Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon
Jon Harald Søby wrote: 2014-10-08 23:40 GMT+02:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com: Will they release their own biographies under a free license to ease article expansion? :) Good question, Nemo. I don't know if it has been brought up, but we should probably look into that. :-) I tried to get a photo of Alice Munro (2013 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature) for her English Wikipedia article and the experience was both difficult and disheartening. I'd personally be much more appreciative of freely donated images of the winners over biography text. The latter is a lot easier to create than the former, in my experience. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call to Action
Craig Franklin wrote: That said, welcome Damon! Certainly, it's a pretty tough job that you've stepped into, but I'm optimistic that a fresh approach and fresh eyes will assist the engineering team in pushing through the present difficulties with software deployments. Which present difficulties are you referring to? If it's issues with feature/bug prioritization and resource allocation, it's probably more the Product side of the house, not the Engineering side of the house, that would need a refresh, I think. That's my vague understanding, anyway. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon
You are right Tom, WMSE made several such videos, I guess the one you are thinking of is this one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nobel_BrianSchmidt_2011-12-08.ogv Will the winners be present at the announcement? *Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali* Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige http://wikimedia.se 0729 - 67 29 48 *Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till mänsklighetens samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör.* Bli medlem. http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se 2014-10-09 0:26 GMT+02:00 Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton.alvare...@okfn.org: Hi Jon, that is a great initiative. I've already spread the word among Wikimedia Brasil and Open Knowledge Brasil. I'd like to suggest that you try to make a short video for the winner asking about Wikipedia and its importance. I think Wikimedia Sweden has made a cool short interview with some Nobel prize (I think chemestry) and it was really good. This can be even used to outreach at universities to bring more people to catalyse efforts to involve more schools on Wikimedia projects. If you can do it, please, let us know. Cheers, Tom 2014-10-08 18:07 GMT-03:00 Jon Harald Søby jhs...@gmail.com: Hi, all! The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced this Friday, and in cooperation with Wikimedia Norge, the Nobel Peace Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Center has invited Wikipedians from the Norwegian Wikipedia community to an editathon to improve the article about the winner(s?) as soon as possible. We'll be sitting practically in the next room from where the announcement is made, updating relevant articles as fast as we can. For this to be a global event, I'd like to invite anyone who's interested to join us in the IRC channel #wikipedia-nobel irc://freenode/#wikipedia-nobel, where we'll be talking and coordinating. We'll also try to livetweet the event using the hashtag #wikinobel https://twitter.com/hashtag/wikinobel, probably mainly from the account @WikimediaNorge https://twitter.com/WikimediaNorge. The press conference will be start around 10:30 Norwegian time, which is *08:30 UTC*, like I said on *Friday, 10th of October*. Please join us, and help spread this invitation to your community. -- mvh Jon Harald Søby http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Open Knowledge Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call to Action
I'm sure a Board member, Lila, or Erik will correct me if I am mistaken, but my understanding is that there is internal agreement at Board level that the Product side of the org needs some systemic changes, that Lila was chosen with the goal of making those changes, and that some changes are already happening. Pine On Oct 8, 2014 11:08 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Craig Franklin wrote: That said, welcome Damon! Certainly, it's a pretty tough job that you've stepped into, but I'm optimistic that a fresh approach and fresh eyes will assist the engineering team in pushing through the present difficulties with software deployments. Which present difficulties are you referring to? If it's issues with feature/bug prioritization and resource allocation, it's probably more the Product side of the house, not the Engineering side of the house, that would need a refresh, I think. That's my vague understanding, anyway. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon
This is an excellent event idea, congratulations to Wikimedia Norway for organising it. It is also a brilliant example of how Chapters and other groups around the world can take responsability for topics that have particular local relevance to them, and take a leadership role in the worldwide movement in the process. In this case (an announcement of global interest, but made in a particular building in a particular city) it also highlights wikimedia as not just a virtual community, but a physical one, and that the two work in tandem. -Liam / Wittylama -- wittylama.com Peace, love metadata ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon
