Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia Foundation has soft launched!

2018-08-02 Thread MZMcBride
MZMcBride wrote: >Gregory Varnum wrote: >>After many months of work by over 100 individuals around the organization >>and movement, the Wikimedia Foundation's new website soft launched this >>week! >> >>You can check it out for yourself here (you may need to clear your >>browser's cache):

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia Foundation has soft launched!

2018-08-02 Thread MZMcBride
Gregory Varnum wrote: >After many months of work by over 100 individuals around the organization >and movement, the Wikimedia Foundation's new website soft launched this >week! > >You can check it out for yourself here (you may need to clear your >browser's cache):

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia Foundation has soft launched!

2018-08-02 Thread Adam Wight
Nice work! I checked on my own face on the staff page and would like to request two changes: Please change my name to "Adam Wight", the longer name was silly. Also, please change the image to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adam_Roses_Wight.jpg , I donno why it was reset to the missing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia Foundation has soft launched!

2018-08-02 Thread Jeremy Lee-Jenkins
I like it. I do feel the Wikimedia foundation is diverging from it's previous role as custodian of Wikipedia, and becoming a international advocacy group. I feel this change is welcome and will help develop the Creative Commons mission beyond just Wikipedia and it's sister sites. I take it the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia Foundation has soft launched!

2018-08-02 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Wow. Really impressive, modern and colorful. The type look quite bold and the overall flow is pleasant. The theme somehow felt a bit like Mozilla sites as well (in a good way). Congratulations comms. <3 Subhashish On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 7:21 AM, Gregory Varnum wrote: > Hello, > > After many

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia Foundation has soft launched!

2018-08-02 Thread Isarra Yos
Is there any way for us (others outside the team) to file bulk tasks/apply fixes to this? Is the source in gerrit/tasks tracked in phabricator, or is it somewhere else? -I On 02/08/18 01:51, Gregory Varnum wrote: Hello, After many months of work by over 100 individuals around the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia Foundation has soft launched!

2018-08-02 Thread Itzik - Wikimedia Israel
Hi Gregory, I just looked quickly at the new site, which is a very refreshing change, and I'll send later more detailed feedback... But I must say I really like the leadership page: https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/leadership/ Not from a design, content or functional point of view, but

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia Foundation has soft launched!

2018-08-02 Thread James Salsman
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 2:13 AM, Mario Gómez wrote: > On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 4:56 AM, Yair Rand wrote: > >> The new website highlights "Advocacy" as one of the three areas that the >> Foundation deals with, along with Research and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Open Law Book project on Wikisource

2018-08-02 Thread Itzik - Wikimedia Israel
Hi, Following Michal's email, I just want to update that the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, released the story out earlier this week. Here is their press release (in Hebrew): http://main.knesset.gov.il/News/PressReleases/ Pages/press26.07.18.aspx This unique collaboration was shared on many

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia Foundation has soft launched!

2018-08-02 Thread Mario Gómez
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 4:56 AM, Yair Rand wrote: > The new website highlights "Advocacy" as one of the three areas that the > Foundation deals with, along with Research and Technology. From the page > linked, it promotes the WMF's misguided and unauthorized venture into > trying to influence US