Re: [Wikimedia-l] Draft Code of Conduct for Technical Spaces

2017-02-24 Thread quiddity
lead proposals that effect your area of activity? -- quiddity On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Pine W wrote: > Let me rephrase and elaborate on that point. Phabricator and MediaWiki > aren't the WMF wiki. I think that WMF employees' proposals, comments, > questions, and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 18 June 2017)

2017-06-23 Thread quiddity
Making me happy for the last few weeks: The whimsical computer game/sandbox-toy ''Everything'',[1] which I think is a cross between the video ''Powers of Ten'',[2] and the game ''Katamari Damacy''.[3] It's a whimsical walking simulator, in which you change size-scales (photon to galaxy), collect an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 18 June 2017)

2017-06-23 Thread quiddity
On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 9:36 AM, quiddity wrote: > [and now with functional links...] https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/776155051164484447/28E97E8E84B87B493DFC030BB7EC24941153555E/ https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/776155051161527940/37B6D43A1ED2AA3B1BBD4FAC03A8715E8C005

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia: The Text Adventure

2017-06-30 Thread quiddity
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 7:12 AM, Johan Jönsson wrote: > http://kevan.org/wikitext/ > > Nice concept. > Ah neat, this is by the same person who created this, which I enjoyed https://github.com/kevandotorg/nanogenmo-2015 "//Around the World in X Wikipedia Articles// - generating a 50,000 word novel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Looks familiar?

2017-07-21 Thread quiddity
Related discussions at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_merchandise#Puzzle_Globe https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_merchandise#3D_Puzzle_Globe_Paperweight https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_merchandise/Design_ideas#3D_Puzzle_Globe and other notes at: https://en.wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red

2017-10-16 Thread quiddity
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Jean-Philippe Béland wrote: > As far as i know, it is the only project that the initiative Women in red > contribute to, which is the initial subject of this thread. > Sidenote: the WikiProject itself does exist on other languages/projects: https://www.wikidata.o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] what made me happy this week

2017-10-27 Thread quiddity
James, that video does Not seem to have any connection to the Wikimedia movement. (I checked the credits, but didn't watch the whole song). Please don't distract the hundreds of subscribers here with irrelevant content. Bare links without any explanation are also an anti-pattern to avoid. Thanks.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] what made me happy this week

2017-10-27 Thread quiddity
My mistake, there is a one line reference to Wikipedia in the lyrics. (The time_continue parameter didn't work on my first play through, but I checked again to be sure and then I heard the reference.) Sorry for the mistake. My other points stand. On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 6:29 PM, quiddity

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome messages at arwiki

2017-12-30 Thread quiddity
n (and to only send those latter accounts a welcome message, after they've made 1 edit locally). I don't know if that is currently possible or feasible. Quiddity ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Is the death of Wikipedia imminent?

2019-01-04 Thread quiddity
] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10966628 and related sections within other pages. [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Concise_Wikipedia#A_summary_of_existing_short-options,_using_an_example [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikimedia_Strategy_2017/Cycle_1#External_collaborat

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open Science Portal? And Other Open * Portals?

2019-03-19 Thread quiddity
way you can try to make sure you've found all the existing pages to begin with, and don't start off by accidentally re-inventing the wheel (portal)! We have a lot of historic link-lists / portals that are started and then abandoned and then accidentall

Re: [Wikimedia-l] wikinews has a NPOV policy derived from wikipedia, mamamia ...

2016-04-22 Thread quiddity
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 12:42 PM, rupert THURNER wrote: > > [snip] > > just as a note, i hate that the blog [5] opens 20 times slower than > wikinews on my mobile phone, that it is not in different languages, > that i do not have the "usual mediawiki features". For translations, see https://meta

[Wikimedia-l] [Offtopic] How to improve email-signatures - fixing frustrations - size and images

2015-08-07 Thread quiddity
ave images-disabled in email (to prevent tracking-images from spammers, etc) so they just show as empty "placeholders". Please consider removing any images from your email signature! Thanks, and I hope that helps someone. Quiddity / Nick [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=email+signature+delim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Will Flow eliminate wikitext sandbox practice?

