From what I read, Apertium also supports morphological analyzers (like:
[1], [2] and [3]). I used the term word because it is more approachable
for a first stage development. Later on it could be expanded to support
languages that don't use words. In any case I think it is preferable to
assist MT
Hi Achal,
For those cases there is a Wikisource clone called Wikilivres, whose server
is in Canada and it is operated by a Canadian citizen.
http://wikilivres.ca/
It is not very fast, but it serves as storage for such cases since the
Canadian copyright law is quite permissive in that regard (50
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.comwrote:
This looks great, and I was wondering if the last point on the list
(working with other entities) also includes finding a way to placehold
works that have gone out of copyright in other countries, and are hosted
on,
Hi Brandon,
Thanks for the announce and also for the effort of letting the door open
for suggestions and feedback. I regard Flow as an excellent tool for
centralizing all communications in one spot and I really hope user
involvement is as high as this tool would deserve. So far the test page
Hi Sumana,
The interpretation could be better, the melody could be merrier, and still,
I liked the lyrics. Thanks for sharing!
Seeing this I wonder if it would be possible for the WM movement to gain
more presence, or better said, some presence in the cultural creation
world. For instance, if
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 3:00 AM, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se
wrote:
The base fact figures for sv:wp is
Increase of views +23% on yearly basis, WM:DE +3, WMF:Fr +8 (all mature
wikipediauser communities), nl with +14 and wm:it with +16 also very good
figures (Spain Russia, and
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Alex Peek alexpe...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
These 'Economy of X' are designed for laypersons to see the economic
reality of the world.
So it could be considered a set of articles for http://simple.wikipedia.org?
Cheers,
Micru
Maybe also relevant for this list.
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From: David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:47 AM
Subject: Impressions from LODLAM 2013
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
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Maybe better when the human generated content is greater than the one
originally added by the bot. Otherwise I can imagine someone adding one
comma to each article just to make it show up in the stats...
Cheers,
Micru
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Per A.J. Andersson p...@telia.com wrote:
I've seen that there is a new Wiki Adoption Request [1] for WeRelate [2],
a wonderful project that might help sourcing birth/death dates and hence
copyright status. I was wondering if there should be a standard procedure
for this kind of adoption requests. It is very easy to add a support for a
, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote:
David Cuenca, 16/07/2013 22:29:
I've seen that there is a new Wiki Adoption Request [1] for WeRelate
[2],
a wonderful project that might help sourcing birth/death dates and hence
copyright status. I was wondering if there should
Hi!
This morning I presented a submission (if you can call it that...) for a
Wikivoyage logo... actually it flies and it's alive :)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikivoyage/Logo_2013/Submissions#Option_19_-_Snake_on_a_magic_towel
It promised not to eat Rory nor Tux... yet :)
If only someone
I knew it! Not even a day and the Wicked Towel Organization already
complaining!
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:20 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote:
I've had enough with these snakes on my magic towel... .
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On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote:
That'd be easy to solve were it not for the fact that - on enwp at least
- TOR has been (and is being) used almost exclusively for block evasion
and vandalism.
Interestingly enough(?), our desire for transparency and
Yaroslav,
If the SPCom is not yet a WMF committee, what is the status? Who is
expected to take action?
Micru
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ruwrote:
On 17.07.2013 07:03, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
David Cuenca, 17/07/2013 00:36:
Thanks for pointing
It seems there was a problem in what the definition of success is.
For the WMF success was to deploy the VE according to the plan and budget
and to reach certain usage percentage.
For the community it was a different kind of metric, maybe a more
thoroughly tested product or a slower and
Thanks, James, for the flexibility that you are showing here. I think the
Visual Editor is already great and it will become even better after
polishing it.I am committed to test it as much as I can and to send some
proposals.
That haters can disable it completely will leave more room for
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
I think your anti-Americanism is misplaced. Let's look at some of the
key people involved in the VisualEditor project. Erik is German, James
F is British, Roan Kattouw is Dutch, Timo Tijhof is Dutch. If you were
to skim the list
doesn't help in
creating an international work environement.
Micru
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 6:44 AM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't agree with Romaine's view that it is a cultural problem, but it
is
true
Nathan, you are wrong in shifting to me the burden of proof. The budget
states that there are rising costs associated with the current location.