Today there was the announcement for the Nobel prize in literature. Quit interesting is that the Swedish Radio, Swedish Television and the Norwegian NRK are updating articles related to this. Not perfect, but with a obviously good ambition! https://twitter.com/5thEstateWiki/status/520171448636551168 https://twitter.com/5thEstateWiki/status/520169175776784384 https://twitter.com/5thEstateWiki/status/520167492078297088 https://twitter.com/5thEstateWiki/status/520175308872617984 *Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali* Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige http://wikimedia.se 0729 - 67 29 48 *Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till mänsklighetens samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör.* Bli medlem. http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se 2014-10-09 13:42 GMT+02:00 Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com: This is an excellent event idea, congratulations to Wikimedia Norway for organising it. It is also a brilliant example of how Chapters and other groups around the world can take responsability for topics that have particular local relevance to them, and take a leadership role in the worldwide movement in the process. In this case (an announcement of global interest, but made in a particular building in a particular city) it also highlights wikimedia as not just a virtual community, but a physical one, and that the two work in tandem. -Liam / Wittylama -- wittylama.com Peace, love metadata ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon
I do agree. In Amical we regularly organize small one-week long online writing contest regarding local Music Festivals, ComicCons or similar. We get in touch with new organisations, reach to new communities and get quite a lot of press atention with relatively small organizing effort and one small prize. 2014-10-09 13:42 GMT+02:00 Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com: This is an excellent event idea, congratulations to Wikimedia Norway for organising it. It is also a brilliant example of how Chapters and other groups around the world can take responsability for topics that have particular local relevance to them, and take a leadership role in the worldwide movement in the process. In this case (an announcement of global interest, but made in a particular building in a particular city) it also highlights wikimedia as not just a virtual community, but a physical one, and that the two work in tandem. -Liam / Wittylama -- wittylama.com Peace, love metadata ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- -- Àlex Hinojo / Kippelboy Cultural Programme Manager Amical Wikimedia www.wikimedia.cat @kippelboy -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Monument for Wikipedia in Poland
I saw something appear in the media: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_26694189/poland-honor-wikipedia-monument Romaine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monument for Wikipedia in Poland
In Poland, Monument loves Wikipedia On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Romaine Wiki romaine.w...@gmail.com wrote: I saw something appear in the media: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_26694189/poland-honor-wikipedia-monument Romaine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monument for Wikipedia in Poland
;-) Actually just one monument :-) By the way our woman wikipedians complan that only men are holding the globe in this statue :-) So, we have at least sent a woman - Magalia, to represent our community and fill a little bit gender gap :-) 2014-10-09 19:52 GMT+02:00 Mathias Schindler mathias.schind...@gmail.com: In Poland, Monument loves Wikipedia On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Romaine Wiki romaine.w...@gmail.com wrote: I saw something appear in the media: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_26694189/poland-honor-wikipedia-monument Romaine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Tomek Polimerek Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29title=tomasz-ganicz ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monument for Wikipedia in Poland
Really amazing! So, the monument will have freedom of panorama? ;) 2014-10-09 13:29 GMT-05:00 Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com: ;-) Actually just one monument :-) By the way our woman wikipedians complan that only men are holding the globe in this statue :-) So, we have at least sent a woman - Magalia, to represent our community and fill a little bit gender gap :-) 2014-10-09 19:52 GMT+02:00 Mathias Schindler mathias.schind...@gmail.com : In Poland, Monument loves Wikipedia On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Romaine Wiki romaine.w...@gmail.com wrote: I saw something appear in the media: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_26694189/poland-honor-wikipedia-monument Romaine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Tomek Polimerek Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29title=tomasz-ganicz ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Atentamente:Iván MartínezPresidenteWikimedia México A.C.wikimedia.mx http://wikimedia.mxImagina un mundo en donde cada persona del planeta pueda tener acceso libre a la suma total del conocimiento humano. Eso es lo que estamos haciendo http://es.wikipedia.org. * ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call to Action
