Re: [Wikimedia-l] Core content policy

On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 5:31 PM, Todd Allen wrote: > I'd definitely agree there. There are a few non-negotiable points (NPOV, > copyright and licensing, nonfree content, etc.), but outside those, > individual projects generally have latitude to run things as their > community needs. ​The Englis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Core content policy

On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 9:05 AM, John Erling Blad wrote: ​​ > Would it be possible for Wikimedia Foundation to make some sound baseline > policies, and with the option for local projects to refine those? Perhaps > with assistance from editors on Wikipedia? > ​ Precedent has​ ​that the Board of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

"The nerve of these women, to think that they can write encyclopedia articles on women who must inherently be non-notable! There's nothing to write about here." That's basically what your email says. No complaints when the subject is anything else from you, when these thematic editing are held on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 9:02 AM, Gnangarra wrote: > I cant believe this > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_ > in_Red/The_World_Contest > has > got WMF funding, the idea of trying to create 100,000 stub articles on > english wikipedia without any thought to how it'll impac

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Todd Allen wrote: > Keegan, calling people names isn't helpful here. > > ​I didn't. I'm calling out the tone. ​ > We've already had horrible projects to write tons of stubs before, like the > "place" bots. And in those cases, we'd know at least roughly what they

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Todd Allen wrote: > >> Keegan, calling people names isn't helpful here. >> >> > ​I didn't. I'm calling out the tone. > ​ > >> We've

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Gergő Tisza wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Keegan Peterzell > wrote: > > > "The nerve of these women, to think that they can write encyclopedia > > articles on women who must inherently be non-notable! There's

[Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours - Structured Commons - Tuesday 13 February

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours - Structured Commons - Tuesday 13 February

A reminder that this is occurring tomorrow, 13 February. On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 2:30 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > Greetings, > > As the subject line says, there will be a Wikimedia Foundation-hosted IRC > office hours [0] this coming Tuesday, 13 February 2018, from 18:00-19:00 &g

Re: [Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours - Structured Commons - Tuesday 13 February

Final reminder that this is taking place in 30 minutes in #wikimedia-office Join by browser if you do not have an IRC client: https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 3:00 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > A reminder that this is occurring tomorrow,

[Wikimedia-l] Structured Data on Commons feedback - What gets stored where (Ontology)

for your time, see you on the wiki. 0. Plaintext link: < https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Feedback_requests/Ontology > -- Keegan Peterzell Technical Collaboration Specialist Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Structured Data on Commons feedback - What gets stored where (Ontology)

Hello, On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 4:34 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > Greetings, > > There is a new feedback request up on Wikimedia Commons regarding > Structured Data on Commons. The topic is a very important discussion: > between wikitext-in-Mediawiki, Wikibase on Commons,

[Wikimedia-l] Global preferences available for testing

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[Wikimedia-l] First structured licensing and copyright discussion for Wikimedia Commons

detailed discussions will come later this year. Thanks! ​0. ​https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data ​1.​ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Feedback_requests/First_licensing_consultation -- Keegan Peterzell Technical Collaboration Specialist

Re: [Wikimedia-l] First structured licensing and copyright discussion for Wikimedia Commons

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 12:32 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > Greetings, > > The first conversation about structured licensing and copyright on Commons > for the Structured Data project [0] is available for participation [1]. The > purpose of the discussion is to help identify

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Commons-l] Structured data - file captions coming this week (January 2019)

he team my hold the deployment (or roll it back) if last minute problems occur. Should that happen I will keep you all informed, and I'll see you all at the IRC office hour tomorrow. -- Keegan Peterzell Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Commons-l] Structured data - file captions coming this week (January 2019)

ttend. -- Keegan Peterzell Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation ___ 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: Wikime

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Giving Commons a bigger public

would like to hear feedback. Have a look over the project page if you're interested to see what a tool like Hay's could look like on Commons itself: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Media_search Comments welcome on the talk page, I'm slowly spreading the word a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Armenia candidate for the board

