[Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 19 March 2017)

2017-03-22 Thread Pine W
Borrowing an idea from Wikipedia Weekly, I think it would be nice to have a thread about the good things that are happening around the Wikimedia universe. If people enjoy this then it can be started (by anyone) on a weekly basis. My comment for this week: I enjoyed reading a post from the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 19 March 2017)

2017-03-22 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Here's what making me happy this week: The Hebrew Wikipedia community completed initial training of ORES, so ORES can be enabled in this language soon. 48 Wikipedians manually examined 5000 random diffs and marked them as damaging or not, and whether they appear to have been done in good faith

[Wikimedia-l] Bay Area WikiSalon is meeting at Noisebridge

2017-03-22 Thread J.
Hi, everybody. If anybody is going to be in San Francisco on Wednesday, March 29 at 6 p.m. I wanted to alert you that we will be having an installment of the Bay Area WikiSalon series at Noisebridge makerspace/hackerspace (temporary change of venue). Details and to RSVP (suggested):

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Communicating plans and consultations

2017-03-22 Thread Strainu
2017-03-20 11:04 GMT+02:00 Lodewijk : > Hi Pine, > > it's always easier of course to tell other people what they have to change, > which is why I'm asking the opposite question too :) What can we change, on > our end, to make communications easier for the WMF, for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Using non-free elements vs our values (Apple Maps vs Wikipedia iOS app)

2017-03-22 Thread Peter Southwood
Agreed, the reference does not look reliable for the claim made. Cheers, Peter -Original Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gergo Tisza Sent: Wednesday, 22 March 2017 5:54 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Using