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3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor_engagement_experiments
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On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:
On the IRC front, I note that Sue last had an IRC office hours session on
13 March and there doesn't seem to be any scheduled sessions with Sue in
May. Might it be an idea to have another office hours session with Sue soon?
for their first hire are quite necessary, I think it's
exceptionally good to see a chapter focusing on outreach work in its
professional development.
Sounds like we'll see lots more cool projects coming out of
Wikimedia Sverige soon. :)
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On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.orgwrote:
maybe relevant information to some: this is Ascension day - a public
holiday, depending on where you live.
Apologies if that is a conflict for anyone (I was not aware of the holiday).
If anyone needs to miss this
Just a reminder that this is happenening this morning.
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Date: May 3, 2012 4:01 PM
Subject: IRC office hours with Kul and Amit, about Wikipedia Zero and other
mobile work
To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Hi
Just a quick reminder that this is happening in less than an hour.
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Date: Mon, May 21, 2012 at 6:08 PM
Subject: Office hours about the new mobile site and other mobile work at
the WMF
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Hey folks,
Today I was browsing the many fine articles that have been edited on EN as
part of the Wikipedia initiative by the Association for Psychological
Science.[1] There is no doubt that the articles which these professors and
students have worked are better by any measure of quality.
But I
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:05 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Hi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM9p4o050EY
Someone sent this to me earlier this week. It's a ten-minute cartoon video
that discusses purpose and motivation. The video lightly touches on
technical projects such as
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
Excuse me. Just about a month ago, we had a discussion about spreading out
the times during which office hours would be hosted. Instead of increased
diversity in times, it seems ALL office hours are now being scheduled
during
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
Office actions have historically been used to blank or delete pages, the
current listed policy on Meta and commons[3][4] make no mention of Global
bans or blocking a user locally, or even globally. I have not known for
office
of would be most
appreciated.
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1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Global_bans
2. https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use
3. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_bans
P.S. On a personal note, I
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
It's worth noting here that there is something of a disagreement about the
import of the Terms of Use; Steve Walling and Ryan Kaldari have argued that
the ToU require that the Wikimedia community devise a policy permitting and
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
I thought about that but beyond the language issue, the RfC has also been
open for awhile and had significant participation. Since the trend is to
reject the policy as written anyway, that makes it unenforceable until a
new RfC
6, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
P.S. On a personal note, I wanted to say that though I'm writing this
with my staff accout during working hours, this is not really a part
of my core
On Jul 6, 2012 2:48 AM, Deryck Chan deryckc...@wikimedia.hk wrote:
Short answer as I understand it:
Global blocks are the technical feature and refer to the accounts, the IPs
and the software capability; global bans are the policy and refer to the
people who are unwelcome.
Deryck has got it
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hi all,
The second IRC office hours with the Foundation's editor engagement
experiments team will be on Saturday July 7th at 18:00 UTC. We've just
completed our first feature experiment on English Wikipedia
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:55 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Hi.
Someone recently asked me about the Wikimedia Foundation's installation of
Mingle (https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/) and when I went to find
documentation about it, I came up dry.
I started a page in the most
On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 4:25 AM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote:
With that in mind, and since the current state of the RFC on your
proposal, roughly nine days after commenting began, is about 50% for and
50% against in its current form, I would like to offer to work with you on
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
I don't know how did the meeting with the Portuguese Wikipedians go; I
suppose that it was good. I don't remember that I read anything about
it in blogs or mailing lists, but I may have missed it. Maybe what
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:
That reads like it was a meeting with a selection of Brazilian
Wikipedians. That does not equate with Portuguese Wikipedia’s top
contributors. I'm sure some of Portuguese Wikipedia’s top
contributors are Brazilian,
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:
While I may not be involved in the Portuguese Wikipedia, I do have a
masters degree in mathematics, so I can reliably inform you that
majority is not the same as all.
The WMF tends to employ smart people, so I
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote:
This is not a mole hill. It is the WMF (I assume intentionally, since
you must have known better) misleading people about its activities.
You had a particular message you wanted to give, so you described the
activity
at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
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Subject: Office hours for editor engagement experiments this Saturday
To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Sarah slimvir...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know anything about this case, but it does seem that paid
advocacy
is increasing, and although the community seems opposed to it as a whole,
that message isn't getting through to individual editors. It's becoming
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
In the past, those conversations were short, and ended in a permaban (cf.
Jimbo's past statements about blocking anyone offering commercial editing,
cf. Kohs).
