Hoi,
I am happy because someone asked me if it was an idea to have a list of
African women performers and base it on [1], we did a similar thing for 100
women BBC [2]. I love the idea :)
Thanks,
GerardM
[1] https://100women.okayafrica.com
[2]
Hoi,
One reason why you do not get much traction is because many people, myself
included, found that there is little purpose in spending time on Meta. It
is time spend in a frustrating way and it hardly ever results in the kind
of results you hope for. The time necessary to keep up with what is
Dear Tomasz,
Thank you so much for all those years of thoughtful leadership. It was
always a pleasure to talk with you about what happened this time in our
little movement, and you were in many discussions a voice of reason - while
not shying away from telling people the truth. You managed to
Actually, concerning the group of people working "at the front" might work
(as soon as it is not just about the support of the English Wikipedia), and
I would not count sending them to Wikimania as a monetary reward - assuming
this group undergoes regular rotations, and people who stop working
Hi Yaroslav,
Thanks for explaining why you didn't answer. I agree with you, these kind
of conversations can be *very* exausting, but in this case I am not looking
for an argument, I am just trying to understand your position better. You
formulated your standing against "regular paid editors not
Congratulations to the new board members and others and many thanks for the
service of those who have left!
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 4:39 AM Wojciech Pędzich wrote:
> Dear all,
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> following yesterday's General Assembly of Wikimedia Polska Association,
> held in Katowice, a new composition
James, I think you yourself earlier today put forwards a possible first
step in this direction.
Support a group of people working "at the front" in neutralizing paid
editing and other bad editing, by giving them possiblity to meet IRL,
and why not at a session commited to this issue at
There is a fair bit of literature on intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation.
Wikipedia has been mostly built on the first. Introducing greater extrinsic
motivation may decrease intrinsic motivation. Doing so should thus be done
with great care, at a small scale that can be reversed, and be well
Hi David,
Well, I did not reply because I disagree but in my experience having long
arguments with people one disagrees with usually does not lead to agreement
and is also very tiring. You gave your opinion, I gave mine, it is up to
other readers to decide whose arguments are stronger. I really
Yaroslav,
Yes, you already made your point earlier, and I addressed it here [1] and
also in the draft proposal to enable some volunteers to receive donations
for their work [2]. The fact that you neither commented on my reply to your
initial concern, nor on the proposal suggests me several
Greetings,
Following several discussions on English Wikipedia and Meta-Wiki, the planned
collaboration for the users working on military history content on all of
Wikipedias (may be other projects as well) is now live. The Consortium of
Wikipedia Military Historians is intended to bring
Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] Jenga Wikipedia ya Kiswahili User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group.
The group aims to create and improve content for the Swahili Wikipedia, and
to support the recruitment and development of Wikimedia
On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 10:25 PM, David Cuenca Tudela
wrote:
Dear David,
your mail is very long and dense, I don't know where to start:
so I'll start from a random point ;-)
> You say that that WMF bears responsibility in the "failure" of our
> Wikisource community project, and that it is not
We did have a proposal on EN WP for a group of functionaires to help deal
with issues pertaining to undisclosed paid editing. I do not feel this
group would require payment but support to meet once or twice a year IMO
could be useful. Such a group could play a leading roll in:
1) Collecting and
I can agree with most what you write Yaroslav, but I want also to remind
the scenario that started this issue.
I believe we are in a process of worsening deterioration of the content
in our major project (Enwp,dewp etc). This as the rewards to enter
biased info in these are getting higher as
I made this point earlier this month, but let me make it again.
Money generated by volunteers should indeed go back to volunteers. It just
can not go back as a salary. If it goes back as a salary, you have people
working together, some of them being paid for the work, and some doing it
for free.
On 10/06/18 05:01, Natacha Rault wrote:
Have a nice day, I have just bought myself a canoe kayak, which is the only way
for me not to get entangled in contributing on a bright sunny day.
I cant bring my computer on the river!
Yes you can, if you have the money for it. They make waterproof
Dear all,
following yesterday's General Assembly of Wikimedia Polska Association,
held in Katowice, a new composition of the Board and other statutory bodies
of the chapter have been established.
Tomasz "Polimerek" Ganicz decided to resign his long-standing position on
the Board, after 13
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