I've had a number of discussions with our stewards over the years. Many of
them are dedicated, polite, clever, and highly sophisticated in the ways of
the Wiki. They get no pay and little glory for their delicate work, and we
often take their availability for granted. The title of this article
Hi all,
As you may have heard, I've started temporary contract work for WMF as an
intern in Learning and Evaluation. [1] My work will focus on the Learning
Patterns Library. [2] One of the goals for the internship is to enable
easier and better reporting about grants, including financial reports.
Hi Mike, would you like to post your questions on the talk page? A
collection of questions and comments are accumulating there.
I would encourage my fellow community budgeteers and strategists to comment
also.
Pine (speaking only in my personal capacity)
Forwarding to Research and Analytics for discussion.
Pine
On Oct 30, 2014 8:13 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Hi.
Splitting this out from the GLAMs/Chapters thread, I continue to regularly
wonder whether we need stricter guidelines and guidance in the area of
experimenting on
Dear colleagues,
As you may have heard,
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Editor_Interaction_Data_Extraction_and_Visualization
is an individual engagement grant proposal. I am working on this proposal
with volunteer assistance and advice from Aaron Halfaker (WMF), Haitham
Shammaa (WMF),
Hi,
I can speak only in a personal capacity.
My occasional readings of information about WMCH have been positive. I
anticipate that visa problems will be no greater than they were at
Wikimania London. The admittedly limited information about the bid sounds
reasonable, as far as it goes. I assume
Hi Garfield,
This might be a good discussion to have on Meta. Would the investment team
be willing to set up a page for discussion? The guidance developed there
could optionally be used by thematic organizations as well, and could be
used for the WMF endowment. WMF Fundraising might want to be
Ada Lovelace Day is celebrated on October 14 this year.
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (born in the year 1815) was a
mathematician and computer programmer who worked on Charles Babbage's
Analytical Engine. She foresaw how computers could evolve into devices that
perform tasks more
with
organizational values. I think WMF's donors would appreciate having a
policy that they could look at, especially when considering a possible WMF
endowment.
Pine
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 3:23 PM, James Alexander jalexan...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com
Hi Kirill,
Thanks for the info. I looked at this to get ideas for Cascadia.
What are WMDC's current financials, what is its budget for the 14-15 plan
year, and what are its sources of funds for last year and the 14-15 year?
Can you quanitify the amount of volunteer and staff hours last year? Do
Hi Garfield,
Thanks for the update.
Is there public documentation somewhere about WMF investment policy? Who
manages the investments, how was that firm or people chosen, and how often
is the performance and risk of the portfolio and the investment manager
reviewed by the Board? I am particularly
Thanks Asaf, but I have enough volunteer work to do already (: I am simply
interested in understanding what is already being done.
Pine
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
reviewed
Hi Nathan, there was some discussion about this around the most recent
Annual Plan. While I think we need to make sure that hiring is aligned with
needs and strategy, the personnel issue that worries me the most is the
active editor decline. We may wish to address both of these issues in the
new
Hi Nemo, Cascadia Wikimedians' current discussions with Affcom and WMF
Legal are about some wording on the Affiliation Agreement document. We have
not discussed becoming a chapter in any great detail, and as you note the
WMF Board created a longevity requirement. We have had informal meetings in
10, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Kirill, my understanding is that Affcom functions under the Legal
department, much like the Individual Engagement Grants Committee
functions
under the Grantmaking department. Is that so, and if not, which
department
a long way.
Best regards,
Lodewijk
(outgoing AffCom member, not speaking on behalf of anyone else)
2014-10-11 10:23 GMT+02:00 Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com:
Thank you for that information, Asaf, Kirill, and James.
James: my point still stands that somehow at IEGCom we are able
, and that may add to the response time as well.
As I say, please feel free to email me, and we will try to expedite a
response to your specific question.
Best,
Stephen
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Geoff,
In light of the above discussion about
I'm sure a Board member, Lila, or Erik will correct me if I am mistaken,
but my understanding is that there is internal agreement at Board level
that the Product side of the org needs some systemic changes, that Lila was
chosen with the goal of making those changes, and that some changes are
can address or should I ask
Garfield?
Thanks,
Pine
On Oct 9, 2014 4:44 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm sure a Board member, Lila, or Erik will correct me if I am mistaken,
but my understanding
, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the detailed comments, Erik.
