Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to apply to Outreachy Round 21 with Wikimedia!

Is the Foundation willing to fund pronunciation remediation this winter? On Wednesday, September 9, 2020, Srishti Sethi wrote: > Hello Chris, > > Yes, mentoring organizations provide funding for the Outreachy internships. > For the upcoming winter round, WMF will be funding up to 6 projects. >

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

Scott, It is perfectly legitimate to be "anti-racist," but races are completely artificial constructs. Racial conflict was interposed during the "tea party" astroturfing in response to the Occupy movements: https://www.reddit.com/r/occupywallstreet/comments/hyoogt/is_this_accurate/fze7t5c/ Do

[Wikimedia-l] How many users really need to have access to readers' IP addresses? Zero.

Speaking of privacy policies, there are still way more than a hundred accounts which have access to readers' IP addresses: https://github.com/wikimedia/puppet/blob/be74f7d1e9fd5ad234c1049a66ddb8c36b3a8d48/modules/admin/data/data.yaml#L254 Given that the European Court of Justice found that the

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

Anyone object to using loglan as an interlingua? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loglan On Saturday, July 4, 2020, phoebe ayers wrote: > Thanks Denny! I appreciate this, and your thoughtfulness as always. > > Thanks for starting an explicit discussion. I think our field (meaning, > computer

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board update on Branding: next steps

Hi Zack, I filled out a survey request for "The Wiki Foundation". Some of the text of the survey indicated that the legal department thought that there could be a problem with that possibility, but didn't say why, so I asked for the source for the claim I quoted in the survey. How many

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board Update on Branding

What did the legal department have to say about The Wiki Foundation? Will Ward end up with that one? Does the executive staff and Board have a position on supporting the .ia domain name for the Internet Archive, with the provision that wikiped.ia is assigned to the Foundation in perpetuity? Best

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Is the Wikimedia-movement apolitical?

> "Wikipedia should support any political movement that makes > people's lives better because they will then have more time to edit > Wikipedia," is an incredibly dubious line of reasoning. It would literally > cover anything in politics On the contrary, by definition, it would be restricted

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism

those paragraphs are now dead. Please correct me if I am mistaken. On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 11:19 AM James Salsman wrote: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal/Foundation_Policy_and_Political_Association_Guideline > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 8:45 AM Andy Mabbett > wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism

> the Foundation's Policy and Political Association Guideline, which > was written by WMF Legal in the aftermath of SOPA to iron > out clear boundaries on activism, explicitly rules out any political > activism relating to environmental issues, stating: >> Policy and political associations should

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy

Yaroslav, How do you feel about the system of compulsory royalties they have to pay for both academic journals and news journalism in Germany? See e.g. https://www.vgwort.de/die-vg-wort.html In the U.S., we pay musicians for their works played on the radio, in public venues, and pirated, all out

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Next steps on Wikimedia Space

When we decide to use something other than wikis to help those who don't use wikis, instead of helping those who don't use wikis to use them, how is that not turning our backs on project editor recruitment? Is the problem that people can't use wikis or that they don't yet know how? It just seems

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Next steps on Wikimedia Space

> ... it has been a mistake to keep spinning off new discussion > platforms, in the hope that the next one will be different and controllable > and totally replace everything else. This has been an anti-pattern for a > decade. Far better to make a real investment (including both a social and a >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Tool from Community Tech: Who Wrote That?

WikiWho can do all of that, but it takes considerable effort to build its databases from the dumps. It would be great if the Foundation could support more of the mediawiki-specific tools they build on top of. There is a lot of expertise in The WMF for building tools across all the languages, and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians for Sustainable Development first newsletter

Jan and James, The currently legitimate mitigation controversies, upon which only the most reasonable people disagree, involve: 1. The proportion of natural gas power plants that power-to-gas flue CO2 Sabatier recycling (a 100+ year old process) can convert to recycling and storage for nighttime

[Wikimedia-l] Fundraising

Is superexponential fundraising really in the minority? Why do we always treat December like "don't ask for as much as they would give if you were to ask as much as you said you were going to. Best regards, Jim ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines

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

We are constantly fighting to keep aesthetics from interfering with usability, for example by people using lower-contrast, more subjectively appealing typography, such as quoting text in green on white, or using lower contrast backgrounds of any color. Both are hard even for people with normal

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Remember Wikipedia Zero.. Where is the research about the effects of its demise?

