Re
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Strategy/Community_consultation#The_questions
and given
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strategy_consultation_qualitative_comment_categories.png
was already published from previous answers, I prefer to answer here:
> What major trends would you ide
Hi Lila,
A few questions:
1. What is the URL for the 2016 consultation?
2. You wrote, "This is a major step to help us prioritize the work of the
Foundation beginning in July 2016 and running for the next 12 to 24 months
thereafter into a strategic plan." It seems that there will be some overlap
Many thanks, Lila - this is a good step in our joint conceptualizing, where
we want to go. I'm glad we've made it this year, in spite of a tight
schedule.
dj
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 8:37 PM, Lila Tretikov wrote:
> Dear Wikimedians,
>
>
>
> We are excited to have you participate in an important
Dear Wikimedians,
We are excited to have you participate in an important Community Engagement
regarding our strategic approaches. This is a major step to help us
prioritize the work of the Foundation beginning in July 2016 and running
for the next 12 to 24 months thereafter into a strategic plan
Hi Magnus,
thanks for bringing yourself into the discussion.
I agree on several aspects you point out in the first half of your mail
about improvements, expectations and "prominent subgroups".
When it comes to re-emphasize this "castle"-narrative, I had the feeling
you wanna connect reasonable i
The iPhone was a commercial success because it let you do the basic
functions easily and intuitively, and looked shiny at the same time. We do
not charge a price; our "win" comes by people using our product. If we can
present the product in such a way that more people use it, it is a success
for us
> On 18 Jan 2016, at 22:35, Magnus Manske wrote:
>
> As one can be overly conservative, one can also be overly enthusiastic. I
> would hope the Foundation by now understands better how to handle new
> software releases. Apple here shows the way: Basic functionality, but
> working smoothly first.
As one can be overly conservative, one can also be overly enthusiastic. I
would hope the Foundation by now understands better how to handle new
software releases. Apple here shows the way: Basic functionality, but
working smoothly first. That said, problems are to be expected, and a new
Wikitext pa
On 18 January 2016 at 20:33, Magnus Manske wrote:
> * New things are not necessarily good just because they are new. What seems
> to be an improvement, especially for a technical mind, can be a huge step
> backwards for the "general population". On the other hand, projects like
> the Visual Edito
Hi everyone,
Splitting the thread off to avoid hijacking it
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Mitar wrote:
> I think this conversation is diverging from the question of the
> *service* we should offer to others to licensing of the content.
> Licensing does not say anything about the service one
OK, long thread, I'll try to answer in one here...
* I've been writing code for over thirty years now, so I'm the first to say
that technology in not "the" answer to social or structural issues. It can,
however, mitigate some of those issues, or at least show new ways of
dealing with them
* New t
I cannot speak for Magnus, but there’s a distinction that needs to be made:
Writing, “… all have been resisted by vocal groups of editors, not because
they are a problem, but because they represent change” is not maligning all
editors who complain.
It simply says that those who resist innovation
Hoi,
As much as you like Reasonator, you should acknowledge that the Wikibase
GUI has to be kept as general as possible to be scalable and flexible
enough for everyone to use.
Il 18/01/2016 19:52, Gerard Meijssen ha scritto:
Hoi,
When people complain that Wikidata has a real awful user interf
Hoi,
When people complain that Wikidata has a real awful user interface, I
wholeheartedly agree. It is really bad, so much so that I only use it to
edit. I am a big fan of Magnus's Reasonator. It turns data into
information. It works well, it works in many languages. I search in
Reasonator, I use R
On 18 January 2016 at 13:34, Andrew Lih wrote:
> There’s an excellent profile of Magnus Manske in the Wikimedia blog today.
> It’s hard to think of people more important to the movement than Magnus has
> been since 2001.
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/01/18/fifteen-years-wikipedia-magnus-mans
Hi!
I think this conversation is diverging from the question of the
*service* we should offer to others to licensing of the content.
Licensing does not say anything about the service one should offer for
the content. Any service, any API, is more or less something one does
extra on top of the lice
Hi!
Please see below the reply by Rob from MusicBrainz (forwarding because
he is not on the mailing list):
> On Jan 17, 2016, at 04:51, Mitar wrote:
>
> I would suggest that anyone interested in monetizing APIs check how
> MusicBrainz (https://musicbrainz.org/) is doing it.
>
> An open encyclope
Although "Tech innovations which try to replace quality human editing are
not a good idea." Tech innovations which can adequately replace the need
for quality human editing when that editing is not sufficiently available
can be a very good idea, So can tech innovations which try can assist low
q
After the assertion "From the Media Viewer, the Visual Editor, to Wikidata
transclusion, all have been resisted by vocal groups of editors, not
because they are a problem, but because they represent change," I would
suggest a very large "citation needed" tag.
