Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia

Pinging Analytics to ask about editor longevity data (: My understanding is that newbies (<= 10 edits) are more likely to disappear early in their "careers" than they were 5 years ago, but that editors that have been active for years are likely to remain active for years. It would be interesting,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia

uy! I have 77617. Can I excuse myself by saying that much of that is combined with my work as a teacher using WP with students? > Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 18:19:24 +0100 > From: ricordisa...@openmailbox.org > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for addic

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

Just as a postscript to the Belfer Center affair, regular readers will remember that Russavia wrote in March 2014[1] that – *The Stanton Foundation has been a long-term donor to the Wikimedia Foundation [...] Stanton has no website, and apart from several high-profile grants to the Wikimedia Foun

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This week on the Wikimedia Blog

Greetings! Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog: • Inspire Campaign to fund new gender diversity initiatives https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/04/inspire-campaign-funds-gender-diversity/ • Women and gender diversity on Wikimedia: Help find quality articles https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] EU copyright rules are maladapted to the increase of cross-border cultural exchange on the web

Greetings, On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Liam Wyatt wrote: >> That would be the "advocacy advisors" list: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy_advisors > > -Liam / Wittylama I can strongly encourage anyone interested in that topic to join the advocacy advisors list. Additi

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Inspire Campaign launches today!

Hello Wikimedians, Today we are pleased to announce the launch of the Inspire Campaign in IdeaLab! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire This campaign aims to encourage, foster, and support new ideas for improving gender

[Wikimedia-l] Inspire Campaign launches today!

Hello Wikimedians, Today we are pleased to announce the launch of the Inspire Campaign in IdeaLab! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire This campaign aims to encourage, foster, and support new ideas for improving gender

Re: [Wikimedia-l] EU copyright rules are maladapted to the increase of cross-border cultural exchange on the web

On Wednesday, 4 March 2015, Strainu wrote: > > Lacking a dedicated mailing list for keeping up with the work of our > lobbyists, Wikimedia-l sounds like the next best thing. > > That would be the "advocacy advisors" list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy_advisors -Liam / Wit

[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes Newsletter (Issue 10)

Hi library aficionados, Catch up on the latest 2 months of news and developments from The Wikipedia Library: In this issue of Books & Bytes... * New donations - ProjectMUSE, Dynamed, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and Women Writers Online * New TWL coordinators, conference updates, and new guide ou

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Finance Fellows to develop first-ever movement-wide financial report and metrics

Hi Pine, Yes, we would like to discuss it. The main goal of this project is to prompt questions, so further along we will carry out a discussion about this report and try to get as much feedback as we can from the community. Best, Walter Gomez Segura *Finance Fellow* *149 New Montgomery St., San

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia

Il 04/03/2015 17:44, Anders Wennersten ha scritto: On svwp there has over the years been 45 individuals who have each made more then 38000 edits. Of these 45, 44 are still active, only one has left (in 2009) making 97,7 still around. For the users with less then 38 000 edits, only about 6 out

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia

Hoi, I hope not.. If it were I am a basket case. Hmmm not Wikipedia ... does Wikidata count ? What number of edits would be sufficient ?? Thanks, GerardM On 4 March 2015 at 17:44, Anders Wennersten wrote: > On svwp there has over the years been 45 individuals who have each made > more then

[Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia

On svwp there has over the years been 45 individuals who have each made more then 38000 edits. Of these 45, 44 are still active, only one has left (in 2009) making 97,7 still around. For the users with less then 38 000 edits, only about 6 out of 10 is still active. Is this a global valid numb

Re: [Wikimedia-l] EU copyright rules are maladapted to the increase of cross-border cultural exchange on the web

2015-03-03 18:45 GMT+02:00 Richard Symonds : > I have replied to Carcharoth off-list :-) Why off-list? :) Lacking a dedicated mailing list for keeping up with the work of our lobbyists, Wikimedia-l sounds like the next best thing. My2c, Strainu ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Finance Fellows to develop first-ever movement-wide financial report and metrics

Hi Lene, OK, thanks for the update. As you can tell, I am very interested in your work. I am sensitized to anything having to do with Meta-type documentation and deadlines at the moment, seeing as I am juggling so many of them with intricate dependencies (including weekend projects), but I suppos