Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia blog network?

David Cuenca, 12/09/2014 14:00: > However it is hard to > navigate from blog to blog to discover what is going on at each chapter. There is http://www.chaptersplanet.org/ The Planet is linked from the Meta-Wiki sidebar so it certainly is "the place". Nemo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upload Wizard work (was Re: Next steps regarding WMF<->community disputes about deployments)

Erik Moeller, 06/09/2014 08:44: > - The multimedia dev team has spent a fair bit of time doing some > initial UploadWizard refactoring and code cleanup. We've also > contracted Neil Kandalgaonkar, the original UploadWizard developer > (who left WMF a while ago), to help out a bit and provide some h

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The reader, who doesn't exist

MZMcBride, 24/08/2014 23:57: > Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: >> First, let's make one thing clear: the reader doesn't exist; it's just a >> rhetorical trick, and a very dangerous one. For more: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stupidity_of_the_reader > &g

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow: on featured article discussions

Amir E. Aharoni, 15/09/2014 11:12: > These opinions are relevant, but the way > they are presented in the watchlist is unhelpful and I feel that it wastes > my time. If the reason is so trivial (on it.wiki it's certainly more complex than that), sounds like something that subpagination and/or RSS

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow: on featured article discussions

Amir E. Aharoni, 15/09/2014 13:12: > The English Wikipedia uses it for Articles for Deletion (AfD) and for a lot > of other things. I tried to follow AfD for some time, and I had similar > issues. Issues which you still haven't described. Nemo ___ Wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow: on featured article discussions

Amir E. Aharoni, 15/09/2014 14:25: > Seeing notifications about articles in the same watchlist with these > notifications is already an issue. There's a namespace selector. I select ns0 + talk when I'm in editing mode and invert that when I'm not. > > Seeing only the last "support" or "oppose" n

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow: on featured article discussions

Marc A. Pelletier, 15/09/2014 15:07: > On 09/15/2014 09:03 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: >> > All the problems you mentioned I consider solved since about 2006 on >> > it.wiki, modernise your practices. > ... isn't that what Flow is trying to do? By making me and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Brasil] Jessie's IDEO adventure

Jessie Wild, 19/09/2014 00:35: > One point of clarification: I'll actually be working with IDEO.org > , which is a spin-off of IDEO (and yes, Jane, that is the > Wikipedia article for IDEO) It is a separate organization focused on > partnering with people in need to design paths

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to beta-test HHVM

Rand McRanderson, 20/09/2014 21:32: Here is one idea. A dashboard of top level Wikimedia projects https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering with statuses, estimates, and a key to terms. Or does this exist? No:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to beta-test HHVM

Samuel Klein, 22/09/2014 01:05: Ori and all: this is really fantastic. Thank you. I'm seeing 2+ second speedups (on 6+s loads :/ ) on longish pages such as And saving a null edit to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cbrown1023/Logos went from 90+ seconds to ~30 for me I think? :p Ra

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sponsorship/donations to other organizations

Erik Moeller, 17/04/2014 19:21: Yes, this is part of the reason why I'm considering a donation to them - they're definitely in start-up mode, and we want them to survive. We can continue to handle these kinds of gifts as a very rare, discretionary thing for now (and I may want to move forward wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Damon Sicore joins WMF as Vice President of Engineering

Lila Tretikov, 29/09/2014 19:38: We are excited to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation now has a Vice President of Engineering. Damon Sicore will be filling this vital role. Nice to see this long story reach an end. Welcome, Damon. It will be interesting to see the experience from previous

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Damon Sicore joins WMF as Vice President of Engineering

Thanks. Ok, this is clear enough to the mind: basically everything is under Engineering, except the research-y areas (which fits well with Erik's first job title at WMF ;) ). Erik Moeller, 30/09/2014 06:42: - User Experience I suppose this includes all of: 2.4 Design 2.4.1 User Experien

