Perhaps i am hyperfocused on technical debt in the sense of improving the
abstractions used in mediawiki. The phrasing around sustainability
especially leads me in that direction. However, technical debt is certainly
a broad concept and can mean a lot of things.
The common thread in the examples y
Fae wrote:
>Does the minus symbol in "-60.0%" mean anything? Being a retention
>percentage, I do not understand how it can be negative unless
>potential volunteers are getting rejected at the door before they can
>sign-up. Could that be corrected?
My understanding is that this means that the rente
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Srishti Sethi wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
>
> I would like to share the first edition of the New Developers Quarterly
> Report that the Developer Relations team has produced. This report covers
> metrics, survey analysis and lessons learned from new developers focus
On 12/20/15, James Salsman wrote:
> Were there any objections to my request below?
>
Yes. As MaxSem said earlier[1], its basically being ignored as being
totally irrelevant to the topic at hand. (To be clear: Third-party
does not mean people who are doing work on Wikimedia sites that aren't
WMF.
>Another thought: perhaps more investment could be made in providing career
>development support for our volunteers of all kinds. It's relatively common
>in the United States for organizations with lots of volunteers to put some
>investment explicitly into helping the volunteers develop skills snd
So as part of
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Increasing_article_coverage
, it appears that unsolicited emails have been sent out encouraging
people to translated articles into needed languages.
I am all for improving article coverage, etc, but I'm concerned about
the use of user account
>I should also mention that while we try to be as transparent as possible in
>all our work (including holding community consultations around all major
>legal policies and providing frequent updates on our work), there are very
>limited situations where public discussions could actually hurt free ac
>To be truly free, access to knowledge must be secure and uncensored. At the
>Wikimedia Foundation, we believe that you should be able to use Wikipedia
>and the Wikimedia sites without sacrificing privacy or safety.
>
>Today, we’re happy to announce that we are in the process of implementing
>HTTPS
>
> In particular, I wanted to share more about the plans for the Community
> Tech team. The creation of this team is a direct response to community
> requests for more technical support. Their mission is to understand and
> support the technical needs of core contributors, including improved
> sup
On 2/21/15, Pine W wrote:
> (Now continuing this discussion on Wikimedia-l also, since we are
> discussing grant policies.)
>
> For what it's worth, I repeatedly advocated for allowing IEG to support a
> broader range of tech projects when I was on IEGCom. I had the impression
> that there was a l
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