That article in the New York Times seems to describe the view of a curious
outsider's view on hard-core Wikipedians personally, and it does seem a bit
stereotyped, but since I wasn't at the conference I can only guess.
Some of us are discussing the idea that WMF Programs Evaluation could
Hi Anders, may I suggest that you ask your good question on Wiki-Research-l?
I know some work has been done on this subject but it's not at my
fingertips.
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
Pine
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Balázs Viczián
I'm forwarding this good news from WikimediaAnnounce-l that mysteriously
wasn't received by Wikimedia-l. I'm sending this to Wikimedia-l and
Education-l.
Pine
-- Forwarded message --
From: Itzik - Wikimedia Israel it...@wikimedia.org.il
Date: Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 8:58 PM
And forwarding more education good news, this time an announcement that was
sent to Education-l.
(I boldly made some formatting tweaks. My previous email address sometimes
had these problems with formatting too.)
Pine
-- Forwarded message --
From: Mile Kiš mil...@vikimedija.org
Thanks Anasuya and to the FDC AG. These points make sense to me as someone
who's actively talking with fellow Wikimedians about forming a Wikimedia
thorg.
Goodness, what happened on Wikimedia-l today? So many good things were
announced.
Pine
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Anasuya Sengupta
I appreciate this, WWB, especially after the grilling I gave you about
proposed edits to the Hedge fund article! The fact that you and your
clients are persistent, willing to be open about your associations, and
willing to abide by Wikimedia's CoI's standards even if it makes adding
content take a
Hi Yves,
The Wikimedia Foundation runs a project called the Arab World Education
Program that I hear is successful. You can read about it on the Wikimedia
Blog and in the This Month in Education newsletter. I haven't heard of an
Arab country providing a national-level endorsement to the program
I recall hearing about this idea before at least once. I'm emailing this to
Steven Walling to get input from the Growth team. It's an interesting idea
especially if WMDE tried it and had success.
Pine
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:29 AM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi,
Wmde
Oh, I like hearing about collaborations like this! We are working on
collaborations with other open source groups here in United States Cascadia
also. (The existence of our Cascadia group is pending approval from Affcom.)
In addition to sharing a building, are you sharing administrative staff or
This is a reminder mostly for US Wikimedians and US-based WMF office
employees but also in case Wikimedians in other parts of the world want to
join us.
Wicnik, Wikimedia's annual summer picnic event, is happening again this
year. Are you signed up to participate? Bring food, sports equipment,
]
http://www.makingallvoicescount.org/project/open-content-in-kalimantan-wikipedia-openstreetmap-for-transparency/
.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 1:38 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, I like hearing about collaborations like this! We are working on
collaborations with other open source
I will add this to my ever-growing list of possible projects for Cascadia.
There are a few other projects under consideration that have received
little WMF support but I feel are movement-aligned and would interest the
public or the contributor base.
In order for Cascadia to work on these
Thanks for the update, Anasuya.
As you have probably heard, I'm currently working on an article for the
Signpost about the education program, and I might have a few questions for
you off-list sometime in the next several days or next week.
Pine
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Anasuya
Trillium,
I am having difficulty understanding how retaining copies of possibly
forged identification documents helps anyone with holding accountable any
rogue functionary or OTRS user. Can you explain that please? Surely someone
who intends to misuse the tools will be smart enough to forge an
Hi Pajz,
The idea that a previously trustworthy functionary or OTRS volunteer might
later go rogue has occurred to me, so let's work with that example for a
moment.
Let's hypothesize that we have a good way (90% confidence) of verifying
all submitted identity documents and that those documents
Hm. If we're assigning some special status to Meta-level committees, there
are many more of them in addition to the Board, AffCom and FDC. Just to
name some of them: we have 4 grants committees that I know of, the board's
Audit Committee which has some non-Board members, the Research Committee,
Hi Mingli, may I suggest that you post some of your interesting thoughts in
IdeaLab so that others can work with them and build on them?
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Idealab
Pine
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:42 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com
wrote:
Thanks for the addendum. :-)
In the past, this mailing list has been used for discussions of staff
conduct, which I am not sure is the best idea when identifiable people are
involved. I suggest that a first line of approach would be to discuss the
matter civilly with the people directly involved including the employee and
Nice work.
