[Wikimedia-l] Revamped Wikipedia app for Android now live!

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Revamped Wikipedia app for Android now live!

the feedback in one channel so that we don't lose anything. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager for Platform and Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Revamped Wikipedia app for Android now live!

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [WikimediaMobile] Thank you Mobile team

with the direction that mobile editing is going, so thank you Mobile team. Pine ___ Mobile-l mailing list mobil...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia

[Wikimedia-l] Revamped iOS Wikipedia app now live!

what you think by emailing us at mobile-ios-wikipe...@wikimedia.org. Thanks! Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Review of grantmaking costs and outcomes for APG, PEG, and IEG

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Review of grantmaking costs and outcomes for APG, PEG, and IEG

Jessie, Can you make sure that your slides from yesterday are shared publicly so people can take a look at them? Right now they seem to be shared only to WMF employees. Thanks! Dan On 1 August 2014 14:45, Gergo Tisza gti...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Dan Garry dga

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Options for the German Wikipedia

here for July's for example: *https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Report/2014/July https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Report/2014/July* -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] @WikipediaZero Twitter account

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Coming to a wiki near you

. The WMF does not have any plans to stop developing desktop features. On the contrary, the VisualEditor team recently changed scope to be the Editing team in part so that the scope of their team also included maintaining the wikitext editor on desktop. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Next steps regarding WMF-community disputes about deployments

@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Next steps regarding WMF-community disputes about deployments

on that talk page to point to [[WP:VPT]] so that people leave their comments in the right place. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow or not to Flow - it does not flow

is minor bordering on trivial [2] in most cases. Dan [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla/Fields#Severity -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Feedback with Android on Commons

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Feedback with Android on Commons

and freely licensed, so anything that we're using is already publicly available and free to use and could be adapted to the Commons app. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Feedback with Android on Commons

then there wouldn't be a replacement. I would suggest reading mobile-l to see the rationale behind the proposal. I won't repeat it here to avoid duplication of the conversation. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections

. That said, the progress we've made towards the SUL finalisation this quarter has been more than the progress in all previous quarters combined... at least, while I've been at the WMF. So I'm pretty pleased. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections

get to focus on our work. ;-) Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections

with the engineering work it's not really a matter of engineering resources anymore (which is why SUL no longer features in the engineering top 5 priorities in Q2), it's just about making sure we do the communications right, and that takes time. Dan On 5 October 2014 22:19, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote

Re: [Wikimedia-l] SUL finalization update (no, for real this time)

to keep it irrespective of whether you still appear on that list or not. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Foundation-l] Single login - decision 2004

, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Dan Garry Product Manager, Search and Discovery

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Commons mobile app

://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Dan Garry Product Manager, Search and Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Commons mobile app

infrastructures - and ideally connectable with other tools so that photo competitions can use it) become available in another way? Best, Lodewijk On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 6:37 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Ivan, There are no plans right now to resume work on the Commons app

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to find the Wikimedia Commons Android App form Google Play? (Mohammed BAchounda)

now there are no plans to resume development of the Commons app. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright status of the mobile application button icons?

://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright status of the mobile application button icons?

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright status of the mobile application button icons?

question you need help with? Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright status of the mobile application button icons?

Happy to help. :-) Dan On 18 April 2015 at 13:56, Aleksey Bilogur aleksey.bilo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the help, all. On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 18 April 2015 at 13:27, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org wrote: IANAL

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF office location and remodel

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] CAPTCHA issues discouraging new editors

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] 400 days of lila tretikov and 60 million dollars spent - where is mobile editing?

/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Dan Garry Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 400 days of lila tretikov and 60 million dollars spent - where is mobile editing?

On 28 June 2015 at 12:44, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: I was the product owner https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Team/Roles_and_responsibilities#Product_owner for the Wikipedia app from before it launch until April last year, Correction: this was meant to read until April

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation quarterly reviews for April-June 2015

deserve immense praise for how they've evolved this process to be lightweight and useful. Thank you! Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Geohack

://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect is gone

mpletely: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/251286/ Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Uns

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What it means to be a high-tech organization

t of my knowledge, that refers to exactly what Brion suggested it might, specifically working on the Android app so that it's compatible with more platforms. It has nothing to do with the Wikipedia lookup functionality on the Kindle. Dan -- Dan Garry

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What it means to be a high-tech organization

like "WMF thinks X" or "Community thinks Y" are almost always trivially false. I find it better to be specific. :-) Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] I am going to San Francisco

r employer. > Well said. It's crucial to foster an environment in which anyone and everyone can raise their concerns in a space that they are comfortable with, in order to make sure people's voices are heard. Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manage