Thanks for the detailed comments, Erik. As someone who spent several volunteer hours reviewing the current Annual Plan, I would appreciate getting an understanding of how the change of emphasis to quarterly reviews affects budgets, hiring plans, and fundraising goals. Is that something that you can address or should I ask Garfield? Thanks, Pine On Oct 9, 2014 4:44 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sure a Board member, Lila, or Erik will correct me if I am mistaken, but my understanding is that there is internal agreement at Board level that the Product side of the org needs some systemic changes, that Lila was chosen with the goal of making those changes, and that some changes are already happening. There's agreement at all levels that we want to continue down the path set by Sue back in 2012 [1] for WMF to truly understand itself as a technology and grantmaking organization. That path led to where we are today: 1) As part of the ED transition, Sue recommended (and the Board accepted the recommendation) to seek an ED with a strong technology/product background, and we hired Lila Tretikov as Sue's successor who matches those requirements. 2) In November 2012, I recommended that we prepare for building out new functions for UX and Analytics, and prepare for dedicated leadership for Engineering and Product. Sue accepted this recommendation. I hired Directors for UX and Analytics in 2013, followed by Community Engagement in 2014, and finally we hired a VP Engineering last week to complete the process. 3) To better account for the need to learn quickly and adjust course as appropriate, we introduced quarterly reviews in December 2012 [3] and increasingly reduced the specificity of Annual Plan level commitments while increasing the focus on metrics and accountability in the reviews. 4) On the technology and product front, many improvements to process and support infrastructure have been implemented in the last couple of years, including but not limited to: - Development of MediaWiki Vagrant as a standardized dev environment, to reduce failure cases due to developer environment inconsistencies - Improvements to continuous integration infrastructure for PHP unit tests and QUnit JavaScript unit tests, and increased focus (but not nearly enough yet) on automated tests, especially for newly developed features - Introduction and continued improvement of BetaLabs as a staging environment for all commits, increased use of automated end-to-end browser tests and QA testing by humans to catch bugs and regressions prior to production rollouts - Introduction and use of various tools for measuring the impact of features, including EventLogging as a standard instrumentation framework for measuring feature usage, dashboards for visualizing usage, WikiMetrics for analyzing editor cohort behavior, Editor Engagement Vital Signs for understanding system-wide user behavior, analysis of pageview data using Hadoop (just rolled out), etc. - Highly specialized automated testing frameworks for specific projects, e.g. Parsoid round-trip testing and visual diffing (!) to detect dirty diffs or output problems - Introduction of design research as a discipline in the UX team (through hiring of Abbey Ripstra as User Research Lead) and incorporation of user studies in a much more systematic way across products - Community liaisons dedicated to key products, responding to user feedback and helping Product Managers understand more complex community needs - Continued shortening of release/deployment cycles; significant improvements to deployment tooling, rewriting our legacy scap tools to increase the ability to monitor and reason about deployments; introduction of daily SWAT deploys to quickly release fixes, etc. - Introduction of various infrastructure tools that help us better analyze/profile issues, including logstash for log analysis, increased use of graphite for performance metrics collection and various front-ends for visualizing those metrics - Shift towards loosely coupled services, addressing the difficulty of maintaining and improving our highly monolithic codebase (examples include Parsoid, Citoid, Mathoid, and the new Content API in development) - Introduction of Beta Features framework to stage features for early adopters 5) The changes Lila has pushed for since we started include: - Greater focus on quarterly prioritization and a rolling roadmap rather than a fiscal year view of the world - Increased emphasis on understanding the needs of different user personas at all cycles of software development, including through use of qualitative and quantitative methods - Reducing velocity of user-facing changes (esp. on desktop) to increase focus on foundations (platform/process improvements) that ultimately will enable us to move faster and more effectively -
