Re: [Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...
Dear Viswa, Thank you for letting us know, and for writing such a beautiful text in memory of your friend. Please send my condolences to his son. Much love, Andreas On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 3:07 PM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Wikimedians all over the world, One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug ( https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug) expired yesterday night. Despite having paralyzed due to a severe stroke and severely affected by several subsequent health problems, he was guided to Wikipedia by his son, Dr. Ajay, another prominent Malayalam Wikipedian, as a possible remedy to escape perpetual loneliness. His real world name was G. Balachandran.He was born on 14th October 1938 in a small village off North Parur, Ernakulam District, Kerala, the Southernmost state of India.He joined the Armed Forces Engineering College and then continued to serve the Indian Armed forces for long many years. He started contributing to Wikimedia, particularly to Malayalam Wikipedia, in the year 2008. His initial contributions to Malayalam Wikipedia were based upon a pulp-converted digital Encyclopedia, released by the Government through GFDL licence then. He continued to create even more full-featured articles on his own, later. By 2014 October 18 - the day he edited last in Wikipedia- he had 1935 full-blown articles initiated and expanded by himself in ml.wikipedia.org. Besides, he also contributed more than 350 images to Wikimedia commons and a handsome amount of contributions to Wikisource, Wikidata and Wiktionary. He always attributed his renewed energy and life's aspirations to the Wikimedia mission, for having returned to a meaningful life after a 20-year long and frustrating solitude while constrained to an immobile chair. Ever since 2008, he stood up and started walking and moving around. His was an extreme example for us in Malayalam WP to showcase how Wikipedia can change lives. In almost all our Wikipedia Outreach sessions, we utilized this great example to motivate and excite the newcomers to WP. Tory Read mentioned about BabuG thus, in a document http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/india-chronicles.pdf, a review on the state of Indian Wikimedia Communities, in 2011: G. Balachandran, a septuagenarian who lives outside of Ernakulum in Kerala state, said that working on Malayalam Wikipedia helped him recover after a stroke left him paralyzed. “He’s much sharper now,” said his wife Jagadamma K. “He’s made a lot of new friends, and that’s been good for his health.” For us in Malayalam Wikipedia, today is a black day, for having lost a great beacon on our voyage to ultimate openness and freedom in knowledge and wisdom. Yet, we feel, BabuG has made his life stamped immortal for ever and has shown us the pathway we should follow in continuing our humble contributions to the ultimate cause of mankind. -ViswaPrabha (On behalf of Malayalam Wikimedia Community) http://ml.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 ___ 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] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...
Thank you for this tribute and for sharing more about BabuG. I appreciated the chance to learn about him, how he came to Wikipedia, and the depth of his experience on the sites. His story inspires me. My condolences and sympathies are with you, BabuG's family, and the Malayalam community on this difficult day. Katy On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 7:07 AM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Wikimedians all over the world, One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug ( https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug) expired yesterday night. Despite having paralyzed due to a severe stroke and severely affected by several subsequent health problems, he was guided to Wikipedia by his son, Dr. Ajay, another prominent Malayalam Wikipedian, as a possible remedy to escape perpetual loneliness. His real world name was G. Balachandran.He was born on 14th October 1938 in a small village off North Parur, Ernakulam District, Kerala, the Southernmost state of India.He joined the Armed Forces Engineering College and then continued to serve the Indian Armed forces for long many years. He started contributing to Wikimedia, particularly to Malayalam Wikipedia, in the year 2008. His initial contributions to Malayalam Wikipedia were based upon a pulp-converted digital Encyclopedia, released by the Government through GFDL licence then. He continued to create even more full-featured articles on his own, later. By 2014 October 18 - the day he edited last in Wikipedia- he had 1935 full-blown articles initiated and expanded by himself in ml.wikipedia.org. Besides, he also contributed more than 350 images to Wikimedia commons and a handsome amount of contributions to Wikisource, Wikidata and Wiktionary. He always attributed his renewed energy and life's aspirations to the Wikimedia mission, for having returned to a meaningful life after a 20-year long and frustrating solitude while constrained to an immobile chair. Ever since 2008, he stood up and started walking and moving around. His was an extreme example for us in Malayalam WP to showcase how Wikipedia can change lives. In almost all our Wikipedia Outreach sessions, we utilized this great example to motivate and excite the newcomers to WP. Tory Read mentioned about BabuG thus, in a document http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/india-chronicles.pdf, a review on the state of Indian Wikimedia Communities, in 2011: G. Balachandran, a septuagenarian who lives outside of Ernakulum in Kerala state, said that working on Malayalam Wikipedia helped him recover after a stroke left him paralyzed. “He’s much sharper now,” said his wife Jagadamma K. “He’s made a lot of new friends, and that’s been good for his health.” For us in Malayalam Wikipedia, today is a black day, for having lost a great beacon on our voyage to ultimate openness and freedom in knowledge and wisdom. Yet, we feel, BabuG has made his life stamped immortal for ever and has shown us the pathway we should follow in continuing our humble contributions to the ultimate cause of mankind. -ViswaPrabha (On behalf of Malayalam Wikimedia Community) http://ml.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 ___ 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] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 11, Issue 9 -- 04 March 2015
