Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

We are not taking a stand in different positions each party is taking on economical matters. No one here wearing a donkey hat. Problem begins when a party takes inhumane stance, fighting against it should not be considered a political move. Trust me, that's exactly what happened in Iran. Best On

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update

Hey, It's in arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03861 Any feedback is welcome :) Best On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 3:37 PM Richard Nevell < richard.nev...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > Having guidance on quality helps people learning about Wikidata understand > what they should be aiming for. > > The pap

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapter De-Recognition: Wikimedia Philippines

I have a request and/or question. I've got the idea from "Incident report". When things don't go as planned in servers, we write an incident report and try to learn from lapses happened. Now my question is. Has something similar done for chapters that get de-recognized? Do you want to talk to volun

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] June 23: Update on Wikimedia movement strategy process (#19)

Pine, Weren't you the person who pushed for months consult and interview and design when I wanted to make mediawiki colors 5% brighter? How come deciding on future of Wikimedia movement is too expensive? Best On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 11:36 AM Rogol Domedonfors wrote: > Robert, > > Budget control

[Wikimedia-l] [CoC] Call for feedback on the proposed amendments

Hello, Based on the text of Code of Conduct in technical spaces "Every three months, the Committee collects the ideas proposed (if any) and organizes a call for feedback announced in the main technical spaces." [0] This is our first call for feedback on the proposed amendments and we humbly ask yo

[Wikimedia-l] Code of conduct committee call for new members

Hello all, It's coming close to time for annual appointments of community members to serve on the Code of Conduct (CoC) committee. The Code of Conduct Committee is a team of five trusted individuals plus five auxiliary members with diverse affiliations responsible for general enforcement of the Co

Re: [Wikimedia-l] C-team Statement on the Code of Conduct

Hey, As a member of Code of conduct committee I just wanted to express how much I appreciate your statement. The work we are doing is not fun, we are dealing with frustrations, harassments, trolling, and all sorts of the dark side of the Wikimedia movement but I genuinely believe that this type of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] VIDEO: This is the Wikimedia Foundation & This is Wikipedia

This is super awesome. Thank you Victor! Best On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 2:45 AM Omar David Sandoval Sida wrote: > Nice video, thanks for sharing! > > 2016-05-05 17:01 GMT-05:00 Victor Grigas : > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I just uploaded 2 videos here: > > > > > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Clarifications on 2014 Form 990

Thanks Patricio for the detailed answer which fully eliminated my concerns. One thing that bothers me all the time is the very late answer from the board. I'm pretty sure so many comments about Sue wouldn't be said if you sent this response earlier. We've been through this that these statements nee

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farsi Wikipedia

We set up a page for people to send their congratulations. https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D8%AC%D8%B4%D9%86_%DB%B5%DB%B0%DB%B0%D9%87%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%87 The community would be happy to see cong

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 know, after 13 years and millions of edits, > Finally >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] LGBT+ safety considerations for conference venues

We talked about this in the LGBT meetup in Wikimania several times. As far as I remember it is a huge concern for coordinators and Wikimania committee when considering a bid for Wikimania. IIRC, there are several examples that situation of LGBT laws was a reason to reject a bid. So I assure you Wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] LGBT+ safety considerations for conference venues

There are two aspects in this situation. We have the law and we have the enforcement. We know that most of ME countries have laws against LGBT people and actively enforce it but for example in India even though there is a law but it's not being enforced. On the other hand in North Carolina (and lot

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How should security of Wikimedia accounts be better?

As far as I know 2FA is already implemented and mandatory for WMF staff accounts and wikitech accounts. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107605 I emphasized on having 2fa for CUs, oversights and others with private data access: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107605#2570342 Not sure what's bl

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How should security of Wikimedia accounts be better?

t; of data to my online identity would be an unacceptable risk for me. > > Vito > > 2016-11-12 13:37 GMT+01:00 Amir Ladsgroup : > >> As far as I know 2FA is already implemented and mandatory for WMF staff >> accounts and wikitech accounts. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Apple Pay donations

One rather unrelated thing: if you buy from smile.amazon.com, Amazon donates 0.5% of your purchase to a non-profit foundations of your choice. WMF is there and I chose it as mine. Maybe we can lobby and ask them to put it on top of the suggestions. Best On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 4:42 AM Steven Wall

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Concerns in general

Yes they are: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/mirrors.html and three out of four of them are outside U.S. Best On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 3:26 PM Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > No they are not backed up outside the USA. I am not so sure there are off > line backups/ > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 2

