Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Social: non-profit social networking service ?

quite malleable things - look at Quora as a social network with very different community norms - no reason why one couldn't be mission driven. At the very least, a mastodon instance that could be linked to your wikimedia account might be a positive and realistic step towards this. *Edward Saperi

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [mySociety-community] New Wikiproject Proposal/Wikidata post-election updating toolkit

ICYMI *Edward Saperia* Dean of Newspeak House <http://www.nwspk.com> newsletter <http://www.tinyletter.com/edsaperia> • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> • twitter <http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia> • 07796955572 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG

[Wikimedia-l] Wikidata post-election updating toolkit

tainably." https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikidata_post-election_updating_toolkit *Edward Saperia* Dean of Newspeak House <http://www.nwspk.com> newsletter <http://www.tinyletter.com/edsaperia> • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> • twitter <http

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How diverse are your readers?

We can consider this an opportunity, e.g. popular media often touches on diverse cultural and political themes, and international sports tournaments give people a reason to learn about different countries. If people find our project this way then so be it, we can just try and make sure those articl

[Wikimedia-l] Facebook rfc on designing a Content Moderation Oversight Board

utions, opinions and perspectives from around the world on each of the questions outlined below." *Edward Saperia* Dean of Newspeak House <http://www.nwspk.com> newsletter <http://www.tinyletter.com/edsaperia> • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> • twitter <http:

[Wikimedia-l] Election Related & Political Wikimedia

communities in the next few days. Please take a look and contribute! *Edward Saperia* Dean of Newspeak House <http://www.nwspk.com> newsletter <http://www.tinyletter.com/edsaperia> • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> • twitter <http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia> • 077

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Decentralised Wikipedia

Hi Erik, This might be interesting to you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HaeB/Timeline_of_distributed_Wikipedia_proposals *Edward Saperia* Founder Newspeak House <http://www.nwspk.com> email • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> • twitter <http://www.twitte

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Powerful on-wiki art visualization

journalists, and they're always looking for tools, lessons and data to practise on. Are there any existing efforts to popularise this, or would anyone like to help me do so? *Edward Saperia* Founder Newspeak House <http://www.nwspk.com/> Conference Director Wikimania 2014 <http:/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2015

The name of a conference is typically a descriptor of the contents of the programme rather than of the attendees :) *Edward Saperia* Conference Director Wikimania London <http://www.wikimanialondon.org> email • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> • twitter <http://

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediameta-l] An alternative model for grant funding

y. This model puts all this attention to good use. *Edward Saperia* Conference Director for Wikimania 2014 <http://www.wikimanialondon.org> email • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> • twitter <http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia> • 07796955572 133-135 Bethnal Green Road

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediameta-l] An alternative model for grant funding

ickly indeed. *Edward Saperia* email • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> • twitter <http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia> • 07796955572 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG On 25 February 2015 at 15:38, Sydney Poore wrote: > I'm pretty concerned that the systemati

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediameta-l] An alternative model for grant funding

I'm not sure you've understood correctly. In my proposed system, people propose projects and these projects are advertised on the centralnotice banners. When clicked on, readers are taken to the individual project pages and donate to them directly, rather than donating into a central pot. > (a) p

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediameta-l] An alternative model for grant funding

ople are complaining that we show too many banners, they can instead try and quantify how much by arguing to raise this cut-off rate by a certain amount. *Edward Saperia* email • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> • twitter <http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia> • 07796955572 133-13

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

eir lifetimes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_revisionism_(negationism) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_manipulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai etc *Edward Saperia* Conference Director Wikimania 2014 &l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] VisualEditor on English Wikipedia

Sounds like your suggestion would be a perfect contribution to some kind of community discussion to try and decide a framework to decide if or when we might want to re-deploy visual editor, much like Pine was suggesting in the first place :-) *Edward Saperia* Chief Coordinator Wikimania London

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rethink of observability

which the two aspects are seamlessly interwoven." The thing I especially like about the "machine" metaphor is the implication that they are things that can be fixed :) *Edward Saperia* Chief Coordinator Wikimania London <http://www.wikimanialondon.org/>

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Internet's Own Boy: Aaron Swartz

It's looking likely that there will be a showing of this at Wikimania this year. By the way, last day for earlybird tickets! https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration *Edward Saperia* Conference Director Wikimania London <http://www.wikimanialondon.org> email • fac

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania: Don't forget to register!

Hi all, Only two weeks till Wikimania, and it's shaping up really well. Don't forget to register! www.wikimanialondon.org/registration *Edward Saperia* Conference Director Wikimania London <http://www.wikimanialondon.org> email • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsaper

Re: [Wikimedia-l] personally communicating with new editors (was: Re: editor retention initiatives)

How about starting a campaign to grow and develop the community around https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Snuggle ? *Edward Saperia* Conference Director Wikimania London <http://www.wikimanialondon.org> email • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> • twitter <http://