Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update Transition Team on Meta

2013-12-10 Thread MZMcBride
who the next VP of Engineering is. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list 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] Let's accept Bitcoin as a donation method

2013-12-10 Thread MZMcBride
a blog post on the Wikimedia blog (<https://blog.wikimedia.org>). MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's accept Bitcoin as a donation method

2013-12-11 Thread MZMcBride
m grateful for your candid thoughts on the matter, but the idea that you, of all people, would try to claim that it might (gasp!) insert politics into Wikipedia is simply disrespectful to history and reality. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l maili

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's accept Bitcoin as a donation method

2013-12-13 Thread MZMcBride
the merchant account simply a means of transferring USDs? I'm lost. :-( I think Andrew makes a compelling argument, though it's difficult to be sure when the implementation details are not entirely clear. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Resolution: Media about living people

2013-12-14 Thread MZMcBride
e. This is also not to be done lightly or carelessly, but nothing is permanently and indefinitely "set in stone" should there be legitimate reasons to modify a previous resolution. As it stands, this is operative global policy and Commons and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Dells are backdoored

2013-12-30 Thread MZMcBride
a bit, err, off the wall. Though they certainly add flavor to the list, so it's difficult to do more than smile and shrug. Perhaps others feel otherwise. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF employee writing articles for $300

2014-01-05 Thread MZMcBride
so I'm sure she'll chime in here when she has a minute, as necessary and appropriate. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <

[Wikimedia-l] Relationship between Wikimedia and oDesk

2014-01-07 Thread MZMcBride
723131 I think the underlying issue deserves a discussion, apart from particular examples. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikime

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Relationship between Wikimedia and oDesk

2014-01-08 Thread MZMcBride
have also apparently been posting "hire me to write an article for you" entries. That said, either oDesk's search functionality is terrible or the practice doesn't seem to be particularly common. I've only found a few "

[Wikimedia-l] Paid editing v. paid advocacy (editing)

2014-01-08 Thread MZMcBride
ment it to avoid misunderstandings. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list 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] Relationship between Wikimedia and oDesk

2014-01-08 Thread MZMcBride
Marc A. Pelletier wrote: >On 01/08/2014 02:30 AM, MZMcBride wrote: >> Can anyone explain the relationship between Wikimedia and oDesk? > >The short of it: oDesk is indeed roughly the same kind of job board as >freelancer.com and its ilk. The foundation is simply a client, and us

[Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia-Mania" in the New York Times

2014-01-09 Thread MZMcBride
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/fashion/Wikipedia-Judith-Newman.html This piece by Judith Newman has some amusing snippets. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid editing v. paid advocacy (editing)

2014-01-11 Thread MZMcBride
rer information. Posting signs that clearly say "don't enter this field because it's full of bear traps" is surely better than simply assuming everyone will somehow know that bear traps are a possibility. MZMcBride ___ Wik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid editing v. paid advocacy (editing)

2014-01-11 Thread MZMcBride
f it's just the page title you'd like to change, I agree that the current page title ("Paid editing") is not great. The "Conflict of interest editing" page has some related content, but that title also didn't feel right to me. MZMcBride ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanking anonymous users

2014-01-12 Thread MZMcBride
post to IP talk page } else if ( target user is logged in ) { send Echo notification } If you're gung-ho about implementing the ability to thank anonymous users, I think the correct answer is to submit a changeset with proposed modifications to the Thanks extension to make that dream a reality.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] RfC: Should we support MP4 Video on our sites?

