Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell
Hi folks, I would like to thank all of you who have contacted me on and off-list with your warm wishes. Working with you and so many other community members is what made this job so special for me over the years. I will miss our collaborations and hope we’ll get a chance to work together again down the line. And yes, I hope to be able to contribute new content as a volunteer, now that I will have more time for this type of work. In the meantime, I invite you to continue to work with others to grow ‘a culture of kindness’ (1) in all that you do, so that our movement can reach its full potential — the real opportunity ahead is a lot more about nurturing a welcoming and productive culture than it is about building technology, and we sometimes forget that. Thanks again for reaching out to me, and for being such great partners — I look forward to more great collaborations with many of you down the line. :) Regards as ever, Fabrice (1) A Culture of Kindness https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/12/23/a-culture-of-kindness/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/12/23/a-culture-of-kindness/ P.S.: Sorry about my previous email, which was intended to be sent privately. Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 20:50:55 -0300 From: Oona Castro oonacas...@gmail.com mailto:oonacas...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org mailto:wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell Message-ID: CAOLju7C9=mqh3quc0u+m-9u0u5evfo2vxozgrhddfofow7g...@mail.gmail.com mailto:CAOLju7C9=mqh3quc0u+m-9u0u5evfo2vxozgrhddfofow7g...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Dear Fabrice, it was a pleasure to collaborate with your work. You did a very good job and I enjoyed the atmosphere you created with your colleagues. wish you all the best Oona 2015-06-20 18:48 GMT-03:00 attolippip attolip...@gmail.com mailto:attolip...@gmail.com: May you fare well! We have published a few blog posts and you have been a great help to us. Wish you all the best! Best regards, antanana ED of Wikimedia Ukraine On 19-Jun-2015, at 5:30 am, Subhashish Panigrahi subhash...@cis-india.org mailto:subhash...@cis-india.org wrote: Hi Fabrice, It feels terribly bad to learn that you're leaving the foundation. But I'm sure we would not miss you in all your community activities in a personal capacity. Wish you all the best for the future projects. Best! Subha Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:30:49 +0200 From: Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com mailto:zanni.andre...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org mailto:wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell Message-ID: CAC=VxyYagtD-qmq7CNuVn8tQREnB6gjVWW9Vp0rn8jG=udw...@mail.gmail.com mailto:CAC=VxyYagtD-qmq7CNuVn8tQREnB6gjVWW9Vp0rn8jG=udw...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Goodbye Fabrice, and thank you for all your enthusiasm. It was very appreciated :-) Good luck! Aubrey Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 09:20:42 +0600 From: NC Hasive nhas...@wikimedia.org.bd mailto:nhas...@wikimedia.org.bd To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org mailto:wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell Message-ID: CAPRuq1Ojw=5rx2tmv+dnr8fdj2luqqs0py2f-l6rxhcmd_r...@mail.gmail.com mailto:CAPRuq1Ojw=5rx2tmv+dnr8fdj2luqqs0py2f-l6rxhcmd_r...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi Fabrice, Thanks for all your all type of support at WMF! Best of luck.. -Hasive @nhasive WM Bangladesh Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 21:06:29 +0100 From: Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell Fabrice, you may not recall my name or know me well, but your thoughtful contributions to Wikimedia comms over the past years have been greatly appreciated. Seeing your name appear in my inbox has always been an indication of something worth reading and giving attention to. I wish you the best for the future, and hope you appreciate that you will be missed. Very best wishes, Stevie On 18 June 2015 at 18:18, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Fabrice for all of your work over the years! We will miss you - but hopefully will still see you around the project wikis. :) -greg (User:Varnent) On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Fabrice Florin fflo...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, After three great years working at the foundation, the time has come to say goodbye. I will be leaving WMF at the end of June, to spend more time with my family, focus on personal art projects and consult part-time on worthy causes. I would like to thank all the community and team members I have had the pleasure to work with over the years. It has been an honor to serve our movement together
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell
Dear Ziko, Thanks so much for your kind words, which mean a lot to me. :) I too have enjoyed working with you and appreciate all that you do for our movement. I will miss our collaborations and hope we’ll get a chance to work together again down the line. For now, I hope to be able to contribute new content as a volunteer, now that I will have more time for this type of work. And you are in good hands with Ed Erhart for your Wikimedia blog post — I’m really impressed with his work and he’s a great team player. Be well, Fabrice Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 21:06:29 +0100 From: Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell Fabrice, you may not recall my name or know me well, but your thoughtful contributions to Wikimedia comms over the past years have been greatly appreciated. Seeing your name appear in my inbox has always been an indication of something worth reading and giving attention to. I wish you the best for the future, and hope you appreciate that you will be missed. Very best wishes, Stevie On 18 June 2015 at 18:18, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Fabrice for all of your work over the years! We will miss you - but hopefully will still see you around the project wikis. :) -greg (User:Varnent) On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Fabrice Florin fflo...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, After three great years working at the foundation, the time has come to say goodbye. I will be leaving WMF at the end of June, to spend more time with my family, focus on personal art projects and consult part-time on worthy causes. I would like to thank all the community and team members I have had the pleasure to work with over the years. It has been an honor to serve our movement together — and to help our contributors share free knowledge with each other and the world. I’m particularly grateful to Katherine Maher and our WMF communications team for being such wonderful collaborators. I really enjoyed working with them to manage and edit the Wikimedia blog, help grow our team and publish some great stories together, to celebrate the heroes of our movement. Going forward, WMF's Juliet Barbara will manage the Wikimedia blog, in close collaboration with Ed Erhart. As many of you know, Ed is the former editor-in-chief of the Wikipedia Signpost and has now joined our team for the summer. I've worked with him for nearly a month now and find him uniquely qualified for this project. Starting today, please contact them directly with any questions about the blog (they are Cc:d on this message). After June 30, you can reach me at fabriceflo...@gmail.com — or follow me on Twitter ( @fabriceflorin ) or on my blog ( http://fabriceflorin.com ). The last three years have been an incredible experience for me, and I am grateful for all that I have learned from so many of you. You’ve been an inspiration to me and I have many fond memories of our time together. I wish you all the best with the next chapter of the Wikimedia movement and can’t wait to see what you’ll come up with next. Best regards, Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) ___ 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/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Farewell
Hello everyone, After three great years working at the foundation, the time has come to say goodbye. I will be leaving WMF at the end of June, to spend more time with my family, focus on personal art projects and consult part-time on worthy causes. I would like to thank all the community and team members I have had the pleasure to work with over the years. It has been an honor to serve our movement together — and to help our contributors share free knowledge with each other and the world. I’m particularly grateful to Katherine Maher and our WMF communications team for being such wonderful collaborators. I really enjoyed working with them to manage and edit the Wikimedia blog, help grow our team and publish some great stories together, to celebrate the heroes of our movement. Going forward, WMF's Juliet Barbara will manage the Wikimedia blog, in close collaboration with Ed Erhart. As many of you know, Ed is the former editor-in-chief of the Wikipedia Signpost and has now joined our team for the summer. I've worked with him for nearly a month now and find him uniquely qualified for this project. Starting today, please contact them directly with any questions about the blog (they are Cc:d on this message). After June 30, you can reach me at fabriceflo...@gmail.com — or follow me on Twitter ( @fabriceflorin ) or on my blog ( http://fabriceflorin.com ). The last three years have been an incredible experience for me, and I am grateful for all that I have learned from so many of you. You’ve been an inspiration to me and I have many fond memories of our time together. I wish you all the best with the next chapter of the Wikimedia movement and can’t wait to see what you’ll come up with next. Best regards, Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) ___ 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/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This week on the Wikimedia Blog
Hi folks, Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog: • Wikipedia receives Spain’s Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/17/princess-of-asturias-award/ • A veteran’s Wikipedia edits help him understand the brutality behind Yugoslavia’s wars https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/18/understanding-yugoslavia-wars-on-wikipedia/ • Wiki Loves Pride: Help expand Wikipedia’s LGBT coverage https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/18/wiki-loves-pride-2015/ • Space, disease and a natural disaster: this week in news on Wikipedia https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/16/this-week-in-news-on-wikipedia/ • Wikimedia Highlights, May 2015 https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/12/wikimedia-highlights-may-2015/ More stories on the Wikimedia Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/ Enjoy, Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ 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/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This week on the Wikimedia Blog
Hi folks, Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog: • Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/12/securing-wikimedia-sites-with-https/ * Wikimedia Foundation Board election results are in https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/05/board-election-results/ • How the Wikimedia Foundation Board elections are organized https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/10/how-board-elections-are-organized/ * How to join a Wikipedia meetup near you (VIDEO) https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/05/wikipedia-meetups/ Note: You can also view the meetup video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5uZvTHQuhE • Over 5,000 new articles created with the Content Translation tool https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/09/content-translation-tool/ • Open Badges for editor retention https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/11/open-badges/ • Evaluation helps Wikimedia leaders learn together https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/09/evaluation-helps-leaders-learn-together/ More stories on the Wikimedia Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/ Enjoy, Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ 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/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This week on the Wikimedia Blog
