Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2015

2014-09-11 Thread Risker
osurgeons. They're going to wave the flag that they're focusing on a specific aspect of medicine. It's what we do with the diversity conference, and with the hackathons, too. You're not losing anything by changing the name: you're recognizing the specialty focus of the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow: on featured article discussions

2014-09-15 Thread Risker
jects, and wonder why editors at your project think that the current level of participation is too low. I also don't understand why you find your watchlist flooded using the current discussion process, but this may be a difference in preferences or in the setup of your specific project. Riske

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Damon Sicore joins WMF as Vice President of Engineering

2014-09-29 Thread Risker
tly Damon served as VP of > Engineering at Edmodo, Inc., an educational content network, and was > responsible for all web, platform, and mobile engineering, security, > IT operations, support, and QA efforts.») > > Welcome Damon! > > I am admittedly amongst the lazy, so

Re: [Wikimedia-l] First Wikipedia Article has been Formally Peer Reviewed and Published

2014-10-03 Thread Risker
pedia* standards: formatting, manual of style, reliable sources as references (as opposed to, say, blogs). It doesn't contain most of the elements of peer review seen for scientific papers. Risker/Anne On 3 October 2014 15:56, Erlend Bjørtvedt wrote: > But remember: all Wikipedia arti

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections

2014-10-05 Thread Risker
cally checked for those types of duplicate votes, and would have de-activated the earliest vote(s) keeping only the last one. As it happens, nobody did that; the only votes we needed to strike were test votes.[1] Risker/Anne [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2013

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly review for Grantmaking

2014-10-05 Thread Risker
to expect that questions relevant to the responsibility of the team will receive a response. Risker/Anne On 5 October 2014 14:13, Pine W wrote: > Hi Tilman, > > Thanks for redirecting the thanks to Anna and Maria. > > Erik mentioned quarterly reviews accounting for c

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections

2014-10-05 Thread Risker
f the applicable wikis where people might be posting are not included in the SUL grouping (for example, FDC wiki or other non-public wikis, Foundation wiki, etc). Risker/Anne ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections

2014-10-06 Thread Risker
o vote, or shouldn't have been allowed to vote using a staff account, when that was in the eligibility criteria for many previous elections (not just the 2013 one) is just rude. As best I can tell, there were no concerns expressed in the lead-up the 2013 election about WMF staff having franchise. Risk

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections

2014-10-06 Thread Risker
On 7 October 2014 00:57, John Mark Vandenberg wrote: > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Risker wrote: > > > IMO the election must be run by a third party, as happened prior to > 2013, by SPI. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_in_the_Public_Interest > Adequate staf

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Reminder: Damon Sicore office hours in 5 minutes

2014-10-09 Thread Risker
Log of this office hours: http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/%23wikimedia-office/20141009.txt (Will also be posted on Meta) Risker On 9 October 2014 15:54, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > This is happening in #wikimedia-office on the freenode network in about > five. :-) > > &

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2016 - Jury Announcement and Start of Bidding

2014-10-10 Thread Risker
g it an elected position would lead to a somehow better process for identifying the next Wikimania location. Risker/Anne On 10 October 2014 10:44, Fæ wrote: > On 10 October 2014 14:58, Lodewijk wrote: > > If you're interested in discussing the future of Wikimania, perhaps it >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Audit - June 30, 2014

2014-10-14 Thread Risker
Which organizational values are you speaking about, Pine? The identified Wikimedia values[1] do not really speak to financial investment strategy. Risker [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Values On 14 October 2014 14:18, Pine W wrote: > Yes, thanks, those are relevant policies.

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

2014-10-17 Thread Risker
Thanks very much for developing this Fae, it's a great idea. Risker/Anne On 17 October 2014 03:37, Fæ wrote: > Due to recent vandalism a new report on Commons for page patrollers > has been started at > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:F%C3%A6/BLP_overwrites>.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikidata-l] Wikidata wins the ODI Open Data Award

2014-11-05 Thread Risker
Very exciting news. Risker/Anne On 5 November 2014 14:19, Pierre-Selim wrote: > Kudos \o/ and keep on the good work! > > Pierre-Selim > Message d'origine > De: Lydia Pintscher > Envoyé: mercredi 5 novembre 2014 19:09 > À: Wikimedia Mailing List > Répondre à: W

