[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

2024-04-17 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
As per the last input by James Heilman regarding multilingualism: Whatever translations we could implement in the interactive graphs that may imply some kind of a “mirroring back” to OWID, is a win-win for both projects and for the sake of free knowledge. Considering the relevance of OWID in

[Wikimedia-l] Disparity of official statistics: Stats vs Pageviews

2024-02-15 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Bon dia / Hi, I would like to ask around about the fact that we have very significant imbalances of official statistics when it comes to the traffic in our wiki projects. Let's look at the reading gross value for the English Wikipedia on January 2024. Without applying any kind of filtering to

[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

2024-01-26 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Bon dia/Hi, I don't want to add even more seriousness to the thread; I am happy to read that there is an absolute agreement on the topic. But interactivity is not only about embedding video: we currently must leave each project to Toolforge for supporting editing tools, to Humanwiki to read

[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

2024-01-23 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Hard email to read, but Galder's are quite of indisputable thoughts and the harsh reality of Wikimedia's technological state of the art. Yet this incontestability is, at the same time, the very profound problem: the WMF will not refute it, nor structurally change it, besides silences and

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Tool to find articles to create or improve in non-English Wikipedias

2023-09-18 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Thank you very much, Amir! I would like to know whether translations will be open in Translatewiki to make it available and helpful for non-English speakers? I would gladly translate it to a couple other languages! I also agree on the views from Galder regarding the current non-existing

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Who is the editor with the longest editing streak? Find out!

2023-07-28 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Bon dia / Hi, Is there any available tool to precisely count how many days in a row a Wikimedian from a specifif project has been editing? The source that is linked in the Diffs page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/Longest_active_user_editing_streaks)is only within

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation launches Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards on World Press Freedom Day

2023-05-04 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Bon dia / Hi, Thank you for pointing this out, Andreas. This is exactly why there are more and more voices against the mindset of the Wikimedia Foundation and its aims to expand its coverage beyond what should be the technical maintenance and the legal boundaries of the Wikimedia projects.

[Wikimedia-l] Re: EU designates Wikipedia a Very Large Online Platform

2023-04-27 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Hi/Bon dia, To me, statements like "Platforms need to provide an easily understandable, plain-language summary of their terms and conditions, in the languages of the Member States where they operate" seem to perpetuate some problems (or legal questions/gaps) of what will happen with those

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Results of the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines Vote

2023-02-15 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Thank you Adel for adding up very valuable input and thoughts on my initial concern. You explained the turnout, participation and the evaluation issues of such an enforcement much better than I did in my first email. Kind regards/Salutacions, Xaviet Dengra El dc, 15 febr., 2023 a 18:19, va

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Results of the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines Vote

2023-02-13 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Hi/Bona vesprada, Without meaning at all that I do not respect the results of this voting, I would like to call the attention to the fact that out of 3097 votes, practically 2000 are circumscribed to only 4 big home wikis: en.wiki (1000), de.wiki (500), fr.wiki (200) and es.wiki (150). Imho

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Board Membership at Tor

2023-01-25 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Bon dia/Dear Esra'a I consider myself quite critical regarding some kinds of conflicts of interest within the Wikimedia movement, and I don't think this is at all a case of COI. I congratulate you for your involvement and volunteering advocacy in different free knowledge and internet

[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

2023-01-18 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
he artwork itself. Two tweets in the afternoon: the first one, >> optional, about something related to Wikipedia itself (Statistics, projects, >> some user who has created something cool...) and then science/technology in >> a broad sense. At evening, we like to tweet somethin

[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

2023-01-13 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Hi/Bon dia Yaroslav: Also, you say one tweet per day is too little, how may do you think is normal? If I personally see an account which tweets more than say 10 per day (not counting threads) I start thinking may be it is a spam generator. Since 4 years ago we updated the social media

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Recent press around December Office Action

2023-01-07 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Dear all / Bona nit, Following Andreas' last message: as we started getting some questions and we did not see any other official Wikimedia statement in regards of this specific issue –the exorbitant prison sentence–, the Catalan Wikipedia community we agreed via our Village Pump to publish

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Is GoogleTV violating Wikipedia's license?

