Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?

2015-06-05 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Jura1 created a list using the latest software by Magnus of people who died in Brazil this year. Magnus added functionality to the template so that it is really easy to add images that are missing. This list makes use of Wikidata and it gets updated by a bot. It may live on any Wikipedia.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?

2015-06-05 Thread Bishakha Datta
That we had the highest-ever votes in a Wikimedia Foundation board election - and participation from many more wikis. Cheers Bishakha On 5 Jun 2015 13:01, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, Jura1 created a list using the latest software by Magnus of people who died in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Is Phabricator appropriate for managing non-coding projects?

2015-06-05 Thread Quim Gil
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 9:34 AM, David Cuenca Tudela dacu...@gmail.com wrote: Although I must say it feels a bit unconventional since I haven´t figured out yet how to do scheduling, process flow, and other standard non-coding project management tasks in Phabricator. unconventional,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ContentTranslation gets to 2000

2015-06-05 Thread Jane Darnell
Amir, This tool is great in theory and sounds wonderful but I am personally having some trouble putting it into practice.The short video was VERY helpful, but I am afraid I still ran into some problems on my second attempt at a translation. Here is a roundup of links:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?

2015-06-05 Thread Quim Gil
At least 33 hackathon projects were developed and showcased in 3 days, all crowd-documented at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96378 before the end of the event. Unseen in Wikimedia as far as I'm aware, and we'll try again in Wikimania For instance, Experiment with video.js was basically a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki-research-l] Community health (retitled thread)

2015-06-05 Thread Quim Gil
Thanks Pine for pushing in the direction of metrics. Any list aiming to be operational will need to be in a better support than an email, though. The tech community section of your list has many similarities to the list we are working on as Engineering Community quarterly goal right now. Ensure

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki-research-l] Community health (retitled thread)

2015-06-05 Thread WereSpielChequers
Yes, but may I also point out that one of our biggest problems on EN wiki is that even good faith newbies will often have their edits reverted. If you add uncited facts to a page you are now much more likely to have your edit reverted than to have someone add citation needed so I would suggest

[Wikimedia-l] Changing our volunteer structure at Wikimedia UK

2015-06-05 Thread Michael Maggs
Dear movement colleagues I thought you might like to hear about a new WMUK initiative, following on from our recently-completed staff restructure. We are hopeful our local community will react positively to much greater levels of volunteer engagement. Our initiative might be of interest to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Changing our volunteer structure at Wikimedia UK

2015-06-05 Thread Michael Maggs
Of course you don't need to be a member to volunteer with us or to be part of this or any other consultation. There are only a very few things that are restricted to members or that need member support, for example borrowing our equipment and handling the charity's money. Michael Fæ

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Changing our volunteer structure at Wikimedia UK

2015-06-05 Thread Jan-Bart de Vreede
Hi All, Despite Fae’s attempt to derail the conversation and make this all about him (which I am guessing it isn’t) I would like to applaud this initiative. I hope that in the coming months you can keep us all up to date on your experiences. All of the movement entities are struggling to find

[Wikimedia-l] Developing new language editions of Wikipedia

2015-06-05 Thread Milos Rancic
I've created the draft for our future approach in building new Wikipedia (and other Wikimedia projects) editions: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developing_new_language_editions_of_Wikipedia Feel free to contribute to it :) * * * {{draft}} The aim of this page is to help creation of new

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Changing our volunteer structure at Wikimedia UK

2015-06-05 Thread Nathan
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote: The bizarre part of this is that the charity you are currently chairman of, does not do any meaningful checks on members when they join (for five quid). The fact remains that only one person is excluded from membership, voting or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Changing our volunteer structure at Wikimedia UK

2015-06-05 Thread
The bizarre part of this is that the charity you are currently chairman of, does not do any meaningful checks on members when they join (for five quid). The fact remains that only one person is excluded from membership, voting or taking part in advisory committees, and as a previous chairman of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?

2015-06-05 Thread Sam Klein
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 1:55 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: please slap me if I overstep the self-promotion. No no, please go on. This is one of the best wiki tools in a while. I did a Wikipedia editing workshop in the University of South Africa in Pretoria

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Results of 2015 WMF Board elections

2015-06-05 Thread Milos Rancic
That's quite a surprise! I am really happy to see the substantial changes! Congratulations! On Jun 6, 2015 01:14, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, The certified results of the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election are now available on Meta-Wiki:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Results of 2015 WMF Board elections

2015-06-05 Thread Johan Jönsson
Congratulations, Dariusz, James and Denny! And thanks, of course, to María, Phoebe and SJ for the time they've served on behalf of the community, as well as to all the other candidates, who were prepared to serve, and to the elections committee. //Johan Jönsson -- 2015-06-06 1:14 GMT+02:00

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Results of 2015 WMF Board elections

2015-06-05 Thread Jan-Bart de Vreede
Hi Everyone Thank you to the Election Committee for all the hard work in both these and the FDC elections! It is amazing to see how many votes were cast this year, which is great. And voters came from a much larger spread of projects than before. As we can see from the results every vote

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Results of 2015 WMF Board elections

2015-06-05 Thread Sam Klein
Thank you, Greg. Kudos to the committee on a well-run election process, particularly in encouraging participation. And warm congratulations to Dariusz, Denny, and James! I know you will be excellent in this role. SJ On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: