[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

On Thu, 21 Apr 2022 at 07:42, Mario Gómez wrote: > … > These blocks from English Wikipedia are now also imported to Spanish > Wikipedia, as well as global blocks (the ones by Tks4Fish). The blocking > system has received some tuning over time to decrease the number of affected > users, but it's

[Wikimedia-l] Re: General Maintenance at Commons

I will note that a majority of those tasks only have a commons tag due to herald rule that adds it ro any task with file-management. And may not be actual issues Afaik no one managing that workboard (the site tags are generally managed by members of the relevant communities) _

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Surveys using third party tools on Wikimedia projects

On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, 7:18 am Valerio Bozzolan via Wikimedia-l, < wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Apologies for my TL;DR > > Interesting topic. I'm recently working on making ethical surveys more > and more widespread, starting from here: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism, yet again

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250508 On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 09:53, Chris Gates via Wikimedia-l wrote: > > Hi, > > It seems that they just gave a link to that website, which...eh... > When I opened it, I heard one sentence of the stream before I stopped it > and read the rest of the webpage:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Snøhetta and Wikimedia

Domain Registered on: 2020-01-02 Linked Wiki page is still getting edits: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_movement_brand_project&action=history On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 at 09:36, Pine W wrote: > > Umm. > > Looking at https://brandingwikipedia.org/,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome messages at arwiki

Have you asked the user how the finding the users? Have you considered other steps than just jumping to mailing list? Where are the complaints from the other users to show this is a long running issue? On 29 December 2017 at 19:20, John Erling Blad wrote: > Users on other projects are complaining

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Advertizing Wikimania (youtube) livestreams on centralnotice

I notice those youtube links didn't use the nocookie domain or display warnings about external youtube links, example being the previous WP Zero Petition On 18 August 2017 at 22:45, Lodewijk wrote: > Hi all, > > Wikimania is well over, and now

Re: [Wikimedia-l] (no subject)

On 15 November 2016 at 18:36, John Mark Vandenberg wrote: > Rather than IRC or video, which both have significant problems for > this type of open engagement, perhaps WMF could install a modern group > chat system, like Zulip, or another Slack-like tool. > ...snip... There is conphrenece as part

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wimedia on line?

Hi Peter, There is currently a report of a user experiencing similar issues in our Phabricator instance at . If you could either post a tracert onto this email or into the phabricator ticket would be of great assistance. On 10 September 2016 at 15:20, P

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Who runs the Wikimedia Shop ?

On 21 March 2016 at 22:47, Marc A. Pelletier wrote: > > The extra control is hypothetically nice, but in practice one-off services > that are different from the rest of the infrastructure (as a shop would be, > like the blog, OTRS, etc) tend to be *extremely* expensive and difficult to > care for,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] My posts going to spam

If you are using gmail, Set a rule that *@lists.wikimedia.org never go to the spam folder. (If you are using rule to label them, it can be done at the same time.) On 1 March 2016 at 09:48, SarahSV wrote: > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 3:10 PM, George Herbert > wrote: > > > > > Just to confirm, all

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Knight Foundation grant for search and discovery

On 7 January 2016 at 22:45, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > ... > > I am also struck by the fact that the grant is really a very paltry one, > compared to the resources the Foundation is investing in this. The > MediaWiki page on Discovery[2] lists sixteen people working on this. > $250,000 would hardly b

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sick of the subject "(no subject)"

ng a serious threat. Assuming this is indeed unintentional, nobody > > has anything to worry about. > > > > Austin > > > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 11:12 AM, K. Peachey wrote: > > > I think that is a tad inappropriate, when it's been pointed out it's > most

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sick of the subject "(no subject)"

I think that is a tad inappropriate, when it's been pointed out it's most likely a bug in gmail causing it. You can always create a filter in your email client of choosing if you don't want to see what, the two(?) threads that are active atm. On 4 December 2015 at 19:55, Richard Ames wrote: > I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner (again)

I would assume you are also going to provide some input some comment into the discussion other than just dumping a pile of quotes in here? On 3 December 2015 at 07:06, Lisa Gruwell wrote: > I thought this might be a good point in the conversation to share some of > the comments we have received

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner (again)

I might have missed it, but I can't see any attribution for the image… as I doubt it will be a click through to the file page. Which style guide was used for the creation of this ad? ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Advertising in Central notice?