> There is some data at > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Audiences_Metrics_%26_Insights_Q1_2018-19.pdf "WP0 deactivated for Unitel Angola on June 29 Caused traffic for the entire country to drop from ~20 million to ~4 million views/month" But there was no drop at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Wikimedia site and system outages

Is this a good juncture at which to request that the Foundation ask for a version of Encrypted-SNI from the CDNs which tunnels DNS? https://twitter.com/jsalsman/status/1142172682751864832 https://twitter.com/jsalsman/status/1142940652851695616

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Remember Wikipedia Zero.. Where is the research about the effects of its demise?

Kul, Would you please send a few or more paragraph description of the accomplishments and costs of the Wikipedia Zero program to the wikimedia-l list? I also would love to see it back. The concerns about zero rating service abuse are real, but they did not apply to WZ no matter how many people

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising needs your help

As is my custom, I have answered the call for fundraising message; this time with 14 alternatives to the $3 cup of coffee: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising%2F2019-20_Fundraising_ideas#Story_suggestion_3 I am confident this approach will leave all future fundraisers in the dust. I hope

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiConference North America live stream

It would be great if the Foundation hired a dedicated A/V team to remote-enable as many conferences and meetups as possible. On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 11:47 AM Ziko van Dijk wrote: > Hello Phoebe, thank you for the good news. We invest so much in our > conferences, that it is a pity that they

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcoming Wikimedia Foundation’s new CTO, Grant Ingersoll

Well, I'm thrilled about this, especially after having had a look through https://www.slideshare.net/lucidworks/searching-for-better-code-presented-by-grant-ingersoll-lucidworks Honestly, though, it's only the third best thing that happened this week after Valerie Plame entering politics and the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright workflows - research (Was: Re: Foundation management of volunteers)

Google has been offering reverse image search as part of their vision API: https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/internet-detection The pricing is $3.50 per 1,000 queries for up to 5,000,000 queries per month: https://cloud.google.com/vision/pricing Above that quantity "Contact Google for more

[Wikimedia-l] strategy working group questions

Okay, let's see how these go: CTO criteria: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_Groups/Product_%26_Technology=19040328=18121474 Fundraising:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] branding is bikeshedding, how about CTO criteria or working group lists instead?

Jennifer, > I think what you really mean is that you want (1) for yourself as > opposed to the movement in general to be personally involved in > the decision-making process, I would be happy if the Foundation was doing anything to involve the community in the process. We are constantly told to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] branding is bikeshedding, how about CTO criteria or working group lists instead?

Jennifer, I would like to comment on the search and requirement criteria. In particular, I'd like to know whether the Foundation is interested in reinforcing their privacy infrastructure, and whether that is more or less important than being able to provide personally identifiable information to

[Wikimedia-l] branding is bikeshedding, how about CTO criteria or working group lists instead?

I withdraw any opinions and suggestions about the branding discussion, and don't intend to continue participating in it. Instead, I would like to have a more substantive discussion: (1) I ask that the CTO search team please publish their search and requirement criteria, including the CTO job

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Reviewing our brand system for our 2030 goals

Is there a middle ground that would satisfy all the objections? E.g., "Wikipedias and media" as a brand identifier? On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 12:25 PM Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l wrote: > > Thank Andrew for summing up all the issues around this rebranding issue. I > really dont believe it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Reviewing our brand system for our 2030 goals

Hi Elena, If by "branding project" you mean replacing references to Wikimedia with Wikipedia, that is fine with me. Best regards, Jim On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 1:58 AM Elena Lappen wrote: > > Hi all, > > Thanks to those of you who have participated in the branding project > community consultation

[Wikimedia-l] proposals

I would like to send some proposals, less than a kilobyte each, to this email list, but just in case I would like to know whether anyone seeing this would prefer that I not send them. Please let me know. Thank you. Best regards, -Jim ___ Wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] please hire a CTO who wants to protect reader privacy

I noticed just now that the Foundation is soliciting applications for a new CTO: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6515003866130505729 Can we please hire a CTO who would prefer to protect reader privacy above the interests of any State or non-state actors, whether they have

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How diverse are your readers?