2022-11-14 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
ternative; >> boundary="=_NextPart_000_0023_01D8BC62.4CF06730" >> >> If I understand the CC-by-sa licence correctly, Wikipedia and WMF themselves >> do not own the copyright, it is owned by the contributors who created the >> text. They can take this up with Goo

[Wikimedia-l] Hashtag for Wikidata's birthday: thoughts on multilinguism

2022-10-24 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Hi everyone, Wikidata's 10th anniversary is coming in the following days and the social media accounts start to talk about it, mostly from institutional/official Wikimedia profiles. That's really good! As one of the responsibles of the microblogging handles of the Catalan Wikimedia projects,

[Wikimedia-l] Is GoogleTV violating Wikipedia's license?

2022-08-29 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Hi all, I want to bring a legal concern here on Google's misuse of our content. [It came up today on Twitter](https://twitter.com/epineda/status/1564143156702199813?s=20=z2xu6PMB29vvkpNB79p2iQ) that the GoogleTV app had linked a movie description text in Catalan language (which in principle

[Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter

2022-08-02 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Hi Justice, As the @euwikipedia "cannot even have a lookalike audience", which is your threshold of representativeness? Because I provided in the same thread on Meta the accurate data of @Viquipedia (Catalan), for which we have 40K followers and hundreds of monthly article link clicks, being

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Maryana Iskander interview in San Francisco Examiner

2022-07-23 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Hi Andreas, Even if I agree with you in most of your points, I completely disagree about asking others to try to amend with press editors the already published interviews. The fact that the public discourse from the WMF’s front line is imprecise is not new at all, but I don’t think that it

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Join the new Movement Strategy Forum community review

2022-06-13 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Bon dia a tothom/Hi everyone, It's really difficult not to agree with Galder here. Happy to still read these persistent colleagues with key arguments. The same people that committed the big mistakes and failure with Wikimedia Space (that should have never existed and that even combined

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Community Wishlist Survey 2022 is coming. Help us and prepare

2022-01-27 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Hi / Bon dia, I cannot agree more with the words of Gnangarra in his last email. And that's exactly what I meant in the specific proposal of fixing issues in Commons that moving all these key requests from their natural scope undermines the recognition of the Wishlist (as an equal, useful, and

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikipedia Library: Accessing free reliable sources is now easier than ever

2022-01-22 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
're logged in please head over to > https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/suggest/ and add any suggestions you > have, or 'upvote' other suggestions. We get all the content for the library > through partnerships and this list, among others, directly feeds into our > prioritisation o

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikipedia Library: Accessing free reliable sources is now easier than ever

2022-01-20 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Congratulations for this step forward and to everyone that has been involved! The Wikipedia Library is amazing news for those that do not have institutional accesses. I know that it’s a bit early for this question, but maybe someone can already give me some answer :) Is it expected that in the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

2022-01-08 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Hi/Bon dia As being said, I assume that the eligibility criteria for the award means that some reviews or research articles published by colleagues or by me in Catalan are considered second-class publications. If publishing about Wikimedia in our mother languages (most of them minorized at

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Are we losing our readers?

2022-01-07 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Hi/Bona nit Specifically regarding the last emails about videos and new formats in university students and their use of Wikipedia. A truth is that we already had the chance to integrate better multimedia contents and formats via some channels that he already had: our sister projects.

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Testing the iOS app

2022-01-05 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Dear Johan, I will be happy to participate in the testing, especially interested into provide some feedback that can help the interface or navigation for minoritized languages. You can count me in, as it looks interesting and useful. However, please note that we are a *volunteering* movement,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Commons-l] Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

2022-01-03 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
It is definitely so sad to see those many abandoned tickets in Phabricator, like the ones Galder has been sharing along this thread. The same for the very interesting -and quite easy to implement- proposals that had lots of votes in the previous Community Wishlists but that never succeeded. It

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Fwd: Meta, WikiMedia, and the Hewlett Foundation partner with Africa No Filter

2021-12-08 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Hi all, Thank you for raising up this topic in the list, Florence. I fully agree with you in all your points and find it of great concern, especially regarding accountability of the WMF towards the community. But also because its increasing agreements and decisions that are not thoroughly

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Encyclopedic Coverage of American Elections

2021-09-21 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Hi all, As following the previous email from Galder, I completely agree that this topic -if there is a trust in the work of Wikipedians and their communities, which I am sure we all do- should be primarily debated, if not fully, in the corresponding linguistical version of Wikipedia. As Jane

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Conflict of Interest - Transition from Trustee to Staff

2021-06-29 Thread F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l
Dear all, I have been reading and closely following this and many other similar topics for a long time. I am sorry to say that for me, organising a concept like an "Office Hour" and doing so via Youtube for a concern of these dimensions (that affects the whole reputation of the movement), is