[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

2024-03-26 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
unnecessary. In the meantime, they're a necessary annoyance, I'm afraid. Cheers! On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 5:37 AM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga mailto:galder...@hotmail.com>> wrote: Thanks Felipe, that's a really great move. I looked to these examples a couple o years ago, and this se

[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

2024-03-23 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Thanks Felipe, that's a really great move. I looked to these examples a couple o years ago, and this seems that a good option to add some interactive content. Anyway, I have tried to replicate it and can't make it work (https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Txantiloi:Vivarium). Is the documentation

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mopping with the tap open

2024-03-09 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Hello, When I was born, I didn't know how to speak or walk. When I started in the school, I didn't know how to multiply 2x2. When I started in the University, I didn't know how to research a topic within academy standards. When I first drove a car in the driving school, I didn't know how to

[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

2024-02-25 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
itment in both funding and support from the WMF and the Community the later of which is a lot harder to establish. On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 at 21:58, Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga mailto:galder...@hotmail.com>> wrote: Two weeks have passed since we last heard about the WMF explaining why they ren

[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

2024-02-23 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
is totally out of scope, or is something that could be payed for. Thanks Galder From: Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga Sent: Wednesday, February 7, 2024 9:09 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

2024-02-07 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Thanks Marshall for your pointing out an official answer from the WMF, Let me say that this is not only disappointing, you are also presenting a false dichotomy where we can only "save a kitten" OR "plant a tree", while we have budget, staff and enough talented volunteers to do both. The

[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

2024-01-30 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Dear all, I think we are mixing two different topics here, which are two different problems we should solve: We have series of problems regarding video upload, some of them technical (codecs, uploading process...) and other social (how to know if the video is freely licensed, etc). Both are

[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

2024-01-26 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Yes, we have videos. And we even have video creation projects. https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari: Hezkuntza/Ikusgela is a good example of that.Still, those are multimedia but not interactive. And adding subtitles is complex (we could have a translation tool for those). We can't dub videos

[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

2024-01-26 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
on this state of affairs, and if there is some roadmap for improving it. Best, Paulo Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga mailto:galder...@hotmail.com>> escreveu (terça, 23/01/2024 à(s) 11:03): Dear wikimedians, Nearly one year ago, the Graphs extension was disabled from all wikis, because there was a security issue

[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

2024-01-24 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
;> wrote: Thank you Yaroslav, I would very much appreciate a link to the discussion. By not having a Youtube 2.0 we are avoiding a Wikipedia 2.0 with pure encyclopaedic videos. I see a false dilemma there. El mar, 23 ene 2024 a las 16:03, Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga (mailto:galder...@hotma

[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

2024-01-23 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
fective expenditure and allocation of those funds. I wish I knew how to contribute to changing or improving this situation. It would also be great to see a comment/opinion from current CEO Maryana Iskander on this state of affairs, and if there is some roadmap for improving it. Bes

[Wikimedia-l] We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

2024-01-23 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Dear wikimedians, Nearly one year ago, the Graphs extension was disabled from all wikis, because there was a security issue that should be solved (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334940). A wide team from the WMF worked on a solution for some weeks, but after Northern Hemisphere spring

[Wikimedia-l] Basque Wikimedians User Group four year report

2024-01-10 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Dear wikimedians, In the last four years the Basque Wikimedians User Group has been working on improving Basque Wikipedia with students, teachers and, logically, wikimedians. It has been the largest project made in the last seven years by our user group. Today we are starting a new path for the

[Wikimedia-l] The Book Creator

2023-12-27 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Dear all, Some years ago, when we started the Education Program at the Basque Wikipedia, we used a lot the Book Creator (or Collections) extension. It allowed to bind some articles and download them in PDF or DOC/ODT formats for further editing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Book). This

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Arabic Wikipedia day of action

2023-12-27 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Thanks for your words, Farah. From: Farah Jack Mustaklem Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2023 3:49 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Arabic Wikipedia day of action First and foremost, let me just be clear that my message announcing the day of

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Release of Tulu Documentary 'Pursa Kattuna' by Karavali Wikimedians

2023-12-12 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
for sharing these files with you? We want to ensure a smooth and convenient process. Looking forward to your guidance on this. Best regards, Bharathesha Alasandemajalu On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 10:19 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga mailto:galder...@hotmail.com>> wrote: These are great news!

