On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 4:04 PM James Heilman wrote:
> There are Wikis that have "succeeded" with IP editing turned off with
> some being WikEM and Eyewiki
>
> Additionally PT Wikipedia banned IP editing in 2020
>
>
d their own
>> community of mentors, alums, and practitioners!) would be wonderful.
>> Their impact per unit of funding seems, at very casual inspection, well
>> ahead of all comparable initiatives. And we could even fund them directly,
>> who have often helped us in turn.
> But it?s the different from what you started the discussion with where
>> you were saying ?we all should want?.
>>
>> I want us to make things that move the needle regarding knowledge equity
>> and that probably require outside of the projects programs.
>>
>> As to
e projects.
The problem is that none of these things are what donors believe they are
funding when they give us $5 from a banner on Wikipedia asking them to
support the projects.
>
> On Aug 16, 2023, at 8:36 AM, Steven Walling
> wrote:
>
> ?
> This is really really disappointing to
This is really really disappointing to see. The lessons noted in the blog
post totally miss the point as to why the Wikimedia community has objected
to Knowledge Equity Fund. The issue is not community oversight via
committees or visibility into the work. It’s that the work had no
demonstrable
We don’t really need to test the idea that people want to ask
factual questions in natural language. The question is: what’s the best way
to serve people who want to ask a normal human question and get an answer?
The definitive truth is that people want to search this way in the same
place they
On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 3:49 PM Erik Moeller wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 7:05 PM Steven Walling
> wrote:
>
> > IANAL of course, but to me this implies that responsibility for the
> *egregious* lack
> > of attribution in models that rely substantially on
ca-lora>
>>
>>
>> 3.) 8,4,3 bit-quantization of model for reduced hardware requirements
>>
>>- Running LLaMA 7B and 13B on a 64GB M2 MacBook Pro with llama.cpp
>><https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/llama-7b-m2>
>>- Github: bloomz.cpp
On Sun, Mar 5, 2023 at 8:39 PM Luis (lu.is) wrote:
> On Feb 22, 2023 at 9:28 AM -0800, Sage Ross ,
> wrote:
>
> Luis,
>
> OpenAI researchers have released some info about data sources that
> trained GPT-3 (and hence ChatGPT): https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165
>
> See section 2.2, starting on page
On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 9:47 PM Gergő Tisza wrote:
> Just to give a sense of scale: OpenAI started with a $1 billion donation,
> got another $1B as investment, and is now getting a larger investment from
> Microsoft (undisclosed but rumored to be $10B). Assuming they spent most of
> their
On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 4:09 PM Victoria Coleman <
vstavridoucole...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone. I have seen some of the reactions to the narratives generated
> by Chat GPT. There is an obvious question (to me at least) as to whether a
> Wikipedia chat bot would be a legitimate UI for some
On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 10:37 AM Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> Dear WMF Finance staff,
>
> I inquired over a week ago on Meta-Wiki why the WMF is reporting a
> negative investment income (–$12 million). There has been no answer to
> date.[1]
>
> I am a layperson, but how can an investment income be
kin and do the math: how much
> collective time are we going to spend on this?
>
> Best,
> Lodewijk
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 5:12 PM Steven Walling
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 4:35 PM Nathan wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
&g
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 4:35 PM Nathan wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 5:38 PM Steven Walling
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 10:27 AM Evelin Heidel
>> wrote:
>>
>>> +1 to this, my perception is that we're wasting a lot of
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 10:27 AM Evelin Heidel
wrote:
> +1 to this, my perception is that we're wasting a lot of volunteer's +
> staff time + resources into complex governance processes without clear
> results. In theory, the reason why you want this much transparency &
> process is to make sure
On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 12:37 AM effe iets anders
wrote:
> Hi Danny,
>
> this is great thinking. There's one more angle that I'd like to offer, but
> it would come with plenty of risks and downsides, so I'm not sure if it is
> actually viable (I guess it falls in the 'mitigate harm' category).
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 5:24 PM Risker wrote:
>
> I'm less concerned about the "protected page" issue raised by SJ. There
> are generally good reasons why those pages are protected. They have either
> been the long- or short-term target of repeated vandalism (e.g.,
> biographical articles of
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 1:04 PM Benjamin Ikuta
wrote:
>
>
> I've always thought this justification fraught with bias.
>
> Vandalism is highly visible: you can point to it and say it's a problem.