That doesn't mean that the slots are going unfulfilled, it is always
possible to raise salaries or import workers. But is this the best
strategy? Have
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.netwrote:
If systemic biased editing is not considered your statement would be
true. However, one of the side effects of our volunteeristic methods is
that systemic bias resulting from editing by groups and interests with
After Erik's email about supporting open source machine translation [1],
I've been researching options and having talks with several machine
translation researchers about what would be the best way to integrate MT
into Wikipedia. Unfortunately I couldn't find a single solution that, on
its own,
wiktionar...@lists.wikimedia.orgHi,
If there is someone in Wikimania interested in participating in the talks
about the future support of Wiktionary in Wikidata, we will having a
discussion about the several proposals.
http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Support_of_Wiktionary_in_Wikidata
To add up a couple of comments to what Denny said, from my experience with
Wikisource, reaching out to international, loosely connected communities is
already a big challenge on its own. I would like to invite Wiktionary
contributors to take a look to this Individual Engagement Grant project
that
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Denny Vrandečić
denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote:
[...] It might lead to a glorious future, where we really create an open
source system that allows
everyone to write in every language and express a wide range of human
thought.
As much as I love this
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
As with so many things, it will be hard to assess cost/benefits without
making some effort. A safe bet could be to try with an existing pair or
develop a pair with an estimated high demand.
Is there a pair where some
to cover will fall in the latter group, not in the first two.
2013/8/23 David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
As with so many things, it will be hard to assess cost/benefits
without
making some effort. A safe bet could
1) Is there any way to know if I have other sessions open and close them
(like in Gmail)? I used another computer and I don't remember if Iogged out.
2) Why when I go to the Watchlist or any other page requiring to be logged
in, I am not redirected to the login screen? Maybe there is a hidden
AM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote:
1) Is there any way to know if I have other sessions open and close them
(like in Gmail)? I used another computer and I don't remember if Iogged
out.
Not yet. There is an extension Extension:SecureSessions that implements
this, and hopefully
Hi Jake!
How are you doing? I just tried your game and I found a bug after earning
the first badge. I was supposed to do an edit with italics and bolding, the
think is that I already had bolded text in my profile, so I just saved
without editing. The interface prompted me You Added bold, italics,
On the Wikisource mailing list we are discussing about a contest to
celebrate Wikisource's 10th aniversary.
The contest would be from Nov 24th till Dec 1st. During that time the
participants would proofread a selection of books and they would get points
per page. The one with the most points
Good to know that Commons is developing its own mini-Wikisource :)
Cheers,
Micru
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.ukwrote:
I've just blogged about a five-minute task new volunteers can do:
Maybe try this one?
http://videoconf.wikimedia.ch/
Cheers,
Micru
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Romaine Wiki romaine_w...@yahoo.com wrote:
Somehow, I don't know how we get that happen, almost every time we use
live communication to communicate about projects to enrich and improve the
*
Verksamhetschef, Wikimedia Sverige http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida
0729 - 67 29 48
2013/12/3 David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com
Maybe try this one?
http://videoconf.wikimedia.ch/
Cheers,
Micru
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Romaine Wiki romaine_w...@yahoo.com
wrote
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 2:37 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Has there been any discussion about simply accepting Bitcoins but not
exchanging them?
snip
I don't have a strong opinion on whether WMF should or
I would suggest blogging about GsoC and maybe posting about it on the wp
discussion pages. There is only one week left!
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear Wikimedia contributors, please help spreading this call for Google
Summer of Code candidates in your
-- Forwarded message --
From: Jan B antof...@gmail.com
Date: Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 1:15 PM
Subject: [OSM-talk] iD usability study: Looking for test persons
To: t...@openstreetmap.org
Hi,
I want to inform you of a usability study of the iD editor that I'm
currently planning to
Hi,
Thanks to all who have submitted their comments on the proposed page
namespace association handling and the necessary database schemas:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Associated_namespaces
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I've been warned that joining the Wikimedia movement
is a bit like drinking from a firehose, and so I'd consider myself, right
now, to be excited, curious, optimistic, and just a tiny little bit
daunted.
Actually it is
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Wil Sinclair w...@wllm.com wrote:
In highly structured databases, adding properties that may be useful
for your research and the work of others would require altering the
structure itself, like adding a field, for example. That isn't easy,
because the powers
Hi,
During the Zürich Hackathon I met several people that looked for solutions
about how to integrate external open datasets into our projects (mainly
Wikipedia, Wikidata). Since Wikidata is not the right tool to manage them
(reasons explained in the RFC as discussed during the Wikidata session),
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com
wrote:
Thanks for the pointer, How can I put this open data on Wikidata is a
question that I have been asked many times, this page was needed.