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 3:35 PM, geni wrote: > On 2 March 2016 at 19:58, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > > Western countries don't really have a tradition of state-published > > encyclopedias, > > Wales is not a western country? > > https://en.wikipedia >

[Wikimedia-l] Using this list to tear people down

There's a quote popularly attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt: "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."[0] Now, I'm not calling any particular people small minded, nor am I suggesting we stop talking about issues. What I am suggesting is that we talk abou

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Using this list to tear people down

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Chris Sherlock wrote: > > > I agree with this, though I wonder about what to do when people cause > events that damage the central ideas and tenants of an organization. > > Just a thought. > ​It is not hard to keep discussions involving people relevant to the issu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Using this list to tear people down

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:01 PM, Pine W wrote: > Hi Keegan, > > I'm fond of the principle of civility. I'm wondering how you suggest that > we balance civility with the need to hold people accountable. For example, > if someone makes a series of highly problematic decisions, or commits a > wikife

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Using this list to tear people down

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:31 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:01 PM, Pine W wrote: > >> Hi Keegan, >> >> I'm fond of the principle of civility. I'm wondering how you suggest that >> we balance civility with the need

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Using this list to tear people down

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 12:51 AM, Jane Darnell wrote: > I just thought Mr. Kolbe's mother didn't hug him enough as a baby. > > I did not bring this up in response to any one particular person, thread, or individual post. ​The issues are much broader and run far deeper, namely, the acceptability of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Qualities for the next long-term WMF executive director

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 1:21 AM, Pine W wrote: > If the research results about qualities of effective managers have been > generally consistent for 30 years, then I wonder why so many managers in so > many organizations today have mediocre skills in those areas. > ​I'd hazard a guess that it's be

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: A conversation?

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 7:29 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote: > I've been in the Wikimedia movement for over a decade now. I've seen > Wikimedia-l. I've seen internal-l. I've had death and sexual assault > threats show up in my inbox. ​Me too. ​ > And this, /this/, is genuinely the most > horrified I'v

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: A conversation?

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Pete Forsyth wrote: > Below is a message Jimmy Wales sent to James Heilman and myself on Feb. 29. > I mentioned the existence of this message on the list on March 2: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-March/082901.html ​I'm a firm believer i

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: A conversation?

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 12:55 AM, SarahSV wrote: > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Keegan Peterzell > wrote: > > > But whatever, let's open up yet another thread for people to go after > each > > other. > > > > ​Keegan, we've been told since th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: A conversation?

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Kevin Gorman wrote: > Jimmy, given the fact that James has requested you release it combined with > the fact that it contains no confidential information, please release the > particular email James requested you release. You've said that you would > release it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF non-disclosure agreements and non-disparagement clauses

On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Luis Villa wrote: > > In mid-2013, the legal team put the standard employee NDA clauses, and a > couple others, on-wiki at: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Non-disclosure_agreements#Wikimedia_Foundation.27s_non-disclosure_agreements > > Luis ​Thanks, Luis.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero mass effect on Wikimedia projects

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Ziko van Dijk wrote: > Actually, I am quite appalled by the article. Whether one wants to see > something positive in pirating or not, the Wikimedia servers are not meant > for this purpose (for good reasons). Breaking rules and taking abuse of an > opportunity is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero mass effect on Wikimedia projects

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Ziko van Dijk wrote: > >> Actually, I am quite appalled by the article. Whether one wants to see >> something positive in pirating or not, the Wikimedia servers are not meant

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Internship opening: product management at WMDE

t bullet point in the role description: * [...] enrolled as a Bachelor or Master student at a German university or college or qualified for working in Germany as an ERASMUS program student. -- Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Product Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikiwand

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Adam Wight wrote: > To second what others have said, I personally love the idea that a reading > interface should include less editor clutter, until it is requested. > There's a task for this, if anyone would like to help push that > investigation forward: >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikiwand

