Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow: on featured article discussions

2014-09-16 Thread Diego Moya
On 15 September 2014 19:24, Danny Horn wrote: > Some people are seeing Flow messages as really important, something that > they want to get updates on right away -- and "right away" can mean either > in their watchlist where they go all the time, or in Echo where they'll see > the notification. Ot

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow: on featured article discussions

2014-09-16 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Danny Horn wrote: > Figuring out how Flow integrates with the watchlist and Echo is one of the > toughest and most important parts of the project. I think that may be an overstatement. I'm not saying it isn't tough, but exploring in what ways wikipages are curre

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF initiatives

2014-09-16 Thread Tilman Bayer
Minutes and slides from the recent quarterly review of the Foundation's Language Engineering team are available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Language_Engineering/September_2014 . On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > > H

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow: on featured article discussions

2014-09-16 Thread Danny Horn
Diego, that is definitely what we're thinking about for the subscriptions options -- giving users the ability to choose whether they want to subscribe to every new thread, or just get a notification that a new thread has been created. The balance that we have to figure out is how to provide options

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Will Flow eliminate wikitext sandbox practice?

2014-09-16 Thread quiddity
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Jan Ainali wrote: > 2014-09-15 23:54 GMT+02:00 James Salsman : > > > In the recent discussion of editor engagement effectiveness on > > wiki-research-l, the question of Flow's affect on talk page wikitext > > practice arose. I would like to know whether anyone sha

[Wikimedia-l] Movement boards' training and development needs

2014-09-16 Thread Chris Keating
Dear all, I just wanted to draw your attention to some really interesting information about how boards in the Wikimedia movement work. Jessie Wild in the WMF Grantmaking team conducted a survey of movement organisation board members (Chapters, Thorgs and the Foundation) and the results are here:

[Wikimedia-l] Lsjbot+Bot Acadeny

2014-09-16 Thread Anders Wennersten
Lsjbot has now completed its run of generating articles for all species, with 310 000 on plants, making the total number generated above 1 300 000 (source used: Catalogue of Life). With Naskobot, having earlier generated some 85 000 articles on Swedish lakes and French communes etc., the total

[Wikimedia-l] The Lighter Side of the Movement

2014-09-16 Thread Wil Sinclair
Howdy all, One thing I've noticed in my short time as an active part of our community is that the more welcoming and likable aspects of our individual personalities aren't reflect in our most public conversations. For example, if a new editor went by this forum alone, we might come off as taking o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lsjbot+Bot Acadeny

2014-09-16 Thread Peter Southwood
Impressive piece of work. I agree, it is a lot easier to expand on an article with a well formatted stub than to create a new one if you are not familiar with the process. I would like to see this procedure extended to other Wikipedias, including en: for classes of article for which there is co