On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:33 AM, WereSpielChequers
werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
Having been logged off about ten times
Our memcached cluster (which handles session information) has been
experiencing stability issues in the last few weeks. Over the weekend,
we rebooted all memcached boxes
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Huib Laurens sterke...@gmail.com wrote:
In our case here we give away /48 IPV6 to users by default. So I'm
wondering, when a IP vandalize Wikipedia or any other project and a block
will be placed, how is this done?
Will the block just hit the IP or will it
Hi Risker et al,
a few important points:
* IPv6 adoption is still below 1% globally [1].
* It's likely that we'll encounter network-level issues well before we
hit application-level issues during limited production testing.
* In the event that we manage to resolve all issues, it's likely that
Hi folks,
Mark Bergsma just shared the following recap with me, for those who
are interested in the details of what happened at the hackathon and
next steps. tl;dr: If all goes well we'll be ready to launch full
production deployment on Wednesday, starting around 10AM UTC
(MediaWiki engineers
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Freek Dijkstra softw...@macfreek.nl wrote:
I want to express my gratitude for all engineers who made this happen.
Kudos and compliments to all of you.
Credit goes to Mark Bergsma, Faidon Liambotis, Ryan Lane, Asher
Feldman, Aaron Schulz, Chris Steipp, and many
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:14 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
It has been an honor to be a member of the Board, and I hope you will
join me in welcoming Alice and Patricio.
Thank you, Phoebe (and Arne!), for your service to the movement! And
thanks to Ting for his work as Chair,
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:41 AM, birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote:
You must live in a very simplistic world, but I am afraid it does resemble
reality very well. Here are how some various types of things and people are
funded. Tool server=chapter. Developers= Mostly WMF but some chapter.
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Richard Symonds
richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
I believe part of the problem is that Roger may not be in the UK - he may
well be in a hotel in Gibraltar with limited and expensive internet access.
It's not yet been 48 hours since this all broke - give
Hello all,
As recently announced [1], WMF will move forward in creating a
Wikimedia travel project based on community request and support.
We’re currently in discussions with the Wikivoyage community, who’ve
expressed interest in joining Wikimedia’s project family as part of
this launch. We’re
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:
thanks for the offer :) That was indeed the situation I was referring to.
It would probably be good to mention on the page who people should contact
(first Erik, and he will send people from there?). I don't have any
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
I think there are enough options that we don't need to look further than
domains that are already under the control of the WMF or a person/group who
has stated in writing that they are willing to transfer the ownership.
+1;
Hi folks,
a quick update on the launch of a travel project under the WMF
umbrella, and the import of the existing Wikivoyage site.
* The name of the new site will be wikivoyage.org, per community vote.
Language domains will live at (foo).wikivoyage.org.
* A mailing list has been set up at
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Erik,
What languages are you launching with and what is the procedure for
launching new languages?
We're basing the initial set on the languages which are ready for
import from Wikivoyage. At this point, it looks like that
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
The meeting will take place November 1, 2012 at 5:30 PM UTC. The IRC
channel is #wikimedia-metrics-meetings [1] on irc.freenode.net.
All documentation [*] can now be found here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 4:05 AM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:
The question I am missing in this analysis (but perhaps it was discussed
orally) is 'which organization/group/individual is best placed to execute
this' and then I definitely agree that many events etc are probably
FYI
-- Forwarded message --
From: Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org
Date: Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:38 PM
Subject: [Tech/Product] Engineering/Product org structure
To: Staff All wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org
Hi folks,
consistent with Sue's narrowing focus mandate, I’ve been thinking
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Quim Gil quim...@gmail.com wrote:
Whatever the result, I hope we end up with teams where software developers,
sysadmins, product managers, designers etc are well mixed in focused teams
going after clear common goals.
Absolutely. Teams are assembled
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
You can see several teams in that page, with members from multiple
sections. Which leads to the (naive?) question on what's the purpose
of being splitted in those sections if then the work is done in teams
with a
jHi all,
a reminder to chapters and volunteers around the world -- if you're
planning a hackathon, please let us know beforehand by adding it to
this page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_developer_meetings
Consistent with Sue's recommendations to the Board, Wikimedia
Foundation will
So, if you've not been following along on wikivoyage-l (
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikivoyage-l ), you
should know that Wikivoyage is now hosted on WMF servers. :) We're
currently in beta, as there's still lots of smaller and larger
issues to work through, including transferring
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
httsp://en.wikivoyage.org/
Er, https://en.wikivoyage.org/ :)
--
Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton
rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com wrote:
Soo... We need to restart de pt.wikivoyage.org? One of the biggest
projects?? This is true?? 2000 articles, importing by hand???
