Re: [Wikimedia-l] Moving forward: a proposal (Re: Community/WMF)

2013-05-16 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
FT2, 13/05/2013 01:59: [...] This is not at all the first time of clumsy handling, or conflicting actions and perceptions, leading to tensions and drama between the editing community and foundation. [...] I don't know if that's the actual problem, I would like the outcome to be a *living

[Wikimedia-l] 2012 Fundraiser report

2013-05-16 Thread Megan Hernandez
Hello all, The 2012 fundraiser report is up on meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2012/report We are currently working on a separate report with the results from our A/B tests (from 2012 as well as previous years). If you have questions or comments, please leave them on the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Flow Portal(s)

2013-05-16 Thread David Cuenca
Hi Brandon, Thanks for the announce and also for the effort of letting the door open for suggestions and feedback. I regard Flow as an excellent tool for centralizing all communications in one spot and I really hope user involvement is as high as this tool would deserve. So far the test page

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Elections 2013

2013-05-16 Thread Milos Rancic
While there are enough candidates for almost unpredictable elections for Board (thanks to Sj's late candidature) and there are three good candidates for two positions in FDC, there is no candidate for FDC Ombudsman position and deadline is tomorrow evening. So, if you have experience in finances

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliations Committee 2012 Annual Report

2013-05-16 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Gregory Varnum, 12/05/2013 19:47: Nemo, I'm not sure what you mean by a single person's POV. Are you referring to Stephen? No. It doesn't matter who that is. While it is true that WMF Legal did the final writing of some guidelines - a few points: 1. They are guidelines - and AffCom has

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliations Committee 2012 Annual Report

2013-05-16 Thread Bence Damokos
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: Gregory Varnum, 12/05/2013 19:47: Nemo, I'm not sure what you mean by a single person's POV. Are you referring to Stephen? No. It doesn't matter who that is. Geoff speaking and signing his post as General

[Wikimedia-l] All the lakes in Sweden

2013-05-16 Thread Anders Wennersten
A new major botgenerating effort is now under way on sv:wp. All lakes (3, all down to ones of pondsizes with no name) is now produced based on lake data from Swedish metereology institute and all lake environment data from a newly set up authority demanded by EU, in order to register and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Patience

2013-05-16 Thread ENWP Pine
I agree that patience is a very important virtue in some situations, such as when we coach newbies or seek consensus among many people. But it's sometimes not a virtue, such as in many crisis situations. As a metrics and performance enthusiast, I feel that it's possible to have an appropriate

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Patience

2013-05-16 Thread Fred Bauder
I agree that patience is a very important virtue in some situations, such as when we coach newbies or seek consensus among many people. But it's sometimes not a virtue, such as in many crisis situations. As a metrics and performance enthusiast, I feel that it's possible to have an appropriate

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Patience

2013-05-16 Thread Michael Snow
On 5/16/2013 11:52 AM, ENWP Pine wrote: I agree that patience is a very important virtue in some situations, such as when we coach newbies or seek consensus among many people. But it's sometimes not a virtue, such as in many crisis situations. As a metrics and performance enthusiast, I feel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] All the lakes in Sweden

2013-05-16 Thread Andrea Zanni
In Italian Wikipedia, we are in contact with the National Library of Florence, and are establishing links between Wikipedia articles and the New national Thesaurus. Es. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q281108 In the Italian WP, we will have a sentence like

Re: [Wikimedia-l] All the lakes in Sweden

2013-05-16 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 16 May 2013 18:36, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se wrote: All lakes (3, all down to ones of pondsizes with no name) is now produced based on lake data from Swedish metereology institute and all lake environment data from a newly set up authority demanded by EU, in order to

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 9, Issue 19 -- 13 May 2013

2013-05-16 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
News and notes: WMF–community ruckus on Wikimedia mailing list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-13/News_and_notes In the media: PR firm accused of editing Wikipedia for government clients; can Wikipedia predict the stock market?