Hi folks, Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog: • How Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/03/caitlyn-jenner-wikipedia/ • How the Odia Wikimedia community is enriching Wikipedia with character encoding technology https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/03/odia-wikipedia/ • Making Wikipedia’s medical articles accessible in Chinese https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/02/medical-articles-in-chinese/ • Preserving Wikipedia citations for the future: Geoffrey Bilder https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/01/preserving-wikipedia-citations/ • Wikimedia Research Newsletter, May 2015 https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/02/research-newsletter-may-2015/ More stories on the Wikimedia Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/ Survey: Do you follow us on Facebook or Twitter? What do you think of our social media feeds? Please take our short survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/wikimedia-social?c=email-ann2 Enjoy, Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ 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/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This week on the Wikimedia Blog
Hi folks, Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog: * What we learned from the Inspire campaign to increase gender diversity on Wikimedia http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/28/what-we-learned-from-the-inspire-campaign/ * A translation rally invites volunteers to localize technical messages for MediaWiki software https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/29/translation-rally/ * A dark side of comedy: the impact of John Oliver’s ‘fowl’ jokes on Wikipedia http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/27/dark-side-of-comedy/ • Scuba diving on Wikipedia: Doug Taylor http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/26/scuba-diving-on-wikipedia/ More stories on the Wikimedia Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/ Enjoy, Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ 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/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Survey: What do you think of our social media feeds?
Hi folks, Do you follow Wikipedia or Wikimedia on Facebook, Twitter or Google+? If so, we’d love to hear what you think of our social media feeds. Could you please take this short survey? https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/wikimedia-social?c=email-ann The survey is open to anyone. We plan to post survey results by the end of June. We look forward to improving our social media feeds based on your feedback! Best regards, Fabrice P.S.: If you are not familiar with our social media feeds, we invite you to check them out before you take the survey: • Wikipedia on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia • Wikipedia on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Wikipedia • Wikipedia on Google+: https://plus.google.com/+Wikipedia/posts • Wikimedia on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Wikimedia • Wikimedia Foundation on Google+: https://plus.google.com/108193079736330787108/posts ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ 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/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This week on the Wikimedia Blog
Hi folks, Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog: • First ever WikiArabia conference gathers Wikipedians in Tunisia to connect and share experiences http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/14/first-wikiarabia-conference/ • Children in Mali can now read Wikipedia offline, thanks to Malebooks e-readers http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/14/e-readers-in-mali/ • Wikimania and the differences between online and offline cultures http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/12/wikimania-online-and-offline/ • Fundraising made in Germany: lessons learned by Wikimedia Deutschland http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/08/fundraising-made-in-germany/ • Wikimedia Highlights, April 2015 http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/13/wikimedia-highlights-april-2015/ More stories on the Wikimedia Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/ Enjoy, Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ 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/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This week on the Wikimedia Blog
Hi folks, Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog: • It’s time for some #tastydata https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/07/time-for-tasty-data/ • The #100wikidays challenge https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/06/100wikidays-challenge/ • Editing Wikipedia as community service in Mexico https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/05/community-service-in-mexico/ • Wikimedians in Brussels map out key issues about the European Union’s digital future https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/04/european-union-issues/ • Wikimedia Research Newsletter, April 2015 https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/03/research-newsletter-april-2015/ More stories on the Wikimedia Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/ Enjoy, Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ 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/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This week on the Wikimedia Blog
Hi folks, Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog: • Meet the Inspire grantees working to increase gender diversity on Wikimedia http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/01/meet-the-inspire-grantees/ • How many women edit Wikipedia? https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/30/how-many-women-edit-wikipedia/ • What we learned from the blog survey https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/30/blog-survey-results/ • Sharing images of the earthquake in Nepal: Krish Dulal https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/30/nepal-earthquake-images/ • Join Wiki Loves Earth 2015: help capture our natural heritage https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/27/wiki-loves-earth-2015/ • A Wikimedian asks European Parliament members for copyright reform https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/24/european-copyright-reform/ More stories on the Wikimedia Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/ Enjoy, Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ 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/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This week on the Wikimedia Blog
Hi folks, Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog: • Celebrity photographer Allan Warren shares the big shots on Wikipedia https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/23/allan-warren-and-the-big-shots/ • First 2015 Wikimedia Programs Evaluations reports examine Wiki Loves Monuments and other photo events https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/22/first-2015-wikimedia-programs-evaluations/ • Introducing the new Wikipedia store https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/21/the-new-wikipedia-store/ • Improving the security of our users on Wikimedia sites https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/20/improving-security-for-our-users/ • The first Wikipedia TV spots and awareness campaign in Cameroon (VIDEO) https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/16/wikipedia-tv-spots-in-cameroon/ More stories on the Wikimedia Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/ Enjoy, Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ 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/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This week on the Wikimedia Blog
Hi folks, Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog: • New features on Wikipedia iOS app help readers access, explore, and share knowledge https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/15/new-release-wikipedia-app-ios/ • Single-User Login provides access to all wikis https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/14/single-user-login-for-all-wikis/ • Wiki Learning holds massive edit-a-thon at Tec de Monterrey in Mexico City https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/13/wiki-learning-edit-a-thon-mexico/ • Wikimedia Highlights, March 2015 https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/10/wikimedia-highlights-march-2015/ More stories on the Wikimedia Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/ Enjoy, Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ 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/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This week on the Wikimedia Blog
Hi folks, Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog: • Wikimedia Foundation releases latest transparency report http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/07/wikimedia-transparency-report/ • The new Content Translation tool is now used on 22 Wikipedias http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/08/the-new-content-translation-tool/ • How content translation improved my wiki edits http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/06/content-translation-improved-my-edits/ • Women and gender diversity on Wikimedia: our top stories http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/03/women-and-gender-top-stories/ • Inspire Campaign receives hundreds of new ideas to increase gender diversity on Wikimedia projects http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/03/inspire-campaign-new-ideas/ • Fighting corruption with Wikipedia: Johnson Oludeinde http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/08/fighting-corruption-johnson-oludeinde/ More stories on the Wikimedia Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/ Best regards, Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ 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/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This week on the Wikimedia Blog
Hi folks, Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog: • Share a fact with friends on the Wikipedia Android app https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/02/share-a-fact-with-friends-on-android-app/ • New Wikimedia Foundation report on activities in 2014 https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/02/new-wikimedia-foundation-report/ • 15 women who made a difference http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/31/15-women-who-made-a-difference/ • Wikimedia Research Newsletter, March 2015 http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/29/research-newsletter-march-2015/ • Discovering a community through cryptology: Elonka Dunin http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/27/community-through-cryptology-elonka-dunin/ • Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Kourosh Karimkhany as VP of Strategic Partnerships http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/27/wmf-welcomes-vp-partnerships/ More stories on the Wikimedia Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/ Best regards, Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ 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/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This week on the Wikimedia Blog
