[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Norway annual assembly - new board

2012-04-28 Thread Kjetil Ree
Hi all, Wikimedia Norway (WMNO) had its annual assembly last Thursday. See http://no.wikimedia.org/wiki/About_us for a short English presentation of the newly elected board. -- Best regards, Kjetil Ree (user:kjetil_r) Wikimedia Norway ___ Wikimedia-l m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: IRC Office Hours

2012-04-28 Thread Oliver Keyes
+1 to all of that. Gayle is awesome fun. :) On 27 April 2012 21:29, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > Gayle Young, the Wikimedia Foundation's Chief Talent and Culture Officer, > will be our guest for IRC office hours on Tuesday, May 1, at 17:00 UTC. > > Gayle is a ridiculously smart lady, who has a de

[Wikimedia-l] Updated Terms of Use

2012-04-28 Thread Fabrice Florin
Kudos to the community and WMF teams for creating this outstanding document! I love the brevity, clarity -- and yes, elegance -- of your human-readable summary. I'm amazed that you managed to fit our most important goals, rights and responsibilities into just 12 bullet points. It's an inspirin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention implies social features

2012-04-28 Thread Oliver Keyes
Jan; we get new features fairly regularly :). At the moment we're working on two new pieces of software - the Article Feedback Form, v5, and New Page Triage (a replacement for Special:NewPages). After that we're moving on to a proper notifications system to allow better communication and participat

[Wikimedia-l] Write about Wikipedia Zero!

2012-04-28 Thread Samuel Klein
Wikipedia Zero is starting to get more attention recently.  We could use set of funny / beautiful / amazing images of it in use, and a compelling overview page to send people to that mentions how to can spread the word / get their local distributors or politicians or schools on board. Then we shou

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention implies social features

2012-04-28 Thread Samuel Klein
Sumana writes: >> so if you could help me in alerting the extension's author to those >> comments, that would be great. Thanks! Jan Kučera writes: > yes, there surely were comments from developers... that is positive. > But the result as general is still nothing at all (the feature is not > even