[Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 4 March 2018)

2018-03-03 Thread Pine W
There was thoughtful, robust, and civil conversations on Wikimedia-l last week about multiple topics including translation and Wikimedia's relationship with Facebook. Translation of Phabricator's interface is now possible. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225. Regex searches for the titles

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

2018-03-03 Thread Pine W
If he/she sends a few million dollars to the community in a way that is independent of WMF, and we organize ourselves to accept and use the funds wisely, I will be very grateful. :) Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 6:46 PM, James Salsman

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

2018-03-03 Thread James Salsman
Pine, why not ask your namesake? https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7jj0oa/im_donating_5057_btc_to_charitable_causes/ On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 7:13 PM, Pine W wrote: > On the subject of paid translation, I could imagine this being included in > the scope of work for a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

2018-03-03 Thread Pine W
Hi Yaroslav, I like this idea of a compendium. It reminds me of cross-wiki search and the ability to look up words on mobile Wikipedia. I believe that WMF Discovery has been working on cross-wiki search. Perhaps, for smaller communities, there would be a way to extend the Discovery team's efforts

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

2018-03-03 Thread Pine W
On the subject of paid translation, I could imagine this being included in the scope of work for a "Wiki Community Foundation" or "Wiki Content Foundation" that would do work that WMF doesn't do and/or shouldn't do. I have a number of activities in mind for this kind of organization.