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

2014-11-12 Thread Risker
Actually, as I recall, email alerts for changes in articles has never been activated on English Wikipedia. Risker/Anne On 12 November 2014 22:53, Anthony Cole wrote: > Agree with all that, Svetlana - though we don't have a button at the top of > articles making it easy for reader

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banners (again)

2014-11-26 Thread Risker
difficult if not impossible for many users (particularly if they don't have administrator permissions for the site) to lift the filter/block. Getting donations is not more important than keeping the sites accessible. Please reconsider. Risker/Anne On 26 November 2014 at 15:33, MZMcBride

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FDC funds allocation recommendation is up

2014-11-26 Thread Risker
antee. Risker/Anne On 26 November 2014 at 15:06, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Lodewijk when the funding process stifles innovation and, it does by > design. The process is suboptimal. When the argument is made that the > chapters are second class citizens BECAUSE they are fo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why is bank transfer no longer possible?

2014-11-30 Thread Risker
information was required than is needed for any other means of payment that I've ever used. Banks in Canada regularly call their customers for transactions under $5 because fraud is so common - and that is with chip cards and PINs. Risker On 1 December 2014 at 00:08, Gerard Meijssen wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banners (again)

2014-12-02 Thread Risker
staffers, but this is a lot better than the version we saw just under a week ago. Risker/Anne ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscrib

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising in the UK

2014-12-05 Thread Risker
rth investigating, and Lisa Gruwell has already answered some locally-specific issues. But there were a lot of reasons why this option was heavily restricted in the past, and it wasn't just because certain chapters were having governance issues. Risker/Anne

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons copyright extremism

2014-12-11 Thread Risker
Fae, Steven hasn't been a WMFstaffer for some months. Luis is, but he appears to be speaking in his staff role. Risker/Anne On 11 December 2014 at 13:14, Fæ wrote: > Making defamatory comments about Commons volunteers on this list is > not terribly productive, nor a very nice thing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

2014-12-31 Thread Risker
> - d. > > It's not doing that for me (Canada, using an old IE browser). However, it IS ignoring my previously set "don't show me this again" cookie. Risker/Anne ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

2014-12-31 Thread Risker
#x27;s little doubt in my mind that more and more people are blocking those banners already - the more annoying they get, the more people block them, and the smaller the potential contribution pool. We're starting to chase our own tails here. Risker/Anne __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF is shutting down grantmaking for good projects for 3 months for no reason

2015-01-05 Thread Risker
list? Risker/Anne On 3 January 2015 at 13:35, Lila Tretikov wrote: > For everyone here: I've asked our Grantmaking team to comment and clarify > the details of this plan. > > On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Lodewijk > wrote: > > > Answering to Teemu and Chris: > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why WMF should reconsider the 3-month gender gap project-related decision

2015-01-08 Thread Risker
27;ve read, or a single objection I've seen raised, that wasn't about how unnecessary it is to focus on women. I don't think we've ever heard that about the global south, or non-European languages, or a lot of other areas where there are acknowledged biases. Risker/Anne On

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

2015-01-12 Thread Risker
.well, as I say, this is not a good result. People were putting Wikipedia on Adblock because of those banners, and they were doing it long after the goal had been reached. I'd say I was speechless, but actually I am working extremely hard to hold my tongue here, awaiting an explan

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

2015-01-16 Thread Risker
e the reserve for future needs of the organization and movement, including the possibility of adjustments in fundraising methods as appropriate. " Risker/Anne [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2014-11-21#Executive_Update_from_F

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Who are the nicest people on our projects ?

2015-02-05 Thread Risker
script and see the results there. I'll admit to sharing Rich's curiosity about who was most thanked. Risker/Anne ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: A new structure for WMF Community Engagement

2015-02-20 Thread Risker
quot; when smaller departments have "Chiefs" and the other focus departments have VPs?The organizational chart is getting a bit tricky to follow. :-) Risker/Anne On 19 February 2015 at 17:15, Lila Tretikov wrote: > Dear Wikimedians, > > Among the WMF’s top priorities

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation

2015-02-24 Thread Risker
hat he "can't keep his word" is a rather overblown reaction to a major change in the process in which you seem to have invested a lot of yourself in the past. I have no real thoughts about whether this very different way of seeking community input into strategy is better or worse. I

