[Wikimedia-l] wikifunctions.org is gradually rolling out (with caveats)

2023-08-07 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hello everybody, we are pleased to announce that Wikifunctions is up and running at http://www.wikifunctions.org/ After a few days in read-only, the website now has some limited functionality for you to try out. Thank you to everyone who helped deploy our first new Wikimedia project in over 12

[Wikimedia-l] Re: ChatGPT as a reliable source

2023-05-17 Thread Denny Vrandečić
I think Jimmy's proposal is spot on. A generative AI is a tool, and whoever makes the edit is fully responsible for the edit, no matter whether the text was written by the person or with the help of a generative tool. This has the potential to open us for people who are not good at formulating,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: License for Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia

2021-12-03 Thread Denny Vrandečić
; messy and variable truths it actually depicts is an injustice. It is an > injustice not only for Wikipedians but also for people around the world who > use the resource — either directly on Wikimedia servers or indirectly via > other platforms like search." > > > > ---o0o---

[Wikimedia-l] License for Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia

2021-11-22 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hello all, Here is a conversation and decision we need to have before launch of Wikifunctions: *How should the contents of Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions be licensed?* Since the discussion is expected to be potentially complicated, let us keep a single place of record for discussing this

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees new resolution on branding

2021-10-16 Thread Denny Vrandečić
On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 2:35 AM Andy Mabbett wrote: > Can they not do that already? > They already may. This resolution by the Board directs the Foundation to offer support for this task to the affiliates. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list --

[Wikimedia-l] Re: (How) can I see the early revision history?

2021-10-08 Thread Denny Vrandečić
0110614170356/http://noc.wikimedia.org/~tstarling/wikipedia-logs-2001-08-17.7z > > But it would still be nice to know that the archives are still maintained > by Wikimedia though. > > > > On Oct 7, 2021, at 8:58 PM, Denny Vrandečić > wrote: > > Or even better, if there is a Web acc

[Wikimedia-l] Re: (How) can I see the early revision history?

2021-10-07 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Or even better, if there is a Web accessible version of these early edits. On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 5:57 PM Denny Vrandečić wrote: > I wanted to see the beginning of the article about Jupiter. > > When I go to Jupiter's revision history and click on oldest, I get here:

[Wikimedia-l] (How) can I see the early revision history?

2021-10-07 Thread Denny Vrandečić
I wanted to see the beginning of the article about Jupiter. When I go to Jupiter's revision history and click on oldest, I get here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jupiter=prev=history which takes me to the revision as of November 5, 2001:

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

2020-08-06 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Scott, thank you for raising this really important issue, and I whole-heartedly agree. Since I heard of Ibram X. Kendi's argument to not just be not racist but rather be actively anti-racist, I thought a lot about it (I have a long essay trying to sort my thoughts on that, but I am not sure my

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Government of Navarre will fund BWUG

2020-07-25 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Congratulations! Looking forward to see the results of this initiative! On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 2:54 AM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga < galder...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > It is a real pleasure to announce the agreement reached between Basque > Wikimedians User Group and the Government of

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

2020-07-05 Thread Denny Vrandečić
gt; > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Butch Bustria > > > > On Fri, Jul 3, 2020, 12:39 AM Denny Vrandečić > wrote: > > > > > Katherine, thank you for the warm welcome and your kind words! > > > > > > I am very h

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

2020-07-03 Thread Denny Vrandečić
; and more readers to share more knowledge in more languages. It is an >> approach that aims to make cross-lingual cooperation easier on our >> projects, increase the sustainability of our movement through expanding >> access to participation, improve the user experience for re

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

2020-07-03 Thread Denny Vrandečić
on easier on our >> projects, increase the sustainability of our movement through expanding >> access to participation, improve the user experience for readers of all >> languages, and innovate in free knowledge by connecting some of the >> strengths of our movement to cre

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

2020-07-02 Thread Denny Vrandečić
nnovate in > > free knowledge by connecting some of the strengths of our movement to > > create something new. > > > > This is our first new project in over seven years. Abstract Wikipedia was > > submitted as a project proposal by Denny Vrandečić in May of 2020 [2]