Today, the people concerned are chapter trustees and
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.comwrote:
Hello
Is there a place (I looked on meta and saw nothing) where the situation
with regards to paid editing or more generally the practices toward
declaration of conflict of interest in all linguistic versions of
Template authors on any and every wiki, this one's for you. ;)
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Subject: [Wikitech-l] #switch limits
To: wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org
Over the last week, we have noticed very
. are on Meta.[4]
Where: #wikimedia-office
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2. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Account_creation_user_experience
3. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Design/Login
4. https
This is happening in just a few minutes.
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Date: Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:50 PM
Subject: IRC office hours about account creation and login redesign
To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Hi all
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Mono monom...@gmail.com wrote:
They are now expanded
by default
Not //quite// the case, actually. So far as I can see, the banners slide
open when you mouse over them, but stay closed by default.
I think it's kind of bad tactic, since it defies user
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi folks,
to increase accountability and create more opportunities for course
corrections and resourcing adjustments as necessary, Sue's asked me
and Howie Fung to set up a quarterly project evaluation process,
starting
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 1:45 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
How about for the April fundraiser, instead of setting a dollar value
goal, we agree to use multivariate analysis instead of A/B testing to
optimize the messaging from volunteer submissions in advance, then run
the whole
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
It should be obvious that what is missing is discipline. An
arbitration committee with expanded scope, with full-time members
funded by the WMF (at arm's length for legal reasons), could go a long
way towards solving
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
It should be obvious that what is missing is discipline. An
arbitration committee with expanded scope, with full-time members
funded by the
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
With respect to welcoming and assisting new users on the English
Wikipedia where there is a bewildering volume of varied activity by new
and experienced users it might be helpful if we had a recent changes
options that
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Matthew Roth mr...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Steven's link, without the extra is in it:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_engagement_experiments
Thanks Matthew. :)
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On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nlwrote:
Dear colleagues,
Since November 2012, Wikivoyage is a part of the Wikimedia movement. I
have come to some thoughts about this old/new project, both from the
perspective of a collaborator and from the perspective of
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote:
Official statement from the family:
http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/**post/40373383323/official-**
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi folks,
to increase accountability and create more opportunities for course
corrections and resourcing adjustments as necessary, Sue's asked me
and Howie Fung to set up a quarterly project evaluation process,
starting
Wikipedians. We'll likely discuss these projects,
including testing results so far, as well as any questions people might
have.
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1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki
Reminder that this is happening later today.
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From: Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org
Date: Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 12:57 PM
Subject: IRC office hours with the Editor Engagement Experiments team
To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Hi
On Mar 3, 2013 1:47 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm. There were 77 comments in support, and 68 comments in opposition,
but it was closed as supporting the global bans policy in its current
form. Interesting.
Note the comments for the second option were to support the position that
the
On Saturday, March 23, 2013, ENWP Pine wrote:
Tilman,
Thanks, it's great to see the momentum here in Mobile Contributions.
Was there any discussion about how to convert the selfies uploaders and
people who sign up for the watchlist
feature into more active contributors? This seems like an
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Jan-Bart de Vreede jdevre...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
The Board has appointed a Transition Team which consists of the Chair of
the Board of Trustees Kat Walsh, and HR Committee member Alice Wiegand,
Sue, Sue’s deputy and the Wikimedia Foundation’s Vice-President
Sorry for cross-posting, but I wanted to make sure more people are aware
this before we deploy it (likely on Thursday the 25th).
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Date: Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:19 PM
Subject: A refreshing change to the ConfirmEdit
On Tuesday, April 23, 2013, Nathan wrote:
The necessity of public comment on a detailed budget is overblown. I
don't think the Foundation should dedicate a lot of time or resources
into getting input into the budget development process from members of
the community. This is one area where
functions of login and account
creation.
This Saturday the 27th at 18:00 UTC,[2] we'll be hosting IRC office
hours to talk about these changes with anyone interested. Please join
us. :-)
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1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki
of posting locally to Village Pumps as well, targeting
the top ten Wikipedias and the English version of all other projects. Help
spread the word if you can. :)
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1. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/25/try-new-login-accountcreation/
2. https
-accountcreation/
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Hi all,
Today the Editor Engagement Experiments team has ported our new designs
for
account creation and login to the current version of MediaWiki core,
meaning it is now available for testing
On Sunday, April 28, 2013, Risker wrote:
I'd actually suggest the opposite: That the only people eligible to vote
for the three elected seats be active participants within the Wikimedia
projects. That would drop the staff/contractor and advisory board
eligibility. Alternately, let's make
the method mentioned in the two links
below...
1. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/25/try-new-login-accountcreation/
2. mediawiki.org/wiki/Account_creation_user_experience/Testing
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P.S. Sorry if there are odd linebreaks in this message. Has anyone
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
- Wikipedia in 21 languages, including English, German, French, Italian,
Polish, Dutch, Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic, Korean, Czech, Swedish, and
others.