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

2015-03-01 Thread Risker
March 19. You have no reason to believe that the draft report hasn't been completed. Perhaps you could hold your concerns about deadlines being missed until the final report is due. Risker/Anne On 1 March 2015 at 21:06, Pine W wrote: > Keegan, > > May I point out that the term on t

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

2015-03-13 Thread Risker
he schema. (I'm assuming it has something to do with the accounts being very old, but it sure looks weird.) Risker/Anne ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] New Wikimedia Foundation report on activities in 2014

2015-04-02 Thread Risker
ry Street > San Francisco, CA 94105 > > +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635 > +1 (415) 712 4873 > kma...@wikimedia.org > > Thank you very much for telling us about this, Katherine. I am unable to read the file on Commons (the print is far too faint, and also quite small), and I real

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] New Wikimedia Foundation report on activities in 2014

2015-04-02 Thread Risker
it unreadable for me, a person with fairly normal vision. The Commons page should probably also have a link to the Meta page. Risker/Anne On 2 April 2015 at 16:35, Jan Ainali wrote: > Risker: For your convenience: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ainali/sandbox > > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] New Wikimedia Foundation report on activities in 2014

2015-04-02 Thread Risker
candid report. If it's an indication of a > change in communication style, I like it. > > Good to have it available on Meta as well as in pdf format (I think the pdf > is very nicely done). > > I agree, pretty much. This is probably the best 'big picture" look at t

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

2015-04-15 Thread Risker
hat have put so > much time and energy into making this happen, the list is extensive and my > gratitude is with you all. > Congratulations and thank you to you, Keegan, and to all who have worked on this project over successive years. Here's hoping the process goes smoothly! Risker/Ann

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Results of the 2015 Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) election

2015-05-15 Thread Risker
Chen20471018752.17% FDC Ombudsman ElectionCandidateSupportNeutralOpposeSupport Ratio S/S+OUser:Kirill Lokshin - Kirill Lokshin37062710478.06%User:NickK - Mykola Kozlenko33366110775.68% Risker On 15 May 2015 at 19:48, Gregory Varnum wrote: > Greetings, > > On behalf of the 2015 Wikimedia F

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan for FY 15-16

2015-05-31 Thread Risker
reassess whether or not those goals are appropriate, there does not seem to be a well-articulated long-term vision in this plan. Instead there is the suggestion that the organization may change course quite significantly, and that projects intended to take 3 or 4 quarters to accomplish migh

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FDC annual plan grant recommendations for 2014-2015 Round 2

2015-06-01 Thread Risker
Minor correction: Appeals are due JUNE 8, 2015, not July 8.[1] Risker/Anne (Member of the FDC) [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Information#Calendar On 1 June 2015 at 11:18, Dariusz Jemielniak wrote: > Hello Wikimedians, > > The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) me

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-06-03 Thread Risker
x27;m not aware. Risker/Anne On 3 June 2015 at 18:14, Michael Peel wrote: > > > At the link, you can find > > List votes: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Elections 2015 > > https://vote.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/list/512 > > I personally don't

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-06-03 Thread Risker
there is a right to examine the list of individuals who can vote at the office of the local senior election official for a few weeks afterward, and then at the national election office once any challenges have been completed. Of course in places where voting is mandatory, the failure to vote is goi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-06-03 Thread Risker
On 3 June 2015 at 19:11, Michael Peel wrote: > > > On 3 Jun 2015, at 23:48, Risker wrote: > > > > On 3 June 2015 at 18:42, Michael Peel wrote: > > > >> > >>> By the way, my understanding is that the practice of generating a > public >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Voting system (was: Results of 2015 WMF Board elections)

2015-06-06 Thread Risker
t talking about diversity, but very poor at implementing it. Risker/Anne On 6 June 2015 at 13:55, MF-Warburg wrote: > I still think it was a big mistake (of the electcom? I don't remember, but > /someone/ pushed it through without discussions) in the 2013 election to > abolish the Schul

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Voting system (was: Results of 2015 WMF Board elections)

2015-06-06 Thread Risker
rence in the movement than having a seat on the board would have, and certainly would be making more difference than being on the FDC would have. I think there's a fair amount of truth in that. Risker/Anne ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list,

