Re: [Wikimedia-l] About the concentration of resources in SF (it was: Communication plans for community engagement

(note this reply represents only my personal thoughts, and is in no way at all anything official) On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: *We are a global movement with global projects and global goals.* Indeed we are! But allow me to play

Re: [Wikimedia-l] On the gentrification of Wikipedia, by Superbass (was: Visual Editor)

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote: On 07/29/2013 11:10 PM, Risker wrote: which are used daily on hundreds of pages, and they serve a very important function. Yeah, but they are duct tape over weaknesses/flaws in wikimarkup, not a valuable feature.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's have the courage to sit down and talk about VisualEditor

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Quality like beauty is in the eye of the beholder. One thing that I learned today is that the Visual Editor will have functionality that only the more accomplished editors will enter directly or they will use

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New access to non-public information policy, re-ID requirements and data retention

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote: On 10/24/2013 09:37 AM, Risker wrote: Wow, Fae. Justwow. I think Fae was being highly ironic there. If so, I think we just ran into Poe's law.[1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law (of course)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Erik Zachte ezac...@wikimedia.org wrote: Special:CentralAutoLogin/createSession Special:CentralAutoLogin/start You should also remove anything else beginning with Special:CentralAutoLogin/. Maybe Special:MWOAuth/ and Special:OAuth/ too. -- Brad Jorsch

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

/index.php?title=Special:OAuth/verifiedoauth_verifier=1234oauth_token=5678, and /grants at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:OAuth/grants. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid editing v. paid advocacy (editing)

(Note these are my own personal views and in no way reflect any views of the WMF or anyone else) On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Christophe Henner christophe.hen...@gmail.com wrote: Now, the question about paid advocacy. Again, one of our core principle is NPOV. We don't want people to push

Re: [Wikimedia-l] United Nation of Wikimedia

(Note this reply is entirely in my personal capacity, and does not in any way represent anything at all official) On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de wrote: Files and contents that let's say are legal in the EU but not in the US should of the be able to be stored on a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] COI editing by WMF staff

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.comwrote: Employees and contractors of the Wikimedia Foundation shall not edit articles relating to the Wikimedia Foundation, broadly construed, but at rather directed to raise potential edits on the talk pages of affected

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Applying the Right to Be Forgotten to Wikipedia (Was Re: Right to be forgotten)

(note any comments here are entirely my own personal opinion) On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Mike Godwin mnemo...@gmail.com wrote: The ECJ said the right to be forgotten applies when the data aggregated appear to be inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive in relation to

[Wikimedia-l] Internet archive and automatic retroactive robots.txt (was Re: Internet archive and strategy survey (was Re: 24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please))

On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 5:21 AM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin Gorman wrote: Regarding the IA: they have a significant interest in working with the Wikimedia projects, a lot more experience than the Wikimedia projects have caching absolutely tremendous quantities of data,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet archive and automatic retroactive robots.txt (was Re: Internet archive and strategy survey (was Re: 24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please))

On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Brad Jorsch (Anomie), 07/07/2014 17:37: And the robots.txt for the new version of the site denies everything, likely because the new owners don't want the redirects or other old content showing up in Google

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Options for the German Wikipedia

*Note these are entirely my own personal opinions as a community member and in no way at all represent anything official.* On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 3:12 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: I'm interested to read others' views about options and ways forward here. People could realize that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

isn't a break in the protection feature itself, for example. Nor is hacking people's accounts. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 6:54 PM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:49 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 2:01 PM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: Before this, there was no expectation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Specifying office action in edit summary?

=MediaWiki_Diskussion:Common.jsdiff=132938244oldid=132935469 -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Link-parameter image usage: attribution issue

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 5:52 AM, Bohdan Melnychuk bas...@yandex.ru wrote: But we can use it like [[File:Example.jpeg|link=]] or [[File:Example.jpeg|link=Some page]] which would suppress or substitute the link with another link. We can also use images via css or scripts for some backgrounds

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's fix templates

note this reply is entirely in my personal capacity and in no way represents anything official On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 5:40 AM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: * The mobile skin obfuscates talk page access because the templates commonly found on talk pages makes them render

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's fix templates

This reply is still my own personal views, and in no way represents anything official On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: If we have to resort to such magic to make templates do what we want, templates are quite simply broken; how can we explain

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Next steps regarding WMF-community disputes about deployments

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/09/2014, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote: ... metadata. It's not an argument against MV, it's an argument for getting rid of the horrid way we handle File: pages with ad-hoc workarounds. The *correct* solution is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's fix templates

On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: This reply is still my own personal views, and in no way represents anything official On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:20 AM

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's fix templates

template/magic-word usage keeps sending things back to typeless text; The Foundation *did* do something. It's called Scribunto. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's fix templates

