Re: [Wikimedia-l] ELWP reaches 100000 articles

2014-04-10 Thread Jon Davies
Outstanding. Well done everyone. On 10 April 2014 06:39, Nurunnaby Chowdhury n...@nhasive.com wrote: Wow..congratulations.. -- Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive Sysop, Bengali Wikipedia Member, IEG Committee Sent from my Android Tablet On Apr 10, 2014 3:19 AM, Amir E. Aharoni

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ELWP reaches 100000 articles

2014-04-10 Thread Stevie Benton
This is excellent news, well done to everyone involved! It's actually got me thinking a little. I wonder if it would be possible to do a study of the, say, 50 largest Wikipedias and get a handle on which articles are shared across all of them. This could then be used to analyse where there are

[Wikimedia-l] Which articles are widely shared accorss languages (was Re: ELWP reaches 100000 articles)

2014-04-10 Thread Chris McKenna
I'm no expert, but I would expect that finding which articles are and are not present in a given set of Wikipedias would be an easy task now that Wikidata handles all the interwiki links. Chris On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Stevie Benton wrote: This is excellent news, well done to everyone involved!

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanks to the people who made Echo, VisualEditor and Wikidata

2014-04-10 Thread Gryllida
With due thanks, I would like to specifically point to these two bugs, as I believe they're changing the style of talking unnecessarily. I would like you to see the potential for fixing these early. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49446 - Notifications: Linking a username in an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanks to the people who made Echo, VisualEditor and Wikidata

2014-04-10 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
And I'd like to thank those who are working on making default settings saner, because at the last presentation I gave in March I could just tell them how easy it is for them to follow what happens to pages after their edits.

[Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure

2014-04-10 Thread Ting Chen
Hello dear all, now the second mail Funding of international operating organizations is a very complicated issue. The Wikimedia movement is not the first and not the last one to face this topic. There are as many models on how this can be handled as there are international organizations.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure

2014-04-10 Thread Russavia
Ting, On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de wrote: Hello dear all, I believe you have sent this to the wrong list. I believe applications for the Executive Director position were supposed to be sent to j...@wikimedia.org ... but good luck with your application all the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure

2014-04-10 Thread Richard Symonds
Thanks for this Ting. I won't offer an opinion but this is certainly food for thought and will no doubt generate discussion. When you say Who remembers CHIP?, what are you referring to? I don't remember anything called CHIP but I was not very active in movement organisations before 2 years ago.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure

2014-04-10 Thread Anders Wennersten
Thanks Ting for some very interesting thoughts and for giving a few ideas of alternative set up of the movement. It ought to be a good input to the sessionre-imagine Wikipedia movement on Saturday at the Chapter Meeitng My reflection is that you are discussing a more decentralized approach,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure

2014-04-10 Thread mathias . damour
Hi, Message du 10/04/14 15:28 De : Anders Wennersten A : wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Copie à : Objet : Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure (...) And I would be unhappy if the divergence between project became too big, POV paid editing etc we will be

[Wikimedia-l] Kadamba Dynasty

2014-04-10 Thread Jeffery S. Nunes
12th century  Kadamba Jayakesi I, Velliapura site in present day Velim,  South Goa .    There is lot of information translated by Kannada language experts  from ancient stone inscriptions on Velliapura of which they themselves don’t know the whereabouts of this place, as this place being under

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure

2014-04-10 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se wrote: Thanks Ting for some very interesting thoughts and for giving a few ideas of alternative set up of the movement. It ought to be a good input to the sessionre-imagine Wikipedia movement on Saturday at the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure

2014-04-10 Thread Balázs Viczián
Imo having a centralized funding model is very good against corruption (we had a couple of cases already and unfortunately we will some in the future) As a side comment, it would be nice if we could learn the total donations/country figures ( for example: Hungary 2013: $12,345.67) If this info is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding of decentralized organizational structure

