Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group

Congratulations to the Bulgarian User Group! On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Richard Symonds < > richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > > > Congratulations to Bulgaria! How do we get in touch with you? > > > > Their Meta page, linked fr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia

Hello, Lisa. Could you, please, provide us with more details? - why did it happen just now though restrictions due to the US sanctions were I'mposed quite a long time ago? Probably, you have received some warning from authorities, haven't you? - what is the exact problem and applicable legislati

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

Actually, as I recall, email alerts for changes in articles has never been activated on English Wikipedia. Risker/Anne On 12 November 2014 22:53, Anthony Cole wrote: > Agree with all that, Svetlana - though we don't have a button at the top of > articles making it easy for readers to enable e

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

Agree with all that, Svetlana - though we don't have a button at the top of articles making it easy for readers to enable email alerts. 99.999% of readers wouldn't know it was available. (This is something BLP subjects would appreciate too, I'm sure.) Anthony Cole

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia

What about a notice for users from Russia: "We are not able to process money from Russia now, but you are welcome to donate to Wikimedia Russia by using this bank account" -- if nothing more creative could be imagined? On Nov 13, 2014 4:46 AM, "Lisa Gruwell" wrote: > Hello rubin16, > > We are not

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia

Hello rubin16, We are not running fundraising in Russia at this time, but I want to assure you that this was not a decision motivated by politics. We take compliance with appropriate laws very seriously in everything we do. Out of an abundance of caution, we're not fundraising in Russia right now

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia

There were no recent changes in sanctions and I don't understand why this turn off in donations happened just now. Ideas about SWIFT kick out are not relevant here, as it was just a discussion some months ago but no such action happened. Furthermore, the sanctions were placed on particular compan

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia

I think that this is extremely important moment in the existence of Wikimedia and contemporary free content movement. The future of the concept of free knowledge could depend on how Wikimedia positions itself in relation to this issue and the future similar ones. This is not about our personal pol

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

Thanks Anthony for sharing your ideas! Anthony Cole wrote: > Svetlana, presently we have > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Lists_of_pages/Articles > which reports all changes to articles tagged on their talk page as "of > interest to WikiPro

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

Thanks Kirill, James and all involved. Svetlana, presently we have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Lists_of_pages/Articles which reports all changes to articles tagged on their talk page as "of interest to WikiProjedt Medicine" (about 33,000

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia

I'm presuming this is sanctions against Russia kicking in; all sorts of business has been stopped dead in its tracks, not just charity donations. There's even serious moves to kick Russia out of the SWIFT network: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-04/ultimate-sanction-barring-russian-ba

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Richard Symonds < richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > Congratulations to Bulgaria! How do we get in touch with you? > Their Meta page, linked from the announcement linked from the top of this thread, is useful: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia

I'm sure that you're correct here Joseph, but this is another example I think where the Foundation should have notified the relevant chapter *before* taking the action, so that they would be ready when the questions started rolling in. Unfortunately, I think we're getting back to the bad old days

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

Kirill Lokshin wrote: > I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized Wiki > Project Med [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2]. Could be a good idea for wikiproject folks to work on a RSS feed of recent changes (and recent new page creations) within a category and its subca

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration Community: How Wikipedia's reaction to sudden popularity is causing its decline"

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 09:04:11PM +0100, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Kim Bruning, 12/11/2014 19:40: > > > > I found this document/research paper on wikipedia user retention; FWIW > > > > http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_and_Decline/ > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group

Congratulations to Bulgaria! How do we get in touch with you? Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration Community: How Wikipedia's reaction to sudden popularity is causing its decline"

Kim Bruning, 12/11/2014 19:40: I found this document/research paper on wikipedia user retention; FWIW http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_and_Decline/ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:The_Rise_and_Decline http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.founda

[Wikimedia-l] "The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration Community: How Wikipedia's reaction to sudden popularity is causing its decline"

I found this document/research paper on wikipedia user retention; FWIW http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_and_Decline/ sincerely, Kim Bruning ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group

Great :-) 2014-11-12 17:47 GMT+01:00 Tanvir Rahman : > Dear all, > > It is our pleasure to announce of the recognition [1] of the Wikimedians of > Bulgaria User Group. Bulgarian User Group will be an important part of the > Wikimedia Central and Eastern Europe. > > I would like to thank the fellow

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia

rubin.happy, 12/11/2014 18:48: We received some alerts from our users that donations are now blocked when user is from Russia: http://habrastorage.org/files/31b/b1f/ec9/31bb1fec9b9e45abb6ac4babcc237184.png Thanks for the information. Everyone can see the same warning by clicking the "Russia" l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Recognition of the MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group

Apostrophe or not (as another pedant, I appreciate its removal ;-)) - congratulations! a- On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Gregory Varnum wrote: > No worries - it happens. :) I apologize that we did not bring it up > sooner. To be fair, someone on AffCom (Josh) did ask earlier and I'll > admi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group

