Hoi,
I am learning Arabic and one of the skills I lack is typing with ten
fingers for the Arabic script. On many Wikisources the ProofreadPage
extension is installed. What I cannot easily find is where I find the books
that need transcription for Arabic.
There are many people every year learning o
Hello,
Conflict of Interest (CoI) is a much bigger issue than paid editing.
I have seen several serious CoI within Wikipedia where the editors are
not strictly paid because they edit WP, nevertheless they do not
respect the basic NPOV rules: allowing other opinions to be heard,
balancing sources f
On 29 July 2012 07:11, Samuel Klein wrote:
> Let's use the page we used to use to discuss plans and budgets:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_budget
I thought this was implicit, but apparently not: can someone from the
WMF please answer the questions that are on that page?
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2012/7/28 Anthony :
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Platonides wrote:
>> On 27/07/12 09:46, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
>>> An excellent list :) I'd like to add: you sneak in the stadium without
>>> paying the ticket. IOC can do nothing.
>>>
>>> Seriously, if IOC decides to go after someone, don't
Yann Forget, 01/08/2012 13:13:
I have suggested some basic rules about this on the French WP, but not
only they were blankly rejected, but I was barred from mentioning the
whole subject. The first step against CoI is making the editors
conscious that, because of their profession, background, cult
MZMcBride, 01/08/2012 03:10:
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BOTOVERUSE#History has most of the
history, though I could swear a project or two has been "restarted" due to
bots over-running the site. Does anyone have a citation for that?
A citation for what? Anyway, the section seems correct
On 28/07/12 19:44, birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote:
On Jul 28, 2012, at 12:28 PM, Platonides wrote:
On 27/07/12 09:46, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
An excellent list :) I'd like to add: you sneak in the stadium without
paying the ticket. IOC can do nothing.
Seriously, if IOC decides to go after someon
On 8/1/12 1:51 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Yann Forget, 01/08/2012 13:13:
I have suggested some basic rules about this on the French WP, but not
only they were blankly rejected, but I was barred from mentioning the
whole subject. The first step against CoI is making the editors
conscious tha
[this was also posted to translators-l last week, but we want to spread the
word even further]
Hi all,
The translation committee on Meta has been dormant for some time
(individual members have been active, but the committee as such has not
been active), but it is time to revive it to ensure that
I checked the page a couple of days ago and didn't see any questions: maybe
I was looking at the wrong page?
I'll ask Tilman via this mail to help coordinate getting answers from the
appropriate people.
Separately/additionally: I thought the Signpost coverage was pretty good.
It wasn't extensive,
On 1 August 2012 17:36, Sue Gardner wrote:
> I checked the page a couple of days ago and didn't see any questions: maybe
> I was looking at the wrong page?
The questions are on the page SJ suggested using:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_budget
News and notes: Wikimedians and London 2012; WMF budget - staffing,
engineering, editor retention effort, and the global South; Telegraph's
cheap shot at WP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-07-30/News_and_notes
Recent research: Conflict dynamics, collaboration and emo
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
> On 28/07/12 19:44, birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote:
>> 2.2 By applying for, purchasing, holding or using a Ticket, a Ticket
>> Holder agrees that he or she shall comply with these Terms and Conditions.
>>
>> http://www.tickets.london2012.com/pu
On 1 August 2012 09:47, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 1 August 2012 17:36, Sue Gardner wrote:
>> I checked the page a couple of days ago and didn't see any questions: maybe
>> I was looking at the wrong page?
>
> The questions are on the page SJ suggested using:
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tal
Hi all,
The July edition of the Fellowship News is now available:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fellowship_News
Topics covered include all current fellowship projects:
*Fellowship Program updates
*Dispute Resolution
*Gender Gap
*Help Page Redesign
*Small-Wiki Editor Engagement
*Teahouse
*Transla
Hi, folks.
I've also tried to address the (truly confusing) use of the word "grants"
across the plan. See here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_budget#Wikimedia_Grants_budget
Cheers,
Asaf
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Sue Gardner wrote:
> On 1 August 2012 09:47, Thomas Dal
Dear Wikimedia Community,
I’m pleased to announce the launch of the Funds Dissemination Committee
(FDC) portal [1] today (August 1, 2012 PDT). The FDC Proposal form is
available for all eligible entities to use immediately, and can be created
by going to the main portal page and starting at the “I
Forwarding, as this doesn't yet seem to have made it through from the
Announce list (possibly because of the HTML content; but trying anyway. The
message can also be read at
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaannounce-l/2012-August/000450.html
).
-- Forwarded message -
Geoff Brigham wrote:
> Since the SOPA blackout, we have had a number of requests come in for
> public affiliations regarding policy and political issues. The Wikimedia
> Foundation (WMF) is not a political organization, and many may argue
> understandably that our role is to support great projects
Hi MZ -
I'm surprised by this, given that it clearly delineates that it doesn't impact
community requests at all, and only applies to requests that come to the
Foundation. It seems logical that there be a uniform process for routing those
internally and this is an attempt to transparently tell
There has been discussion about this in the past.
To second Philippe's comment: A uniform process makes sense. In practice,
most of the advocacy or policy positions of the WMF have for years taken
the form of amicus briefs. And positions the WMF takes on behalf of
promoting, preserving, or coll
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