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med Foundation Newsletter: The Stethoscope

2013-05-16 Thread Samuel Klein
Lovely. Congrats, all of you. Keep it up. SJ On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Jacob Orlowitz jorlow...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, The first edition of the The Stethoscope, our Wiki Project Med Foundation newsletter is out! Give it a read:

[Wikimedia-l] FDC Letter of Intent due June 8 IRC office hours

2013-05-16 Thread Katy Love
Dear members of the Wikimedia community, You will have seen an email recently from Patricio Lorente and Jan-Bart de Vreede, the Board Reps to the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC), about the FDC's new Letter of Intent process. The Letter of Intent (LOI) is the first step in applying for funds

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FDC Letter of Intent due June 8 IRC office hours

2013-05-16 Thread Katy Love
Hello again, all, I made a mistake with the two FDC Letter of Intent office hour times. The two times are actually: * Wednesday, May 29 at 0:00 UTC (which is Tuesday still in some parts of the world), and * Wednesday, May 29 at 15:00 UTC Sorry about that--I am usually better at navigating time

[Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

2013-05-16 Thread Salvador A
Hi folks! Maybe many of you have it already noticed. Nevertheless, spanish speakers wikimedians want to share with you our joy of that the spanish version of Wikipedia has surpassed the million of articles. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Estad%C3%ADsticas Thanks and congratulations to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

2013-05-16 Thread Asaf Bartov
Awesome! Congratulations to ESWP contributors and to all Spanish speakers for the wealth of free knowledge at their fingertips. :) A. On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Salvador A salvador1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks! Maybe many of you have it already noticed. Nevertheless, spanish

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

2013-05-16 Thread Thehelpfulone
On 17 May 2013, at 01:19, Salvador A salvador1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks! Maybe many of you have it already noticed. Nevertheless, spanish speakers wikimedians want to share with you our joy of that the spanish version of Wikipedia has surpassed the million of articles.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

2013-05-16 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
Hi. A curiosity. How could you go from 991k articles [1] to 1016k [2] in so few time? That is more than 20k articles in less than 2 days. Tom [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=5486358 [2] http://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Especial:Estad%C3%ADsticasaction=raw -- Everton

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

2013-05-16 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga t...@wikimedia.org wrote: [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=5486358 Well, it seems this page on meta get dynamicaly this number from some other place: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesArticlesTotal.htm I read once

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

2013-05-16 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
Haha, gracias for clarifying! And congratulations for the mark, it is indeeed impressive. Although my main goal for the Portuguese Wikipedia will be to help our comunity catalyse the quality of key articles for educational purposes, not necessarily the quantity. ;) On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:22

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

2013-05-16 Thread phoebe ayers
Hooray!!! Felicitaciones! This is so exciting. And hooray for 30,000 lists! (anexo:) :) -- phoebe On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Salvador A salvador1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks! Maybe many of you have it already noticed. Nevertheless, spanish speakers wikimedians want to share

[Wikimedia-l] Exit Interview - Sue

2013-05-16 Thread Theo10011
Hi A few weeks ago MZMcBride proposed an exit interview for Sue on Meta. I believe his intention was something similar to Reddit's IAmA. I thought that this was a good idea and supported it. Sue has been at the helm for a long while, it would be interesting to get her reflection on all the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Exit Interview - Sue

2013-05-16 Thread Samuel Klein
This was a wonderful idea. Thank you both for organizing it. SJ On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Hi A few weeks ago MZMcBride proposed an exit interview for Sue on Meta. I believe his intention was something similar to Reddit's IAmA. I thought that this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Exit Interview - Sue

2013-05-16 Thread Dan Rosenthal
Is there any thought or discussion as to whether Sue could (or would want to) additionally do an actual Reddit IAmA, as Jorm did? Don't get me wrong, I understand why it is on Meta and I think the Meta interview is a great idea, but there is also something to be said for presenting to an audience

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Exit Interview - Sue

2013-05-16 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Dan Rosenthal, 17/05/2013 07:32: Is there any thought or discussion as to whether Sue could (or would want to) additionally do an actual Reddit IAmA, as Jorm did? Don't get me wrong, I understand why it is on Meta and I think the Meta interview is a great idea, but there is also something to be