[Wikimedia-l] Bay Area WikiSalon for February 2017

Hi, y'all. Is anybody traveling to the WMF offices in San Francisco next week? It is that time of the month. Everybody is invited. Newcomers and old hands welcome. Wi-Fi is available. Snacks and refreshments will be served, including adult beverages. Details and to RSVP:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF advanced permissions for employees

Hi James, Thanks for the explanation. I am less on edge now that I see the specificity of the use cases that are outlined in that spreadsheet. (I have rather strong memories of Superprotect and am keen to deter anything resembling a repeat.) Is it possible to have the records moved from the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call for Elections Committee members

Just a reminder for those that are interested and have not, yet, applied! Please consider doing so before the end of February 17th! If you are trying to make the decision and have any additional questions please feel free to ask any member or advisor ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF advanced permissions for employees

Hi Pine, I know we’ve touched on this in past discussions related to this list. Staff frequently need on wiki user rights to do their work, which can range all over the map from Meta admin/translate admin to central notice admin or Checkuser/Oversight and everything in between. Many of these

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF advanced permissions for employees

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:53 AM Fæ wrote: Usecases are appearing, thanks to whomever is intervening, though in a narrow column so hard to read. Now I can read it, I see that it is out of date. As a test sample, I JethroBT (WMF) was granted m:admin rights in June, these

[Wikimedia-l] February 15, 2017 Research Showcase

Hi Everyone, The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this February 15, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC. YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6smzMppb-I As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And, you can watch our past research showcases

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF advanced permissions for employees

Not for any wiki; only Meta had wmf staff with admin rights, and only for use within their specific work-related areas. I am totally unconcerned with WMF staff having the necessary permissions to do their job. They can easily be held accountable as paid employees. On Feb 14, 2017 11:53 AM, "Fæ"

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Niels Christian Nielsen appointed to Wikimedia Endowment Advisory Board

My understanding is that the signficant mention in independent reliable sources is what is required to write an encyclopaedia article about something. Passing mention in reliable sources such as peer-reviewed academic journals establishes that something exists. Passing mention in news sources

Re: [Wikimedia-l] community survey request

Nathan, These are indeed excellent questions which should be asked before starting any survey. I wish I could be confident that it is universal practice for the Foundation to undertake this exercise before each of the rather numerous surveys they make of the community, and always able to view,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF advanced permissions for employees

Usecases are appearing, thanks to whomever is intervening, though in a narrow column so hard to read. Now I can read it, I see that it is out of date. As a test sample, I JethroBT (WMF) was granted m:admin rights in June, these expired by August 2016 and were eventually removed by a volunteer

Re: [Wikimedia-l] community survey request

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 6:30 AM, James Heilman wrote: > Is this with respect to what to do about undisclosed paid editing or > something else? > > J > ​I believe it has to do with this list that Bill compiled, related to political action: <

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2017 Wikimania Scholarships

I seem to end up in the right place on Chrome. Sam On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Fæ wrote: > Screenshot sent off list. If applicants have been going to different > pages, depending on which browser they are in, they may have > difficulty in resubmitting, or making an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2017 Wikimania Scholarships

I'm sorry. That happened because the translations for some languages were outdated. I hope this is fixed now. On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 9:29 PM, Fæ wrote: > Screenshot sent off list. If applicants have been going to different > pages, depending on which browser they are in, they

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF advanced permissions for employees

I'm curious about what is meant by "advanced permissions" here. If that refers to translation administrator permissions, I have fewer concerns about that than I would about admin or CU/OS permissions. In general, I'm wary of WMF encroachment on Meta. Placing resources on Meta that the community

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Niels Christian Nielsen appointed to Wikimedia Endowment Advisory Board

*Correction: I agree that original research does not belong in Wikipedia *main*space. Sorry! Pine On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Pine W wrote: > Risker, I agree that Wikimedians and WMF staff have, on occasion, been too > quick to add information about WMF employees to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Niels Christian Nielsen appointed to Wikimedia Endowment Advisory Board

Risker, I agree that Wikimedians and WMF staff have, on occasion, been too quick to add information about WMF employees to English Wikipedia. I imagine that the same could be true for WMF Board, WMF Endowment Board, and Wikimedia community members, although I'm not personally aware of that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2017 Wikimania Scholarships

Hi Fae, The en-gb translation (we needed one of those?) was out of date. It has since been fixed. Thanks, On Feb 14, 2017 8:00 AM, "Fæ" wrote: > Screenshot sent off list. If applicants have been going to different > pages, depending on which browser they are in, they may

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2017 Wikimania Scholarships

Screenshot sent off list. If applicants have been going to different pages, depending on which browser they are in, they may have difficulty in resubmitting, or making an initial application before the deadline of Monday. Testing the same link inside Firefox rather than Chrome, takes me to the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2017 Wikimania Scholarships

When you say "designed for 2016 Wikimania" what do you mean? Going through both of those for me seem to send me to a form referencing 2017. Do you have a screenshot of what you are seeing? Seddon On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Fæ wrote: > The link given in the email

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2017 Wikimania Scholarships

The link given in the email (https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply) and the same link given at https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships send the applicant to a form designed for applications for the 2016 Wikimania. Is this intentional or are applicants using this form going to be

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 call for submissions

All, I'm very pleased to send out the Wikimania Montréal Call for Submissions, which can be found in French here: https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/fr and in English here: https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/en On behalf of the Wikimania programme committee,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF advanced permissions for employees

I missed the link, for those wanting to refer to it, I suggest you keep a bookmark as it's very non-obvious and cannot be found by normal on-wiki searching. Link 1. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DruVc7T9ZqTcfGwFAlxQrBMR4QBSD_DtjpDtGqMAAi0/pub On 14 February 2017 at 13:11, Fæ

[Wikimedia-l] WMF advanced permissions for employees

The WMF grants special rights to employees on a case-by-case basis, by-passing the normal community driven process to grant admin, developer and other rights. A few years ago the WMF officially committed to making this process transparent, and maintains a public Google Spreadsheet [1] so that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Niels Christian Nielsen appointed to Wikimedia Endowment Advisory Board

I tend to think that we stay away from writing about Wikipedia topics in Wikipedia too much, but I agree with the notability concerns - hence why I've started the page in user space rather than article space. If notability is proven (which isn't just a factor of how much money the endowment

Re: [Wikimedia-l] community survey request

Is this with respect to what to do about undisclosed paid editing or something else? J On Tuesday, February 14, 2017, Bill Takatoshi wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 6:03 PM, Nathan > > wrote: > > > > What would your intended use of the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] community survey request

Hi Will, It seems I'm missing some context here. I still don't understand what type of survey we're talking about, what the intended purpose is and what would be accomplished by such survey. You're talking about commissioning the survey - from which capacity would you do that? What