From the editor: A sign of the timesâthe ''Signpost'' revamps its internal structure to make contributing easier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-03-04/From_the_editor Editorial: Conspiracy theories distract from real questions about grantmaking report http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-03-04/Editorial News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation and OTRS team both publish quarterly reports, indicate operating changes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-03-04/News_and_notes Interview: Meet a paid editor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-03-04/Interview Traffic report: Attack of the movies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-03-04/Traffic_report In the media: Kanye West rebranded; Wikipedia in court; editors for hire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-03-04/In_the_media Blog: Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipediaâs multicultural gaps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-03-04/Blog Technology report: Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-03-04/Technology_report Featured content: Ploughing fields and trading horses with Rosa Bonheur http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-03-04/Featured_content Arbitration report: Bradspeaksâimpact, regrets, and advice; current cases hinge on sex, religion, and ... infoboxes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-03-04/Arbitration_report Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single/2015-03-04 PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-03-04 https://www.facebook.com/wikisignpost / https://twitter.com/wikisignpost -- Wikipedia Signpost Staff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ 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] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 1:46 AM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Eduardo Testart etest...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I was thinking, it is possible to create some sort of hall of fame from/for Wikipedia? It would be nice that stories like this one get a place to stay in time. Many wikis have a project-space page to commemorate deceased Wikipedians[1]. There also exists a putative central location on Meta, but it's underutilized. Nonetheless, because I agree this was a eulogy worth sharing, I have now pasted it there[2]. Asaf An admin added the username to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Deceased_contributors#to_do.2Fadd Jee ___ 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] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...
Hi all, On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 20:37:13 +0530 ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Wikimedians all over the world, One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug ( https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug) expired yesterday night. I'm sorry to read all that. My condolences extend to his family, friends and the people who collaborated with him online. I should note that I found the story in the message to be touching and inspiring. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Best Introductory Programming Language - http://shlom.in/intro-lang The Bajoran scholars have positively identified Benjamin Sisko as The Emissary. They also positively identified the NSA headquarters as The Dungeon. — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/NSA/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . ___ 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] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia
Yes I assumed as much - in Catholic circles you often see the word confraternity which may include women, and I understand there are a few Co-ed fraternities these days, but yes I totally agree that translation remains a tricky thing. I had to chuckle because I am knee-deep in preparation for the ArtFeminism edit-a-thon and barriers to entry in the 19th-century were male-only art fraternities or brotherhoods like the Pre-Raphaelites in the UK On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se wrote: I deeply apologize. It is not easy with wordings when you are non native English. I meant to use a word meaning member of an order if now Order means the same in English as in Swedish. Or member in a collective group which share some common insights/experiences. Of the 45 I mention 6 are female (13%) (yes of course we know each other so well). And of course these are just as active, respected etc as the men Anders Jane Darnell skrev den 2015-03-05 15:54: Anders, Very ironic to read the word fraternity here when we are in the middle of the whole Inspire campaign launch, but I assume there are women in that group and they are just lost in translation? Jane On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se wrote: Very, very interesting to get a perspective from the biggest, svwp being a small project. You use the word full member of the community which I like. I would say we 45 at svwp could be seen a a fraternity, we know each other rather well. It will not be possible in the same way if you are 1144, but probably for the 215 you mention The fraternity thinking has now for us also been extended into that no block for more then a few hours (for cooling off) is allowed for sysops to set on senior editors. Full members of community will only be blocked longer then a day after a discussion by its peers . So no admin harassment allowed when you have come into this level of seniority. (and what the use of blocking these, they come back anyway, under the same or another nick) Anders WereSpielChequers skrev den 2015-03-05 13:59: On the English language Wikipedia we definitely have a phenomenon that editors with high edit counts will stay until a major event drives them away. But the the threshold may not be 38,000 edits, we have 1,444 editor accounts that have achieved that, and that may no longer be enough to commit you to the site. The 14 editors with 500,000 or more edits are all currently active, some are still among the most active editors on the site. Though the active definition on [[:en:WP:EDITS]] is merely one or more edits in the last 30 days. Of the 215 most active editors, 32 are inactive for various reasons and 7 have anonymised themselves on the list of most active editors (though they may be active). So 80-85% of our most active editors are still around. Possibly more when you allow for the fact that at least one of those 32 has closed that account and now edits from another one. Sadly our admins have not been so likely to stay with us, only 579 are still active as admins, though of the 1500 or so former admins quite a few still edit. Of course the length of tenure for both groups is likely to be unusual. The vast majority of en wiki admins were appointed more than 7 years ago and it takes time to accumulate a really high edit count. Though we have fewer editors with over 100,000 edits than we have active admins, at current rates that will change in 2016, in recent months we are seeing more editors do their 100,000th edit than become admins. I suspect one of our problems is that we have fewer ways for newish editors to feel they have become an established member of the community. To some extent GLAM, the chapters and the education program do this, and of course the good and Featured article processes. But we shouldn't be surprised that fewer people are staying on after their 100th or 1000th edit, as that is the stage in their wiki career where they are likely to think that they will never become a full member of the community. Regards Jonathan/WereSpielChequers On 4 Mar 2015, at 19:19, wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Send Wikimedia-l mailing list submissions to wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wikimedia-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Wikimedia-l digest... Today's Topics: 2. Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia (Anders Wennersten) 3. Re: Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia (Gerard Meijssen) 5. Re: Ciritical level for addiction
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...
