[Wikimedia-l] The Internet's Own Boy: Aaron Swartz

2014-07-01 Thread Jake Orlowitz
The Aaron Swartz Documentary was released this weekend. I don't know what quite to say except that you should watch it, and it's free (cause it's CC-licensed). Watch on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHNNHsycaCY Watch on internet archive:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rethink of observability

2014-07-01 Thread Mingli Yuan
Sorry for re-activate this thread again, this time I want to address the observability on social networks. Today content of or links to Wikipedia are spread all over the web. So the observability are not limited only for Wikipedia users, but for the whole internet users. Let's take a look what

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rethink of observability

2014-07-01 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Thanks for the addendum. :-) Mingli Yuan, 01/07/2014 08:44: The content provider label their own content with some metadata. And Twitter/Facebook/etc will show a rich content on their timelines. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=54829hide_resolved=1 tracks this. Bug

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Internet's Own Boy: Aaron Swartz

2014-07-01 Thread Edward Saperia
It's looking likely that there will be a showing of this at Wikimania this year. By the way, last day for earlybird tickets! https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration *Edward Saperia* Conference Director Wikimania London http://www.wikimanialondon.org email e...@wikimanialondon.org •

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikipedia Summit “Wikimania” comes to London - Largest ever gathering

2014-07-01 Thread Carlos Monterrey
(This press release is also available online here:https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_Summit_%E2%80%9CWikimania%E2%80%9D_comes_to_London_-_Largest_ever_gathering https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Telenor_Wikipedia_Zero_extension_Myanmar) Wikipedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Where did noboards go

2014-07-01 Thread Casey Brown
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote: I reopened the bug that probably broke the wiki's configuration: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31335 This has since been fixed by Sam Reed. See the bug for more information. The new site address is

[Wikimedia-l] Number of volunteers. (Was: How many volunteers (not editors) ...?)

2014-07-01 Thread Richard Ames
I have done a very rough estimate / count: OTRS - 180 Sysops - 50 List Moderators -410 SW Developers - 400 FDC members - 9 Affiliations committee - 9 for a total of about 1060. Who is the 'Volunteer Coordinator' whose duties are listed at

[Wikimedia-l] Volunteer vs Work (Was: How many volunteers (not editors)...????)

2014-07-01 Thread Richard Ames
I don't see the contradiction. If a person volunteers to do a job and the organisation accepts them; why wouldn't that be considered work? Regards, Richard. On 22/06/14 21:59, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: Wikimedia volunteers are self-organised, why would there be a list? Richard Ames,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Number of volunteers. (Was: How many volunteers (not editors) ...?)

2014-07-01 Thread Rjd0060
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 7:59 PM, Richard Ames rich...@ames.id.au wrote: I have done a very rough estimate / count: OTRS - 180 Sysops - 50 List Moderators -410 SW Developers - 400 FDC members - 9 Affiliations committee - 9 for a total of about 1060. Who is the 'Volunteer Coordinator'

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Number of volunteers. (Was: How many volunteers (not editors) ...?)

2014-07-01 Thread Nathan
There are over four hundred list moderators?? I'm shocked there are even that many people contributing to official mailing lists! ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Number of volunteers. (Was: How many volunteers (not editors) ...?)

2014-07-01 Thread Rjd0060
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Rjd0060 rjd0060.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 7:59 PM, Richard Ames rich...@ames.id.au wrote: I have done a very rough estimate / count: OTRS - 180 Sysops - 50 List Moderators -410 SW Developers - 400 FDC members - 9 Affiliations committee

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Number of volunteers. (Was: How many volunteers (not editors) ...?)

2014-07-01 Thread MZMcBride
Rjd0060 wrote: As for the Volunteer Coordinator, he was Cary Bass and left the Foundation some time ago. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bastique or https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cary_Bass . Indeed. There was also a Volunteer Development Coordinator position for a bit:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Number of volunteers. (Was: How many volunteers (not editors) ...?)

2014-07-01 Thread James Alexander
Is sysop supposed to be an on wiki sysop? James Alexander Legal and Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:23 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Rjd0060 wrote: As for the Volunteer Coordinator, he was Cary Bass and left the