If I understand you correctly, the redlink wont be touched, but the empty
page will show reasonator data on it (ideally displayed using the
approptiate infobox). That would help readers and (source editor) writers,
as the important facts are on the screen for them to include into the prose
of the n
Hi rupert,
I think this requester feature has merit, as it provides a tool for
communities to use for this purpose (COI) and others.
One possible implementation is the tag system already part of the Abuse
Filter extension. Bug 18670 requests the tag system be more flexible,
allowing false positiv
, can the WMF say that?
There wouldn't be any gag order.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter says that the
gag orders were struck down, pending appeal. That means we may have
to wait a while..
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has both precise language and broad statements that will ensure the
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MF can easily create
those graphs from the original document? If not, we'll have to
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nisms will adapt. But I predict that if we see lots of
poor quality articles from VE, without adequate references, and the
community backlogs become problematic, the community will want develop
tools to limit new poor quality articles.
Does anyone have stats for the number of blocked users per
; great example too. Personal note: I LOVE Citation Bot, and I hope it comes
> back soon!
It appears to be operating
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Citation_bot
So chapters can offer to help porting tools like this to Labs and
ongoing maintenance of these too
'Global Strategy countries'?
I think this aligns with the intention of GS, which is to support
initiatives that help make our movement more global by investing in
areas/languages where editors and/or readers is low but potential is high.
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On Aug 3
How much do we expect to be paying to Wordpress each year for this service?
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On Sep 6, 2013 8:23 AM, "Erik Moeller" wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Leslie Carr wrote:
>
> > Currently the blog is in a partially maintained by
t, the WMF will need to abandon their current trademark
registration if they are to apply for a collective trademark.
Regards,
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== References ==
* [1]
http://oami.europa.eu/CTMOnline/RequestManager/en_Detail_NoReg?deno=&idappli=1152038&transition=ResultsDetailed
* [2] http:/
t; <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l>,
>> >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@**lists.wikimedia.org<
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>> >> ?subject=**unsubscribe>
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ta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedias_by_size
The same team are using the same bots to add content to Indonesian
Wikipedia. 100,000 new articles created in October.
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaID.htm
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> Hi,
>
> let me start by saying that I agree with Dariusz's opinion that we
> should discuss this as a community, and perhaps move on from 'debate
> by press release' into more focused formats like Google Ha
witter.com/nyatagarasu/status/405134111796240384
On the flipside, maybe this will help:
https://twitter.com/listrophy/status/380864414145970176
This looks like a complaint, but it is hard to tell
https://twitter.com/ItsMalachi/status/408067770048192514
And a request for bitcoins
https://twitt
more risk now.
As Peter just said, there is no risk if WMF converts bitcoin donations to
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these articles are either BLP problems now, or will be in the future.
A referees decisions are usually only relevant within the context of a
match, and don't belong on their bio.
In almost every case, the details in those articles can be moved to
claims in Wikidata once a few Wikida
ata. All edits are also exposed via Recent Changes
(https/api/etc) as they occur, and the value of these edits is
determined by the fact they are hidden afterwards (e.g. don't appear
in dumps). Is there any way to control who is effectively capturing
all edits via Recent Chan
Putting aside the 'tax' aspect, whether or not there is a backdoor in the
shipped product is not the point of the article you linked to James.
NSA is intercepting hardware deliveries and adding backdoors while it is
enroute from supplier to customer. Buying new equipment gives NSA a new
opportunit
James,
Jasper asked you to justify your claim of $70 per server vs his $200 per
server.
Does $70 buy the same processing power? What support comes with it? etc.
On Dec 30, 2013 2:53 PM, "James Salsman" wrote:
> Jasper, if you can't write an email or pick up the phone asking for a
> hardware quo
Thanks Erik for a well written overview.
Would it be possible for the WMF to give an estimate on what it would cost
to build and/or what the threshold of annual bitcoin donations would make
it worthwhile building. Someone might be interested in donating
specifically to have this built, or we could
On Jan 9, 2014 11:38 AM, "Matthew Walker" wrote:
>
> I will probably regret saying this[1] -- but the figure we like to throw
> around here in fundraising tech is that a new payments gateway [2] is not
> even worth considering unless it is likely to make us at least 500K USD a
> year[3].
Thanks f
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ct). see
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Moving_a_wiki
How would we regain control of our existing usernames in the event
that the user database was lost in the move?
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fine January 1 as (Anti-)Mickey Mouse Day, and promote it as the
day that Mickey Mouse Act / Disney has prevented the commons from
being enriched. We could list all of the works which would be public
domain in the US if Mickey Mouse had never existed.
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> everyone's childhood are harder to campaign against than one of Cher's
> ex-husbands.
>
> ~A
>
>
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:31 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
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>>
>> If w
e" and "all rights utterly reserved until 2025"
> will be under the same umbrella.
>
> - Andrew.