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What kind of ED would you like to see?

rse. It affects everyone in the movement, as well as our readers. However, as the staff have been and will be more directly involved with the Executive Director on a day-to-day level, it seems sensible to consider such viewpoints carefully. Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF non-disclosure agreements and non-disparagement clauses

n particular, wild speculation on said topics. Let's keep our discussions here grounded in fact, not speculation. Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia.org portal page update!

as wikipedia.org. Therefore, the portal was never actually in violation of any policy. Regardless, as Adam noted, for other reasons where this policy *did* apply, T124225 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124225> was enacted which prevents non-free images from appearing as thumbnails in s

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia.org portal page update!

this area, I want to direct the praise to Chris Koerner and Keegan Peterzell who have helped Discovery immensely with community engagement, community feedback, and announcements of our work. Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation _

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia.org portal page update!

ry search index would put a big performance strain on the search servers. Additionally, it would likely return you a bunch of really irrelevant results, so there's a lot of user experience implications that would need to be figured out as well. Discovery is not actively working on this at present.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia.org portal page update!

age-prominence factor... > I plan to worry more about the user experience implications that I mentioned once we're a bit closer to solving the technical feasibility questions. As you've shown, these are definitely solvable problems, but I don't want to put the cart before the horse, as it were

Re: [Wikimedia-l] any open search engine for web project starting

rik > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons search display results

eam is not actively working on this right now. Improving media search in particular is presently on the roadmap for FY 2016-17 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/FDC_Proposal#Strategic:_Focus_area_1> (July 2016 - June 2017) as a strategic focus area. Hope this helps. Thanks,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons search display results

s a dependency <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/FDC_Proposal#Dependencies> in the narrative document. I doubt we'd be able to do anything other than trivial improvements to media search without having structured data about the files in place. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product M

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What can we learn

related-threads because of how it may be perceived to have staff commenting on such topics, in spite of the fact that I have never worked on VisualEditor or Flow in my time at the Wikimedia Foundation. I don't know what the best course of action to resolve these issues is, but I am interested in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] any open search engine for web project starting

and in exploring them we may decide not to do them. Sorry if that's not definitive enough of a statement, but roadmaps are intentionally not set in stone so as to be flexible and iterative. Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] any open search engine for web project starting

On 29 March 2016 at 13:36, Dan Garry <dga...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Yes, if users are interested. This is an incredibly early idea that is not > fully fleshed out; we don't know how we would achieve something like this > right now. A naïve example of how we could

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikiwand

hem. I hope they keep improving their interface. I think it's a worthwhile project. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/G

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikiwand

er get the > "begging" banner. And would that not mean a risk of decreasing funding? My responsibility is product development; I leave such questions to the Advancement Department <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff_and_contractors#Advancement>, as their responsibility.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons search display results

astCCI > > It returns > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lichens?fastcci=%7B%22c1%22%3A9839830%2C%22d1%22%3A15%2C%22s%22%3A200%2C%22a%22%3A%22list%22%7D This is great! Wouldn't it be wonderful if our default search experience could be a bit like that, too? :-) Dan -

Re: [Wikimedia-l] wikinews has a NPOV policy derived from wikipedia, mamamia ...

tune out. This means you are unlikely to achieve anything. Almost everyone here is open to constructive criticism, but this message is quite far away from that. Please be respectful of your fellow Wikimedians, and try to restate your criticism more constructively and neutrally. Dan -- Dan

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board structure (Was: New Elections Committee)

s Nataliia suggests, rather than here, to reduce the chances that something goes missing or ignored. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wi

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] Offline medical app

_ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Offline medical app

ommons=en> app which is presently 100% volunteer supported. There's a form you can fill in <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contact/requestlicense>, or you can email tradema...@wikimedia.org. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation _

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [discovery] Fwd: Improving search (sort of)

er input. I'm happy to answer any questions. :-) Thanks, Dan [1]: Don't panic, this example national insurance number is actually invalid. ;-) -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guideli

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Google returning outdated text snippet

be> > > ___ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Positions open for strategy coordinator contractors.

authorisation question is a standard one included in job postings, irrespective of work location. I would assume there are no issues with candidates based outside the United States applying, especially since all the new positions are advertised as "San Francisco, CA or Remote". D

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland: Abraham Taherivand appointed permanent Executive Director

ia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] stranded travelers offered asylum in Canada

change the fact that your post is off-topic for this list. Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please take part in the Flow satisfaction survey

r in the current fiscal year (until June 2017)... This survey will help us to prioritise future development of Flow." Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: htt

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Personal Update

mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@li

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are inline donor banners something we view as acceptable?

