Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia was edited from the ISS

2020-01-01 Thread MusikAnimal 
Hi! At the Wikimedia Technical Conference in Atlanta, I worked with Daren
Welsh , a spacewalk
instructor for NASA, to assist Christina Koch in making the edit. I am
certain this is not fake news, and you definitely should not hesitate to
celebrate this milestone :)

That said, I understand if the lack of reporting is too great to make our
own press release, and perhaps also for inclusion in the [[Wikipedia]]
article. From what I was told, the news was shared with NASA's public
affairs, but they unfortunately did not create a blog post or the like. It
is my impression this historic edit is much more significant to us than to
NASA (as an organization), especially considering Christina did this in her
free time. We may have to be the primary source, if we want one.

I don't think we can necessarily expect Christina to satisfy doubts of the
authenticity of her edit or account either, as she's understandably very
busy breaking records and being an inspiration to women and space
enthusiasts around the world  :) Let's just be
grateful that she took the time to do this for us in the first place. I
certainly am grateful for my very tiny role!

Kind regards,

~ MA

On Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 02:22 Todd Allen  wrote:

> Internally, absolutely.
>
> I was more responding to it having been placed into an actual article (the
> one on Wikipedia itself) with the only source being a diff and tweet. An
> internal website log and a tweet wouldn't be enough for inclusion of
> something like that in an article about any other website.
>
> Hence my suggestion for those involved to get in touch with news outlets.
> It's something very cool, and it certainly should be something we see
> reporting on. It would make a great feel-good/human interest piece, so I'm
> sure someone would be interested in publishing on it. And once that
> happens, we can put it in articles too.
>
> Todd
>
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 12:12 AM Pine W  wrote:
>
> > I saw that user creation log and that does seem to me to be persuasive
> > evidence, but persuasive evidence may not be conclusive proof. Carl Sagan
> > said that "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
> > ", and I understand if
> > people
> > would like evidence that is more verifiable to the public than a CU's
> > testimony, especially keeping in mind that hoaxes have been a problem on
> > English Wikipedia
> > .
> > However, I also think that "assume good faith
> > " applies
> here,
> > and I am mindful of another user who said that people made demands for
> > proof of their authenticity in a way that sounded to me like the
> > interrogators' primary motivation was harassment. Perhaps "Trust, but
> > verify
> > " fits how I'm thinking
> > about this. The currently available evidence wouldn't be enough for me to
> > feel comfortable with sending out a press release, but internally (in
> > Wikimedia spaces) I would be happy to celebrate good news if this person
> is
> > able and willing to publicly associate the Wikipedia account with their
> > identity as an astronaut.
> >
> > Pine
> > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Was macht dich diese Woche glücklich? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 29 Dec 2019)

2020-01-01 Thread Aron Manning 
On Wed, 1 Jan 2020 at 12:23, Amir E. Aharoni 
wrote:

> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Global_templates/Proposed_specification
>

That's very serious work, Amir, thank you for investing all the effort!

I'd also love to see this come to fruition. While making a dark-mode theme

for Wikipedia I've noticed the ad-hoc nature of Templates, each using their
own hardcoded styling. It is very inefficient to override these styles both
in terms of the browser's workload and the developer's effort to collect
each case that needs coloring. Actually, it's hardly possible - or it would
take forever - to collect all cases; there's always a page left with some
unreadable (bright on bright) text. Color inversion
 can handle
all cases, but the result is not as pleasant as colors chosen specifically
for the purpose. Templates need to use standard styles (similar to those on
Wikiversity
) to make
product-quality theming possible. With global templates transitioning to
the use of standard css classes would be worthwhile.

Another idea: a template editor can be created that parses the long stream
of double "{{" and triple "{{{" curly braces and presents the template
pretty-printed (reflecting the structure) with different, more readable
delimiters like "❮❯", "«»", "‹›" (example

).
That would make editing a bit easier and less error-prone. I wonder what
tools template editors use. Editing this:  "{{lorem
ipsum}}}{{#if:{{{sign|}}}{{{cite|}}}{{{author|}}}"
seems humanly impossible.


Aron
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians for Sustainable Development first newsletter

2020-01-01 Thread Jan Ainali 
Hello,

Welcome to the first of the newsletters from Wikimedians for Sustainable
Development, covering December 2019. Each month we will collect and
distribute activities and news related to sustainable development from all
around the movement. If you have anything to share, please add it to our
newsletter page. [9]

=== Meetings ===
* We had our first meeting online and there are some minutes [7]
* Editathon on Spanish Wikipedia [8]

=== Statements ===
* Wikimedia Foundation releases a Sustainability Impact Statement [1]

=== Recent blogposts ===
* Joy Agyepong believes in open knowledge for a sustainable future [2]
* Lukas Mezger – the Wikimedia Sustainability Initiative [3]
* Towards a more sustainable Wikimedia Movement [4]

=== Video ===
* Future Climate for Africa released a video from the climate change themed
editathon held previously this year. [5]

=== New properties on Wikidata ===
* World Flora Online ID [6]
* ScienceOpen publication ID [10]
* ScienceOpen author ID [11]

=== Links ===
* [1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF_Sustainability_Impact_Statement_2019.pdf
* [2]
https://wikimedia.se/2019/12/05/joy-agyepong-oppen-kunskap-for-en-hallbar-framtid/#english
* [3]
https://wikimedia.se/2019/12/03/lukas-mezger-wikimedia-sustainability-initiative/#english
* [4]
https://space.wmflabs.org/2019/11/27/towards-a-more-sustainable-wikimedia-movement/
* [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10i-HP1JNBE
* [6]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/World_Flora_Online_ID
* [7]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20191215
* [8]
https://www.climatica.lamarea.com/wikipedia-con-perspectiva-climatica-faltan-activistas-y-sobre-todo-mujeres/
* [9]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Newsletter
* [10]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ScienceOpen_publication_ID
* [11]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ScienceOpen_author_ID

On behalf of the Wikimedians for Sustainable Development,
Jan Ainali
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Was macht dich diese Woche glücklich? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 29 Dec 2019)

2020-01-01 Thread Amir E. Aharoni 
בתאריך יום ד׳, 1 בינו׳ 2020, 03:46, מאת RhinosF1 - ‏:

> Hi Amir,
>
> Two points to make to you:
>
> A) Infoboxes can be standardized but the extension for it hasn’t yet been
> deployed [
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176793]
>

If it gets deployed, I'll be very happy!


> B) Global templates is a great idea. It’s done by Miraheze in a sketchy way
> but I’ll explain it.
> - create a template wiki
> - setup an interwiki with transclude set to on
> - set $wgEnableScaryTranscluding to true
> - place {{raw:Interwiki:Template Name}} where you want to use it.
>

Thanks! Can you please bring this up at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Global_templates/Proposed_specification
?
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