Hi folks, Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog: • Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Guy Kawasaki as board member https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/24/guy-kawasaki-joins-wikimedia-board/ • The Editatona: Helping women edit Wikipedia in Mexico https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/25/editatona-for-women-in-mexico/ • Art+Feminism Events on International Women’s Day https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/19/art-feminism-events/ • Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Terry Gilbey as COO; bids farewell to Gayle Karen Young https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/20/wmf-welcomes-coo/ • Wikimedia Highlights, February 2015 https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/23/wikimedia-highlights-february-2015/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/23/wikimedia-highlights-february-2015/ • More stories on the Wikimedia Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/ Can you help pick quality articles about women on Wikipedia? Please add your +1s for your favorite community suggestions here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women_and_gender_diversity_on_Wikimedia Best regards, Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ 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/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This week on the Wikimedia Blog
Greetings! Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog: • Inspire Campaign to fund new gender diversity initiatives https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/04/inspire-campaign-funds-gender-diversity/ • Women and gender diversity on Wikimedia: Help find quality articles https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/04/women-gender-diversity-articles/ • This month’s focus: Women in Wikimedia https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/03/women-in-wikimedia/ • What is Wikipedia Zero? (VIDEO) https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/26/what-is-wikipedia-zero-video/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/26/what-is-wikipedia-zero-video/ • Taking a stand for free knowledge in the European Union https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/02/free-knowledge-european-union/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/02/free-knowledge-european-union/ • Hindi Wiki Sammelan: Bringing together dispersed Wikipedians https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/03/hindi-wiki-sammelan/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/03/hindi-wiki-sammelan/ • WikiCamps introduce young Armenians to Wikipedia https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/27/wikicamps-young-armenians-wikipedia/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/27/wikicamps-young-armenians-wikipedia/ • New Education Toolkit helps program leaders develop more effective Wikimedia programs https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/25/wikimedia-education-toolkit/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/25/wikimedia-education-toolkit/ • Wikimedia Research Newsletter, February 2015 https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/28/research-newsletter-february-2015/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/28/research-newsletter-february-2015/ Help improve the Wikimedia Blog: Have you taken our short survey yet? If not, we’d love to hear your feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/wikimedia-blog?c=email-ann2 Best regards, Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ 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/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] How can the Wikimedia Blog help you?
Hi folks, We’d love to hear what you think of the Wikimedia Blog, so we can improve it to better serve you. Could you please take this short survey? https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/wikimedia-blog?c=email-ann If you are not familiar with the blog, we invite you to visit it before you take the survey: https://blog.wikimedia.org/ We look forward to improving its contents and features in coming months, based on what you and others tell us. We will post survey results at the end of March, both on the blog and on Meta. Thanks for sharing your feedback! Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ 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/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This week on the Wikimedia Blog
Greetings! Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog: • Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/23/strategy-consultation/ • Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/24/black-history-month-edit-a-thons/ • Wiki Loves Africa photo contest announces winning pictures https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/23/wiki-loves-africa-photo-contest/ • Wikimedia Foundation supports Twitter’s fight for transparency http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/19/wikimedia-foundation-twitter-transparency/ • Survey: What do Pakistani readers think of Wikipedia? https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/20/pakistani-readers-survey/ • Report finds the Wikimedia Foundation to be the largest known Participatory Grantmaking Fund. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/19/wmf-largest-participatory-grantmaking/ • Wikimedia Highlights, January 2015 http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/17/wikimedia-highlights-january-2015/ Next month, we will feature stories about women and closing the gender gap, in honor of International Women's Day on March 8. If you have good stories to share on this topic, please submit a draft on the Wikimedia Blog project hub: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog Best regards, Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ 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/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Love on the wikis
Thanks for your feedback, MZ, Pine, Emily and John, I’m glad to hear that you enjoyed this content collection about love. We’ll review the impact of this curation experiment at the end of next week and share our findings afterwards. I like Pine’s suggestion of hosting an office hours on this general topic. We’re planning a community outreach about the Wikimedia Blog next month, to learn how it and related media can best serve the needs of our movement. This seems like a good way to continue the conversation and I will propose a date here in coming weeks. In the meantime, we welcome more feedback in the comments of this blog post: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/13/love-on-the-wikis/ To be clear, when I asked ‘should we do this more often?’, I didn’t propose to restrict these experiments to just the topic of ‘love’. There are many other interesting topics for which we could surface great wiki content together: freedom, education, diversity or civility come to mind, for example. Or major news stories throughout the year. Other ideas welcome. If these experiments turn out to be useful and cost-effective, we might consider hosting them monthly or quarterly, as needed. Thanks again to everyone who participated in this quest for the many meanings of love. I look forward to continuing this discussion in coming weeks. :) Fabrice Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 09:09:55 +1100 From: John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Love on the wikis Message-ID: cao9u_z7t-x1ukaw5prj69rz9jrzyehoewfecqbvq+uyjjsd...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 4:13 AM, Emily Blanchard eblanch...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thanks Fabrice! This is pure sweetness. St. Valentine's Day comes but once a year! Actually ... It is celebrated at different times in the year, in various parts of the world. And the Eastern Orthodox Church officially celebrates it twice. ;-) -- John Vandenberg Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 09:13:14 -0800 From: Emily Blanchard eblanch...@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Love on the wikis Message-ID: 7550866904249160570@unknownmsgid Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Thanks Fabrice! This is pure sweetness. St. Valentine's Day comes but once a year! Emily Blanchard On Feb 13, 2015, at 9:38 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Fabrice. I would be interested in an office hour about social media strategy in general. Do you think that an office hour could be arranged? The office hour discussion could inform future curations, as well as editor engagement and reader engagement efforts. Thanks! Pine On Feb 13, 2015 9:23 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Fabrice Florin wrote: Many thanks to everyone who contributed to our community-curated love collection! All your fine suggestions broadened our perspectives about love. Together, we found some really well-written, factual and nuanced articles, as well as many humorous, dramatic or beautiful images, which gave us a better understanding about love and why it matters. Thanks for putting this together! I really like when we can highlight some of the beautiful content we have, particularly media on Commons. :-) What do you think about this curation experiment? It's cute, but probably as a once a year kind of thing. MZMcBride ___ Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 18:14:31 -0800 From: Fabrice Florin fflo...@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia List Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Love on the wikis Message-ID: 21c17610-7315-431d-bc32-535ba9147...@wikimedia.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi folks, Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we’ve published two new stories on the Wikimedia Blog, for your enjoyment: Love on the wikis Here are our favorite articles and images about love, collectively hand-picked by community members. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/13/love-on-the-wikis/ A WikiLove story How two Wikipedians fell in love while volunteering in Israel, thanks to a shared passion for knowledge. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/13/wikilove-story/ Many thanks to everyone who contributed to our community-curated love collection! All your fine suggestions broadened our perspectives about love. Together, we found some really well-written, factual and nuanced articles, as well as many humorous, dramatic or beautiful images, which gave us a better understanding about love and why it matters. What do you think about this curation experiment? Did you learn anything new? Should we do it again? If so, what themes should we focus on next? Please chime in the comments of the first story above, with your ideas and suggestions. We hope
[Wikimedia-l] Love on the wikis
Hi folks, Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we’ve published two new stories on the Wikimedia Blog, for your enjoyment: Love on the wikis Here are our favorite articles and images about love, collectively hand-picked by community members. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/13/love-on-the-wikis/ A WikiLove story How two Wikipedians fell in love while volunteering in Israel, thanks to a shared passion for knowledge. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/13/wikilove-story/ Many thanks to everyone who contributed to our community-curated love collection! All your fine suggestions broadened our perspectives about love. Together, we found some really well-written, factual and nuanced articles, as well as many humorous, dramatic or beautiful images, which gave us a better understanding about love and why it matters. What do you think about this curation experiment? Did you learn anything new? Should we do it again? If so, what themes should we focus on next? Please chime in the comments of the first story above, with your ideas and suggestions. We hope that collaborations like these can help us discover new ways to share useful information, combining the wikis, our blog and social media. Thanks again for sharing the love — and Happy Valentine's Day to all Wikimedians! Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) ___ 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/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] What are your favorite articles and images about love?
