Re: [Wikimedia-l] Anybody alive?

2016-02-24 Thread Thehelpfulone
On 24 February 2016 at 18:18, Milos Rancic wrote: > I think we should find first at least one of the list admins, so we > could find the names of the persons we are searching. Austin? > TheHelpfulOne? Richard (from Australia)? > *waves*, it's actually closer to ~1500, so a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please be considerate of everyone's time.

2014-06-16 Thread Thehelpfulone
insight into the ETA for a new app, and if some of the new features of iOS 8 could be integrated into it? -- Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone On 16 Jun 2014, at 11:23, Samuel Klein wrote: > We have an updated Wikipedia Beta app? Aha, so we do. :) > > With

[Wikimedia-l] Clarification by Lila Tretikov about MediaViewer

2014-08-13 Thread Thehelpfulone
Forwarding on request. -- Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone Begin forwarded message: > From: Ad Huikeshoven > Date: 13 August 2014 12:40:14 BST > To: wikimedia-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Clarification by Lila Tretikov about MediaView

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [WCA] Chapters Portal - Yet another Summary of information on Meta

2013-04-25 Thread Thehelpfulone
eta.E2.84.A2.22_and_organizing_things. Please add your comments/suggestions there on how you think we can make things easier to find and organise on Meta. -- Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Resignation announcement, and a parting remark to everyone

2013-04-29 Thread Thehelpfulone
ase can you clarify whether WMHK is still an eligible entity and what follow up was done after that message a month ago? --- Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Re: Resignation announcement, and a parting remark to everyone

2013-04-29 Thread Thehelpfulone
Deryck please could you confirm what happened with regards to the unused funds - did WMHK request a reallocation? Sent from my iPhone --- Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone On 29 Apr 2013, at 12:43, Deryck Chan wrote: > -- Forwarded mess

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why not everyone have the right to vote in the Board & FDC elections?

2013-04-30 Thread Thehelpfulone
n for chapters to be able to exclusively select 2 of out 5 community seats through a much less-transparent process? -- Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-12 Thread Thehelpfulone
ptions where adminship has been granted by WMF staff for their work without going through any formal community procedures: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Administrators#Temporary_adminship_or_adminship_by_decree . -- Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:T

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-12 Thread Thehelpfulone
gt; > :( > For what it's worth, I did try to get some re-translation organised in early February: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/WMF and asked communications staff at the WMF for their input. To be fair to them they did say that they'd look into it and get back t

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

2013-05-13 Thread Thehelpfulone
volunteer admins? Sent from my iPhone --- Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone On 13 May 2013, at 08:48, Huib Laurens wrote: > It had volunteer administrators untill 6 months ago. > > Huib > > > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:46 PM, rupert THURNER >

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

2013-05-13 Thread Thehelpfulone
ects, running unapproved bots and so on. > block per RfC and cu evidence." ) > Thanks for clarifying why Huib had his blog access revoked Tilman. Please could you clarify why Casey and Alex (who haven't been socking, at least not to my knowledge!) had their access revoked

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

2013-05-13 Thread Thehelpfulone
On 13 May 2013 13:02, Thehelpfulone wrote: > Thanks for clarifying why Huib had his blog access revoked Tilman. Please > could you clarify why Casey and Alex (who haven't been socking, at least > not to my knowledge!) had their access revoked without notification? Ah I sent th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board candidates page: please set as a subject of translation

2013-05-14 Thread Thehelpfulone
#x27;s statement for translation later today but will follow up with Francis before making his statement for translation - I don't think it's fair for translators to translate a statement that could be considerably tweaked (and would need re-translating). --- Thehelpfulone h

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

2013-05-16 Thread Thehelpfulone
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Estad%C3%ADsticas > > Thanks and congratulations to all volunteers that make it possible. > > Let's party! Congratulations! I've just updated www.wikipedia.org to reflect the new article count. :-) --- Thehelpfulone https:/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New design for the list info page?

2013-05-20 Thread Thehelpfulone
On 20 May 2013 18:04, Quim Gil wrote: > Still about this: > > Thehelpfulone wrote: > > Last week I noticed a nice design for the list info page of the WLM-US > > mailing list that I tweaked for this mailing list: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ca

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New design for the list info page?