Hey Gerard, I think you might have missed *my* point? Please note that I was nuancing something that Adam said that caught my eye. I broadly agree with your (Gerard's) position. You say: The notion that "people just want the content no matter how great of awful the skin is" is awful. I agree it'

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Fwd: Hello Mr. ccc, Now you can have your own Wikipedia page

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Cristian Consonni wrote: > 2016-04-06 22:06 GMT+02:00 Florence Devouard : > > A relationship of mine received the email below and forwarded it to me. > > http://yourprmanager.com/ > > This is appalling. ​Heh. and the testim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Outage for planned maintenance: No editing for two 30-minute periods next week

Natacha off-list, I believe any potential issue with the workshop has been resolved. -- Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Product Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding Citation Hunt

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:54 AM, James Salsman wrote: > How do people feel about a few of the larger the Chapters funding pilots to > have professional researchers do https://tools.wmflabs.org/citationhunt/en > and a few other main languages? > ​Might I suggest you approach some of these larger

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia is basically just another giant bureaucracy

Why is it that when we want to be critical of our internal movement collaborators this list is the primary vehicle for personal insult from micro-aggressions to outright hostility, but this discussion is off-topic? -- ~Keegan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan This is my personal email a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Account of the events leading to James Heilman's removal

On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Peter Southwood < peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote: > We already have one of those. > Cheers, > P ​Right, okay, whatever. Combing through WM-l archives for the past six months, there is a pattern: James is removed from the board - the same eight people write

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Account of the events leading to James Heilman's removal

On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Michel Vuijlsteke wrote: > I would venture quite a bit more than 'eight people' are annoyed by the > constant and blatant double standard. > > And oh, I now anticipate a patronizing mail that starts with 'Hoi,' and > ends with 'Thanks' -- it's not just 'the same ei

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Account of the events leading to James Heilman's removal

On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Pete Forsyth wrote: > Keegan, that may very well be true (though I would say it's certain > communication channels, not "our entire movement.") > > But stating that has no logical relation whatsoever to whether or not a > certain trustee should remain in their posi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts about Wikimedia-l communications

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 11:14 PM, Pine W wrote: > > 5. I would encourage us to experiment with Discourse ( > https://www.discourse.org/faq/) to see if it will provide a platform that > is easier to use than our current mailing list setup. Perhaps we could set > up a test instance and move a small

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF C level hiring and retention

On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 12:28 AM, Pine W wrote: > I agree that there can be a benefit to internal promotions in the sense > that less onboarding is required. On the other hand, sometimes a fresh > perspective is helpful, and at least one of the interim Cs has been > insistent that they want to re

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Translators-l] Purodha passed away

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[Wikimedia-l] Repost: Technical Collaboration Guideline

ading your comments on the wiki [1]. 0. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration_Guideline 1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Technical_Collaboration_Guideline 2. https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-October/085298.html -- Keegan Peterzell Technical Collaboration Spe

[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to review: Design Statement of Purpose

ook forward to seeing you on the wiki. -- Keegan Peterzell Technical Collaboration Specialist Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Moderation duties

ks for your service. > > Cheers, > Craig Franklin > > ​What Craig said. Thank you for volunteering in the first place.​ -- Keegan Peterzell Technical Collaboration Specialist Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: h

Re: [Wikimedia-l] community survey request

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 6:30 AM, James Heilman wrote: > Is this with respect to what to do about undisclosed paid editing or > something else? > > J > ​I believe it has to do with this list that Bill compiled, related to political action: < https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Future of Wikipedia

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Pete Forsyth wrote: > Thank you for sharing this, Renata -- cool video! > > But I think I'm taking the exact opposite from it. It makes me happy. It > seems to me these kids love information -- and are eager to say so! -- and > love books, too, most of them expres

Re: [Wikimedia-l] internet-in-a-boxs to the refugee camps?