Hi folks, Can you help us pick great articles and images about love for Valentine’s Day? We’ve received a lot of great community suggestions since this campaign started last week -- and are particularly grateful to Pine, Nemo, Fae, Geni and other community members for their generous contributions. :) We now invite you to add your +1’s for suggestions you think are the most insightful: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Love_on_the_wikis Simply sign your name next to your favorite suggestions, for sharing with a wide audience on Friday. And we could still use a few more articles, quotes, sounds and videos, if you have any last-minute suggestions. We welcome your contributions until the end of today, at midnight PST. Tomorrow, we will prepare a blog post with our top picks, based on community and team feedback — and publish it on the Wikimedia Blog and on social media, on Friday -- just in time for Valentine’s day. As a result of this experiment, we may find new ways to curate and share information on specific themes, combining the wikis, our blog and social media. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this community-created love collection! Regards as ever, Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) ___ 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/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] What is your favorite article about love?
Thanks to everyone who responded so generously to our call for great wiki content about love! Your overnight suggestions from all channels are now posted on this ‘Love on the Wikis' page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Love_on_the_wikis Our community-created love collection is coming along very nicely, thanks to all your diverse contributions. :) We now invite you to add your +1’s for suggestions you think are the most insightful, for sharing with a wide audience. And we could still use a few more articles, quotes, sounds and videos, if you know of any good ones. We welcome your suggestions until Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015 at midnight PST. On Thursday, we will prepare a post with our top picks — and publish it on the Wikimedia Blog and on social media, next Friday, Feb. 13 -- just in time for Valentine’s day. Thanks to all of you who are participating in this little content experiment. Together, we may find new ways to curate and share information on specific themes, combining the wikis, our blog and social media. Onward! Fabrice On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Fabrice Florin fflo...@wikimedia.org mailto:fflo...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello friends of Wikipedia! What is your favorite wiki article or image about love? For Valentine's Day, we are asking Wikipedians to help create a special story about Love on the Wikis for the Wikimedia Blog. We are looking for illuminating wiki pages, pictures, videos or sounds about love -- from platonic to fraternal or romantic. Please add your suggestions on this special page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Love_on_the_wikis https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Love_on_the_wikis Be sure to include a sentence or two about why you picked it. We'll post some of the top picks on the Wikimedia Blog and on our social media channels next Friday, just in time for Valentine's Day. :) Learn more here: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/06/wiki-articles-about-love/ http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/06/wiki-articles-about-love/ Thanks for sharing the love! Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org mailto:wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/guidelineswikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ 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/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] What is your favorite article about love?
Hello friends of Wikipedia! What is your favorite wiki article or image about love? For Valentine's Day, we are asking Wikipedians to help create a special story about Love on the Wikis for the Wikimedia Blog. We are looking for illuminating wiki pages, pictures, videos or sounds about love -- from platonic to fraternal or romantic. Please add your suggestions on this special page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Love_on_the_wikis Be sure to include a sentence or two about why you picked it. We'll post some of the top picks on the Wikimedia Blog and on our social media channels next Friday, just in time for Valentine's Day. :) Learn more here: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/06/wiki-articles-about-love/ Thanks for sharing the love! Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ 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/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Joining the WMF Communications team
Hi folks, I am happy to announce that I will be joining the Wikimedia Foundation's Communications team as Movement Communications Manager for a period of six months. I have really enjoyed my work as product manager at WMF in the past 3 years, leading the development of new tools like Notifications, Thanks, Beta Features, Media Viewer and other multimedia products [1]. One of the lessons I learned during that time is that 'better communications' are really important to make our movement more effective. I also think that growing a 'culture of kindness' is key if we want to engage a broader community [2]. I hope to support both of these goals in my new role. Starting this week, I will be working with the communications team on the Wikimedia blog and general WMF/movement communications. My focus for the blog will include improving contributor workflow for community members and WMF staff, and providing editorial guidance for contributors. I will also act as the main contact point for authors submitting new blog posts, and shepherd the publication process. Within movement communications, I will work to improve the availability, distribution, and timeliness of communications from the WMF to the broader community. I will also manage a range of movement communications tasks previously handled by Tilman Bayer, who is transitioning to the WMF Product team as Senior Analyst. One of my new duties is managing this WikimediaAnnounce-l list. Because this list gets so much spam, we manually review all submissions several times per day, until a reliable machine filter can be implemented. Please contact me if you have an urgent announcement that needs to go out immediately, or if you have any issues about this list. I’d like to thank all my colleagues on the multimedia and product teams -- as well as our many community champions -- for being such wonderful collaborators over the past few years. I am proud of what we accomplished together, and I hope that the features we created can help many more people share knowledge productively in years to come. Special thanks to Erik Moeller for his thoughtful guidance throughout the past three years -- and for making this transition possible. Kudos as well to Tilman for being such a wonderful coach and getting me up to speed on tasks he used to handle so efficiently. :) I'm delighted to take on this new assignment, and look forward to more collaborations with you all in the coming year. Onward! Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation [1] Fabrice's user page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) [2] 'A Culture of Kindness' blog post: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/12/23/a-culture-of-kindness/ https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/12/23/a-culture-of-kindness/ ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ 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/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] RfC: Should we support MP4 Video on our sites?