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal for a multilingual Wikipedia

2020-05-07 Thread Denny Vrandečić
proposal and setting this up formally as > a sibling projet? > > Is there anything Wikispore could do to help get something like this > underway? //S > > On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 3:28 PM Denny Vrandečić > wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > after talki

[Wikimedia-l] Proposal for a multilingual Wikipedia

2020-05-05 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hello all, after talking about it a few times here, the official proposal for creating the multilingual Wikipedia proposal is now on Meta. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilambda The idea is to create abstract, language-independent content in Wikidata, and then translate it into natural

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal towards a multilingual Wikipedia and a new Wikipedia project

2020-04-20 Thread Denny Vrandečić
f your proposal, which I haven't come across yet? Thank you > for this great development! > > Cheers, > Scott > > > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 5:49 PM Denny Vrandečić > wrote: > > > Elevator pitch: > > > > Many Wikipedia language editions have large

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal towards a multilingual Wikipedia and a new Wikipedia project

2020-04-14 Thread Denny Vrandečić
ntent translation framework is mine, it very much isn't. There is a wonderful team at the Foundation that has created and maintained this over years, and they recently had a rather stormy uptick in translations, having lead to more than 600,000 translated articles. I cannot praise their hard wo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal towards a multilingual Wikipedia and a new Wikipedia project

2020-04-14 Thread Denny Vrandečić
020 at 01:52, Denny Vrandečić wrote: > > > As some of you know, I have been working on the idea of a multilingual > > Wikipedia for a few years now. > > What's the elevator pitch for this? > > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigs

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal towards a multilingual Wikipedia and a new Wikipedia project

2020-04-14 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Yay! Thanks for the positive note! This is appreciated! Stay safe, Denny On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 1:44 AM Peter Southwood < peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote: > Based on my first read-through of the paper, I think this would be > something worth doing. > Cheers, > Peter. > > -Original

[Wikimedia-l] Proposal towards a multilingual Wikipedia and a new Wikipedia project

2020-04-13 Thread Denny Vrandečić
As some of you know, I have been working on the idea of a multilingual Wikipedia for a few years now. Two other publications on this are here, I have bothered you with mails about it here previously too: https://research.google/pubs/pub48057/ https://wikipedia20.pubpub.org/pub/vyf7ksah I've

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language

2018-12-10 Thread Denny Vrandečić
we create the abstractions, but also because one can > > potentially think of images as representations that are already abstract. > > > > Best, > > Leila > > > > -- > > Leila Zia > > Senior Research Scientist, Lead > > Wikimedia Foundation > > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language

2018-11-13 Thread Denny Vrandečić
published previously. On Sat, Sep 29, 2018, 11:32 Denny Vrandečić Semantic Web languages allow to express ontologies and knowledge bases in > a way meant to be particularly amenable to the Web. Ontologies formalize > the shared understanding of a domain. But the most expressive and > w

[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language

2018-09-29 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Semantic Web languages allow to express ontologies and knowledge bases in a way meant to be particularly amenable to the Web. Ontologies formalize the shared understanding of a domain. But the most expressive and widespread languages that we know of are human natural languages, and the largest

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] Solve legal uncertainty of Wikidata

2018-05-18 Thread Denny Vrandečić
< hellm...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote: > Hi Denny, > > On 18.05.2018 02:54, Denny Vrandečić wrote: > > Rob Speer wrote: > > The result of this, by the way, is that commercial entities sell modified > > versions of Wikidata with impunity. It undermines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Solve legal uncertainty of Wikidata

2018-05-17 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Rob Speer wrote: > The result of this, by the way, is that commercial entities sell modified > versions of Wikidata with impunity. It undermines the terms of other > resources such as DBPedia, which also contains facts extracted from > Wikipedia and respects its Share-Alike terms. Why would anyone