2014-01-17 Thread MZMcBride
ons have a negligible amount of activity. There's already discussion on the talk page about how to close what will inevitably be a very long and contentious discussion. If we avoid treating this RFC as a vote, there's possibly hope f

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

2014-01-17 Thread MZMcBride
us updates on its progress in some form (mailing list posts, wiki page updates, etc.). MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] This weird trick will make readers of mass messages on village pumps happier

2014-01-18 Thread MZMcBride
James Forrester wrote: >On 17 January 2014 08:24, Amir E. Aharoni >wrote: >> Put it inside the following HTML tag: >> >> Your important notification. >> >> Of course, it's not great to have to remember to write it every time, >>so if >> there is a way to automate in MassMessage or EdwardsBot or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] This weird trick will make readers of mass messages on village pumps happier

2014-01-18 Thread MZMcBride
name to lang="" and then have a dictionary for which are rtl and which are ltr, which could then also control the class? Bleh. Or browsers could just forgive us for our trespasses and not misbehave. Perhaps others have thoughts about how to do this well. It doesn't seem

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Public Google Calendar for IRC office hours

2012-05-04 Thread MZMcBride
until the wiki can support XML and iCal output, the benefit of using Google outweighs the cost. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

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

2012-05-16 Thread MZMcBride
s already written, even, it just needs to be pushed out to a Hacks extension or something: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/72959#c9219>. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on IPv6

2012-06-01 Thread MZMcBride
information do you think is contained in an IPv6 address? I wondered what Risker was referring to as well, so I looked up IPv6 + privacy: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Privacy>. After reading that section, it's still unclear to me wheth

[Wikimedia-l] Purpose-driven motivation

2012-06-19 Thread MZMcBride
spend their free time on such projects. I imagine some people on this list have already seen this, but it's new to me and I thought I'd send it along in case others found it interesting. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] TVTropes deletes all pages with "Rape" in title under advertising pressure.

2012-06-26 Thread MZMcBride
ka BSD vs GPL; aka "do what you want", vs "do unto > others"; etc. (incidentally, is there a general term for this 100% freedom vs > -except not allowed to take away freedom- rule?)) Libertarianism. Also, the SOPA strike wasn't necessary; it was disruptive and fooli

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia goes on strike

2012-07-09 Thread MZMcBride
fellow Wikimedians. They need wider promotion on Meta etc. > > Party is on #wikipedia-ru@freenode You've successfully disrupted an educational resource in the name of political advocacy. Stooping to the level of vandals... that'

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board resolutions from 11 July 2012 meeting

2012-07-12 Thread MZMcBride
tps://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/History_of_the_Board_of_Trustees However, I don't see any posted resolutions or votes regarding the new Board appointments (yet). Will those be forthcoming? MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Uns

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board resolution on personal image hiding feature

2012-07-14 Thread MZMcBride
rrible at. It'd be good if there were a way to address this. > We are working on a Q&A document that will be published after Wikimania. I hope you all include "What has been learned from this?" :-) Lots of good lessons for all three sides here, I think (staff, Board, and comm

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's use of Mingle

2012-07-16 Thread MZMcBride
/Mingle>. It's a very barebones page at the moment. If anyone who's familiar with Mingle (particularly the Wikimedia Foundation's use of it) could glance at or improve the page, that would be great! MZMcBride ___ Wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's use of Mingle

2012-07-16 Thread MZMcBride
Steven Walling wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:55 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >> Someone recently asked me about the Wikimedia Foundation's installation of >> Mingle (<https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/>) and when I went to find >> documentation about it, I came up dry

[Wikimedia-l] "User:Jimbo Wales/Personal Image Filter"

2012-07-16 Thread MZMcBride
to somewhat ignore previous discussions about ways to implement such a filter (e.g., <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki//Brainstorming>), but perhaps that isn't such a bad thing. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "User:Jimbo Wales/Personal Image Filter"

2012-07-16 Thread MZMcBride
MZMcBride wrote: > List participants may be interested. Jimmy's approach seems to somewhat > ignore previous discussions about ways to implement such a filter (e.g., > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki//Brainstorming>), but perhaps that isn't > such a bad thin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia goes on strike

2012-07-17 Thread MZMcBride
e disruption (like the bans in China), working around those disruptions to further Wikimedia's aim of spreading free educational content is a worthwhile endeavor. Purposefully disrupting access to Wikimedia wikis through blackouts is contrary to