Greetings! The Wikimedia Foundation's multimedia team (1) seeks your guidance on a proposal to support the MP4 video format. As you know, this digital video standard is used widely around the world to record, edit and watch videos on mobile phones, desktop computers and home video devices. It is also known as H.264/MPEG-4 or AVC. (2) Supporting the MP4 format would make it much easier for our users to view and contribute video on Wikimedia projects -- and video files could be offered in dual formats on our sites, so we could continue to support current open formats (WebM and Ogg Theora). However, MP4 is a patent-encumbered format, and using a proprietary format would be a departure from our current practice of only supporting open formats on our sites -- even though the licenses appear to have acceptable legal terms, with only a small fee required. We would appreciate your guidance on whether or not we should support MP4 on our sites. The Request for Comments presents views both in favor and against MP4 support, based on opinions we’ve heard in our discussions with community and team members. What do you think? We would be grateful for your comments here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/MP4_Video All users are welcome to participate, whether you are active on Commons, Wikipedia, other Wikimedia project -- or any site that uses content from our free media repository. We also invite you to join our Office Hours Chat on IRC this Thursday, January 16, at 19:00 UTC, if you would like to discuss this project with our team and other community members: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours We look forward to a constructive discussion with you, so we can make a more informed decision together about this important question. All the best, Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation (1) Multimedia Team Hub: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia (2) About MP4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP4 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] A Multimedia Vision for 2016
Dear Gerard, Thank you so much for your kind words about the proposed Multimedia Vision for Wikimedia sites by 2016. (1) I am glad that our first user stories resonate with you. They intentionally focus on ways that our community may interact through multimedia -- and we view these types of productive collaborations between different user groups as a key objective for our work. We really appreciate your thoughtful blog post about this vision (2) and fully agree with you that more user stories will be needed to illustrate the scope of possible interactions between different communities around the world -- from schools to professional or personal sites around the world. We aim to identify more user stories like these to inform our next steps. We are actively working with Lydia, Daniel and the Wikidata team to implement structured data on Commons and integrate it with Wikidata later this year, in collaboration with our community. We expect this work will improve a range of multimedia workflows as a result, from curation to search and beyond. We will definitely address the points you raise. I would also like to thank all the community members who have joined our discussion about this multimedia vision (3). We are grateful for your feedback, and very glad to see a partnership develop between our community and the foundation around these goals, so we may better serve our users together. If you haven’t commented yet, please share your feedback here, after viewing the video: http://ur1.ca/gdljy You are all invited to join our office hours IRC chat about multimedia this Thursday, January 16 at 19:00 UTC (4) — we look forward to discussing this vision and other media projects with you then. More on this later. Thanks again for everyone’s wonderful work in helping share free knowledge through multimedia. All the best, Fabrice (1) Multimedia Vision 2016: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Multimedia_Features/Vision_2016 (2) Blog Post by Gerard: http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/01/wikimedia-multimedia-featuresvision-2016.html (3) Discuss the Multimedia Vision: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Multimedia_Features/Vision_2016 (4) Multimedia Office Hours chat on IRC: Thursday at 19:00 UTC https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours ___ Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation Multimedia Hub: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia Profile: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) On Jan 10, 2014, at 4:01 AM, wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:33:30 +0100 From: Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org,WikiData-l wikidat...@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List common...@lists.wikimedia.org,Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] A Multimedia Vision for 2016 Message-ID: cao53wxuxycnbfoe6fkugohvvopgb+mc+h9kbhk4btm74fqo...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hoi, Fabrice, I very much love the two stories described in the vision. It describes not only a functionality that is technical, it also describes how our community may interact. That is great. What I missed are the consequences of the planned integration of Commons with Wikidata. I blogged about it [1] and I suggest three more stories that could be told because they are enabled by this integration. What I do not fully understand is how the community aspects will integrate in an environment that will be more multi lingual and multi cultural as a consequence. I have confidence that the three stories that I suggest will be realised by 2016. Not only that, I am pretty sure that as a consequence the amount of traffic that our servers will have to handle will grow enormously to the extend that I am convinced that our current capacity will not be able to cope. Then again, they are the luxury problems that make us appreciate how much room we still have for growth. Thanks, GerardM [1] http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/01/wikimedia-multimedia-featuresvision-2016.html On 10 January 2014 01:39, Fabrice Florin fflo...@wikimedia.org wrote: Happy new year, everyone! Many thanks to all of you who contributed to our multimedia programs last year! Now that we have a new multimedia team at WMF, we look forward to making some good progress together this year. To kick off the new year, here is a proposed multimedia vision for 2016, which was prepared by our multimedia and design teams, with guidance from community members: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/09/multimedia-vision-2016/ This possible scenario is intended for discussion purposes, to help us visualize how we could improve our user experience over the next three
[Wikimedia-l] A Multimedia Vision for 2016
Happy new year, everyone! Many thanks to all of you who contributed to our multimedia programs last year! Now that we have a new multimedia team at WMF, we look forward to making some good progress together this year. To kick off the new year, here is a proposed multimedia vision for 2016, which was prepared by our multimedia and design teams, with guidance from community members: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/09/multimedia-vision-2016/ This possible scenario is intended for discussion purposes, to help us visualize how we could improve our user experience over the next three years. We hope that it will spark useful community feedback on some of the goals we are considering. After you’ve viewed the video, we would be grateful if you could share your feedback in this discussion: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Multimedia_Features/Vision_2016 We are looking from feedback from all users who benefit from Commons, even if their work takes place on other sites. This vision explores ways to integrate Wikimedia Commons more closely with Wikipedia and other MediaWiki projects, to help users contribute more easily to our free media repository -- wherever they are. In coming weeks, we will start more focused discussions on some key features outlined in this presentation. If you would like to join those conversations and stay informed on our work, we invite you to subscribe to our multimedia mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia We look forward to more great collaborations in the new year! All the best, Fabrice on behalf of the Multimedia team ___ Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation Wikipedia Profile: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) Multimedia Project Hub: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Discuss Beta Features on IRC today at 18:00 UTC
Hi folks, We'd like to invite you to join our discussion of Beta Features (1), which we just deployed worldwide yesterday. Our office hours IRC chat starts in a half-hour, today at 18:00 UTC. (2) If you cannot join this chat, we invite you to try out Beta Features and share your feedback on one of the pages below (3-8) And if you find any technical bugs, please report them on Bugzilla (9). Beta Features is a new program that lets you test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released widely. We hope it can help us improve Wikipedia together and provide a better experience for all our users around the world. Hope to speak with you soon, Fabrice -- on behalf of the Multimedia, Visual Editor and Design teams (1) About Beta Features: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/About_Beta_Features (2) Today's Office Hours IRC Chat: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours (3) Discuss Beta Features: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:About_Beta_Features (4) About Media Viewer v0.1: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer (5) About Typography Refresh: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_Update (6) About Nearby Pages: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Nearby_Pages (7) About Visual Editor Opt-in: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/General (8) About VisualEditor Formulæ: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae (9) Report a Bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensionscomponent=BetaFeatures P.S.: If you are interested in Media Viewer, we invite you to test the new version v0.2 on MediaWiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightbox_demo This new version displays larger images, for a more immersive experience. It is now on MediaWiki.org only and will be released to all wikis in early December. Please share your feedback about this new version on this page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Discuss Beta Features on IRC today at 18:00 UTC