Condolences to the community. I let the Signpost folks know, and there will be a writeup on this coming shortly. -Andrew On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Viswa, Thank you so much for letting us know of this editor's inspiring story. We are sorry to lose such an exemplary Wikimedian. I hope in his passing he had the satisfaction of feeling that in his late years he made the world a better place. Please contact me off-list if you would like this email to appear in the Signpost. Condolances to his family and the Malayalam Wikimedia community. Pine On Mar 5, 2015 7:08 AM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Wikimedians all over the world, One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug ( https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug) expired yesterday night. Despite having paralyzed due to a severe stroke and severely affected by several subsequent health problems, he was guided to Wikipedia by his son, Dr. Ajay, another prominent Malayalam Wikipedian, as a possible remedy to escape perpetual loneliness. His real world name was G. Balachandran.He was born on 14th October 1938 in a small village off North Parur, Ernakulam District, Kerala, the Southernmost state of India.He joined the Armed Forces Engineering College and then continued to serve the Indian Armed forces for long many years. He started contributing to Wikimedia, particularly to Malayalam Wikipedia, in the year 2008. His initial contributions to Malayalam Wikipedia were based upon a pulp-converted digital Encyclopedia, released by the Government through GFDL licence then. He continued to create even more full-featured articles on his own, later. By 2014 October 18 - the day he edited last in Wikipedia- he had 1935 full-blown articles initiated and expanded by himself in ml.wikipedia.org. Besides, he also contributed more than 350 images to Wikimedia commons and a handsome amount of contributions to Wikisource, Wikidata and Wiktionary. He always attributed his renewed energy and life's aspirations to the Wikimedia mission, for having returned to a meaningful life after a 20-year long and frustrating solitude while constrained to an immobile chair. Ever since 2008, he stood up and started walking and moving around. His was an extreme example for us in Malayalam WP to showcase how Wikipedia can change lives. In almost all our Wikipedia Outreach sessions, we utilized this great example to motivate and excite the newcomers to WP. Tory Read mentioned about BabuG thus, in a document http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/india-chronicles.pdf, a review on the state of Indian Wikimedia Communities, in 2011: G. Balachandran, a septuagenarian who lives outside of Ernakulum in Kerala state, said that working on Malayalam Wikipedia helped him recover after a stroke left him paralyzed. “He’s much sharper now,” said his wife Jagadamma K. “He’s made a lot of new friends, and that’s been good for his health.” For us in Malayalam Wikipedia, today is a black day, for having lost a great beacon on our voyage to ultimate openness and freedom in knowledge and wisdom. Yet, we feel, BabuG has made his life stamped immortal for ever and has shown us the pathway we should follow in continuing our humble contributions to the ultimate cause of mankind. -ViswaPrabha (On behalf of Malayalam Wikimedia Community) http://ml.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 ___ 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] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...