Thanks for your comment!
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Samuel Klein
, this
is generally not an issue, but how do you see this with data that can
be manipulated? I don't really see how you can upload datasets as
whole blobs that will keep all the pieces together the way a .djvu
file keeps the text with the images.
Jane
2014-05-15 16:46 GMT+02:00, David Cuenca dacu
. But am I correct in thinking that you asked the
question primarily out of a desire to think about how we could use
externally managed data sets?
-Robert Rohde
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:25 AM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
During the Zürich Hackathon I met several people
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.ukwrote:
Definitely agree that we needed something like this. There's a lot of
confusion about what Wikidata is for, and what is and isn't appropriate for
it - both from outsiders and from within the Wikimedia community. I've
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.comwrote:
A quick visit to stats.grok.se indicates that the Search feature of
English Wikipedia was used 63 million times last month [...]
Long time ago I played around with the idea that our endeavor for free
knowledge would
have this enabled by adding one line to common.js
Thanks,
GerardM
On 16 May 2014 11:46, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com
wrote:
A quick visit to stats.grok.se indicates that the Search feature
the minimum for the
upload wizard). Wikidata can help with the template fields as
properties.
Jane
2014-05-15 18:14 GMT+02:00, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com:
Jane,
Thanks for your input! I never thought as datasets as incorporating
images,
but just as a table (whose elements might
the artwork template - you can
use the fields or not, as long as you include the minimum for the
upload wizard). Wikidata can help with the template fields as
properties.
Jane
2014-05-15 18:14 GMT+02:00, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com:
Jane,
Thanks for your input! I never thought
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote:
Portals like wikiwix.com and http://search.creativecommons.org have
existed for a long time, but soon they'll be able to get much more from
Wikimedia projects (after some more CirrusSearch deploys and Wikidata data
Hi,
this year in a Gsoc project, following a proposal by the student, we are
using a dedicated mailing list for his project. I think it is a great
solution because:
- interested people can follow the project without bothering usual mailing
lists
- the evolution of the project is recorded and
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.comwrote:
Ok, but did anyone in the world really believe for a second that WMF was
ever going to change their mind after they managed to centralise UK income
in WMF bank accounts?
Sometimes it is better to take a step back
After reading the report I really hope that the FDC continues prospering
and growing. There are very insightful recommendations to be found there
and I hope they are put into practice.
I also think that this kind of report reinforces and shows in full splendor
the spirit of community
Till now I had mixed feelings on the nature of Wikimedia Deutschland. On
the one hand, I was (and I am) very thankful for creating one of the
projects I'm active with, Wikidata, and supporting the one I most attached
to, Wikisource. On the other hand, I was wary of its professionalization
process
Wil, I have been following the conversation and I can feel your
good-hearted nature.
Please do not be offended when they say wait to you. They mean no harm to
you, just the opposite.
I know how frustrating it is to have to wait, because all of us have gone
through the same...
Just to give you an
A question to Yana et al.:
Is there any reason for the WMF to promote/sign Zero agreements instead of
the local chapters/user groups?
I mean, if that ability was subsidized to the chapters we could have a
different strategy depending on the country, because:
- in some places the benefits of
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
How would an affiliate have the ability to sign any agreements for the
delivery of WMF content? The agreements cover access to WMF-owned websites.
I can see local affiliates being helpful with translation, advice and
It would be interesting to know what needs to be improved, so... what
prevented you of using the data?
And from which different perspectives?
Cheers,
Micru
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se
wrote:
we have now spent one year trying to use Wikidata
of articles to Wikidata which our botefforts requires (where
you need to be 100% sure of the quality and be able to correct these
automatically if problems)
Anders
David Cuenca skrev 2014-06-16 15:40:
It would be interesting to know what needs to be improved, so... what
prevented you
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:
At the current time, I have yet to see how the Wikidata theoretical
use improves finding images on Commons today. After regularly getting
emails over the past two years raising expectations of how these
problems will be solved
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:
In the meantime, it might be an idea for folks to avoid claiming that
any issue that pops up on Commons can be solved in Wikidata, unless
they can produce a working case study rather than discussion about
proposals.