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Release of Tulu Documentary 'Pursa Kattuna' by Karavali Wikimedians

2023-11-23 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
These are great news! Would it be possible to have the documentary without subtitles in the video, but as a TimedText file? Embedding subtitles directly in the video makes it impossible to resubtitle, and should be avoided. Thanks Galder From: Bharathesha A B

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Recognition of Wikimedians of Japan User Group

2023-10-18 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
This are so great news! Congratulations and welcome! From: Affiliations Committee Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 5:41 PM To: Affiliations Committee Cc: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org ; affilia...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Tool to find articles to create or improve in non-English Wikipedias

2023-09-19 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
actual tools could be located. From: Asaf Bartov Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 7:13 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Tool to find articles to create or improve in non-English Wikipedias On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 8:49 PM Galder Gonzalez

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Tool to find articles to create or improve in non-English Wikipedias

2023-09-18 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
a suggestion button that feeds from the varied tools we have.BestGalder2023(e)ko ira. 18(a) 19:43 erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du (Johan Jönsson ):Den mån 18 sep. 2023 kl 19:06 skrev Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <galder...@hotmail.com>:We are in the same point, Alex. From time to time, someone develops

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Tool to find articles to create or improve in non-English Wikipedias

2023-09-18 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
We are in the same point, Alex. From time to time, someone develops a tool to make something with similar goals. But this tools are dispersed. How could the Product Team think in a way to gather and join all if this useful tools so we can find them onsite?Best, Galder2023(e)ko ira. 18(a) 18:02

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Tool to find articles to create or improve in non-English Wikipedias

2023-09-17 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Really good and useful, Amir. In the last years we have developed some similar tools, and the problem I see is about discoverability. How could we make this kind of tools extremely easy to find, and not something external that you must search for? Personally, I think that the user menu could be

[Wikimedia-l] Translation effort for launching Ikusgela's second season

2023-09-14 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Dear all, One year ago, we launched Ikusgela, the Basque Wikimedians User Group effor to add high quality pedagogical videos to Wikipedia. We started with philosophy videos, and in two weeks we are launching the second season of this

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Launch of Justapedia

2023-09-12 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
The logo is quite funny. According to that Information + Disinformation = Facts. It might be that they don't know what a Venn diagram is, or simply that they actually think that. Don't worry, this is just one more project that will fall into oblivion. Galder

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Post-Wikimania Covid cases

2023-09-08 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
I don't know if there's something statistically significant, but when I returned home, some of my friends were with COVID, and not me. It would be difficult to know if Wikimania affected people, or simply there's a spike worldwide. Take care Galder From:

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Uploading to Commons and tell us your story about Wikimania 2023

2023-08-28 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Dear all, It would be great if the presentations were uploaded to Commons, so we can review works, view links and share with others. Best Galder From: Wikimania Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2023 7:26 AM To: Wikimania Cc: Wikimania general list (open subscription)

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Project Manager change at Wikimedia Community Ireland

2023-08-28 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Thanks Rebecca for all the work you have made. I will miss you in our next meeting for Erasmus+ project in Ireland. Take care Galder From: Wikimedia Community Ireland Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2023 9:36 PM To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject:

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikisource-l] Google not indexing Wikisource for last few years now.

2023-08-01 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
As Ilario points out, our Wikisource and Wiktionary are heavily relating on gadgets, divs, css, templates... We can't blame the community: they do what they can with a practically abandonware software.We need to discuss this, because sister projects need way more attention.BestGalder2023(e)ko abu.

[Wikimedia-l] Any news about the Movement Strategy Forum usage statistics?