E:QuickSurvey is currently under development by the WMF for this. On 8 November 2015 at 18:52, Steinsplitter Wiki wrote: > Some thoughts: > Pete, Thanks for bringing this up here and taking action on meta. I was > concerned seeing the link to a commercial company in the central notice > banner

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Towns

I believe Wikimedia AU did some work with this type of stuff… On Friday, May 1, 2015, wrote: > What is the status of the Wiki Towns effort? I first heard of it at > Wikimania 2012, but looking at the list of actual projects, it appears to > have had limited appeal. Noting also that in a couple

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Request

Just dont read the thread? On Monday, 6 April 2015, Aleksey Bilogur wrote: > Is that not the function of the mailing list? I'm certainly learning a lot. > I oppose such a move. > On Apr 5, 2015 2:36 PM, "Pete Forsyth" > wrote: > > > There has been a protracted thread in the last couple of days

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banners (again)

On 6 December 2014 at 20:47, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Whining about effective fundraising is just that.. Please help us with > approaches that bring in the additional money to do even more in stead. > Thanks, > GerardM > Oh, I don't know, maybe have smaller ads which don't cover up whole s

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Gendergap-I] Re: Fundraising banners (again)

The view at 3200x1800 http://i.imgur.com/IY28Tmp.png On 6 December 2014 at 17:59, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > Why would you need an "IT team" to track the A/B testing? 100% of the code > for the banners and banner delivery is publicly accessible and there is a > detailed automatically-generated log of

[Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

Lets all welcome the new overlord Erik. Add a new protection level called "superprotect" Assigned to nobody by default. Requested by Erik Möller for the purposes of protecting pages such that sysop permissions are not sufficient to edit them. Change-Id: Idfa211257dbacc7623d42393257de1525ff01e9e

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Unacceptable -- CheckUser abuse gone uninvestigated

On 2 August 2014 17:18, rupert THURNER wrote: > ... > > i personally do not care about the russavia case in particular i must > say. but i care about the (non-)care of persons having access to > account data triggered by a bad policy. imo > * checkuser usage must be requested traceable > * checku

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community RfCs about MediaViewer

Has a bug request been filed? On 10 July 2014 15:03, Pine W wrote: > This discussion has closed on English Wikipedia: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_Viewer/June_2014_RfC > > Will WMF deactivate MediaViewer on English Wikipedia per community > consensus? > > Also, as WMF probabl

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons' frontpage probably shouldn't prominently feature a decontextualised stack of corpses.

Have you discussed this on commons, or just trying to bypass them? On Friday, May 9, 2014, Kevin Gorman wrote: > Hi all - > > This is a slightly unusual email for me, in that I'm wearing more hats than > I usually do. I'm writing as a community member, but also as someone > currently employed by

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Re: [Advocacy Advisors] Coalitions on mass surveillance

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Re: [Advocacy Advisors] Coalitions on mass surveillance [citation needed] On Wednesday, April 30, 2014, James Salsman wrote: > I strongly object that the advocacy_advisors list is being censored while > foundation officials pretend to hold open consultations there. Shame

Re: [Wikimedia-l] My choice for ED

On 1 February 2014 18:29, ENWP Pine wrote: > > Chad, I wonder if Rory has been considered. (: > > Pine Who can say no to the HR penguin? < http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:Stuffed_penguin.JPG>. I wonder if She/He has been bestowed the privilege of a name? ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

On 30 January 2014 11:22, Steve Zhang wrote: > Funnily enough the cost of doing so has been looked into: > > http://news.com.au/technology/lehigh-university-figure-out-how-much-it-costs-to-build-death-star/story-e6frfro0-1226275852491 > > In short, $8,100,000,000,000,000 and would take about 800,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] (no subject)

Can't we please kept this to one thread were possible? This is now the third I believe. On Tuesday, December 31, 2013, James Salsman wrote: > > Neither of Calxeda's articles gives a figure for capital cost > > I think they went under the moment their first competitor charging typical > markups (M

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Old Wikipedia logo is still widely used - what can we do?

Most news agencies don't just go to the web for their images due to copyright reasons. They will have a media collection system that they have the logo stored in. So the best response would be for the Media Relations/Comms teams to actually contact them and request they use the updated logo. On

Re: [Wikimedia-l] First Wikimedia-related contributor Kickstarter?

