF funding

Sorry. I just realised what the heading of this thread is. I'll email LiAnna directly. Anthony Cole On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 10:12 PM, Anthony Cole wrote: > The press release, signed by LiAnna Davis, Head of Communications and > External Re

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Timothy Sandole and (apparently) $53, 690 of WMF funding

The press release, signed by LiAnna Davis, Head of Communications and External Relations, that Andreas links to in his comment says, "The program, in which students write Wikipedia articles in place of traditional term papers, created the equivalent of more than 7,000 printed pages of new, high-qua

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Indonesia and Humanitarian Open Street Map receive ALL VOICES GRANT

Great news. Congratulations, WMID & HOT OSM! On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Isabella Apriyana < isabella.apriy...@wikimedia.or.id> wrote: > Hi Asaf, > > We will update the wiki page soon, including all budget and activity plans. > > We'll inform you the soonest! > > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 a

[Wikimedia-l] Agenda Board of Trustees Spring Meeting

Dear fellow members of the community, Following is the board agenda for next weeks meeting. As usual we have tried to make room for more substance rather than process. After a thorough consultation period the board will be discussing the amendment to the terms of use with regards to undisclosed