2023-07-09 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Dear all, One year ago, the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team at the Wikimedia Foundation launched a proposal for a new Movement Strategy Forum. The proposal was

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Call for feedback on a proposed Third-party resources policy

2023-06-05 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
I'm also concerned, and I have some reasons. Graphs have been broken for more than a month now, and it doesn't seem that they are going to recover, losing opportunities to show things in a more interesting way. Some efforts we have made to show Ourworldindata maps and graphs are also stopped at

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Could the broad use of ChatGPT mean more accesses to Wikipedia?

2023-05-15 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
There's yet another option: a simple Google search algorithm change can promote or hide a language from the results. We have seen it at Basque (and Catalan) Wikipedias, after they dediced to show the Spanish language result even if you search in Basque and the article exists. As we can't know

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation launches Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards on World Press Freedom Day

2023-05-04 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Dear Andreas, I support your message, but I wanted to add that 100 million Africans speak Arabic. And yes, English is widely known but, even in countries with large populations (Nigeria) less than 1/5 of the population have it as first language

[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

2023-05-02 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
still waiting for an aswer to the offer. Sincerely, Galder ________ From: Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga mailto:galder...@hotmail.com>> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2023 11:36 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List mailto:wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-

[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

2023-05-02 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
ly, Galder ____ From: Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2023 11:36 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter Dear all, I write to send a small update on this. In a message about the methodology

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wiki Loves Monuments 2022 award ceremony announcement

2023-04-21 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Congratulations to the winners, and especially to the Polish wikimedians, which seem to have lot of images in the top. This usually comes after a hard work! Galder From: Kassia Echavarri-Queen Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2023 7:40 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Graph Extension

2023-04-19 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
The Basque Wikimedians User Group is working in the deployment of OWID and the security review is pending: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T324989. As always, we have invested time and money on this, but it seems stalled in the Foundation side. From: Tim Moody

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Graph Extension

2023-04-19 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Dear all, There are thousands of articles in many languages using Graph extension. At the Basque Wikipedia we are running a project to add climate data using it, and we were presenting it in some days. Is there any news on this? Best, Galder From: James Heilman

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

2023-04-13 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
(Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga ):Sorry, but @firefox has 4 times more followers than @wikipedia. @mozilla has 3 times more than @wikimedia. 2023(e)ko api. 13(a) 17:50 erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du (Luis Villa ):On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 12:29 AM Kunal Mehta <lego...@debian.org> wrote:Hi, On 4/7/23

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

2023-04-13 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Sorry, but @firefox has 4 times more followers than @wikipedia. @mozilla has 3 times more than @wikimedia. 2023(e)ko api. 13(a) 17:50 erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du (Luis Villa ):On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 12:29 AM Kunal Mehta wrote:Hi, On 4/7/23 18:17, Dan Szymborski wrote: >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

2023-04-13 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Thanks for this move, Kunal. I have started following it. In the coming days I'll try to write some ideas that could be followed both by the Mastodon account and the Twitter account, if there is a day that the last one wants to be a good representant of the free knowledge ecosysten and the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [WikiForHumanRights 2023] Ensuring the Safety of Organizers and Participants in Addressing Environmental Issues on Wikimedia

2023-04-06 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Dear Euphemia,I would like to note that you sent five mails foe a live event. Sending a "we are live now" message to a mailing list is not effective, and fills people's mailboxes with messages that are not relevant when they are read, usually some hours later or even the next day.Consider, please,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

2023-04-04 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Dear all, You may know the concern I have with this topic. Now, that we can see Twitter adding a Dogecoin icon in order to push a fraudulent pyramidal scheme and how the verified accounts won't be relevant anymore if they don't pay is a good moment to do two movements: joining Mastodon and

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Bing-ChatGPT

2023-03-19 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Dear all,Your discussion and points are really interested. I just wanted to point that, as far as I know, "Text in this response derived from: 17% Wikipedia article 'Example', 12% Wikipedia article 'SomeOtherThing', 10%..."." Idea is impossible, as generative AIs derive from all articles or texts