Thanks so much for this great tribute. Inspiring. On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote: Condolences to the community. I let the Signpost folks know, and there will be a writeup on this coming shortly. -Andrew On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Viswa, Thank you so much for letting us know of this editor's inspiring story. We are sorry to lose such an exemplary Wikimedian. I hope in his passing he had the satisfaction of feeling that in his late years he made the world a better place. Please contact me off-list if you would like this email to appear in the Signpost. Condolances to his family and the Malayalam Wikimedia community. Pine On Mar 5, 2015 7:08 AM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Wikimedians all over the world, One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug ( https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug) expired yesterday night. Despite having paralyzed due to a severe stroke and severely affected by several subsequent health problems, he was guided to Wikipedia by his son, Dr. Ajay, another prominent Malayalam Wikipedian, as a possible remedy to escape perpetual loneliness. His real world name was G. Balachandran.He was born on 14th October 1938 in a small village off North Parur, Ernakulam District, Kerala, the Southernmost state of India.He joined the Armed Forces Engineering College and then continued to serve the Indian Armed forces for long many years. He started contributing to Wikimedia, particularly to Malayalam Wikipedia, in the year 2008. His initial contributions to Malayalam Wikipedia were based upon a pulp-converted digital Encyclopedia, released by the Government through GFDL licence then. He continued to create even more full-featured articles on his own, later. By 2014 October 18 - the day he edited last in Wikipedia- he had 1935 full-blown articles initiated and expanded by himself in ml.wikipedia.org. Besides, he also contributed more than 350 images to Wikimedia commons and a handsome amount of contributions to Wikisource, Wikidata and Wiktionary. He always attributed his renewed energy and life's aspirations to the Wikimedia mission, for having returned to a meaningful life after a 20-year long and frustrating solitude while constrained to an immobile chair. Ever since 2008, he stood up and started walking and moving around. His was an extreme example for us in Malayalam WP to showcase how Wikipedia can change lives. In almost all our Wikipedia Outreach sessions, we utilized this great example to motivate and excite the newcomers to WP. Tory Read mentioned about BabuG thus, in a document http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/india-chronicles.pdf, a review on the state of Indian Wikimedia Communities, in 2011: G. Balachandran, a septuagenarian who lives outside of Ernakulum in Kerala state, said that working on Malayalam Wikipedia helped him recover after a stroke left him paralyzed. “He’s much sharper now,” said his wife Jagadamma K. “He’s made a lot of new friends, and that’s been good for his health.” For us in Malayalam Wikipedia, today is a black day, for having lost a great beacon on our voyage to ultimate openness and freedom in knowledge and wisdom. Yet, we feel, BabuG has made his life stamped immortal for ever and has shown us the pathway we should follow in continuing our humble contributions to the ultimate cause of mankind. -ViswaPrabha (On behalf of Malayalam Wikimedia Community) http://ml.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 ___ 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 -- Alexandra Wang Program Officer Project Event Grants Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home +1 415-839-6885 Skype: alexvwang
[Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...
Dear Wikimedians all over the world, One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug ( https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug) expired yesterday night. Despite having paralyzed due to a severe stroke and severely affected by several subsequent health problems, he was guided to Wikipedia by his son, Dr. Ajay, another prominent Malayalam Wikipedian, as a possible remedy to escape perpetual loneliness. His real world name was G. Balachandran.He was born on 14th October 1938 in a small village off North Parur, Ernakulam District, Kerala, the Southernmost state of India.He joined the Armed Forces Engineering College and then continued to serve the Indian Armed forces for long many years. He started contributing to Wikimedia, particularly to Malayalam Wikipedia, in the year 2008. His initial contributions to Malayalam Wikipedia were based upon a pulp-converted digital Encyclopedia, released by the Government through GFDL licence then. He continued to create even more full-featured articles on his own, later. By 2014 October 18 - the day he edited last in Wikipedia- he had 1935 full-blown articles initiated and expanded by himself in ml.wikipedia.org. Besides, he also contributed more than 350 images to Wikimedia commons and a handsome amount of contributions to Wikisource, Wikidata and Wiktionary. He always attributed his renewed energy and life's aspirations to the Wikimedia mission, for having returned to a meaningful life after a 20-year long and frustrating solitude while constrained to an immobile chair. Ever since 2008, he stood up and started walking and moving around. His was an extreme example for us in Malayalam WP to showcase how Wikipedia can change lives. In almost all our Wikipedia Outreach sessions, we utilized this great example to motivate and excite the newcomers to WP. Tory Read mentioned about BabuG thus, in a document http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/india-chronicles.pdf, a review on the state of Indian Wikimedia Communities, in 2011: G. Balachandran, a septuagenarian who lives outside of Ernakulum in Kerala state, said that working on Malayalam Wikipedia helped him recover after a stroke left him paralyzed. “He’s much sharper now,” said his wife Jagadamma K. “He’s made a lot of new friends, and that’s been good for his health.” For us in Malayalam Wikipedia, today is a black day, for having lost a great beacon on our voyage to ultimate openness and freedom in knowledge and wisdom. Yet, we feel, BabuG has made his life stamped immortal for ever and has shown us the pathway we should follow in continuing our humble contributions to the ultimate cause of mankind. -ViswaPrabha (On behalf of Malayalam Wikimedia Community) http://ml.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] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...