> And it's true!
>
> But the *lack* of contributions is of course, by nature, invisible.
>
This 100%
On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 3:50 PM Hal Triedman
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The WMF Privacy and Machine Learning Platform teams are developing model
> cards to increase visibility, transparency, and accountability of
> algorithmic decision-making on WMF platforms. The broad goal is for every
> ML model
+1 to The Cunctator, this is wonderful. I used it thanks to the invite
notification you sent to eligible users and it was super fast to get going.
Kudos!
On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 12:20 PM The Cunctator wrote:
> This is really well done. One suggestion that's probably already been made
> and may
On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 7:40 AM Guettarda wrote:
> Crypto + NFTs + {tech startup + disrupt + housing market} sounds like
> *just* the kind of person WMF needs on its board!
>
> Luis Bitencourt-Emilio might be a great person, and just who we need on
> the Board right now, but the optics seem
On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 11:30 AM Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> Hi Maryana,
>
> Welcome, great opening letter.
>
> You mention that you want to do some of your own volunteer editing in the
> months before you officially start, which is great.
>
> Here is an idea: between now and then, tell absolutely no
Given that it’s completely trivial to make new pseudonymous accounts how
would you propose even remotely accurate data collection to measure paid
editing?
If we are worried about the impact of paid editors on the integrity of
content, we are much better served investing even more in efforts to
On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 12:47 PM Erik Moeller wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 10:35 AM Steven Walling
> wrote:
> > So I don’t think your point is the highest priority item compared to
> deciding the
> > election / appointment for all the rest of the seats.
>
> I agre
On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 4:24 PM Luis Villa wrote:
> This looks like a very thoughtful start on a very thorny problem, well
> done.
>
> Given that we’re trying to diversify the board, and that Jimmy has
> recently criticized FSF for having lifetime board appointments for
> founders,* I was
necessary, although other chapters aren’t as
> > technologically developed as I’d have liked to have seen.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike
> >
> > > On 30 Sep 2020, at 19:35, Steven Walling
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > SJ hinted at a related problem w
SJ hinted at a related problem which is that we'd also need a backup
organizational structure to run things operationally and legally. If the US
becomes so politically unstable that hosting Wikimedia data is under threat
there, just moving the data would not be enough. You'd also have to include
a
I can't believe I'm saying this but I agree with Fæ as well.
Having been on the inside at some companies that underwent controversial
rebrands, I can see how this might be a very early stage thing to help
guide and shape thinking about how to approach a rebrand by unifying around
a high level
On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 5:09 PM Sydney Poore wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools team is wrapping up
> improvements
> to Special:Block that added the ability to set a Partial block
> <
>
Great question to think about for our long term sustainability. I think we
already have a universal "plan B" however? It's providing all content under
free licenses and regularly distributing complete dumps of our content.
Many larger and more well-funded technology organizations (Google,
>
> And thanks, Amir, for selecting us for Amazon Smile!
>
> Best,
>
> Lisa Gruwell
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 4:06 AM, Antoine Musso <hashar+...@free.fr> wrote:
>
> > On 15/11/16 02:12, Steven Walling wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Given th
Hey all,
Today Apple announced a bunch of 501(c)3 partners which now can use Apple
Pay to make instant donations. Announcement at:
http://www.apple.com/newsroom/2016/11/a-touch-of-giving-with-apple-pay.html
Does WMF fundraising have plans to integrate with Apple Pay, especially on
mobile
Congrats on the new role Geoff, and thank you so much for your leadership
over the last half-decade. You have been a huge asset to the movement, and
will be sorely missed.
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 3:29 PM Olatunde Isaac
wrote:
> Thanks for your impeccable service,
Hey Brad,
That sounds fine to me.
We previously used the loginCTA campaign to measure the value of that
secondary button on the login page (
ee-dashboard.wmflabs.org/graphs/enwiki_campaigns) but it doesn't need to
happen on an ongoing basis.
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 11:31 AM Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
It's really great to see Wikipedia highlighted as a source for news and
current events. It's rare that people fully recognize the degree to which
the "encyclopedia" is actually very good at trending news information. That
said, the report paints a rosy picture that, strategically speaking, may
not
Thanks for starting this thread Lodewijk.
Jan-Bart and Stu: Wikimedia has been lucky to have your participation over
these years.