Hi Rodrigo,
we were only able to import languages from Wikivoyage
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:04 AM, rupert THURNER
rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote:
there is a lot of good reasoning in your mail. you talk of engineering
functions and product functions already existing. which ones are these,
what is their responsibility, and how many people work in these
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote:
There is a blog post video circulating these days, about how GitHub Inc is
organized as a company. They also manage a version control system promoting
decentralized collaboration, plus other tools supporting this core goal and
-- Forwarded message --
From: Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org
Date: Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:49 PM
Subject: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year?
To: map...@lists.wikimedia.org
Hi folks,
it's been a long time coming, but we're finally gearing up for putting
some
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote:
The campaign this year is hugely effective. The banners are smaller and the
campaign will be significantly shorter than in previous years, and yet we
will raise more money: that's excellent.
I think the change that's
Hi folks,
to increase accountability and create more opportunities for course
corrections and resourcing adjustments as necessary, Sue's asked me
and Howie Fung to set up a quarterly project evaluation process,
starting with our highest priority initiatives. These are, according
to Sue's
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
It should be obvious that what is missing is discipline. An
arbitration committee with expanded scope, with full-time members
funded by the WMF (at arm's length for legal reasons), could go a long
way towards solving
As has been noted, Aaron (User:AaronSw) was a prolific Wikipedian
since 2003 and a candidate in the 2006 Board election. His writings
during his election campaign are worth re-reading:
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/wikiroads
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:06 PM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote:
I'd like to ask you or Gayle about how aggressive WMF is about recruiting
outside of SF.
I'm not Gayle or Garfield, but here's some simple data on the most recent hires:
Sr. Software Engineer, Mobile - to be announced
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:12 PM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hm, I guess a planning problem could be the root cause, but since Erik
seems to be saying that WMF has found a number of good candidates
outside of SF and yet the statement in the FAQ for the mid-year financials
said
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 7:49 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Sue or Erik: is there any update on this e-mail from November 2012? (Or
some place interested folks should be watching for news?)
In addition to the original note from November, please also see Sue's
follow-up restructure
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:06 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Though the Wikimedia community seems eager to add new projects (Wikidata,
Wikivoyage), I wonder how it can be sensible or reasonable to focus on yet
another project when the current projects are largely neglected (Wikinews,
Denny,
very good and compelling reasoning as always. I think the argument
that we can potentially do a lot for the MT space (including open
source efforts) in part by getting our own house in order on the
dictionary side of things makes a lot of sense. I don't think it
necessarily excludes
Millions of Wikidata stubs invade small Wikipedias .. Volapük
Wikipedia now best curated source on asteroids .. new editors flood
small wikis .. Google spokesperson: This is out of control. We will
shut it down.
Denny suggested:
II ) develop a feature that blends into Wikipedia's search if an
As background, relevant links I was able to find regarding the WMHK
funding discussions:
WMHK FDC proposal:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/2012-2013_round2/Wikimedia_Hong_Kong/Proposal_form
Responses:
Hi folks,
It’s my great pleasure to announce that today, Jared Zimmerman will
start as Wikimedia Foundation’s Director of User Experience. As UX
Director, Jared will lead the design team and have a hands-on role on
the team, contributing his own design work. It’s still a small team
(Brandon,
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote:
My understanding is that administrator rights have been removed from a
small number of volunteers, but that those people still have basic editing
rights.