[Wikimedia-l] Fund-raising goal questions

2012-07-26 Thread MZMcBride
Hi. How is the fund-raising goal determined each year? Is there a fund-raising goal set for the upcoming fund-raiser (the one beginning in November 2012)? Is there a guideline or policy regarding what happens once the fund-raising goal is met? MZMcBride

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2012-13 Annual Plan of the Wikimedia Foundation

2012-07-28 Thread MZMcBride
ow to join and use this mailing list. It's not as though this is list is some new and foreign forum. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2012-13 Annual Plan of the Wikimedia Foundation

2012-07-28 Thread MZMcBride
Thomas Dalton wrote: > On Jul 29, 2012 7:01 AM, "MZMcBride" wrote: >> Risker wrote: >>> This is a very good point, Thomas. Why exactly is there no place on a >>> community wiki where this is being discussed? Instead it is being >>> discussed on a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2012-13 Annual Plan of the Wikimedia Foundation

2012-07-30 Thread MZMcBride
nterested, there's discussion on the talk page about how to best implement this idea. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A task list for a beginning project

2012-07-31 Thread MZMcBride
d templates on a small Wikipedia that only has 400 articles is terrible, but it's not as though the English Wikipedia or any other established Wikipedia with millions of articles wants 10,000 unused templates either. MZMcBride [1] Wikis have been previously compared to children. "Creati

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: WMF Policy and Political Affiliations Guideline

2012-08-01 Thread MZMcBride
ifferent > types of affiliations and examines when review is appropriate by the > community, WMF staff, and the Board of Trustees. This appears to be an unprecedented power-grab by the office of the General Counsel. Was there any Board or community support for placing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: WMF Policy and Political Affiliations Guideline

2012-08-02 Thread MZMcBride
David Gerard wrote: > On 2 August 2012 05:13, MZMcBride wrote: >> This appears to be an unprecedented power-grab by the office of the General >> Counsel. > > Um ... that's a bizarre perception. Is it? I read through the page at Meta-Wiki and couldn't help bu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Policy and Political Affiliations Guideline

2012-08-02 Thread MZMcBride
Brandon Harris wrote: > On Aug 2, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:11 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >>> What type of action was the SOPA blackout in January? >> >> You mean, given the $500,000 Google donation Wikimedia received in Novembe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Policy and Political Affiliations Guideline

2012-08-03 Thread MZMcBride
Stephen LaPorte wrote: > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 6:07 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >> My question, more directly, is: if the SOPA action from January 2012 >> were held in August 2012 (following the implementation of this new statement >> from the General Counsel's office)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia redefined -- typography and UX and such

2012-08-07 Thread MZMcBride
le to upload the images to Wikimedia Commons so that they can be annotated on Meta-Wiki and/or mediawiki.org. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Should we lock StrategyWiki?

2012-08-12 Thread MZMcBride
helpful to Meta-Wiki generally. I thought there was some planning about this on Meta-Wiki already somewhere. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Should we lock StrategyWiki?

2012-08-12 Thread MZMcBride
that people fragment what are otherwise sensible critical-mass communities or projects into multiple beautiful-but-subcritical communities which fade over time." MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fund-raising goal questions

2012-08-20 Thread MZMcBride
Megan Hernandez wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:19 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >> How is the fund-raising goal determined each year? >> > > The fund-raising goal is determined by the amount of money needed to fund > the budget with consultation with the payment processin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fund-raising goal questions

2012-08-20 Thread MZMcBride
James Alexander wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 8:44 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >> P.S. I happened to notice at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising> >> that the "Chapter Fundraising Agreement" is not public (looks like it's >> hosted on internal.w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] the hidden toolbox

2012-09-19 Thread MZMcBride
to move a page. Yes, boy and girls, hiding things makes them more difficult to find; film at 11. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] AFT5: what practical benefits has it had?