Stu, thank you in particular for helping steer the financial governance of
the Wikimedia movement. Your expertise and professionalism have been deeply
important to
Pine,
Given that the way James and the Board should relate to staff was one issue
that lead to his removal, the situation in the wider WMF as an organization
is highly relevant here.
Under normal, smoothly-functioning circumstances (and most of my 4 year
tenure at WMF) there was little reason
This is really cool! Congrats to everyone who worked on this.
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 7:51 PM Dario Taraborelli <
dtarabore...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> (cross-posting from wikitech-l)
>
> Today we published an announcement on the Wikimedia blog marking the
> official launch of revision scoring as
Offline access is a nice idea, but the logistics of delivery seem daunting.
Thankfully, a large number of refugees and migrants have smartphones.[1]
Probably the biggest ways we could help refugees are really to:
A) make Wikipedia super performant on mobile, particularly for low-end
Android
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:58 PM Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Questions:
What happens to the remodel expenses that WMF is paying for at its current
location? If WMF vacates the premesis, will it be compensated for the
remodel by the building owner?
I hope that WMF is contemplating fully
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 7:00 AM Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
Steven Walling has written an interesting answer on Quora about one aspect
of the New York Times op-ed, i.e. the threat NSA surveillance supposedly
poses to Wikipedians living under oppressive regimes:
https
I just noticed a disturbing trend on Commons that highlights a general
issue with its use as the media repository for our projects.
I recently had an image nominated for deletion under Commons policy against
photos of packaging: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:PACKAGING.
It was of some
.
There's nothing more to say.
Russavia
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 12:40 AM, Steven Walling
steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote:
I just noticed a disturbing trend on Commons that highlights a general
issue with its use as the media repository for our projects.
I recently had an image nominated
On Thu Dec 11 2014 at 12:40:09 PM Pipo Le Clown plecl...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm on the road every two weekends, and processing pictures the rest of the
time on my free time. I've provided around 8000 pictures to Commons, and
helped to have pictures for articles like Cristiano Ronaldo, Roy
On Sun Oct 26 2014 at 12:45:55 PM Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
In the Hebrew Wikipedia there's a discussion about the Thanks feature,
which raises the following confusion among other things: Why does the
person who is sending the thank-you gets a message saying $1 was
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 1:54 AM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
Steven Walling wrote:
...
We practically can't and don't take on initiatives that directly
try to provide more free time or money to editors
That is absolutely false. Individual Engagement Grants have recently
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:48 PM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com
wrote:
IMO the WMF should stop focusing on English Wikipedia as a target
deploy site, and stop allowing its product management team and WMF
staff in general to be salesman for it - it is scaring the community
that all WMF
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 6:55 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a list somewhere of all currently active Foundation
initiatives for attracting and retaining active editors? I am only
aware of the one project, Task Recommendations, to try to encourage
editors who have made a
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Or, have them filled from Wikidata. Then, {{Infobox}} would be all the
wikitext you need. This could also help to abstract infoboxes to load a
placeholder/hint on mobile, then loading the box on request
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 7:06 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Hm. Garfield is the closest person I know in the Foundation to the FDC in
its role of evaluating the Foundation's Annual Plan for the entire
organization. The only other people I can think of who might be able to
comment for
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 1:53 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Theoretical overlap, perhaps. People in the role of Community Liaison,
Product Development and Strategic Change Management, a title Orwell would
be proud of, are not doing what's being described in this e-mail. The
current
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
MzMcbride, I'm not sure that WMF is overstaffed, but I would like to see
more specific performance metrics for some groups. The FDC commented on
this as well and I hope WMF is taking that to heart. I'm pinging Garfield
for
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
There is a post on the blog saying that bitcoin is accepted but there are
several questions about why WMF is asking for contact info. Is that an IRS
requirement? Might want to post the reason in the blog entry. AFAIK with
the
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Patricio Lorente
patricio.lore...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear friends in the Wikimedia community,
After meeting face-to-face in May to deliberate on the four proposals
they received for the 2013-2014 Round 2 annual plan grants, the Funds
Dissemination Committee
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Patricio,
I have a question about something in the software development portion of
the FDC recommendations regarding the Wikimedia Foundation proposal.