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Pine W wrote: > Just a thought: would the European chapters, or a single European chapter, > be willing to fundraise for this project? > > Also, in Seattle we have at least one charity that provides or donates > basic computer hardware. I imagine that other cities

Re: [Wikimedia-l] I'll be moving on

Three years is a long time to be in a leadership position in a volunteer movement. Five years is incredible. Eight years? Enjoy the time off, Jan. -- ~Keegan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan This is my personal email address. Everything sent from this email address is in a personal cap

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikiconference USA 2015

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 2:12 AM, Anthony Cole wrote: > I've been following the conference online and I congratulate the organisers > - some fascinating presentations and the videos are excellent. A link to > the videos: > > http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/2015/Schedule > > I recommend Stuart Ra

Re: [Wikimedia-l] help needed - Arkansas

I gave Gnangarra a potential contact off-list. On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 6:37 AM, Jane Darnell wrote: > Arkansas is considered one of the "fly-over" states. Good luck locating a > Wikipedian somewhere around there, not to mention a Wikimedian. > > ​Jane, this is so off-base it's bordering offensiv

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing list

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Gregory Varnum wrote: > Chris - and I suspect others - who are already welcome to join this list - > are why I think it is not a foregone conclusion that it will be kept > private. > > Remember that we have a diverse group of 80+ affiliates. It may in fact > not b

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

I've been thinking about it and this is just bothering me too much. On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Todd Allen wrote: > Folks (WMF board, and those closely related), do we really have to hold a > vote of no confidence to get your attention? Do you have any doubt that > it'd pass? > > ​The Wikim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Elsevier?

Shani, This blog post by Jake and the Library team might suffice. It's from last year and directly addresses this issue: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/09/16/open-access-in-a-closed-world/ ~ Keegan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan On Feb 14, 2016 10:09 PM, "Shani" wrote: > Would love

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Another goodbye

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Dan Andreescu wrote: > > > Because we are not a tree, we are part of an ancient Aspen Grove. > *claps* I hope this thread ends on this forward-looking note. Well said, Dan. -- Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Product Wikimedi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [discovery] USA elections in real time - as viewed by Wikipedia users

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 11:53 PM, Àlex Hinojo wrote: > Love it! Thanks for sharing it! > > ​Yup yup, this is a very cool little project with a lot of future potential for other applications. -- ~Keegan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan This is my personal email address. Everything sen

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Anybody alive?

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Anybody alive?

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > o/ > ​I'm actually still here in both a personal and a professional capacity. Do I count as two? Yes I do.​ -- ~Keegan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan This is my personal email address. Everything sent from

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Transition plans for WMF leadership - Board Reform

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 9:01 PM, Anthony Cole wrote: > Hopefully we > ​ ​ > could publicly shame them into handing it over. > ​I believe that public shaming as a tool went out of vogue in most civil societies quite a bit ago. I think it should be out of vogue on this list as well.​ -- ~Keega

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What it means to be a high-tech organization

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Dan Andreescu wrote: > I'm very new to this concept of paid editing. But from what I understood > paid editing is allowed, as long as the editors disclose who they are paid > by on their talk page or in edit summaries. I understood this to be > roughly the idea

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What it means to be a high-tech organization

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 11:24 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Dan Andreescu > wrote: > >> I'm very new to this concept of paid editing. But from what I understood >> paid editing is allowed, as long as the editors disclose

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What it means to be a high-tech organization

Yeah, so, my ultimate point remains: we're talking about hundreds of Wikimedia projects and how they interact with paid editors, and not just how a few handle it. LIke everything, it's complicated beyond local instances ;) -- ~Keegan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan This is my personal

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Georgia Piedmont Wikimedians

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Carlos M. Colina wrote: > Dear all, > > I am honoured to announce, on behalf of the Affiliations Committee, the > recognition of a new Wikimedia User Group in the US: Georgia Piedmont > Wikimedians [1] > > Among their goals are continuing to organize meetups of w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Basque Wikimedians User Group

