Jon Harald Søby wrote:
2014-10-08 23:40 GMT+02:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com:
Will they release their own biographies under a free license to ease
article expansion? :)
Good question, Nemo. I don't know if it has been brought up, but we should
probably look into that. :-)
I
This sounds just great. Can't wait to see what you guys do. I'm always so
amazed at what people are building and doing. And it's great that they
reached out to you to do this.
Nice work,
/a
p.s. I know that when Americans say great or amazing too many times that we
are totally suspect, but so be
Craig Franklin wrote:
That said, welcome Damon! Certainly, it's a pretty tough job that you've
stepped into, but I'm optimistic that a fresh approach and fresh eyes will
assist the engineering team in pushing through the present difficulties
with software deployments.
Which present difficulties
You are right Tom, WMSE made several such videos, I guess the one you are
thinking of is this one:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nobel_BrianSchmidt_2011-12-08.ogv
Will the winners be present at the announcement?
*Med vänliga hälsningar,Jan Ainali*
Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige
I'm sure a Board member, Lila, or Erik will correct me if I am mistaken,
but my understanding is that there is internal agreement at Board level
that the Product side of the org needs some systemic changes, that Lila was
chosen with the goal of making those changes, and that some changes are
This is an excellent event idea, congratulations to Wikimedia Norway for
organising it.
It is also a brilliant example of how Chapters and other groups around the
world can take responsability for topics that have particular
local relevance to them, and take a leadership role in the worldwide
Today there was the announcement for the Nobel prize in literature. Quit
interesting is that the Swedish Radio, Swedish Television and the Norwegian
NRK are updating articles related to this. Not perfect, but with a
obviously good ambition!
I do agree. In Amical we regularly organize small one-week long online
writing contest regarding local Music Festivals, ComicCons or similar. We
get in touch with new organisations, reach to new communities and get quite
a lot of press atention with relatively small organizing effort and one
small
I saw something appear in the media:
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_26694189/poland-honor-wikipedia-monument
Romaine
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On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Romaine Wiki romaine.w...@gmail.com wrote:
I saw something appear in the media:
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_26694189/poland-honor-wikipedia-monument
Romaine
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;-) Actually just one monument :-) By the way our woman wikipedians
complan that only men are holding the globe in this statue :-) So, we
have at least sent a woman - Magalia, to represent our community and
fill a little bit gender gap :-)
2014-10-09 19:52 GMT+02:00 Mathias Schindler
Really amazing! So, the monument will have freedom of panorama? ;)
2014-10-09 13:29 GMT-05:00 Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com:
;-) Actually just one monument :-) By the way our woman wikipedians
complan that only men are holding the globe in this statue :-) So, we
have at least sent a woman
Thanks for the detailed comments, Erik.
As someone who spent several volunteer hours reviewing the current Annual
Plan, I would appreciate getting an understanding of how the change of
emphasis to quarterly reviews affects budgets, hiring plans, and
fundraising goals. Is that something that you
Yes, it will.
2014-10-09 20:31 GMT+02:00 Ivan Martínez gala...@gmail.com:
Really amazing! So, the monument will have freedom of panorama? ;)
2014-10-09 13:29 GMT-05:00 Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com:
;-) Actually just one monument :-) By the way our woman wikipedians
complan that only
We are planning to do a review of alignment/divergence with the plan mid
year. That would be the right time for this discussion as we will have a
good overview/gap analysis at that time.
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the detailed comments, Erik.
Thank you Lila.
Pine
On Oct 9, 2014 11:50 AM, Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org wrote:
We are planning to do a review of alignment/divergence with the plan mid
year. That would be the right time for this discussion as we will have a
good overview/gap analysis at that time.
On Thu, Oct 9,
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Establishing timeline commitments for Affcom to respond to requests for
approvals or for Affcom to ask new questions about a requested approval.
Having approval requests stay open for weeks with no communication from
Affcom
On 09.10.2014 00:35, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
And it's over! We reached our immediate goal, closing all the lost
PediaPress tickets (80 before the bug day); and about 40 new bugzilla
reports were filed, including some tricky ones about language support.
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
Log of this office hours:
http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/%23wikimedia-office/20141009.txt
(Will also be posted on Meta)
Risker=
Thanks Risker,
It Is indeed at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
On 09/02/2014 03:27 PM, pi zero wrote:
The templates are extremely complicated in implementation, which is
irrelevant. If templates were rejected based on extremely complicated
implementation, that would rule out essentially everything that uses
Scribuntu under the hood.
I don't agree with
On 09/03/2014 07:08 AM, John Mark Vandenberg wrote:
(Wouldn't it be nice if all skins could be written in Lua + LESS
stored as wikipages on the wiki, instead of distributed as php files;
I know of one LESS skin which works well:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Chameleon ; are there others?)
I agree with the general thrust of Brad's points. There are some known
major issues with templating (styling, unreadable parser functions, and
templates being used for data like Information on Commons are the most
important ones).
However, these do not all have the same solutions. Some
Hello Pine,
I am happy to speak with you specifically about turn-around time, so that
we get your question resolved quickly and find solutions that may improve
the process for others.
Overall, we try to be quite responsive. In cases that do take time, it is
likely because there are unusual
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Finally, I consider the unreadable parser functions problem essentially
solved. Lua is not perfect, but it's a usable language (and not a
Mediawiki-specific one) that is far more readable and writable than
Lua makes editing templates for most users impossible. Perhaps the English
community has enough users to handle all edit requests for Lua templates,
most smaller wikis have too less users to do that. It is not just creating
a Lua template, but also that the local communities on various wikis need
Forwarded on request:
de:
http://www.cp.edu.pl/de/public_relations/startsite_news/spalte_4_oben/wikipedia/pomnik-wikipedii/index.html
pl:
http://www.cp.edu.pl/pl/public_relations/startsite_news/spalte_4_oben/wikipedia/pomnik-wikipedii/index.html
and:
For our second round of Individual Engagement Grant applications in 2014,
we have a great crop of ideas. Wikimedians have dropped by to offer
feedback, support, or expertise to some of the proposals, but many
proposals have not been reviewed by community members.
If there is an open proposal that
Yes, thank you all so much!
I've been busy trying to fix as many of the issues found as possible.
Note that I'll be on vacation next week (2014-10-11 - 2014-10-17) so
don't panic if my latency increases. Keep filing those bugs and I'll
keep squashing them when I get back.
--scott
Thank you for this reminder.
As I see, the IEG system has attracted many innovative ideas on how to
integrate the efforts and wisdom of a multitude of communities and evolve
sustainable long term models that can be scaled up globally. To that
extend, each IEG proposal is worth detailed study not
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