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [AID Project] Contributing to intangible cultural heritage on Wikimedia Projects

2023-03-01 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Dear Euphemia, This is a great addition to Wikimedia! Thanks for sharing! I wonder how you worked on the copyright of the audio files, as I can find it on Commons and I'm really interested on that. If you could share the process, it would be a great learning path. Thanks Galder

[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

2023-02-14 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
ing to this list proofs, data and justified arguments (even collagues offering themselves and willing to trace a joint planning!), but still not a word or single thought from the Comms department. Disappointing, I am sad to say. Kind regards/Salutacions Xavier Dengra El ds, 14 gen.,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

2023-01-14 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
n that all audiences are the same and react exactly the same way every time even as the audience is increasing by many orders of magnitude. Boodarwun On Sat, 14 Jan 2023 at 02:06, Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga mailto:galder...@hotmail.com>> wrote: @Gnangarra: I would doubt on the idea that Pelé

[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

2023-01-13 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
ccount which tweets more than say 10 per day (not counting threads) I start thinking may be it is a spam generator. Best Yaroslav On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 2:26 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga mailto:galder...@hotmail.com>> wrote: Some months have gone since I started this topic in this list, an

[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

2023-01-13 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
ge to open these accounts, have a fresh way of thinking on social media ,and building engagement, both with momentum, not losing opportunities, and promoting good content. Sincerely Galder ____ From: Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 3:21 PM To: Wikimed

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

2023-01-04 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
I agree that Wikipedia handles should join Mastodon. But, again, opening a social media channel needs a strategy. Currently, there's no strategy for the Twitter account, so opening an account in Mastodon without strategy would be a bad decision. (Still waiting the social media team to define

[Wikimedia-l] Basque Wikipedia: the fourth completing the list of 10.000 articles every Wikipedia should have

2022-12-27 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Dear Wikimedians, I want to share with you that the Basque Wikipedia is the fourth language (after English, Serbian and Catalan) to complete the expanded list of articles every Wikipedia should have. We have

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Reminder – expressions of interest for Wikimania 2024 and 2025 (deadline December 16th)

2022-12-12 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Dear all, I can't find any resource on budgeting. Is Wikimania fully supported, or local organizers should have a big budget for the event? Would it be possible to find some information on this? Thanks Galder From: Iolanda Pensa Sent: Saturday, December 10,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Most visited articles in 2022

2022-12-07 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Are you doing it by hand, or do you use a bot? From: Jan Ainali Sent: Wednesday, December 7, 2022 6:20 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Most visited articles in 2022 On Swedish Wikipedia we collect it on one page:

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Vote for your favourite sound logo

2022-12-07 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
I didn't expect very much of this project. I was wrong. Thanks for all the logo proposals! Galder From: Risker Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2022 6:04 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Vote for your favourite sound logo Wow, I'm really

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Invitation to join the Movement Strategy Forum

2022-08-22 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Dear Asaf, You are right, Meta users are talking about whatever. It should be interesting to know what are the strategic discussions about, and how are them of a better quality through the MS Forum. The forum topic with more interactions is interesting: 日本とのつながり / Japanese

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Invitation to join the Movement Strategy Forum

2022-08-20 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Hello, I agree with Mike's viewpoint: the report seems to be prewritten, and not based on actual discussions about the forum. Nevertheless, even if the summary was good, which is doubtful, the data presented in the discussion

[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

2022-08-16 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Dear all, Some weeks ago, we had a discussion here about the different approaches we have for the @wikipedia account at Twitter. We don't know yet how many interactions does the account has, but as I said in the discussion, we try to find ways to measure our work at @euwikipedia. Today I want

[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

2022-08-02 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
You.Regards,Justice.On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 3:51 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <galder...@hotmail.com> wrote:Dear Lauren,That's plainly false: the "industry standard" you are using to measure is not related to Twitter engagement measure, because one uses impressions and the other followe

[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

2022-08-02 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
I believe it has become circular and detracts from our important work. I hope we can leave things at a place of respectful agreement (or disagreement).LaurenLauren Dickinson (she/her)Senior Communications ManagerWikimedia FoundationOn Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 4:32 AM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <galder..