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

2015-06-17 Thread Risker
des some form of my username. I can imagine the subjects of some of our biographical articles thinking the same way. Who knows, this might actually sell... Risker/Anne ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ma

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Can Wikipedia Survive?" op-ed

2015-06-22 Thread Risker
ng to exist five years from now in the way that we know them today...) Risker/Anne On 22 June 2015 at 13:41, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Magnus pointed the way forward when he started MediaWiki. When you look > into the whole stack of his data related tools, you will find how they ma

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

2015-06-27 Thread Risker
One has to wonder if some other countries, especially those with a large number of Wikimedians or a massive geographic area, might wish they had gone with regional affiliates rather than a national one. Risker/Anne On 27 June 2015 at 23:26, Ricordisamoa wrote: > I know the confederated approac

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

2015-06-27 Thread Risker
een better, and I wonder about other geographically large countries where this would also be more workable. Risker On 28 June 2015 at 01:17, Ricordisamoa wrote: > I infer that you would have preferred a single US chapter from the start, > wouldn't you? > > > Il 28/06

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Changes in Engineering leadership

2015-07-02 Thread Risker
se positions; it wasn't a good situation for either the engineers or the WMF. Or, to twist an old expression, it's not good use of resources to try and make a silk purse out of a Cray supercomputer. Best wishes to Damon. Risker/Anne On 2 July 2015 at 22:06, Pine W wrote: > I thi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Reasonator use in Wikipedias

2014-01-23 Thread Risker
7;t editable on the project on which it is hosted is probably not a very effective way to persuade people to turn it into an actual page. Trialing the process on some small projects that actively volunteer to participate would be a first step. Risker/Anne _

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ED qualifications

2014-01-31 Thread Risker
regret. > > Actually, I think that we should consider it a strength in an individual to refuse to consider applying for a position where every aspect of their career and personal life would be microscopically examined by thousands of people. Self-respect is a positive attribute. Risker

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Botopedia?

2014-02-04 Thread Risker
ou're giving wise counsel. Before you do that in the future, perhaps it would be a good idea to understand why a project had to, after years of trying to work with a valued editor and to mitigate the problems caused, finally remove him from the project. Risker On 4 February 2014 07:05, Sa

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Botopedia?

2014-02-04 Thread Risker
On 4 February 2014 08:55, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Risker, 04/02/2014 13:40: > >> Sam, I am quite concerned that you would use a public mailing list to >> express your displeasure about a specific individual's block [...] >> > > You're putting words

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Botopedia?

2014-02-04 Thread Risker
On 4 February 2014 10:30, Fæ wrote: > On 4 February 2014 14:03, Risker wrote: > .. > > The vast majority of users who do a lot of bot edits are still merrily > > working away on English Wikipedia. > > As someone who has made around 3 million automated edits on Com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Botopedia?

2014-02-04 Thread Risker
On 4 February 2014 11:21, Fæ wrote: > On 4 February 2014 15:54, Risker wrote: > >> Risker, out of interest, considering my long track record of useful > >> bot-work on Commons, would you support my proposal to let Faebot do > >> some sensible non-controversial work

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Botopedia?

2014-02-04 Thread Risker
year-long ban handled by a single administrator. > > > Risker has not noted her personal involvement in such. She's not > defending the treatment of Rich Farmbrough as any sort of uninvolved > commentator. > > I'm not defending the treatment of any individual editor

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Botopedia?

2014-02-04 Thread Risker
On 4 February 2014 12:27, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Risker, 04/02/2014 17:59: > > doesn't deserve to have his case reheard on this mailing list >> > > Then it would have been useful if you had refrained from issuing a motion > of order against a simple, incid

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board decisions on movement funding and approval issues

2014-02-11 Thread Risker
so I'm not sure which consensus you're speaking of. Risker/Anne On 11 February 2014 12:59, Cynthia Ashley-Nelson wrote: > Consensus indicates that the implementation of this decision will greatly > hinder the work of affiliates.It may help to disclose the initial problem > sta

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board decisions on movement funding and approval issues

2014-02-11 Thread Risker
ng who has supported or opposed motions. Risker/Anne On 11 February 2014 16:49, Cristian Consonni wrote: > 2014-02-11 19:22 GMT+01:00 Cynthia Ashley-Nelson : > > Yes, I agree that the consensus of the Board is clear. > > IMHO, I wouldn't say that for two decisions taken with

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board decisions on movement funding and approval issues

2014-02-12 Thread Risker
ted by these decisions, are able to share their knowledge from those experiences. Risker/Anne ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Statement for the police about the fundraising?