[Wikimedia-l] Fundraising reports after 2011

Since 2012 it's almost impossible to get information about the WMF fundraising... Does someone have insight in how WMF could be made again interested in fundraising transparency? Poking doesn't help. For instance: me, Perohanych and Mike Peel have been waiting 16 months for two simple and cruc

Re: [Wikimedia-l] translation by importing articles

Amir E. Aharoni, 04/10/2014 15:09: Is it a usual practice in the German Wikipedia? Yes. What is the reason for it? GFDL Is there a policy page about it? Probably in the neighbourhood of https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Importw%C3%BCnsche Are there are Wikipedia projects that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections

The title should be "WMF Board of Trustee elections". Itzik - Wikimedia Israel, 05/10/2014 09:40: For example, last elections there were 1809 valid votes. And this is the issue we should be talking about: the ~99.5 % abstention rate.* By comparison, the number of WMF staff this days is 218

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bug day: Book tool/Collection/PDF, 2014-10-08, 14–22 UTC

We start in 30 min from now :) Federico Leva (Nemo), 29/09/2014 19:51: Hello, Please join us on the next Wikimedia bug day: **2014-10-08, 14:00–22:00 UTC** [1] in #wikimedia-tech on Freenode IRC.[2] We will be triaging bug reports for the Collection extension (Book tool) in general and PDF

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon

Will they release their own biographies under a free license to ease article expansion? :) Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https:/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bug day: Book tool/Collection/PDF, 2014-10-08, 14–22 UTC

m, josu, kepper, valhallasw`cloud. (And probably someone else in bugzilla at the same time.) Nemo Federico Leva (Nemo), 08/10/2014 15:33: We start in 30 min from now :) Federico Leva (Nemo), 29/09/2014 19:51: Hello, Please join us on the next Wikimedia bug day: **2014-10-08, 14:00–22:00 UTC** [1

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections

Itzik - Wikimedia Israel, 07/10/2014 09:50: I hope next year election committee will take it in consideration. Why hope? Just create the rules page on Meta with the amended criteria which just found consensus. They can then be worked on from there. Nemo _

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2016 - Jury Announcement and Start of Bidding

Fæ, 10/10/2014 16:44: [...] a WMF employee make community decisions for us (such as appointing the Jury [...] I've not inspected the facts in detail, but as far as I could understand this is NOT what happened, so it's a bit annoying to hear you repeat it continuously. I added a summary to h

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [AffCom] Quarterly goals for WMF Legal

Pine W, 11/10/2014 22:05: 4. We in Cascadia Wikimedians (and I imagine other thematic organizations) have our own timelines that we need to deal with, and needing to wait indefinitely for Affcom and Legal to make decisions [...] a) Be aware it's impossible to understant what you're talking abo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Audit - June 30, 2014

Garfield Byrd, 13/10/2014 19:56: The June 30, 2014 audit of the Wikimedia Foundation and accompanying Q&A have now been posted and can be found on the Wikimedia Foundation Financial reports page. Please contact me with any questions. Th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Audit - June 30, 2014

Pine W, 15/10/2014 09:56: Hi Risker, I am speaking of all of them, and I suppose our mission also, although in ways that are broadly interpreted. For example, as an organization that values freedom and transparency, and is for the purpose of public education for the benefit of all people, I fee

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising reports after 2011

Lisa Gruwell, 06/10/2014 02:44: Thanks for the timely question! We are actually just double checking the numbers in our FY 2013-14 Fundraising Report right now. We are aiming to publish it toward the end of the week. Thanks. This didn't answer any of the 2012 questions though. https://meta.wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

MZMcBride, 25/10/2014 16:16: But again, the focus would be integrating into the Wikimedia technical platform and fixing issues in production, rather than trying to make Labs scripts and tools better. False dichotomy IMHO. Usual example:* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/42259 Quite clearly WMF's

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia needs an IDE, not a WYSIWYG editor"

quiddity, 25/10/2014 20:26: We don't have HTML preview, which might be interesting. Surely it's possible to whip up a userscript for it, if anyone would actually find it massively useful. (Or, we can just leave the browser's own Web Developer bar open to see the HTML. ctrl-f is our friend.) Are