My deep condolences. Jee On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 8:37 PM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Wikimedians all over the world, One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug ( https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug) expired yesterday night. Despite having paralyzed due to a severe stroke and severely affected by several subsequent health problems, he was guided to Wikipedia by his son, Dr. Ajay, another prominent Malayalam Wikipedian, as a possible remedy to escape perpetual loneliness. His real world name was G. Balachandran.He was born on 14th October 1938 in a small village off North Parur, Ernakulam District, Kerala, the Southernmost state of India.He joined the Armed Forces Engineering College and then continued to serve the Indian Armed forces for long many years. He started contributing to Wikimedia, particularly to Malayalam Wikipedia, in the year 2008. His initial contributions to Malayalam Wikipedia were based upon a pulp-converted digital Encyclopedia, released by the Government through GFDL licence then. He continued to create even more full-featured articles on his own, later. By 2014 October 18 - the day he edited last in Wikipedia- he had 1935 full-blown articles initiated and expanded by himself in ml.wikipedia.org. Besides, he also contributed more than 350 images to Wikimedia commons and a handsome amount of contributions to Wikisource, Wikidata and Wiktionary. He always attributed his renewed energy and life's aspirations to the Wikimedia mission, for having returned to a meaningful life after a 20-year long and frustrating solitude while constrained to an immobile chair. Ever since 2008, he stood up and started walking and moving around. His was an extreme example for us in Malayalam WP to showcase how Wikipedia can change lives. In almost all our Wikipedia Outreach sessions, we utilized this great example to motivate and excite the newcomers to WP. Tory Read mentioned about BabuG thus, in a document http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/india-chronicles.pdf, a review on the state of Indian Wikimedia Communities, in 2011: G. Balachandran, a septuagenarian who lives outside of Ernakulum in Kerala state, said that working on Malayalam Wikipedia helped him recover after a stroke left him paralyzed. “He’s much sharper now,” said his wife Jagadamma K. “He’s made a lot of new friends, and that’s been good for his health.” For us in Malayalam Wikipedia, today is a black day, for having lost a great beacon on our voyage to ultimate openness and freedom in knowledge and wisdom. Yet, we feel, BabuG has made his life stamped immortal for ever and has shown us the pathway we should follow in continuing our humble contributions to the ultimate cause of mankind. -ViswaPrabha (On behalf of Malayalam Wikimedia Community) http://ml.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 ___ 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] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia
I deeply apologize. It is not easy with wordings when you are non native English. I meant to use a word meaning member of an order if now Order means the same in English as in Swedish. Or member in a collective group which share some common insights/experiences. Of the 45 I mention 6 are female (13%) (yes of course we know each other so well). And of course these are just as active, respected etc as the men Anders Jane Darnell skrev den 2015-03-05 15:54: Anders, Very ironic to read the word fraternity here when we are in the middle of the whole Inspire campaign launch, but I assume there are women in that group and they are just lost in translation? Jane On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se wrote: Very, very interesting to get a perspective from the biggest, svwp being a small project. You use the word full member of the community which I like. I would say we 45 at svwp could be seen a a fraternity, we know each other rather well. It will not be possible in the same way if you are 1144, but probably for the 215 you mention The fraternity thinking has now for us also been extended into that no block for more then a few hours (for cooling off) is allowed for sysops to set on senior editors. Full members of community will only be blocked longer then a day after a discussion by its peers . So no admin harassment allowed when you have come into this level of seniority. (and what the use of blocking these, they come back anyway, under the same or another nick) Anders WereSpielChequers skrev den 2015-03-05 13:59: On the English language Wikipedia we definitely have a phenomenon that editors with high edit counts will stay until a major event drives them away. But the the threshold may not be 38,000 edits, we have 1,444 editor accounts that have achieved that, and that may no longer be enough to commit you to the site. The 14 editors with 500,000 or more edits are all currently active, some are still among the most active editors on the site. Though the active definition on [[:en:WP:EDITS]] is merely one or more edits in the last 30 days. Of the 215 most active editors, 32 are inactive for various reasons and 7 have anonymised themselves on the list of most active editors (though they may be active). So 80-85% of our most active editors are still around. Possibly more when you allow for the fact that at least one of those 32 has closed that account and now edits from another one. Sadly our admins have not been so likely to stay with us, only 579 are still active as admins, though of the 1500 or so former admins quite a few still edit. Of course the length of tenure for both groups is likely to be unusual. The vast majority of en wiki admins were appointed more than 7 years ago and it takes time to accumulate a really high edit count. Though we have fewer editors with over 100,000 edits than we have active admins, at current rates that will change in 2016, in recent months we are seeing more editors do their 100,000th edit than become admins. I suspect one of our problems is that we have fewer ways for newish editors to feel they have become an established member of the community. To some extent GLAM, the chapters and the education program do this, and of course the good and Featured article processes. But we shouldn't be surprised that fewer people are staying on after their 100th or 1000th edit, as that is the stage in their wiki career where they are likely to think that they will never become a full member of the community. Regards Jonathan/WereSpielChequers On 4 Mar 2015, at 19:19, wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Send Wikimedia-l mailing list submissions to wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wikimedia-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Wikimedia-l digest... Today's Topics: 2. Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia (Anders Wennersten) 3. Re: Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia (Gerard Meijssen) 5. Re: Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia (Ricordisamoa) Message: 2 Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 17:44:30 +0100 From: Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia Message-ID: 54f7366e.6090...@anderswennersten.se Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed On svwp there has over the years been 45 individuals who have each made more then 38000 edits. Of these 45, 44 are still active, only one has left (in 2009) making 97,7 still around. For the users with less then 38 000 edits, only about 6 out of 10
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...