2013-05-20 Thread Thehelpfulone
ion.org/wiki/FAQ/en instead with Our projects as a separate link is also something to consider. -- Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal to use the internal wiki more

2013-05-31 Thread Thehelpfulone
ens_WMF_private_wikis_and_.22no_place_to_work_together.22> for candidates in the community Board of Trustees elections (for which voting starts tomorrow). -- Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New design for the list info page?

2013-05-31 Thread Thehelpfulone
As a reminder the source is at https://github.com/quimgil/mailman-templates. On 22 May 2013 20:32, Quim Gil wrote: > Version 1.0 is out: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-announce > > Source: https://github.com/quimgil/mailman-templates > > Propagati

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New design for the list info page?

2013-06-25 Thread Thehelpfulone
ions in the next few days, I'll switch this list to the new design at the end of the week. -- Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Staff Images

2013-07-12 Thread Thehelpfulone
you're going to add a photo of Tux then you'll have to add a user page<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Rory>and accompanying email address too! -- Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Internal-l] 2013-2014 Round 1 FDC eligibility status & IRC office hours

2013-07-16 Thread Thehelpfulone
ted a discussion on Meta, please add your thoughts there: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_wikis#Are_we_re-purposing_Internal.3F . Thehelpfulone On 16 July 2013 14:12, Itzik Edri wrote: > Hi Garfield, > > I must say I'm surprised from the new requirements. Eligible entities

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Internal-l] 2013-2014 Round 1 FDC eligibility status & IRC office hours

2013-07-16 Thread Thehelpfulone
On 16 July 2013 16:48, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Samuel Klein, 16/07/2013 17:32: > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Thehelpfulone wrote: >> >> Please could you explain why was this message only sent to Internal-l, >>> given the discussions on this lis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The failure of Google, looking for open source alternatives

2013-08-24 Thread Thehelpfulone
them to keep it around. > Mono > +1 - as far as I know it doesn't even allow you to go via anywhere yet - it's just a simple A to B. -- Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] September 11 wiki

2013-11-20 Thread Thehelpfulone
27;t seem to work/exist? -- Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Public Google Calendar for IRC office hours

2012-05-04 Thread Thehelpfulone
(phones, tablets) and for people that use Google Calendars for personal use, they will be able to see the IRC office hours with their normal calendar so as to raise awareness and increase community participation in them. Thehelpfulone ___ Wikimedia-l mailing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: New Legal Counsel

2012-05-15 Thread Thehelpfulone
nvey it to her directly (CCed in) as she is currently looking for ways to enhance it as part of the revamp. -- Thehelpfulone http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: htt

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Declaring my candidacy

2012-07-09 Thread Thehelpfulone
It appears that so far this has been a very much closed process if anything has been happening to date. -- Thehelpfulone http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Declaring my candidacy

2012-07-09 Thread Thehelpfulone
ting is planned with the chapters during Wikimania. > Would I be correct in thinking that the discussions in this meeting (and future discussions) and the outcome of this meeting will be posted publically on Meta-Wiki or here, as opposed to chapters-l for others to follow? -- Thehelpfulone http:/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2012-13 Annual Plan of the Wikimedia Foundation

2012-07-29 Thread Thehelpfulone
t's a bit of a mess at the moment). Perhaps we should move all the old budget information to /Archive or at least collapse it so that only the most relevant information is one there if we are going to be using it to discuss this plan? -- Thehelpfulone http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Should we lock StrategyWiki?

2012-08-12 Thread Thehelpfulone
ed as an import source for Meta-Wiki, so any admins on Meta (there are plenty) will be able to import pages cross-wiki with full history via https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Import. Perhaps we could put things into a new Strategy: namespace? -- Thehelpfulone http://meta.wikimedia.org/w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Seeks Declaratory Relief in response to Legal Threats from Internet Brands

2012-09-06 Thread Thehelpfulone
FC has been closed to discussion, there has not been an official outcome. I believe it was intended that the Board would decide and make a statement/resolution to state their findings. Thehelpfulone Sent from my iPhone ___ Wikimedia-l mailing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Seeks Declaratory Relief in response to Legal Threats from Internet Brands

2012-09-06 Thread Thehelpfulone
follow up on this, the Board has now published a statement on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Requests_for_comment/Travel_Guide&diff=4099910&oldid=4099573#Board_statement . -- Thehelpfulone http://meta.wikimedia.o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board resolutions on bylaw amendments and appointment of Foundation staff officers

