Hoi,
I alone have contributed millions of edits thanks to Magnus's tools. The
whole GLAM phenomenon relies on our volunteers and on the GLAM-wiki
toolset. When you consider their proven importance it is difficult, if not
impossible, to understand why all such tools have been given the Cinderella
Hi Luis,
Thank you for agreeing to consider grant funding for software projects.
It sounds like you also plan a broader review of funding for community
needs and growth. I have a list of requests for changes, which boil down to
removing policy barriers and greatly improving communications and
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Luis,
Thank you for agreeing to consider grant funding for software projects.
It sounds like you also plan a broader review of funding for community
needs and growth.
Yes. The timeline is still somewhat up in the air,
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Damon, Luis and members of their teams will need to weigh in on this,
and will want to think through the implications for their respective
areas, but it's a good conversation to have -- keeping in mind that
Luis is just
Brian Wolff wrote:
Maybe the grant includes funds for hiring code review resources (ie
non-wmf people with +2. We exist!).
For what it's worth, you're exactly the type of person I would like to have
working at the Wikimedia Foundation. I love your posts here; thank you for
taking the time to
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 4:19 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Erik seems to be pushing toward a model that favors using OAuth and the
MediaWiki API over deep integration that comes with a MediaWiki
extension. He recently mentioned this here:
On 2/21/15, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
(Now continuing this discussion on Wikimedia-l also, since we are
discussing grant policies.)
For what it's worth, I repeatedly advocated for allowing IEG to support a
broader range of tech projects when I was on IEGCom. I had the impression
that