[Wikimedia-l] Request for status update on CC-BY-SA 4.0

2018-05-13 Thread Denny Vrandečić
About one and a half years ago, there was a consultation process about updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use to move from CC 3.0 to 4.0 licenses. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/Creative_Commons_4.0 I would like to ask what the status of this proposal is, and whom to bother to get

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Tool to help reaching community consensus

2017-12-08 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Ah, thanks for the clarification. Sorry for having missed the irony. Cheers, Denny On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 2:39 AM mathieu stumpf guntz < psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote: > > > Le 07/12/2017 à 18:12, Denny Vrandečić a écrit : > > Mathieu, > > you wrote > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Tool to help reaching community consensus

2017-12-07 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Mathieu, you wrote > Despite the fact that reaching community consensus is an easy task, I just wanted to check whether that was a typo, irony, or actually meant that way. In the latter case, I would like to ask for {{cn}}. Reaching and establishing community consensus seems to me one of the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] An answer to Lydia Pintscher regarding its considerations on Wikidata and CC-0

2017-11-30 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Scott, The NC license clause is problematic in a number of jurisdictions. For example, at least in Germany, as I remember from my law classes, it also would definitively include not-for-profits, NGOs, and even say bloggers, with or without ads on their sites. One must always be careful in the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Exciting update about development of structured data on Commons

2017-01-10 Thread Denny Vrandečić
r products supported by the Wikimedia Foundation" referred to in Wes > Moran's initial post on this topic: > > But I appreciate the speed of your reply. > > "Rogol" > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Denny Vrandečić <vrande...@gmail.com> > wrote: > &

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Exciting update about development of structured data on Commons

2017-01-10 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Rogol, this was the link previously provided on this project: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Overview including links to previous documents. Cheers, Denny On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 9:32 AM Rogol Domedonfors wrote: > Lisa > > You say that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Exciting update about development of structured data on Commons

2017-01-09 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Also, to add, for this particular grant I can really only look positively at the openness surrounding the writing of the grant. There have been emails on this list inviting input and discussion when the grant proposal was underway, a lot of content was available on-wiki, and an effort was made to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] GPS data shift

2016-10-07 Thread Denny Vrandečić
at 2:23 PM Jan Macura <macura...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2016-10-07 20:34 GMT+02:00 Denny Vrandečić <vrande...@gmail.com>: > > Wikidata allows to set a coordinate system - it is called a globe or > coordinate system - on every coordinate. This would be the natural place to &g

Re: [Wikimedia-l] GPS data shift

2016-10-07 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Wikidata allows to set a coordinate system - it is called a globe or coordinate system - on every coordinate. This would be the natural place to specify whether it is WGS84 or GDA94 or another system. Most of them are Q2, which, as per data model, is indeed WGS84.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Account of the events leading to James Heilman's removal

2016-05-06 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Just a few points of clarification: * I have, to the best of my memory, passed on information only with the understanding of my sources. If any of my sources disagrees with that, please send me a message - I want to know and understand that I made a mistake there. * We are not talking about the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Account of the events leading to James Heilman's removal

2016-05-02 Thread Denny Vrandečić
ke <wikipe...@zog.org> > wrote: > > > Just to be sure I understand the issue: staff members reached out > > specifically to the four of you and asked for confidentiality, and then > the > > Board demanded 'all documents', presumably including some confidential > > staff

[Wikimedia-l] Account of the events leading to James Heilman's removal

2016-05-02 Thread Denny Vrandečić
In the following I want to present a personal account of events leading to James’ removal as a Board member, as I remember them. It was written while I was still on the Board, and the Board agreed on having it sent. The text was heavily discussed and edited amongst members of the Board, but in the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quality issues

2015-12-11 Thread Denny Vrandečić
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 4:18 AM Andreas Kolbe wrote: > According to Denny, Wikidata, under its CC0 licence, must not import data > from Share-Alike sources. He reconfirmed this yesterday when I asked him > whether he still stood by that. > > In practice though we have

[Wikimedia-l] On toxic communities

2015-11-13 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Very interesting read (via Brandon Harris): http://recode.net/2015/07/07/doing-something-about-the-impossible-problem-of-abuse-in-online-games/ "the vast majority of negative behavior ... did not originate from the persistently negative online citizens; in fact, 87 percent of online toxicity

Re: [Wikimedia-l] GA Stats using Wikimedia Stats

2015-08-21 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Wikidata should know whether an article has a badge or not (see here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1156 ) On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 4:14 AM Tito Dutta trulyt...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks a lot. It was very helpful No, most of these Wikipedias don't have such categories. I'll check further.