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Carlos M. Colina wrote: > Dear all, > > I am honoured to announce, on behalf of the Affiliations Committee, the > recognition of the newest affiliate in Europe: Basque Wikimedians User > Group [1] > > This new group is formed by wikimedians interested in promotin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What should happen next? My 5 ideas

please do remember that there are some of us who are going to be silent a bit in our reflection, and hopefully we'll be speaking again in the future. Everything else (for me, at least) is back to business/volunteering as usual. 0. http://meatballwiki.org 1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15061

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What should happen next? My 5 ideas

sage was in no way asking anyone to slow down, just a nod to the list that some of us are going to sit back for a bit, so please save a seats at the table :) -- Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Product Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What should happen next? My 5 ideas

g to do, but it's exactly what you're saying. Slow down. There are plenty of leaders with thoughts in this movement, give everyone space. 0. https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec/?user=Keegan&project=en.wikipedia.org&uselang=en -- Keegan Pe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow or not to Flow -> it does not flow

n was certainly made as far as the Dutch Wikipedia goes. -- Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Product Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Un

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow or not to Flow -> it does not flow

On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > ..last July... > July 2013, for clarity. -- Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Product Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow or not to Flow

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Wil Sinclair wrote: > > FWIW, I signed my first comment by hand. I missed the comments about > sigs in the wikitext editor interface. If it weren't for my family > situation, I'm pretty sure I would have bailed. In any case, it was > much easier to engage at WO, a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow or not to Flow

In case it's not clear enough in my sig, this is my personal opinion: On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 12:20 AM, Martijn Hoekstra < martijnhoeks...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sep 10, 2014 5:11 AM, "Keegan Peterzell" wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Wil Sinc

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Vandalism on photographs of living people

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Fæ wrote: > I would not want to claim the credit. :-) > > This was done the wiki-way, as an interesting tangent from discussion at < > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Better_watchlisting > >. > The final SQL is mostly Bawolff's experience,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia Is Emerging as Trusted Internet Source for Information on Ebola"

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:07 AM, svetlana wrote: > MZMcBride wrote: > > http://nyti.ms/1rHy4fK > > > > Wikipedia Is Emerging as Trusted Internet Source for Information on Ebola > > Noam Cohen > > October 26, 2014 > > The New York Times > > > > Neat! (And a bit terrifying.) > > > > MZMcBride > > S

[Wikimedia-l] Upcoming Office Hours for Structured Data on Commons proposal

ls=#wikimedia-office 4. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2014 -- Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Product Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Gu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming Office Hours for Structured Data on Commons proposal

This will be in two hours from now in #wikimedia-office On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > Greetings all, > > My apologies for cross-posting lists. I would like to invite everyone > interested in the proposal for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons[1] t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming Office Hours for Structured Data on Commons proposal

Make that three hours, and re-read this email in one hour to make it two :) On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > This will be in two hours from now in #wikimedia-office > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Keegan Peterzell < > kpeterz...@wikim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Megan Hernandez wrote: > > If the description above is not working for you, please let us know at > don...@wikimedia.org so we can follow up. > ​Wait, I'm confused. Fundraising /doesn't/ use Phabricator for bug reports, as Marc-Andre suggested is the appropriat

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: White House response to Aaron Swartz petition

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 1:05 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > > As to the specific personnel-related requests raised in your petitions, > our response must be limited. Consistent with the terms we laid out when > we began We the People, > we will not address agency personnel matters in a petition

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing WikiProject X

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Ricordisamoa wrote: > >> Sounds like just another enwiki-specific thing. > > ​That's a reasonable assumption. I'm only guessing, but I think the project is based on the English Wikipedia because that's the area where the grantee(s) are most familiar. I wouldn't w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A "Listen" Button

;m challenging, James, is this: are our websites playing well with accessibility? What are the specific points of failing? It is subject to the disability, there's no patch to make it all right. What is the path to make it right? How can I help? Where can we document this? -- Keegan Pete

