[Wikimedia-l] To Flow: on featured article discussions

2014-09-15 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
My 2 agorot in the Flow or not Flow discussion: A prominent Hebrew Wikipedia user started a discussion about his impression that too few people participate in the discussions about nominating featured articles.[1] This Wikipedia has about 700 active and 150 very active editors[2]; the number of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow: on featured article discussions

2014-09-15 Thread Risker
English Wikipedia rarely has more than 10-15 people participating in featured content candidate discussions/reviews. I'm hugely impressed that Hebrew Wikipedia has this level of participation in similar discussions. I suspect this is a higher level of participation than is seen on most projects,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow: on featured article discussions

2014-09-15 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Amir E. Aharoni, 15/09/2014 11:12: These opinions are relevant, but the way they are presented in the watchlist is unhelpful and I feel that it wastes my time. If the reason is so trivial (on it.wiki it's certainly more complex than that), sounds like something that subpagination and/or RSS

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow: on featured article discussions

2014-09-15 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
If the reason is so trivial (on it.wiki it's certainly more complex than that), sounds like something that subpagination and/or RSS feeds can solve I expected supagination to come up. The English Wikipedia uses it for Articles for Deletion (AfD) and for a lot of other things. I tried to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow: on featured article discussions

2014-09-15 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Amir E. Aharoni, 15/09/2014 13:12: The English Wikipedia uses it for Articles for Deletion (AfD) and for a lot of other things. I tried to follow AfD for some time, and I had similar issues. Issues which you still haven't described. Nemo ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow: on featured article discussions

2014-09-15 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2014-09-15 15:13 GMT+03:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com: Amir E. Aharoni, 15/09/2014 13:12: The English Wikipedia uses it for Articles for Deletion (AfD) and for a lot of other things. I tried to follow AfD for some time, and I had similar issues. Issues which you still haven't

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Ghana User Group

2014-09-15 Thread Ralgis
El Sun, 14 Sep 2014 20:23:14 -0400 Kirill Lokshin kirill.loks...@gmail.com escribió: Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized Wikimedia Ghana User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2]. The group plans to support the Ghanaian Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow: on featured article discussions

2014-09-15 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Amir E. Aharoni, 15/09/2014 14:25: Seeing notifications about articles in the same watchlist with these notifications is already an issue. There's a namespace selector. I select ns0 + talk when I'm in editing mode and invert that when I'm not. Seeing only the last support or oppose

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow: on featured article discussions

2014-09-15 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 09/15/2014 09:03 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: All the problems you mentioned I consider solved since about 2006 on it.wiki, modernise your practices. ... isn't that what Flow is trying to do? -- Marc ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow: on featured article discussions

2014-09-15 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Marc A. Pelletier, 15/09/2014 15:07: On 09/15/2014 09:03 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: All the problems you mentioned I consider solved since about 2006 on it.wiki, modernise your practices. ... isn't that what Flow is trying to do? By making me and Amir talk of how to use wiki pages, you

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow: on featured article discussions

2014-09-15 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
The alternative would be to set watchlist to show all changes and not just the last one, but then it would show one row per change or a group of rows per page, and that would make it even more cluttered. That never looked cluttered to me. :) It did to me, and AFAIK, you and I started

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow: on featured article discussions

2014-09-15 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2014-09-15 16:18 GMT+03:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com: I expect half of what would come up to be problems with Watchlist and RecentChanges, applying to any namespace and only made worse by the repeated attempt to take stuff out of them. Those are THE central engines of any wiki

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow: on featured article discussions

2014-09-15 Thread Diego Moya
On 15 September 2014 15:24, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: That is quite true. A deep modernization of the Watchlist should be coupled with the Flow poject somehow. Either Special:Watchlist itself should be profoundly redesigned and upgraded, or the Flow+Echo notifications

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2015

2014-09-15 Thread Nicole Ebber
Greetings! I have also added my 2 cents to the Meta page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AFuture_of_the_Wikimedia_Conferencediff=9881528oldid=9861306 Regards, Nicole On 12 September 2014 15:31, Leigh Thelmadatter osama...@hotmail.com wrote: For what its worth, I just added

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedian in Residence at the Royal Society of Chemistry

2014-09-15 Thread Lila Tretikov
Congratulations Andy! On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: [Reposting after previous copy fell foul of a spam filter] I have some news: http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/wikimedian-residence-royal-society-chemistry/ I'll set up on-wiki pages in a week

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow: on featured article discussions

2014-09-15 Thread Danny Horn
Figuring out how Flow integrates with the watchlist and Echo is one of the toughest and most important parts of the project. The feedback that the team got from the last couple releases was actually pretty diverse, and showed us that there's going to be a lot of work ahead of us to figure out how

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Ghana User Group

2014-09-15 Thread Sydney Poore
That's awesome news! Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Kirill Lokshin kirill.loks...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized Wikimedia Ghana User

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Ghana User Group

2014-09-15 Thread Tanweer Morshed
Warm welcome Wikimedia Ghana User Group to the Wikimedia Affiliates and congratulations for attaining the recognition as a user group. Hope this will further the free educational content and Wikimedia projects in Ghana! Regards, Tanweer Morshed Wikimedia Bangladesh On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:31

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Ghana User Group

2014-09-15 Thread Erik Zachte
Congrats, Wikimedia Ghana!, -Original Message- From: wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimedia-l- boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Tanweer Morshed Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 22:10 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Ghana

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Ghana User Group

2014-09-15 Thread Enock Seth Nyamador
Thanks for all your welcome messages :-). Congrats to us (Ghana) once again. On 9/15/14, Tanweer Morshed wiki.tanw...@gmail.com wrote: Warm welcome Wikimedia Ghana User Group to the Wikimedia Affiliates and congratulations for attaining the recognition as a user group. Hope this will further

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia: Ghana User Group

2014-09-15 Thread Pine W
Hello Ghana Wikimedians, A few years ago I volunteered with a nonprofit that supported education in Africa, and I have some knowledge about your country. Congratulations on your achievement. Pine On Sep 15, 2014 2:55 PM, Enock Seth Nyamador kwadzo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for all your

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia: Ghana User Group

2014-09-15 Thread Enock Seth Nyamador
Thanks Pine! On 9/15/14, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Ghana Wikimedians, A few years ago I volunteered with a nonprofit that supported education in Africa, and I have some knowledge about your country. Congratulations on your achievement. Pine On Sep 15, 2014 2:55 PM, Enock

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Will Flow eliminate wikitext sandbox practice?

2014-09-15 Thread Jan Ainali
2014-09-15 23:54 GMT+02:00 James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com: In the recent discussion of editor engagement effectiveness on wiki-research-l, the question of Flow's affect on talk page wikitext practice arose. I would like to know whether anyone shares my concern that eliminating wikitext talk

[Wikimedia-l] Eligibility confirmed for 2014-2015 Round 1 of the Annual Plan Grants (APG) / FDC process; Proposal forms due 1 October 2014

2014-09-15 Thread Winifred Olliff
Dear Wikimedia Colleagues: As you may know, Annual Plan Grants are funds allocated to support an organization’s annual plan to achieve mission objectives, and the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) is a group of Wikimedians who make recommendations to the WMF Board about Annual Plan Grant (APG)