Far more than basic, actually. The WMF wiki is unusual in that
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:56 AM, David Goodman dgge...@gmail.com wrote:
Basically, you (in the plural) thought you could do better than the
consensus, and therefore simply without rejecting it , did not implement it
while you tried other things first. All these trials would have been
good,
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know if there's a general bug report about canonical URLs co.
indexing, but there's one about Google messing up with 301/302 redirects
which is spreading quite a bit lately. Erik wrote them to no avail some
FYI :)
-- Forwarded message --
From: Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org
Date: Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:17 AM
Subject: Welcome to Ken Snider, Wikimedia Operations
To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org
Hello all,
I’m delighted to announce that Ken Snider is joining
Thanks for everything, Milos. It's been a pleasure and I won't be at
all surprised to run into you again, if not in Wikimedia then in other
free culture circles. There are lots of unfinished projects indeed --
for me, seeing the movement tackle increasingly hard and complex
challenges successfully
Hello all,
it’s my great pleasure to announce that as of today, Toby Negrin is
joining the Wikimedia Foundation as the new Director of Analytics.
Toby will be responsible for leading the analytics team, which is
responsible for enabling data-driven decisions in the Wikimedia
Foundation and the
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On July 11th at the next WMF Metrics Activities meeting, myself, Erik
Möller, Howie Fung, Maryana Pinchuk, and Dario Taraborelli are going to
deliver a short update on the state of Wikimedia editor communities. (For
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
The concern is not about the validity of the Visual Editor project, or the
quality of the work being done, but about the deployment process.
Unfortunately, the rollout schedule for the visual editor was determined by
the
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Romaine Wiki romaine_w...@yahoo.com wrote:
I still don't see a reflection in your mail that you take the feedback from
local communities seriously.
Romaine, we're not ignoring feedback. I'm asking James to weigh in
with some details relative to the issues
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:06 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
This particular ongoing saga (refusing to provide an opt-out mechanism for
VisualEditor) seems to largely echo past issues with treating Wikimedia
editors as customers instead of colleagues.
That's not the intent, and I'm
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Craig Franklin
cfrank...@halonetwork.net wrote:
I just want to basically endorse some of the other comments being made
here, which I think are quite insightful. If the goal of this project was
to get the Visual Editor deployed on time and on budget, then the
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:
Should that even be a concern? I mean, if lots of newbies and
technophobes start using the Visual Editor and a bunch of us
dorks who love writing markup don't, would that matter?
That's a great question, Tom. :)
We're
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 6:44 AM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't agree with Romaine's view that it is a cultural problem, but it is
true that the WMF management seems to prefer to have all development
concentrated in SF.
Hardly. About half of WMF's engineering staff is
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga
everton.alvare...@okfn.org wrote:
Speaking of template madness, the current horrible brokenness that are
templates seem to be on the long term roadmap to be fixed. Fixing them
requires breaking a whole lot, far more than a visual
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:39 PM, rupert THURNER
rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote:
If WMF is serious about letting development activities grow in other
countries this might be taken into account in FDCs allocation policy.
For my part, I'm happy to offer feedback to the FDC on plans related
to the
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote:
I am happy to report that I just discovered what the problem is. I had
turned off the Show edit toolbar option in my preferences (probably
over a year ago), so I wasn't seeing the top part of the VE edit
toolbar, which
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Craig Franklin
cfrank...@halonetwork.net wrote:
For the benefit of chapters that are interested in this space, can you
offer any examples of projects that are of an appropriate size and type for
a chapter to take on?
It's a great question, Craig. One idea that
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Jan Ainali jan.ain...@wikimedia.se wrote:
I have not read the vision statement as it is the production of knowledge
that need be availible to every human being, but the consumption.
Actually, having co-drafted the Vision Statement (it was drafted at
the October
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote:
We all owe Zack enormous thanks and praise.
No kidding - the accomplishments of the fundraising team have been
amazing. In addition to supporting WMF's growth and thereby our
ability to take on very ambitious and complex
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:00 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Are there any wikitext constructions that are actually going to be
deprecated?
We don't know yet. We try to support almost everything. In addition to
the unbalanced templates that Marc mentions, there are templates that
Hey Tomasz,
this is a good way to start a new thread here, so let me respond.
We've done the following with regard to the VE beta so far:
- We've overall slowed down the beta rollout schedule;
- We've excluded nlwiki from the phase 2 beta rollout;
- We've switched dewiki back to opt-in;
- We've
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:23 PM, James Forrester
jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote:
That'd be great, yes (and really easy to do using Parsoid's DOM) - we
could do annotations, comments, content collapsing, etc. - but I can't see
how it would work with wikitext in a way that would leave it
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:13 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
de:wp convinced you. What would it take to convince you on en:wp? (I'm
asking for a clear objective criterion here. If you can only offer a
subjective one, please explain how de:wp convinced you when en:wp
hasn't.)