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Politics

Here is my two cents: Most of criticism I saw boils down to these ones: - It's politics and we should not make political statements: It's not just political anymore, it's a humanitarian crisis. Handcuffing a five-year-old boy in airport because of the country he was born is inhumane. Let's not forg

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia websites is not accessible almost everywhere in Iran

It had started with Wikimedia Commons and then upload.wikimedia.org (so no images) and now Persian Wikinews and I just realized except a few number of ISPs all WM websites are blocked everywhere. Obviously analytics can give more details. I talked with legal team in Wikimania and asked them for a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia websites is not accessible almost everywhere in Iran

lock, they only said it might > technical issue, I am still try to get more information to see what is > happening > > > Mardetanha > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Amir Ladsgroup > wrote: > > > It had started with Wikimedia Commons and then upload.wikimedi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia websites is not accessible almost everywhere in Iran

I contacted local > > authorities, they didn't confirm the block, they only said it might > > technical issue, I am still try to get more information to see what is > > happening > > > > > > Mardetanha > > > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Amir Ladsgroup

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia websites is not accessible almost everywhere in Iran

A quick update: It's back but still unavailable in some ISPs. On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:24 PM Denny Vrandecic wrote: > Oh, thanks for the report. IP blocks suck more than DNS meddling... > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Amir Ladsgroup > wrote: > > > It seem

[Wikimedia-l] Redirect blog.wikipedia.org to the Wikimedia Blog

Hey, The subject is self-explanatory (also I have this suggestion for blog.wikiquote.org and other projects as well) What do you think? Best ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Redirect blog.wikipedia.org to the Wikimedia Blog

ion behind wikipedia. I had to explain this everytime I'm invited by WMF and visa officer asks me "what is wikimedia?" it may lead to better recognition of WMF by wikipedia readers. I won't make a huge difference. Just a redirect. Best On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 4:56 AM MZMcBride

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

James is indeed one of the greatest assets of Wikimedia movement. This movement needs a huge cause to lose someone like him from board, I hope community including me, as a person who voted for him, know the reason ASAP. Best On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 4:03 PM Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > it is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia's 15th BD

About the celebration in Tehran, I think this video is worth watching :) P.S. The hashtag we used for the celebration #wikipedia15fa is now being used widely by everyone \o/ Best On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 2:03 PM Yusuke Matsubara wrote: > O

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update from the Board

May I ask a question: Do you think it's ethical to ignore community demand for an explanation or a statement for *three weeks *and then issue a statement just within *three hours* after the story publishes in BBC ? Is publicity and public image of WMF

Re: [Wikimedia-l] An Open Letter to Wikimedia Foundation BoT

I disagree Yaroslav, 1- This affects Wikipedia indirectly. When downtime goes up alongside with editing time, we will lose users. New users won't stay, etc. it damages new user retention and therefore, the viability of the project in the long term. 2- Wikipedia is up because of its editors but also

[Wikimedia-l] Technical issues of Wikimedia [was: Particular interests and common ground]

Hey Milos, You talked about things that I'm in no place to comment but I want to emphasize on this part of your email: "For the last 8 years, just two things have been working without problems in WMF: Money and tech infrastructure (servers, "plain" MediaWiki, optimizations etc.)." We hear about tec

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why we changed

I think the impact of HHVM rollout hasn't tested on new user survival rate [1] they might become very active later. [1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Surviving_new_editor Best On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 1:14 PM Ori Livneh wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 1:26 AM, Tim Starling > wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: WMF to file suit against the NSA

I created draft of the article about the case in English Wikipedia. I'm not sure it's not too soon to move this draft to the main namespace. Please add content and then move it to main ns when you think it's ready. Best On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at

[Wikimedia-l] Design of BoT election banner

It's horribly ugly, I expected more. I don't want to de-value someone's work (a person or persons that I don't know) but we had way better designs before. Best -- Amir ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maili

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Design of BoT election banner

; > to > > > > > pass along to the next committee. What exactly would you suggest be > > > > > changed? Passing along the note "and some people disliked the > > banners" > > > is > > > > > unlikely to produce much actual change. >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Pywikipedia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month

Can you name one? On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:02 AM John wrote: > This is something that the pywiki devs need to fix in compat. Please dont > give me shit about moving to core. I have yet to have it not fatally error > out in less than 10 minutes of using it. There are still a lot of features > tha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cebuano and Waray-waray Wikipedias among Top 10

I'm a bot operator in Persian Wikipedia (~500K articles) and I'm directly or indirectly responsible for creating more than half of the articles in that Wiki using automated or semi-automated tools that I built. If our language used Latin alphabet, we definitely would be one of the five biggest wiki