On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Nathan wrote: > Anyone know if this is the first Wikimedia-related Kickstarter campaign, or > has it happened before? What do people think about someone raising ~$13k to > contribute photos to Commons? How does that fit in the debate about paid > editing? To me it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to force to enable Visual Editor

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Jon Davies wrote: > Thanks, but newbies shouldn't have to do all that - it should sit there as > an option. The same can be argued for the many other features that can be found in your preferences. No reason to see that as a downside, but a chance to cover that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to force to enable Visual Editor

Under Preferences > Editing > "Enable VisualEditor (only in the main and user namespaces)" will do it iirc. On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Jon Davies wrote: > Yes a problem I hav

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia blog moving to WordPress.com

That is absurd. > > There comes a point when things need to get done and they just need to > work imho. > > --- Original Message --- > > From: "K. Peachey" > Sent: September 8, 2013 8:59 PM > To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia blog moving to WordPress.com

If self hosting WP is being a issue, We should look at sustianiable alternatives compared to just chucking the baby out with the bath water because it's "too hard". I personally would love to see us usign a ncie GIT based backend produces static html outputs for the blog (Cachability++ Security++)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia blog moving to WordPress.com

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 4:46 AM, Leslie Carr wrote: > I can chime in as a tech operations person (in my official capacity). > Currently the blog is in a partially maintained by Operations state. In > ops, we have a few concerns - #1 is security (exemplified by our recent > security incident) of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Use of YouTube videos in fundraising banners

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > The fundraising team is very careful about making banners that the editors > don't notice. Trying to check how the banners are doing is like playing hide > and seek, and only a true masochist would do so given how invasive they are. >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Snake on a magic towel"... help needed transforming a shitty logo into something wonderful

I've had enough with these snakes on my magic towel... >.> ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Staff Images

The issue at the 26 odd email chain is that the staff member should be the main focus of their staff photo? That doesn't seem unreasonable… On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Lucas Teles wrote: > Is that [1] the photo? I was expecting something worse per the opening of > this discussion. It seems

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF unclaimed Google Docs

Only if you bulk transfer action before you delete the account otherwise no. And afaik (unless they changed it recently) no you can't list them all. Its only of the many reasons some people dislike google apps. On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > I was wondering, does

Re: [Wikimedia-l] PRISM

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Anthony wrote: > Maybe not priority-wise, but remember that the cooperation between > Mediawiki developers and the CIA goes back several years at the least. Please feel free to elaborate, Just because they use MediaWiki doesn't mean the developers are cooperating

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage logo

On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 12:22 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > I would think some of these issues would be of concern to you. This isn't > about asking anyone to play chicken. It's about ensuring that communities > are free to choose their own identity. Change it to a blank/transparent square for the logo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Simple English hits 100k this week

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 30 May 2013 03:36, Sarah Stierch wrote: > >> Simple English is a Wikipedia that is for children and adults learning how >> to speak English. > > And for people with a learning disability. Ahem… ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero in Google search result

Can you please file this in bugzilla . Thanks. On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Benjamin Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that when I'm searching on Google, many Wikipedia results are in > the form of lang-code.zero.wikipedia.org, perhaps just since a day or two a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Florence Devouard wrote: > omg, he just admitted sockpupetting !!! ePitchforks, $2ea or 3 for $5, step right up. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mail

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

(Inline comments most likely, So shoot me) On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 2:48 AM, Sue Gardner wrote: > … > But, my understanding is also that occasionally volunteers have overridden > decisions made by staff on the Wikimedia Foundation wiki. I don't think > that's ever been a huge problem: > … Can you

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Leslie Carr wrote: > ... > As someone tasked with protecting the servers,ssh keys should be restricted > as much as possible, both with staff and volunteers. that is technical and > not political. That same argument can also be used for restricting all but even a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Huib Laurens wrote: > ... > (Thought it was spam cause It was send by > gmail). \ > ... Wait.. what the..., Staff aren't using their wmf accounts for stuff like that? which means the emails aren't archived properly...

