Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiProject COVID-19 (English Wikipedia) is started

Because I was on a cell phone rather than my computer. But yes lets take it elsewhere. James On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 4:08 PM Paulo Santos Perneta < paulospern...@gmail.com> wrote: > The thread was about COVID-19, not about "COVID", so no idea really why Doc > James replied talking about

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Café - Sat 28 March 2020...

> > Hello, I am writing to invite anyone to join the next online meeting of Wikimedia Café on Saturday 28 March 2020 4:30 PM UTC. Details for joining are at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Café > (video room open at that time) https://virginia.zoom.us/my/wikilgbt The agenda for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiProject COVID-19 (English Wikipedia) is started

The thread was about COVID-19, not about "COVID", so no idea really why Doc James replied talking about something else. But I don't want to go on with that subject, at Pine's request. What I wanted to say about it, I've already said. Thanks, Paulo Andy Mabbett escreveu no dia domingo,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiProject COVID-19 (English Wikipedia) is started

There was discussion at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:2019%E2%80%9320_COVID-19_pandemic_by_country_and_territory - I’m not sure where it was on enwp. It does seem

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiProject COVID-19 (English Wikipedia) is started

I took images of an almost empty Milan Central train station even before i think there were any specific social distancing rule https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Milano_Centrale_train_station_during_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Italy ... and created few days later 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiProject COVID-19 (English Wikipedia) is started

On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 at 21:07, Paulo Santos Perneta wrote: >> Covid is an abreviaton for coronavirus disease. > No, it's an abbreviation for *Coronavirus Disease 2019* [1] That would make "COVID-19" mean "Coronavirus Disease 2019-19". -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiProject COVID-19 (English Wikipedia) is started

On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 at 20:56, Paulo Santos Perneta wrote: > Even worst, it's contaminating other projects, like Wikidata and Wikimedia > Commons, with teams of wiki.en editors going there to revert anyone that > dares to move the disease to its proper name. Diffs, please. -- Andy Mabbett

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiProject COVID-19 (English Wikipedia) is started

I photographed the COVID-19 isolation room at our local university (it's precisely in front of the cabinet I usually work in), and created the category for COVID-19 isolations: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:COVID-19_isolations Best, Paulo Yaroslav Blanter escreveu no dia domingo,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiProject COVID-19 (English Wikipedia) is started

Just to remark that I went today to a supermarket to take a picture of empty shelves and eventually to upload it to Commons. Which I did (and eventually I added one of the photographs to an English Wikipedia article), just to discover that several people had the same idea before me, including one

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiProject COVID-19 (English Wikipedia) is started

Hello, May I suggest that the discussion regarding the name take place somewhere other than Wikimedia-l? I think that a talk page of one of the relevant articles on English Wikipedia, a WikiProject Medicine talk page, or the WikiProject Medicine Mailing List, would all be reasonable venues. Pine

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiProject COVID-19 (English Wikipedia) is started

No, it's an abbreviation for *Coronavirus Disease 2019* [1]. There are many other "coronavirus diseases". [1] - https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/index.html Best, Paulo James Heilman escreveu no dia domingo, 15/03/2020 à(s) 21:02: > Covid is an abreviaton for coronavirus

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiProject COVID-19 (English Wikipedia) is started

Covid is an abreviaton for coronavirus disease. J On Sun, Mar 15, 2020, 14:56 Paulo Santos Perneta wrote: > Congratulations for the new project. > > Possibly you could start by moving the "coronavirus" pandemic articles at > wiki.en to the proper name of the disease, COVID-19. > No idea why

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiProject COVID-19 (English Wikipedia) is started

Congratulations for the new project. Possibly you could start by moving the "coronavirus" pandemic articles at wiki.en to the proper name of the disease, COVID-19. No idea why the English Wikipedia insists naming this disease with the name of a group of virus that causes a number of other

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiProject COVID-19 (English Wikipedia) is started

Please read the noticeboard/talk page link as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_COVID-19. It looks like I had another noticeboard open at that time. Apologies for the wrong link in the last post. Thanks Tito Dutta On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 at 01:15, Tito Dutta wrote: >

[Wikimedia-l] WikiProject COVID-19 (English Wikipedia) is started

Hello, A few Wikipedians on English Wikipedia have decided to start a WikiProject on COVID-19 on English Wikipedia to work more systematically and collaboratively on the subject. The WikiProject is started by [[User:Another Believer]] on 15 March, and very quickly got ~20 participants and several

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Brand Project: Who are we as a movement?

Fair enough, I agree that the bias towards the English Wikipedia exists. It is natural and to be expected within English Wikipedia, but should not exist elsewhere in the Wikimedia community. I also agree that sometimes a regional bias exists because people from that region add more content, and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Brand Project: Who are we as a movement?

Hoi, I would rather answer a different question: What would it take for us to share the sum of all knowledge available to us to any and all people in any and all languages they can read. The benefit of such a marketing approach and not an antagonistic approach is that English Wikipedia may do

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 192, Issue 28

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Brand Project: Who are we as a movement?

The question then is whether it is the community of English Wikipedia exerting this influence, or WMF failing to allocate resources fairly, and if so, why? Is it just that the massive internet presence of English Wikipedia exerts an irresistible gravitational attraction on the resources like a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Brand Project: Who are we as a movement?

Hello Essie, Given all of the feedback so far, it seems we need a strong brand *network*, more than a struggle over a single brand; and strong shared identity *within* the communities and their contributors. I am glad that recent discussions seem to be grounded in identity and clarity. If we

[Wikimedia-l] Cautionary steps from Wikimedia Bangladesh in response to COVID-19 pandemic

Wikimedia Bangladesh has been closely observing the developments and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide including Bangladesh. In response of recent outbreak reported in Bangladesh, the Executive Committee of Wikimedia Bangladesh held an emergency online meeting and come upon to the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Brand Project: Who are we as a movement?

Hoi, Back your pardon. I do not blame the English Wikipedia for the shortcomings of other Wikipedias. It does a reasonable job at informing an English reading public. The point that I make is that we do not consider how the bias towards English Wikipedia prevents us from reaching out and sharing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Brand Project: Who are we as a movement?

My 2 cents: Imho the pressure from English Wikipedia on other projects of the movement is very realistic in many kinds of matters, that I've experienced myself too. Other projects are not independent socially or culturally, the rules, practices, expectations and editorial behaviour is strongly

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Brand Project: Who are we as a movement?

It is grossly unrealistic to blame English Wikipedia and its editing community for what you appear to consider the shortcomings of other Wikipedias. En: does not require or pressurise other projects to comply with its editorial standards, which are those developed by en:WP, and for en:WP. Other

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Brand Project: Who are we as a movement?

Hoi, By making the point that there is no Wikipedia AND that almost universally but particularly people who buy into English Wikipedia consider Wikipedia English Wikipedia, I expected that this is understood. I then address English Wikipedia specifically because it is its conventions that prevent

[Wikimedia-l] February 2020 Newsletter [OFWA]

Hello Everyone! Happy Women's History Month! We are happy to share with you activities that happened in February in our newsletter and some virtual activities to be held in this month. Please subscribe to keep updated. Cheers, stay