Sorry I dropped the ball on this. I've created the following 2 actionable tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139300 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139301
I hope we can reach a decision somewhat promptly with this. Jon On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 8:14 PM, Scott MacLeod <[email protected]> wrote: > Rob and Wikimedians, > > To further credit the work of Wikimedia community members, could we explore > using the Douglas Adams' SQID example (which Markus shared with the > Wikidata list recently ... [Wikidata] SQID evolved again: references > http://tools.wmflabs.org/sqid/#/view?id=Q42 ) ... and build upon this > incorporating the Wikipedia user pages (and your above examples) a > Wikipedia crediting process anticipating/planning for all 11 billion people > (an estimate from Swedish statistician Hans Rosling and many others) in all > 8,000 languages. (CC World University and school is planning in parallel to > be in all 8,000 languages and plan for all people on earth by 2100, as well > as seek to build in Bitcoin and Blockchain in conjunction with developing > best STEM CC OpenCourseWare centric law schools in all countries' main > languages, even as WUaS develops CC university degrees accrediting on CC > MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC). > > This would potentially lead to further planning for integrating > Wikidata/Wikibase via SQID with Wikitech/Wikimedia/Wikipedia community > members' contributions and in many languages. > > Cheers, Scott > > > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Andre Klapper <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Is there a Phabricator task [associated with MediaWiki CREDITS file >> membership] so this topic does not get forgotten? >> >> Not that I'm aware of. It's easy to get lost looking through the >> various attempts to objectively characterize contributions (he says, >> just emerging from the fog of doing so himself). Here's a few places >> a person could go: >> * <https://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/scm.html> >> * <https://www.openhub.net/p/mediawiki/contributors> >> * <https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/graphs/contributors> >> * <http://koti.kapsi.fi/~federico/crstats/core.txt> >> >> ...and that's hardly comprehensive. The "productivity of mediawiki >> developers" thread from April[1] probably has some other sources I've >> missed. If I were to spend more time on this, I would start looking >> for the Phab tickets associated with the stats on Korma. >> >> I concur with Jon that we should endeavor to move to a more objective >> (and ideally, more automated) mechanism for acknowledgement, so that >> we don't have to rely on contributors confidently declaring that they >> deserve acknowledgement. >> >> Rob >> [1] >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/86127 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > > > > -- > > - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President > - 415 480 4577 > - http://scottmacleod.com > - Please donate to tax-exempt 501 (c) (3) > - World University and School > - via PayPal, or credit card, here - > - http://worlduniversityandschool.org > - or send checks to > - PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516 > - World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric > OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in > California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Jon Robson * http://jonrobson.me.uk * https://www.facebook.com/jonrobson * @rakugojon _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
