Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farsi Wikipedia

This is the kind of news I like to read. Congratulations \o/ Le 27 juil. 2016 20:33, "Ziko van Dijk" a écrit : > Hello, > > Congratulations to the mile stone. > > I do allow myself to ask how the 500.000 have been achieved. When I > click on Random Article, I get a certain

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farsi Wikipedia

On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 22:40:12 +0430 Mardetanha wrote: > I would to let everyone know, after 13 years and millions of edits, Finally > Farsi Wikipedia has reached 500,000 article. This is a very historic moment > for all us in Farsi Wikipedia. > > Mardetanha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farsi Wikipedia

Congratulations to the Farsi community. Keep up the good work! On 28 Jul 2016 01:10, "Mardetanha" wrote: > I would to let everyone know, after 13 years and millions of edits, Finally > Farsi Wikipedia has reached 500,000 article. This is a very historic moment > for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] An example where search could be improved

On 28 July 2016 at 13:09, Jimmy Wales wrote: > A journalist friend said to me that he "finally found something that > Wikipedia doesn't have" and he was surprised. What was that, I said? > "The history of Wells Fargo". > Go to http://www.wikipedia.org/ > > Make sure

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thoughts about Wikimedia-l communications

On 28 July 2016 at 06:00, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > mixing different languages in one list is just wrong D'accord! -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

[Wikimedia-l] An example where search could be improved

First, some context: I was in Philadelphia for the Democratic National Convention earlier this week, where I had been invited to speak (in a small side event) about connectivity and global development. I spoke about our work in the languages of the developing world, and made a point to say that

[Wikimedia-l] WMBE annual activities and financial report

Hi all, The annual report over 2015 is now available on Meta. The annual activities report can be found at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Belgium/Activity/2015 The annual financial report can be found at:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] An example where search could be improved

We recently had a thread in the Wikipedia Weekly Facebook group, where we pretty much concluded the reason why we don’t have word in English for “looked it up in Wikipedia” is because that word is “Googled it.” :) https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/permalink/1050447111669786/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] An example where search could be improved

We recently had a huge amount of discussion about the importance of search, on this list and elsewhere. My strong takeaway from that was, nobody disagrees with the position you're advocating here, Jimmy - that our search is problematic, and is worth investing in. The only directly related ideas

Re: [Wikimedia-l] An example where search could be improved

Hey Jimmy, Thanks for the report. This problem is one that we've been aware of in Discovery for quite some time. It actually serves as a good example of a typical problem that we face in improving search: we know there's an issue with a small subset of searches, and could fix this problem easily

Re: [Wikimedia-l] An example where search could be improved

On 7/28/16 9:04 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: > I think that depends on the skin used. When logged put (so with > default skin) I get a toolbar with the options to which your refer > hidden behind its "advanced search" option. Ah, that makes sense and is good. > I've made the former a disambiguation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to WMF June 2016 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, July 28, 18:00 UTC

REMINDER: This meeting starts in 30 minutes. On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Janet Renteria wrote: > Dear all, > > The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday, > July 28, 2016 at 6:00 PM UTC (11 AM PDT). The IRC channel is >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farsi Wikipedia

I talked to Mohsen earlier and convinced him it's Persian. I hope it uses Persian more often :D Best On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 1:25 PM Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 22:40:12 +0430 > Mardetanha wrote: > > > I would to let everyone

Re: [Wikimedia-l] An example where search could be improved

> On 28 Jul 2016, at 17:17, Jimmy Wales wrote: > > On 7/28/16 9:04 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: >> I've made the former a disambiguation page (not a redirect) linking to: >> * The [[History of Wells Fargo]] >> * The [[Wells Fargo History Museum]] >> >> You could have done

Re: [Wikimedia-l] An example where search could be improved

One risk of using Google to search Wikipedia is getting bad results. For several weeks, a Google search for "gender" returned a disruptive edit[1] that replaced the entire article with " There are only 2 genders. Male and Female." That edit, from May of this year, was only live for a few

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] APG Progress Report: Learn about Wikidata and community-oriented software development

Hi Chris, Thanks for reading the report. Yes, sure, we are currently in intensive conversations with WMF. :) Cheers, Nicole On 27 July 2016 at 21:07, Chris Keating wrote: > Thanks Nicole and everyone at WMDE for a very thorough report. > > One question - you say

Re: [Wikimedia-l] An example where search could be improved

Yay! On 7/28/16 12:01 PM, Dan Garry wrote: > Hey Jimmy, > > Thanks for the report. This problem is one that we've been aware of in > Discovery for quite some time. It actually serves as a good example of a > typical problem that we face in improving search: we know there's an issue > with a small

Re: [Wikimedia-l] An example where search could be improved

On 7/28/16 11:53 AM, Pete Forsyth wrote: > We recently had a huge amount of discussion about the importance of search, > on this list and elsewhere. My strong takeaway from that was, nobody > disagrees with the position you're advocating here, Jimmy - that our search > is problematic, and is worth