Re: [Wikimedia-l] Pro-active user privacy (Was: Update on IPv6)

On 13 June 2012 11:09, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: Why is improving anonymity a goal? Our privacy policy governs the disclosure of non-public information, but the IP addresses of editors without an account have always been effectively public. Are IP editors clamoring for more privacy? Is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CheckUser openness

On 15 June 2012 04:55, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: Supposedly, the data only survives 3 months. If data is being retained much longer than this for investigations that go on for months on the checkuser wiki, that's concerning. We have well-known trolls and repeat vandals who have been

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Logo for new travel guide

On 5 October 2012 14:57, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: I'm also having a hard time to understand the argument No sufficient time... Apparently James has a sense of urgency, but I'm unsure /why/ there is such a hurry that a few extra days/weeks is out of the question. Indeed.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

On 12 December 2012 02:58, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com wrote: dont' forget sister projects Absolutely. One of my particular concerns over the next few months is understand how other non-Wikipedia wikis using MediaWiki (primarily Wikimedia's, but others' too) work, and in what ways we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Featuring the edit tab in Vector (by making it red)

On 11 January 2013 02:12, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Andrew Gray, 11/01/2013 10:34: * moving their positioning (eg, to beside the header text, as is done on fr.wp This has been known to be needed for years, but it waiting for some coding.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Gadgets

On 7 April 2013 07:52, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Everton Zanella Alvarenga wrote: I've started a page on meta for Wikimedia Gadget http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Gadgets I'm not sure gadgets is the word you want. It immediately made me think of the popular Gadgets

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias

On 26 April 2013 10:08, Takashi OTA supertakot+foundatio...@gmail.com wrote: I have been working on translation of Wikimedia Blog post written by James, into Japanese. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Drafts/Try_out_the_alpha_version_of_the_VisualEditor,_now_in_15_languages To

[Wikimedia-l] Single User Login finalisation: some accounts will be renamed

All, The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users (like cross-wiki notifications). These changes will mean users have the same account name everywhere, will let us give you new features

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Single User Login finalisation: some accounts will be renamed

point to where this approach was consulted on? Thanks, Fae On 30 April 2013 03:29, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: All, The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Single User Login finalisation: some accounts will be renamed

On 30 April 2013 01:01, Marco Chiesa chiesa.ma...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:29 AM, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Unfortunately, some accounts are currently not unique across all our wikis, but instead clash with other users who have the same account name

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Single User Login finalisation: some accounts will be renamed

On 30 April 2013 02:56, Dan Rosenthal swatjes...@gmail.com wrote: Global renames will be done by Stewards then, yes? Yes. J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester ___

[Wikimedia-l] Selection of winning bid for Wikimania 2014: London

for their submissions and hard work. Yours, James Forrester Moderator, Wikimania 2014 Jury For the Wikimania 2014 Jury -- James D. Forrester jdforres...@gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal capacity

Re: [Wikimedia-l] OSM iD Editor: how a nice editing interface could engage users

On 8 May 2013 08:38, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote: Yesterday, OpenStreetMap launched iD, an in-browser editor so that you can edit the map. You no longer need to download JOSM, the desktop application, or use Potlatch, a Flash-based application. When you start using iD, it gives you

Re: [Wikimedia-l] movement blog, not WMF blog, was: Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

On 11 May 2013 13:03, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote: At this point I am lost. Comcom is made of the representative of chapters, right? (I just happen to know this because the representatives of the Russian chapter there have hmm... complicated relations with the communities of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Single User Login finalisation: some accounts will be renamed

All, As an update, I'm afraid to announce that we will have to delay the process for some time. As my previous e-mail states, we had intended to start the final renaming process in the week commencing 27 May. However, given the scale of the task, it now is clear that this would interfere with

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Single User Login finalisation: some accounts will be renamed

On 12 May 2013 10:40, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: James Forrester, 12/05/2013 19:20: Sorry for the disruption to everyone's plans. If you have any questions, please do ask. Will you still make the lists and send out the notifications so that people can start planning

