Re: [Wikimedia-l] ABUSE OF THE SYSTEM
You can contact a steward via their group email to request Global IP block exemption or unblocking of your IP address. Make sure to include exact details. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_IP_block_exemptions https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards J. On 1/8/19, 80hnhtv4agou--- via Wikimedia-l wrote: > > I have just been IP globally blocked as an ip; > > based on a series of misunderstanding. > > coming from page stalking on talk pages and watching list edit tools. > > and the fact that anybody can go to the Steward > requests/Global > > page and ask for a block with out any text > what so ever > > and no notice to the ip user, and that one stewards can > come > > by without any evidence and > grant all postings at once. > > and yes i have filled out the form and sent the stewards > e-mail. > > also with this abuse going on on individual wiki’s I > have tried > > to contact trust and safety with no reply ever, on > e-mail or > > there talk pages. > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Warm Regards Jeremy Lee-Jenkins ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: 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] convert from BitCoin to FoldingCoin and other proofs of useful work
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia Foundation has soft launched!
I like it. I do feel the Wikimedia foundation is diverging from it's previous role as custodian of Wikipedia, and becoming a international advocacy group. I feel this change is welcome and will help develop the Creative Commons mission beyond just Wikipedia and it's sister sites. I take it the design of the site is CC-BY-SA-4.0, this is nice since it allows others to copy the design. Overall it's an improvement from the previous site. Warm Regards Jeremy Lee-Jenkins On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 4:26 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi wrote: > Wow. Really impressive, modern and colorful. The type look quite bold and > the overall flow is pleasant. The theme somehow felt a bit like Mozilla > sites as well (in a good way). Congratulations comms. <3 > > Subhashish > > On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 7:21 AM, Gregory Varnum > wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > After many months of work by over 100 individuals around the organization > > and movement, the Wikimedia Foundation's new website soft launched this > > week! > > > > You can check it out for yourself here (you may need to clear your > > browser's cache): https://wikimediafoundation.org/ > > > > > > So what comes next? > > > > Throughout this week, the Communications department and core website team > > will be doing final tweaks and quality assurance testing in preparations > > for translations. > > > > Over the coming weeks we will be working with affiliates and contributors > > around the world to make the site in available in Arabic, Chinese, > French, > > German, Russian, and Spanish - in addition to the English version soft > > launched today. Once the translations are completed, we will be doing a > > more public announcement regarding the new website and begin more > formally > > implementing usage of it. > > > > Additionally, we will be holding office hours in the coming weeks. > > > > > > What about the old website? > > > > The old website (aka Foundation Wiki) will be given new life in the > coming > > weeks as the Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki - where it will > continue > > to house important documentation for the Wikimedia Foundation like > > policies, board resolutions and minutes, legal documents, etc. Additional > > information on the changes coming to that wiki and the plans for > migrating > > archived content to Meta-Wiki will be available in the coming weeks. > > > > > > What else should I know? > > > > There is a lot of great things about this new website we are excited to > > share with all of you! More information about office hours will available > > in the coming weeks. Until then, we encourage you to take a look and > > contact me directly if you find any bugs, typos, or have any comments. > > > > > > Thank you! > > > > The Communications department greatly appreciates all of the discussions, > > work, and patience everyone has put into this gigantic undertaking. We > are > > very close to the finish line, and today marks a significant step which > was > > only possible with the help of the 100+ people involved. > > > > On behalf of the Communications department and core website team > (Heather, > > Zack, Katherine, Mel, and Greg), > > > > -greg > > > > --- > > Gregory Varnum > > Communications Strategist > > Wikimedia Foundation > > gvar...@wikimedia.org > > Pronouns: He/Him/His > > > > > > ___ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: 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 mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: 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 mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: 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] adding visual search for Wikipedia
Tom O'Hara, I foresee several problems with your proposal. a) The Wikimedia Foundation itself spent a very large amount of money building something essentially the same which was rejected by the community and abandoned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Engine_(Wikimedia_Foundation) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Engine_(Wikimedia_Foundation)> b) Your proposal is for a proprietary software to be added to the core Mediawiki software of Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation is notorious for never using third-party proprietary software. c) The design is still in the stone age when compared to Bing/Google, so would not necessarily compete well to attract the target demographic. d) The search bar at https://www.wikipedia.org/ already has images in a kind of drop-down search suggestions function, this is nice, but has not become very popular. I would actually suggest you go down the route of offering it as an extension on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Extensions Warm Regards Jeremy Lee-Jenkins On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 3:07 PM, Tomás O'Hara wrote: > Hi, here's a link to a proposal I have for adding visual search to > Wikipedia: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Use_visual_search_frontend_for_Wikipedia > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Use_visual_search_frontend_for_Wikipedia# > Proposed_by> > > (This was created with user ID: tomasohara > <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Tomasohara>.) I can move it into a > better location if desired as it as not a "sister project" proper. The > Proposals > for new projects > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects> page doesn't > offer suggestions for alternative postings, so I left it there for now. > > Below is a copy of the project overview. See the link above for details on > how this can be applied to foreign language wikipedias. Note that most can > be supported right "out of the box" except for the text categorization used > to select images for documents without images. A Wikipedia-specific way to > do this might be possible (e.g., based on the hierarchy of pages). > > Best, > Tom > > - > > It would be good for Wikipedia to use a general-purpose visual search front > end. Note that a big incentive for this is that users will be drawn to > Wikipedia to use this type of search rather than Google Search or Bing. > This would be beneficial because these search engines often show Wikipedia > content for popular entities like sports stars or tourist attractions, > which cuts down on Wikipedia traffic. > > You will be able to use the visual search frontend I developed without > charge for the duration of my patent in the works (a la license free). Here > is a link to an example with Wikipedia search on left and my Scrappy Search > on right: > > http://www.scrappycito.com/wikipedia-vs-scrappy-search-small > -dog-breeds-en-wiki-site.png > > > Two other examples illustrate some added benefits of this visual search > with respect to Wikipedia. First, disambiguation becomes based on images > and keywords rather than just snippets of text. See the following: > > http://www.scrappycito.com/wikipedia-vs-scrappy-search-bob-j > ones-en-wiki-site.png > > In addition, links to other pages for the same entity become much more > engaging: > > http://www.scrappycito.com/wikipedia-vs-scrappy-search-taylo > r-swift-en-wiki-site.png > > > See http://www.scrappycito.com for the stable version of the system and > http://www.tomasohara.trade:9330 for the work-in-progress version. The > latter has support for handheld devices and also better aesthetics (n.b., > version used in examples). > > I think this will be extremely popular with the Instagram crowd and younger > users in general (e.g., younger than 30). To do similar Wikipedia-specific > searches with the visual search front end, just add *site:en.wikipedia.org > <http://en.wikipedia.org>* to the query*,* as in following example: > > Lionel Messi site:en.wikipedia.org > > Scrappy Search uses the Google search API, so all of the search operators > <https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en> are supported. > > The patent for this visual search will be owned by my company ScrappyCito, > LLC. If the company gets acquired, I will require that they honor the > license-free usage of the visual search system by Wikimedia for Wikipedia. > (They will likewise be required to pass along this license-free usage > requirement if they in turn are acquired). You will have access to the > current source code for use in Wikipedia and other approved projects. > > I am doing this both for exposure and because I want to help keep Wikipedia > viable (e.g., by enabling higher traffic).