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monument for Wikipedia in Poland
Yes, it will. 2014-10-09 20:31 GMT+02:00 Ivan Martínez gala...@gmail.com: Really amazing! So, the monument will have freedom of panorama? ;) 2014-10-09 13:29 GMT-05:00 Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com: ;-) Actually just one monument :-) By the way our woman wikipedians complan that only men are holding the globe in this statue :-) So, we have at least sent a woman - Magalia, to represent our community and fill a little bit gender gap :-) 2014-10-09 19:52 GMT+02:00 Mathias Schindler mathias.schind...@gmail.com : In Poland, Monument loves Wikipedia On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Romaine Wiki romaine.w...@gmail.com wrote: I saw something appear in the media: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_26694189/poland-honor-wikipedia-monument Romaine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l , mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Tomek Polimerek Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29title=tomasz-ganicz ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Atentamente:Iván MartínezPresidenteWikimedia México A.C.wikimedia.mx http://wikimedia.mxImagina un mundo en donde cada persona del planeta pueda tener acceso libre a la suma total del conocimiento humano. Eso es lo que estamos haciendo http://es.wikipedia.org. * ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Simo G. [[user:Tar Lócesilion]] ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call to Action
We are planning to do a review of alignment/divergence with the plan mid year. That would be the right time for this discussion as we will have a good overview/gap analysis at that time. On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the detailed comments, Erik. As someone who spent several volunteer hours reviewing the current Annual Plan, I would appreciate getting an understanding of how the change of emphasis to quarterly reviews affects budgets, hiring plans, and fundraising goals. Is that something that you can address or should I ask Garfield? Thanks, Pine On Oct 9, 2014 4:44 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sure a Board member, Lila, or Erik will correct me if I am mistaken, but my understanding is that there is internal agreement at Board level that the Product side of the org needs some systemic changes, that Lila was chosen with the goal of making those changes, and that some changes are already happening. There's agreement at all levels that we want to continue down the path set by Sue back in 2012 [1] for WMF to truly understand itself as a technology and grantmaking organization. That path led to where we are today: 1) As part of the ED transition, Sue recommended (and the Board accepted the recommendation) to seek an ED with a strong technology/product background, and we hired Lila Tretikov as Sue's successor who matches those requirements. 2) In November 2012, I recommended that we prepare for building out new functions for UX and Analytics, and prepare for dedicated leadership for Engineering and Product. Sue accepted this recommendation. I hired Directors for UX and Analytics in 2013, followed by Community Engagement in 2014, and finally we hired a VP Engineering last week to complete the process. 3) To better account for the need to learn quickly and adjust course as appropriate, we introduced quarterly reviews in December 2012 [3] and increasingly reduced the specificity of Annual Plan level commitments while increasing the focus on metrics and accountability in the reviews. 4) On the technology and product front, many improvements to process and support infrastructure have been implemented in the last couple of years, including but not limited to: - Development of MediaWiki Vagrant as a standardized dev environment, to reduce failure cases due to developer environment inconsistencies - Improvements to continuous integration infrastructure for PHP unit tests and QUnit JavaScript unit tests, and increased focus (but not nearly enough yet) on automated tests, especially for newly developed features - Introduction and continued improvement of BetaLabs as a staging environment for all commits, increased use of automated end-to-end browser tests and QA testing by humans to catch bugs and regressions prior to production rollouts - Introduction and use of various tools for measuring the impact of features, including EventLogging as a standard instrumentation framework for measuring feature usage, dashboards for visualizing usage, WikiMetrics for analyzing editor cohort behavior, Editor Engagement Vital Signs for understanding system-wide user behavior, analysis of pageview data using Hadoop (just rolled out), etc. - Highly specialized automated testing frameworks for specific projects, e.g. Parsoid round-trip testing and visual diffing (!) to detect dirty diffs or output problems - Introduction of design research as a discipline in the UX team (through hiring of Abbey Ripstra as User Research Lead) and incorporation of user studies in a much more systematic way across products - Community liaisons dedicated to key products, responding to user feedback and helping Product Managers understand more complex community needs - Continued