Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Translatable modules

2020-09-22 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
‫בתאריך יום ג׳, 22 בספט׳ 2020 ב-19:08 מאת ‪Gerard Meijssen‬‏ <‪ gerard.meijs...@gmail.com‬‏>:‬ > Hoi, > Would it be considered for projects that are not the initial target to opt > in.. I expect that particular in the smaller projects this will be really > welcome and beneficial. > The short

[Wikimedia-l] Translatable modules

2020-09-22 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, *Crossposting to Wikimedia-L, Wikitech-L, MediaWiki-L, and Wikitech-Ambassadors. You can reply to the mailing list, but the ideal place for further discussion is the talk pages of the wiki pages to which I link below.* There's a new proposal to localize Lua modules in a more modern, safe,

[Wikimedia-l] Language Showcase, May 2020

2020-05-25 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hello, This is an announcement about a new installment of the Language Showcase, a series of presentations about various aspects of language diversity and its connection to Wikimedia Projects. This new installment will deal with the latest design research about the upcoming section translation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] An encyclopedia must be conservative (?)

2020-05-29 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Most people in the world (or at least in the U.S.) use the terms "conservative" and "progressive" when talking about politics, and associate them with bundles of viewpoints on society, economics, religion, and so on. The political aspect is partly relevant to Wikipedia, too, but if we just take

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Language Showcase, July 2020

2020-07-22 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
‫בתאריך יום א׳, 19 ביולי 2020 ב-18:47 מאת ‪Jan Ainali‬‏ <‪ ainali@gmail.com‬‏>:‬ > Has this also been announced anywhere on-wiki? > Sorry, no, and I guess that it's a bit too late for it now for this edition. However, I'm happy to publish it on a wiki for the next time. Where would be a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Mediawiki-i18n] Language Showcase, July 2020

2020-07-22 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
בתאריך יום א׳, 19 ביולי 2020, 15:50, מאת Asaf Bartov ‏: > Will there be a written summary (of the technical updates, in particular) > for those who would miss or won't make time for the presentation? > I didn't plan to do it, but now that you're asking for it, yeah, I'll publish it. The

[Wikimedia-l] Language Showcase, July 2020

2020-07-19 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hello, This is an announcement about a new installment of the Language Showcase, a series of presentations about various aspects of language diversity and its connection to Wikimedia Projects. This next installment will deal with the translatewiki website, the Translate extension in general, the

[Wikimedia-l] more Planet RSS maintainers wanted

2021-04-16 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi! I'm not sure how it happened, but for a while I've been the main maintainer of the Wikimedia Planet: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet_Wikimedia The Wikimedia Planet is a bunch of RSS feeds that aggregate posts from various blogs in several languages that are related to Wikimedia in one

[Wikimedia-l] calculating autoconfirmed age and edit count

2021-10-04 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
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

[Wikimedia-l] "content was" when deleting pages - is it useful?

2022-01-17 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hallo! There's an old MediaWiki feature: When an administrator deletes a page, a bit of its content is automatically added to an edit summary. This is later viewable in deletion logs. If you edit in the English, German, or Italian Wikipedia, then you haven't actually seen this feature in years,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: "content was" when deleting pages - is it useful?

2022-01-17 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Monday, January 17, 2022, Amir E. Aharoni > wrote: > >> Hallo! >> >> There's an old MediaWiki feature: When an administrator deletes a page, a >> bit of its content is automatically added to an edit summary. This is later >> viewable in deletion logs. >&g

[Wikimedia-l] Collection / Special:Book usage

2022-04-16 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, As far as I can see, the Collection extension, which provides the Special:Book page, is deployed on nearly all Wikimedia wikis. Is there data that shows how often do people actually use it? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

2022-04-22 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
All of these suggestions sound good. Reducing the current intimidating wall of text should be very high on the priority list. Another thing I'd suggest experimenting with is reducing the use of preemptive IP blocks, simply because an IP was identified as a potentially problematic proxy, and

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

2022-04-20 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
I don't have a solution, but I just wanted to confirm that I agree fully with the description of the problem. I hear that this happens to people from Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and some other countries almost every day. The first time I heard about it was actually around 2018 or so, but during the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

2022-04-21 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
It should usually be global. These days, people often need to edit a Wikipedia or a Wikisource or some other wiki in their language, and maybe in another language, and Wikidata, and Commons, and sometimes more wikis. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Collection / Special:Book usage

2022-04-17 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 09:29 Strainu wrote: > > > > The correct question is: does it still do anything of value? > ‫בתאריך יום א׳, 17 באפר׳ 2022 ב-10:42 מאת ‪Jan Ainali‬‏ <‪ ainali@gmail.com‬‏>:‬ > > Even with all output options broken it is still a decent user interface for creating and

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