2014-03-03 Thread Risker
Heh. So the Wikimedia representative was in Finland? Still a bit of correction coming, I think. Risker/Anne On 3 March 2014 14:05, Stryn@Wikimedia wrote: > The corrected report seems to be > > http://www.finlandtimes.fi/national/2014/03/02/5152/Report-submitted-to-police-d

Re: [Wikimedia-l] draft revised volunteer community survey

2014-03-13 Thread Risker
fferent reasons? Mostly, thoughthis just really feels like it is trying to take the Wikimedia community down a path that has nothing to do with our core objectives, and to turn us into just another advocacy group. I'm not interested in that. Risker/Anne

Re: [Wikimedia-l] draft revised volunteer community survey

2014-03-13 Thread Risker
On 13 March 2014 22:38, James Salsman wrote: > > > If the Trustees have decided that we should pay advocates, > Link to the board of decision to pay advocates please. Risker ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] draft revised volunteer community survey

2014-03-13 Thread Risker
the_.E2.80.9CLegal.2C_Community_Advocacy.2C_Communications.2C_Human_Resources.2C_Finance_and_Administration.E2.80.9D_spending_in_the_Annual_Plan.3F > > It's the name of a department "Legal and Community Advocacy" or LCA for short. That&#x

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Timothy Sandole and (apparently) $53, 690 of WMF funding

2014-04-02 Thread Risker
ng at all for Arbcom to do here. In fact, I'd be concerned if they're poking around on this when there are several matters well within their mandate that are not apparently being addressed. Risker/Anne On 2 April 2014 03:07, ENWP Pine wrote: > Although much of my original email

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cost of Wikimedia Conference 2014

2014-04-02 Thread Risker
e split into two separate conferences. There is definitely an audience out there for many of these same topics which is being ignored completely. Risker/Anne On 2 April 2014 08:32, Jens Best wrote: > But if people who think that the 2+1-rule is questionable with good > arguments can'

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Purpose of WMConf ( was: Cost of Wikimedia Conference 2014)

2014-04-02 Thread Risker
an executive or employee of one and (3) be granted authority to attend this conference. Those are very big hoops to jump through in order for non-aligned Wikimedians and movement participants/supporters to participate in the discussion. Risker/anne On 2 April 2014 14:32, Cornelius Kibelka

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Purpose of WMConf ( was: Cost of Wikimedia Conference 2014)

2014-04-02 Thread Risker
While I don't think this discussion should change the process or the attendance for this specific conference, particularly as it is just around the corner, it would be useful to take some of these points into consideration for future planning. Risker/Anne On 2 April 2014 17:08, Nicole

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Purpose of WMConf ( was: Cost of Wikimedia Conference 2014)

2014-04-02 Thread Risker
able to adequately voice ideas other than the status quo. Risker/Anne On 2 April 2014 17:17, Nicole Ebber wrote: > Right, sorry, what I meant was that these arguments can be collected > for the preparation of the "Future of the WMCON" session at WMCON > itself, not for changing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF's April Fool's Joke?

2014-04-03 Thread Risker
FDC can do that, if for no other reason than conflict of interest: the FDC is funded from that budget. Risker/Anne On 3 April 2014 21:32, Nathan wrote: > Which part do you think is a joke? The same notice is posted on all the > proposal forms. > __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Evaluation Report: Wikipedia Education Program

2014-04-06 Thread Risker
at is being reported as part of the WEP, what projects are affected, and which programs have more participants. Thanks! Risker/Anne On 6 April 2014 21:30, Jaime Anstee wrote: > Greetings, > > (Please pardon any cross-posting) > > The final in our series of the Evaluation Report

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fuck the community, who cares

2014-04-07 Thread Risker
and describe where they see the two interfacing; those are public statements made by individuals, and it's reasonable to respond to those. I'm not seeing a lot of benefit in getting out the pitchforks and torches to go after a single individual for an uncontextual

Re: [Wikimedia-l] COI editing by WMF staff

2014-04-17 Thread Risker
alaried or contract), though. Indeed, one of the biggest COI issues we have on English Wikipedia is former employees trying to use our articles to "bring problems to light" about organizations. The disclosure was made. Incidentally, that's all that would need to be done even at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliation in username