2014-09-16 Thread quiddity
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Jan Ainali wrote: > 2014-09-15 23:54 GMT+02:00 James Salsman : > > > In the recent discussion of editor engagement effectiveness on > > wiki-research-l, the question of Flow's affect on talk page wikitext > > practice arose. I would like to know whether anyone sha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia needs an IDE, not a WYSIWYG editor"

2014-10-25 Thread quiddity
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 25 October 2014 15:09, Kim Bruning wrote: > [...] > > > https://medium.com/@MrJamesFisher/wikipedia-needs-an-ide-not-a-wysiwyg-editor-7acd85b582c8 > > Quite apart from other issues, the author falls at the first hurdle; > he fails to say

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia needs an IDE, not a WYSIWYG editor"

2014-10-25 Thread quiddity
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > quiddity, 25/10/2014 20:26: > >> We don't have HTML preview, which might be interesting. Surely it's >> possible to whip up a userscript for it, if anyone would actually find it >> massively

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Not all pixels are created equals: introducing brand new Wikimedia France's metrics

2015-04-01 Thread quiddity
-centric! I would like to join the kawaii-pixel WikiProject. Please let me know when we start debating the relative merits of various color models, and naming conventions, and kawaii-challenged accessibility tools. Thanks! -- quiddity ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Silly question? - What list is meant for what?

2014-05-21 Thread quiddity
is. On the talkpage of most articles (at Enwiki) are WikiProject Banners, which link to related hubs for coordination of topic-based work. Eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Prehistoric_art and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Languages_of_Asia That's where you'll find the editors part

[Wikimedia-l] Server switch 2017 - Short editing outages on Wednesday, 19 April 2017 and Wednesday, 3 May 2017

2017-04-12 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
share this information with your community** (It has been widely announced already, but just in case.) Technical details: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-April/087919.html Thank you. -- Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Community Liaiso

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Turn the extension for ContentTranslation off?

2017-05-02 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Note, this thread was forked into a different subject/title. See - "[Wikimedia-l] machine translation" - for newer discussion and detail. ​ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki-research-l] Video demos of upcoming changes to edit review / RC patrol

2017-06-01 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
; ___ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > -- Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Community Liaison, WMF ___ Wikime

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How can we fix the two-stage page loading problem?

2017-09-03 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
; > The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] 2017 Community Wishlist Survey starts today!

2017-11-06 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Completely fixed link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey :-) ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Hello. New user - which mailing list should i use ?

2018-06-07 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 4:12 PM wrote: > On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 3:23 AM James Hare wrote: > > > > It sounds like you would like the MediaWiki-l mailing list. MediaWiki is > > the software that runs Wikipedia and many similar projects. > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cheat sheets visual editing on Wikipedia

2018-07-11 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen > > Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! > > > > > https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fspenden.wikimedia.de%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cd.dallison%40scottishlibraries.org%7

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia has been accepted as a mentor organization in GSoC 2019!

2019-02-27 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
> >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > > > > -- > > Jame

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia & Education Greenhouse - applications still open until May 12!

2019-05-02 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
(Reposting with fixed links) On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 6:56 PM Melissa Guadalupe Huertas < mguadal...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hola everyone! > > Sorry in advance for cross-posting. As many of you are aware, last April > 5th the Education team at the Wikimedia Foundation announced the launch of > the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Be the change you want to see (was: WMF commitment for a Wikimedia projects archive)

2019-05-16 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 3:06 PM Joseph Seddon wrote: > The Wikimedia Resource Center (which > currently is broken it seems) had the goal of trying to aid a community > member in getting the right information, the right person or the right > process to fulfill their needs. It's focus was on progra

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The wikisites looks like 1996

2019-12-12 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
can keep on efficiently editing, and readers (and editors implicitly!) can slowly get a clearer/better reading experience, over the years ahead. There are /many/ ideas for subtle or significant improvements listed in the project pages (don't get distracted by just the first

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey: Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2020

2020-01-21 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Multi-page advertising on Wikipedia

2020-04-15 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
ikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Nick "Quiddity" Wilson (he/him) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Annoying ads

2020-05-04 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
ines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Nick

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Annoying ads

2020-05-07 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
ia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ..