Bamyers99's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:POPULARLOWQUALITY weekly list linked from the Community Portal "Help out" section addresses the issue directly, thanks to ORES. It would be great if that were adopted by the Foundation for Wikipedias other than English. Also, the links from the numbers

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lisa Lewin joining Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

WOW! How did you find a MOOC enthusiast who still likes class size reduction, Maria? https://vimeo.com/126571400 Superb! Best regards, Jim On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 9:18 AM Shlomi Fish wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 21:45:00 +0100 > María Sefidari wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > I am very happy

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Survey about the Foundation's Mission

Are those objecting to discussion of specific choices of advocacy areas of the Foundation aware that the Movement Strategy staff have seated an Advocacy Working Group and begun discussions with it focusing on "public policies and agendas to define areas where active advocacy and political

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Survey about the Foundation's Mission

wever, I believe this is a > step too far for someone who has been asked in the past on multiple > occasions to stay on topic. I am not sure that James needs to remain a > contributor to this list. > > Risker/Anne > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 at 11:56, James Salsman wrote: >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Survey about the Foundation's Mission

h the survey measures. The idea that the abundance of contributors would not increase under the proposals is clearly not shared by most, and whether that means contributors would therefore be "empowered" by them is subjective. > On Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 8:21 PM James Salsman > > H

[Wikimedia-l] Survey about the Foundation's Mission

Happy 18th birthday to Wikipedia! What does it mean for the Wikimedia Foundation to empower contributors? Please share your opinion of what the Wikimedia Foundation's mission statement means when it describes empowering people to collect and develop educational content: http://bit.ly/wikimission

Re: [Wikimedia-l] America may go bizarro, but Wikipedia has a choice to make

Why not just officially support Wikipedia on IPFS, which has been hosting the Turkish Wikipedia in Turkey, unlike the Foundation, for almost two years now? https://blog.ipfs.io/24-uncensorable-wikipedia/ https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 3:10 PM

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mobile fundraising ads

Thanks, Seddon. Why aren't the two mobile banners listed on https://frdata.wikimedia.org/campaign-vs-amount.csv -- or am I just not finding them? Also, how do you feel about measuring the extent to which you would have to run more single-line banners to match the donation volume of larger

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mobile fundraising ads

For those of you who have not seen the mobile fundraising banner this year, and thus are uncertain of what all the fuss is about, here is an example: https://i.imgur.com/wL4Y5dl.png The fundraising message literally takes 4.5 screens that have to be scrolled through to get to the article. I

[Wikimedia-l] supporting the informed, healthy, and abundant availability of community volunteers

I'm presently in Oakland, California at the Ranked Choice Voting Summit 2018, where FairVote California's Director Jennifer Pae has pointed out this excellent resource from the U.S. national Alliance for Justice designed to answer questions about what kind of advocacy nonprofit organizations can

[Wikimedia-l] can we enable blog comments please?

Regarding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-12-01/Opinion Why does the https://wikimediafoundation.org/ blog not allow comments? Is the software capable of allowing comments? If so, could someone please turn that on? Why are we not using a wiki for the main blog?

