I decided to write/translate/create a featured article every month in Basque Wikipedia as a 2020 new year resolution. The home-confinement is helping me writing two of them in a month. ________________________________ From: Wikimedia-l <wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 8:57 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Що робить вас щасливими цього тижня? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 5 April 2020)
Two things! 1. Each of the last three weeks were the best ever for the Content Translation extension. The usual number is between 2000 and 4000 per week, and before March 2020, there was only one week with more than 5000 articles published. In each of the last three weeks more than 5000 articles were published, and this, of course, is awesome. I'm not sure what is the reason for the surge—the pandemic, or some article writing contest, or something else. As far as I can tell, the rise in the number of translations does not cause more spam, vandalism, or bad translations, but I cannot check thousands of translated articles in dozens of languages, so if anyone can check whether the quality of the published articles is good, too, I'll be happy to know more. You can see more numbers here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslationStats 2. Denny's Wikilambda proposal. It will be challenging to implement, but it makes a lot of sense. Denny has been pitching it for some time, and the latest paper published at http://wikilambda.org/ is the most detailed yet. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore בתאריך יום ד׳, 15 באפר׳ 2020 ב-9:38 מאת Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com >: > * Preface * > > Hello, > > I regret that I need to start this email by communicating that > Clovermoss is on an unplanned absence. [1] I hoped that she would > return by now and that she would send this email. > > I think that one WMYHTW thread is enough for one week, so I will not > start a thread for the week of 12 April. > > The main content for this email is adapted from Clovermoss, and the > text is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 > Unported License. [2] > > > * Main content * > > I realize that this week has been difficult for many around the world. > I have mentioned this in previous weeks, but I think it's vital to > express my sympathies each and every time. A pandemic like this has > global ramifications, and I think it's important to recognize that for > a lot of people, this week could have been one filled with hardship. > There are people who have been laid off from their jobs, parents who > are doing their best to take care of their children, students who have > had to start taking classes online, and an endless amount of other > unique situations. > > This week, some important milestones have been reached across the > Wikimedia Movement. The Ukrainian Wikipedia [3] has reached the 1 > million article milestone. That's a huge milestone to reach, so I wish > to congratulate everyone who contributes there! I asked Ата, an active > contributor to the Ukrainian Wikipedia, about how this milestone > affects the project. [4] I found her response insightful, and I am > thankful for it. > > In addition, the The Wikimedia Community of the Kazakh language User > Group has officially been recognized by the Affiliations Commitee. For > more information, see [5] and [6]. > > I have also discovered inspiring off-wiki initiatives, such as the > Mozilla Open Source Support Team (abbreviated as MOSS) launching a > COVID-19 Solutions Fund. Awards of up to $50,000 are being offered to > open source technology projects. [7] > > > * Closing comments * > > Translations of the subject line of this email would be appreciated on > Meta. [8] Thanks to User:Ата [9] for the Ukranian translation. > > What’s making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any > language. You are also welcome to start a WMYHTW thread next week. > > > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss > [2] > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License > [3] https://uk.wikipedia.org/ > [4] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:%D0%90%D1%82%D0%B0&diff=prev&oldid=19952931 > [5] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Wikimedia_Community_of_Kazakh_language_User_Group > [6] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_of_Kazakh_language_User_Group > [7] > https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/03/31/moss-launches-covid-19-solutions-fund/ > [8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine/WMYHTW_translations > [9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:%D0%90%D1%82%D0%B0 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