Pine
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com wrote:
David, thanks for posting that link here.
Magnus, it looks like you've made (yet another) excellent tool, and
described the problem it aims to alleviate in an eloquent and accessible
way.
Great to
Sounds like a local issue for ES wiki. I'll ask Hahc21 to look at this.
Pine
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Leigh Thelmadatter osama...@hotmail.com
wrote:
es.wiki creating user pages
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 00:20:26 +0200
From: nemow...@gmail.com
To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Definitely the ICRC sounds like a good partner organization. My first
thought is that it would be good if they made their photography available
on Commons. There might also be some opportunities for collaboration in
Wikipedia Zero-like accessibility initiatives, and with the Wiki Med
Foundation.
Thank you Romaine. It's nice to hear of Wikimedia Belgium's progress.
Those photos are making me hungry.
Pine
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Romaine Wiki romaine.w...@gmail.com wrote:
(Translations of this report are also available in Dutch
trustees.
I am including Gayle on this email. She may be away from her email due to
the US holiday weekend but I hope she will comment when she is available.
Pine
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Isarra Yos zhoris...@gmail.com wrote:
On 03/07/14 18:16, Pine W wrote:
In the past, this mailing list
in the deletions? Thanks.
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Harold Hidalgo hah...@gmail.com wrote:
How can I help?
2014-07-04 0:20 GMT-04:30 Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com:
Sounds like a local issue for ES wiki. I'll ask Hahc21 to look at this.
Pine
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Leigh
Wiknic New York City 2014:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikNYC_July_6,_2014_one.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikNYC_July_6,_2014_two.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikNYC_July_6,_2014_three.jpg
Hi Patrick,
Can I request that there be a policy that from now on all WMF office hours
will be announced at least two weeks in advance? Many of us have schedules
that we need to shuffle to attend meetings especially on short notice.
Thanks,
Pine
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:25 PM, Pine W wiki.p
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Wiknic New York City 2014:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikNYC_July_6,_2014_one.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikNYC_July_6,_2014_two.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikNYC_July_6
Hi Tilman,
1. Would WMF please document in the FAQ that Global Education, excluding
the US/CAN program, is funded and managed through Grantmaking, and the
US/CAN Education Program is run through the independent Wiki Education
Foundation?
2. Would someone please produce a redline version of the
I find the terminology and scoring here to be pretty obscure. Can someone
explain in detail what the definitions of each criterion are and what the
different scores mean applied to each criterion? For example, what does
Geographic diversity for the board as a whole mean as a skill?
Thanks,
Pine
I largely agree, and I also think this chart shows that the Board badly
needs people with management expertise.
Pine
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:
On 09/07/2014, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
I find the terminology and scoring here to be pretty obscure. Can
for sharing this with the community.
2014-07-09 9:56 GMT+02:00 Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com:
I largely agree, and I also think this chart shows that the Board badly
needs people with management expertise.
Pine
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:
On 09/07/2014
This discussion has closed on English Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_Viewer/June_2014_RfC
Will WMF deactivate MediaViewer on English Wikipedia per community
consensus?
Also, as WMF probably knows, Commons is currently having a similar
discussion:
, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:56 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Tilman,
1. Would WMF please document in the FAQ that Global Education, excluding
the US/CAN program, is funded and managed through Grantmaking, and the
US/CAN Education Program is run through the independent Wiki Education
those working on this
program have, over the years, done an admirable job of working through the
inevitable disagreements.
Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote
Just a note that I am drafting a request to the Board about governance of
WMF product launches. Similar problems have happened enough times that
I think the Board needs to step in with a more active role. I am also
taking
a look at the policies around office actions as they relate to product
While we're talking about technology issues on WIkimedia-l, I'd like to say
that now that I've worked my way over a few speedbumps with mobile editing
I'm happy with the direction that mobile editing is going, so thank you
Mobile team.
