I will add this to my ever-growing list of possible projects for Cascadia.
There are a few other projects under consideration that have received
little WMF support but I feel are movement-aligned and would interest the
public or the contributor base.
In order for Cascadia to work on these
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
The problem is the behavior of a certain core set of Commons admins; time
and time and time again we have it reported here, we see it on Commons.
While not lawyers, they attempt to be extraordinarily demanding when it
comes to
Hi Erik:
Thanks for your comment. I noticed your comment at [[1]] so hope they are
related.
Yes; making proper attributions and satisfying all license requirements are
a bit complicated and time consuming. See my proposal at [[2]].
I requested the help of CC team; but didn't get any response so
Thanks Erik,
This is certainly something we are keen to work on. I was talking to Magnus
just last night and of course our experience with Europeana has taught us a
lot )I hope we have fully learnt the messages!).
We are undertaking a scoping review of our Development plans at the moment
and this
Thanks Dab - downloaded. The 'night mode' or 'under the blankets' seems a
good idea.
On 25 June 2014 19:28, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi everyone,
If you love Wikipedia and have an Android phone, you’re in for a treat!
Today we’ve released a revamped Wikipedia for Android app,
Just as a quick update from WMCH - we are currently discussing our
strategy/priorities for the 2015-20 cycle and yes, we plan to decide over
the Summer whether we want to ramp up our development activities or not.
We will, of course, keep you guys posted.
2014-06-26 10:29 GMT+02:00 Jon Davies
ImperfectlyInformed, 26/06/2014 02:14:
I'm surprised no one seems to have mentioned that Part I, question 6 of the
Form 990 which asks for total volunteers. For year 2011, 85,000 was the
number year 2010 has 100,000.
That's just the number of editors taken from WikiStats, as I believe the
Hi Erik,
I would remember that in IEG or PEG there are several proposals of software
development but every time these proposals don't offer a well defined
approach to the maintenance.
We know that maintenance is an important phase of the software development
and it would be good to know if the
On 26 June 2014 03:18, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk
wrote:
On Jun 26, 2014 2:16 AM, Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com wrote:
You can enter an edit summary. Either choose one of the predefined
options
2014-06-26 12:22 GMT+02:00 Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk:
On 26 June 2014 03:18, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk
wrote:
Thank you. I didn't see the options (buttons) for pre-selected
summaries,
Dear Erik,
(Also copying in the Cultural Partners and GLAMwiki Toolset mailing lists
as Erik's email below is directly is related to them).
Thank you for this email with the explicit invitation for groups in the
Wikimedia movement to directly take responsibility for supporting the
technology
Erik (and others), is there any coordination page where groups could place,
take, or discuss requests for development or requests for maintenance?
I saw often that sometimes the hard-to-achieve consensus is found, but
there is no way to evaluate the idea further. What now happens is:
- several
On 26 June 2014 12:02, Jan Ainali jan.ain...@wikimedia.se wrote:
I'm using the native browser on an Android 2.3.5 device.
Then you are not using the app that this thread is talking about?
Doh! Sorry, I'm using *the app* under Android 2.3.5.
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
Dear Ms. Tretikov,
Would you please speak on the new revision of the Access to Non-Public
Information policy? Can you express your objection to it? Can you express your
support of it? You'll find it here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_to_nonpublic_information_policy
This governs the
Erik Moeller erik@... writes:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Nathan nawrich at gmail.com wrote:
The problem is the behavior of a certain core set of Commons admins; time
and time and time again we have it reported here, we see it on Commons.
While not lawyers, they attempt to be
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 2:19 PM, George Herbert
george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
the project and world benefit from [Commons] existing as is. But we
need an
alternative to support the educational mission, reasonable
On 26 June 2014 23:17, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote:
If people are excited about starting up a whole new project, that's fine by
me. I think you'll find that donors attracted to the free knowledge
aspect of our vision mission statements might be a little tough to
persuade, but if
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 3:19 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 26 June 2014 23:17, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote:
If people are excited about starting up a whole new project, that's fine
by
me. I think you'll find that donors attracted to the free knowledge
aspect
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
than aggressively purging content in the fear that a single byte of
potentially non-free content may infect the repository.
You're attacking a straw man. I hope you do not sincerely believe anybody
acts out of such a
Dear all,
The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday,
July 3, 2014 at 6 PM UTC (11 AM PDT). The IRC channel is #wikimedia-office
on irc.freenode.net and the meeting will be broadcast as a live YouTube
stream.
The current structure of the meeting is:
* Welcoming
Hi, Trillium-
As I pointed out to you the last time we discussed the privacy
policy[1], this issue (and the rest of the policy) were discussed
extensively with the community, with the board, and with the previous
Executive Director. It was then approved by the Board.
This particular topic was
Great to see that this celebration of the picnic anyone can edit is
spreading across the USA, and now also in the Netherlands!
As a reminder, the spelling is actually Wiknic as is in Wik(i-pic)nic.
It's not too late to organize your own edition of the Great American Wiknic
(or an international
As an update on the goals process for WMF engineering, we've begun
fleshing out out the top priorities for the first quarter. Going
forward, we'll aim to call out the top priorities for each quarter as
we approach it, to create more shared visibility into the most urgent
and high-impact projects
The Vietnamese Wikipedia creates 30-40 articles/day manually (with as many
active contributers), which would put them on par with several medium/smaller
projects, usually having around 200-400 K articles
But among their limited number of active contributers they have a set of very
clever
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