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mobile fundraising ads

Seddon, thanks for addressing this. What are your thoughts about measuring the extent to which you would have to run a minimalist banner to achieve current goals, as per https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2018-19_Fundraising_ideas#Design ? Both of the "small" banners in the set of four

[Wikimedia-l] appeal of fundraising technical wish denial

I would like to appeal https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019%2FArchive%2FAssist_Wikimedians_with_crowdfunding=revision=18603544=18594887 on the grounds that adding a different behavior to existing behavior in order to try to measure which is better is an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Subject lines for WMF fundraising emails

On the contrary, Nathan, every single time I have asked them to hold the campaigns open after the fundraising goal has been met (most if not almost all of the past ten years) in order to, for example, fund the Endowment or save more money before the Endowment existed, they have refused to do so.

[Wikimedia-l] measure cost of donations from NextDoor.com and Google?

Does anyone have any objections to running fundraising experiments to measure the cost of donations from https://ads.nextdoor.com and https://ads.google.com similar to the recent Facebook ads experiment? I predict NextDoor will offer the best value, and I'm guessing Google will place a relatively

[Wikimedia-l] strategy proposals on meta (was Re: convert from BitCoin to FoldingCoin and other proofs of useful work)

nother venue. It has little > to nothing to do with this movement. > > Joe > On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 18:15, geni wrote: > > > On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 at 07:23, James Salsman wrote: > > > > > > Geni, it's the "Day of the Dead" now so I want to attempt to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] convert from BitCoin to FoldingCoin and other proofs of useful work

g more common, > > >> though the largest coins (e.g. BTC) are still resistant due to the size > > >> of > > >> their community. > > >> https://www.coindesk.com/blockchains-feared-51-attack-now-becoming-regular/ > > >> >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] convert from BitCoin to FoldingCoin and other proofs of useful work

ity? Best regards, Jim On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 7:21 AM James Salsman wrote: > > > Cryptocurrency. If your first thought isn't "how could a scammer > > exploit this" you are doing it wrong. > > I've thought about that for several hours now, and I'm sure scammers

Re: [Wikimedia-l] when is the last time a one-line fundraising banner was A/B tested

-Original Message- > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf > Of James Salsman > Sent: Friday, October 5, 2018 7:17 PM > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] when is the last time a one-line fundraising > banner was

Re: [Wikimedia-l] when is the last time a one-line fundraising banner was A/B tested

Someone recently complained that referring to the equivalent of USD $3 as the cost of a cup of coffee was incorrect and substantially offensive in Brazil. And then a few weeks later there was a discussion about how donations are so much smaller in the developing world. Coincidence? I don't think

[Wikimedia-l] when is the last time a one-line fundraising banner was A/B tested

The fundraising banner has gotten much bigger again: https://i.imgur.com/vMVbAHz.png I know it is bigger because it performs better relative to similar somewhat smaller banners, but I have a quantitive question: How much longer would the annual fundraiser need to take in order to raise the same

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FY1718 Fundraising Report now published

Ah, I see, it's the Endowment Advisory Board member Peter Baldwin and his wife Lisbet Rausing. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/09/25/wikimedia-endowment-matching-gift/ Was the donation from the individuals or the Arcadia Fund? On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 4:38 PM James Salsman wrote: > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FY1718 Fundraising Report now published

What or who is "Arcadia," listed in the Endowment Benefactors as having given more than $5 million? On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 3:16 PM Thea Skaff wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I am writing to share with you our fundraising report for fiscal year 2018 >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] C-team Statement on the Code of Conduct

Victoria, Does the restriction on "Disclosure of a person's identity or other private information without their consent" forbid the Foundation from sharing the geolocation and IP addresses of editors with researchers under NDA or law enforcement officials claiming to have, e.g., an Interpol

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikimedia Foundation has soft launched!

https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 2:13 AM, Mario Gómez wrote: > On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 4:56 AM, Yair Rand wrote: > >> The new website highlights "Advocacy" as one of the three areas that the >> Foundation deals with, along with Research and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Celebrating Wikimania 2018 online

Chris Henner's proposal to limit future Wikimanias to the developing world caught my interest: https://twitter.com/schiste/status/1020682919826939904 I'd certainly support that as we all ponder whether the US is a reasonable HQ anymore. Best regards, Jim On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 12:26 PM,