As someone who spent several volunteer hours reviewing the current Annual
Plan, I would appreciate getting an understanding of how the change of
emphasis to quarterly reviews affects budgets, hiring
Hi Lila,
May I request a Tech Talk about efficiency and quality of Wikimedia
software development? It would be interesting to have you, Erik and Damon
as presenters.
Thanks,
Pine
On Oct 7, 2014 9:07 AM, Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Are you in? Or are you out? That is the question.
Hi Divyanshi,
Let me ask Quim to point you in the right direction.
Pine
On Oct 7, 2014 6:48 AM, Divyanshi Kathuria divyanshikathu...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello Everyone, warm greetings to you all. This is Divyanshi Kathuria
and I am currently pursuing BTech 2nd Year in Computer Science
It's great to hear that this is official, Ocaasi and colleagues.
Thanks also to Siko and Anasuya for supporting this.
[COI declaration: I'm on IEGCom and I sonewhat passionately believe that we
grow the awesome. :) ]
Pine
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Date: Oct 6, 2014 2:35 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Phabricator is now open for everyone
To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org
Cc:
Today we celebrate an important
Hi Itzik,
If I understand you correctly, you are asking about whether WMF and
thematic organization bylaws should allow employees to vote in trustee
elections for their own orgs.
I can see how this could create interesting conflict-of-interest problems.
However, in all non-autocratic republics
Tilman, thanks for those notes.
There was discussion awhile ago about involving the community in quarterly
reviews, and I have some questions and comments about this review, mostly
for Lila.
However, I would like to see the notes from the group mentioned at the
end of the quarterly review before
How are we doing on SUL finalization anyway? If I remember correctly the
lead on this is Dan so I'm pinging him.
Pine
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On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Tilman, thanks for those notes.
As mentioned at the top of the page, these minutes were actually taken
by Anna Koval and Maria Cruz. (I had been
Thanks Dan. Can you share an approximate completion date?
(What is with half of the WMF staff responding to routine emails on
weekends? All you workaholics and overachievers...) :)
Pine
On Oct 5, 2014 8:55 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 5 October 2014 10:00, Pine W wiki.p
The Individual Engagement Grants Committee (IEGCom) is pleased to announce
that the following contributors are appointed as new members of the
Committee:
Calliopejen1
Kirill Lokshin
Poupou l'quourouce
Rjensen
Thepwnco
For the Committee,
Pine
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Sounds good, thanks Erik.
Pine
On Sep 29, 2014 10:02 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Praveena. For future meetings, could you set up a place on Meta
where people can make requests and suggestions
Thanks for this good news that's timely for Strategic Plan development.
Damon, it would be nice if you would set up an IRC office hour for QA with
the community.
Cheers,
Pine
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 10:40 AM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
On 29 September 2014 13:38, Lila
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/IEG_Round_Two_-_2014/ru
Pine
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Forwarding from Siko Bouterse:
Greetings! The Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grants program
is accepting proposals for funding new experiments
. Please bear in mind
that we might not be able to address your inquiries this week -- it depends
on how many topics are already in the pipeline for the next meeting.
Thanks,
Praveena
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Praveena,
My understanding
discussed on the
agenda, then please join the meeting next Thursday and ask questions on
IRC.
Thanks,
Praveena
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Praveena,
Can you provide a little more detail about what this meeting is likely to
include? I am
detailed response. Answers in line!
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 8:24 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Anasuya,
Thanks for this announcement. It will be interesting to see what we learn
from this round.
I have a few questions.
* People may feel more comfortable with providing
Hi Praveena,
Can you provide a little more detail about what this meeting is likely to
include? I am particularly interested in knowing if Lila will share a
timeline and milestones for development of the Strategic Plan, and if we'll
get an update from Analytics about accounting for mobile
All,
As you may have heard, Freenode found some compromised servers on their
networks. Network traffic, including SSL traffic, may have been sniffed by
a third party.
This likely affects many Wikimedia IRC users, including users who do not
speak English, so please forward this notice and
Hi Anasuya,
Thanks for this announcement. It will be interesting to see what we learn
from this round.
I have a few questions.
* People may feel more comfortable with providing reports in languages that
are familiar to them. Are responses allowed in languages other than English?
* The Start
I can't recall the details of the discussion, but I think the suggestion
was made for these grants to go through GAC in the future. I still think
that makes sense, if GAC has the technical knoweledge to make informed
decisions about these kinds of grants.
Thanks,
Pine
On Sep 23, 2014 12:09 AM,
Thanks, but I'm looking for something that is more specific to MediaWiki
and that commits development teams to specific, standardized, and
transparently measured quality metrics as products advance or regress in
their path to production release.