Hi all, I was thinking, it is possible to create some sort of hall of fame from/for Wikipedia? It would be nice that stories like this one get a place to stay in time. Just a though... El mar. 5, 2015 12:08 PM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com escribió: Dear Wikimedians all over the world, One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug ( https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug) expired yesterday night. Despite having paralyzed due to a severe stroke and severely affected by several subsequent health problems, he was guided to Wikipedia by his son, Dr. Ajay, another prominent Malayalam Wikipedian, as a possible remedy to escape perpetual loneliness. His real world name was G. Balachandran.He was born on 14th October 1938 in a small village off North Parur, Ernakulam District, Kerala, the Southernmost state of India.He joined the Armed Forces Engineering College and then continued to serve the Indian Armed forces for long many years. He started contributing to Wikimedia, particularly to Malayalam Wikipedia, in the year 2008. His initial contributions to Malayalam Wikipedia were based upon a pulp-converted digital Encyclopedia, released by the Government through GFDL licence then. He continued to create even more full-featured articles on his own, later. By 2014 October 18 - the day he edited last in Wikipedia- he had 1935 full-blown articles initiated and expanded by himself in ml.wikipedia.org. Besides, he also contributed more than 350 images to Wikimedia commons and a handsome amount of contributions to Wikisource, Wikidata and Wiktionary. He always attributed his renewed energy and life's aspirations to the Wikimedia mission, for having returned to a meaningful life after a 20-year long and frustrating solitude while constrained to an immobile chair. Ever since 2008, he stood up and started walking and moving around. His was an extreme example for us in Malayalam WP to showcase how Wikipedia can change lives. In almost all our Wikipedia Outreach sessions, we utilized this great example to motivate and excite the newcomers to WP. Tory Read mentioned about BabuG thus, in a document http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/india-chronicles.pdf, a review on the state of Indian Wikimedia Communities, in 2011: G. Balachandran, a septuagenarian who lives outside of Ernakulum in Kerala state, said that working on Malayalam Wikipedia helped him recover after a stroke left him paralyzed. “He’s much sharper now,” said his wife Jagadamma K. “He’s made a lot of new friends, and that’s been good for his health.” For us in Malayalam Wikipedia, today is a black day, for having lost a great beacon on our voyage to ultimate openness and freedom in knowledge and wisdom. Yet, we feel, BabuG has made his life stamped immortal for ever and has shown us the pathway we should follow in continuing our humble contributions to the ultimate cause of mankind. -ViswaPrabha (On behalf of Malayalam Wikimedia Community) http://ml.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 ___ 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] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia
On the English language Wikipedia we definitely have a phenomenon that editors with high edit counts will stay until a major event drives them away. But the the threshold may not be 38,000 edits, we have 1,444 editor accounts that have achieved that, and that may no longer be enough to commit you to the site. The 14 editors with 500,000 or more edits are all currently active, some are still among the most active editors on the site. Though the active definition on [[:en:WP:EDITS]] is merely one or more edits in the last 30 days. Of the 215 most active editors, 32 are inactive for various reasons and 7 have anonymised themselves on the list of most active editors (though they may be active). So 80-85% of our most active editors are still around. Possibly more when you allow for the fact that at least one of those 32 has closed that account and now edits from another one. Sadly our admins have not been so likely to stay with us, only 579 are still active as admins, though of the 1500 or so former admins quite a few still edit. Of course the length of tenure for both groups is likely to be unusual. The vast majority of en wiki admins were appointed more than 7 years ago and it takes time to accumulate a really high edit count. Though we have fewer editors with over 100,000 edits than we have active admins, at current rates that will change in 2016, in recent months we are seeing more editors do their 100,000th edit than become admins. I suspect one of our problems is that we have fewer ways for newish editors to feel they have become an established member of the community. To some extent GLAM, the chapters and the education program do this, and of course the good and Featured article processes. But we shouldn't be surprised that fewer people are staying on after their 100th or 1000th edit, as that is the stage in their wiki career where they are likely to think that they will never become a full member of the community. Regards Jonathan/WereSpielChequers On 4 Mar 2015, at 19:19, wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Send Wikimedia-l mailing list submissions to wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wikimedia-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Wikimedia-l digest... Today's Topics: 2. Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia (Anders Wennersten) 3. Re: Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia (Gerard Meijssen) 5. Re: Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia (Ricordisamoa) Message: 2 Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 17:44:30 +0100 From: Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia Message-ID: 54f7366e.6090...