Belatedly (this thread is awesome!)
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Johan Jönsson wrote:
> As of writing, Danish Wikipedia is now 32 articles from reaching 200,000.
> It's midnight in Denmark now, so it will at some point tomorrow, CET.
Congratulations Danish Wikipedia and Wikipedians!
I note
MZMcBride wrote:
>http://nyti.ms/1Bl9VpB
>
>This story about an art exhibit opening in New York on Thursday is pretty
>neat. A Wikipedian has been working for years to create a print version of
>Wikipedia, described as "half utilitarian data visualization project, half
>absurdist poetic gesture." H
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Andrew Gray
wrote:
> If we take the reasonable guess that enwiki is about the same text
> volume as all other Wikipedias put together, then we're probably just
> about to overtake them...
>
This hasn't been true for some time :-) Closer to 1:5 I think.
It would
Nice! I love that someone has finally settled the size-in-volumes
debate in a somewhat... direct... fashion.
Incidentally, the largest print serial I'm aware of is the 'Serial
Set' of American official papers; it currently runs to around 14,000
volumes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
phoebe ayers wrote:
>I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos'
>observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an
>open discussion thread about things going right.
>
>What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is
>happening i
Oh I totally agree that it is cool. Thanks for posting this!
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Michael Peel wrote:
>
> > 1) This gives you the data that is in the item, but what does it give you
> > when there is no data in the item?
>
> Ideally, all of the data would be in the wikidata item, and
> 1) This gives you the data that is in the item, but what does it give you
> when there is no data in the item?
Ideally, all of the data would be in the wikidata item, and if there's no data
then there's nothing to display. ;-) But in practice, you can pass parameter
information to the templat
Interesting! But there are a few problems with this:
1) This gives you the data that is in the item, but what does it give you
when there is no data in the item?
2) I am missing a discrete [edit] somewhere indicating where I go to add
the data for the fields that are missing from the template
I re
Thanks to Wikidata and Module:Wikidata [1], it is now possible [2] to include a
basic infobox in an article using a single line, rather than the usual lengthy
piece of wikicode (which new users could find off-putting). For a live example,
see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole_Telescope
TL;DR: the Italian Wikisource has been indexed by a digital library
platform used by over 4500 libraries in Italy [1]. This means that over
3500 texts (proofread and/or validated) can be read by library patrons.
Many libraries will add them to the catalog too (!).
Longer and librarianer explanati
That's such a wonderful, sweet project! :) It seems likely infeasible for
bigger projects but as a way to build a strong small wiki community, I
think it's amazing!
Kudos to you!
-Emily
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:35 PM, attolippip wrote:
> Oh, Liam, you are right :)
>
> We award the "best newbi
Todd, is it perhaps this diff among yours (https://archive.is/MRUkZ) where you
called for the keeping of an apparently explicit autofellatio image in a
since-deleted autofellatio article that makes you think you're partially to
share the credit for a world-historic educational work?
Note to al
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Trillium Corsage
wrote:
> I wasn't going to join in, not wanting to affect Fae's situation with my own,
> but reading the latest emails he was actually concerned with the UK list, so
> I'll go ahead.
>
> Would someone mind taking me off moderation as well? I see
Oh, Liam, you are right :)
We award the "best newbie of the month" on Ukrainian Wikipedia and award
him/her with a can of condensed milk via post [1]
(we also award with a can of condensed milk the "best contributor of the
month", and want to do it is a few smaller wikiprojects as well (Wikiquote,
Todd, since you credit yourself as a collaborative creator of a world-historic
educational work, what are some of the articles you have created or greatly
contributed to? Or is it that you derive your credit from administrative work
and blocking others, if so what are your most notable administr
And the award for for the first negative comment on this thread that is
designed to be "about things going right" goes to Trilliam. Congratulations
on being the official "party pooper" of Wikimedia-l. There will be cake
tomorrow.
To return to nice things, and in response to the previous message by
Dear Johan,
Our greetings to you! [1]
And Ukrainian Wikipedia now has one more article because of Danish
Wikipedia :)) [2]
(and because of 100wikidays challenge, of course [3])
[1]
https://wikimediaukraine.wordpress.com/2015/06/11/wikipedia-danskoiu-siahnula-200-tysiach-statei/
[2] https://uk.wik
As of writing, Danish Wikipedia is now 32 articles from reaching 200,000.
It's midnight in Denmark now, so it will at some point tomorrow, CET.
//Johan Jönsson
--
2015-06-04 14:41 GMT-07:00 phoebe ayers :
> I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos'
> observation th
Well, let's not forget the big picture.