2012-09-22 Thread MZMcBride
n-wiki consensus before being widely deployed, right? Has that happened? MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The new narrowed focus by WMF

2012-10-18 Thread MZMcBride
h parts you're upset with and why. If your intent is to rabble-rouse, you're doing it wrong. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The new narrowed focus by WMF

2012-10-18 Thread MZMcBride
MZMcBride wrote: > Theo10011 wrote: >> Sue Gardner started working on this document on Meta a couple of weeks ago >> - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sue_Gardner/Narrowing_focus > > Well, there's your problem. You're reading the talk page! You want the

[Wikimedia-l] Info action

2012-10-22 Thread MZMcBride
needs a little design love), please feel free to e-mail this list or file a bug at <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/>. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Info action

2012-10-23 Thread MZMcBride
info action" https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/41329 Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 22 October 2012 22:41, MZMcBride wrote: >> for some users (such as administrators), certain additional fields (such >> as the number of page watchers) will be displayed. > &

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Romney and copyright

2012-10-29 Thread MZMcBride
the curve on this issue. ;-) Regarding Mr. Romney in particular, he seems to be very pro-corporation/pro-business, so I don't expect any major changes to copyright law should he be elected President. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board vote on narrowing focus

2012-11-02 Thread MZMcBride
It would be nice if someone could export the linked presentation from Google Docs and upload it to wikimediafoundation.org (or Wikimedia Commons) as a PDF or ODP (or both). I don't think we should rely on external resources in the context of historical Board archives unless absolutel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board vote on narrowing focus

2012-11-02 Thread MZMcBride
Bishakha Datta wrote: > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 8:30 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >> It would be nice if someone could export the linked presentation from Google >> Docs and upload it to wikimediafoundation.org (or Wikimedia Commons) as a PDF >> or ODP (or both). I don't think

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia blog contributions; make participation invitation more obvious

2012-11-02 Thread MZMcBride
uot;Guidelines" link in the sidebar, but it's painfully buried in the left-hand sidebar's list of links and its target (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Guidelines>) is a wall of text. I'm not sure who could resolve this issue or how it's best tracke

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board resolutions on bylaw amendments and appointment of Foundation staff officers

2012-11-02 Thread MZMcBride
issue tracking, as a request that ultimately needs a (Board) resolution. Perhaps a page at Meta-Wiki could track such requests? MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board resolutions on bylaw amendments and appointment of Foundation staff officers

2012-11-02 Thread MZMcBride
Samuel Klein wrote: > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 3:07 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >> In the past, Sam has said that private solicitation of Board members to >> introduce a resolution was the best approach. > > *Public* solicitation, actually. I can't think of any reason to priv

Re: [Wikimedia-l] AFT5: what practical benefits has it had?

2012-11-10 Thread MZMcBride
MZMcBride wrote: > Dario Taraborelli wrote: >> A full roll out of AFT5 on the entire English Wikipedia is scheduled for Q4 >> 2012. > > Do you have a link to on-wiki consensus for this idea? I was under the > impression that the ArticleFeedback tool was developed as an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Banners are too bright, too long

2012-12-04 Thread MZMcBride
." You're annoying readers and editors alike with these banners. MZMcBride [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Experiments ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Banners are too bright, too long

2012-12-04 Thread MZMcBride
nated money to you. Just how many complaints were you expecting and what might they look like? I'm fascinated to know. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Banners are too bright, too long

2012-12-05 Thread MZMcBride
annual fundraiser in Wikimedia's history. And not that money is the only thing that matters, but in terms of comparison to other years, this year has apparently just blown them away: <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserStatistics>. It's very impre

Re: [Wikimedia-l] If I could talk to the wiki folks...

2012-12-29 Thread MZMcBride
ediaWiki Foundation, we can start work on the > MikiWedia Foundation and the WediaMiki Foundation. ;-) [/snip] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-August/062843.html MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rationale for fundraising record?

