Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes of 2017!

Denny, thanks for organizing and publishing! You mentioned that the comm-tech team is the one "responsible for investigating and addressing the top 10 wishes". I think the community views WMF as more of a monolith, and I hope these votes have wider impact on foundation priorities. After all,

[Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes of 2017!

Hi everyone, The Community Tech team is happy to announce the top 10 wishes from the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey! More than 1,100 people participated in the survey this year -- proposing, discussing and voting on 214 ideas. There was a two-week period in November to submit and discuss

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes of 2016!

Yes, for sure. We don't want to impose anything on wikis that don't want or can't use it. On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 7:21 AM, pi zero wrote: > Just a general observation: Making things "global" can be good or bad for > non-wikipedia projects depending on how it's done;

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes of 2016!

Just a general observation: Making things "global" can be good or bad for non-wikipedia projects depending on how it's done; spreading uniformity across projects could also damage non-wikipedia projects by imposing inappropriate infrastructure. I'm not totally cynical about the idea, just noting

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes of 2016!

Thanks Danny Some excellent projects. Great to see so many that will benefit more than just the EN WP community such as global gadgets, non-Latin language improvements and global settings. :-) J On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 9:20 PM, Danny Horn wrote: > Hi everyone, > > The

[Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes of 2016!

Hi everyone, The Community Tech team is happy to announce the top 10 wishes from the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey! More than 1,100 people participated in the survey this year -- proposing, discussing and voting on 265 ideas. There was a two-week period in November to submit and discuss

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

On 29.12.2015 03:40, Pete Forsyth wrote: > This is not an "either/or" situation. At least in the past, when I have > manually added Wayback Machine links (or seen them added by bots), they do > not *replace* dead links, they merely complement them. The English > Wikipedia templates include two

[Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

Deadlinks are one of the most common ways of spamming Wikipedia. Paid editors replace deadlinks with links to the spam site which now contains the contain as it way copied from waybackmachine. Linking to waybackmachine is thus superior. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia

[Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

Hey Trillium Am a little distracted. Will dug up some difs for you soon. Please email me directly to remind me. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

28.12.2015, 21:00, "James Heilman" : > Deadlinks are one of the most common ways of spamming Wikipedia. Paid > editors replace deadlinks with links to the spam site which now contains > the contain as it way copied from waybackmachine. Linking to waybackmachine > is thus superior. > > -- > James

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

Henning, If we're going to solve the problem of dead links, it needs to involve automation, at least for the heavy lifting. Obviously, if a human contributor can add a better source, that's great. But there are more dead links than people willing to replace them. On English Wikipedia, there's

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

Henning, I think you have missed an important detail (and if I'm mistaken, I'd like to know about it). This is not an "either/or" situation. At least in the past, when I have manually added Wayback Machine links (or seen them added by bots), they do not *replace* dead links, they merely

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Henning Schlottmann wrote: > Switching dead links to the archive is a move to a dead end, instead of > looking for > > a) the new correct URL, as many links were just moved. > b) alternative sources for the same fact. > An automated

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

On 16.12.2015 21:12, Danny Horn wrote: > #1. Migrate dead links to the Wayback Machine (111 support votes) I really hope, you don't follow that wish, as it is detrimental to the quality of Wikipedia. Switching dead links to the archive is a move to a dead end, instead of looking for a) the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

17.12.2015, 01:26, "Sam Klein" : > Thanks to all for organizing the survey and for sharing! > And a mentor-friendly feature I've wanted for a long time: > #10. Add a user watchlist That's not only mentor-friendly, it's hounder-friendly and harrasser-friendly. Really, you should have a look

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 4:01 AM, Lane Rasberry wrote: > It was fun to participate in the proposal process. I want to stress this sentence! I believe many participants will agree. There are many ways to create a community backlog, and none of them will be perfect. The

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

Yes, if there are wishes that we can't work on -- or we can only do one part of a larger wish -- then it's our team's responsibility to really think it through, and report back to the community about it. We're planning to have some checkpoints through the year, where we'll give a report on how

[Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

Hi everyone, I'm happy to announce that the Community Tech team's Community Wishlist Survey has concluded, and we're able to announce the top 10 wishes! 634 people participated in the survey, where they proposed, discussed and voted on 107 ideas. There was a two-week period in November to submit

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

This thread (subject) looks like it could bring lots of different thoughts, ideas, suggestions, etc. Please (Please, Please) --- if your message is mainly on a new topic / thought / etc; Send a new message, with a new subject line. Thank you, Richard.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

Danny, First of all, thanks for your comments on Wikisource community wishlist survey. Though we are a small global community, we did our best to get our basic problems noticed. To my opinion, the current system of Community wishlist survey is not good enough to solve the problems of Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

Wow! I have strong opinions about everything on this list and apparently so do many other people. It was fun to participate in the proposal process. If any of these proposals are not feasible to develop then I would enjoy reading a short explanation explaining why from the perspective of a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

Thanks to all for organizing the survey and for sharing! A lot of these should help people stay in touch on smaller wikis and sibling projects where they are less active (and currently less likely to see pings and messages), so while I also want to see wikisource take over the world, these seem

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

Question for the Wikisource folks: would Project Grants be a way to get resources for you? If you can design a project and find people with the right skills, that avenue might be beneficial for you. I have a software developer in mind who would probably like to work with you if resources are