Hey
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Peter Southwood
peter.southw...@telkomsa.net wrote:
You could start by making the edit links permanently visible and clearly
labeled.
Yeah, I've already requested this, since it seems like an easy win.
The mouseover behavior is really not a good solution - it
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Peter Southwood
peter.southw...@telkomsa.net wrote:
That should help, Any idea of when we can expect the change?
Last time I discussed with Trevor he mentioned that it was a trivial
fix (we just need to remove the hover effect), so let me bug them
tomorrow :).
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:36 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Certainly. However, it's the obvious question to ask, and a curious
question to spend several paragraphs not answering.
Erik, James - how did de:wp convinced you when en:wp hasn't?
Hi David,
I don't really agree with your
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
I mean, look at how Jimbo sold the VisualEditor to the press at the start
of the roll-out:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/10196578/Wikipedia-introduces-new-features-to-entice-editors.html
---o0o---
Hey Kevin,
contrary to your belief (and in spite of your desire to blame me ;-),
I actually have a ton of respect for the opinions you've expressed
throughout the process, and for the level of detail and time you've
committed to it, including helping in a hands-on manner. I don't agree
with you
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Kevin Wayne Williams
kwwilli...@kwwilliams.com wrote:
The editor was able to change a 4 to a 5 in an existing table, that's true.
Could that editor add a row? No. Add a column? No. Delete a row or a column?
No. Are all of those operations part of the bare minimum
Hi folks,
As many of you know, this week we enabled HTTPS for logged-in users of
Wikimedia projects. See:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/08/28/https-default-logged-in-users-wikimedia-sites/
We have geographically exempted users geo-located to China or Iran
from this [1], because these
FYI.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org
Date: Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:56 PM
Subject: Notification about Wikimedia user account security issue
To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
See also:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 5:23 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
There's also https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard,
which features a cartoon puzzle-flower that tries to explain free content.
It's not a flower, just a small person with a misshapen head. Although
it would
FYI
-- Forwarded message --
From: Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org
Date: Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:24 AM
Subject: Interactive WMF org chart
To: WMF staff
Before Mark Holmquist moved on to projects like Parsoid, EtherEditor,
BetaFeatures MultimediaViewer, he worked on a small
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote:
It would also be really useful if this could exist for the other Wikimedia
organisations too
- is that possible using this installation of the tool, or does it only work
for one organisation
at a time?
It supports
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 4:38 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
We provide a dump of the September 11 wiki's contents here:
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backups-of-old-wikis.html. Memorial sites,
while depressing and touching, are completely outside the scope of
Wikimedia's mission. I don't
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Sure, but you can't undo it, once it is done. Maybe it was stupid to
take on this responsibility, but deleting the site is not an ethical
way to rectify the mistake.
If you _really really_ want to take this on, please
I should also note that input.mozilla.org inspired MoodBar/the
Feedback Dashboard extension (we actually met with the PM of the
project several times before kicking off work on MoodBar/Feedback
Dashboard), which can be used to collect feedback from users. We used
it for collecting new user
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:54 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
One related question: will the delay in finding a new Executive Director
impact the search for a Vice President of Engineering?
No. While it would be ideal for Sue's successor to be part of the
process and we will look for
FYI :)
-- Forwarded message --
From: Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org
Date: Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:40 PM
Subject: Update on community advocacy liaison work
To: All Wikimedia Foundation staff contractors
Hi all,
As many of you know, we recently brought on board a team
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Steven Walling
steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote:
In general, I would personally like it if the WMF avoided accepting
bitcoin. Today, bitcoin isn't really a functioning currency of exchange --
it's actually used more as an investment tool to create wealth that
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Matthew Walker mwal...@wikimedia.org wrote:
It is a significant undertaking to integrate a new gateway with our current
code (think several man months of time related to coding, code review,
donor services preparation, and testing; not including contract
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Reversing the decline in editor population has been a major strategic
priority of WMF for many years. You are saying you have never heard of
it before? Well, here is some reading material for you:
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Todd Allen toddmal...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, after reading that, I am a bit uneasy. Has WMF agreed not to move
forward if that discussion does not reach a consensus to do so? At this
point, it looks unlikely that it will.
