Re: [Wikimedia-l] #WeMissTurkey social media campaign

Hello Zachary, First, thank you and all people involved for this great initiative. There are two points for which I would be happy to have more information about. The first one is about the state of censorship in Turkey, not only regarding each Wikimedia project, but also for the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

I like the idea, but have no clue as to how practicable it would be. Cheers, Peter -Original Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of John Erling Blad Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 12:36 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

+100 to this. Thank you, John. I have slightly different ideas about what this should cost and how to encourage translators and support a 100k-person network of polylinguals + babelfish + just.in.time conversion tools to melt language barriers. But simplicity, focus, persistence are what

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

We do need better tools to curate the existing articles, but that is not a blocker for new ways to create and edit articles. For example, what if we could simply select a sentence, create a query on some search engine, and then have an ai-bot crawl the result to see if one of the hits can be used

[Wikimedia-l] Women in the Wikimedia movement: Conversations with communities

*Hi all, In honour of Women’s History Month, the Community Engagement department is hosting a series of conversations with community members about Women in the Wikimedia movement ,

[Wikimedia-l] #WeMissTurkey social media campaign

Hi everyone, For the last 10 months, several teams within the Wikimedia Foundation have been working with the local Turkish community to lift the block of Wikipedia in Turkey. Today, we have launched a social media campaign designed to help raise international awareness of the block and send a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

Yes, it makes sense. This is yet another thing that is a challenge, not a blocker. English speakers have a useful result from Wikipedia coming up in almost every Google search. *Suspected* copyvio issues are an acceptable price to pay for this privilege. (Particularly bad copyvio issues are

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

Hoi, The Cebuano Wikipedia articles were created based on information available in databases. So creating static articles is a known quantity. In Reasonator there is functionality that creates text for humans. This has been available for years as well and when data changes, the text changes.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] About Facebook Linked in some of Wikimedia projects

The issue at hand here is that the linked-to Facebook page is not directly affiliated with the Wikipedia project. It might share some members, but Wikipedia has no control over its content. For a Wikipedia project that has had its share of misconceptions about its affiliations, I think it's

[Wikimedia-l] Who if not Wikipedia

Hoi, There is a lot of data available to us that is not presented as information in any and all languages. Our mission is one where we share in the sum of all knowledge. There is however a big difference between knowledge and information. We do not provide knowledge, we provide information. When

[Wikimedia-l] Time to simplify the Bureaucracy ?

Hello, As a rare newcomer to the Wikimedia project, I've been thinking of some of the factors that seem to discourage me from contributing and one of the primary ones seem to be the fact that the way the administration is organized and rules enforced is often vague and unclear. The definition and

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Norge's new board

Hi all! Wikimedia Norge just had its general assembly this Saturday. We have a staggered board system, so half the board is elected one year, and the other half the next year. The half that was up for election this year was re-elected, with the addition of one new member. The board therefore

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

wikipedia offline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwix On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 9:50 AM, mathieu stumpf guntz < psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote: > Le 27/02/2018 à 12:42, Vi to a écrit : > >> I see Amir's points, which are pretty reasonable, but I fear this would >> suit languages with a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

Does it make sense to have more articles in a language than can be curated by the volunteers who speak that language? This has already happened on the Englisg-language Wikipedia where the five million articles have simply overwhelmed the capability of the few thousand active contributors to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ¿Qué te hace feliz esta semana? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 25 February 2018)

Me hace feliz que mandes un mensaje en otro idioma. Gracias. 2018-02-25 23:41 GMT-06:00 Pine W : > (Hello, I am trying something new this week by writing in Spanish. I am > hoping to encourage people to contribute to this conversation in their > preferred languages.) > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] About Facebook Linked in some of Wikimedia projects

Sorry, but can I understand this as a promotion link to Facebook pages (managed by community) is recommended for outreach Wikipedia, even if it isn't an "official Facebook page" managed by WMF or chapters/usergroups? Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy Supporter, Wikimedian 2018-03-01 4:43 GMT+09:00 Asaf

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Stewards elected

Congratulations. Wishing you all the best in your new role. Regards, Isaac On Mar 1, 2018 6:49 AM, "Lodewijk" wrote: > My best wishes to the new stewards! Enjoy the ride, with all these exciting > communities... > > Lodewijk > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 9:14 PM,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] About Facebook Linked in some of Wikimedia projects

The issue at hand here is that the linked-to Facebook page is not directly affiliated with the Wikipedia project. It might share some members, but Wikipedia has no control over its content. For a Wikipedia project that has had its share of misconceptions about its affiliations, I think it's

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid translation

James, I don't think anyone has suggested using the endowment money to fund translations. That money is being collected for the purpose of guaranteeing the projects future, even if we enter an era where the fundraiser doesn't work. Repurposing that pot of money in such a way would have ethical

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 4 March 2018)

On 4 March 2018 at 02:41, Pine W wrote: > What's making you happy this week? Trimmed my en:wp watchlist to pages I was actually interested in and cared about. Made a few more meaningful edits I was more interested in this way :-) really, if you edit with "add page to my