Thanks Tanvir/AffCom. Congratulations to the Bulgarian User Group, looking forward to working with you all! Warmly, Anasuya On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Tanvir Rahman wrote: > Dear all, > > It is our pleasure to announce of the recognition [1] of the Wikimedians of > Bulgaria User Group. Bu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

Thanks for this news, Kirill/AffCom! Congratulations Wiki Project Med. :-) a- On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Kirill Lokshin wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized Wiki > Project Med [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2]. The group is work

[Wikimedia-l] fundraising blocked in Russia

Hello, guys! We received some alerts from our users that donations are now blocked when user is from Russia: http://habrastorage.org/files/31b/b1f/ec9/31bb1fec9b9e45abb6ac4babcc237184.png The only WMF comment I received in #wikimedia-fundraising was that "we don't run fundraising in Russia at the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Au Revoir from WMUK CEO

Jon -- Thank you all the hard work for the movement, and for building a great team and great foundations! Hope to see you in different corners of the movement & globe. Warmly, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Product & Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wiki

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group

Dear all, It is our pleasure to announce of the recognition [1] of the Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group. Bulgarian User Group will be an important part of the Wikimedia Central and Eastern Europe. I would like to thank the fellow Bulgarian Wikimedians for their hard work over the years. They ha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

Congratulations! On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 4:46 AM, Nurunnaby Hasive wrote: > Great! Congratulations team Wiki Project Med! > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Vishnu wrote: > > > Congratulations team Wiki Project Med! > > > > Best wishes. > > > > Vishnu > > > > > > On Wednesday 12 November 2014

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

Congrats! A very exciting project! On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 4:46 AM, Nurunnaby Hasive wrote: > Great! Congratulations team Wiki Project Med! > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Vishnu wrote: > > > Congratulations team Wiki Project Med! > > > > Best wishes. > > > > Vishnu > > > > > > On Wednesda

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Recognition of the MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group

No worries - it happens. :) I apologize that we did not bring it up sooner. To be fair, someone on AffCom (Josh) did ask earlier and I'll admit, I thought at the time it was intentional so did not bring it up in our desire to get things approved for the group. I will make sure the updates are co

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Recognition of the MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group

Gregory Varnum writes: > We have updated everything to reflect the correct spelling. Although it > sounds like now you'd like no apostrophe? Yes. I apologize for the confusion and extra work. Mark. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-271-1084 ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Au Revoir from WMUK CEO

Thanks for all the work together, and the very best, Jon, for every continuing adventure. Looking forward to working with you as a volunteer, Anasuya On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 1:10 AM, Jon Davies wrote: > With some sadness I have to tell you that I will be leaving Wikimedia UK, > as an employee,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Recognition of the MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group

We have updated everything to reflect the correct spelling. Although it sounds like now you'd like no apostrophe? -greg On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Lodewijk wrote: > I cannot imagine fuzz will be made over that, whether it is official or not > :) > > Lodewijk (not an affcom member any lon

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group

Quim Gil writes: > PS: Stakeholder's or Stakeholders? I did send Gregory an email shortly after he notified me that we were accepted when the problematic apostrophe was pointed out to me. We'd like to have the apostrophe removed, if possible. Mark. -- Mark A. Hershberger NicheWork LLC 717-27

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Recognition of the MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group

I cannot imagine fuzz will be made over that, whether it is official or not :) Lodewijk (not an affcom member any longer, so even more so a personal opinion :) ) On Nov 12, 2014 4:09 PM, "Mark A. Hershberger" wrote: > Quim Gil writes: > > > PS: Stakeholder's or Stakeholders? > > I did send Greg

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

Great! Congratulations team Wiki Project Med! On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Vishnu wrote: > Congratulations team Wiki Project Med! > > Best wishes. > > Vishnu > > > On Wednesday 12 November 2014 05:44 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliati

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

Congratulations team Wiki Project Med! Best wishes. Vishnu On Wednesday 12 November 2014 05:44 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote: Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized Wiki Project Med [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2]. The group is working to promote the

[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized Wiki Project Med [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2]. The group is working to promote the development of medical content on Wikimedia projects. Let's welcome them to the family of Wikimedia affiliates! Regards,Kiril

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Au Revoir from WMUK CEO

Hi Jon, it was always a pleasure and very constructive to work with you, as one who always had open eyes for global or other countries challenges. What are you up to in future? Rupert On Nov 11, 2014 10:11 AM, "Jon Davies" wrote: > With some sadness I have to tell you that I will be leaving Wik

[Wikimedia-l] [Reminder] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on November 12, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC

Hello, A reminder that Language Engineering's monthly office hour will be happening later today at 1700 UTC on #wikimedia-office. Please see below for the original announcement, local time, and agenda. Thank you. Runa Monthly IRC Office Hour: == # Date: November 12, 2014 (Wednesd