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

This is the email that got sent out to everyone, --- Dear XXX, Thank you for your work with the Foundation wiki. At this time, we are formalizing a new requirement, which is that administrator access is given only to staff and board. I am having administrator access to accounts that are neither

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Single User Login finalisation: some accounts will be renamed

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Benjamin Chen wrote: > ... > One thing to note is the technical limitation on # of edits. If account has > too many edits, he may not be able to get it renamed further. > ... It just needs to be done server side, The same way it already is. _

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comments on compliance and the FDC Round 2 decisions

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > ... > I would like to stress that this is not a minor point of slight tardiness > or some missing receipt -- this is actual mismanagement of funds (though > not necessarily mis-use of funds, and NO ONE IS SUGGESTING BAD FAITH here > -- we do no

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Resignation announcement, and a parting remark to everyone

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Erlend Bjørtvedt wrote: > To clarify, my message is that the WMF should rather open an OFFICE in Hong > Kong, to serve the 1.3 billion chinese-speaking, and other south-east > Asians aswell from there. India, anyone? _

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal to use the internal wiki more

Based on just flicking though the conversation, The main issue here is historical content that is mostly in the way of the re-purposing? Why not just close down internal.wiki and start a Internal.wiki 2.0 with a more defined scope that suits the purpose? __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Join

Please don't randomly posts in threads with offtopic comments. On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Alex Peek wrote: > I want Wikipedia editors to duplicate this page for every country. Here are > links to the China and Japan data: > http://en

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Tweet this page" from some or all sites???

Discussion about this has occurred on en.wiki at least multiple times, info can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Perennial_proposals#Share_pages_on_Facebook.2C_Twitter_etc. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement *please read*

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Mathias Schindler wrote: > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Steven Zhang wrote: >> We all started talking about "Sue Gardner for President 2016" on IRC today. >> I'd vote for her... > > In order to do so, there are two minor prerequisites > > a) We must get rid

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Will Beback, Arbcom and Community oversight

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Peter Southwood wrote: > Is there a policy that requires that he do so? Mailing list wise, No. But it is considered good ettique to do so. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: h

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] open positions at WMF

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Jay Walsh wrote: > We're really interested in wiki-fying the blog at some point too, or > at least marrying more of the technologies. I'd love to us to use a > wiki-based system, but that's a bit further down the pipeline. I'd > like to see us incorporate SUL so Wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's non-disclosure agreement

On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Tomasz W. Kozłowski wrote: > ... > #1: Does anyone know who might be able to provide a copy of an example > NDA signed by WMF staff for use on Meta (at > )? > #2: If it isn't possible to release the text f

Re: [Wikimedia-l] fiction: WMF policy of paying less than market

On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 5:31 AM, Leslie Carr wrote: > On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Peter Gervai wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Leslie Carr wrote: >> >>> Though I do feel that the WMF salary is discriminating against my >>> right to fly first class everywhere. My champagne glass wo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's non-disclosure agreement

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 5:11 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > ... >>As far as I know the relevant issue is that anyone who has access to >>private personal information of users needs to sign an agreement that >>they will not share that information. > > This definition doesn't seem to include CheckUsers, over

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's support of OTRS

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:02 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > James Alexander wrote: >>Yeah, I have to agree sadly that we need more tech support and this has >>been a thing that has been ongoing for a while. I personally think it >>should remain in the foundation for many reasons (the least of which is >>r

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: Sue Gardner interview on ABC Radio

Perhaps we should find out from the SLQ what license that is under, If its under a decent license It might be worthwhile uploading it to commons (in the appropriate format) On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Thehelpfulone wrote: > Alternatively you can play back the recorded video on Ustream: > ht

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser launch update

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Zack Exley wrote: > Thanks for the encouragement! We're really sorry that this decision came > so close to the fundraiser. But I think it's necessary and is going to make > things so much better. I'm hoping that we can get the fundraiser down to > something like 3

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Tech/Product] Engineering/Product org structure

(Double Post, Since this was crossposted in the first place, and to make sure I hit both lists, Sorry Wikitech) On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > The way we’d get there: > > I’m prepared to resign from my engineering management responsibilities > and to focus solely on my rema

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FSF Blocked by MS "Net nanny software"

And this has what to do with the Wikimedia-l List? ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia sites not easy to archive (Was Re: Knol is closing tomorrow )

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:14 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: > How would we regain control of our existing usernames in the event > that the user database was lost in the move? That would be up to the end project to decide, Although ideally they shouldn't unless you can prove some how it was you other

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Event coordinators: how to create many accounts from 1 IP address

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:04 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Before this guide gets distributed too widely, I'd think about its > scalability. Shell requests can take weeks, months, or even years to get > resolved, even when filed properly. Anyone in the world of tomorrow! can do shell requests (Git), Th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Watchlist email notifications enabled on all wikis

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Bod Notbod wrote: > Could a site banner be put up just to let users know it's there, > perhaps with a link to a page of explanation about what it does and > how to switch it on? Sounds better to me than risking potential > surprise email barrages. Communities are