Re: [Wikimedia-l] Subject for Wikimedia Hackathon(s) 2014-2015: CoSyne

2014-07-15 Thread Frans Grijzenhout
Hi Balázs, WMNL hosted the international hackaton in 2013. Documentation is archived and thus still available and we are more than willing to help you in preparing the international hackaton in 2015. Regards, Frans *Frans Grijzenhout*, voorzitter / chair fr...@wikimedia.nl +31 6 5333 9499

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interest in a community strategic planning meeting?

2014-07-15 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 07/14/2014 01:25 PM, Fæ wrote: Yes, some people may get scholarships to travel to Wikimania or other conferences, however my understanding is that this would be limited to those presenting. Scholarships are also made available to attendees, specifically to allow those who would not

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New website for the New England Wikimedians user group

2014-07-15 Thread Salvador A
Congratulations Kevin and all New England Wikimedians. We will pendant of your activities and news. 2014-07-14 12:38 GMT-05:00 Alex Wang aw...@wikimedia.org: Great to see the website and read about upcoming events! On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interest in a community strategic planning meeting?

2014-07-15 Thread Pine W
Hi all, OK, I've been reading this plus the emails that I got off-list. It seems that there are a lot of diverse ideas and priorities, and probably the best way to gather and prioritize them is through a strategic planning process somewhat like what WMF and the community did in the last time

[Wikimedia-l] Underwater photos and videos / WMRS Microgrants 2014

2014-07-15 Thread Milos Rancic
For the last month or so I want to share with you the initial success of the Microgrants 2014 project of Wikimedia Serbia. However, there are a number of stories and it was too much to me to write about all of them at once. So, I am splitting it, which means that you can expect more stories during

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community RfCs about MediaViewer

2014-07-15 Thread Pine W
Hi all, I am willing to support a more detailed RfC policy that describes where and how notices should be distributed for different kinds of RfCs, although for the MV RfC I feel notice was adequate and there was lots of opportunity for anyone who felt that notice was inadequate, including WMF, to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment on the content, not the contributor - with staff?

2014-07-15 Thread Pine W
Hi Isarra, I did bring this up with Gayle near the end of her office hour on July 9. The first hour of these logs is with Language Engineering and the second is with Gayle. I was hoping that she would respond on Wikimedia-l as well and I didn't want to speak for her which is why I didn't comment

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Deprecating print-on-demand functionality

2014-07-15 Thread Itzik Edri
Any plans also to improve this module and make it work well also in Hebrew (and maybe other RTL languages)? On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Luca Martinelli martinellil...@gmail.com wrote: so the Book Creator will still

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2014-15 Annual Plan of the Wikimedia Foundation

2014-07-15 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Tilman Bayer, 08/07/2014 05:32: the Wikimedia Foundation's 2014-15 Annual Plan has just been published at https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:2014-15_Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan.pdf accompanied by a QA: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2014-2015_Annual_Plan_Questions_and_Answers

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Underwater photos and videos / WMRS Microgrants 2014

2014-07-15 Thread Erik Zachte
Very inspiring, Milos. Thanks for sharing. Might be good story for Wikimedia blog. -Original Message- From: wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimedia-l- boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Milos Rancic Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 6:43 To: Wikimedia Mailing

[Wikimedia-l] This Month In Education: July 2014: Volume 3, Issue 7

2014-07-15 Thread The 'This Month In Education' Team
-- This Month in Education – Volume 3, Issue 7, July 2014 https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Education/Newsletter/July_2014 -- Headlines https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Education/Newsletter/July_2014

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment on the content, not the contributor - with staff?

2014-07-15 Thread Isarra Yos
On 14/07/14 15:11, Quim Gil wrote: On Thursday, July 3, 2014, Isarra Yos zhoris...@gmail.com wrote: What can we, as volunteers, do when we believe staff have gone too far (besides create drama on a mailing list)? It depends on the area and the problem, but there are enough WMF employees with

[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Earth Brasil 2014 - Winners and final results

2014-07-15 Thread Rodrigo Padula
Hello guys, After many weeks of hard work the Wiki Loves Earth Brasil 2014 was ended. That was my first time organizing this kind of contet and that was the first time that we did an edition of Wiki Loves SOMETHING in Brazil, what generate big challenges! I learned a lot with that experience

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Deprecating print-on-demand functionality

2014-07-15 Thread Matthew Walker
The new renderer should already be working in Hebrew and other RTLs. ~Matt Walker Wikimedia Foundation On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il wrote: Any plans also to improve this module and make it work well also in Hebrew (and maybe other RTL languages)? On Fri,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Where did noboards go

2014-07-15 Thread Erlend Bjørtvedt
I am sorry, but an admin at MediaWiki (?) needs to enable upload to the noboards site. We use this site to store all our documents relating to accounting, salaries, tax, etc. After the troubles mentioned, it is not any more possible to upload anything to this site. Do anyone have any idea of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Where did noboards go

2014-07-15 Thread James Alexander
Hi Erlend, Have you filed a request on bugzilla yet? That would generally be the right place for all technical config requests (or issues you run into). James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Erlend

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Where did noboards go

2014-07-15 Thread Casey Brown
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Erlend Bjørtvedt erl...@wikimedia.no wrote: I am sorry, but an admin at MediaWiki (?) needs to enable upload to the noboards site. We use this site to store all our documents relating to accounting, salaries, tax, etc. After the troubles mentioned, it is

[Wikimedia-l] Dec/2013 Deccan Herald, Press Release/Nilkanth Sah Paddaam, Belgaum.

2014-07-15 Thread Siyona G Gaunkar
Dec/2013 Deccan Herald, Press Release/Nilkanth Sah Paddaam, Belgaum.   Velim, 11 kilometers from Margao, South Goa. Dec. 21st 2013. Mr.Venkatesha A. Upadhiaya  today submitted a memorandum to the President of India Mr.Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister Mr.Manmohan Singh and Mr. Pravin Srivastava

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia engineering report, June 2014

2014-07-15 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi, The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in June 2014 is now available. Wiki version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Report/2014/June Blog version: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/15/engineering-report-june-2014/ We're also proposing a shorter, simpler

[Wikimedia-l] AFD survey

2014-07-15 Thread Nicole Askin
We are looking for Wikipedians to participate in a survey. The survey is designed to help us understand group decision-making and Wikipedia’s Articles for Deletion (AfD) process. The research is being carried out under the terms of the University of Western Ontario - Code of Conduct; it will not