Re: [Wikimedia-l] thank vs. like

Amir E. Aharoni, 26/10/2014 20:45: In the Hebrew Wikipedia there's a discussion about the "Thanks" feature, which raises the following confusion among other things: Why does the person who is sending the thank-you gets a message saying "$1 was notified that you liked his/her edit.", and the perso

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Experimenting on Wikimedians

An interesting piece of corporate communication on the topic was http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/we-experiment-on-human-beings/ I've expanded the Meta-Wiki page a bit, including the following additions: * They number in the dozens and are usually documented in the Meta-Wiki [[Research]] names

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wayback machine

John, 03/11/2014 22:54: Does anyone have contact information for the wayback machine? I am trying to improve one of my tools for wikipedia, and am wondering if we can get a minor change/feature request implemented. Usually I recommend: * #internetarchive on EFNet for quick sanity check, * the f

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day is November 22, 2014

There are events in many countries: http://www.survivorday.org/international-survivor-day-events/ (I know the list is not complete because Milan is missing). As a followup to https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-January/123598.html given https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q302817

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia

rubin.happy, 12/11/2014 18:48: We received some alerts from our users that donations are now blocked when user is from Russia: http://habrastorage.org/files/31b/b1f/ec9/31bb1fec9b9e45abb6ac4babcc237184.png Thanks for the information. Everyone can see the same warning by clicking the "Russia" l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration Community: How Wikipedia's reaction to sudden popularity is causing its decline"

Kim Bruning, 12/11/2014 19:40: I found this document/research paper on wikipedia user retention; FWIW http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_and_Decline/ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:The_Rise_and_Decline http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.founda

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraiser] fundraising blocked in Russia

Dorożyński Janusz, 14/11/2014 14:59: Really, we want help and we can help, especially locals, i.e. Russian folks. Too late? It seems the Russian government immediately seized the opportunity of a weaker position of Wikipedia in the public opinion. (You probably already saw, but anyway.) http

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why is bank transfer no longer possible?

Moreover, because fundraising reports are now so stingy, we can't even know the (per-country) effects of such decisions (cc fundraiser@), hence public accountability is impossible. * https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Fundraising/2013-14_Report&diff=10307365&oldid=10265366 * http

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FDC funds allocation recommendation is up

Gerard Meijssen, 23/11/2014 08:27: I am really surprised how little attention this is getting. It seems to me that there isn't much to say; I see political decisions, they are what they are. One of them is "detail detail detail"; while WMF can just throw a slogan on paper and get millions for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] FDC funds allocation recommendation is up

pajz, 23/11/2014 18:07: while, as I said, I have no particular interest in defending WMDE and have not even read their proposal, let me say that I would find that a preposterous measure of success/failure. You can't just look at a time series of the number of editors and say "good trend -> congra

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Experimenting on Wikimedians

David Gerard, 19/11/2014 13:12: >>The increase in efficiency through the banner campaign has been truly >>remarkable! >Are you able to provide data for any of these claims? If you take a moment to do the obvious thing and look on Meta, specifically at the obvious page ([[Fundraising]]), you'l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why is bank transfer no longer possible?

Michael Snow, 30/11/2014 01:03: One avenue for fraud that's facilitated by posting account numbers is small payment fraud, usually involving stolen credit cards. [.] So what all this message have to do with IBAN? Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why is bank transfer no longer possible?

Michael Snow, 30/11/2014 19:40: As the rest of the message discussed, the fraudsters can use the IBAN to make a "donation" in order to test that stolen card information belongs to a real credit card. Are you sure you know what an IBAN is? Anyway, please inform the European Central Bank of your

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why is bank transfer no longer possible?