One of the
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote:
Though I like the IMSLP approach, I still like the totally free format of
Commons galleries, and many categories have more than one gallery, so a
standard approach may not work well. I do think WikiData can help with
image
Hi,
I really liked the way the comments are implemented on this website
https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/5e7ed624986d
Basically the comments are associated to each paragraph, and a little
number appears next to it. When clicking it, it displays the comments. I
can imagine that it would
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com
wrote:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Feature_map#1._Ratings_and_Reviews
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46440
The difference with the OKFN annotation tool is the way of presenting the
number of comments.
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Markus Glaser markus.gla...@wikimedia.de
wrote:
There's already a similar implementation for MediaWiki. It's basically a
modification of Extension:Comments and it allows to associate comments with
sections. You can see it live at WebPlatform.org [1].
And that
Perhaps also relevant:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/washington-post-new-york-times-and-mozilla-team-up-for-new-web-site-comment-system/2014/06/19/fa836e90-f71e-11e3-8aa9-dad2ec039789_story.html?hpid=z3
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 2:07 PM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote
Which btw is open source http://levan.cs.washington.edu/ngrams/README.txt
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 7:42 PM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote:
And all this about structured data gets even more interesting when you
combine it with machine learning, like in LEVAN
https://www.youtube.com
On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 7:19 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
This isn't to say that this new endeavor is focusing on an easy problem or
a problem that doesn't need additional attention. Global communication is
a very tough nut to crack, without a doubt. But it feels like some of
these
An example of a crowd-sourced tagger: http://tagger.thepcf.org.uk/tutorial/
Something similar could be thought for Commons if the property depicts
were available.
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 7:48 PM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote:
Which btw is open source
http://levan.cs.washington.edu
Erik (and others), is there any coordination page where groups could place,
take, or discuss requests for development or requests for maintenance?
I saw often that sometimes the hard-to-achieve consensus is found, but
there is no way to evaluate the idea further. What now happens is:
- several
User:Vlsergey from ruwiki presented yesterday at the Wikidata Meetup a new
wonderful infobox editor for Wikipedia infoboxes:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Edit_directly_from_infocard_.2F_infobox
And also an improved authority template which you can see in action at Obama
Erik,
I'm impartial about the mediaviewer, but I have the feeling that this is a
recurring a pattern:
1) contributors ask for some change to improve their experience or the
reader's experience
2) their request is ignored because either it doesn't fit in the big
picture, or there is no mechanism
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 3:35 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
A pattern we see over and over is that the developers talk at length
about what they're working on in several venues, then it's released
and people claiming to speak for the community claim they were not
adequately
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com
wrote:
how should this be solved?
To me it's saying that no matter who is informed, the WMF can never expect
that their work won't be overruled.
That is problematic (regardless of who has the final authority)
A
Hi,
I received an unsolicited email stating that In collaboration with the
global Wikimedia community, we are working with the Wikimedia Foundation to
help movement organizations understand how they have an impact and asking
me to fill out a survey. However there are no references about which
them feedback!
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:10 PM, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I received an unsolicited email stating that In collaboration with the
global Wikimedia community, we are working with the Wikimedia Foundation
to
help movement organizations understand how
I think those are wonderful steps and I really hope that the German
wikipedians are ready for dialogue.
Given the big number of people that might want to answer Lila's questions,
shouldn't they be asked in a more public page, or organized in a more
international/multilingual way, for a delimited
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 4:38 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Pi zero at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/9622503
writes, The non-Wikipedian sisters are the growth sector of the
wikimedian movement, and the WMF by dissing them is strangling the
wikimedian movement's
Hi,
It is nice that there are several official blogs. However it is hard to
navigate from blog to blog to discover what is going on at each chapter.
Would it make sense to link to all official blogs from
http://blog.wikimedia.org/ ?
Cheers,
Micru
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for its contents.*
On 12 September 2014 13:00, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
It is nice that there are several official blogs. However it is hard to
navigate from blog to blog to discover what is going on at each chapter.
Would it make sense to link to all official blogs from
Hei ;)
These last months I have been visiting and living in several intentional
communities to learn and understand what works for me and what doesn't. If
done right, it is a great environment to have a simple life full of joy and
happiness.
I was wondering if anyone else in the WM movement is
Liam, that is true, originally I submitted an idea because of the specific
topic of the campaign, which later on evolved into a more generic project
which could potentially address other kind of issues. BUT, without the
original hook, perhaps I would have never submitted anything.