2014-04-19 Thread Risker
ccounts for organizations, but given the harshness toward "commerce" accounts on some other projects, I'm not sure it would work universally. Best, Risker/Anne On 19 April 2014 19:17, Gryllida wrote: > On a second thought, do we want to add an optional "affiliation"

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Assessing this round of FDC proposals, including the WMF's proposal

2014-04-24 Thread Risker
suggest that the FDC seek authorization from the Board for an independent third party review if it feels that there is not the necessary ability for the FDC to produce its own assessment. Any assessment by the WMDE should represent its own perspective. Risker [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Assessing this round of FDC proposals, including the WMF's proposal

2014-04-27 Thread Risker
On 25 April 2014 15:17, Michael Peel wrote: > Hi Risker, > > Thanks for your thoughts. > > > Instead I suggest that the FDC seek authorization from the Board for an > > independent third party review if it feels that there is not the > necessary > > abili

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Assessing this round of FDC proposals, including the WMF's proposal

2014-04-27 Thread Risker
On 27 April 2014 12:37, Michael Peel wrote: > Hi Risker, > > On 27 Apr 2014, at 16:01, Risker wrote: > > > However, having accepted the validity of the "proposal", the FDC does not > > have the authority to delegate its role. > > I think you're misun

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Assessing this round of FDC proposals, including the WMF's proposal

2014-04-27 Thread Risker
On 27 April 2014 14:35, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Risker, 27/04/2014 19:49: > > Well, no, I'm not misunderstanding. If a staff assessment is needed, then >> it needs to be done by staff. >> > > Inappropriate metonymy here, "staff" doesn'

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Assessing this round of FDC proposals, including the WMF's proposal

2014-04-27 Thread Risker
banners. I got a personal talk page message because I'd been identified as a "useful" person to comment. In other words, there is much less transparency or effort to reach out to the broader community for the WMF proposal, which is radically different from all other proposals. Risker

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Assessing this round of FDC proposals, including the WMF's proposal

2014-04-27 Thread Risker
On 27 April 2014 17:23, Dariusz Jemielniak wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Risker wrote: > > > Nemo, my position is that it shouldn't be being done at all because the > > request is outside of the FDC's scope, and that assessment is done, then > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Assessing this round of FDC proposals, including the WMF's proposal

2014-04-27 Thread Risker
On 27 April 2014 22:04, Gergo Tisza wrote: > Risker writes: > > > There is a huge difference between a request to any of the movement > > stakeholders specifically for comment and asking a specific stakeholder - > > one that has a lot to gain if the role of the WMF itsel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Assessing this round of FDC proposals, including the WMF's proposal

2014-04-27 Thread Risker
On 27 April 2014 22:29, Marc A. Pelletier wrote: > On 04/27/2014 10:15 PM, Risker wrote: > > WMF > > staff review the applications using a specific rubric agreed upon with > the > > FDC, and post their results. > > So what then is the supposed conflict in letting W

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Assessing this round of FDC proposals, including the WMF's proposal

2014-04-27 Thread Risker
On 27 April 2014 15:00, Cristian Consonni wrote: > 2014-04-27 19:49 GMT+02:00 Risker : > > Well, no, I'm not misunderstanding. If a staff assessment is needed, > then > > it needs to be done by staff. > > You are suggesting that the staff assessment of the WMF pro

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Assessing this round of FDC proposals, including the WMF's proposal

2014-04-27 Thread Risker
On 28 April 2014 01:37, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Risker, 28/04/2014 05:22: > > There is an actual cost to the WMDE to carry out this >> assessment >> > > With which you've replied to your own questions on why WMDE. Thanks > generous WMDE for the gift. &

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia and Universities

2014-05-06 Thread Risker
projects. > > I think Newyorbrad's point is that this is sectioned off into a distant project that few people know about - as I recall, it's not even part of the SUL so one has to log in separately there - and it seems not to be mentioned very often anywhere else. Risker/Anne

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Metrics - accuracy of Wikipedia articles

2014-05-07 Thread Risker
should be required, what information should be in them, how to deal with controversial or complex information in infoboxes, etc. So I suppose the first step would be in determining what metrics should be included in a quality assessment of a project. Risker/Anne