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

2015-05-31 Thread Denny Vrandečić
25% turnout is amazing!! Thank you, and congratulations to WM UA, particularly given the political situation at home. I also collected a few thoughts about the elections here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Denny/Thoughts_Board_Election_2015 Thanks to the Election Committee and everyone

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A transition and a new chapter.

2015-04-14 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Erik, thank you! Thank you for so many, many things. Even though we did not always agree in all details, I was always very happy to know to have someone who believes in the same ideals and who is effective in promoting actions towards common goals. WMF will be a different place without you.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q on the 2013 elections re voter breakdown

2015-04-07 Thread Denny Vrandečić
of it from there but once they voted, if they were eligible, they went into one giant bucket. James Alexander Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote: On 06/04/2015 18:14, Denny Vrandečić wrote

[Wikimedia-l] Q on the 2013 elections re voter breakdown

2015-04-06 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hi, regarding the Wikimedia Foundation elections 2013, I was trying to find a breakdown of the voters, i.e. how many voted based on which requirements, i.e. as editors, developers, staff and contractors, and board members, but I could not find anything. I would appreciate a pointer to that data.

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikidata-l] Birthday gift: Missing Wikipedia links (was Re: Wikidata turns two!)

2014-10-29 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Forwarding to Wikimedia-l to five context to James' reply. Sorry for cross-posting. -- Forwarded message - From: Denny Vrandečić vrande...@google.com Date: Wed Oct 29 2014 at 10:56:48 AM Subject: [Wikidata-l] Birthday gift: Missing Wikipedia links (was Re: Wikidata turns two

Re: [Wikimedia-l] is wikipedia zero illegal because it violates net neutrality?

2013-08-27 Thread Denny Vrandečić
If customers would be signing up for access to the net, and if the ISP would charge differently whether they access Wikipedia or whether they access Facebook, yes, that would be a violation of net neutrality. But in this case we are not talking about providing access to the net. We are talking

Re: [Wikimedia-l] is wikipedia zero illegal because it violates net neutrality?

2013-08-26 Thread Denny Vrandečić
There is a crucial difference: Wikipedia Zero is not a general way to provide access to the Internet for free, it provides access to parts of Wikipedia for free through partnering carriers. Wikipedia Zero is not in violation of net neutrality in the first place, as Wikipedia Zero is not an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A proposal towards a multilingual Wikipedia

2013-08-23 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Using a rather simple pair like Afrikaans - Dutch or a heavily researched one like English - Spanish would be giving us a wrong impression of how this will scale. We should at least add a few random pairs like Yoruba - Gujarati or Kazakh - Lombard. Most of our 67,000 language pairs that we will

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata-l] Meeting about the support of Wiktionary in Wikidata

2013-08-10 Thread Denny Vrandečić
[Sorry for cross-posting] Yes, I agree that the OmegaWiki community should be involved in the discussions, and I pointed GerardM to our proposals whenever and discussions, using him as a liaison. We also looked and keep looking at the OmegaWiki data model to see what we are missing. Our latest

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata-l] Meeting about the support of Wiktionary in Wikidata

2013-08-09 Thread Denny Vrandečić
We are keeping notes on Etherpad http://epl.wikimedia.org/p/WiktionaryAndWikidata If connectivity allows, you can also try to connect via Hangout or Skype or IRC. Ping aude or me on #wikimedia-wikidata on IRC. Cheers, Denny 2013/8/10 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com Hello, On Fri, Aug 9,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A proposal towards a multilingual Wikipedia

2013-08-07 Thread Denny Vrandečić
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin 2013/8/7 Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de I have been thinking about this for a while, and now finally managed to write it down as a proposal. Details are on meta on the following link, below is the intro to the proposal: http