On 8 Dec 2016 3:50 p.m., "Comet styles" wrote: Spamming to ask for donations so that they don't spam again until December 2017 (Y) There's plenty of room for constructive criticism, but this is not it. Your weaken your point by resorting to attacks. Please be more

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

On 21 March 2017 at 18:02, Strainu <strain...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2017-03-21 18:17 GMT+02:00 Dan Garry <dga...@wikimedia.org>: > > On 21 March 2017 at 14:34, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> Technical

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Hardware donation program

On 17 March 2017 at 05:32, Gergő Tisza <gti...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is one of those cool ideas which seem really obvious, but only in > hindsight. Thanks! Agreed. Thanks to Asaf and all involved in making this happen. Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedi

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

t; > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-re

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

wide and historical maps are what we need. How would you > use the Apple maps for a map of the Ottoman empire? > Given that our maps service does not support this, and will not any time soon, this is very off-topic. Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager,

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

but as I have explained in my email, ideology and reality sometimes come in to conflict. Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maili

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update and feedback results from the Wikimedia's chairpersons retreat

On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 03:39, Pine W wrote: > I am wondering whether, for the purposes of (1) increasing the cost > effectiveness of travel expenses, (2) reducing the negative environmental > effects from travel, and (3) increasing the number of chairpersons who > participate, if future meetings

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Survey about the Foundation's Mission

James, As is fairly typical with your proposals, most of the proposals in the survey (free healthcare, universal basic income, etc.) have very little to do with the Foundation's mission. If you're going to do a survey, I suggest actually connecting it to the Foundation's mission, although sadly

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mobile fundraising ads

On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 11:44, vermont--- via Wikimedia-l < wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Entering Wikipedia while not logged in, from both a PC and mobile device, > lead to an insane amount of large, bright red banners asking for donations. > Statistics may show that this sort of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia has been accepted as a mentor organization in GSoC 2019!

As Srishti says, community wishlist items tend to be very under-defined, with open-ended and ambiguous deliverables, and exist in complex spaces. These things are okay because the people handling them are professionals who are trained specifically to distill open-ended projects into specific

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategic planning for conferences

It may be helpful if you repeat the specific question you're asking. Right now from your email I don't know what your question is other than asking what the "strategy for conferences" is, which is so open and vague as to be basically unanswerable. I think you have perhaps made your question

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Supporting Wikinews [was: Reviewing our brand system for our 2030 goals]

On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 at 15:41, Yaroslav Blanter wrote: > Indeed, I am not a fan of Wikinews and I do not particularly see the > project as in any way successful. However, if the project is shut down > against the will of the community (I now mean the Wikinews community, or > perhaps even

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF commitment for a Wikimedia projects archive

I think the correct venue to ask for such a large, cross-cutting, strategic commitment would be with the strategy process working groups, and not this mailing list. Did you try engaging with them? Dan On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 09:35, Fæ wrote: > With all of the strategy discussions still on-going,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF commitment for a Wikimedia projects archive

On Tue 7 May 2019 at 11:04, Fæ wrote: > I am sure this Wikimedia wide community run list is a perfectly good place > to check whether the WMF has any commitment to long term public archives, > or not. > > Thanks for your advice as to where to go, but the strategy process groups > are undoubtedly

[Wikimedia-l] Supporting Wikinews [was: Reviewing our brand system for our 2030 goals]

Splitting off the Wikinews discussion from the branding discussion... On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 07:52, Jennifer Pryor-Summers < jennifer.pryorsumm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Compared to Wikitribune it is! But more importantly, if Wikinews is not > thriving, then why not? Does it lack resources? What

Re: [Wikimedia-l] branding is bikeshedding, how about CTO criteria or working group lists instead?

On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 10:14, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Thank you for your sense of superiority.. It's not helpful to sarcastically "thank" someone like this. I don't find Chris to have had a sense of superiority in his email, but even if he had, this is not the correct way to address

Re: [Wikimedia-l] branding is bikeshedding, how about CTO criteria or working group lists instead?