Tim Landscheidt, 01/12/2014 04:22: >Also, I'm no expert on EU regulations, but I do observe that >according to the European Payments Council, it seems payees >receiving SEPA credit transfers are advised to communicate >the IBAN "only where necessary": >http://www.europeanpaymentscouncil.eu/index.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WaPo Wikipedia's 'complicated; relationship with net neutrality

This comparison is quite useful and got rather popular: «For all the arcana in telecommunications law, there is a really simple way of thinking of the debate over net neutrality: Is access to the Internet more like access to electricity, or more like cable television service?». http://www.nytim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WaPo Wikipedia's 'complicated; relationship with net neutrality

Tim Landscheidt, 01/12/2014 02:05: Wikipedia Zero favours solely Wikipedia (und sister projects) Sister projects? Since when? Ah, I see they are in the new template agreement: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero_Template_Agreement It would be nice to know what percentage of Wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Organizational effectiveness tool (for Wikimedia organizations)

Why does the questionnaire seemingly exclude the WMF? If the WMF is one "other organized group" in the sentence "A Wikimedia chapter, user group, themati

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland: New board elected, annual plan postponed.

Several great comebacks here! Thanks Tim and everyone for this new 2 years commitment. Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WHO interested in evidence on the impact of CC licensing

Not what you asked, but UNESCO's recent leaflet is rather nice and has a dozen pages on impact. http://www.unesco.de/fileadmin/medien/Dokumente/Kommunikation/Open_Content_A_Practical_Guide_to_Using_Open_Content_Licences_web.pdf James Heilman, 02/12/2014 21:20: We would welcome sharing with us

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banners (again)

Martijn Hoekstra, 03/12/2014 10:13: I will automate this message for the first Tuesday of December, around 10:00 a.m. UTC. If others could automate their messages to not exactly coincidence with this one, that would help. Why December? Fundraising banners are up all year long. Due to the banne

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "edited mercilessly"

The "merciless" was used in the standardised messages decided by referendum in 2009: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update#Proposed_terms_of_use It got lost in the implementation in 2009: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Licensing_update/Implementation#Terms_for_edit_screen And then th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banners (again)

svetlana, 03/12/2014 23:20: It is already co-owned. It is just that people haven't bothered to try talking to the Fundraising Team. {{citation needed}} Go look at the number of people who tried on fundraiser@, m:Talk:Fundraising* and fundraising@ (well, this one you can't; it was shut down b

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banners (again)

phoebe ayers, 04/12/2014 23:20: Given all this context, in our meeting the board discussed whether we should try to raise more money now to build our long-term reserves There is so much to say about this "let's milk the cow before it's too old" approach that it's definitely out of scope for th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to WMF November 2014 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, December 4, 19:00 UTC

Salvador A, 05/12/2014 08:05: From your answer to Scott I read that those are only statistics from enwiki, do you know if the same happened in eswiki or, conversely, eswiki grow the number of views? In the last case I could assume that we are "converting" English readers into Spanish readers an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising in the Netherlands; informing the donors

Gerard Meijssen, 07/12/2014 13:11: At the time I learned that there is the possibility of an European tax status. I do remember that it took several years of financial statements. This is something we can easily provide We already do: that's what local chapters are for. WMF is not based in EU

Re: [Wikimedia-l] MoodBar usage

Amir E. Aharoni, 09/12/2014 17:10: If anybody in the above projects thinks that the MoodBar is useful then it should probably stay enabled, and maybe even revived and installed on other projects. But if the feedback left by new users through this tool is not actually read and handled, then it sh

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedia Community Ireland as a Wikimedia User Group

Sweet. Carlos M. Colina, 09/12/2014 22:39: 2: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_Ireland Which mentions Gaeilge, but not the geography. Is Northern Ireland included, or is geography irrelevant for the group? :) Nemo ___ Wikimedi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons copyright extremism

Steven Walling, 11/12/2014 17:40: I just noticed Really? The day after tomorrow is the 12th birthday of https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Avoid_copyright_paranoia&oldid=649 ! Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

geni, 14/12/2014 09:13: if we can turn the chapters into respected points of contact which GLAMs Is there any evidence to think they aren't? Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

geni, 15/12/2014 09:54: Not in the way that I mean. WMUK is a contact for wikipedia (and other wikimedia projects). I've seen little evidence of it being a contact for people less sure about where they want to go. Sounds like a problem specific to WMUK then, which you should discuss with them.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to fix Commons