Pine
Given longtime experience with problematic releases of MediaWiki features,
I think that published quality standards that products must meet in order
to become production releases could help to limit the number and
seriousness of additional troubled launches. These standards would also
reduce the
Just a few thoughts:
* I agree that the tone of the email that started this discussion about
software quality standards was unnecessarily critical. Even in production
releases, users may find occasional bugs.
* The intent of HHVM implementation and James' quick response to the
problem report are
I'll repeat what I said earlier on the IEGCom email list: I appreciate
Jessie's positive approach to program evaluation. Also, the detail and
scope of evaluation reports has ramped up significantly over the past year,
which has been great to see. Thanks for all your work, Jessie.
Pine
On Thu,
Hello Ghana Wikimedians,
A few years ago I volunteered with a nonprofit that supported education in
Africa, and I have some knowledge about your country. Congratulations on
your achievement.
Pine
On Sep 15, 2014 2:55 PM, Enock Seth Nyamador kwadzo...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for all your
Thank you very much, Kirill and Affcom. (:
Just a small amendment: we also have likely members in the British Columbia
Province of Canada, and we are proud to include them in our membership if
they wish to affiliate with Cascadia Wikimedians.
Our most frequent activities occur in the Seattle and
, but there will inevitably be
some as long as there are fewer places than people.
Ed Saperia
Conference Coordinator Wikimania London
Sent from my iPhone
On 12 Sep 2014, at 01:44, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
I like the idea of having this event be a pre-conference for Wikimania.
That may
Regional conferences are easier to attend for the locals, but...
* There would be less mixing of people and thematic organizations from
different regions
* WMF's travel costs would skyrocket if it tried to send the same number of
people to several regional events, and WMF would also likely have
I like the idea of having this event be a pre-conference for Wikimania.
That may reduce total travel costs and travel time for the people who
usually attend both events. This may also simplify planning for people and
thorgs.
Pine
On Sep 11, 2014 5:25 PM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Valerio,
This kind of request is a better fit for the Research mailing list. I've
included the email for that list in the To: line of this email reply.
Pine
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Valerio Schiavoni
valerio.schiav...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear WikiMedia foundation,
in the context of
Hi, I just tried the Try a new tool to create your proposal button and it
works for me.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Heather_Walls_should_get_a_design_award
Siko, feel free to delete that page as a test edit.
Pine
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Nasir Khan nasir8...@gmail.com
Dear all,
The Individual Engagement Grants Committee is seeking new members. We are
diverse, consensus-based committee with members on five continents and a
variety of skills. As a group we speak 16 languages and have over 500,000
edits to a variety of Wikimedia sites. We review grant
for this to be
an iterative, participatory process from the ground. Let us know if you'd
like to participate in setting up the pages themselves.
L
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
SJ, OK, currently we have mostly the 2010-15 strategy and chapter
strategies
A problem that I would like Flow to solve is the high amount of labor
needed to read over a dozen pages across four wikis in order for the reader
to access most of the MediaViewer discussions.
Pine
On Sep 8, 2014 12:22 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 8 September 2014 05:46, John
...@gmail.com wrote:
How about a category on Meta with a set of infobox templates like those on
the strategy wiki? With a summary kept updated at [[m:strategy]]
On Sep 5, 2014 5:03 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Heh. That was not my first time when I started typing my email address
I would suggest aiming for a series of base hits. (: An attempt was made
to hit VE out of the park. We know how well that worked.
I think a lot of the work of capturing suggestions is supposed to be done
by the project manager and the engineering community liaisons. It would be
interesting to
Something that that would be useful is a video demonstration of Flow in
action.
I like the goal of VE in principle, and I hear lots of comments to the
effect that it is improving over time. MediaViewer seems to be on the road
to improvement. I understand where both of those are headed. But I am
rik, I appreciate your engaging with this *early* enough for design
decisions to be adjusted before Flow gets to major rollouts.
Romaine, if the Dutch uses of features like templates are not being taken
into account in how features are designed, I suggest contacting the
Engineering community
Tim, I read that a bit differently.
Flow is an *experimental* but already feature
rich alternative...
We will aim to cover one major set of new deployments per quarter,
*carefully picking use cases*.
This looks to me like the kind of incremental rollout that is appropriate.
