Dear all,
As you may know, AffCom and the Wikimedia Foundation has decided to extend
the suspension of Wikimedia Portugal, while waiting for legal counsel for
our case. This has put our programmatic activities in jeopardy, as we have
been barred from applying to funding from WMF while the
There is a detailed and factual post released today on Medium about
how poor a reader experience Medium is for blog posts, due to
tracking, profiling and banner advertising.[1]
For those that recall discussion in response to the WMF choice of
Facebook and Medium to communicate the report from
The extended whitepaper that was presented at the DL workshop is now
available here:
http://simia.net/download/abstractwikipedia_whitepaper.pdf
Still not a proper scientific paper (no references, notv situated in
related work), but going into a bit more detail on the ideas on the first
paper
an interesting concept indeed!
dj
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 5:36 PM Denny Vrandečić
mailto:vrande...@gmail.com>> wrote:
The extended whitepaper that was presented at the DL workshop is now
available here:
http://simia.net/download/abstractwikipedia_whitepaper.pdf
Still not a proper scientific
Hey Pine,
I appreciate and understand your feedback about this subject line.
For some time we have been trying to find an alternative subject line to
-/This is a little awkward/-. That line works and works very well but we
have found it very difficult to effectively translate and adapt into
"Deleting Wikipedia?" was the subject line of the e-mail I received as
well. It also, as usual, included the claim that if enough donations were
received the campaign would end early. That hasn't been the case in the
past when campaign goals are met.
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 6:04 PM Pine W wrote:
"That hasn't been the case in the past when campaign goals are met."
The fundraising team has actively sought to reduce the impact that raising
donations has on readers. We covered this in a blog last year about the
2016 fundraiser:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/03/fundraising-banner-limit/
There is a report from a user on Jimbo's talk page on ENWP regarding
receiving fundraising a fundraising email with the subject line "[NAME] -
Deleting Wikipedia?"
In previous years I've disagreed with some of WMF's fundraising choices,
and it would be unfortunate if in the era of "fake news"
On the contrary, Nathan, every single time I have asked them to hold
the campaigns open after the fundraising goal has been met (most if
not almost all of the past ten years) in order to, for example, fund
the Endowment or save more money before the Endowment existed, they
have refused to do so.
For what it's worth, I am sorry to hear about this painful situation. I
don't know enough about the situation in WMPT, WMF, and AffCom, to say much
more than that at this time, and I have no authority to intervene, but I
hope that the chapter is viable and that in there will be a light at the
end
Hello,
It is a great pleasure for me to let you all know that wikimedia Israel had
developed a web scraper that crawled in various archives in Israel and uploaded
more than 28K free images to commons.
The tool (https://github.com/wmil-1946/wikiscraper) was developed to crawl the
web site
That's wonderful news. For those of us who don't speak Hebrew, can you say
a bit more about how this project came about?
-Pete
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018, 10:16 PM Hello,
>
> It is a great pleasure for me to let you all know that wikimedia Israel
> had developed a web scraper that crawled in various
I believe that the subject line was a moral and leadership failure.
Effective or not, I would respectfully suggest that you stop using it
immediately and begin further discussions with the community about the
organization's goals and purpose.
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 5:13 PM Joseph Seddon wrote:
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