[Wikimedia-l] Surveys

2014-09-20 Thread Rand McRanderson
surveys and for the lack of 2012 survey results (perhaps some long policy discussion lost in the bowels of the mailing list) Rand McRanderson ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to beta-test HHVM

2014-09-20 Thread Rand McRanderson
with just reading the statuses like these is that a brief statement about the fact that it is almost ready to deploy or something like that can get lost in a wall of text. On 09/20/2014 04:17 PM, Guillaume Paumier wrote: Hello, On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Rand McRanderson wrote: Here is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to beta-test HHVM

2014-09-20 Thread Rand McRanderson
Here is one idea. A dashboard of top level Wikimedia projects with statuses, estimates, and a key to terms. Or does this exist? On Sep 20, 2014 3:37 AM, "Pine W" wrote: > Do we have a published guideline somewhere about MediaWiki quality > standards for pre-alpha, alpha, beta, and production rele

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Stop the New Privacy Policy until Lila is Thoroughly Briefed on It, Countdown 14 Hours

2014-06-05 Thread Rand McRanderson
I think this is all information that is generally collected by server log files. Ie, I do not think there is anything special being collected On Jun 5, 2014 12:21 PM, "Trillium Corsage" wrote: > I am writing to ask that the new privacy policy be stopped, pending > briefings of and thorough consid

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons tagging and/versus categorization

2014-05-19 Thread Rand McRanderson
The difference between categories and tags is semantic but those semantics determine how the feature is used. I suppose from an abstract technical perspective what is needed is different classes of category-like objects based on the purpose it should serve and displayed separately and possibly dif

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Gap

2013-12-10 Thread Rand McRanderson
I wonder if we could do a survey of readers from underrepresented groups. Even if a group is underrepresented as editors that doesn't mean they ate underrepresented as readers (for example women) (plus survey results could be cited in potential deletion discussions) We may want to think about the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Some of Wikipedia's most important tools are broken

2013-09-09 Thread Rand McRanderson
Maybe it is time to consider taking highly useful but less maintained bots and adding them to Wikipedia architecture. Wmf can offer (not force) to take them over. On Sep 9, 2013 2:22 PM, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" wrote: > Sarah Stierch, 09/09/2013 19:26: > >> Yeah..I've noticed that with a lot of to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] PRISM

2013-06-10 Thread Rand McRanderson
I think the key here is not to keep more information about users than necessary. Of course, there is the question of if the NSA asks for our checkuser data. I am relatively confident of WMF's honesty here. They have been pretty concerned about user privacy in general (I am sure that there is some

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero wins!

2013-03-17 Thread Rand McRanderson
Orkut used to dominate outside US and Europe. Then Google took over, neglected it and Facebook moved in. Classic big company takes small company and forgets about it On Mar 17, 2013 11:39 AM, "Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton" < rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Facebook here is more used than Google an