[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Folklore's 2021 Winners Officially Announced

Dear Community Members, We are pleased to officially share a great update on the 3rd edition of Wiki Loves Folklore [1]. Amidst the ongoing pandemic and its risks in attending in-person gatherings for contributors and photograph

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Endowment reaches initial $100 million goal and welcomes new board members

The other source of income for the endowment is investment earnings. On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 11:03 AM Andreas Kolbe wrote: > Dear Lisa and all, > > According to Meta and the just-released WMF Advancement fourth-quarter > tuning session deck, the Endowment actually passed the $100-million mark > n

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Endowment reaches initial $100 million goal and welcomes new board members

Dear Lisa and all, According to Meta and the just-released WMF Advancement fourth-quarter tuning session deck, the Endowment actually passed the $100-million mark not this month, but three months ago – in June, before the start of this current financial year. The Meta page e.g. says: The Endowmen

[Wikimedia-l] Re: calculating autoconfirmed age and edit count

As a long-time cross-platform user, I have been checking user rights for years. These flag systems have strong differences among platforms. They originate from lack of perspective, sometimes.. some long-time users have no interest in analyzing them, there is a lack of literacy about flag syste

[Wikimedia-l] Re: calculating autoconfirmed age and edit count

There's no evidence behind the majority of policies of any Wikimedia project, so I don't think that's really an expectation. As to enwiki, it appears that the 4-day threshold was in place well before 2008, but the 10-edit threshold was added in 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Autocon

[Wikimedia-l] calculating autoconfirmed age and edit count

I've been involved in this lengthy circular debate: What should be the autoconfirmed age and article count in the Hebrew Wikipedia? See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243076 if you curious about this particular one, but I'd love to ask a more global question: How were these numbers calculated