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Movement Strategy Working Group goal proposals some of which overlap Thematic Areas

I'm forwarding my Movement Strategy proposals for wider comment. Best regards, Jim -- Forwarded message -- From: James Salsman Date: Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 8:06 PM Subject: Movement Strategy Working Group goal proposals some of which overlap Thematic Areas To: kvai

[Wikimedia-l] HHS Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's National Guideline Clearinghouse

Can we move the Department of Health and Human Services' National Guideline Clearinghouse to Wikisource? Do we have contacts in HHS to help? https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week "The Trump Administration is planning to eliminate a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Curating YOUR Wikipedia

Gerard and Alessandro, The taxonomy question is very important. I touched on it in the ethnicity categorization discussion: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-May/090366.html I suggest that both the Enwiki Categories and Wikidata are most deficient from a utilitarian

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Response to recent developments of United States travel ban

ote: > On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 8:53 PM, James Salsman wrote: > >> The is between arbitrary border security theater and allowing the >> Foundation to recruit and hire the best candidates. If the Foundation >> was silent on the matter, there would be less of a chance of retai

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Response to recent developments of United States travel ban

P.S. The choice* is between On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 12:53 PM, James Salsman wrote: > Mario, > > The is between arbitrary border security theater and allowing the > Foundation to recruit and hire the best candidates. If the Foundation > was silent on the matter, there would be l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Response to recent developments of United States travel ban

Mario, The is between arbitrary border security theater and allowing the Foundation to recruit and hire the best candidates. If the Foundation was silent on the matter, there would be less of a chance of retaining the right. Thank you for your reply on the other thread about the Executive

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Executive Director's Letter to Donors

Lodewijk, I want to ask about something you wrote: >... Not taking a position is definitely not the same as > taking a 'neutral' position or holding the middle ground. Suppose for the sake of argument that there are two competing popular opinions, one of which is more true than another. If the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikimedia Foundation's FY18-19 Annual Plan is on Meta-wiki

Pine, Thanks for your reply. Can you say more about which kind of SMART you prefer? According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria the definitions have drifted since original publication of the term, including by authors who seem to have eclipsed the original's popularity. The T =

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikimedia Foundation's FY18-19 Annual Plan is on Meta-wiki

> WMF APs consistently fail to meet my expectations Pine do you have a list of specific flaws somewhere? You have good advice, but I've lost track of much of it. Did you participate in the AP talk page discussions? Did you try editing it to meet your standards? Best regards, Jim On Fri, Jun

[Wikimedia-l] what is making me happy this week

map internationalization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otAX58IZ6KA?t=8m40s Best regards, Jim ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Executive Director's Letter to Donors

to do. This has to do with core fundamental values our movement is > built on. Not taking a position in political debates is a core requirement > for us to remain acceptable as a source of information to all parties. > > Lodewijk > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 6:57 AM James Salsman wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Executive Director's Letter to Donors

ant American and UK wikipedians to have free health care, shorter work weeks, and a more equitable tax and transfer incidence? Best regards, Jim >> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 4:58 PM, Dennis During wrote: >> > I'd reconsider contributing content to WMF projects if WMF

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Executive Director's Letter to Donors

became a > partisan on issues outside its basic remit. > > On Jun 15, 2018 16:11, "James Salsman" wrote: > > Regarding https://twitter.com/SuePGardner/status/998302792946102273 > > I propose that the Executive Director resume regular periodic > correspondence wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Executive Director's Letter to Donors

; with email but only a finite amount of resources in this area with which to > achieve it so it'll be something for to thinking about in the future. > > Many Thanks > Seddon > > > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 9:11 PM James Salsman wrote: > >> Regarding https://twitter.com/

[Wikimedia-l] Executive Director's Letter to Donors

Regarding https://twitter.com/SuePGardner/status/998302792946102273 I propose that the Executive Director resume regular periodic correspondence with donors on other ways they can support the movement, beyond copyright and internet law advocacy that the Foundation traditionally supports directly