Strainu, 15/12/2014 13:06: Online editing for images is an obvious first step, but we know there are already basic online video editing functions (youtube) so even if it takes a while, this should be a target for the engineering team. Does anyone know if there are any bugs on the subject? Seve

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Our final email

Liam Wyatt, 19/12/2014 00:08: PS: Less than 1% of our readers donate enough to keep Wikipedia running. Your contribution counts! I read this as "shame on you, users who use Wikipedia without paying for its costs!". "Criminalising" our users is really abusive. Sadly, this latest violation of t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Become a Digital object identifier (DOI) registarnt

Andy Mabbett, 30/12/2014 22:53: Where 's the best on-wiki (Meta?) place to propose this? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/RfC looks ok *if* you have enough information already. For instance, AFAIK DOI has a non-negligible cost and Internet Archive uses ARK instead for this reason. Information

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Is there some Wikimedia project to host contents based on original research?

Sucheta Ghoshal, 05/01/2015 14:30: huge repository of texts, images, and other relevant details that they are willing to make available digitally in the form of free contents. Freely licensed reproductions of relevant primary sources are definitely welcome on Wikimedia Commons. We wish to h

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF is shutting down grantmaking for good projects for 3 months for no reason

Anders Wennersten, 06/01/2015 12:26: I believe that in the area of gender-gap the dynamic could be more complex (as in my example). And if WMF only want to see a direct link between effort and impact, they could miss out other dynamics. I think this is always a good point to remind ourselves,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why is bank transfer no longer possible?

Patricia Pena, 06/01/2015 19:32: worked with our bank to improve the security and fraud protection of our bank accounts so that we can now disclose the bank account information on our donation pages. Great! Can these important security tips/steps be documented on a Meta-Wiki page, so that othe

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: White House response to Aaron Swartz petition

See https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-states-district-attorney-carmen-ortiz-office-overreach-case-aaron-swartz/RQNrG1Ck Messaggio inoltrato Oggetto:Response to We the People Petition on U.S. Attorney's Office Personnel Matters Data: Wed, 07 Jan

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: White House response to Aaron Swartz petition

Keegan Peterzell, 08/01/2015 09:15: ​For those unfamiliar with American political history in its brief existence, ​this is entirely expected. Sure, that part was the least interesting. The power over who has the right to hire and fire whom has been the center of our politics since near incept

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Honorary degree for Wikipedia + meeting

Romaine Wiki, 08/01/2015 18:12: Universiteit Maastricht (UM) reikt een eredoctoraat uit aan Frans Timmermans en de oprichter van Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales. Doctorate in what discipline? Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update regarding WMF's reporting practices

Given https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-January/076324.html, some questions. Erik Moeller, 06/11/2014 07:57: Format: Effective immediately, we are shifting to a quarterly reporting format. This will impact our reporting, and the October through December https://meta.wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Tilman Bayer joins Product & Strategy Department

Erik Moeller, 07/01/2015 20:36: It’s my pleasure to announce that Tilman Bayer is joining the Foundation’s Product & Strategy department as Senior Analyst. I would like to thank Katherine Maher for supporting and helping to prepare this move from the Communications department. Thanks. If I unde

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Is there some Wikimedia project to host contents based on original research?

Castelo Branco, 09/01/2015 14:17: "Wikibooks is for textbooks, annotated texts, instructional guides, and manuals. (...) Wikibooks is not a place to publish primary research." https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:What_is_Wikibooks That's only one language. Nemo ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

As for the fundraiser's duration, I believe the 2014 fundraiser ran for 30 days (December 2 to December 31, 2014). That's certainly incorrect. https://frdata.wikimedia.org/campaign-vs-amount.csv shows about 200 campaigns started in 2014, excluding sidebar and other "regular" stuff. A campaign

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

Megan Hernandez, 16/01/2015 22:11: Most of them do not have phabricator accounts, so the email feedback channel is critical. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Using_e-mail Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF has lost its path