Pine
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in regards to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilore
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 2:55 AM, Johan Jönsson wrote:
> 2016-01-18 16:37 GMT+01:00 Tanweer Morshed :
>> Yeah, I do think the same as well. Wikisource is a good option for that.
>
> It could be that the Wikisources I'm familiar with are the ex
Just for the interest of those who will translate - a Commons page with
subtitles already exists
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:Soy_Wikipedista.webm.en.srt
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On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 2:38 AM, Isaac David wrote:
>
> Le lun. 18 janv. 2016 à 3:17, Andrea Zanni a
> écrit :
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:59 AM, David Goodman wrote:
>>
>>> Nor am I concerned that our information might be used by people who
>>> oppose
>>> our
>>> principles. We ask just
Thank you for flagging this for us, Andrew. I have been unsuccessful in
accessing this page and have been told by others who tried to do so that
they were also getting various error messages. I will try again later
using different technology - the problem may be that the blog doesn't come
up well
Hoi,
You accuse Wikidata of something. That is ok. However, it helps when it is
clear what problems you see.
When Wikidata was introduced, it improved quality of interwiki links in a
meaningful way. Most Wikipedians do not care about such links so it was an
easy and obvious improvement. Similar im
2016-01-18 16:37 GMT+01:00 Tanweer Morshed :
> Yeah, I do think the same as well. Wikisource is a good option for that.
It could be that the Wikisources I'm familiar with are the exceptions,
but they tend to be very vary of material that has never been
published, and this seems to very much be abo
Le lun. 18 janv. 2016 à 3:17, Andrea Zanni
a écrit :
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:59 AM, David Goodman
wrote:
Nor am I concerned that our information might be used by people who
oppose
our
principles. We ask just the same of our contributors--that the
information
they contribute may be
Yeah, I do think the same as well. Wikisource is a good option for that.
Regards,
Tanweer Morshed
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:17 PM, Bodhisattwa Mandal <
bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This proposal can fit well into Wikisource and Wikibooks. I dont think,
> another new domain is n
Hi,
This proposal can fit well into Wikisource and Wikibooks. I dont think,
another new domain is needed for this purpose.
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
On 17 January 2016 at 08:17, Satdeep Gill wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I have proposed a new Wikimedia project on Meta. I hope you guys can take
> a l
Hi Yury,
attached the srt-file.
If you use the timecode one to one, please check if it matches every line
in the new language. Sometimes timecodes have to be adopted because of
different "flow" of reading in different languages.
Best,
Jens
2016-01-16 12:26 GMT+01:00 Yury Bulka :
> Fantastic
Hi,
thanks Andrew for bringing Magnus' words into the mailinglist-discussion. I
would like to balance the direct critic made by Magnus with an attempt to
differentiate the matter at hand a bit.
The obvious attempt to frame "the community" as conservative and not open
to changes is a clever narrat
Hoi,
Magnus developed functionality to replace the "red links". Arguably
replacing wikilinks with Wikidata in the background will improve Wikipedia
(in any language) substantially.
It is just not considered.
Thanks,
GerardM
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2016/01/wikipedia-lowest-hangin
I'm waiting for the day when Magnus will have a profile on the New Yorker,
but this is nice, for the time being :-)
Aubrey
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Andrew Lih wrote:
> There’s an excellent profile of Magnus Manske in the Wikimedia blog today.
> It’s hard to think of people more importan
I found http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/670044
Just FYI for all those who don't read all mailinglists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnHlksSfMEE
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There’s an excellent profile of Magnus Manske in the Wikimedia blog today.
It’s hard to think of people more important to the movement than Magnus has
been since 2001.
Selected quotes: "...we have gone from slowdown to standstill; the
interface has changed little in the last ten years or so, and a
Thank you all for you kind comments!
Has been a beautiful jorney for WMAR and our community!!
Thanks again to all of you! :)
2016-01-16 11:44 GMT-03:00 Tanweer Morshed :
> The video is fantastic, Anna. Great job!
>
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 8:02 PM, Bodhisattwa Mandal <
> bodhisattwa.rg...@gmai
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:59 AM, David Goodman wrote:
> Nor am I concerned that our information might be used by people who oppose
> our
> principles. We ask just the same of our contributors--that the information
> they contribute may be used for ''any'' purpose.
>
My concern is when our CC-BY
Our users are the world in general; the decision not to make our license
-NC is a basic part of our fundamental understanding. If were were asked by
a commercial entity to provide a service beyond what we could afford, then
I can see the need for some sort of arrangement, for it is better to
provi
That's excellent news Olatunde Isaac! Well done, and thanks for letting us
know.
Congratulations Olatunde and others who were involved with the effort!
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 2:33 AM, olatunde isaac
wrote:
> Dear all,
> On behalf of WUGN, this is to congratulate all the Wikimedia communities
>
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