The point of the RFC is to figure out
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:59 PM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote:
clarify why Sandole was listed as a WMF Fundraiser contractor
Presumably because the fiscal sponsorship was handled through
fundraising, and HR simply tallies the contracts per department and
didn't have the backstory.
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
The original job description (here
https://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=o52lWfw8c=qSa9VfwQ) is on the
WMF's page and says that Wikipedia, in cooperation with the Belfer Center...
is seeking applicants for a Campus
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:
Eric, in this thread you are officially speaking for the WMF. Does the
WMF really want to say it is ethical to have different
accountability rules for funding organizations that want to use the
Wikimedia brand because there are
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:
Erik, you are a senior manager within the WMF. If you cannot resist
offensive schoolboy sarcasm in your responses
Just after talking about stomping down with its hobnail boots on
Wikimedia UK, huh? :-) I'm sorry to have offended your
Hi all,
I've just met with Lisa Gruwell and Sara Lasner about it to get more
of a debrief of the situation. For the purpose of clarity, I'm looking
into this on Sue's behalf while she's traveling; she should be able to
look into it next week. As noted previously, this isn't a project I
was
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
* The Stanton Foundation does not have a financial interest in these
topics. With that said, Liz Allison, who heads the Stanton Foundation,
and Graham Allison, who heads the Belfer Center, are wife and husband
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Martijn Hoekstra
martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote:
Did the fundraising department regard it as their programme
No, on the contrary, fundraising actively looped in other staff. Folks
like Siko and Asaf were involved early on. That's how the advice to
not turn this
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
I have no problem *at all* with the
fact that the Wikimedia Foundation paid an academically qualified expert to
make edits to Wikipedia. In fact, I find it disheartening that the
Foundation now feels it has to state that
Hi folks,
I'd be interested in hearing broader community opinions about the
extent to which WMF should sponsor non-profits purely to support work
that Wikimedia benefits from, even if it's not directed towards a
specific goal established in a grant agreement.
This comes up from time to time. One
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Frédéric Schütz sch...@mathgen.ch wrote:
Within Wikimedia CH, this is an idea that we have discussed a few years
ago: how can we support software and other communities that our
community depends on, while avoiding to just give away money. In the
end, we
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Erik, there are cases in which this is clearly the right thing
for us to do.
1) An annual 'supporting the ecosystem' program, that channels grants
and visibility to important partners, seems interesting. Could this
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote:
The community guidelines are extremely complex, yes. I consider that an
argument *in favor* of adopting simpler rules for staff, that exceed
community rules. For a general idea, here are the kind of rules that could
be
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:24 AM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote:
As a former staff member who actively sought out (and received very little)
guidance on how to approach my approach to Wikipedia editing during my
tenure,
In other words, you were expected to apply good judgment. It
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:
This is not the first time that Erik has been sarcastic and rude in an
apparent attempt to close down discussion in public responses to
whistle-blowers.
Please. You are making a mockery of every whistleblower on the planet;
it's
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Steven Walling
steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote:
Seems like we really depend on MariaDB having strong support in the future,
as an open source infrastructure requirement. We moved to Maria in part
because Oracle is a terrible terrible steward of open source,
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote:
After he was hired, Zack continued to use that account -- more responsibly,
yes -- but he neither corrected the false statement on its user page, or
disclose his connection to it.
That is untrue; see
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:03 PM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
We're getting a long way off topic of the still frame on MOTD, but I
agree, and wish that the WMF would make this a priority for their
multimedia and search team.
Many improvements have been suggested by the
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote:
I think it is much more likely that a Wikipedia reader would expect to find
those images *used in Wikipedia articles* than a massive collection of
stuff that is somehow tangentially related to Wikipedia in a way that
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Capabilities that exist today with the new search include
template-based boosting of results, a feature that's already enabled
on Commons and which will boost quality content in search results:
https
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Nikolas Becker
nikolas.bec...@wikimedia.de wrote:
On behalf of the Supervisory Board of Wikimedia Deutschland I
would like to thank Pavel for his very good work and for both the
professionalism and passion with which he has shaped the development of
Wikimedia
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