Re: [Wikimedia-l] "let's elect people to serve on the wikimedia engineering "community" team!" (brainstorming)

2014-08-09 Thread Pine W
Hi Quim, Thanks for the invitation. I did not attend Wikimania but would be interested in setting up an office hour to discuss ideas about improving features design and development, including TechCom and the roles of tech ambassadors, ECT, and ECL in features. Could we set up a time off-list? Pin

[Wikimedia-l] Great editor for Wikipedia infoboxes/templates connected to Wikidata

2014-08-09 Thread David Cuenca
User:Vlsergey from ruwiki presented yesterday at the Wikidata Meetup a new wonderful infobox editor for Wikipedia infoboxes: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Edit_directly_from_infocard_.2F_infobox And also an improved authority template which you can see in action at Obama http

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board Meeting Update

2014-08-09 Thread Anders Wennersten
Many wise decisions as I see it. It is important with continuity and hands on experience from the movement and our projects in the Board. But the identified missing competence in the Board of management experience is still not resolved..(something for December appointment?) And congratulatio

[Wikimedia-l] slow death of "anyone can edit" concept (was: "let's elect people to serve on the wikimedia engineering "community" team!" (brainstorming))

2014-08-09 Thread svetlana
On Fri, 8 Aug 2014, at 11:47, MZMcBride wrote: > [...] > For comparison, we now have MediaViewer, which moved through as a beta > feature. They say MediaViewer may one day be as feature-ful as the file > description pages we've had for a long time (editing capability, oh my!). > [...] > MZMcBride

Re: [Wikimedia-l] slow death of "anyone can edit" concept (was: "let's elect people to serve on the wikimedia engineering "community" team!" (brainstorming))

2014-08-09 Thread Andrew Gray
It's not in exactly the same place it was before, but I'm not sure I'd call it not prominent - the existing tabs have just been moved under the headline title, and then an additional [edit] button on every section heading as usual: Temperate climate Read Edit 1 Discussions Updated 16 days a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Great editor for Wikipedia infoboxes/templates connected to Wikidata

2014-08-09 Thread Samuel Klein
Wow! This and the WikiData game are two of the greatest things I've seen in the past month. Thank you Vlsergey for working on this. SJ On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 9:58 AM, David Cuenca wrote: > User:Vlsergey from ruwiki presented yesterday at the Wikidata Meetup a new > wonderful infobox editor f

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Insights of the Chapters Dialogue are online!

2014-08-09 Thread Nicole Ebber
Hi all, we have just published the Chapters Dialogue movie. 1 year condensed into 30 minutes. https://vimeo.com/102508380 Upload to Commons and subtitles will follow soon. Enjoy! Nicole On 1 August 2014 21:28, Nicole Ebber wrote: > Dear Wikimedia friends, > > I am happy to announce that we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Great editor for Wikipedia infoboxes/templates connected to Wikidata

2014-08-09 Thread James Forrester
On 9 August 2014 09:58, David Cuenca wrote: > User:Vlsergey from ruwiki presented yesterday at the Wikidata Meetup a new > wonderful infobox editor for Wikipedia infoboxes: > > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Edit_directly_from_infocard_.2F_infobox > > And also an improved aut

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] slow death of "anyone can edit" concept (was: "let's elect people to serve on the wikimedia engineering "community" team!" (brainstorming))

2014-08-09 Thread James Forrester
On 9 August 2014 12:23, Chad wrote: > On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 11:57 AM, svetlana > wrote: > > > On Fri, 8 Aug 2014, at 11:47, MZMcBride wrote: > > > [...] > > > For comparison, we now have MediaViewer, which moved through as a beta > > > feature. They say MediaViewer may one day be as feature-ful

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Insights of the Chapters Dialogue are online!

2014-08-09 Thread Pierre-Selim
Thank you so much to everyone involve in work. It's awesome! 2014-08-09 14:29 GMT+02:00 Nicole Ebber : > Hi all, > > we have just published the Chapters Dialogue movie. 1 year condensed into > 30 minutes. > > https://vimeo.com/102508380 > > Upload to Commons and subtitles will follow soon. > > E

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] slow death of "anyone can edit" concept (was: "let's elect people to serve on the wikimedia engineering "community" team!" (brainstorming))

2014-08-09 Thread svetlana
On Sat, 9 Aug 2014, at 23:11, James Forrester wrote: > [..] > https://imgur.com/a/JFN9y​ 404 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://list

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Insights of the Chapters Dialogue are online!

2014-08-09 Thread Chris Keating
All we have to do now is answer some of those questions! On 9 Aug 2014 15:22, "Pierre-Selim" wrote: > Thank you so much to everyone involve in work. It's awesome! > > > 2014-08-09 14:29 GMT+02:00 Nicole Ebber : > > > Hi all, > > > > we have just published the Chapters Dialogue movie. 1 year conde

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] slow death of "anyone can edit" concept (was: "let's elect people to serve on the wikimedia engineering "community" team!" (brainstorming))

2014-08-09 Thread Alex Monk
Not for me... On 9 August 2014 15:27, svetlana wrote: > On Sat, 9 Aug 2014, at 23:11, James Forrester wrote: > > [..] > > https://imgur.com/a/JFN9y​ > > 404 > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] slow death of "anyone can edit" concept

2014-08-09 Thread Isarra Yos
I got a 404 too. On 09/08/14 14:57, Alex Monk wrote: Not for me... On 9 August 2014 15:27, svetlana wrote: On Sat, 9 Aug 2014, at 23:11, James Forrester wrote: [..] https://imgur.com/a/JFN9y​ 404 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

[Wikimedia-l] Share your wiki wishes for the coming year

2014-08-09 Thread Samuel Klein
=== (Spurred by lunch discussion yesterday, channeling Anthere :) You may not have a lot of time. But you certainly have ONE minute. Without giving it too much thought, please share the FIRST wish that comes to your mind for the coming year, regarding our projects and helping the world become a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] slow death of "anyone can edit" concept

2014-08-09 Thread gnosygnu
I got a 404 as well. The last few characters seems to have invalid UTF8 decoding: https://imgur.com/a/JFN9y%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%80%B9 Here's a cleaner link: https://imgur.com/a/JFN9y Hope this helps. On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Isarra Yos wrote: > I got a 404 too. > > On 09/08/14 14:57, A

[Wikimedia-l] Lila's keynote speech at Wikimania 2014

2014-08-09 Thread Pine W
Hi all, I would like to encourage those of us who may have missed Lila's keynote speech at Wikimania to listen to it. [1] In her speech, Lila takes a long view of Wikimedia's history and future. She talks about incremental and disruptive changes that are happening socially and technologically such

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] slow death of "anyone can edit" concept

2014-08-09 Thread svetlana
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, at 02:59, gnosygnu wrote: > Here's a cleaner link: https://imgur.com/a/JFN9y I can't read single-color flat icons. I don't discern them as something clickable or functional. In 1990s, Microsoft invented 256 colors icons which look a bit 3d: http://www.7tutorials.com/files/im

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 10, Issue 30 -- 06 August 2014

2014-08-09 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
Wikimedia in education: Leading universities educate with Wikipedia in Mexico http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-08-06/Wikimedia_in_education News and notes: "History is a human right"—first-ever transparency report released as Europe begins hiding Wikipedia in searc