I hope the
Milos, thanks for your long email because it highlights some problems I
mentioned already in another long email (Building a we in the wikimedia
movement). It is in fact hard to deal with social systems, but
nevertheless important if we want the movement to survive to itself. The
greatest enemy are
Congratulations to the winners!
However I must say that the results of this election are hilarious. The
person with the most support votes doesn't win because of oppose votes :D
El sáb., 6 de jun. de 2015 3:22, Johan Jönsson brevlis...@gmail.com
escribió:
Congratulations, Dariusz, James and
Hi,
I am looking for a space where I can set up projects like:
- clean up a wiki category
- set up book scanning tasks
- track a survey stages (planning, translation, ad, analysis, etc)
Is phabricator a good place for that? I guess that with appropriate
project/subproject separation then the
Congratulations, new user group members!
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:17 PM, Carlos M. Colina ma...@wikimedia.org.ve
wrote:
Dear all,
On behalf of the Affiliations Committee, I am honored to announce the
recognition [1] of a new User Group in the United States - the North
Carolina Triangle
Dear all,
I have written a short piece on the WMCON and some interesting aspects
about the organizational future of User Groups.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ew8cVJhqqenGUAVVaTQqkisyPyd1tSX-zbVfi-Uuo8U/edit?usp=sharing
Cheers,
Micru
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Thanks for the initiative!
Micru
El vie., 29 de may. de 2015 8:53, Hasive Chowdhury nhas...@wikimedia.org.bd
escribió:
Just complete the survey. Nice initiative.
-Hasive
WMBD
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:13 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk
wrote:
On 28 May 2015 at 20:57,
. I would be happy to advise on some of the
proposed ideas if there are people interested in leading them.
A.
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:04 AM, David Cuenca Tudela dacu...@gmail.com
wrote:
Dear all,
I have written a short piece on the WMCON and some interesting aspects
about
rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com wrote:
could you pleas share that on Meta?
On 30 May 2015 at 06:13, David Cuenca Tudela dacu...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Asaf and Juan Bautista,
Thanks a lot for your comments, I am glad to have some feedback on these
ideas that were discussed during the WMCON
During this Wikimedia Conference 2015 there was a paradigm shift in the way
problems are expressed. It was highlighted that the wikimedia movement is
not only about gathering and sharing knowledge, but also about the people
behind it, about finding ways to enhance the togetherness that is created
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 7:22 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
I don't know how you're going to shoehorn we into Wikimedia movement.
I guess, similar to putting the me in team, it will require
transposing letters? Or perhaps dropping letters altogether (since we[!]
already have a W and
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk
wrote:
How can we [l]itigate against this, while making our projects more social?
Hi Andy,
regarding your question I guess there is no definite answer, perhaps it is
something inherent to social systems, so in a way there
I third that!
However we are entering the field of privacy, because as useful the virtual
meetings can be, they might be intrusive if you are in your home and you
show your whole house to the world. As long as people are happy about that,
then I do not see any problem in increasing the number of
On
> Behalf Of Ed Saperia
> Sent: Friday, 26 February 2016 10:51 AM
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] What it means to be a high-tech organization
>
> A Wikimedia monastery! ^_^
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 26 Feb 2016, at 08:39, David Cuenc
I think there are more ways of supporting volunteers than just paying them
cash. For instance another option could be to offer them a place to stay,
food and healthcare. That is how many volunteer programs work, like
workaway or woofing, and I don't see anything wrong with it.
Would it be an
I am starting a new thread because I disagree with the idea that the WMF
should be a high-tech organization as the other thread by Brion seemed to
suggest. Yes, technology is a tool that we use in our mission to gather and
process all forms of human knowledge, but in the end the driving force is
directly?
Cheers
Micru
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 8:10 PM, Brion Vibber <bvib...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> David, you appear to be agreeing strongly with me, not disagreeing. :)
>
> -- brion
>
> On Sunday, February 28, 2016, David Cuenca Tudela <dacu...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
&g
James, I think it is very nice to put measures against paid editing, but it
would be nicer to put measures to get editors more free time to edit
voluntarily...
There are not that many suggestions on how to do it, so it could be that it
cannot be done.
Cheers,
Micru
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 6:14
for its users and administrators across all its projects,
> and purge all rogue editors (along with their self serving
> so-called""community" policies) who are damaging the credibility of
> its projects, including through paid editing.
>
> David
>
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> http://www.bus
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