Re: [Wikimedia-l] Maithili Wikipedia surpasses 10k articles

2017-01-03 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, It is not about you. The question is only relevant because some make it a big thing. My point is that we should move on, no longer need to generate bot generated articles but cache the results. This will make the question go away and it will have us serve our readers better. Thanks

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 154, Issue 2

2017-01-03 Thread Smriti Gupta
Biplab, that is excellent news to kick off the new year. Congratulations to the Maithili WP community! Regards, Smriti ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Maithili Wikipedia surpasses 10k articles

2017-01-03 Thread Tilman Bayer
Congratulations! For background, this blog post from 2014 details the efforts by Biplab and others to get this Wikipedia off the ground back then: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/08/a-focused-approach-for-maithili-wikipedia/ On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 11:16 PM, Biplab Anand

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Maithili Wikipedia surpasses 10k articles

2017-01-03 Thread Katy Love
Congratulations Maithili Wikipedians! Nice accomplishment:) Cheers, Katy On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 11:16 PM, Biplab Anand wrote: > Hi, > > I am delighted to share with you that Maithili Wikipedia has reached 10,000 > articles

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Congratulation, Hebrew Wikipedia

2017-01-03 Thread Katy Love
Impressive accomplishment, and cool stats included! Kudos to all the Hebrew Wikipedians and Wikimedia Israel volunteers! Katy On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 7:10 AM, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel < it...@wikimedia.org.il> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm happy to share with you that this morning the 200,000th article

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Passing of User:Danveg, and reminder about people in distress

2017-01-03 Thread Anna Stillwell
I'm so sad to hear this news. Pine, thank you for the thoughtful email full of the reminders that, at times, we may all need support. And thank you for providing helpful resources. Warmly, /a On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 8:35 PM, Pine W wrote: > Hello colleagues, > > Michal

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Passing of User:Danveg, and reminder about people in distress

2017-01-03 Thread Gnangarra
in Australia Beyond Blue provides a 24/7 help line service *1300 22 4636 .* Maybe we should invite the affiliates to put together and maintain a resource page on Meta with contact details for such organisations so that everyone has access to necessary local details regardless of where they be On

[Wikimedia-l] Passing of User:Danveg, and reminder about people in distress

2017-01-03 Thread Pine W
Hello colleagues, Michal Lester from Wikimedia Israel and Tsipi Erann from Wikiwomen recently sent an email to the Gendergap mailing list regarding the passing of User:Danveg. https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2017-January/006453.html. Condolences to her family and friends. A

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Passing of User:Danveg, and reminder about people in distress

2017-01-03 Thread Pax Ahimsa Gethen
Thank you for sharing the sad news and for your thoughts on helping others in distress. I've shared the information about the memorial project to WikiProject LGBT Studies (and I've now joined the Gendergap mailing list). A helpful resource in North America for trans people in distress is