- In English: Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikispecies, Wikinews
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
The remaining projects we have held off on because there are localizations
still to be completed (on translatewiki) or there are problems with
localizations already finished. Since the work of localizations is never
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.ukwrote:
That's amazing!
This is the now-closed office hours calendar, which I think was run by
someone in WMF (but I could be wrong):
, such
as this year's fashion edit-a-thon put together by Wikimedia Sverige.
What am I missing from this list?
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On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.comwrote:
1) I'm confused: first you ask about community initiatives then you list
activities by chapters and the like. Community initiative makes me think
of edit drives, custom tools and scripts, processes, guidelines,
user on ptwiki last
year, I am not surprised at all that we attracted many more positive
contributions just by removing it. Sadly, from looking at bug 49860 and
gerrit change 69982, it seems that this deeply annoying feature is going to
be put back in place.
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On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
On July 11th at the next WMF Metrics Activities meeting, myself, Erik
Möller, Howie Fung, Maryana Pinchuk, and Dario Taraborelli are going
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
In my view, this whole argument would provide reason to:
1.) Only use a third party video option sparingly, as-needed until there
are better open-source video options to use.
2.) Put more resources into open source
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.comwrote:
Anyway, being able to disband the SF office as regards software
development (and perhaps more), and switch to remote work only, would
probably be the single most effective measure for enhancing communication
and
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 5:52 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
Do you intend to measure the total number of edits per day prior to
and after the visual editor roll-out?
It appears that you have not analyzed or presented any data associated
with those statistics.
We run A/B tests
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:13 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
de:wp convinced you. What would it take to convince you on en:wp? (I'm
asking for a clear objective criterion here. If you can only offer a
subjective one, please explain how de:wp convinced you when en:wp
hasn't.)
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:27 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
OK - so why were those people listened to on de:wp? What happened
there that they convinced you?
If you're replying to me... this is why I said I wasn't speaking for the VE
team. I didn't make that call. :)
Steven
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Kevin Wayne Williams
kwwilli...@kwwilliams.com wrote:
If you had followed that, and understood that the Minimum Viable Product
included cut-and-paste, table editing, and maybe the ability to
successfully and completely edit the hundred or so most edited
?
There are several other excellent questions posted on-wiki as well. I know
people are still traveling and likely jet-lagged even if they're home, so I
am in no huge hurry to get an answer. Thanks to the Board in advance. :-)
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On Sunday, August 25, 2013, James Heilman wrote:
Mobile image upload is a huge plus thus thanks to all who made it
happen. It is allowing those who might not otherwise have be able to
get involved to do so. Just saw this image come in through the mobile
site
room for individual users
potentially setting their default edit mode to one or the other, reduces
extra button clutter, etc.
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On Wednesday, October 16, 2013, Sarah Stierch wrote:
Hi everyone,
I've asked a question on the new Program Evaluation Design portal about
when people think the first edit-a-thons took place. (Or the very first, if
we know!)
It would be great to have your input on meta:
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
A post is live on Gizmodo today about a Commons contributor (Evan-Amos) who
takes high quality photos of video game systems and hardware.[1] Towards
the end it mentions that Evan started a Kickstarter to fund his efforts to
buy
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Kirill Lokshin
kirill.loks...@wikimediadc.org wrote:
Hello everyone,
Wikimedia DC has released its Annual Plan for 2013-14. The plan can be
found on our wiki at http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Annual_plan_(2013–2014);
a
copy will also be posted on meta shortly.
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:40 PM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote:
The Wikimedia Foundation needs to wake up and deal with the real tech
elephant in the room. Our primary issue is not a lack of FLOW, a lack of a
visual editor, or a lack of a rapidly expanding education program.
Our
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:37 AM, WereSpielChequers
werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
Typo correction and vandalism reversion are certainly both entries to
editing, and it isn't just anti-vandalism where the opportunities have
declined in recent years. Typos are getting harder to find,
in particular, since as a team
we only have extensive experience creating articles on enwiki.
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On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 4:56 AM, Gryllida gryll...@fastmail.fm wrote:
Hopefully your research does not conclude this is a good idea; I had been
contacted to create such bots multiple times in the past. I had declined
such queries, as the need in automating this means inefficiency in manual
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Steven,
What qualifies as many? On ro.wp, Andrebot is creating sections of
articles about the population of villages/communes in Bulgaria,
Hungary and Croatia, also creating articles where they do not exist.
That will
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Jake Orlowitz jorlow...@gmail.com wrote:
* Our peers like EFF, and Internet archive accept it
To be totally honest, I think this is moot.