shortening of release/deployment cycles; significant improvements to deployment tooling, rewriting our legacy scap tools to increase the ability to monitor and reason about deployments; introduction of daily SWAT deploys to quickly release fixes, etc. - Introduction of various infrastructure tools that help us better analyze/profile issues, including logstash for log analysis, increased use of graphite for performance metrics collection and various front-ends for visualizing those metrics - Shift towards loosely coupled services, addressing the difficulty of maintaining and improving our highly monolithic codebase (examples include Parsoid, Citoid, Mathoid, and the new Content API in development) - Introduction of Beta Features framework to stage features for early adopters 5) The changes Lila has pushed for since we started include: - Greater focus on quarterly prioritization and a rolling roadmap rather than a fiscal year view of the world - Increased emphasis on
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call to Action
Thank you Lila. Pine On Oct 9, 2014 11:50 AM, Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org wrote: We are planning to do a review of alignment/divergence with the plan mid year. That would be the right time for this discussion as we will have a good overview/gap analysis at that time. On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the detailed comments, Erik. As someone who spent several volunteer hours reviewing the current Annual Plan, I would appreciate getting an understanding of how the change of emphasis to quarterly reviews affects budgets, hiring plans, and fundraising goals. Is that something that you can address or should I ask Garfield? Thanks, Pine On Oct 9, 2014 4:44 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sure a Board member, Lila, or Erik will correct me if I am mistaken, but my understanding is that there is internal agreement at Board level that the Product side of the org needs some systemic changes, that Lila was chosen with the goal of making those changes, and that some changes are already happening. There's agreement at all levels that we want to continue down the path set by Sue back in 2012 [1] for WMF to truly understand itself as a technology and grantmaking organization. That path led to where we are today: 1) As part of the ED transition, Sue recommended (and the Board accepted the recommendation) to seek an ED with a strong technology/product background, and we hired Lila Tretikov as Sue's successor who matches those requirements. 2) In November 2012, I recommended that we prepare for building out new functions for UX and Analytics, and prepare for dedicated leadership for Engineering and Product. Sue accepted this recommendation. I hired Directors for UX and Analytics in 2013, followed by Community Engagement in 2014, and finally we hired a VP Engineering last week to complete the process. 3) To better account for the need to learn quickly and adjust course as appropriate, we introduced quarterly reviews in December 2012 [3] and increasingly reduced the specificity of Annual Plan level commitments while increasing the focus on metrics and accountability in the reviews. 4) On the technology and product front, many improvements to process and support infrastructure have been implemented in the last couple of years, including but not limited to: - Development of MediaWiki Vagrant as a standardized dev environment, to reduce failure cases due to developer environment inconsistencies - Improvements to continuous integration infrastructure for PHP unit tests and QUnit JavaScript unit tests, and increased focus (but not nearly enough yet) on automated tests, especially for newly developed features - Introduction and continued improvement of BetaLabs as a staging environment for all commits, increased use of automated end-to-end browser tests and QA testing by humans to catch bugs and regressions prior to production rollouts - Introduction and use of various tools for measuring the impact of features, including EventLogging as a standard instrumentation framework for measuring feature usage, dashboards for visualizing usage, WikiMetrics for analyzing editor cohort behavior, Editor Engagement Vital Signs for understanding system-wide user behavior, analysis of pageview data using Hadoop (just rolled out), etc. - Highly specialized automated testing frameworks for specific projects, e.g. Parsoid round-trip testing and visual diffing (!) to detect dirty diffs or output problems - Introduction of design research as a discipline in the UX team (through hiring of Abbey Ripstra as User Research Lead) and incorporation of user studies in a much more systematic way across products - Community liaisons dedicated to key products, responding to user feedback and helping Product Managers understand more complex community needs - Continued shortening of release/deployment cycles; significant improvements to deployment tooling, rewriting our legacy scap tools to increase the ability to monitor and reason about deployments; introduction of daily SWAT deploys to quickly release fixes, etc. - Introduction of various infrastructure tools that help us better analyze/profile issues, including logstash for log analysis, increased use of graphite for performance metrics collection and various front-ends for visualizing those metrics - Shift towards loosely coupled services, addressing the difficulty of maintaining and improving our highly monolithic codebase (examples include Parsoid, Citoid, Mathoid, and the new Content API in development) - Introduction of Beta Features framework to stage features for early adopters 5) The changes Lila has
