[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This Month in GLAM: March 2018

2018-04-10 Thread The 'This Month in GLAM' team
*This Month in GLAM* is a monthly newsletter documenting recent happenings within the GLAM project, such as content donations, residencies, events and more. GLAM is an acronym of *G*alleries, *L*ibraries, *A*rchives and *M*useums. You can find more information on the project at glamwiki.org.

[Wikimedia-l] convert from BitCoin to FoldingCoin and other proofs of useful work

2018-04-10 Thread James Salsman
The Foundation has been accepting BitCoin donations. Unfortunately, BitCoin is very wasteful in terms of electricity, and is therefore a dirty cryptocurrency. I recommend that the Foundation immediately cease accepting BitCoin, and require donors who wish to donate in cryptocurrency to convert to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Notification about problem identified with a recent CentralNotice banner

2018-04-10 Thread Cristian Consonni
Hi, sorry for the late reply to this thread. On 17/03/2018 08:24, Liam Wyatt wrote: > “we encourage you to consider tools which block unwanted third-party > scripts like the one provided by Facebook.” > - where can I go to learn more about that specifically? Here's two browser add-ons (free

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Social: non-profit social networking service ?

2018-04-10 Thread Leinonen Teemu
> On 10 Apr 2018, at 9.58, Michael Snow wrote: > > On 4/9/2018 11:14 PM, Leinonen Teemu wrote: >>> On 10 Apr 2018, at 7.02, Erik Moeller wrote: >>> Wikimedia projects are social networks, but they are purpose-driven >>> social networks [1] where

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Social: non-profit social networking service ?

2018-04-10 Thread Edward Saperia
My kneejerk response was to reject this idea, but it's at least worth considering; Working on wikimedia feels productive because permanent artefacts are produced - articles etc - but these are a direct product of the community around them. Better community tools will produce better outputs and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Social: non-profit social networking service ?

2018-04-10 Thread Yury Bulka
If we want to improve the situation, I think one of the simplest things to do would be to increase the presence of WMF and Wikipedia on the Federation and Fediverse networks-of-networks. For a start, we could just be cross-posting from the WMF blog officially. And I don't think we need a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Social: non-profit social networking service ?

2018-04-10 Thread Gnangarra
what i see is that developing a full FB type network is outside the current scope and capacity of the movement and will probably remain there. There is always room for further development of tools for user and talk pages the will enhance collaborative activities. I also think that at some stage

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Social: non-profit social networking service ?

2018-04-10 Thread David Cuenca Tudela
Unlike Erik, I don't think an open alternative to Facebook will emerge, the inertia at this point is too big and you would need a huge critical mass of people (and organizations) to make it useful. Hard to attain. The only contender on the long run to FB could be reddit, because they seem to be

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Social: non-profit social networking service ?

2018-04-10 Thread Michael Snow
On 4/9/2018 11:14 PM, Leinonen Teemu wrote: On 10 Apr 2018, at 7.02, Erik Moeller wrote: Wikimedia projects are social networks, but they are purpose-driven social networks [1] where participants are more strongly connected through their overlapping interests than through

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Social: non-profit social networking service ?

2018-04-10 Thread Leinonen Teemu
> On 10 Apr 2018, at 7.02, Erik Moeller wrote: > Wikimedia projects are social networks, but they are purpose-driven > social networks [1] where participants are more strongly connected > through their overlapping interests than through pre-existing social > connections. I