David Gerard, 20/01/2015 15:38: As I noted, this is a legal stick There was no indication whatsoever from the WMF that these actions were required by law. It's possible they were, sure. But we are abandoned to mere speculation from supporters of either interpretation. See talk page on trans

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF has lost its path

David Gerard, 20/01/2015 21:11: As I noted, this is a legal stick >There was no indication whatsoever from the WMF that these actions were >required by law. That's neither what I said nor meant Sorry if I was unclear: I know you didn't. It's just a distinction worth noting. Nemo ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Become a Digital object identifier (DOI) registarnt

phoebe ayers, 20/01/2015 23:42: suggests relying on*us* for persistent identifier stability: Hmm I'm not sure that's what it's written there. However, relatedly, also today: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/cobweb «The footnote, a landmark in the history of civilization, took cen

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Timothy Sandole and (apparently) $53, 690 of WMF funding

Sue Gardner, 01/04/2014 05:23: On 21 March 2014 13:23, Erik Moeller wrote: We will update the wiki page at https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence/Harvard_University_assessment with more information and details. I encourage others to participate in this as a collaborative pr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Spam] Re: Become a Digital object identifier (DOI) registarnt

Andrew Gray, 21/01/2015 13:35: (Foolish question: can oldids be reconstituted from dumps?) Yes, grep any XML dump for "" to see yourself. However, the standard import doesn't preserve this information. Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] idea: making the projects accessible on Tor and IP2

It would probably help if you linked a description of what you are proposing. :) https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikime

Re: [Wikimedia-l] EU copyright rules are maladapted to the increase of cross-border cultural exchange on the web

Cristian Consonni, 22/01/2015 02:29: A shorter version with the most important points is the press release: [2]https://juliareda.eu/2015/01/press-release-eu-copyright-report/ There's also a short summary at http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2015/01/breaking-news-pirate-party-mep-julia.html And at h

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF 2014 Annual report

Itzik - Wikimedia Israel, 22/01/2015 16:18: https://annual.wikimedia.org/2014/ I don't see a language selector. Clearly a regression compared to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/Annual_Report/2012-2013/Front Nemo ___ Wikimedia-

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Is there some Wikimedia project to host contents based on original research? [Davenport]

Erkan Yilmaz, 06/01/2015 19:02: Wikiversity allows original research: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Original_research English Wikiversity, that is. (And French, perhaps others.) Italian Wikiversity does not. https://it.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversit%C3%A0:Cosa_Wikiversit%C3%A0_

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Winners Announced in World's Largest Photo Contest: Wiki Loves Monuments

Vira Motorko, 24/12/2014 19:40: Is there a blog post onhttps://blog.wikimedia.org/ about this? Will it be? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog#Drafting_a_post says to propose one yourself. For now I see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_Pak

Re: [Wikimedia-l] proportion of wiki size to what?

Amir E. Aharoni, 26/01/2015 02:57: By "size" I mean the article count and the active editor count. If you drop this parenthesis, the whole email is fine. :) Article count is a totally useless metric for size; comparing useless metrics to uncertain metrics is quite sure to produce garbage. Sin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open Letter to Lila (Harassment Policy)

If the WMF is consulting any specific entity of an individual Wikimedia project out of 800 for a crosswiki matter, that's ridiculous, period. I don't see why bother looking into the specific merits of the entity in question, or the allegations about them. Nemo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons / OTRS is broken

James Heilman, 03/02/2015 05:52: not sure what the solution is. Usually, following the docs: «use {{subst:OP}} to tell others that it's in progress» https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS#Templates_to_use_on_image_pages Nemo ___ Wikimedi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Education Extension

Liam Wyatt, 03/02/2015 14:06: Not precisely this, but related... Is there any plan to have "folders" in a watchlist, and then the ability to make a specific folder visible (a.k.a. "shared") to others? [...] Has this been discussed/suggested before? Only a few dozens times. See https://www.med