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A proposal towards a multilingual Wikipedia

2013-08-07 Thread Denny Vrandečić
to be included in such a tool Anders Denny Vrandečić skrev 2013-08-07 02:20: I have been thinking about this for a while, and now finally managed to write it down as a proposal. Details are on meta on the following link, below is the intro to the proposal: http://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A proposal towards a multilingual Wikipedia

2013-08-07 Thread Denny Vrandečić
an interesting relation to the talk of machine translation where I believe we can do a lot very quickly if we limit the vocabulary to be included in such a tool Anders Denny Vrandečić skrev 2013-08-07 02:20: I have been thinking about this for a while, and now finally managed to write

[Wikimedia-l] A proposal towards a multilingual Wikipedia

2013-08-06 Thread Denny Vrandečić
I have been thinking about this for a while, and now finally managed to write it down as a proposal. Details are on meta on the following link, below is the intro to the proposal: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/A_proposal_towards_a_multilingual_Wikipedia I tried to anticipate some possible

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why the WP will never be a real encyclopaedia

2013-08-01 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Rui, if your basic assumption is that Wikipedia will never be a real encyclopedia because of the lack of diversity among its contributors, I would like to know of any other encyclopedia that is anywhere close to the diversity among its contributors that Wikipedia has (just a side-note, the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why the WP will never be a real encyclopaedia

2013-08-01 Thread Denny Vrandečić
on preserving this or that article just as it is? Rui On 1 August 2013 22:40, Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote: Rui, if your basic assumption is that Wikipedia will never be a real encyclopedia because of the lack of diversity among its contributors, I would like

Re: [Wikimedia-l] article bytes more meaningful than users or revisions (was Re: Updates on VE data analysis)

2013-07-27 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Thank you for the observation. Is the graph http://i.imgur.com/TfaD99V.png based on actual data? Because it looks just tad bit too linear to me. (I do not disagree with the finding, just wondering about the graph itself). I still would worry, though: our content is increasing linearly, as you

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What community initiatives have made an impact on editor engagement?

2013-07-05 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Wait - removing the captchas lead to a decrease of reverted edits in terms of absolute numbers? Woot? Anyone has an explanation for that? 2013/7/5 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com The recent community initiative with the highest impact I can think of is surely what Platonides and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage logo

2013-06-02 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Peter, we stand up to big bullies. As big as they get. But in this case, I cannot see the WTO bullying us. Their terms are very reasonable in my opinion, and I am grateful to the legal team for handling this situation this well. But in this case, we are talking about either changing a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The case for supporting open source machine translation

2013-04-25 Thread Denny Vrandečić
2013/4/25 Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org You are blowing my mind, dude. :) Glad to do hear :) I suspect this approach won't serve for everything, but it sounds *awesome*. If we can tie natural-language statements directly to data nodes (rather than merely annotating vague references

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The case for supporting open source machine translation

2013-04-24 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Erik, all, sorry for the long mail. Incidentally, I have been thinking in this direction myself for a while, and I have come to a number of conclusions: 1) the Wikimedia movement can not, in its current state, tackle the problem of machine translation of arbitrary text from and to all of our

[Wikimedia-l] Branding and visibility of sister projects Re: The case for supporting open source machine translation

2013-04-24 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Aubrey, 2013/4/24 Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com I feel that we could boost a lot the idea of a family of projects, of an integrated, global, comprehensive approach to knowledge. Right now, the fact is that Wikipedia both attracts and cannibalizes users to/from sister projects, which

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero wins!

2013-03-17 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Orkus was never took over by Google - it was created by Google in the first place and always operated by them. 2013/3/17 Rand McRanderson therands...@gmail.com Orkut used to dominate outside US and Europe. Then Google took over, neglected it and Facebook moved in. Classic big company takes

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are there plans for interactions between wikidata and wiktionaries ?