Support for bitcoin among these two organizations has hardly been a ringing
endorsement. In the past, EFF has rejected it
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:17 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
As Peter just said, there is no risk if WMF converts bitcoin donations to
USD immediately.
Uh... except that because Bitcoin is not a regulated currency, it's value
has the potential to fluctuate wildly, and seems to
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.comwrote:
Odder has published a fantastic blog piece at
http://twkozlowski.net/paid-editing-thrives-in-the-heart-of-wikipedia/ in
which it is revealed that a WMF employee is engaged in undeclared paid
editing on English
I really really wish we could thanks IPs too. It sucks to treat them like
second class citizens.
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Something like the new message orange bar :)
I guess that designers and Growth people may know an answer, but
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not entirely certain it's a good idea to technologize such very basic
user interactions. It takes as much work to thank someone using
notifications as it does to leave them a talk page message.
That's empirically not
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
I dunno, guys. I certainly would take a talk page message over a
mechanical thank any day of the week. More particularly, I notice a
significant trend in using thank notifications to express agreement with
people without
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Daniel Mietchen
daniel.mietc...@googlemail.com wrote:
What about having the Reasonator sit in the Draft namespace, with a
link from the search results or the text preloaded for non-existing
pages in the main namespace?
Daniel
It is still far too early to
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 7:25 AM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.comwrote:
could wmf please extend the mediawiki software in the following way:
1. it should knows groups
2. allow users to store an arbitrary number of groups with their profile
3. allow to select one of the groups joined to
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Charles Andrès
charles.andres.w...@gmail.com wrote:
TLDR:transform the thank you campaign after the fundraising in a Thank
you campaign: became an editor
We've tried this before and so far it hasn't worked very well. See results
from 2012-13 at
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On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 5:35 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
What does productize mean in the context of
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Growth_Quarterly_Review_(February_2014).pdf
?
Sorry for the jargon. We try to avoid tech industry terminology in public
communication but
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On the software side, we have Ubuntu Linux (itself highly indebted to
Debian) / Apache / MariaDB / PHP / Varnish / ElasticSearch / memcached
/ Puppet / OpenStack / various libraries and many other dependencies [2],
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Ellie Young eyo...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On the recommendation of the Wikimania 2015 selection Jury Committee, we
have accepted the proposal from Mexico DF to host. The proposal will be
further vetted by the WMF staff in the coming month, after which time we
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Wil Sinclair w...@wllm.com wrote:
Thanks, Edward! I was starting to worry that no one would ask.
I participate on WO because I think every voice deserves to be heard.
And I will go wherever people feel comfortable speaking freely to hear
them. Some of us feel
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there any thought of making metrics updates more machine-readable,
exposing data/metrics/timelines? Right now the excellent data is
flattened into slides, and then further flattened into a single pdf.
If anyone is
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 6:22 AM, edward edw...@logicmuseum.com wrote:
Could I ask if there are any plans by WMF to address some of the content
problems in Wikipedia? Pretty much any article in my specialist area
(which is actually not all that specialist) has serious problems - gross
factual
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Patricio Lorente
patricio.lore...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear friends in the Wikimedia community,
After meeting face-to-face in May to deliberate on the four proposals
they received for the 2013-2014 Round 2 annual plan grants, the Funds
Dissemination Committee
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Patricio,
I have a question about something in the software development portion of
the FDC recommendations regarding the Wikimedia Foundation proposal.
In that, it says The effectiveness of persona-based
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
There is a post on the blog saying that bitcoin is accepted but there are
several questions about why WMF is asking for contact info. Is that an IRS
requirement? Might want to post the reason in the blog entry. AFAIK with
the
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 1:53 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Theoretical overlap, perhaps. People in the role of Community Liaison,
Product Development and Strategic Change Management, a title Orwell would
be proud of, are not doing what's being described in this e-mail. The
current
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
MzMcbride, I'm not sure that WMF is overstaffed, but I would like to see
more specific performance metrics for some groups. The FDC commented on
this as well and I hope WMF is taking that to heart. I'm pinging Garfield
for
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 7:06 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Hm. Garfield is the closest person I know in the Foundation to the FDC in
its role of evaluating the Foundation's Annual Plan for the entire
organization. The only other people I can think of who might be able to
comment for
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Or, have them filled from Wikidata. Then, {{Infobox}} would be all the
wikitext you need. This could also help to abstract infoboxes to load a
placeholder/hint on mobile, then loading the box on request
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 6:55 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a list somewhere of all currently active Foundation
initiatives for attracting and retaining active editors? I am only
aware of the one project, Task Recommendations, to try to encourage
editors who have made a
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