The idea of users
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Heh. That was not my first time when I started typing my email address and
instead Gmail autofilled wikimedia-l. This is what I get for choosing
wiki.pine instead of pine.wiki. I need some coffee or more sleep.
Anyway, this is what was supposed to go to Wikimedia-l:
Do we have a central place
liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:
Note to self:
Add Familiarity with dangers of the 'reply-all' and 'auto-complete
address' functions in e-mail clients.
;-)
-Liam
On 5 September 2014 13:52, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry, that was intended as a note to self.
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014
FWIW, ironically the tangled discussions about MediaViewer across multiple
pages have made me think that having a more organized way to read
discussions would be a good idea. My understanding is that this is one of
Flow's objectives. If Flow can achieve this in a way that is helpful and
Hi Varnet,
I have emailed Affcom or individual members on more than one occasion for
an update about the Cascadia Wikimedians user group application. We
finished our response to Affcom's last question on August 7, which was
almost a month ago. We have projects that we would like to start that are
martijnhoeks...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Aug 31, 2014 11:46 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Just in terms of the amount of everyone's time that MediaViewer,
Superprotect
and related issues are absorbing, this situation is a net negative for
the
projects.
Also, the amount
Just in terms of the amount of everyone's time that MediaViewer,
Superprotect
and related issues are absorbing, this situation is a net negative for the
projects.
Also, the amount of emotional hostility that this situation involves is
disheartening.
Personally, I would like to see us building on
widely that changes will be considered as long as they are
reasonable and do not interfere with our prime directive. Again, it is
about the readers not super users.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 25 August 2014 11:16, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
The issue is not just that individual users may
The issue is not just that individual users may want to opt out, it's
whether it should be activated by default for readers. There is also the
matter of licensing information.
I'm not aware of where thermonuclear was was threatened. There were, and
continues to be, discussion about forking. MV is
Yes, we could look at Google's infoboxes as doing us a favor because they
decrease the load on our servers. We would need to account for those views
in some way if we are interested in quantifying success in the sense of
total views of our content regardless of where it is reproduced.
However, I
I have heard very few people say don't ever change the interface. I have
heard people say don't force an interface change on me that I don't think
is an improvement.
VE was a good example. The sentiment of the community wasn't that VE''s
concept is wrong, it's that the implementation and rollout
Erik,
I am curious to hear your thoughts about the proposed Technology Committee.
That idea has some community support and had been discussed at some length
on the WMF Board Noticeboard.
Pine
On Aug 19, 2014 11:55 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:48 PM,
Hi Wil,
Yes, this newsletter will be similar to those on the page you linked.
The relevance of an article about check fraud is that Wikimedia thematic
organizations should be aware of financial security issues that could
impact them, and check fraud is one of those issues.
Yes, a how-to article
Hi all,
There are online small business accounting software packages. Do any
thematic orgs have experience with them? Any recommendations? I am thinking
about proposing Quickbooks Online for the Cascadia user group, but as this
Forbes article says, there are competitors:
Hi,
In collaboration with Chris Steipp, I am considering starting a monthly
security newsletter for Wikimedia, focused on common risks and mitigation
techniques. The target audience is the broad Wikimedia community including
developers, WMF and chapter employees, and volunteers with high risk
Gerard,
I believe that the disputes about MediaViewer are mostly about the desktop
platform's version, as most editors use the desktop platform to edit.
In general terms, I have yet to hear someone say that the Mobile platform
is a low development priority. I am familiar with Mobile-l. Mobile
FYI, Lila had chosen to engage in discussion on her meta talk page.
Numerous editors are commenting there. Discussion also continues on the
meta RFC and on the English Wikipedia arbitration workshop page.
Pine
On Aug 14, 2014 12:03 AM, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote:
Erik
On Thu,
FWIW, Lila's comments were made before the start of this email thread about
superprotect.
Pine
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Forwarding comments from Lila from
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ALilaTretikovdiff=9454366oldid=9339030
Straniu, Jimbo's comments in his keynote about forking concerned
encouraging competent editors who can't work cooperatively with other
people to fork in a way that would be better for everyone in the long run.
I don't believe this disappointing confrontation between the WMF and
volunteers were
Lila,
I hope you are aware of the issues being described in this thread. Would
you please state your views on this situation?
Pine
On Aug 10, 2014 6:09 PM, Tomasz W. Kozłowski twkozlow...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 11 August 2014 01:05, John Lewis wrote:
The people who were actually responsible
?
