[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2022 election - updates

2022-04-23 Thread Todd Allen
Yes, and let me say it in stronger terms: This is unacceptable. Community-selected seats have nothing to do with affiliates; affiliates are absolutely not the community. Community-selected seats must be an at-large election from Wikimedia editors from any candidate who cares to run, not taken from

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Collection / Special:Book usage

2022-04-23 Thread Samuel Klein
How lovely. Thank you Dirk for your work on this. I was just today talking with a friend about how one might customize a beautiful wikibook and potentially give it its own permanent ID and, say, contribute it to the Open Library. On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 10:14 AM Dirk Hünniger via Wikimedia-l <

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

2022-04-23 Thread Vi to
"lack of infrastructure" and lack of "current volunteers" weren't addressed in your email at all, given that you're relying upon wrong premises by assuming checkusers' bad faith and non-existing practices. Vito Il giorno sab 23 apr 2022 alle ore 19:58 Lane Chance ha scritto: > > On Sat, 23 Apr

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

2022-04-23 Thread Yaroslav Blanter
I was personally hit by an open proxy when I was on holidays last year (South Tirol, Italy, for the record). I could edit the four projects where I am administrator, but I could not edit five other projects where I update the image of the day. (In fact, I could not edit Meta either except for my

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2022 election - updates

2022-04-23 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Chris, There is no longer any distinction between community and affiliate trustees. For reference, see the "Type of seat" column in the current board member table on Meta, as well as the footnote under the table.[1] What Dariusz has announced here is a new process for determining

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

2022-04-23 Thread Lane Chance
On Sat, 23 Apr 2022 at 15:17, Rae Adimer via Wikimedia-l < wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi Lane, > > I would appreciate if you could take the time to learn about an issue > before holding strong, accusatory opinions about it. > Maybe reading the facts in my email would be a good

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2022 election - updates

2022-04-23 Thread Chris Keating
On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 1:32 PM Andreas Kolbe wrote: > Dear Dariusz, > > I am surprised your post has not attracted more attention. It's probably > because you did not spell out what the adopted recommendation involves. It > says (my emphases):[1] > > > *The Board of Trustees wants to improve

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2022 election - updates

2022-04-23 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Dear Dariusz, I am surprised your post has not attracted more attention. It's probably because you did not spell out what the adopted recommendation involves. It says (my emphases):[1] *The Board of Trustees wants to improve the set of skills and the diversity contributed by newly selected

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Collection / Special:Book usage

2022-04-23 Thread Étienne Beaulé
Better PDF rendering from browsers themselves by their print functionality (with CSS3’s Paged Media Module[1]) could be another method. There’s often less friction when using features integrated in the browser, and with the much better general rendering and support through HTML engines over

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

2022-04-23 Thread Lane Chance
"Granting IPBE by default to [...extendedconfirmed]/etc. users is not feasible." Granting IPBE to large groups of good faith editors is feasible, such as entire classes of people during editathons, all registered accounts joining a virtual conference, or everyone with more than 1,000 edits on

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking

2022-04-23 Thread Rae Adimer via Wikimedia-l
Hi Lane, I would appreciate if you could take the time to learn about an issue before holding strong, accusatory opinions about it. gIPBE is granted to people in China and other areas where they want to use proxies for security reasons. A significant portion of current gIPBEs are for people in

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Collection / Special:Book usage

2022-04-23 Thread Dirk Hünniger via Wikimedia-l
Hi Juergen, the mediawiki2latex tool is still used see https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=mediawiki2latex it can handle complex tables. It is fully open source, distributed as a debian package, which can run on an OS as a docker container. Currently I am only investing little time to