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Cascadia] Quarterly goals for WMF Legal
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Establishing timeline commitments for Affcom to respond to requests for approvals or for Affcom to ask new questions about a requested approval. Having approval requests stay open for weeks with no communication from Affcom creates challenges for thematic orgs which are working on our own timelines that may have dependencies on Affcom action. I have experienced this myself and have heard about similar issues happening with other requests. I suggest that Affcom have a commitment that all inquiries will recieve substantive responses within 14 days of the date of the inquiry, or otherwise Legal will take over the handling of the inquiry so that progress of thorgs can continue in a timely manner. Hi Pine, I feel obliged to point out that, while AffCom works closely with the Legal team, we're not actually part of it. Any suggestions you have for improvements to the AffCom workflow should really be addressed to the committee, not to Geoff. Cheers, Kirill ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Offline-l] Bug day: Book tool/Collection/PDF, 2014-10-08, 14–22 UTC
On 09.10.2014 00:35, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: And it's over! We reached our immediate goal, closing all the lost PediaPress tickets (80 before the bug day); and about 40 new bugzilla reports were filed, including some tricky ones about language support. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/201410 has a dump from the etherpad and will be updated with more precise information. Give a look at the bugzilla reports! Thanks to all the participants: Andre Klapper, Anomie, Azitrex, bawolff, Helder, John Vandenberg, Kelson, Nemo, Raymond, Reedy, Rupert, saper, Steinsplitter, csteipp, ebraminio, jem, josu, kepper, valhallasw`cloud. (And probably someone else in bugzilla at the same time.) Thank you Nemo for having organised this! Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Reminder: Damon Sicore office hours in 5 minutes
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: Log of this office hours: http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/%23wikimedia-office/20141009.txt (Will also be posted on Meta) Risker= Thanks Risker, It Is indeed at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2014-10-09 James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's fix templates
On 09/02/2014 03:27 PM, pi zero wrote: The templates are extremely complicated in implementation, which is irrelevant. If templates were rejected based on extremely complicated implementation, that would rule out essentially everything that uses Scribuntu under the hood. I don't agree with this. Scribunto is a new language to learn (Lua), but that language is far easier for complicated work than parser functions are for complicated work. Matt Flaschen ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's fix templates
On 09/03/2014 07:08 AM, John Mark Vandenberg wrote: (Wouldn't it be nice if all skins could be written in Lua + LESS stored as wikipages on the wiki, instead of distributed as php files; I know of one LESS skin which works well: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Chameleon ; are there others?) Vector? It's now all LESS except the jQuery UI styling. Matt Flaschen ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's fix templates
I agree with the general thrust of Brad's points. There are some known major issues with templating (styling, unreadable parser functions, and templates being used for data like Information on Commons are the most important ones). However, these do not all have the same solutions. Some issues are in a bit stalled but the idea is known (e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Allow_styling_in_templates). Others have an understood solution (e.g. Wikidata for meta-data of the sort used on Commons). Finally, I consider the unreadable parser functions problem essentially solved. Lua is not perfect, but it's a usable language (and not a Mediawiki-specific one) that is far more readable and writable than complicated nested parser functions. I think we should standardize on JavaScript (for interactivity) and Scribunto (for business logic that supports templates) as the on-wiki languages for non-trivial logic, leaving the wikitext template side for simple presentation. Matt Flaschen ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly goals for WMF Legal