@anderswennersten.se Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed On svwp there has over the years been 45 individuals who have each made more then 38000 edits. Of these 45, 44 are still active, only one has left (in 2009) making 97,7 still around. For the users with less then 38 000 edits, only about 6 out of 10 is still active. Is this a global valid number, that when you have made 38000 edits you are fully addicted to Wikipedia (until death do us part)? Anders -- Message: 3 Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 18:05:42 +0100 From: Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia Message-ID: CAO53wxX_cbDv7XEMQkV=nWNhr9nk+Y7-f=fj-ovzy2w-k7q...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hoi, I hope not.. If it were I am a basket case. Hmmm not Wikipedia ... does Wikidata count ? What number of edits would be sufficient ?? Thanks, GerardM On 4 March 2015 at 17:44, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se wrote: On svwp there has over the years been 45 individuals who have each made more then 38000 edits. Of these 45, 44 are still active, only one has left (in 2009) making 97,7 still around. For the users with less then 38 000 edits, only about 6 out of 10 is still active. Is this a global valid number, that when you have made 38000 edits you are fully addicted to Wikipedia (until death do us part)? Anders Message: 5 Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 18:19:24 +0100 From: Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia Message-ID: 54f73e9c.2000...@openmailbox.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Il
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia
Very, very interesting to get a perspective from the biggest, svwp being a small project. You use the word full member of the community which I like. I would say we 45 at svwp could be seen a a fraternity, we know each other rather well. It will not be possible in the same way if you are 1144, but probably for the 215 you mention The fraternity thinking has now for us also been extended into that no block for more then a few hours (for cooling off) is allowed for sysops to set on senior editors. Full members of community will only be blocked longer then a day after a discussion by its peers . So no admin harassment allowed when you have come into this level of seniority. (and what the use of blocking these, they come back anyway, under the same or another nick) Anders WereSpielChequers skrev den 2015-03-05 13:59: On the English language Wikipedia we definitely have a phenomenon that editors with high edit counts will stay until a major event drives them away. But the the threshold may not be 38,000 edits, we have 1,444 editor accounts that have achieved that, and that may no longer be enough to commit you to the site. The 14 editors with 500,000 or more edits are all currently active, some are still among the most active editors on the site. Though the active definition on [[:en:WP:EDITS]] is merely one or more edits in the last 30 days. Of the 215 most active editors, 32 are inactive for various reasons and 7 have anonymised themselves on the list of most active editors (though they may be active). So 80-85% of our most active editors are still around. Possibly more when you allow for the fact that at least one of those 32 has closed that account and now edits from another one. Sadly our admins have not been so likely to stay with us, only 579 are still active as admins, though of the 1500 or so former admins quite a few still edit. Of course the length of tenure for both groups is likely to be unusual. The vast majority of en wiki admins were appointed more than 7 years ago and it takes time to accumulate a really high edit count. Though we have fewer editors with over 100,000 edits than we have active admins, at current rates that will change in 2016, in recent months we are seeing more editors do their 100,000th edit than become admins. I suspect one of our problems is that we have fewer ways for newish editors to feel they have become an established member of the community. To some extent GLAM, the chapters and the education program do this, and of course the good and Featured article processes. But we shouldn't be surprised that fewer people are staying on after their 100th or 1000th edit, as that is the stage in their wiki career where they are likely to think that they will never become a full member of the community. Regards Jonathan/WereSpielChequers On 4 Mar 2015, at 19:19, wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Send Wikimedia-l mailing list submissions to wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wikimedia-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Wikimedia-l digest... Today's Topics: 2. Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia (Anders Wennersten) 3. Re: Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia (Gerard Meijssen) 5. Re: Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia (Ricordisamoa) Message: 2 Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 17:44:30 +0100 From: Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia Message-ID: 54f7366e.6090...@anderswennersten.se Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed On svwp there has over the years been 45 individuals who have each made more then 38000 edits. Of these 45, 44 are still active, only one has left (in 2009) making 97,7 still around. For the users with less then 38 000 edits, only about 6 out of 10 is still active. Is this a global valid number, that when you have made 38000 edits you are fully addicted to Wikipedia (until death do us part)? Anders -- Message: 3 Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 18:05:42 +0100 From: Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia Message-ID: CAO53wxX_cbDv7XEMQkV=nWNhr9nk+Y7-f=fj-ovzy2w-k7q...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hoi, I hope not.. If it were I am a basket case. Hmmm not Wikipedia ... does Wikidata count ? What number of edits would be sufficient ?? Thanks, GerardM On 4 March 2015 at 17:44, Anders