[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

2022-08-02 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
pedia losing opportunities in Twitter I'm glad this conversation is moving over to meta-wiki. I hope the communications staff will recognize their job should be to facilitate the volunteers to do the work when it comes to anything other than speaking for the Foundation. On Mon, Jul 18, 2022, 2:22 PM

[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

2022-07-18 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
urenLauren Dickinson (she/her)Senior Communications ManagerWikimedia FoundationOn Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 5:16 AM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <galder...@hotmail.com> wrote:Thanks for the answer, Lauren. I see quite a few interactions with the tweets (despite having more than half a million fol

[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

2022-07-17 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
again for sharing your ideas and feedback with us. LaurenLauren Dickinson (she/her)Senior Communications ManagerWikimedia FoundationOn Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 4:24 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <galder...@hotmail.com> wrote: Thanks for the answer, Lauren. I have been looking at the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

2022-07-13 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Thanks for the answer, Lauren. I have been looking at the stats of the last 4 weeks in Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, to make an idea of the activity those accounts have. I don't know how many people takes part in the process, but as I read "We" in the answer, I'm going to assume that is

[Wikimedia-l] @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

2022-07-12 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Good day, Yesterday, the James Webb telescope published its first image, called "Webb's Frist Deep Field" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webb%27s_First_Deep_Field). An article about the image existis in 14 languages. The tweet announcing it has collected in less than a day more than 77.000 RTs

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Small joy of the day: Txikipedia

2022-06-24 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
onnalisation/ >> ...to tell that the vision of children needing to be only alongside their >> closed family and professionals workers - and that it should be the same if >> a wiki for children is set (that we would need professionnal educators >> either to write the articles, to d

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Small joy of the day: Txikipedia

2022-06-23 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
thousands articles. Of course, we see that (as everywhere) 20 % of the articles make more than 80 % of the pageviews. But you can't really guess in advance which subject will be in the top 20 %. De: "Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga" mailto:galder...@hotmail.com>> About Txikipedia: the age range

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Small joy of the day: Txikipedia

2022-06-23 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
essionnalisation >> https://www.wikimedia.fr/vikidia-lanti-professionnalisation/ >> ...to tell that the vision of children needing to be only alongside their >> closed family and professionals workers - and that it should be the same if >> a wiki for children is set

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Small joy of the day: Txikipedia

2022-06-22 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
>From our experience, is just the opposite: Wikipedia is not asking any extra >step nor age confirmation, and legally you can have an account even if you are >underage. Children are consulting Wikipedia without limits, and they can find >adult content easily. We don't have any advice about

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Small joy of the day: Txikipedia

2022-06-20 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
 And when you see 9-years-old learning how to add links (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Urdiaingo_Herri_Eskolan_Txikipedia_saioa_02.jpg) to the article they have created (https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Txikipedia:Urbasa)... it's all joy! And if you learn they have visited a cave with

[Wikimedia-l] Re: what do we do with all this opportunity?

2022-06-19 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Thanks Samuel and James for the constructive approach in your messages. I know that I have said this before, but there's a huge problem with accountability here. We have money to become a great platform and we have staff to do it, but there's no way to go forward, and that problem is seen

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Inc. design staff

2022-06-17 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Or, maybe, just making Wikimedia a non-obsolete environment. I'm sure the money can go to that effort. From: Felipe Schenone Sent: Friday, June 17, 2022 12:51 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Inc. design staff I

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Movement Strategy Forum community review

2022-06-15 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Wait, wait... what? With a Movement Strategy landing place that is newcomer friendly and multilingual, we can also tackle a historical problem of the Movement Strategy process: outreach to volunteers in all the wiki projects. We can also invite our partners in the ecosystem of free knowledge

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Movement Strategy Forum community review