-replacing templates with something else? Or are you overlooking that because Lisp syntax resembles that of templates? -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow or not to Flow

this represents my personal opinion and in no way is anything official On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Diego Moya dialm...@gmail.com wrote: The feature shouldn't be notify on all posts on the subscribed thread either. I don't want to be notified every time a new thread appears at any one of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia needs an IDE, not a WYSIWYG editor

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: the wiki syntax must go away, {{citation needed}} and will go away. {{citation needed}} ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

[Wikimedia-l] User manipulation of change tags, coming soon to a wiki near you

?action=helpmodules=managetags|tag|query+tags for help, and post questions to mediawiki-api https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What is the wikipedia http API address now?

. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Global North/South

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote: Does anybody happen to know why Russia and Moldova are classified as Global North whereas Ukraine and Belarus are classified as Global South, from the WMF point of view? For some reason this discussion made me think

Re: [Wikimedia-l] harald bischoff advertising to make images for the wikimedia foundation and then suing users

***note this reply is entirely in my personal capacity and in no way represents anything official*** On Jul 20, 2015 3:09 AM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: the distinction because wikipedia is owned by wmf we refer differently to commons than anybody else needs to go away imo.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] harald bischoff advertising to make images for the wikimedia foundation and then suing users

***note this reply is still entirely in my personal capacity and in no way represents anything official*** On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote: Since when has that ever been a thing? With respect to licenses such as CC, we follow the same rules as anyone

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update from the Wikimedia Performance Team

eople aren't able to (or just aren't wanting to) install bespoke services? -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Commons

s" tool, you'd do best to talk with the maintainer of that tool. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Commons

hat allows me to look up the exception in the logfiles on the server to see details as to what exactly is causing it. Let's have further discussion in Phabricator. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] (no subject)

r banners" gadget enabled (or similar code in your user .js or .css) if it's not working for you. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ma

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF trustee Arnnon Geshuri and part in anticompetitive agreements in Google

lly mistaken. You could also give some credit to the staffers who originally proposed creating the Community Tech team. It wasn't a top-down proposal. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Henning Schlottmann wrote: > Switching dead links to the archive is a move to a dead end, instead of > looking for > > a) the new correct URL, as many links were just moved. > b) alternative sources for the same fact. > An automated

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

On Dec 30, 2015 12:33 AM, "Craig Franklin" wrote: > but also for why there was seemingly not any planning for how to deal > with the fallout of that decision. That, at least, was addressed in the text from Jimbo that you quoted: > > Why didn't that happen? Because

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Campaigns extension / ServerSideAccountCreation log - does anyone still use it?

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjor...@wikimedia.org > wrote: > Question 1: Would anyone care if we kill the "loginCTA" campaign, which > tracks when people use the link at the bottom of Special:UserLogin to get > to the account creation page? >

[Wikimedia-l] Campaigns extension / ServerSideAccountCreation log - does anyone still use it?

evelopment resources on it. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiJournal project

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:45 PM, Felipe Schenone wrote: > If we migrate the content we currently have (on Meta and > Wikiversity) to wikijournal.org, and the project grows, and eventually > gets > accepted as a sister-project (as we hope), how will we merge the user >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's set up a Tor onion service for Wikipedia

gnate for media. That part reminds me a bit of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156847, which is about outputting different addresses in links for the mobile site versus the desktop site. The same solution might work for both onion links and mobile site links. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Eng

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New style banner - A heads up

nt. This one makes it look like the page is an article titled "To all our readers in the U.S." rather than a page with a banner on it. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New style banner - A heads up

r a full-page ad as being "in your face" whether it looks like a traditional banner or like content. Personally, I'd rather have clearly demarcated ads. When ads try to blend into content too well, I feel like the advertiser is trying to trick me. -- Brad Jorsch (Anom

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A fundraising banner we'd like to try in a short test

button on the banner does seem to return these pages to the status quo. I see the Timeless skin has a vaguely similar issue (without the banner). That skin does apply the horizontal scrolling to the content div, but the scrollbar is way at the bottom of the page i

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Unblocking 79 IPs blocked as open proxies 12 years ago (T189840)

Forwarding, since I screwed up trying to send it to this list the first time. -- Forwarded message -- From: Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjor...@wikimedia.org> Date: Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 2:50 PM Subject: Unblocking 79 IPs blocked as open proxies 12 years ago (T189840) To: Wik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Hindi Wikisource waiting, developer needed

en to some developer from WMF. > Based on the quoted comment and date, I'm guessing the task in question is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218155. FYI: I don't know any details about new wiki creation, I'm just posting the task link in the hope it will help people who do to find your task.