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia
Anders, Very ironic to read the word fraternity here when we are in the middle of the whole Inspire campaign launch, but I assume there are women in that group and they are just lost in translation? Jane On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se wrote: Very, very interesting to get a perspective from the biggest, svwp being a small project. You use the word full member of the community which I like. I would say we 45 at svwp could be seen a a fraternity, we know each other rather well. It will not be possible in the same way if you are 1144, but probably for the 215 you mention The fraternity thinking has now for us also been extended into that no block for more then a few hours (for cooling off) is allowed for sysops to set on senior editors. Full members of community will only be blocked longer then a day after a discussion by its peers . So no admin harassment allowed when you have come into this level of seniority. (and what the use of blocking these, they come back anyway, under the same or another nick) Anders WereSpielChequers skrev den 2015-03-05 13:59: On the English language Wikipedia we definitely have a phenomenon that editors with high edit counts will stay until a major event drives them away. But the the threshold may not be 38,000 edits, we have 1,444 editor accounts that have achieved that, and that may no longer be enough to commit you to the site. The 14 editors with 500,000 or more edits are all currently active, some are still among the most active editors on the site. Though the active definition on [[:en:WP:EDITS]] is merely one or more edits in the last 30 days. Of the 215 most active editors, 32 are inactive for various reasons and 7 have anonymised themselves on the list of most active editors (though they may be active). So 80-85% of our most active editors are still around. Possibly more when you allow for the fact that at least one of those 32 has closed that account and now edits from another one. Sadly our admins have not been so likely to stay with us, only 579 are still active as admins, though of the 1500 or so former admins quite a few still edit. Of course the length of tenure for both groups is likely to be unusual. The vast majority of en wiki admins were appointed more than 7 years ago and it takes time to accumulate a really high edit count. Though we have fewer editors with over 100,000 edits than we have active admins, at current rates that will change in 2016, in recent months we are seeing more editors do their 100,000th edit than become admins. I suspect one of our problems is that we have fewer ways for newish editors to feel they have become an established member of the community. To some extent GLAM, the chapters and the education program do this, and of course the good and Featured article processes. But we shouldn't be surprised that fewer people are staying on after their 100th or 1000th edit, as that is the stage in their wiki career where they are likely to think that they will never become a full member of the community. Regards Jonathan/WereSpielChequers On 4 Mar 2015, at 19:19, wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Send Wikimedia-l mailing list submissions to wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wikimedia-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Wikimedia-l digest... Today's Topics: 2. Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia (Anders Wennersten) 3. Re: Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia (Gerard Meijssen) 5. Re: Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia (Ricordisamoa) Message: 2 Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 17:44:30 +0100 From: Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia Message-ID: 54f7366e.6090...@anderswennersten.se Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed On svwp there has over the years been 45 individuals who have each made more then 38000 edits. Of these 45, 44 are still active, only one has left (in 2009) making 97,7 still around. For the users with less then 38 000 edits, only about 6 out of 10 is still active. Is this a global valid number, that when you have made 38000 edits you are fully addicted to Wikipedia (until death do us part)? Anders -- Message: 3 Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 18:05:42 +0100 From: Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...
On 5 March 2015 at 20:37, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com wrote: Wikiuser:BabuG Thanks Viswa for sharing the contributions and life of Babug - His story has been truly inspiring and touching. It is people like him, their passion and their lives that would continue to inspire the rest of us to stay focused on contributing to wikipedia. It gives a whole different meaning and purpose to these voluntary contributions. Surely a stalwart like him would be dearly missed. Condolences to his family and all wikimedians. Perhaps we should consider starting a project or an award in his memory for the malayalam community. regards Arun ___ 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