In that, it says The effectiveness of persona-based
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 6:22 AM, edward edw...@logicmuseum.com wrote:
Could I ask if there are any plans by WMF to address some of the content
problems in Wikipedia? Pretty much any article in my specialist area
(which is actually not all that specialist) has serious problems - gross
factual
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there any thought of making metrics updates more machine-readable,
exposing data/metrics/timelines? Right now the excellent data is
flattened into slides, and then further flattened into a single pdf.
If anyone is
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Wil Sinclair w...@wllm.com wrote:
Thanks, Edward! I was starting to worry that no one would ask.
I participate on WO because I think every voice deserves to be heard.
And I will go wherever people feel comfortable speaking freely to hear
them. Some of us feel
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Ellie Young eyo...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On the recommendation of the Wikimania 2015 selection Jury Committee, we
have accepted the proposal from Mexico DF to host. The proposal will be
further vetted by the WMF staff in the coming month, after which time we
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On the software side, we have Ubuntu Linux (itself highly indebted to
Debian) / Apache / MariaDB / PHP / Varnish / ElasticSearch / memcached
/ Puppet / OpenStack / various libraries and many other dependencies [2],
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 5:35 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
What does productize mean in the context of
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Growth_Quarterly_Review_(February_2014).pdf
?
Sorry for the jargon. We try to avoid tech industry terminology in public
communication but
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On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Charles Andrès
charles.andres.w...@gmail.com wrote:
TLDR:transform the thank you campaign after the fundraising in a Thank
you campaign: became an editor
We've tried this before and so far it hasn't worked very well. See results
from 2012-13 at
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 7:25 AM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.comwrote:
could wmf please extend the mediawiki software in the following way:
1. it should knows groups
2. allow users to store an arbitrary number of groups with their profile
3. allow to select one of the groups joined to
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Daniel Mietchen
daniel.mietc...@googlemail.com wrote:
What about having the Reasonator sit in the Draft namespace, with a
link from the search results or the text preloaded for non-existing
pages in the main namespace?
Daniel
It is still far too early to
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not entirely certain it's a good idea to technologize such very basic
user interactions. It takes as much work to thank someone using
notifications as it does to leave them a talk page message.
That's empirically not
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
I dunno, guys. I certainly would take a talk page message over a
mechanical thank any day of the week. More particularly, I notice a
significant trend in using thank notifications to express agreement with
people without
I really really wish we could thanks IPs too. It sucks to treat them like
second class citizens.
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Something like the new message orange bar :)
I guess that designers and Growth people may know an answer, but
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.comwrote:
Odder has published a fantastic blog piece at
http://twkozlowski.net/paid-editing-thrives-in-the-heart-of-wikipedia/ in
which it is revealed that a WMF employee is engaged in undeclared paid
editing on English
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:17 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
As Peter just said, there is no risk if WMF converts bitcoin donations to
USD immediately.
Uh... except that because Bitcoin is not a regulated currency, it's value
has the potential to fluctuate wildly, and seems to
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Jake Orlowitz jorlow...@gmail.com wrote:
* Our peers like EFF, and Internet archive accept it
To be totally honest, I think this is moot.
Support for bitcoin among these two organizations has hardly been a ringing
endorsement. In the past, EFF has rejected it
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 4:56 AM, Gryllida gryll...@fastmail.fm wrote:
Hopefully your research does not conclude this is a good idea; I had been
contacted to create such bots multiple times in the past. I had declined
such queries, as the need in automating this means inefficiency in manual
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Steven,
What qualifies as many? On ro.wp, Andrebot is creating sections of
articles about the population of villages/communes in Bulgaria,
Hungary and Croatia, also creating articles where they do not exist.
That will
in particular, since as a team
we only have extensive experience creating articles on enwiki.
Many thanks,
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1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation
2. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:37 AM, WereSpielChequers
werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
Typo correction and vandalism reversion are certainly both entries to
editing, and it isn't just anti-vandalism where the opportunities have
declined in recent years. Typos are getting harder to find,
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:40 PM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote:
The Wikimedia Foundation needs to wake up and deal with the real tech
elephant in the room. Our primary issue is not a lack of FLOW, a lack of a
visual editor, or a lack of a rapidly expanding education program.
Our
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Kirill Lokshin
kirill.loks...@wikimediadc.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
Wikimedia DC has released its Annual Plan for 2013-14. The plan can be
found on our wiki at http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Annual_plan_(2013–2014);
a
copy will also be posted on meta shortly.