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Board of Trustees April 2018 meeting minutes

Hi Chris, Thanks for posting the minutes. Regarding "Jaime presented a proposed revision to the Foundation investment policy that shifted to a model more focused on cash preservation than on short-term equity," who is Jamie and why is appreciation not considered a goal on equal footing with (and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Second Fundraising experiment on Facebook

Caitlin, Are we planning to compare the costs and outcomes of donation appeals using other internet advertisers? I predict Nextdoor.com have a substantially lower cost per donation than Facebook, but there is only one way to find out. I would say the same for Google Adwords and Bing ads, in that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update #4: Upcoming call for participation in Working Groups

Oh, it's this discussion again. This is my favorite discussion. Movement roles discussion is how we got the UK chapter recognized as a charity capable of political lobbying. That was satisfying. Maybe we can get the letter to donors back. https://twitter.com/SuePGardner/status/998302792946102273

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Engagement team

Hi Victoria, Are questions regarding electricity sourcing and usage better directed to you or Bryan? Do you have any objections to questions being asked directly of you, and if not, do you intend to answer questions from the community? To whom are questions about the user targeting selections

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Category: French Jews on en.wp / GPDR

> categories and lists related to ethnicity, religious views, and sexual > orientation are often created and/or filled by POV pushers who usually do > not care much about sourcing. On top of this, the inclusion criteria, > especially for categories, are often not defined Absolutely correct,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Category: French Jews on en.wp / GPDR

an essential characteristic of living people, relative to their accomplishments and the events for which they are notable, I doubt anyone is going to actually put in the effort. On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 11:50 AM, James Salsman wrote: >> categories and lists related to ethnicity, religious

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Does anyone know what wikimedia france are up to with the Request Network ?

Hi Nadine, thank you for this update. Does the French Chapter have a position on replacing bitcoin mining with foldingcoin (http://foldingcoin.net)? I hope that all Wikimedians will oppose the wasteful consumption of electricity when useful alternatives exist. Best regards, Jim On Mon, May 28,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are we losing out against bad editing?

> I am open to more input, and more exchange of views. My view is that the Foundation was suddenly (but not without warning) made legally responsible for its own content after Trump made hosting providers responsible for facilitating online prostitution advertising, at pretty much the same time

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are we losing out against bad editing?

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 4:48 PM, David Cuenca Tudela <dacu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 9:16 PM, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Paid professionals work alongside volunteers in fire departments and >> hospitals throughout the world.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Category: French Jews on en.wp / GPDR

Nathan, the Enwiki organic category system is not very good. For example, there are no consistent ontological constraints placed on the entire ontological tree (which should not be surprising because the Library of Congress Card Number system, the Dewey decimal system, the SIC ontology, and even

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are we losing out against bad editing?

>... about the classical employer-employee relationship, I am totally > against it. The reason is that there is so much effort wasted tracking > and keeping people accountable Priyanka Mandikal implemented a way to keep paid editors accountable using reputation tracking two years ago:

[Wikimedia-l] reason for happiness this week

The English Wikipedia has finally returned to economics topics: -- Forwarded message -- From: Weeklypedia Digest Date: Fri, May 18, 2018 at 4:20 AM Subject: Weeklypedia English #218 the WEEKLYPEDIA Issue 218, May 18, 2018 (English Wikipedia edition)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment: Updates

ikimedia Foundation > https://wikimediafoundation.org > > On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:22 AM, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > To follow up on this, Katherine, would you please state the relative risk > > to politically controversial editors of using CPUs w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment: Updates

/ Are there a corresponding subpoena and national security letter burden differences in choosing open source hardware without backdoor coprocessors? Thank you for considering these questions. Best regards, Jim On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 12:28 PM, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: > On the origi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment: Updates

On the original topic of technology advocacy representation on the Board, an we please get someone from the open source hardware community and Legal to tell us how much we could save in subpoena, hardware, and overhead costs by avoiding backdoors? Has anyone on the Board ever championed open

