[Wikimedia-l] Watch your vote in board elections!

2013-06-08 Thread Jan Kučera
Hi everybody, today, board elections have begun. Please think twice on who you vote, because past boards did not bring a lot of innovation (if any???) into Wikimedia... and who else should bring innovation than the top governing entity? Wikimedia suffers from declining editorship... on which the o

[Wikimedia-l] Stack Exchange vs. Wikimedia

2013-09-23 Thread Jan Kučera
Hi there, is anyone out here participating in any of the Stack Exchange projects? Do people here still really think voting is a bad thing and wiki is the easiest way to collaborate? I have repeatedly had proposals for employing some voting mechanism at least on the back-stage, but no one was list

[Wikimedia-l] Featuring the edit tab in Vector (by making it red)

2013-01-09 Thread Jan Kučera
Hi there, everybody speaks here about editor retention and how we dont know the reasons for editing decline. What about highlighting the the edit tab some special color (maybe red) like this: http://postimage.org/image/u7060y3bf/ Kozuch ___ Wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Featuring the edit tab in Vector (by making it red)

2013-01-09 Thread Jan Kučera
ld > have a echo-style popup. > > > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Amir E. Aharoni < > amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > > > 2013/1/9 Jan Kučera : > > > Hi there, > > > > > > everybody speaks here about editor retention and how we dont kno

[Wikimedia-l] Editor retention implies social features

2012-04-16 Thread Jan Kučera
Hi there, how do we want to work on editor retention if we lack social features at all??? These go in the right direction: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Improving_our_platform http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_features Is WMF going to act finally??? Kozuch ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention implies social features

2012-04-17 Thread Jan Kučera
Hi guys, I understand your objections. Surely privacy is a key here. We should make "social" our way, taking in account various aspects of privacy and commerce... The goal definitely is rising the the number of editors... we should do this through all possible ways... as someone wrote here the on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention implies social features

2012-04-23 Thread Jan Kučera
Hi there, > If, on the other hand, you just mean "features to promote greater > communication and networking between editors", that's a clear priority - > I'm happy to talk to people about the work we're doing, and to hear any > suggestions along the way :). yes I exactly meant that. It is about

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention implies social features

2012-04-25 Thread Jan Kučera
Hi, yes, there surely were comments from developers... that is positive. But the result as general is still nothing at all (the feature is not even nearing deployment). WMF should invest in new features. I am not a dev and thus can not contribute any code. Kozuch 2012/4/25 Sumana Harihareswara :

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention implies social features

2012-04-29 Thread Jan Kučera
in how many > different things we can work on at once. > > On 25 April 2012 19:50, Jan Kučera wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> yes, there surely were comments from developers... that is positive. >> But the result as general is still nothing at all (the feature is not >>