Re: [Wikimedia-l] "let's elect people to serve on the wikimedia engineering "community" team!" (brainstorming)

2014-08-05 Thread Gryllida
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014, at 20:48, Fæ wrote: > On 5 August 2014 11:33, Gryllida wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > WMF Engineering is currently composed of individual teams as documented at > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering . These teams look > >

[Wikimedia-l] "let's elect people to serve on the wikimedia engineering "community" team!" (brainstorming)

2014-08-05 Thread Gryllida
gards Gryllida. ___ 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:wikimedi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Asking Google to output Wikipedia citation format in Scholar

2014-08-03 Thread Gryllida
Does the same apply to other sister projects? It could make sense to make such request for all... On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, at 03:14, Andy Mabbett wrote: > Google Scholar search results each have a "cite" link, which generates > citation text to copy-and-paste in three formats (MLA, APA, Chicago). > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Effective censorship of Wikipedia by Google

2014-08-03 Thread Gryllida
On Sun, 3 Aug 2014, at 08:27, Fæ wrote: > Re: > http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/02/wikipedia-page-google-link-hidden-right-to-be-forgotten > > If Google "disappearing" a Wikipedia article is a notable news event, It is not. They had processed a lot of such requests in July. The

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interest in a community strategic planning meeting?

2014-07-14 Thread Gryllida
ally/ need or have trouble with (no, not learning the markup or getting articles or uploads in, unlike the current focuses). We need a lot more information/feedback here than a brainstorming session... Gryllida. On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, at 17:25, Pine W wrote: > Hi community members, > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community RfCs about MediaViewer

2014-07-14 Thread Gryllida
, as you may see at the rfc talk page, would make use of a structured and free approach with better software (and rather interestingly, potentionally input from users of various sister projects and languages). Gryllida. On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, at 15:40, Pine W wrote: > Hi Gryllida, > > As

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community RfCs about MediaViewer

2014-07-13 Thread Gryllida
Pine and all, Please read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Media_Viewer/June_2014_RfC#Proposal_to_reach_consistency.2Fagreement_first.2C_before_actioning_this_RfC Gryllida. On Thu, 10 Jul 2014, at 15:03, Pine W wrote: > This discussion has closed on English Wikipedia: >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Stop the New Privacy Policy until Lila is Thoroughly Briefed on It, Countdown 14 Hours

2014-06-06 Thread Gryllida
On Fri, 6 Jun 2014, at 5:02, Trillium Corsage wrote: > They're going to behave better if they know they can be held accountable for > their actions. That's not something you can force on people. People can easily be anonymous by means of generic nicknames, shared IPs and whatnot - even releas

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliation in username

2014-04-22 Thread Gryllida
; would allow the mediawiki to format the name and group in a way that > makes sense for the given language. Keep to the parentheses for english > and such, do other things for ones where that doesn't work or wouldn't > be the norm. > > -I Removing the affiliation from the n

[Wikimedia-l] Affiliation in username

2014-04-19 Thread Gryllida
ed to work): | | ___| | | - I.e. - | | | [ "Gryllida (FOO)"

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanks to the people who made Echo, VisualEditor and Wikidata

2014-04-10 Thread Gryllida
With due thanks, I would like to specifically point to these two bugs, as I believe they're changing the style of talking unnecessarily. I would like you to see the potential for fixing these early. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49446 - Notifications: Linking a username in an E

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal: Transparency for Wikimedia "paid volunteers"

2014-04-04 Thread Gryllida
2014-03-07#What_to_ask_to_disclose:_paid_contributions_or_COI.3F Gryllida. ___ 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] [Wikimedia Announcements] Katherine Maher joins the Wikimedia Foundation as Chief Communications Officer

2014-03-28 Thread Gryllida
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Our next strategy plan-Paid editing

2014-03-27 Thread Gryllida
Ah. Thanks! On Thu, 27 Mar 2014, at 2:38, Maggie Dennis wrote: > Gryllida, the section is here: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Terms_of_use/Paid_contributions_amendment/Archives/2014-03-07 > > Maggie > > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Gryllida wrote: > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] is Wikiquote in decline or just stagnant

2014-03-26 Thread Gryllida
ersonally quite disliking these statistics, as the software has no means implemented to merge edits, such as when I make a typo. I keep struggling to find means to reduce the edit count to make things easier for others to track. Gryllida. __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Our next strategy plan-Paid editing

2014-03-26 Thread Gryllida
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, at 3:06, Anders Wennersten wrote: > The discussion on the proposed amendment is now closed [1) I don't see my edit in the final archived version. Namely, the "What to ask to disclose: paid contributions or COI?" section I created. Link provided. I hope someone here can provi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] More new editors?