2014-04-10 Thread
On 10 April 2014 16:23, Dariusz Jemielniak dar...@alk.edu.pl wrote: ... I do not think that decentralized funding is very good against corruption. ... I would add a far more common issue than fraud, and one that costs us far, far more money. Competent management. Our Foundation and Chapters

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia UK monthly report, February 2014

2014-04-10 Thread Richard Nevell
Hi everyone, Below is the Wikimedia UK monthly report for the period 1st to 28th February 2014. If you want to keep up with the chapter's activities as they happen, please subscribe to our blog https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/, join a UK mailing list, and/or follow us on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanks to the people who made Echo, VisualEditor and Wikidata

2014-04-10 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Wikidata, because many people there wrote translations of articles, and adding interlanguage links was easy and natural. Click Add links, pick a language, write the title, that's it. Two years ago I would have

[Wikimedia-l] Which articles are widely shared accorss languages

2014-04-10 Thread PiRSquared17
On 4/10/14, Chris McKenna cmcke...@sucs.org wrote: I'm no expert, but I would expect that finding which articles are and are not present in a given set of Wikipedias would be an easy task now that Wikidata handles all the interwiki links. Chris You are right. There is already even a request

[Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee leadership

2014-04-10 Thread Bence Damokos
Hi all, It is with great pleasure that I can announce today that the Affiliations Committee has appointed Carlos Colina as the chair (who previously served as the vice-chair), and Cynthia Ashley-Nelson as the vice-chair of the committee for a one year term ending in April 2015. I am happy to

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This Month in GLAM: March 2014

2014-04-10 Thread The 'This Month in GLAM' team
*This Month in GLAM* is a monthly newsletter documenting recent happenings within the GLAM project, such as content donations, residencies, events and more. GLAM is an acronym of *G*alleries, *L*ibraries, *A*rchives and *M*useums. You can find more information on the project at glamwiki.org.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee leadership

2014-04-10 Thread Nicole Ebber
Bence! Thank you very much for all the valuable work that you did for the AffCom and for the movement as a whole in your role as a chair. And also for being such a helpful mentor and reliable friend when it comes to all those questions, ideas and discussions around all things Wikimedia. I am glad

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee leadership

2014-04-10 Thread
Congratulations to Carlos and Cynthia. :-) Bence, the decisions made by Affcom are not always easy or happy ones for volunteers, and I am grateful for the care you take bearing this responsibility. Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee leadership

2014-04-10 Thread Santi Navarro
Congratulations Carlos and Cynthia, and thank you Bence for your work. El 2014-04-10 23:20, Bence Damokos escribió: Hi all, It is with great pleasure that I can announce today that the Affiliations Committee has appointed Carlos Colina as the chair (who previously served as the vice-chair),

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Which articles are widely shared accorss languages

2014-04-10 Thread Magnus Manske
There's a tool for that: http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-terminator/index.php Check the third row (Top 1000 items with missing articles). On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:47 PM, PiRSquared17 pirsquare...@gmail.comwrote: On 4/10/14, Chris McKenna cmcke...@sucs.org wrote: I'm no expert, but I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee leadership

2014-04-10 Thread Gregory Varnum
I have been incredibly impressed with Bence's leadership of AffCom (and I don't offer that praise lightly). It was not an easy year to be chair, and he handled it with a level of grace and wisdom which I envy. I appreciate everything you continue to do for our movement. Carlos and Cynthia have

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee leadership

2014-04-10 Thread Patricio Lorente
Thanks, Bence, for your work! And congrats Carlos and Cinthia! Looking forward to work with you. Patricio 2014-04-10 21:08 GMT-03:00 Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com: I have been incredibly impressed with Bence's leadership of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Affiliations Committee leadership

2014-04-10 Thread Cristian Consonni
2014-04-10 23:20 GMT+02:00 Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com: Hi all, It is with great pleasure that I can announce today that the Affiliations Committee has appointed Carlos Colina as the chair (who previously served as the vice-chair), and Cynthia Ashley-Nelson as the vice-chair of the