Re: [Wikimedia-l] Maithili Wikipedia surpasses 10k articles

consider > the points of view of others, to reflect on what they do is what made Mr > Trump the next president. My point is that when we are not able to discuss > our issues and remain stuck in our points of view we will not work towards > a model where the manipulations of Mr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Maithili Wikipedia surpasses 10k articles

Congratulations. Was this supported by bots? 2017-01-01 8:16 GMT+01:00 Biplab Anand : > Hi, > > I am delighted to share with you that Maithili Wikipedia has reached 10,000 > articles . > > To reach the milestone Maithili

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia.org portal page update!

What happened to the search box "Find Wikipedia in your language"? 2016-03-11 3:27 GMT+01:00 Deborah Tankersley : > Hello! > > I'm very pleased to announce that we've updated the Wikipedia.org > portal page with a brand new search box that is >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Better thankspam

As a mostly silent reader of this list, I'd like to spammingly +1 this message. There's hardly anything more superfluous than these "Welcome from Wikimedia Schleswig-Holstein as well" mails. Am 13.01.2016 12:12 schrieb "Fæ" : > TL;DR > Can anyone suggest of a better way of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost

er-w...@live.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > A small poll on meta would be enough. > > > > > > > > > From: josephfoxw...@gmail.com > > > > > Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 19:14:59 + > > > > > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost

Do you really believe the community consists of several 100.000 people? Am 06.10.2015 21:01 schrieb "Joseph Fox" : > On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 at 17:27 Steinsplitter Wiki < > steinsplitter-w...@live.com> > wrote: > > > To be honest: I am not surprised at all. > > > > Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost

What a nonsense. With that justification, any random troll who dislikes the Wikimania location selection process (or anything else) can show up and "volunteer the revolution" which must then be implemented (because they said so!!). Am 04.10.2015 22:31 schrieb "Pavel Richter"

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

Did you mean they did /not/ tell you? 2015-08-31 0:16 GMT+02:00 Romaine Wiki romaine.w...@gmail.com: The most annoying part now is that the fundraising team did tell me thta, while I ma in change of the banners. How is it possible that they do worse and worse each time? Romaine

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

Which is Fundraising's point? I haven't seen anything here about why WMF so urgently needs to request Italian donations in September. Am 20.08.2015 07:27 schrieb Risker risker...@gmail.com: I can understand the frustration that members of WMIT are expressing here, but I also see Fundraising's

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

Am 19.08.2015 11:19 schrieb Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com: [sorry for cross-posting] Hello everyone. Thanks Romaine for bringing up this issue, because it's good to talk these kind of things together with the whole community. It's a way to improve collaboration, I hope. Yes, this

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

I still think it was a big mistake (of the electcom? I don't remember, but /someone/ pushed it through without discussions) in the 2013 election to abolish the Schulze method. Am 06.06.2015 19:16 schrieb Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com: Moving this discussion into a separate thread, to leave the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Priority languages

Actually, currently the requirements are - most-used messages for the first project in a language - continuing translation activity on TWN for all others Am 02.06.2015 02:18 schrieb Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com: On Jun 2, 2015 02:08, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Milos Rancic wrote:

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

Special:Log/renameuser Am 19.03.2015 00:59 schrieb Dennis During dcdur...@gmail.com: So, for the third time: Will there be a report accessible to normal users that has the name changes for the most voluminous contributors who have had a name change so that one can transfer one's experience

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

Sorry if this was already answered and I overlooked it, but will there be something like a special form of advertising this campaign in order to attract many requests that propose to do something about the Gender Gap? 2015-01-06 21:11 GMT+01:00 Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.org: On Tue, Jan

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

Could you please also add the names of your normal (aka volunteer) accounts? :) Am 30.10.2014 00:16 schrieb Michael Guss mg...@wikimedia.org: Hi folks, We are the Finance Fellows, a multicultural team consisting of 4 young professionals. We are happy to introduce a 6-month movement-wide