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Crossroads of five journeys

Thank you for sharing this story, Milos. I don't have time at the moment to participate in the Matica srpska project, but reading over the grant it sounds great. You and the other participants certainly have my moral support, for as much as that is worth :) -- ~Keegan https://en.wikipedia.org/wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Finance Fellows to develop first-ever movement-wide financial report and metrics

On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Pine W wrote: > Hi Finance Fellows, > > The timeline for your work says that your draft report should be finished. > May we look at it? I am very curious about your findings. > > Thanks (: > > Pine ​I'd like to point out that the timeline estimates completion by

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Finance Fellows to develop first-ever movement-wide financial report and metrics

On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Pine W wrote: > Keegan, > > May I point out that the term on the timeline is "deadline", as in > "commitment", not as in "estimate". I view commitments as serious business. > I believe that in IEGCom we met our deadlines every single time when I was > on that commi

[Wikimedia-l] SUL finalization update (no, for real this time)

https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patikos:UsersWhoWillBeRenamedHmm -- Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Product Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] SUL finalization update (no, for real this time)

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > > 5. for example, > https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patikos:UsersWhoWillBeRenamedHmm > > That should be https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patikos:UsersWhoWillBeRenamed It does make you go "hmm" though. -- Keegan Pe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] SUL finalization update (no, for real this time)

ones older than our registration tables. The date listed in that special page will be changed once we agree on the format: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91839 This should be fixed before any major explanation or reworded is needed, I didn't want to let that hold this up even more :) --

Re: [Wikimedia-l] SUL finalization update (no, for real this time)

Hi there, On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 11:33 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Keegan Peterzell wrote: > >Single-user login[1] finalization will be taking place next month.[2] > > > >[...] > > > >All accounts that will be affected by this will be contacted on their talk >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] SUL finalization update (no, for real this time)

is there, I'm around, I'm just working on the communications that no one else can crowdsource first. I appreciate everyone in the movement, particularly right now. I'm receiving some incredibly deep emails from people who never use their accounts about how much they appreciate the re

Re: [Wikimedia-l] SUL finalization update (no, for real this time)

t; Pine Not a bad idea at all. I'll look into it, the prime time is this week and next, the expected response curve will likely drop sharply. Thanks, Pine :) -- Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Product Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A transition and a new chapter.

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 8:10 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: > Dear Erik, > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: > > Hi all -- > > > > As Lila noted, since January 2008 I've worn many hats at the Wikimedia > > Foundation, and in the six years before that I was a Wikipedian, > > MediaW

[Wikimedia-l] Single-user login finalization - starting now

/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Unified_login> Please help spread the word with your communities as appropriate. I'd like to extend thanks to all the staff and volunteers that have put so much time and energy into making this happen, the list is extensive and my gratitude is with you all. -- Keegan

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Foundation-l] Single login - decision 2004

s://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2004-November/061327.html 2. https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-April/077576.html -- Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Product Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Foundation-l] Single login - decision 2004

entralAuth) when the account could be as old as the wiki itself in local registration. Hope that helps explain it. -- Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Product Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wiki

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Mailing list maintenance window - 2015-05-19 17:00 - 19:00 UTC

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Printed Wikipedia is go!

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 2:00 PM, David Gerard wrote: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/books/moving-wikipedia-from-computer-to-many-many-bookshelves.html?_r=1 > > 7,600 volumes, to be available on Lulu. He's printing 106 of them for > the exhibition. > ​Right, and what's the shipping cost ru

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Printed Wikipedia is go!

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Michael Peel wrote: > > > On 17 Jun 2015, at 20:00, David Gerard wrote: > > > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/books/moving-wikipedia-from-computer-to-many-many-bookshelves.html?_r=1 > > > > 7,600 volumes, to be available on Lulu. He's printing 106 of them f

Re: [Wikimedia-l] US affiliates (was: Re: WMF office location and remodel)

On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Risker wrote: > Ricordisamoa, I have no preference either way. I live in a geographically > enormous country (Canada), which has a national chapter - centered so far > away from me that I'll never be in a position to participate in person at a > regular meetup. I

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