I'd love to see -NC and -ND dropped from the CC catalog, but I doubt
its going to happen.
It would be nice if -NC and -ND had a time limit on them, after whic
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On Jun 14, 2012 1:30 AM, "Brandon Harris" wrote:
>
>A couple of weeks ago, Brion Vibber and I started walking through
a series of thoughts about eliminating publicly viewable IP addresses
altogether, creating "Proto Accounts". That is, to completely anonymize
anonymous users (by calling t
There are scans of most of the relevant records, and the records for books
are also transcribed by Project Gutenberg and searchable at a stanford uni
website. See en.ws template PD-US-no-renewal. The scans need to be
transcribed to increase accessibility.
On Jun 24, 2012 3:50 AM, "Kim Bruning" wro
titioning the UK's Home Secretary Theresa May to
stop the extradition of Richard O'Dwyer. I hope you will join me.
- Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder"
We only have an English Wikipedia article about O'Dwyer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_O%27Dwyer
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Or a template at the top.
'This article relies on newspaper sources...please contribute better
sources or tag with notability if you cant find any better sources.'
P.s. This offtopic thread should be on Wikipedia lists as its not about the
movement in general.
On Jul 4, 2012 6:13 PM, "Svip" wr
If wmf has trademarks secured, now is the time to release the copyrights
and high res. versions.
Idealistic maybe. But when we talk to the public, we talk about ideals. Its
odd that community members cant put logos of community-run projects into
slides. Its unfortunate that wikipedia doesnt meet t
A proposal to do that has already been started by yours truely. See
talk:main_page
On Jul 15, 2012 6:47 AM, "Richard Symonds"
wrote:
> Maybe if we ran a competition for designers to redesign the wikipedia
> mainpage?
>
> Richard Symonds
> Wikimedia UK
> 0207 065 0992
> Disclaimer viewable at
> ht
Some people have asked me not to use the mailing list, but I wanted to
> bring up this up in response to your mail.
>
> Please see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mdupont/SpeedyDeletionWikia
> and
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mdupont#Speedy_backup_-_copyvios_and_attack
A location gadget would be a way to start. With a gadget, it is opt-in.
On Jul 23, 2012 7:43 PM, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" wrote:
> birgitte...@yahoo.com, 23/07/2012 14:28:
>
>> I am unaware of what the shortcomings of the current system are and where
>> any improvements would be felt. This makes it
als erstes digitales
> Weltkulturerbe anerkannt wird. Unterzeichnen Sie die Online-Petition:*
> http://wikipedia.de/wke/Main_Page?setlang=de
>
> Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
> Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
> der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
> Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
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valuate its results, but for
> example I'm aware of
>
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/19/wikipedia-education-program-stats-fall-2011/
Ive asked for more info at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikipedia_Education_Program_evaluation#random_sample
> . The quantitative method used there has its limitations, but similar
> methods are employed in independent (i.e non-WMF) research about
> Wikipedia in the academic literature.
Do you have links to any relevant studies of the GEP?
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appear to be Brazilian. I cant easily see if
those top contributors attended the meetups at
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/22/brazil-meetups-march/
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On Jul 31, 2012 1:43 AM, "LiAnna Davis" wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 2:39 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
> > Ive asked for more info at
> >
> >
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Wikipedia_Education_Program_evaluation#random
Where is the onwiki discussion about this? I could find '[1]'
Or a wikipedia page that describes the copyright status of imagery of DSOs?
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On Sep 15, 2012 1:25 PM, "とある白い猫" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am not seeking legal advice. I
Thanks. I didnt search. I looked in the last 250 revisions of the page. I
didnt look back far enough.
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On Sep 17, 2012 8:42 PM, "Strainu" wrote:
> Have you searched for it?
>
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Villag
It's %!#?&y nice.
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On Sep 26, 2012 4:47 PM, "PARNALL Perry" wrote:
> This is ok
>
>
>
>
> PARNALL Perry
> parnall.pe...@aol.com
>
>
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Fabrice Florin
>
d to adopt the donor's bill of
rights, including WMUK.
https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Donor_Privacy_Policy
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4. Changes to the Wikimedia UK board – A message from Roger Bamkin
http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2012/04/changes-to-the-wikimedia-uk-board-a-message-from-roger-bamkin/
5. What did you think of our annual report?
Does the merchandise store, which will cost USD 311000, have an ROI
published somewhere?
I think some 'Research' is needed in WMF core, however any funds under
'Research' should be granted to, and administrated by, an academic
institution. Preferably via a competitive progr
On Oct 10, 2012 6:38 AM, "Samuel Klein" wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:07 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
> > Does the merchandise store, which will cost USD 311000, have an ROI
> > published somewhere?
> >
> > I think some 'Research' is needed
e at any time and
> WMDE will cover those costs.
Has Stefan already started?
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On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 6:29 AM, John Vandenberg wrote:
> ...