Hello Pine, I am happy to speak with you specifically about turn-around time, so that we get your question resolved quickly and find solutions that may improve the process for others. Overall, we try to be quite responsive. In cases that do take time, it is likely because there are unusual circumstances that require background work or internal and community coordination, and we may need to triage and prioritize appropriately given our resources and other factors. I am not sure that a 14-day turn around timeline makes sense for all cases. In legal, we handle a range of other portfolios with a high level of complexity, so this would result in some variance. Sometimes our responses may take longer than we like, but I think our turn around time is often much shorter than 14 days for most standard questions. Movement role questions often require time for coordination with various stakeholders internally and externally, and that may add to the response time as well. As I say, please feel free to email me, and we will try to expedite a response to your specific question. Best, Stephen On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Geoff, In light of the above discussion about quarterly reviews on Wikimedia-l, can we find a set of quarterly goals for Legal somewhere? In particular I personally feel that the following would be helpful as goals for Legal this quarter: * Establishing timeline commitments for Affcom to respond to requests for approvals or for Affcom to ask new questions about a requested approval. Having approval requests stay open for weeks with no communication from Affcom creates challenges for thematic orgs which are working on our own timelines that may have dependencies on Affcom action. I have experienced this myself and have heard about similar issues happening with other requests. I suggest that Affcom have a commitment that all inquiries will recieve substantive responses within 14 days of the date of the inquiry, or otherwise Legal will take over the handling of the inquiry so that progress of thorgs can continue in a timely manner. * Similarly, establishing timeline commitments for Legal to respond to community and thematic org inquiries. I have experiened lengthy delays on more than one occasion about what I feel are simple questions. I feel that a commitment that Legal will respond substantively to inquiries within 14 days would be helpful, and would appreciated by the community and thematic orgs. Thanks very much. Regards, Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Stephen LaPorte Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation *NOTICE: As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal and ethical reasons, I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For more on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer.* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's fix templates
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.org wrote: Finally, I consider the unreadable parser functions problem essentially solved. Lua is not perfect, but it's a usable language (and not a Mediawiki-specific one) that is far more readable and writable than complicated nested parser functions. I see replacing unreadable parser functions with Lua as replacing one bad solution with a differently bad solution. Since the problems of the second are different from those of the first, it's possible to claim the second solves the problems of the first, but that's a bit lame. The problems of Lua should have been anticipated, and should have been avoided by finding a better solution; and settling for a differently bad solution is just a different way of settling for a bad solution. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's fix templates
Lua makes editing templates for most users impossible. Perhaps the English community has enough users to handle all edit requests for Lua templates, most smaller wikis have too less users to do that. It is not just creating a Lua template, but also that the local communities on various wikis need to be able to maintain those templates when an update is needed or a changed is wished for. Depending on other projects is a bad scenario which is not an acceptable solution. I also do not see why it is considered easier... it is actually not easier. The general rule which is applied for the wikis I am active is that almost all templates should be editable by the majority of the community and we should not rely on a small number of users with programming skills. And learning an extra method for editing templates is the other way round, which absolutely does not make editing templates easier but creates an extra doorstep for users to do simple updates. Another general rule applied is KISS: if we can make it simple such is recommended over a complex template with little or no extra functionality. With a complex template, the first question to be asked is if a complex template is really needed. In most cases it is not. Problem solved. Romaine 2014-10-10 1:40 GMT+02:00 Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.org: On 09/02/2014 03:27 PM, pi zero wrote: The templates are extremely complicated in implementation, which is irrelevant. If templates were rejected based on extremely complicated implementation, that would rule out essentially everything that uses Scribuntu under the hood. I don't agree with this. Scribunto is a new language to learn (Lua), but that language is far easier for complicated work than parser functions are for complicated work. Matt Flaschen ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monument for Wikipedia in Poland