2013-01-06 Thread MZMcBride
ng banner time, etc.). I realize it's January and that the next annual fundraiser is many months away, but do you have any idea when this year you'll be having a discussion about these trade-offs and where? MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l ma

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

2013-01-10 Thread MZMcBride
I did come across other interesting and somewhat related pages such as <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Statement>, though.) MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailm

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

2013-01-10 Thread MZMcBride
dex page at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Non-disclosure_agreements>. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rationale for fundraising record?

2013-01-13 Thread MZMcBride
Zack Exley wrote: >On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 1:59 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >>In previous discussions, there were questions about trade-offs and I >>think you mentioned that the Wikimedia community would have to make some >>choices about certain implementation details (e.g., &quo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 15% off merchandise today at the Wikimedia Shop

2013-01-14 Thread MZMcBride
much as the place to which it leads. These are solvable problems. We can do better. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia ED Sue Gardner named to Global Voices Board of Directors

2013-01-16 Thread MZMcBride
ying to wrap my head around what Global Voices exactly is, but a collaboration between the two seemed like it might have promise. If I'm off-base, ignore me.) MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] OTRS summaries and statistics report, 2012

2013-01-22 Thread MZMcBride
Keegan Peterzell wrote: >1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS/Reports/2012 >2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS Nice. Thanks for putting this together. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsub

[Wikimedia-l] Loading remote resources on Wikimedia wikis

2013-02-08 Thread MZMcBride
erhaps there's a page on Meta-Wiki somewhere? Does anyone know? MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Loading remote resources on Wikimedia wikis

2013-02-10 Thread MZMcBride
es such as <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy> that fill a somewhat similar explanatory role. Perhaps a similar page would be best here? It's fairly long-standing policy to ban outside tools such as Google Analytics due to user privacy concerns, but it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising testing

2013-02-20 Thread MZMcBride
gets/how it's been working for you all. Do people submit interesting stories? I assume it's funneled through OTRS or something, but I'm not actually sure. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

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

2013-02-20 Thread MZMcBride
valuating and implementing better/different response software, and/or moving the response system elsewhere. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

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

2013-02-20 Thread MZMcBride
his is workable. It's just a matter of pointing where the e-mail is sent, as I understand it. And then maintaining whatever solution you pick/build that manages the e-mail. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

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

2013-02-21 Thread MZMcBride
s on it, or a >replacement, more. I would think the Wikimedia Foundation would want to remain pretty distant from unfiltered volunteer replies to e-mails, from a legal standpoint, but maybe someone from the Wikimedia Foundation legal team can chime in on this point. Thanks again for your

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

2013-02-21 Thread MZMcBride
David Gerard wrote: >On 21 February 2013 12:07, Sumana Harihareswara >wrote: > >[Sumana does ALL THE THINGS] > >This is a wonderful response. Thank you! Completely agreed. Thank you, Sumana! It seems like we're headed in a goo

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

2013-03-05 Thread MZMcBride
MZMcBride wrote: >As I understand it, many Wikimedia Foundation employees are required to >sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). Is there a copy of the current >version of this non-disclosure agreement anywhere? I briefly checked >Meta-Wiki and wikimediafoundation.org, but didn't

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

2013-03-05 Thread MZMcBride
er user volunteer groups (people with access to rt.wikimedia.org, shell users, et al.). I suppose we should begin to expand the page on Meta-Wiki. Cunningham's Law will kick in, as necessary. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@li

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

2013-03-05 Thread MZMcBride
nsparency is exactly needed, per se, but it was an interesting read and it may serve as a reference point for other non-profits and similar organizations. It'd be nice to see it re-posted at some point. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikime

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

2013-03-06 Thread MZMcBride
Benjamin Chen wrote: >On 6 Mar, 2013, at 3:11 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >> It's unclear whether Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees members and >> Wikimedia stewards are also required to sign NDAs. > >Just for the purpose of information, stewards do not sign NDAs. T