> The resolution of the WCA is clear that the _first_ important goal is
> to incorporate. By 15 August 2012. It is a difficult decision, but
> it is not simplified by WCA's volunteer time being diverted to
.
Also working for me.
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On Oct 12, 2012 11:21 PM, "Jim Redmond" wrote:
> No trouble here either.
>
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Philippe Beaudette <
> phili...@wikimedia.org
> > wrote:
>
> > They're up f
edicine org needs to be very clear about this, as lawsuits for incorrect
medical information will be very expensive.
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Is there a log of this meeting?
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On Oct 15, 2012 5:15 AM, "ENWP Pine" wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> For those who might not have seen the announcements in #wikimedia-ops and
> other IRC channels:
>
> There will be a meeting with the G
for purposes other than those described in the donation
solicitation messaging.
Impoverished long term contributors should get a job.
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ation. Not everyone on your target population is subscribed to a list
whetr this offer has been made.
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On Oct 31, 2012 7:26 AM, "Tilman Bayer" wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> we have just launched the Foundation's 2012 editor survey; with
>
collect all the survey data they can. Maximum ROI
and all that.
You can use models to select a subset of the 2012 data that would be
comparable to the 2011 data.
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On Nov 3, 2012 10:58 AM, "Tilman Bayer" wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> On Fri, Nov
"On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 12:18 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
> Thanks Tilman. Good to see the offer is in the public FAQ.
>
> I was on my phone at the time I saw it, and having some time on my hands I
> tried to fill it in. I managed to screw up the survey software on the
> la
discussion would have resulted in better
options being considered and hopefully enacted. We were given a good score
for our 'terms and conditions' rewrite. We could have achieved the same
with this bylaws update.
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On Nov 6, 2012 7:30 AM, "
imedia UK's staff don't have to live in "unsavory neighbourhoods",
> though I expect many of them do commute to work, as does virtually everyone
> else working in London...)
>
> Chris
Hi Chris,
It might be using geolocation; I see USA jobs on that sea
How many languages _need_ this?
Is it only one language-project?
If you only need one IP address, to avoid censorship by one country, it
should be achievable.
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On Dec 28, 2012 4:21 AM, "Leslie Carr" wrote:
> >
> > I wish that http
he launch better, but I think it puts too much
emphasis on the lawsuits:
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2024997/wikipedia-launches-travel-site-wikivoyage-on-january-15.html
Anyone found a better wikivoyage launch news stories that is accurate
and can be accessed outside of USA an
make a right.
It sounds like you can inform press without breaking any confidences. Tell
them the account name or IP and let them independently guess who it is.
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On Jan 22, 2013 12:09 AM, "James Heilman" wrote:
> A not really hypothetical ques
ed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#Undeployment_of_MoodBar.2FFeedback_Dashboard
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WMAu is investigating.
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On Feb 15, 2013 9:53 PM, "Everton Zanella Alvarenga"
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> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:06 AM, Tilman Bayer
> wrote:
> > There is now a downloadable MP3 (50min) at
> > http://www.abc.net.au/local/st
When I joined just now..I can hear people talking in the background, but
see a room full of empty chairs.
Will the video be published afterwards?
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On Feb 17, 2013 9:19 PM, "Manuel Schneider"
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> Good Morning,
>
> we had to set up a
Sorry, I fell asleep and missed the second half.
Will the video be published afterwards?
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at invalidates the election result on that basis.
The expert seat is an opportunity to select a person based on the
skillset that is found to be missing on the board, and that should
happen _after_ the skills and experience of the three community seats
are locked in by their appointment.
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warm welcome to Wikimedia Armenia!
>
> Best regards,
> Bence
> (Affiliations Committee)
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cket to the
> donations queue, but I was wondering if this has ever been
> discussed/considered before.
fwiw, this model was discussed on the private fundraising mailing list
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> actually want to achieve with all that time and money.
Participation includes a free trip to San Fran on Saturday, June 9th:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/FDC_Advisory_Group/Formation#Likely_Advisory_Group_meeting_dates
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 10 April 2012 12:17, John Vandenberg wrote:
>> Go here:
>>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/FDC_Advisory_Group/Formation#Nominations_.28to_be_added_below.29
>
> Do you really
g of these two communities on equal footing.
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eues -- like the oversight and Wikimedia
> registration/scholarship queues -- that OTRS admins cannot see unless
> they give themselves access to it, which they wouldn't do unless they
> needed to for some reason.
Is there an audi
have moved under OTRS despite the lack of an audit trail, but I will
continue to ask for one because I believe it is important.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify
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ve to see what happens after
> that. It might happen before 2015 or not.
Andrea will run out of tears by 2015. ;-(
Could we have one sister-projects IRC session in the near future?
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change after the initial burst of editing.
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w users dont know how to turn it on.
The emails can explain how to turn it off.
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cool.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30187
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