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Metrics - accuracy of Wikipedia articles

2014-05-07 Thread Risker
unk science published in peer-reviewed journals if the topic is "sexy" enough - their own study wouldn't meet our standards for inclusion. Risker/Anne ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Metrics - accuracy of Wikipedia articles

2014-05-07 Thread Risker
other issues is compared to the article on concussion; the costly condition of "mental disorders" is compared to the article on major depressive disorder despite, again, haing an article on mental disorders. And each article is reviewed by only two people; when one looks at the result

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Metrics - accuracy of Wikipedia articles

2014-05-07 Thread Risker
om reference sources that just happen to be available, the level of understanding of the subjects by the reviewers, the limited number of reviewers, and the fact that subject matter experts themselves are often in disagreement. It has not demonstrated repeatability. It's possible to create a st

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Metrics - accuracy of Wikipedia articles

2014-05-07 Thread Risker
ly we could learn from them - especially on the readability point, which I think really is a very serious issue. Wikipedia isn't really intended to educate physicians about medical topics, it's intended to be a general reference for non-specialists. Very few people are going to make lif

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Metrics - accuracy of Wikipedia articles

2014-05-07 Thread Risker
On 7 May 2014 22:24, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Risker wrote: > > > > > > I think perhaps there is a lack of research into the extent of research > > already being done by independent, qualified third parties. Several > > examples

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Metrics - accuracy of Wikipedia articles

2014-05-07 Thread Risker
In answer to the question of the WMF funding research: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:FAQ Risker/Anne On 8 May 2014 01:13, Anthony Cole wrote: > Wow. > > Wil - you're going to love WikiData. > > Phoebe: I have seen that list of peer-reviewed articles related to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FDC staff proposal assessments for 2013-2014 Round 2 are posted

2014-05-09 Thread Risker
the assessment? Risker/Anne [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/Wikimedia_Foundation/Proposal_assessment_by_Wikimedia_Deutschland_e.V. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FDC staff proposal assessments for 2013-2014 Round 2 are posted

2014-05-09 Thread Risker
made it very clear that they have not completed any assessment report in relation to the WMF request. [1] The sentence in the WMDE assessment should be corrected. Risker/Anne [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/Wikimedia_Foundation/Staff_proposal_assessment

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FDC staff proposal assessments for 2013-2014 Round 2 are posted

2014-05-09 Thread Risker
al that was assessed (the WMF did), that you can simplify this further by eliminating the first clause, and simply saying "FDC have asked Wikimedia Deutschland (WMDE) to do the staff assessment of the WMF's proposal." The FDC can explain further itself why it has asked WMDE to do the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Affiliation in username

2014-05-09 Thread Risker
the edit or action, even if the affiliation changes at a subsequent time (kind of like subst'ing templates). Not sure this is possible through preferences. Risker/Anne ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons' frontpage probably shouldn't prominently feature a decontextualised stack of corpses.

2014-05-09 Thread Risker
information, who were perhaps unexpectedly greeted by an image of stacked dead bodies with their morning cornflakes - and based on the discussion on Commons, being confronted with this deliberately and intentionally, and in a format that the majority of people cannot access or mitigate. Risker/Anne

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons' frontpage probably shouldn't prominently feature a decontextualised stack of corpses.

2014-05-09 Thread Risker
an sixty years later? They have to see this again so that... why exactly? Risker/Anne On 9 May 2014 16:00, David Gerard wrote: > The actual argument from Talk:Main Page: > > "Well, I have deliberately selected this frame. And yes, it is a > shocking picture of victims kille

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons' frontpage probably shouldn't prominently feature a decontextualised stack of corpses.

2014-05-09 Thread Risker
On 9 May 2014 16:14, David Gerard wrote: > On 9 May 2014 21:13, Risker wrote: > > >The person who selected the image does not care that most of the > > people who viewed that image saw only dead bodies without context. > > > You could go to Talk:Main Page and say th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons' frontpage probably shouldn't prominently feature a decontextualised stack of corpses.

2014-05-15 Thread Risker
thing really isn't as solved as well as people think. It still comes up as image #4 on a multimedia search of enwiki for "electric toothbrush" and about #45 for a multimedia search of "toothbrush". Even though the title was changed, it remains in the category that gives h

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