Hi folks, We'd like to invite you to join our discussion of Beta Features (1), which we just deployed worldwide yesterday. Our office hours IRC chat starts in a half-hour, today at 18:00 UTC. (2) If you cannot join this chat, we invite you to try out Beta Features and share your feedback on one of the pages below (3-8) And if you find any technical bugs, please report them on Bugzilla (9). Beta Features is a new program that lets you test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released widely. We hope it can help us improve Wikipedia together and provide a better experience for all our users around the world. Hope to speak with you soon, Fabrice -- on behalf of the Multimedia, Visual Editor and Design teams (1) About Beta Features: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/About_Beta_Features (2) Today's Office Hours IRC Chat: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours (3) Discuss Beta Features: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:About_Beta_Features (4) About Media Viewer v0.1: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer (5) About Typography Refresh: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_Update (6) About Nearby Pages: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Nearby_Pages (7) About Visual Editor Opt-in: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/General (8) About VisualEditor Formulæ: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae (9) Report a Bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensionscomponent=BetaFeatures P.S.: If you are interested in Media Viewer, we invite you to test the new version v0.2 on MediaWiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightbox_demo This new version displays larger images, for a more immersive experience. It is now on MediaWiki.org only and will be released to all wikis in early December. Please share your feedback about this new version on this page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Beta Features Launch Worldwide
Hi Liam, Thanks so much for your good feedback about Beta Features. (1) I am glad you view this program as a positive development and think this tool can give users more control over their experience, as well as encourage more reasoned conversations during feature development, while reducing the stress for everyone. So like you, we're very hopeful about the potential of this tool for enabling more effective collaborations between foundation and community members. Already, we're getting invaluable feedback on discussion pages like this one for Media Viewer (2). On that note, a newer version of Media Viewer is now ready for testing on MediaWiki.org, which displays larger images for a more immersive experience, as shown on this demo page (3). This new version will automatically be deployed on English Wikipedia's Beta Features section in early December, but we would love to get early feedback, if anyone is interested. To learn more, check out this overview of that new Media Viewer version. (4) Last but not least, kudos to all the folks who contributed to this skunkworks program, across many different teams: Jared Zimmerman, Mark Holmquist, James Forrester, Jon Robson,May Galloway, Keegan Peterzell, and Erik Moeller, to name but a few :) While no particular team had a mandate to start this program, we all felt it was the right thing to do -- and just got it done. Sometimes the best projects come from these kinds of serendipitous collaborations. :) Onward! Fabrice (1) About Beta Features: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/About_Beta_Features (2) Discuss Media Viewer: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer (3) New Version v0.2 of Media Viewer: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lightbox_demo (4) Media Viewer Next Version v0.2: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer#Next_Version On Nov 22, 2013, at 12:39 AM, wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:38:30 +1100 From: Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Mark Holmquist mholmqu...@wikimedia.org, Jared Zimmerman jared.zimmer...@wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Beta Features Launch Worldwide Message-ID: CAAGzLhsj37moM+SY5sHsHXkgXqpodgzxf-CR3JYYR_uX5Fhs=q...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 This is a very positive development in the manner by which new features are given some visibility, tested and measured. Making new features *opt-in*, and making it easy to return back is a healthy way of getting wider usage and feedback IMO. Also, the ability for a user to chose to automatically receive all new Beta functions, or to manually select the individual elements that they like, is a nice touch too. I think that, culturally as much as technologically, having a beta track for ALL new elements is a good procedure to have. It will provide consistent and clear expectations of what's happening (and a clear place to provide feedback that is actually answered) - not having that is a large factor IMHO in the negative reaction many features have previously received. I always really liked the manner in which the Usability Initiative (which developed the vector skin a few years back) measured their success - the proportion of people who turned on AND continued using new features. If I recall correctly that was the first time the WMF used the beta concept and I believe that the way it was rolled-out was the best practice example of the WMF making a major change in a calm, clearly communicated, responsive way. Interestingly, the things that caused controversy on the day that that program's work became the default were the elements that were added in at the at the last minute and therefore were not part of the Beta - the v.2 logo, the 'collapsed' inter-language links box in the sidebar. -Liam / Wittylama wittylama.com Peace, love metadata ___ Fabrice Florin Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Introducing Beta Features
Hi all, We're pleased to announce Beta Features [1], a new program that lets you test new features on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites before they are released for everyone. Think of it as a digital laboratory where community members can preview upcoming software and give feedback to help improve them. This special preference page lets designers and engineers experiment with new features on a broad scale, but not in a disruptive manner. Beta Features is ready for testing now on MediaWiki.org [2]. This Thursday, we plan to also deploy it on Wikimedia Commons and MetaWiki. Based on test results, we aim to release it on all wikis worldwide on 21 November, 2013. Here are the first features you can test this week: * Media Viewer — view images in large size or full screen [3] * VisualEditor Formulæ — edit algebra or equations on your pages [4] * Typography Refresh — make text more readable (coming Thursday) [5] Would you like to try out BetaFeatures now? After you log in on MediaWiki.org, a small 'Beta' link will appear next to your 'Preferences'. Click on it to see features you can test, check the ones you want, then click 'Save'. Learn more on the BetaFeatures page. [1] After you've tested Beta Features, please let us know what you think on our discussion page [6] -- or report any bugs on Bugzilla [7]. For technical documentation, visit the BetaFeatures extension page. [8]. You're also welcome to join our IRC office hours chat on Friday, 8 November at 10:30am PST, 18:30 UTC. [9] Beta Features was developed by the Wikimedia Foundation's Design, Multimedia and VisualEditor teams. Along with other developers, we will be adding new features to this experimental program every few weeks. For now, we'd like to thank some key team members who made this project possible: Ed Sanders, Jon Robson, Gergő Tisza, May Galloway, Vibha Bamba, Aaron Schulz, Brion Vibber, Bryan Davis, Chris Steipp, Greg Grossmeier, Keegan Peterzell, Quim Gil, Guillaume Paumier, Erik Moeller, Rob Lanphier, Howie Fung and Tomasz Finc, to name but a few. We're also very grateful to all the community and other team members who helped create this system — and look forward to many more productive collaborations in the future. :) Enjoy, and don't forget to let us know what you think! Fabrice, James, Mark and Jared Wikimedia Engineering and Product Group [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/About_Beta_Features [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_Update [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:About_Beta_Features [7] http://wmbug.com/new?product=MediaWiki%20extensionscomponent=BetaFeatures [8] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BetaFeatures [9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours ___ Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids (Victor Grigas)
! Abbas. Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 12:46:22 -0300 From: t...@wikimedia.org To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org CC: wikimediab...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids That is a cool project. Congrats, Victor. I've a wikireader with me someone gave a few years ago. Have someone tried to install a Wikipedia of another language? I will try http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/ sometime soon (alguém da WMBR com mais tempo, se quiser, fale comigo). What about using their software http://thewikireader.com/ on Linux? If you were successfull with that, please, let me know. Their apps are just for Windows and Mac stuff. I'll check if'd possible to have these machines sold somehow in South America. Ideas? At least we still don't have at our recent Amazon http://www.amazon.com.br/ site. Maybe it would be good to suggest wikireader producers to have the hardware source open as well, if that don't make they go bankrupt. Who knows we could produce locally. Tom On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello everyone, My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise funds to buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and kids in places that don't have internet at no charge to the schools and kids. The campaign is here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07ROeiaFg0 Please consider funding the campaign and if you can't fund the campaign, please share the link with others! While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am doing this entirely as a volunteer. Thanks! -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0 Wikimedia Foundation vgri...@wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839-6885 x 6773 149 New Montgomery Street 6th floor San Francisco, CA 94105 https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0 Wikimedia Foundation vgri...@wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839-6885 x 6773 149 New Montgomery Street 6th floor San Francisco, CA 94105 https://donate.wikimedia.org/ -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l End of Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 110, Issue 15 ___ Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Editor Engagement Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) Donate to keep Wikipedia free: https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero wins!