Forwarded on request: de: http://www.cp.edu.pl/de/public_relations/startsite_news/spalte_4_oben/wikipedia/pomnik-wikipedii/index.html pl: http://www.cp.edu.pl/pl/public_relations/startsite_news/spalte_4_oben/wikipedia/pomnik-wikipedii/index.html and: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Berlin#Mittwoch.2C_22._Oktober_2014:_Er.C3.B6ffnung_eines_Wikipedia-Denkmals_in_S.C5.82ubice 2014-10-09 20:49 GMT+02:00 Tar Lócesilion tar.locesil...@gmail.com: Yes, it will. 2014-10-09 20:31 GMT+02:00 Ivan Martínez gala...@gmail.com: Really amazing! So, the monument will have freedom of panorama? ;) 2014-10-09 13:29 GMT-05:00 Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com: ;-) Actually just one monument :-) By the way our woman wikipedians complan that only men are holding the globe in this statue :-) So, we have at least sent a woman - Magalia, to represent our community and fill a little bit gender gap :-) 2014-10-09 19:52 GMT+02:00 Mathias Schindler mathias.schind...@gmail.com : In Poland, Monument loves Wikipedia On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Romaine Wiki romaine.w...@gmail.com wrote: I saw something appear in the media: http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_26694189/poland-honor-wikipedia-monument Romaine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l , mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Tomek Polimerek Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29title=tomasz-ganicz ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Atentamente:Iván MartínezPresidenteWikimedia México A.C.wikimedia.mx http://wikimedia.mxImagina un mundo en donde cada persona del planeta pueda tener acceso libre a la suma total del conocimiento humano. Eso es lo que estamos haciendo http://es.wikipedia.org. * ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Simo G. [[user:Tar Lócesilion]] ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Comment time for IEG Grants proposal
For our second round of Individual Engagement Grant applications in 2014, we have a great crop of ideas. Wikimedians have dropped by to offer feedback, support, or expertise to some of the proposals, but many proposals have not been reviewed by community members. If there is an open proposal that interests you, that you have concerns about, or that involves an area where you have experience or expertise, please drop by the proposal page to share your views. This will help the proposers better hone their strategies, and will assist the IEG Committee in evaluating some of these fresh new ideas to improve Wikimedia projects. Working with an IEG proposal may even inspire you to serve as a project advisor, or to propose one of your own for the next cycle! Comments are requested until October 20th. IEG Grant Proposals https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-reviewing Regards, -- Patrick Earley Community Advocate Wikimedia Foundation pear...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Offline-l] Bug day: Book tool/Collection/PDF, 2014-10-08, 14–22 UTC
Yes, thank you all so much! I've been busy trying to fix as many of the issues found as possible. Note that I'll be on vacation next week (2014-10-11 - 2014-10-17) so don't panic if my latency increases. Keep filing those bugs and I'll keep squashing them when I get back. --scott ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment time for IEG Grants proposal
Thank you for this reminder. As I see, the IEG system has attracted many innovative ideas on how to integrate the efforts and wisdom of a multitude of communities and evolve sustainable long term models that can be scaled up globally. To that extend, each IEG proposal is worth detailed study not just for a one time review but as a set of community-derived innovative ideas that can be probed and analyzed to determine how to move forward in our quest to collect and show case the entire totality of human knowledge ever generated. I urge every Wikimedians to go through these proposals and even corroborate on a secondary level idea generation so that eventually we can start designing the framework for a Wikimedia version 2.0 -Viswam On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Patrick Earley pear...@wikimedia.org wrote: For our second round of Individual Engagement Grant applications in 2014, we have a great crop of ideas. Wikimedians have dropped by to offer feedback, support, or expertise to some of the proposals, but many proposals have not been reviewed by community members. If there is an open proposal that interests you, that you have concerns about, or that involves an area where you have experience or expertise, please drop by the proposal page to share your views. This will help the proposers better hone their strategies, and will assist the IEG Committee in evaluating some of these fresh new ideas to improve Wikimedia projects. Working with an IEG proposal may even inspire you to serve as a project advisor, or to propose one of your own for the next cycle! Comments are requested until October 20th. IEG Grant Proposals https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-reviewing Regards, -- Patrick Earley Community Advocate Wikimedia Foundation pear...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