Pine
On Aug 8, 2014 1:10 AM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Quim, it seems to me that the methods used by Features have repeatedly
produced troubled results over the years, so it's time for a different
approach.
Note
Hi all,
I would like to encourage those of us who may have missed Lila's keynote
speech at Wikimania to listen to it. [1] In her speech, Lila takes a long
view of Wikimedia's history and future. She talks about incremental and
disruptive changes that are happening socially and technologically
Quoting MZMcBride: ...the two issues (a rush to deploy
features versus resource allocation for unwanted features), while
sometimes intertwined, can certainly also be discrete. I agree with you
in this point, and the Technical Committee is intended in part to
improve both situations.
Quoting
it might
be possible to work some of them out e.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gerry_Hutch#Removal_from_Google_Search
Simon
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Sent: 07 August 2014
Quim, can you clarify your comments about the Technology Committee? The
committee is my proposal as a community member; it is not a top-down,
Board-created idea. Its membership is designed to be broadly representative
of the MediaWiki user community. The Board mandate is necessary to give
TechCom
, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
MzMcbride, I'm not sure that WMF is overstaffed, but I would like to see
more specific performance metrics for some groups. The FDC commented on
this as well
I see how you could read it that way, but remember that to be included on
Wikipedia information should be notable and written in NPOV fashion, and
the BLP policy applies. If someone wants to contest information in their
BLP we have more subtle tools for handling disputes than pure removal,
Hm. I wonder if the engineering community liason role could be adapted to
address the suggestIons here. Also I would like to know what the liasons
currently do besides file bug reports and respond to dev process questions,
which are good to do but not what I would call strategic change management.
Most office hours are understandably in English, but I for one would be
interested in supporting language diversity in our office hours.
I believe that at least three WMF employees in the Grantmaking Department
speak some Spanish, and Spanish is spoken by a large percentage of the
global south,
are able to speak it, would be more
feasible.
Am 04.08.2014 21:39 schrieb Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com:
Most office hours are understandably in English, but I for one would be
interested in supporting language diversity in our office hours.
I believe that at least three WMF employees
I took a look at this. From my brief investigation, this appears to be a
good-faith effort by someone to locally host a Kenyan version of Wikipedia.
The donation button properly links to https://donate.wikimedia.org. The
server geolocates to Estonia. I am forwarding this report to Legal. I hope
to me that WMF is a funder that cares about
_movement resources_, including volunteer time, and not just dollars out of
its own budget.
A.
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:12 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Jessie,
Thanks for the quick reply.
Issue 1 may be challenging
Thanks Jake. TWL was used as a positive example by Jessie Wild in her grant
programs evaluation.
Pine
On Aug 1, 2014 10:54 AM, Jake Orlowitz jorlow...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all,
The June/July double-issue of our Books Bytes Newsletter is out:
Thanks to the Egyptian Wikipedians for their swift responses to Signpost
inquiries, this week's Signpost Education Report will include a focused
discussion about Egypt, in addition to the planned report about the
Education Program in the broader Arab world.
For those who haven't been following
This may be technically possible but it may also be time consuming to
implement, and and in the interest of using Fundriasing Tech time in
optimal ways it may be that preserving donor anonymity from the IRS is a
lower priority if the Foundation can meet its fundraising goals without
doing this. I
In today's WMF Metrics and Activities Meeting [1] Jessie Wild's
presentation starting around 1:05:00 compared the meta-level grantmaking
programs. The presentation is about 12 minutes long.
Jessie, I have two questions, and other people may want to ask questions as
well.
1. I'm aware that
Hi Jessie,
Thanks for the quick reply.
Issue 1 may be challenging to measure even with Wikimetrics. Can we talk
about this during the Research Hackathon next week if we can set up a time
off-list?
Thanks for the info about issue 2. I am grateful to learn that you did an
evaluation of PEG. It is
The Wikimedia Research Hackathon on August 6 and 7 takes place parallel to
the general Wikimania Hackathon in London.
Wikimania Hackathon information is available at
https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon
Research Hackathon information is available at
There is a post on the blog saying that bitcoin is accepted but there are
several questions about why WMF is asking for contact info. Is that an IRS
requirement? Might want to post the reason in the blog entry. AFAIK with
the nonprofits I donate to none require personal info for small
bitcoin as property (like, eg, shares) rather than currency,
it triggers different - and presumably more complex - reporting
requirements.
Andrew.
On 30 July 2014 20:20, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
There is a post on the blog saying that bitcoin is accepted but there are
several
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