Congratulations, you guys! I'm so happy for everyone -- particularly for all the folks in the developing world who are now getting access to free knowledge they wouldn't otherwise have. That's really uplifting in so many ways -- well done! Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Editor Engagement Wikimedia Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) On Mar 12, 2013, at 9:21 PM, wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: From: Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero wins! Message-ID: 513fd67d.5090...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Congratulations! Viva le revolution!! -Sarah On 3/12/13 6:28 PM, Kul Wadhwa wrote: Hey all, Wikipedia Zero just won the Activism Award @ SXSW! A big thanks to all of you for keeping knowledge free for EVERYONE! -- *Sarah Stierch* */Museumist and open culture advocate/* Visit sarahstierch.com http://sarahstierch.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation named Knight News Challenge winner
Tel. +1 415-860-8166 jwa...@wikimedia.org About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts. The foundation believes that democracy thrives when people and communities are informed and engaged. For more, visit knightfoundation.org or newschallenge.org Press contact Andrew Sherry VP for Communications, Knight Foundation Tel. 305-908-2677 she...@knightfoundation.org (To unsubscribe from Wikimedia Foundation press releases, reply with unsubscribe in the subject line.) ___ Fabrice Florin Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation Donate to keep Wikipedia free: https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome: Siko Bouterse and Katy Love join the Grantmaking team at WMF
On Jan 15, 2013, at 9:52 PM, wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Congrats, Siko and Katy! So glad to hear you'll be spearheading these important initiatives. Siko, I'm thrilled that we'll keep working together in your new role. Katy, welcome aboard! Look forward to meeting with you next week ... Onward! Fabrice Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:51:31 -0800 From: Anasuya Sengupta asengu...@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome: Siko Bouterse and Katy Love join the Grantmaking team at WMF Message-ID: cakk0pry76bxwtzexqvsnrjcdmth7j0_+pesyyi3a52ovepr...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear all, As you know, we recently re-named the Global Development department at the Wikimedia Foundation, as the Grantmaking and Programs department. The Grantmaking team is committed to supporting our community and meeting our shared goals at the different levels of contribution - whether individuals, groups or organisations - and we will be working with you over the next few months to deepen our strategies for doing so, and for evaluating our impact. In the meantime, however, I am delighted to announce some changes to the Grantmaking team that reflect this commitment. Siko Bouterse [1] needs no introduction to most of you, having worked at WMF since 2011, most recently coordinating the Fellowships program. Siko is coming on to the Grantmaking team as Head of Individual Engagement Grants, a program that will support individual or small team projects for online impact. This is to be launched later today... watch out for Siko's announcement and details of the program, coming soon to a wiki near you. Siko will also shortly be taking on the responsibility for the Participation Support Program (which WMF and WMDE fund together), and supporting the documentation and analysis of our project-based grants. We are really pleased to have Siko's experience and insights on our team. Katy Love is new to the team, the organisation and the movement, but I have no doubt that her experience and insights, as well, will help us be more effective. Katy has just joined us as the Senior Program Officer for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) [2] with a passion for strategic and impactful grantmaking, participatory collaborative work, and transparent decision-making. Her background spans philanthropic activities and NGO programs, systems, and operations. She spent the last four years at CARE International with the Emergency Capacity Building Project, a collaboration between six of the largest NGOs, aimed at improving humanitarian response. Please join me in welcoming them to our team! Warmly, Anasuya [1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Sbouterse [2] http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=owwHWfwpc=qSa9VfwQ -- ***Anasuya Sengupta Senior Director of Grantmaking Wikimedia Foundation* * * Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Info action
Thanks, MZMcBride. This is a really cool feature, which seems helpful for a wide range of different uses. Kudos to Madman, Krenair and everyone who made this possible! Fabrice On Oct 23, 2012, at 5:00 AM, wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Send Wikimedia-l mailing list submissions to wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wikimedia-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Wikimedia-l digest... Today's Topics: 1. Info action (MZMcBride) 2. Re: Info action (Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation) 3. Re: Info action (Risker) 4. Re: Info action (Richard Symonds) 5. Re: Info action (David Gerard) 6. Re: Info action (Andy Mabbett) 7. Re: Info action (Thomas Morton) 8. Re: Info action (Przykuta) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:41:21 -0400 From: MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Info action Message-ID: ccab35c1.1ddf...@mzmcbride.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi. This is just a heads-up that you'll start seeing a Page information link in the sidebar (under Toolbox) in the coming days on Wikimedia wikis. It is deployed now to a few wikis already. This Page information link leads to a newly reimplemented info action: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Pageaction=info Many, many years ago, the info action was added to MediaWiki, but due to performance issues, it was quickly disabled by default and was mostly forgotten about. This year, with the wonderful help of Madman, Krenair, and others, we have reimplemented the info action to provide an information dashboard of sorts about a particular page title to users. This dashboard includes a variety of metadata about the page, including the page's protection status, length, default categorization sort key, internal page ID, templates used on the page, and more. The content is somewhat dynamic: for some pages it will omit certain irrelevant fields and for some users (such as administrators), certain additional fields (such as the number of page watchers) will be displayed. This will slowly allow for the deprecation of outside tools that currently provide information of this nature. The hope is that this action will evolve over time to become a valuable resource for users. If you can think of data points that are missing from the current action's output or have other ideas to improve the info action (it desperately needs a little design love), please feel free to e-mail this list or file a bug at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/. MZMcBride -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:59:49 + From: Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation pbeaude...@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Info action Message-ID: 17143532-1350943191-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-602246200-@b1.c9.bise6.blackberry Content-Type: text/plain Now that's just cool... --- Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com Sender: wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:41:21 To: Wikimedia Mailing Listwikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Info action Hi. This is just a heads-up that you'll start seeing a Page information link in the sidebar (under Toolbox) in the coming days on Wikimedia wikis. It is deployed now to a few wikis already. This Page information link leads to a newly reimplemented info action: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Pageaction=info Many, many years ago, the info action was added to MediaWiki, but due to performance issues, it was quickly disabled by default and was mostly forgotten about. This year, with the wonderful help of Madman, Krenair, and others, we have reimplemented the info action to provide an information dashboard of sorts about a particular page title to users. This dashboard includes a variety of metadata about the page, including the page's protection status, length, default categorization sort key, internal page ID, templates used on the page, and more. The content is somewhat dynamic: for some pages it will omit certain irrelevant fields and for some users
Re: [Wikimedia-l] AFT5: what practical benefits has it had?
Hi Phoebe, Thanks for your good questions and insights about of Article Feedback 5. Dario and Oliver have answered a couple of your questions below, but I wanted to give you a quick overview on where we are with this new editor engagement tool. We are now collecting fresh data to track how many readers who post feedback go on to make productive edits, which is one of our key objectives for this project. We are also analyzing moderation data to evaluate the usefulness of the feedback, which is another important goal, though harder to track accurately. Lastly, we are enhancing our automated filters to reduce the workload for editors, as well as re-factoring our code to make this extension scale better. We plan to have more information to share in a couple weeks, once all the new data have been collected and analyzed, and new tools deployed. At that point, we will share our findings widely, so we can all have more informed discussions on how to best use this engagement tool. In the meantime, I've added a couple clarifications inline below. Thanks again for your interest, and I look forward to continuing this discussion very soon! Fabrice __ From: Dario Taraborelli dtarabore...@wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] AFT5: what practical benefits has it had? Date: October 15, 2012 5:58:04 PM PDT To: Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com Cc: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Fabrice Florin fflo...@wikimedia.org Thank you for enabling it again. I had read about the blind tests in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Article_feedback/Quality_assessment before but I see some major changes in the graphs, which are a bit hard to understand. 1) In Daily moderation actions (percentage) there's a huge spike of helpful/unhelpful after C (July), did those flags even exist before? Or did helpfulness increase after wider usage according to the finding «the average page receives higher quality feedback than pages picked for their popularity/controversial topic»? (There's no change between 5 and 10 % though.) *They did; the spike is most probably caused by a deployment from 0.6 percent of articles to 5 percent of articles, with a resulting ooh, shiny! Lets take a look reaction. the spike actually follows the 5% deployment combined with the CentralNotice announcement (see annotation D in the first plot), the latter is almost certainly what caused the spike Also note that up until September 6, users were able to moderate their own feedback, which caused a slight increase in the number of 'helpful ratings on the feedback page dashboard ( http://toolserver.org/~dartar/fp/ ). So we really should be paying more attention to the data collected after this date, even though the overall pattern doesn't appear significantly different from earlier this summer. 2) Unique daily articles with feedback moderated shows a spike and then a stabilization, but I don't know what the graphs actually is about. For instance, can feedback be moderated per article (feedback semi/full protection or so) or only per item, etc. We now have a feature that allows administrators to disable the feedback form for controversial articles, as part of the 'protect' tool. However, it was recently deployed and may not be in wide use yet. Do you know if moderation happens on the same articles and if stricter moderation increases helpfulness of feedback also on non-moderated articles? *So, I believe it means the number of distinct articles which have had feedback moderated that day, regardless of whether people use the article-specific page or the centralised page, but I'm not sure - some clarification from Dario would be awesome :). Ditto your other questions, particularly on the distribution of articles. what Oliver said, we are not keeping track of the source of moderation activity at the moment but I agree it would be a very important piece of data to analyze. After consulting with Fabrice, I've opened this ticket on bugzilla so we can assess the effort needed to implement this via the logging table: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41061 Dario Also, not to state the obvious, but 'helpful' feedback in and of itself doesn't mean the article changed for the better; I've marked plenty of feedback 'helpful' without doing anything further about it. Yes, Phoebe, you are absolutely right. Marking an article as helpful is a good way to bring up a good suggestion to the attention of other editors, but it does not mean that the comment has been used to edit the article. However, it makes it easier for editors to find comments that can help them improve the article. Over the two months following wider deployment, about 35% of the feedback was found useful by moderators. This finding seems consistent with our earlier estimate of usefulness, based