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Annoying ads

2020-05-07 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
This has been on our departments' minds for the past few months. Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have been changing our campaign schedules (including shortening the Italian campaign) and steadily revising our messaging. We are closely monitoring reader and donor feedback, responding to what

Re: [Wikimedia-l] June 4 1800 Maggie Dennis office hour (with a twist)

2020-06-04 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
eta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#How_to_participate > > > > > > -- > > > Maggie Dennis > > > Vice President, Community Resilience & Sustainability > > > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. > > > > > > > > > -- > > Mag

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing a new Wikimedia project: Abstract Wikipedia

2020-08-05 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 2:01 PM Samuel Klein wrote: > We used to have a roughly weighted list of major world languages by > (spoken, written; primary, secondary) and how well covered they were by wp > (articles, contributors). Is there something like that still? > I think you might be referring

[Wikimedia-l] Wiki of functions naming contest

2020-09-29 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
. Nick / Quiddity [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Wiki_of_functions_naming_contest#What_is_a_function%3F -- Nick "Quiddity" Wilson (he/him) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] I am going to San Francisco

2016-03-01 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Craig, I believe it is all free (not purchased), per https://www.google.com/intl/en/nonprofits/products/#apps#tab5 ("Google Apps for Nonprofits") On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 6:27 PM, Craig Franklin wrote: > My understanding is that the Foundation purchases certain technical and > apps services (clou

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cross-wiki notifications beta feature now available on all wikis

2016-03-14 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
r browser/OS versions, any javascript blocking browser extensions you might use, and if possible what errors you see in browser console.[2]) Much thanks. Quiddity / Nick [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Notifications [2] http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/77337 > On 11 March 2016

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cross-wiki notifications beta feature now available on all wikis

2016-03-14 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: > > Cross-wiki notifications > > This is great, thank you. > > Two requests: > > Please could we have two icons, one for local notifications, another for > those from elsewhere? > > I've pinged you in the existing discussion about this at https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Calendars

2016-04-29 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Thanks, BrillLyle! I've been making a related linkdump page at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Calendars,_events,_meetings,_and_conferences (feel free to add/edit/overhaul/etc) to try to collect and better understand the various problems, and this interim solution seems like a good one

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Crisis of Confidence

2016-05-02 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 2:21 AM, Fæ wrote: > [...] With regard to "[the WMF board] delivering services that are of a high > quality", all the metrics that the WMF report show the opposite. The > WMF consistently fail to meet the performance targets they set for > themselves, as you can see from t

[Wikimedia-l] How to communicate compassionately with non-native English speakers

2016-07-05 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
[Multilingual]] disambig page, and the [[Grants:Learning patterns]] pages, but the only place I can find that collects advice like this, is the first section at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Manual#Guidelines - What page might I have missed? Quiddity __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to communicate compassionately with non-native English speakers

2016-07-07 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
g what points are made > Exactly! :-) We should be careful about spending too much effort arguing about the nuances of word choice, especially in informal discussions (versus drafting a policy or writing code or similar, where word-choice can be crucial!), and instead try to interpret what o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Collaboration team reprioritization

2015-09-02 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
am could continue to focus on? See also, the thread on wikitech-l, for additional discussion. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/83889 Hope that helps -- Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation _

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Collaboration team reprioritization

2015-09-02 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Quick followup, with a reminder that onwiki feedback would be ideal. The original message is replicated at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:So4pui07y03ibgqq and your input there will be greatly appreciated. ​Thanks. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guide

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Universal Design (for learning)

2015-09-15 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
roject.org/prefsEditors.html (click the top-right "Show display preferences" button, and watch the video) plus everything linked from there.. If general accessibility: I'm not sure, beyond googling for it. Hope that helps, Quiddity ___ Wiki

[Wikimedia-l] Office hours for Flow - 23 March 2015 19:30 UTC / 12:30 PDT

2015-03-20 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
e meta office hour page afterwards. Thanks, Quiddity [1] Time conversion: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=30&sec=0&day=23&month=03&year=2015 (30 mins later than previously mentioned) [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_h

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours for Flow - 23 March 2015 19:30 UTC / 12:30 PDT

2015-03-23 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
Hi, A quick reminder, this is starting in 1 hour. Please see below, for the original announcement and links. Thanks, Quiddity On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) wrote: > Hello everyone, (my apologies for cross-posting) > > We'll be holding an Office hour f

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Keep me logged in (for up to 30 days)

2015-05-29 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
imedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Community Liaison, Product Wikimedia Foundation __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A "Listen" Button

2015-05-29 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
listing, or notes/improvements/merge-efforts at the linked pages over the longterm, would be greatly appreciated. :) Quiddity ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Save the Date: Curationist Launch Celebration and Webinar

2022-11-29 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
That is 21:00 UTC - or automatically localized times at https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1670446848 On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 5:45 PM Gnangarra wrote: > Can you please provide the time in utc format > > ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wi