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Education Extension

Samir Elsharbaty, 04/02/2015 03:08: It seems that the extension already covers most of what was suggested here: - A teacher or wiki-mentor could make a shared watchlist of their student's draft pages. - An editathon organiser could create a shared watchlist of all the articles within the sc

Re: [Wikimedia-l] statistics of usage of wikimedia project per language used in the interface

charles andrès (WMCH), 04/02/2015 14:25: Is there a way to know how many people use Wikipedia per interface language? No. Said in other words, I want to know how many people display the Wikimedia project interface in the different version of German and Alemannisch. Until https://phabricato

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

Risker, 16/01/2015 18:44: We now have at least a partial understanding of the reason the fundraising campaign was extended, which is found in the minutes of the Board of Trustees meeting of November 2014.[1] "Board members asked Lila and Lisa to consider and evaluate ways to raise additional rev

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Who are the nicest people on our projects ?

Fæ, 05/02/2015 18:47: Top 10*most thanked* users in Jan 2015: English Wikipedia: Looks like edit wars pay back in this rank. Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@li

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cc-by-sa 4.0, Wikimedia logos

Pine W, 10/02/2015 10:13: in order to maintain continuity with new content What? Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Engineering Community

Damon Sicore, 11/02/2015 21:31: • Collectively identify success criteria [..] How you can engage: • Join any of the weekly triage meetings to nominate a release blocker [...] Lila: > Visual Editor Built-out/Roll-out planning -- engage now to define deployment criteria I don't know others,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cc-by-sa 4.0, Wikimedia logos

See also https://creativecommons.org/board , https://creativecommons.org/tag/ceo It's important to note that CC has dozens of independent national "chapters" (affiliates https://wiki.creativecommons.org/Category:Jurisdictions ), many of which are university centres/departments; some are rathe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Weird statistics

Anders Wennersten, 18/02/2015 05:57: The number of access from fixed devices in [1] show a hefty decrease on a yearly basis accelerating from September. (total -16%, for sv -35%) I wonder if there is an error in the measurements? No error. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2014_Readership

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Commons-l] Help fund a macro lens for a Commons contributor

Messaggio inoltrato Oggetto: [Commons-l] Help fund a macro lens for a Commons contributor Data: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 12:26:05 + Mittente: Tomasz W. Kozłowski Rispondi-a: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List A: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org CC: common...@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] European Commission Copyright Consultation

Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov, 21/01/2014 15:51: We see this as a social experiment, since no one until now has ever attempted to answer collaboratively and publicly such short-termed and in-depth consultations. Yep, it's a big effort. I've not yet understood how you plan to make a coherent text t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

Thanks Jan-Bart for the answer. Jan-Bart de Vreede, 21/01/2014 12:09: [...] I am not sure what you are referring to as “avoid another fiasco”, [...] Sorry, I'll clarify: it would be a "fiasco" (only) if you had the same result again. I was just aiming for a summary of the previous and curren

Re: [Wikimedia-l] European Commission Copyright Consultation

Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov, 21/01/2014 16:19: On the one hand, individual Wikimedians and EU chapters participating in the Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU [1] have worked together to draft an "answering guide" for the consultation. Each chapter, individual or other organisation is free to use the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] New Program Evaluation report: Wiki Loves Monuments

Asaf Bartov, 25/01/2014 03:12: Thanks! The most interesting datum I've noticed so far is the rate of active editor (5+ edits/month) retention among new contributors after six months, which is about 0.4%. Is "active editor retention" a metric defined somewhere? It's not in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] New Program Evaluation report: Wiki Loves Monuments

Hi Jaime. Your inline replying format highly confuses me, but I tried to reconstruct what you meant to say and I believe it's what below. Jaime Anstee, 25/01/2014 20:19: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 6:10 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) > Is "active editor retention" a metric defined s

Re: [Wikimedia-l] European Commission Copyright Consultation

Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov, 21/01/2014 17:12: Sorry, forgot the citation marker. The link to the "answering guide" is the [2]http://youcan.fixcopyright.eu/en/full/?guide=wikimedia That contains only yes/no answers, right? It's a bit hard to navigate the mass of text and I don't manage to see if

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