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Page Curation launch on English Wikipedia
Hello Richard, John and Parnall, Thank you so much for your kind words about Page Curation! We are delighted that this new tool works well for you. It was created in close collaboration with many editors on the English Wikipedia and other projects, who played an important role in its development. Thank you all for your great insights and generous guidance! For a quick overview on how Page Curation works, watch this video tour: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_Curation/Video To try the tool for yourself, head over to the New Pages Feed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:NewPagesFeed (you must be logged in as auto-confirmed editor to review new pages) After you've had a chance to use it, we invite you to leave suggestions for improvement on our talkpage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Page_Curation Thanks again to everyone who made this tool possible. It was a true pleasure to collaborate with so many community members. To be continued soon, I hope ... Fabrice Florin, Product Manager Wikimedia Foundation Editor Engagement team https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor_Engagement On Sep 26, 2012, at 5:00 AM, wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:19:00 +0100 From: Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Page Curation launch on English Wikipedia Message-ID: CACHSVDzdVNpxgYEk=MRV=lpqopm39nzzb+c+ueb-4tmo9oo...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I'm impressed. And it takes rather a lot for that to happen. Great work, guys! Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* On 26 September 2012 11:12, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: It's %!#?y nice. John Vandenberg. sent from Galaxy Note On Sep 26, 2012 4:47 PM, PARNALL Perry parnall.pe...@aol.com wrote: This is ok PARNALL Perry parnall.pe...@aol.com -Original Message- From: Fabrice Florin fflo...@wikimedia.org To: wikimedia-l wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; wikitech-l wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Wed, Sep 26, 2012 6:32 am Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Page Curation launch on English Wikipedia Hi folks, I am happy to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation has just launched Page Curation, a new suite of tools for reviewing articles on Wikipedia. Current page patrol tools like Special:NewPages and Twinkle can be hard to use quickly and accurately, and have led to frustration for some users. Page Curation aims to improve that page patrol experience by making it faster and easier to review new pages, using two integrated tools: the New Pages Feed and the Curation Toolbar. Read the Page Curation announcement on our blog: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/25/page-curation-launch/ To learn more, visit our introduction page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_Curation/Introduction If you are an experienced editor, please give Page Curation a try: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:NewPagesFeed We are also holding IRC office hours on Wednesday, September 26 at 4pm PT (23:00 UTC), during which we will be happy to answer any questions you may have. Please report any issues on our talk page or to our Community Liaison, Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org. A number of patrollers have already started using Page Curation, and we hope that more curators will adopt this new toolkit over time. A 'release version' was deployed on the English Wikipedia on September 20, 2012, and we plan to make it available to other projects in coming weeks. This feature was created in close collaboration with editors. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the community members who patiently guided our progress over the past few months. This includes folks like Athleek123, DGG, Dori, Fluffernutter, Logan, The Helpful One, Tom Morris, Utar and WereSpielChequers, to name but a few. We are deeply grateful for your generous contributions to this project! We designed Page Curation to offer a better experience, by making it easier for curators to review new pages and by providing more feedback to creators so they can improve Wikipedia together. We hope that you will find this new tool useful. Enjoy! Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Editor Engagement Team Wikimedia Foundation User:Fabrice Florin
[Wikimedia-l] Page Curation launch on English Wikipedia
Hi folks, I am happy to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation has just launched Page Curation, a new suite of tools for reviewing articles on Wikipedia. Current page patrol tools like Special:NewPages and Twinkle can be hard to use quickly and accurately, and have led to frustration for some users. Page Curation aims to improve that page patrol experience by making it faster and easier to review new pages, using two integrated tools: the New Pages Feed and the Curation Toolbar. Read the Page Curation announcement on our blog: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/25/page-curation-launch/ To learn more, visit our introduction page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_Curation/Introduction If you are an experienced editor, please give Page Curation a try: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:NewPagesFeed We are also holding IRC office hours on Wednesday, September 26 at 4pm PT (23:00 UTC), during which we will be happy to answer any questions you may have. Please report any issues on our talk page or to our Community Liaison, Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org. A number of patrollers have already started using Page Curation, and we hope that more curators will adopt this new toolkit over time. A 'release version' was deployed on the English Wikipedia on September 20, 2012, and we plan to make it available to other projects in coming weeks. This feature was created in close collaboration with editors. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the community members who patiently guided our progress over the past few months. This includes folks like Athleek123, DGG, Dori, Fluffernutter, Logan, The Helpful One, Tom Morris, Utar and WereSpielChequers, to name but a few. We are deeply grateful for your generous contributions to this project! We designed Page Curation to offer a better experience, by making it easier for curators to review new pages and by providing more feedback to creators so they can improve Wikipedia together. We hope that you will find this new tool useful. Enjoy! Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Editor Engagement Team Wikimedia Foundation User:Fabrice Florin (WMF) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor_Engagement ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Updated Terms of Use
Kudos to the community and WMF teams for creating this outstanding document! I love the brevity, clarity -- and yes, elegance -- of your human-readable summary. I'm amazed that you managed to fit our most important goals, rights and responsibilities into just 12 bullet points. It's an inspiring achievement, which I will seek to emulate in my own work. Well done, everybody! Fabrice __ Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Editor Engagement Wikimedia Foundation +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6827 work fflo...@wikimedia.org On Apr 28, 2012, at 5:00 AM, wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:43:04 -0700 From: Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Updated Terms of Use Message-ID: capb+ky_omsnlpit3jwhjzslzzccvmtahb+g84jop2wy97_d...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Birgitte, Andrew, thank you for your kind words. True credit on this one goes to Maggie, Geoff, and the community members who worked countless hours with them and discussed in great detail almost every word of the thing. I think everyone involved would tell you that it was a thoughtful, deliberative, and truly exhausting process but it was amazing in its collegiality in the final product. I'm proud to be part of the team that worked on this, but my role was small... my hat is off to Maggie, Geoff, and all the others who participated (below, I have listed everyone with more than 15 edits to the talk page where it was developed.) Community Members with more than 15 edits to the Talk page: Geoffbrigham Mdennis (WMF) WhatamIdoing Filceolaire FT2 Peteforsyth Michaeldsuarez Seth Finkelstein Angel54 5 Seb az86556 WereSpielChequers Steven (WMF) Rosenkohl Esetzer Wnt Teofilo Philippe (WMF) John Vandenberg Danhash Rich Farmbrough Dcoetzee 62.140.210.130 ?? ? ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 4:48 PM, birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote: On Apr 27, 2012, at 12:49 AM, Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi everyone, As you may be aware, Wikimedia has updated its Terms of Use. This updated version will become effective on May 25, 2012, and can be reviewed herehttp://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use_%282012%29/en .[1] A short overview of some of the changes is set out herehttp://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/New_Terms_of_use. [2] Best wishes, Philippe Terms of use are boring, and most of us are pretty jaded by how impenetrable, legalistic and, well, awful, most terms of use are on the internet. I want to congratulate you and your department on NOT doing this. The new terms of use are written in clear English, well set out, and cover what seem to be the appropriate bases without being overly verbose and cautious. Well done, Philippe, Geoff, and everyone else. I am also impressed. It actually ends up being the best one piece introduction to what Wikimedia *is* that I have ever read. A lot of thought and consideration were soundly invested in that document. Clarity on that level is HARD, but well worth the effort. I also am thinking that the staff have just set a rather high bar for the board. Imagine if all board resolutions were written with as just as much focus on clarity and as on circumspection. These terms of use show it is possible. Birgitte SB ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l End of Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 97, Issue 81 *** ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