2022-06-13 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Thanks Nathan, I want to raise a point here. You say that "That's a reasonable pursuit for Quim, for instance, whose scope is managing the movement strategy process - not shepherding MediaWiki development strategy." and I must disagree. If Quim's (or whoever, this is not a complaint against

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Movement Strategy Forum community review

2022-06-12 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Ceill, I am a big fan of having 'one front door' for people that are trying to find answers to questions. Having the front door in another building, with another technology, and once they are in we say them that our building is the other one, the one that is falling down (but don't visit the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Movement Strategy Forum community review

2022-06-12 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
No single feature in this off-wiki experiment created in order to make MediaWiki more obsolete cab't be achieved at Meta now. No one. If there's something that should be included in Meta and Discourse has, then I would like to remember that we have more than 100 million USD in a giant money pool

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Movement Strategy Forum community review

2022-06-01 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
minutes to figure out that this exists. So, the one and only feature where Discourse may be better positioned than Meta to discuss about Wikimedia, can also be done perfectly with this extension. Thanks Galder From: Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga Sent: Wednesday, June

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Movement Strategy Forum community review

2022-06-01 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Let's see the "features" Discourse have and MediaWiki don't: * Anyone can join with their Wikimedia account. No registration is required. * This is a feature we already have. * Multilingual conversations are possible thanks to automatic translation in more than 100 languages. *

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Movement Strategy Forum community review

2022-06-01 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
It would be great to have a place where we can discuss and create projects together. Only if we had something like Meta... By the way, I have added the proposal to discuss this ON WIKI where the discussion should be happening: on wiki.

[Wikimedia-l] Re: UNLOCK free knowledge projects | 10 days left to apply

2022-05-23 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Hello Kannika, As far as I understand, these projects are limited to the Balkans and/or German speaking regions, isn't it? Thanks Galder From: Kannika Thaimai Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2022 8:00 AM To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l]

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

2022-04-21 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
idatzi du (Gergő Tisza ):On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 11:14 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <galder...@hotmail.com> wrote:We may differ in what was first: abandoning it or closing it, but the process is available at phabricator.What was first was regular production incidents caused by OCG, which woul

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

2022-04-20 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
a gallery. But no one cares about it. It used to work, it was broken, and no one was responsible for the fail.SincerelyGalder2022(e)ko api. 20(a) 17:02 erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du (Gergő Tisza ):On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 11:04 AM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <galder...@hotmail.com> w

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

2022-04-19 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
imedia.org/T1867402022(e)ko api. 19(a) 09:00 erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du (Peter Southwood ):I used to use it, but then it broke so I stopped using it. Just one of the things that died out because no-one could be bothered to maintain it.  Cheers, Peter From: Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga [mai

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

2022-04-17 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
No one or very few use it, because you can't save a book. I had some teachers in our university courses who used it to download what their students did, but since the WMF decided to break it, evidently they are not using it anymore. I repeat: it worked and it was broken in purpose. So now we have

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

2022-04-16 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
AFAIK, you can't then print the book or download as PDF. This used to work, but the WMF decidef to break it and never fixed it.2022(e)ko api. 16(a) 11:43 erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du ("Amir E. Aharoni" ):Hi,As far as I can see, the Collection extension, which provides the Special:Book page, is

[Wikimedia-l] Re: UNLOCK free knowledge projects | Call for application

2022-04-06 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
That's great news, Gerard, I'm a bit concerned about finding children that shouldn't be for children (i.e.: death, violence, porn...) when we are not specifically looking for those. I have a recent experience finding porn videos in front of a full audience (19 years old, phew!) when searching

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation governance and Russian finances

2022-03-14 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
I would understand that the non-existing Wikimedia United Stated Chapter should need to check if they have investments in/from Russia. The Wikimedia Foundation receives donations worldwide, including Russian citizens. And we provide knowledge to everyone, including Russian citizens. Blocking

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Our World in Data (OWID)

2022-03-02 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
THIS IS GREAT. One of the best uses of cc I have seen lately. At Basque wikipedia we have been trying to include maps uing data uploaded to commons and then using Kartographer directly. But this solution is way better. What would we need to deploy there and serve as an example of what can be

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

2022-03-02 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Some thoughts: * Being neutral is not the same as not taking a side in a conflict. We can take side with human rights. * There are wars elsewhere in the world. If we take a decision over Ukraine, then other wikimedians may ask the same kind of decisions when another country invades a

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month: We are back in 2022!