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Feedback for the Wikimedia Foundation

On 23 July 2013 00:01, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: As I've noted in my response to wikitech-l just now, there's also the issue of what opt-out should mean as VE becomes increasingly more pervasive in the user experience. But as I've noted in [1], I do not think a compromise on the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] On the gentrification of Wikipedia, by Superbass (was: Visual Editor)

On 30 July 2013 04:36, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 1:01 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 July 2013 09:06, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoeks...@gmail.com wrote: 6. Announce a date from where on saving a page with a transcluded

Re: [Wikimedia-l] On the gentrification of Wikipedia, by Superbass (was: Visual Editor)

On 30 July 2013 08:02, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 July 2013 15:44, Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl wrote: It's interesting how an essentially social question (being welcoming to new people by a Visual editor) turns quickly into a debate on software. .nl has yet to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] On the gentrification of Wikipedia, by Superbass

On 30 July 2013 13:58, Mark delir...@hackish.org wrote: On 7/30/13 6:40 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote: Templates such as {{hat}} and {{hab}} don't exist so much because of weaknesses in wikimarkup as because passing the content as a parameter would rapidly exceed the Template argument size

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to force to enable Visual Editor

On 15 October 2013 00:58, Charles Andres charles.andres.w...@gmail.comwrote: Dear all, In our new education program with youngs in scholar difficulties, we have the problem that only half of the new accounts have the visual editor activated, it's quite annoying to have two teach two way of

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimania 2015 - Call for Jury volunteers

Forwarding for info. -- Forwarded message -- From: James Forrester jdforres...@gmail.com Date: 1 November 2013 18:43 Subject: Wikimania 2015 - Call for Jury volunteers To: Wikimania general list (open subscription) wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org Dear all, Soon we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Beta Features

On 4 November 2013 18:22, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Beautiful. Thank you, Fabrice and all. I'm particularly enjoying the formula editing. Combined with, say, a link to deTeXify, this can be really powerful even for newbies. http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html ​Thank

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanking anonymous users

On 13 January 2014 05:18, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote: On 01/13/2014 12:19 AM, Tim Starling wrote: Not as fast as revisions, and we seem to cope with those. Fair enough. So you'd implicitly create the user, track it by cookie? With some well designed UX this'd work well and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] This weird trick will make readers of mass messages on village pumps happier

On 17 January 2014 08:24, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.ilwrote: Put it inside the following HTML tag: div lang=en dir=ltr class=mw-content-ltr Your important notification. /div ​[Snip]​ Of course, it's not great to have to remember to write it every time, so if there is a

[Wikimedia-l] 1 week reminder: Wikimania 2014 – Call for Submissions

On 2 January 2014 04:24, James Forrester jdforres...@gmail.com wrote: Everyone, I would like to invite submissions[0] proposing presentations, panels, tutorials and workshops for Wikimania 2014 in London this coming August. Note that the deadline is the end of March; we hope to have final

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Howdy from Wil

On 5 May 2014 11:30, Wil Sinclair w...@wllm.com wrote: I'm Wil Sinclair, Lila Tretikov's significant other. I've always wanted a good excuse to get involved in the Wikipedia project and the Wikipedia community. Lila's appointment would be about as good as it gets. :) ​Welcome! :-)​ ​J. --

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Great editor for Wikipedia infoboxes/templates connected to Wikidata

On 9 August 2014 09:58, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] slow death of anyone can edit concept (was: let's elect people to serve on the wikimedia engineering community team! (brainstorming))

On 9 August 2014 12:23, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 11:57 AM, svetlana svetl...@fastmail.com.au wrote: On Fri, 8 Aug 2014, at 11:47, MZMcBride wrote: [...] For comparison, we now have MediaViewer, which moved through as a beta feature. They say

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

constructed now the extension is pretty much impossible to internationalize: developing a universal, stripped-down version is on our to-do list. (See bugzilla:48552.) [bugzilla 48552 was created May 2013, and prioritised as Lowest by James Forrester, and no change since.] ​As a quick note