On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 at 21:09, James Salsman wrote: > I withdraw any opinions and suggestions about the branding discussion, > and don't intend to continue participating in it. Instead, I would > like to have a more substantive discussion: > > (1) I ask that the CTO search team please publish

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Wikimedia Space: A space for movement news and conversations

On Wed 26 Jun 2019 at 00:58, Amir Sarabadani wrote: > I have no comment on Wikimedia Space. IMHO it's too soon to criticize it > but I want to point out to a pattern that I have been seeing in the past > couple of months by several people in this very mailing list. > > You have been repeating

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Community Tech: New Format for 2020 Wishlist Survey

On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 at 05:50, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > The disappointing you show and the grotesque conclusions are imho based > in a sense of entitlement. I don't think calling Yuri's conclusions grotesque or saying he is entitled are particularly productive comments. Let's keep this list

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ombuds Commission now accepting nominations for 2020

On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 at 08:52, Henry Wood wrote: > So the Ombudsman Commission is managed by a department that they are > likely to want to report on? > No. The Ombudsman Commission oversees volunteer actions only. Complaints about staff should be sent directly to the Wikimedia Foundation. I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Recommendations and community conversations launching next week

On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 at 23:49, Pine W wrote: > Here are a couple of arguments from WMF in favor of SuperProtect, which was > implemented to prevent local users from removing MediaViewer. Superprotect is now over five years old. Superprotect's removal is now over four years old. It was a

[Wikimedia-l] Status of APG and FDC?

Hi all, Does anyone know what the status of the APG process and the FDC is? The documentation on-wiki seems to be out of date: - The APG info page [1] says new applications are not being accepted, and there's a bunch of errors in the table. - The APG page [2] doesn't make reference to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Foundation and affiliates disclosing salaries on job ads & the effect of this on workplace equity

Asking candidates for their current salary is prohibited in San Francisco as of July 2018 [1] which means that, as a San Francisco based organisation, the Foundation will undoubtedly not be doing this. To my knowledge, this wasn't done by the Foundation before either, but we can confidently state

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Foundation and affiliates disclosing salaries on job ads & the effect of this on workplace equity

On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 12:39, Nathan wrote: > Shouldn't two candidates for the same position for the same company get > roughly the same salary, regardless of where they live? > I don't know. Maybe. Within the US, there are markets where decent, experienced software engineers earn half of what

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Foundation and affiliates disclosing salaries on job ads & the effect of this on workplace equity

On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 22:23, Michael Peel wrote: > This seems to be a restriction against employers asking for someone’s > salary history, not against including the expected salary range in a job > advert. Yes. Apologies, the "undoubtedly not doing this" written in my earlier email was a bit

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Institutional memory @ WMF

On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 at 22:26, Strainu wrote: > The pattern I'm seeing is: team gets a big project (in this case UCoC) > -> team hires -> newbie makes good faith edits that are known to cause > offense to some members of the community. This is basically always going to happen when new people

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Institutional memory @ WMF

On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 12:16, Strainu wrote: > Thanks for the response Dan! > > A rigorous study is IMHO impossible, since we're lacking a rigorous > definition of the limits between WMF and community. > Absolutely agreed. > OK, but how is this done precisely? Are there written docs? Mentors?

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Moving the technical infrastructure out of the US

On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 at 09:49, Erik Moeller wrote: > I hope that some preliminary contingency plans exist or are being > developed, and I'm sure that the movement-wide debate will widen if > the US continues its downward slide into authoritarianism. > I agree with Erik. Even under the Obama

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Universal Code of Conduct Drafting Committee - Call for participation

On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 at 15:29, Todd Allen wrote: > That was a firm "No" on any Universal Code of Conduct. There shouldn't be a > "drafting committee" for it, it was disapproved. > It's not clear to me what you're referring to here. What is the "that" that was a "firm no"? Dan

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid API?

On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 21:15, Dan Garry (Deskana) wrote: > ECR and GKE. > Correction: I meant GCR, not GKE. Dan ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid API?

On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 18:20, Amir Sarabadani wrote: > * I find it ethically wrong to use AWS, even if you can't host it in WMF > for legal reasons, why not another cloud provider. Which cloud provider would you recommend? Popular alternatives to AWS include GCP (by Google, who unscrupulously

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Donations - show the editors you care?

On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 05:55, Demian wrote: > With these different aspects in mind I wonder why you find the Visual > Editor a dream to use, given that on average at most 4 in 500 of your > edits >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Donations - show the editors you care?

On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 12:38, Demian wrote: > I'm assuming this points to the namespace of the edits, although it's not > clear. It's unfortunate that Visual Editor can only be used in mainspace, I > wish that wasn't the case, but to be exact, I was looking to understand why > only 2.8% (47 out

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF transfers $8.7 million to "Wikimedia Knowledge Equity Fund"

It seems disingenous to describe it as "secret" given that it was willingly acknowledged in the the FAQ of the annual financial audit

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF transfers $8.7 million to "Wikimedia Knowledge Equity Fund"

On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 at 07:46, rupert THURNER wrote: > have a good start into the new year everybody! should not, ideally, the > legal team of amanda keton be able to tell if fundting something is legal? > or is this a liability issue, so tides would be liable for misconduct, and > not a person

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