On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga
everton.alvare...@okfn.org wrote:
Speaking of template madness, the current horrible brokenness that are
templates seem to be on the long term roadmap to be fixed. Fixing them
requires breaking a whole lot, far more than a visual
my congratulations and all the best!
/Manuel
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Le 2013-07-26 04:23, Everton Zanella Alvarenga a écrit :
Wikimedia Foundation planned a few years ago to open an office in
Brazil, one India and one in the Middle East, but it has given up of
this trial for several reasons.
I think before thinking about the idea of this thread, these cases
On 26 July 2013 03:12, Everton Zanella Alvarenga
everton.alvare...@okfn.org wrote:
Maybe a new community (less conservative?) to build a good
encyclopedia can come up if a new platformn be invented?
Hence power users as a snarl word.
After the uprising of the 17th of June
The Secretary of
So, which other chapters are up for building out serious software
engineering capacity?
Actually we've been having this conversation a bit as part of our strategic
planning process - how much should Wikimedia UK be doing technology and
what place should it have in our long-term goals? After
As with other inventions that produced an inferior product at a much
lower price, from the printing press to the steam-driven loom to
Wikipedia, what happens now is largely in the hands of the people
experimenting with the new tools, rather than defending themselves from
them.
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
As with other inventions that produced an inferior product at a much
lower price, from the printing press to the steam-driven loom to
Wikipedia, what happens now is largely in the hands of the people
experimenting with
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net
wrote:
As with other inventions that produced an inferior product at a much
lower price, from the printing press to the steam-driven loom to
Wikipedia, what happens now is largely in the hands of the people
experimenting
Hoi,
Sorry Fred, I do not like your post. The quote has it wrong because
research shows that it is factually wrong. Wikipedia has a better coverage
at a superior quality to the encyclopaedia that went before. The only thing
I can agree with is that it is available at a much lower cost; it is the
On 07/26/2013 03:09 AM, Manuel Schneider wrote:
my congratulations and all the best!
/Manuel
I second this sentiment. :) People who want to understand what the
Wikimedia Foundation operations staff does might like a blog post from
February.[0] Ops is under Technical Operations in
Hoi,
Sorry Fred, I do not like your post. The quote has it wrong because
research shows that it is factually wrong. Wikipedia has a better
coverage
at a superior quality to the encyclopaedia that went before. The only
thing
I can agree with is that it is available at a much lower cost; it
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.netwrote:
If systemic biased editing is not considered your statement would be
true. However, one of the side effects of our volunteeristic methods is
that systemic bias resulting from editing by groups and interests with
On 26 July 2013 12:48, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
As with other inventions that produced an inferior product at a much
lower price, from the printing press to the steam-driven loom to
Wikipedia, what happens now is largely in the hands of the people
experimenting with the new
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
Hoi,
Sorry Fred, I do not like your post. The quote has it wrong because
research shows that it is factually wrong. Wikipedia has a better
coverage
at a superior quality to the encyclopaedia that went before.
After Erik's email about supporting open source machine translation [1],
I've been researching options and having talks with several machine
translation researchers about what would be the best way to integrate MT
into Wikipedia. Unfortunately I couldn't find a single solution that, on
its own,
Thanks to all the people who have built and maintained infrastructure
for the Wikimedia movement over the past twelve-plus years, no matter
where you worked.
Hear, hear!
SJ
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Thanks to all those who keep this thing we love up and running.
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks to all the people who have built and maintained infrastructure
for the Wikimedia movement over the past twelve-plus years, no matter
where you
As much as I complain about the fundraising team's continued neglect
of the as yet unmeasured potential of the majority of the
volunteer-submitted banner messaging ideas, I thought it would be nice
to show the results of their latest experiment:
http://i.imgur.com/gDBvNSt.png
Note that the
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Steven Walling
steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.comwrote:
Anyway, being able to disband the SF office as regards software
development (and perhaps more), and switch to remote work only,
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:39 PM, rupert THURNER
rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote:
If WMF is serious about letting development activities grow in other
countries this might be taken into account in FDCs allocation policy.
For my part, I'm happy to offer feedback to the FDC on plans related
to the
Hey folks, I wanted to give you a heads up that I posted an update on VE data
analysis [1] and created a single page on Meta [2] with links to the various VE
dashboards and reports (some of which are still being expanded/improved).
[1]
Dario,
Do you intend to measure the total number of edits per day prior to
and after the visual editor roll-out?
It appears that you have not analyzed or presented any data associated
with those statistics.
For example, why are you not providing a daily version of the hourly
graph at
Nathan nawrich@... writes:
I think your anti-Americanism is misplaced. Let's look at some of the
key people involved in the VisualEditor project. Erik is German, James
F is British, Roan Kattouw is Dutch, Timo Tijhof is Dutch. If you were
to skim the list of the engineering staff, they are
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Dario Taraborelli
dtarabore...@wikimedia.org wrote:
...
We do have a graph of total hourly edits on enwiki across mainspaces here:
http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/graphs/enwiki_edits_api - it's trivial to
bin
by day and filter to the main namespace only, I'll
I would suggest that it would be good to look specifically at daily
total article edit counts by editor classes. The anon total in
particular is off considerably (~15%) since VE launched.
Also, many of the graphs seem to be reporting only a single month
worth of values. That will become a
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:52 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
For example, why are you not providing a daily version of the hourly
graph at http://ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/graphs/enwiki_ve_hourly_by_ui
?
Note that if you are interested in VE edits per user type instead,
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:52 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
Do you intend to measure the total number of edits per day prior to
and after the visual editor roll-out?
It appears that you have not analyzed or presented any data associated
with those statistics.
We run A/B tests
James Salsman wrote:
It would be great to know what the average total edits per day was in
June.
Hi.
I don't really mean to feed the beast, as it were, but your posts got me
curious enough to re-run a query of the number of non-deleted revisions
per day for the English Wikipedia. The results are
Steven Walling wrote:
... We know, for instance, that as the summer progresses,
editing activity drops and climbs again in the fall
How do we know that? According to
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm database edits
increased from June to July and fell from July to
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