[Wikimedia-l] Proposal towards a multilingual Wikipedia and a new Wikipedia project

2020-04-13 Thread Denny Vrandečić
As some of you know, I have been working on the idea of a multilingual Wikipedia for a few years now. Two other publications on this are here, I have bothered you with mails about it here previously too: https://research.google/pubs/pub48057/ https://wikipedia20.pubpub.org/pub/vyf7ksah I've

[Wikimedia-l] Help smaller wiki communities grow their technical capacity!

2020-04-13 Thread Srishti Sethi
Hello all, Small Wiki Toolkits (SWT) is an initiative to support small wiki communities by sharing and developing technical skills needed to support, maintain, and grow a language wiki. You can learn more about it here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits As a next step for this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Brand Project: Who are we as a movement?

2020-04-13 Thread David Gerard
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Minutes/2018-11-9,10,11#Branding So this has been dictated from above - the "community consultation" is window dressing for a decision that's long been made. Hence the nonsensical claims of massive community support by fiddling the numbers, employing literal

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Brand Project: Who are we as a movement?

2020-04-13 Thread
A LOT of people worldwide are dying and have died today, some are people we know or love, and this is the important and urgent "community branding" project that WMF management wants to spend their employee time and goodwill free volunteer effort on. Really? It seems fair to repost my statement