For all the bickering and squabbling it might have entailed, for all the
stumbles that might have happened in the process, the lot of us have
created the largest and probably most significant educational work in the
history of the world. And we've done it in
Perhaps a bit early of the roundup of the Wikidata Menu Challenge, but I
think it is cool so I'll share it already. Some stats (thanks to André
Costa for collecting it) on the 300 items in the challenge:
Month of the challenge (and a few days afterwards) (2015-05-08 -
2015-06-08):
{
"users": 1
This is really cool indeed and I am told (by the little birdie) that there
is more we can do. Thank you, team! Awesome!!!
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:
> [re: experiments using video.js to improve UI of TimedMediaHan
On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:
[re: experiments using video.js to improve UI of TimedMediaHandler]
> And we will need brion’s ogv.js https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo/ work
> to support browsers without OGV/WebM support.
>
A couple updates on that front:
1) It looks li
Hoi,
Ori I am seriously impressed !! WOW
Thanks,
GerardM
On 8 June 2015 at 07:55, Ori Livneh wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:41 PM, phoebe ayers
> wrote:
>
> > I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos'
> > observation that discussion here is falling off, I
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:41 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos'
> observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an
> open discussion thread about things going right.
>
> What's a cool thing you just discovered o
2015 at 2:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <mailto:wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>>
>
>
> Quim writes:
> > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96378
> > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96378> (33 ha
I felt that this year's elections went remarkably smoothly. I believe that
we have the Elections Committee and its tireless leader Varnet, project
manager James Alexander, and the SecurePoll devs to thank. There were a few
technical issues but overall I feel that everyone did a very fine job.
Pine
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 1:55 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> please slap me if I overstep the self-promotion.
>
No no, please go on. This is one of the best wiki tools in a while.
I did a Wikipedia editing workshop in the University of South Africa in
> Pretoria yest
At least 33 hackathon projects were developed and showcased in 3 days, all
crowd-documented at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96378 before the end
of the event. Unseen in Wikimedia as far as I'm aware, and we'll try again
in Wikimania
For instance, Experiment with video.js was basically a one-
That we had the highest-ever votes in a Wikimedia Foundation board election
- and participation from many more wikis.
Cheers
Bishakha
On 5 Jun 2015 13:01, "Gerard Meijssen" wrote:
> Hoi,
> Jura1 created a list using the latest software by Magnus of people who died
> in Brazil this year. Magnus a
Hoi,
Jura1 created a list using the latest software by Magnus of people who died
in Brazil this year. Magnus added functionality to the template so that it
is really easy to add images that are missing. This list makes use of
Wikidata and it gets updated by a bot. It may live on any Wikipedia.
Than
I am AWFULLY biased about this, but I'll be shameless anyway; please slap
me if I overstep the self-promotion.
I did a Wikipedia editing workshop in the University of South Africa in
Pretoria yesterday. As far as I know, it was the first one ever that
focused on using the recently enabled ContentT
On Jun 4, 2015 11:21 PM, "Dan Rosenthal" wrote:
>
> l That the WMF is one of the charities in this week's Humble Bundle (along
> with MSF and charity:water)
That's a wonderful charity trio to be part of! Thanks for sharing.
(Phoebe, great idea :)
I discovered there is a remaining of stock of 20
"What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is
happening in the Wikimedia world?"
That the WMF is one of the charities in this week's Humble Bundle (along
with MSF and charity:water) -- and it's actually a pretty good bundle.
https://www.humblebundle.com/
Dan Rosenthal
On T
FWIW, Community Engagement will be doing something similar (mix of
positive-serious with positive-fun) in metrics meeting every month. You
can see the first iteration during last month's metrics meeting:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/2015-05
Luis
On Thu,
On Jun 5, 2015 03:01, "phoebe ayers" wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:
> > Huh, I didn't have intention to make anyone depressive.
>
> You didn't! I was thinking of other unrelated things. :)
Glad to hear that :) I mean, at least I am not the cause...
> > Languages
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:
> Huh, I didn't have intention to make anyone depressive.
You didn't! I was thinking of other unrelated things. :)
>
> Languages list suddenly revived. And during one day we've learned for three
> separate initiatives for building Wikipedia art
Huh, I didn't have intention to make anyone depressive. It's been call to
action and you've just made one :)
Before I give one very nice report from languages list, I want to make one
point...
It is very easy to change the culture. It's easier than to make a good
software and definitely much easi
Ps Fabrice sent the blog roundup while I was writing this! Those are all
cool things. Would love to learn about more as well.
Phoebe
On Jun 4, 2015 2:41 PM, "phoebe ayers" wrote:
> I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos'
> observation that discussion here is fall
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