Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?

2015-06-25 Thread phoebe ayers
Belatedly (this thread is awesome!) On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Johan Jönsson wrote: > As of writing, Danish Wikipedia is now 32 articles from reaching 200,000. > It's midnight in Denmark now, so it will at some point tomorrow, CET. Congratulations Danish Wikipedia and Wikipedians! I note

[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to WMF June 2015 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, July 2, 18:00 UTC

2015-06-25 Thread Praveena Maharaj
Dear all, The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday, July 2, 2015 at 6:00 PM UTC (11 AM PDT). The IRC channel is #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net, and the meeting will be broadcast as a live YouTube stream. Each month at the metrics meeting, we will: * Welcome

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 11, Issue 25 -- 24 June 2015

2015-06-25 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
From the editor: The ''Signpost'' tagging initiative http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-06-24/From_the_editor Op-ed: Content Translation beta is coming to the English Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-06-24/Op-ed News and notes: B

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell

2015-06-25 Thread Fabrice Florin
Dear Ziko, Thanks so much for your kind words, which mean a lot to me. :) I too have enjoyed working with you and appreciate all that you do for our movement. I will miss our collaborations and hope we’ll get a chance to work together again down the line. For now, I hope to be able to contrib

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell

2015-06-25 Thread Fabrice Florin
Hi folks, I would like to thank all of you who have contacted me on and off-list with your warm wishes. Working with you and so many other community members is what made this job so special for me over the years. I will miss our collaborations and hope we’ll get a chance to work together aga

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This week on the Wikimedia blog: Print Wikipedia, Ukraine, and more

2015-06-25 Thread Ed Erhart
Here are some of this week's stories from the Wikimedia blog: • 7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/19/meet-print-wikipedia/ • Wikimedia Ukraine unlocks ‘secret’ cultural heritage lists https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/19/ukraine-secret-cultu