2022-02-24 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
These are days when geography, culture and topics about Ukraine will be most consulted worldwide. I'm trying myself to make some articles about geography at eu.wikipedia, regardless of my opinion about the war itself. BUT... "diplomacy month" seems a bad title for this effort at the current

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Seeking community recommendations for Equity Fund grantees

2022-01-27 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
+1 Let's think we get funding for uploading a collection of images from, let's say, the exclusion of LGBT women in Myanmar (this is an example), and we think this fits perfectly in the Equity Funds grant goals. Well... it doesn't matter, Pattypan is broken. We can't upload images massively.

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Community Wishlist Survey 2022 is coming. Help us and prepare

2022-01-25 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
So, let's face it... this is no a wishlist. This is a rigged process. Why should we be using our time for something that won't be done? From: Szymon Grabarczuk Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 8:11 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re:

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

2022-01-17 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
This is an interesting point, because many trolls actually WIN when we delete something, because their trolling is there forever. It should be visible for administrators, or if you search for it, but not in the deleted article itself. From: Amir E. Aharoni Sent:

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wiki-research-l] Re: The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

2022-01-10 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
] Re: The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations Hi Galder, Please see below. On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 12:26 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga wrote: > > Thanks, Leila, for answering the question raised. Anytime. > I'm a bit confused with this, I

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wiki-research-l] Re: The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

2022-01-10 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Thanks, Leila, for answering the question raised. I'm a bit confused with this, I supposed that the Wikimedia Foundation Research Award was an initiative from the Research team of the WMF (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research), but I read in your answer that "WikiResearch is

[Wikimedia-l] 50 wishes

2022-01-10 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
As promised, here is my proposal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/50_wishes I think it will be declined, but let's enjoy some minutes of dreaming. Sincerely Galder ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list --

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

2022-01-08 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Hello,I wonder why a multicultural project, whose major strength is in the multilingual approach asks for a research to be on English."* The publication must be available in English."I'm currently researching about Wikimedia, and I'm doing it in Basque language. I hope to publish in a couple of

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Are we losing our readers?

2022-01-07 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
There's another option: the 2020 pandemic lockdowns made a huge peak on views, so year on year, 2021 has worse results.2022(e)ko urt. 7(a) 18:41 erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du (Anders Wennersten ):When I look at statistics for mature wikipedias: en, de pl, nl they all show a decrease of views of

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Community Wishlist Survey 2022 is coming. Help us and prepare

2022-01-05 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Thanks, Natalia, for the answers. The problem is deeper than previously thought, and asking volunteers to use their time proposing things that no one knows if will fall in the "too big" or in the "dismissed" categories is a bad practice. It creates tension and anger. And, the worst thing, it

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Commons-l] Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

2022-01-03 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
I would like to be optimistic, but... https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T2891012022(e)ko urt. 3(a) 15:28 erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du (Brion Vibber ):(Anyway I'm just grumping. I hear positive things about plans for this year and I'm heartened to see more folks involved in planning the next

[Wikimedia-l] Re: ? structural problems overview (WAS: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery))

2022-01-02 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
I would be great to continue discussing this on Meta if someone would solve the issues. I doubt this is going to happen. Ever. From: Željko Blaće Sent: Sunday, January 2, 2022 12:17 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Cc: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List ;

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

2022-01-02 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
The issue is still there. And I don't know if a new CEO will make things change: I assume that there are some team leaders reading this mailing list, but we hardly ever see progress. No one seems to be accountable. Let's remember that we used to have a book creator that was broken on purpose

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