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

On 10 September 2014 04:58, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 September 2014 12:54, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: * inter-wiki or intra-wiki integration of multiple-venue discussions rather than several parallel pages and potentially parallel discussions (not a

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

On 10 September 2014 10:52, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 September 2014 18:48, Todd Allen toddmal...@gmail.com wrote: I think that would be very helpful indeed. This part of the article was most recently discussed under subject Stop changing the genre. Click here to review

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

On 10 September 2014 11:01, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 September 2014 18:59, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote: Eh. I'm not particularly interested in building features that only work in VE and not wikitext, and particularly not in ones that would require

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2015

On 11 September 2014 09:27, Anh Chung anh.chung.w...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Wikimania has been over for a month now and it is already time to discuss the next Wikimedia event, the Wikimedia Conference. Though I'm sure the event is worthy, I will repeat yet again the request from the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2015

On 11 September 2014 10:52, Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com wrote: On 11.09.2014 18:42, James Forrester wrote: On 11 September 2014 09:27, Anh Chung anh.chung.w...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Wikimania has been over for a month now and it is already time to discuss the next Wikimedia

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

On 29 September 2014 13:38, Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org wrote: We are excited to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation now has a Vice President of Engineering. Damon Sicore will be filling this vital role. Please join us in welcoming him to the team. ​Welcome, Damon. Looking forward to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata-l] Birthday gift: Missing Wikipedia links (was Re: Wikidata turns two!)

On Wed Oct 29 2014 at 10:56:42 Denny Vrandečić vrande...@google.com wrote: There’s a small tool on WMF labs that you can use to verify the links (it displays the articles side by side from a language pair you select, and then you can confirm or contradict the merge):

[Wikimedia-l] Alex Roshuk / User:Alex756

I have learnt from Facebook that Alex Roshuk, old-time Wikimedian who helped set up the Wikimedia Foundation back in the day (including co-drafting the bylaws), has died. I've memorialised his user page and user talk on enwiki. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alex756

Re: [Wikimedia-l] edited mercilessly

On 3 December 2014 at 05:08, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Hi, I have a vague recollection that when I started editing the English Wikipedia ten years ago, there was a notice near the Save button, which said something like this: Your changes will be edited mercilessly.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Media handling is difficult

On 31 July 2015 at 06:48, Juan de Vojníkov juandevojni...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to ask, if the ease of media handling (images, photographs on Wikimedia Commons) is a priority for Wikimedia Foundation? If not, could it be a priority? Recently we have seen a big step done for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Big problem to solve: good WYSIWYG on WMF wikis

On 16 June 2015 at 02:53, Derk-Jan Hartman d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com wrote: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-December/063225.html I just found back this post by David Gerard from 2010 and was struck by how dead-on the discussion and analysis was and how far we have

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in size of the core editing community

On 10 September 2015 at 07:21, WereSpielChequers < werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote: > A quick follow up to the signpost article of a couple of weeks ago > < > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-08-26/In_focus > >We > now have the August figures >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in size of the core editing community

On 10 September 2015 at 10:56, Pine W wrote: > James, > > Yes, there is more to the story than can be told in the data that we have. > On the other hand, it seems to me that it's a bit harsh to respond like > that to WSC's attempt to share good news. ​Then in my e-mail I

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Collaboration Team Update

FYI. -- Forwarded message -- From: Trevor Parscal Date: 1 October 2015 at 16:10 Subject: [Wikitech-l] Collaboration Team Update To: Wikimedia developers , wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Hi (and sorry for cross-posting)

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Coming up with a new process for Wikimania selection

Forwarding for info; please keep the e-mail conversation on one like, wikimania-l. Thank you. -- Forwarded message - From: James Forrester <jdforres...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2015 at 11:10 Subject: Coming up with a new process for Wikimania selection To: Wikimania g

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 to be held in Montréal in Canada