Pine
___
I have made a suggestion to the WMF Board. See
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard#Suggestion_for_the_Board:_Technology_Committee
In the near future, I plan to look at the policies surrounding office
actions as they apply to product decisions made by local
I have requested that the Board clarify WMF policy about office actions
with regard to the software features of wikis.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard#Request:_clarify_policy_for_on-wiki_Office_actions
Pine
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Pine W wiki.p
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Media_Viewer/June_2014_RfC#Proposal_to_reach_consistency.2Fagreement_first.2C_before_actioning_this_RfC
Gryllida.
On Thu, 10 Jul 2014, at 15:03, Pine W wrote:
This discussion has closed on English Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_Viewer
Hi community members,
I'm wondering how many people might be interested in having an IRC meeting
regarding the community's relationship to WMF and potentially developing
our own strategic plan that would be independent of WMF. In the past few
days I've heard some defense of WMF but mainly
Hi all,
OK, I've been reading this plus the emails that I got off-list. It seems
that there are a lot of diverse ideas and priorities, and probably the best
way to gather and prioritize them is through a strategic planning process
somewhat like what WMF and the community did in the last time
Hi all, I am willing to support a more detailed RfC policy that describes
where and how notices should be distributed for different kinds of RfCs,
although for the MV RfC I feel notice was adequate and there was lots of
opportunity for anyone who felt that notice was inadequate, including WMF,
to
Hi Isarra,
I did bring this up with Gayle near the end of her office hour on July 9.
The first hour of these logs is with Language Engineering and the second is
with Gayle. I was hoping that she would respond on Wikimedia-l as well and
I didn't want to speak for her which is why I didn't comment
For those who may have missed the Signpost coverage: the US National
Archives included Wikimedia in their 2014-2016 Open Government Plan. [1]
[2] [3] According to the Signpost coverage, National Archives
Wikimedian-in-Residence Dominic McDevitt-Parks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dominic said
In general, sarcasm on large public lists is risky, and in my experience
sarcasm is best tagged with sarcasm/sarcasm or ;).
Pine
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 1:25 AM, Michael Peel em...@mikepeel.net wrote:
Yes, but that
It should be relatively easy to catch a significant percentage of those
copyright violations with the assistance of automated search tools. The
trick is to do it at a large scale in near-realtime, which might require
some computationally intensive and bandwidth intensive work. James, can I
suggest
James and others,
I would like to encourage you to participate in the discussion now
happening on the Research mailing list.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2014-July/date.html
Pine
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 2:58 AM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote:
@ Pine: I am
Hi Fae, Wenke and others.
Wenke, thanks so much for reporting soon after your conference.
This thread ties in nicely to the generalized discussion about the costs
and benefits of conferences. WMF Evaluation is planning to perform an
analysis of conferences this year [1]. Also, I have asked a
In this week's Signpost we have scheduled a report about Wikipedia in
Education in the Arab World. If the Egyptian user group Wikimedians would
like to have one of their members interviewed for the article then please
email me off-list as soon as possible.
Pine
On Jul 28, 2014 2:24 PM, Enock
Petition announcement is available on the Wikimedia blog. [1]
Videos are available on Wikimedia Commons, Vimeo and YouTube, in lengths
from 11 to 21 minutes. The shortest version on Commons is at [2] and
longest is at [3].
Pine
[1]
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
as laws in other countries. For example, we are required to
send a receipt for tax purposes to U.S. donors who give over a certain
amount and we have already today received gifts through bitcoin over that
threshold.
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Nonprofits
, Jul 30, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Lisa,
Hm, that is different from my understanding of the IRC. You are required
to
offer a receipt, not to actually send one if the donor declines, right?
Then you could have a checkbox to disable personal info and the receipt
at 2:39 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
In the crowdsourced world, I like to think that we evaluate ideas and
programs based on their merits rather than who makes a decision. I grant
that some heirarchy is good and necessary, and in this case the heirarchy
made a reasoned decision
for every
scenario like this, we find it safest just to ask for the information.
Best,
Lisa
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Heh. If this discussion gets too technical we can move it off-list. At
the
moment if Fundraising just wants to say we'll work
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
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
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
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
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.
, 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,
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
-Original Message-
From: wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:
wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pine W
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
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
?
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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:
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:51 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
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Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
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Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
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
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
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
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
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