2013-03-11 Thread Denny Vrandečić
There is currently a number of things going on re the future of Wiktionary. There is, for example, the suggestion to adopt OmegaWiki, which could potentially complicate a Wikibase-Solution in the future (but then again, structured data is often rather easy to transform):

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are there plans for interactions between wikidata and wiktionaries ?

2013-03-11 Thread Denny Vrandečić
should. And I do not think that a cross-mailing list discussion like the current one is the right place, and I do not even know where the right place is. So, first question: where should this discussion take place? Cheers, Denny 2013/3/11 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com Denny

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are there plans for interactions between wikidata and wiktionaries ?

2013-03-11 Thread Denny Vrandečić
, GerardM On 11 March 2013 15:51, Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote: Sorry about the wrong link, I meant this IEG proposal: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wiktionary_-_the_way_it_should_be but as far as I can tell, this one didn't make

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF narrowing focus (was Re: Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 105, Issue 1)

2012-12-04 Thread Denny Vrandečić
As far as I understood the rationale for the narrowing, the idea is not to safe money but to safe people. By focusing on what the Foundation's tasks should be and by letting go of the others, you reduce stress on people as you allow them to concentrate on a smaller set of tasks. Focus brings flow

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The new narrowed focus by WMF (cleaner version), apology

2012-10-26 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Just a comment on the discussion: I would find it refreshing if people were not defending funds that apply mostly to themselves. I saw, in discussions of the essay, arguments by researchers saying that more money should go to researchers, by fellows and want-to-be fellows that the fellowship

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia redefined -- typography and UX and such

2012-08-17 Thread Denny Vrandečić
rant If WMF had a Steve Jobs on staff, everyone would hate him for making decisions without properly consulting the community, for destroying the community, for reinventing Wikimedia again, for making unpopular decisions, for making decisions behind close doors, for being an egomaniac, etc.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A task list for a beginning project

2012-07-31 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Wikidata will still help with the task at hand, but it should be formulated as: - Translate certain templates, like city templates etc., to the target language - Provide labels to relevant items on Wikidata in the target language Simplified this means the template ''City'' Country:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A task list for a beginning project

2012-07-31 Thread Denny Vrandečić
2012/7/31 Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de: Country: {{#getfromwikidata:country}} And this is just a place holder syntax for now. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours The future of e-mail usage in Wikimedia projects 2012-07-18 16:30 UTC

2012-06-26 Thread Denny Vrandečić
2012/6/26 Risker risker...@gmail.com: On 25 June 2012 13:56, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: Excuse me. Just about a month ago, we had a discussion about spreading out the times during which office hours would

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Language links and double language links on the Wikipedias

2012-06-26 Thread Denny Vrandečić
, Denny Vrandečić wrote: Hi all, I ran some analysis last week, to get some numbers out of the Wikipedia language links. One type of reports that were generated was the list of all articles in the main namespaces of the Wikipedias that link to more than one article in another language edition

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Language links and double language links on the Wikipedias

2012-06-26 Thread Denny Vrandečić
/6/25 Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de: Hi all, I ran some analysis last week, to get some numbers out of the Wikipedia language links. One type of reports that were generated was the list of all articles in the main namespaces of the Wikipedias that link to more than one article

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Language links and double language links on the Wikipedias

2012-06-26 Thread Denny Vrandečić
mentioned on the Berlin Hackathon. It sounds much higher than what my (very scientifically relevant, obviously) gut feeling tells me. Could you indicate where this number is coming from? On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote: Ziko, it does

[Wikimedia-l] Language links and double language links on the Wikipedias

2012-06-25 Thread Denny Vrandečić
Hi all, I ran some analysis last week, to get some numbers out of the Wikipedia language links. One type of reports that were generated was the list of all articles in the main namespaces of the Wikipedias that link to more than one article in another language edition of Wikipedia (so called

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Write about Wikipedia Zero!

2012-04-30 Thread Denny Vrandečić
I mentioned Wikipedia Zero in the last few talks that I gave about Wikidata, and I always got great feedback on that part. I agree with SJ that this is an amazing initiative that should be known better! 2012/4/29 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com Wikipedia Zero is starting to get more attention