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

Can we get to know his username(s)? :) Am 29.09.2014 19:38 schrieb Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org: Dear all, We are excited to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation now has a Vice President of Engineering. Damon Sicore will be filling this vital role. Please join us in welcoming him to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to beta-test HHVM

Why should he give himself credit for your insufficient testing? Am 19.09.2014 12:19 schrieb Ori Livneh o...@wikimedia.org: On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:14 AM, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se wrote: Thanks!, glad you could sort this out and file a bug But really, I understand

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow or not to Flow

Am 10.09.2014 09:56 schrieb Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: Hoi, I expected that it was obvious... Arguments that are based on desktop experiences are futile because the desktop experience is the lesser of two evils. The desktop experience is already bad, the experience on mobiles

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Next steps regarding WMF-community disputes about deployments

What the heck is a design community at all, and why does their opinion count, when WMF uses every opportunity to claim it is super-unfair to claim that the community wants anything? 2014-08-27 6:49 GMT+02:00 geni geni...@gmail.com: On 27 August 2014 05:16, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

Your mail is embarrassing. If you think the foundation is like the parent of the community, you don't understand anything about the foundation nor the community. Am 11.08.2014 00:05 schrieb John Lewis johnflewi...@gmail.com: The people who were actually responsible were the community. Erik was

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

Oh sorry, that was totally not the intention. It must be the strange beer here at the Thistle Barbecue hotel. Am 11.08.2014 00:54 schrieb Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk: MF-Warburg, that came across as a bit rude... On 11 Aug 2014 00:29, MF-Warburg mfwarb...@googlemail.com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Multilingual office hours

How do you envision the bilingual office hours to be set up? Should there be someone who translates everything that is being said? It seems to me that having office hours in simply a different language than English, if enough informed staffers are able to speak it, would be more feasible. Am

Re: [Wikimedia-l] So now the Wikipedia comes in handy to 'vouch' for 419 scams

Sure sure, very credible. Am 02.06.2014 12:58 schrieb Rui Correia correia@gmail.com: I expect to see an increase in these once the idea spreads Rui -- *From:* Jourdan Hilaire *Sent:* Thursday, May 29, 2014 1:00 AM *To:* Jourdan Hilaire *Subject:*

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanking anonymous users

On that occasion, do IPs still receive information about messages on their talk page? (Since the orange bar was abolished and they now go through echo notifications all well) Am 10.01.2014 21:29 schrieb Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org: For 1: because it'd be impossible to accurately associate

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why not everyone have the right to vote in the Board FDC elections?

2013/4/28 Pavel Richter pavel.rich...@wikimedia.de 2013/4/28 Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org If edits on meta, mediawiki, outreach, etc., qualify, and we were to lower the edit count requirement, then I think that would be inclusive of most/all contributors. Would something like that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] WMIT bulletin no. 44: January 23, 2013

I have just done this. The place to request changes in it is https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Www.wikipedia.org_template btw :) 2013/1/25 Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk So, now that Wikimedia Italiano is over 1,000,000 articles, who's going to update the page at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage project launch/migration update

2012/11/12 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com Roland Unger, 12/11/2012 07:46: Hi folks, the Wikivoyage e.V. got the xml files of more language versions, I think also for es, fi, hu, ja, pl, pt, ro and zh from user Wrh2. Where are they? Again, please publish them. I can only

[Wikimedia-l] Language committee report, August 2012

Please find below the Language committee report for August, or read the wiki version at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Reports/2012-08 ===Committee=== *Please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cooperation_between_Wikimedia_and_Endangered_Languages_Projectfor the cooperation

[Wikimedia-l] Language committee report, July 2012

The Language Committee (Langcom) report for July 2012 was published. The Langcom reports used to be published on this list too for some time, but that has stopped and they were only put on Meta. I would now like to resume putting the monthly report here. See the wiki version on