Re: [Wikimedia-l] an observation on economic biases in Wikipedia

y.gov/connect/blog/Documents/20121212_Economics%20of%20Higher%20Ed_vFINAL.pdf https://www.docdroid.net/epSjOI2/peracchi2006.pdf https://www.docdroid.net/joXd2MZ/heckman2006.pdf Best regards, Jim > On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 1:44 PM, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Looking for an Animation artist for Wikipedia Video

t; > Thanks you again, > Cheers! > Rupika > > On 4 May 2018 at 22:54, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Rupika, >> >> Here are the artists who did the Accuracy Review fundraising video: >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30LvELi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Was macht dich diese Woche glücklich? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 15 April 2018)

> What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any > language Les lecteurs du Wikipédia français ont 75% plus de chances de faire un don que les lecteurs du Wikipedia anglais. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7cHxlGgEt4=44m30s Meilleures salutations, Jim On Mon, Apr 16,

[Wikimedia-l] an observation on economic biases in Wikipedia

The more I survey different language wikipedias, the more I am convinced an effort at the chapters level is needed to address this problem: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2018-April/006256.html It occurred to me that this Max Roser video might help: A Selfish Argument for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Looking for an Animation artist for Wikipedia Video

Hi Rupika, Here are the artists who did the Accuracy Review fundraising video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30LvELic624 Animator: Steve Lewis, hello at SteveLew dot is. Voiceover: Bryan Pike http://www.bryanpike.com/voicework.html Icons: https://www.flaticon.com/authors/freepik We only

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Recognizing the one-year anniversary of the Wikipedia block in Turkey

Jacob, Does your answer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vMFUaEeH3w=33m pertain to these specific links about IPFS? https://ipfs.io/blog/24-uncensorable-wikipedia/ http://observer.com/2017/05/turkey-wikipedia-ipfs/ Are there any reasons the Foundation or community volunteers shouldn't point

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Does anyone know what wikimedia france are up to with the Request Network ?

>> It can be interesting to use blockchain technology in our movement for >> transparency purposes. >... > Not really. At best you end up with a less efficient version of a > downloadable database Less efficient unless a government authority is attempting to censor. After advocating all this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance?

Anthony, it is not off topic at all, and some of the related Annual Plan effects are very troubling in their present manifestation. Please see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Ubi1v8gwsq09bzjp On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 6:23 AM, Anthony Cole wrote: > This is off-topic (I

[Wikimedia-l] proposal: branded reader-pens in the store

I propose https://store.wikimedia.org/collections/accessories include http://www.ectaco.com/cpen-30/ branded with the Wikimedia logo. Best regards, Jim ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The fact-checked encyclopedia

If we want to do fact checking, which we do whether Congress has decided publishers are responsible for the content of their publications or not, the way to automate it is shown at https://priyankamandikal.github.io/posts/gsoc-2016-project-overview/ Best regards, Jim On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 9:35

Re: [Wikimedia-l] convert from BitCoin to FoldingCoin and other proofs of useful work

> Cryptocurrency. If your first thought isn't "how could a scammer > exploit this" you are doing it wrong. I've thought about that for several hours now, and I'm sure scammers far prefer bitcoin. Folding@Home's lab director is a partner Andreessen Horowitz, so he has certainly had no lack of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] convert from BitCoin to FoldingCoin and other proofs of useful work

> Only works if most people aren't trying to scam you What else works that way? > you'd need to get Bitpay to accept FoldingCoin in this arrangement https://twitter.com/jsalsman/status/984428258530705408 On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 4:39 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 11 April

Re: [Wikimedia-l] convert from BitCoin to FoldingCoin and other proofs of useful work

on should offer to convert Bitcoin to FoldingCoin for those who wish to contribute Bitcoin. Best regards, Jim On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 3:24 PM, geni <geni...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10 April 2018 at 22:45, James Salsman <jsals...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The Foundation has be

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