2012-11-02 Thread Thehelpfulone
hat you are intentionally trying to hide something by waiting for a community member to request it. -- Thehelpfulone http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to WMF November 2012 Metrics and Activities Meeting: Thursday, Dec. 6, 18:30 UTC

2012-11-29 Thread Thehelpfulone
e on Meta-Wiki (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2/(https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings>) was updated by Erik in October to reflect this. -- Thehelpfulone http://meta.wikimedia.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF HR and leadership questions

2012-12-27 Thread Thehelpfulone
or creating the script which generates those pages. -- Thehelpfulone http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF HR and leadership questions

2012-12-28 Thread Thehelpfulone
ff_and_contractors&offset=&limit=500&action=history>of the Staff and contractors page on Foundation wiki, but that could be a reasonable count as it excludes fellows/legal interns/comms interns/short-term contractors - Gayle? -- Thehelpfulone http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:T

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Chapter reports WMNL

2013-01-06 Thread Thehelpfulone
a snippet as suggested previously - *in that email* rather than having to go elsewhere to find it. -- Thehelpfulone http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] 2013 Steward Elections and Confirmations

2013-02-07 Thread Thehelpfulone
listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l -- Thehelpfulone http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone ___ Wikimedia-l mail

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediaau-l] Fwd: Sue Gardner interview on ABC Radio

2013-02-14 Thread Thehelpfulone
; > Cheers, > Craig Franklin > > ___ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > wikimediaa...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > > > > -- > John Vandenberg > > ____

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are chapters part of the community and board seats for affiliates?

2013-02-19 Thread Thehelpfulone
stand why we use private voting through SecurePoll for the "community" elections but please could someone explain what I'm missing with regards to Chapter selected seats? -- Thehelpfulone http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone _

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Looking back at the London Conference

2013-02-19 Thread Thehelpfulone
nstructions at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists#Create_a_new_list to file a bug. I'd suggest "WCA-Announce" to match our similar announcement lists for MediaWiki, WLM, Toolserver etc and to keep it relatively short. -- Thehelp

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Looking back at the London Conference

2013-02-21 Thread Thehelpfulone
rested in what the WCA is doing, given that the list is for 'movement' announcements and chapters/WCA are part of our movement. Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Transition team update

2013-04-01 Thread Thehelpfulone
Thanks Jan-Bart, On 1 April 2013 17:17, Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote: > With a little help from TheHelpfulOne we have made a start with the Meta > pages for the transition team. > Credit to Sj and Phoebe for some clean up too! > The central page is located at: > http://meta.wik

[Wikimedia-l] New design for the list info page?

2013-04-17 Thread Thehelpfulone
and compare to https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l. Unfortunately Mailman only seems to allow this change to be made for the English version of the page, so if you try to view the page in another language, you'll still get the standard list info page. Any objections to changing it?

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Tweet this page" from some or all sites???

2013-04-18 Thread Thehelpfulone
ich policies would those be? -- Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] foundation-l is now wikimedia-l

2012-04-09 Thread Thehelpfulone
Great job on the archive surgery. -- Thehelpfulone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone English Wikipedia Administrator ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] foundation-l is now wikimedia-l

2012-04-09 Thread Thehelpfulone
kimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l> > Nope, you get a bounce back. -- Thehelpfulone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone English Wikipedia Administrator _

[Wikimedia-l] Sister Projects Committee

2012-04-10 Thread Thehelpfulone
lace. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on this mailing list or on the talk page. :-) -- Thehelpfulone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone English Wikipedia Administrator ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ombudsmen commission

2012-04-23 Thread Thehelpfulone
. You would be able to easily keep track of what tickets have been answered, but as far as I am aware the OTRS admins are technically able to view all the emails in any queues - so that would be another 12ish people plus devs that would be able to view the tickets. I'm not saying that t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ombudsmen commission

2012-04-24 Thread Thehelpfulone
(yes I even trust you ;-) ) to not do anything they shouldn't do, but I see the importance in giving advance warning about who could *potentially *view emails if an OTRS queue for the Ombudsman commission was created. -- Thehelpfulone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Clerk" role description?

2012-05-01 Thread Thehelpfulone
a-l mailing list > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/ma