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
A post is live on Gizmodo today about a Commons contributor (Evan-Amos) who
takes high quality photos of video game systems and hardware.[1] Towards
the end it mentions that Evan started a Kickstarter to fund his efforts to
buy
room for individual users
potentially setting their default edit mode to one or the other, reduces
extra button clutter, etc.
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On Wednesday, October 16, 2013, Sarah Stierch wrote:
Hi everyone,
I've asked a question on the new Program Evaluation Design portal about
when people think the first edit-a-thons took place. (Or the very first, if
we know!)
It would be great to have your input on meta:
On Sunday, August 25, 2013, James Heilman wrote:
Mobile image upload is a huge plus thus thanks to all who made it
happen. It is allowing those who might not otherwise have be able to
get involved to do so. Just saw this image come in through the mobile
site
?
There are several other excellent questions posted on-wiki as well. I know
people are still traveling and likely jet-lagged even if they're home, so I
am in no huge hurry to get an answer. Thanks to the Board in advance. :-)
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1. https://wikimania2013
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Kevin Wayne Williams
kwwilli...@kwwilliams.com wrote:
If you had followed that, and understood that the Minimum Viable Product
included cut-and-paste, table editing, and maybe the ability to
successfully and completely edit the hundred or so most edited
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:13 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
de:wp convinced you. What would it take to convince you on en:wp? (I'm
asking for a clear objective criterion here. If you can only offer a
subjective one, please explain how de:wp convinced you when en:wp
hasn't.)
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:27 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
OK - so why were those people listened to on de:wp? What happened
there that they convinced you?
If you're replying to me... this is why I said I wasn't speaking for the VE
team. I didn't make that call. :)
Steven
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:52 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
Do you intend to measure the total number of edits per day prior to
and after the visual editor roll-out?
It appears that you have not analyzed or presented any data associated
with those statistics.
We run A/B tests
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.comwrote:
Anyway, being able to disband the SF office as regards software
development (and perhaps more), and switch to remote work only, would
probably be the single most effective measure for enhancing communication
and
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
In my view, this whole argument would provide reason to:
1.) Only use a third party video option sparingly, as-needed until there
are better open-source video options to use.
2.) Put more resources into open source
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
On July 11th at the next WMF Metrics Activities meeting, myself, Erik
Möller, Howie Fung, Maryana Pinchuk, and Dario Taraborelli are going
user on ptwiki last
year, I am not surprised at all that we attracted many more positive
contributions just by removing it. Sadly, from looking at bug 49860 and
gerrit change 69982, it seems that this deeply annoying feature is going to
be put back in place.
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On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.comwrote:
1) I'm confused: first you ask about community initiatives then you list
activities by chapters and the like. Community initiative makes me think
of edit drives, custom tools and scripts, processes, guidelines,
, such
as this year's fashion edit-a-thon put together by Wikimedia Sverige.
What am I missing from this list?
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On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.ukwrote:
That's amazing!
This is the now-closed office hours calendar, which I think was run by
someone in WMF (but I could be wrong):
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
The remaining projects we have held off on because there are localizations
still to be completed (on translatewiki) or there are problems with
localizations already finished. Since the work of localizations is never
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
- Wikipedia in 21 languages, including English, German, French, Italian,
Polish, Dutch, Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic, Korean, Czech, Swedish, and
others.
- In English: Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikinews
the method mentioned in the two links
below...
1. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/25/try-new-login-accountcreation/
2. mediawiki.org/wiki/Account_creation_user_experience/Testing
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On Sunday, April 28, 2013, Risker wrote:
I'd actually suggest the opposite: That the only people eligible to vote
for the three elected seats be active participants within the Wikimedia
projects. That would drop the staff/contractor and advisory board
eligibility. Alternately, let's make
of posting locally to Village Pumps as well, targeting
the top ten Wikipedias and the English version of all other projects. Help
spread the word if you can. :)
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Steven Walling
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
1. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/25/try-new-login-accountcreation/
2. https
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Hi all,
Today the Editor Engagement Experiments team has ported our new designs
for
account creation and login to the current version of MediaWiki core,
meaning it is now available for testing
On Tuesday, April 23, 2013, Nathan wrote:
The necessity of public comment on a detailed budget is overblown. I
don't think the Foundation should dedicate a lot of time or resources
into getting input into the budget development process from members of
the community. This is one area where
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