All, I am delighted to announce on behalf of the Wikimania Committee that Wikimania, the annual Wikimedia community conference, will be held in Montréal, Canada in 8–13 August 2017. 2017 will be the 375th anniversary of the founding of Montréal as a city, which will make it a great time for a

[Wikimedia-l] Status update about editing software, June 2016

All, TL;DR: The Editing Department is working to make the content editing software better. The big work areas are improving the visual editor and editing wikitext. We will bring in a wikitext mode inside the visual editor for simpler, faster switching. We will experiment with prompts to give

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Status update about editing software, June 2016

On 23 June 2016 at 17:01, Pine W wrote: > 1. Is Flow feature development still frozen? If and when would Flow feature > development resume? > ​Yes, principal development is frozen. Like with all production software, urgent bugs and maintenance are still worked on, and we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Outcomes from the Consultation on Wikimedia movement conferences/Wikimania

On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 at 14:54 Ellie Young wrote: > The Community Resources team at the WMF recently held a consultation > > on articulating the value of Wikimedia movement conferences overall, the >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] One Last Ride

On 23 February 2016 at 15:35, Oliver Keyes wrote: > I am leaving the Wikimedia Foundation to take up a job as a Senior > Data Scientist at an information security company. My last day will be > on 18 March. ​Oliver, It's been a while

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wmfall] CTO Search | Status

On 17 February 2016 at 00:03, aude wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Lila Tretikov wrote: > >- In collaboration with the ED and the Technology group, own and > advance > >the overall architectural roadmap, setting the vision and long-term

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] "Among mobile sites, Wikipedia reigns in terms of popularity"

On 11 May 2016 at 14:20, Michael Peel wrote: > I'm hoping that having a responsive skin for the webpages isn't too far > off, though? > Reading can answer that better than I; however, making the skin itself ​is only part of the issue – you also would want to scrap

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] "Among mobile sites, Wikipedia reigns in terms of popularity"

On 11 May 2016 at 12:50, Michael Peel wrote: > Isn't it time to start moving to responsive mediawiki templates ( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design), rather than having > a separate mobile interface/URL? > For a practical example, see the BBC News website

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

All, *TL;DR*: Communities using Flow are invited to fill out a survey about what they want to see from Flow,[Y]. It is administered by a third-party service. It will not require an e-mail or your username. See our privacy statement.[Z] We in the Collaboration Team have currently paused major

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ray Saintonge has died

I will miss Ray. I will miss his cheeriness, his optimism, his kind-heartedness. I will miss his steadfastness, a rock at every Wikimania until he could no longer come, his passion for learning, his dedication to understanding. Farewell, Ray. J. ___

[Wikimedia-l] Automatic citation lookup now supports ISBNs, thanks to OCLC

Hey all, I'm delighted to announce here that you can now use ISBNs to add automatically-generated citations to Wikipedia. This is thanks to a partnership with OCLC, a global non-profit library cooperative, whose WorldCat database of books is the largest in the world. One of the editing features

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Automatic citation lookup now supports ISBNs, thanks to OCLC

On Thu, 11 May 2017 at 14:32 James Heilman wrote: > Excellent to see. Absolutely. > This complements nicely the RefToolbar on EN WP. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RefToolbar > > Will this lead to improvements in that tool? RefToolbar has trouble pulling > the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help need

On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 at 11:31 WМ RepublikaSrpska wrote: > In Republic of Srpska there is a photo-competition Trace of Soul 2018 > (WLE+WLM) > in > progress. Yesterday and today we receive a few e-mails from competitors - > they

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright workflows - research (Was: Re: Foundation management of volunteers)

On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 at 06:28, Yann Forget wrote: > It has been suggested many times to ask Google for an access to their API > for searching images, > so that we could have a bot tagging copyright violations (no free access > for automated search). > That would the single best improvement in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Partial blocks update

On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 17:16, Steven Walling wrote: > How do we see which wikis have partial blocks deployed already / are > planning to have it deployed? On a technical level, this is defined as wgEnablePartialBlocks in config, which is currently: - Meta; - MediaWiki.org; - test