Re: [Wikimedia-l] Timothy Sandole and (apparently) $53, 690 of WMF funding

Lila, and all, I am glad to hear this will be revived. I read your message with interest and appreciation, up to the final paragraph: in this instance, WMF is in a very poor position to chide anybody for snark. Nemo's "snark" was lighthearted and minimal, and doesn't even register next to the WMF'

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Timothy Sandole and (apparently) $53, 690 of WMF funding

Hi Nemo, Thanks for bringing this to my attention. You are correct -- this did not make my "to do" list, but I believe honoring commitments made by the WMF is important and therefor I've been looking this issue. Here is what I found and what we will do: - This issue was a clear oversight erro

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Chapters] Calling all Chapters re Wikimania Scholarships!

Hello Ellie. Wikimedia Spain is not able to offer any scholarchip for Wikimania 2015. El 2015-01-27 01:53, Ellie Young escribió: I am attempting to do outreach to all the Wikimeida chapters to assess which ones might be offering scholarships to Wikimania 2015 being held in July in Mexico City.

[Wikimedia-l] Calling all Chapters re Wikimania Scholarships!

I am attempting to do outreach to all the Wikimeida chapters to assess which ones might be offering scholarships to Wikimania 2015 being held in July in Mexico City. The WMF Scholarship program's call for applications has been recently posted and the deadline for receiving applications is F

Re: [Wikimedia-l] proportion of wiki size to what?

A few weeks back, I was playing around with some numbers. It is true that number of effective speakers isn't a very good predictor, but it is a place to start. Most of our mature editor communities have about 20 active editors per 1 million effective speakers, give or take a factor of 4. In othe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] proportion of wiki size to what?

Hi Amir, Some variables that you might also want to look at are: Relative status of language - I have heard from more than one source that part of the Indic language problem is that people who can write in English and an Indic language usually prefer to edit English. Different types of Intern

[Wikimedia-l] Looking for feedback on my funding proposal to work with UNESCO as Wikimedian in Residence

Hi all I’m looking for feedback and endorsement for my Wikimedia Foundation PEG grant to be Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO . https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/MrjohnCummings/UNESCO_Wikimedian_in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] proportion of wiki size to what?

Useful link, thank you! I know that article count is very far from perfect as a metric, of course. All of the things at that page are relevant and my question could be asked about any of them. בתאריך 26 בינו 2015 01:36, ‏"Federico Leva (Nemo)" כתב: > Amir E. Aharoni, 26/01/2015 02:57: > >> By "si

[Wikimedia-l] Visa invitation letter for GLAM WIKI 2015 conference

Hi, Are you planning on attending the GLAM WIKI 2015 conference? Then please make sure that you checked if you need a visa to visit the Netherlands. Wikimedia Nederland can support your visa request by sending you a invitation letter to the conferenc

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A "Listen" Button

On 24.01.2015 23:21, James Heilman wrote: While human read articles are great they quickly become out of date and are available for only a fraction of our articles. Why don't we have a "Listen" button beside our read button that when clicked will read the article for the person in question? The

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A "Listen" Button

Am 25.01.2015 um 23:22 schrieb Andrew Lih: On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Cristian Consonni wrote: Il 25/Gen/2015 12:18 "Martin Kraft" ha scritto: Did I miss some aspect? Is there a point in converting something visual into something visual? I have been told that people born deaf find mo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] proportion of wiki size to what?

Amir E. Aharoni, 26/01/2015 02:57: By "size" I mean the article count and the active editor count. If you drop this parenthesis, the whole email is fine. :) Article count is a totally useless metric for size; comparing useless metrics to uncertain metrics is quite sure to produce garbage. Sin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A "Listen" Button

I agree with this point and I think that this problem is central. People with defective vision already uses text-to-speech solutions as client application. So the problem is another: are the pages of Wikimedia projects adapted to be read by TTL client program? I think that the exaggerated use of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A "Listen" Button

As Tomasz and Dariusz wrote, while visually impaired people have their solutions, other users might want to use Wikipedia etc. as an audible source, even as podcasts (because they prefer learning while listening, they are on the go etc.). I guess as well that mobile platforms bring some use cases h