Re: [Wikimedia-l] input.wikimedia.org?

2013-11-22 Thread Gryllida
On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, at 19:18, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: 2. We'll have to see whether there are volunteers who are willing to track it and reply to the queries. As far as I am aware there is no responsibility for WMF staff or volunteers to reply; they may if they want to, but that's not required.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] input.wikimedia.org?

2013-11-22 Thread sankarshan
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Gryllida gryll...@fastmail.fm wrote: On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, at 19:18, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: 2. We'll have to see whether there are volunteers who are willing to track it and reply to the queries. As far as I am aware there is no responsibility for WMF staff or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] input.wikimedia.org?

2013-11-22 Thread Erik Moeller
I should also note that input.mozilla.org inspired MoodBar/the Feedback Dashboard extension (we actually met with the PM of the project several times before kicking off work on MoodBar/Feedback Dashboard), which can be used to collect feedback from users. We used it for collecting new user

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spokeswoman Catrin Schoneville is leaving Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. on January 31, 2014

2013-11-22 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Hello, I'd liked to join the friendly words of Ting and Pavel; Wikimedia Nederland has always enjoyed to work together with Catrin and learn from her. Quickly but cordialiter from a train station, Ziko Am Freitag, 22. November 2013 schrieb Ting Chen : Hallo Catrin, hoffe Du liesst das hier

[Wikimedia-l] Personal Post on Wiki-PR

2013-11-22 Thread Andy Cruz y Corro
Hello folks. I just wanted to share with you a post I made with my personal thoughts on the Wiki-PR issue. It's hosted on Medium right herehttps://medium.com/i-m-h-o/36b24e17f471and a Spanish translation is available on

[Wikimedia-l] Discuss Beta Features on IRC today at 18:00 UTC

2013-11-22 Thread Fabrice Florin
Hi folks, We'd like to invite you to join our discussion of Beta Features (1), which we just deployed worldwide yesterday. Our office hours IRC chat starts in a half-hour, today at 18:00 UTC. (2) If you cannot join this chat, we invite you to try out Beta Features and share your feedback on

[Wikimedia-l] Discuss Beta Features on IRC today at 18:00 UTC

2013-11-22 Thread Fabrice Florin
Hi folks, We'd like to invite you to join our discussion of Beta Features (1), which we just deployed worldwide yesterday. Our office hours IRC chat starts in a half-hour, today at 18:00 UTC. (2) If you cannot join this chat, we invite you to try out Beta Features and share your feedback on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright infringement - The real elephant in the room

2013-11-22 Thread Steven Walling
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:37 AM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote: Typo correction and vandalism reversion are certainly both entries to editing, and it isn't just anti-vandalism where the opportunities have declined in recent years. Typos are getting harder to find,

[Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

2013-11-22 Thread Strainu
Hi, Looking at the summary reports per language, I've noticed a linear, significant increase in pageviews for many European languages (ro, bg, hu, fr) Wikipedias in the last 3 months. This is not happening for Asian languages or Russian and is not obvious from the report card. Has anything

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

2013-11-22 Thread Erik Zachte
Hi Strainu, We noticed and are investigating. It surely looks almost too good to be true. Any suggestions for an explanation are welcome. Cheers, Erik -Original Message- From: wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

2013-11-22 Thread Lodewijk
I would guess either national press, or a change in how the popular search engines work? Are we running recording certain defaulted random queries from time to time to compare? Lodewijk 2013/11/22 Erik Zachte ezac...@wikimedia.org Hi Strainu, We noticed and are investigating. It surely

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Beta Features Launch Worldwide

2013-11-22 Thread Fabrice Florin
Hi Liam, Thanks so much for your good feedback about Beta Features. (1) I am glad you view this program as a positive development and think this tool can give users more control over their experience, as well as encourage more reasoned conversations during feature development, while reducing

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Board of Trustees Meeting Agenda

2013-11-22 Thread Jan-Bart de Vreede
Hi All, The board will meet this Sunday and Monday for its “Fall” board meeting in San Francisco. You can find the tentative agenda at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Agenda_November_24-25_2013_Board_Meeting Jan-Bart de Vreede Chair Wikimedia Board of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Beta Features Launch Worldwide

2013-11-22 Thread Emily Blanchard
Congratulations! Looks good with lots of hard work behind it! Emily Blanchard Talent Acquisition Team Wikimedia Foundation eblanchard@wikimedia. eblanch...@gmail.comorg Follow us on Twitter @wikimediaatwork http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home Become a Contributor:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright infringement - The real elephant in the room

2013-11-22 Thread The Cunctator
Also, vandalism had always been a red herring, kind of like the terrorism that justifies the TSA security theater and NBA surveillance or the Red Scare. It's a wrong-headed obsession that weakens community. On Nov 22, 2013 2:06 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 21,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

2013-11-22 Thread Quim Gil
On 11/22/2013 01:41 PM, Strainu wrote: Has anything changed in the reporting or the visit patterns for these Wikipedias? It looks pretty weird to have a 100% increase for Romanian in just 3 months [1]. [1] http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryRO.htm Pretty similar to Spanish and Catalan:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

2013-11-22 Thread Harsh Kothari
Similar thing to Gujarati Wikipedia http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryGU.htm Peak at August 2013 Down at April 2013 It may be possible that people who are using local language google search increased. On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 11/22/2013

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Beta Features Launch Worldwide

2013-11-22 Thread Samuel Klein
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Emily Blanchard eblanch...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Congratulations! Looks good with lots of hard work behind it! Yes, this looks simply great. SJ Emily Blanchard Talent Acquisition Team Wikimedia Foundation eblanchard@wikimedia. eblanch...@gmail.comorg

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Increase in page views for the last 3 months

2013-11-22 Thread Anders Wennersten
I have assumed it is an effect of Google starting to show an extract from Wikipedia on the page where they show hit results. I raised the issue Sept 29 in a thread here called New Google interface to Wikipedia Anders Harsh Kothari skrev 2013-11-23 08:00: Similar thing to Gujarati