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

2013-03-06 Thread MZMcBride
for protecting people's privacy. > >That's my understanding as well. I have a NDA with the WMF as a volunteer >from a couple years ago to help with fundraising after I no longer >contracted for the foundation in order to access the donations CRM

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

2013-03-06 Thread MZMcBride
the "Identification noticeboard" in some ways, which is almost equally entirely arbitrary about who is and isn't required to identify themselves to the Wikimedia Foundation. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wi

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

2013-03-09 Thread MZMcBride
factor :) :D These photos were adorable. Thank you for sharing them. (Though I did feel a slight pang in my heart when I remembered that S.F. had stolen Kat and Greg from us.) MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Grants Program Retrospective 2009-2012 published

2013-03-13 Thread MZMcBride
tive_2009-2012 Hi. I haven't had a chance to read the report yet, but I just want to say thank you for the transparency here. :-) MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

2013-03-13 Thread MZMcBride
ailing list. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

2013-03-14 Thread MZMcBride
a-wide requests for comment? Just a Board resolution (assuming a majority of members support this, of course)? Thoughts on how to figure out what the next step here is would be really appreciated. (Particularly looking at you, Philippe, given your work on both the strategic p

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

2013-03-14 Thread MZMcBride
Philippe Beaudette wrote: >On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:47 AM, MZMcBride wrote: >> (Particularly looking at you, Philippe, given your work on >> both the strategic plan and the licensing vote. Gerard's Law and all. >>;-) > >For the record, I didn't do the l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

2013-03-14 Thread MZMcBride
Erik Moeller wrote: >On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:47 AM, MZMcBride wrote: >> It costs about $2.5 million to keep the sites operational for a year. > >How did you come up with that number? I used to say $2 million, but Roan recently told me that it had probably gone up since that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

2013-03-16 Thread MZMcBride
Is this a reasonable (or tenable) path forward? After having seen the volume of past discussion about this idea, I'd really prefer not to look back at this mailing list discussion in two or three years and still not have made forward real forward progress. ;-) If you have o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

2013-03-18 Thread MZMcBride
y I think an investigative or exploratory committee would make a lot of sense here and now. Thoughts? MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

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

2013-03-19 Thread MZMcBride
hen OTRS is struggling to stay functional. I don't do much OTRS-related work, but I find it easy to imagine some OTRS volunteers reading this and wondering what's going on. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedi

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

2013-04-02 Thread MZMcBride
date on this e-mail from November 2012? (Or some place interested folks should be watching for news?) MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

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

2013-04-05 Thread MZMcBride
Erik Moeller wrote: >On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 7:49 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >> Sue or Erik: is there any update on this e-mail from November 2012? (Or >> some place interested folks should be watching for news?) > >In addition to the original note from November, please also

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Gadgets

2013-04-07 Thread MZMcBride
ension: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Gadgets>. It sounds like maybe you want "merchandise"? Or something similar to that. Just a thought. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] Favicon notes

2013-04-13 Thread MZMcBride
For the curious: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Favicon>. MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New design for the list info page?

2013-04-17 Thread MZMcBride
other themes worth investigating. Thank you for working on this! MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia mobile application development

2012-04-09 Thread MZMcBride
something best left to third parties (which, as I understand it, have already filled the "Wikipedia app" niche with a variety of options for both platforms) or interested volunteers? MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

2012-04-10 Thread MZMcBride
ational value of such a project. It instead derails advertising and makes a few generic statements that would be true of any project addition ("increase the number of Wikimedians," etc.). If you're serious about seeing it become the next Wikimedia sister project, I'd focus on mak

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia mobile application development

2012-04-11 Thread MZMcBride
Thank you very much for the detailed and insightful reply. Tomasz Finc wrote: > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 9:37 PM, MZMcBride wrote: >> Mobile seems to have two branches these days: (1) the mobile versions of the >> sites; and more recently (2) specific mobile applications. Branch

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