Re: [Wikitech-l] 今週あなたを幸せにするものは何ですか？ / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 16 June 2019)

Hi Isarra and Gergo, Thanks very much for the feedback. I appreciate the suggestion about a poll. I have been reluctant to start a poll about this because I have several other issues that are occupying my mind at the moment, including WMF's relationship with the community/communities in general

Re: [Wikitech-l] 今週あなたを幸せにするものは何ですか？ / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 16 June 2019)

Regular practice of gratitude is well-understood to be a key element of personal well-being (and while community health is a less researched area, it seems likely that the benefits extend there too). As such these threads are IMO very useful. On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 6:40 PM Isarra Yos wrote: >

Re: [Wikitech-l] 今週あなたを幸せにするものは何ですか？ / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 16 June 2019)

Mailing lists aren't really a good place to establish consensus, as every time someone weighs in, everyone is notified, so 'me too's are frowned upon in principle. Perhaps you might want to create an actual poll about preferred venues etc onwiki and then send out a message to wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] 今週あなたを幸せにするものは何ですか？ / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 16 June 2019)

Hi, Thank you for the positive comments, Stephan and RhinosF1. I think that there is not a clear public majority opposed or in favor of continuing to have these threads on Wikitech-l in their current form. The relatively small number of people who commented suggests to me that most readers of

Re: [Wikitech-l] 今週あなたを幸せにするものは何ですか？ / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 16 June 2019)

So here is one vote in favor, if that helps. Because seeing what is achieved and that there is somebody who actually cares makes me a bit happier each week. I do not find these threads too intrusive and there is too little positive news, anyway. Maybe, to help people filter these mails out

Re: [Wikitech-l] 今週あなたを幸せにするものは何ですか？ / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 16 June 2019)

I should probably sign up for WikiMedia-l Then. I quite like these emails. Thanks, Pine On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 at 09:01, Pine W wrote: > Brian, > > Thanks for the civil comments. > > I think that language diversity valuable, and there is no requirement to > post in English to this list. > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] 今週あなたを幸せにするものは何ですか？ / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 16 June 2019)

Brian, Thanks for the civil comments. I think that language diversity valuable, and there is no requirement to post in English to this list. Although I appreciate the idea, I am unwilling to create a more narrowly focused version of these threads for Wikitech-l. Someone else might be willing to

Re: [Wikitech-l] 今週あなたを幸せにするものは何ですか？ / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 16 June 2019)

I personally think these threads are fine (within reason) if they are thankful about technical things and/or stuff connected to mediawiki. Generic things about the wikimedia movement should stay on wikimedia-l; we have multiple mailing lists with different scopes for a reason. In that light, I

Re: [Wikitech-l] 今週あなたを幸せにするものは何ですか？ / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 16 June 2019)

Hi Andre, I think that whether these threads are welcome by Wikitech-l subscribers in general is a reasonable question, although I disagree with a number of elements of your description of these threads. I took a somewhat bold step in February 2018 of expanding the posting of these threads from

Re: [Wikitech-l] 今週あなたを幸せにするものは何ですか？ / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 16 June 2019)

On Wed, 2019-06-19 at 07:17 +, Pine W wrote: > While browsing Japanese Wikipedia, I found this As "What's making you happy this week" messages seem to contain no questions, no expected interaction or followup on specific technical topics, no announcements about specific technical topics, and

[Wikitech-l] 今週あなたを幸せにするものは何ですか？ / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 16 June 2019)

While browsing Japanese Wikipedia, I found this article with beautiful photos. Although I cannot read Japanese, my understanding from an automated translation is that the article describes the Tajima