2014-03-07 Thread Gryllida
At risk of not quite answering the question: To keep our editors properly, we should make the software sufficiently reasonable and flexibly to automate routine work people encounter... I couldn't get started at Wiktionary or Wikibooks easily due to my lack of linguistic or librarian background,

[Wikimedia-l] paid editing TOU amendment: disclose "paid editing" or "coi"?

2014-03-02 Thread Gryllida
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Terms_of_use/Paid_contributions_amendment#What_to_ask_to_disclose:_paid_contributions_or_COI.3F Please participate in this discussion and help produce a well-readable revision, if such change is necessary. Thanks! _

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia-l archives

2014-02-24 Thread Gryllida
Did that reflect on gmane? On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, at 10:48, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > The archives were rebuilt (and then restored up to January) under > request of a user who shared private information in February. Old links > are not broken and you can normally access the specific "volumes":

Re: [Wikimedia-l] extend mediawiki software to allow append a "group", and "COI" to an edit

2014-02-23 Thread Gryllida
d Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Why ? > Thanks. > GerardM > > > On 22 February 2014 21:13, Gryllida wrote: > > > I do mind 5 and 6, since their submissions would be deleted aggressively. > > I feel that you may introduce a marker if you want, but not a separate >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] extend mediawiki software to allow append a "group", and "COI" to an edit

2014-02-22 Thread Gryllida
I do mind 5 and 6, since their submissions would be deleted aggressively. I feel that you may introduce a marker if you want, but not a separate queue. On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, at 2:25, rupert THURNER wrote: > hi, > > could wmf please extend the mediawiki software in the following way: > 1. it shoul

[Wikimedia-l] RFC: UploadWizard — scale to sister projects

2014-02-10 Thread Gryllida
Hi all, Apologies for cross-posting; please read and share thoughts: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/UploadWizard:_scale_to_sister_projects Gryllida ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] online survey invitation

2014-02-10 Thread Gryllida
> zhuangziyun Mon, 10 Feb 2014 08:24:14 > Link: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1538439/Wikipedia-Survey-Personality it is not mobile friendly > I need about 200 respondents a rather small sample, hopefully you get much more! ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome 3 employees of Wikimedia Norway

2014-01-31 Thread Gryllida
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanking anonymous users

2014-01-10 Thread Gryllida
On Sat, 11 Jan 2014, at 6:21, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > These are two reason we don't have Thanks for anonymous editors: > ... > 2. Multiple editors often share the same IP address They already share talk page and contribs. I don't see notifications being a problem: each of them *knows* that the IP i

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Relationship between Wikimedia and oDesk

2014-01-08 Thread Gryllida
Thought paid editing is prohibited. It could be nice to find ways to enforce that. On Wed, 8 Jan 2014, at 21:50, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Odesk is the way the WMF pays people who do not live in the USA. What is > expected of a contractor or employee is to register the time worked for the >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] input.wikimedia.org?

2013-12-21 Thread Gryllida
ely he sent it to wrong place due to lack of a standard centralized system. Gryllida ___ 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] Closure of Community Logo Consultation

2013-12-08 Thread Gryllida
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Which Wikipedias have had large scale bot creation of articles this year?

2013-11-28 Thread Gryllida
On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, at 8:50, Steven Walling wrote: > Hi all, > > My team is doing some background research in to Wikipedia article creation > right now.[1] One question I'd like answer is which Wikipedias are > currently (i.e. this year) running bots to create many articles. Hopefully your resea

Re: [Wikimedia-l] input.wikimedia.org?

2013-11-22 Thread Gryllida
On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, at 19:18, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > 2. We'll have to see whether there are volunteers who are willing to track > it and reply to the queries. As far as I am aware there is no responsibility for WMF staff or volunteers to reply; they may if they want to, but that's not required

Re: [Wikimedia-l] : WMF resolution on neutral point of view

2013-10-06 Thread Gryllida
On Sat, 5 Oct 2013, at 18:47, Fred Bauder wrote: > I've been thinking about this. Wikipedia is a compilation of information > from sources that are generally considered reliable. The trouble is that > the information in those sources varies. Rather than deciding ourselves, > after all most of us ar

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia France] Welcome to Nathalie, our new ED

2013-10-01 Thread Gryllida
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