[Wikimedia-l] Help us review the third round of Research Fund proposals

Hello everyone, In October, we announced this year's call for proposals to the Wikimedia Research Fund [1]. Our submission deadline was December 15. We are now in the exciting phase of reviewing submissions and making recommendations for which proposals to advance to Stage II [2] and we welcome

[Wikimedia-l] Help us review the second round of Research Fund proposals

Hello, In September, we announced [1] our second call for proposals to the Wikimedia Research Fund [2]. Our submission deadline was December 16. We are now in the exciting phase of reviewing submissions and making recommendations for which proposals to advance to Stage II [3] and we welcome your

[Wikimedia-l] Help us review the first round of Research Fund proposals

Hello, In November, we announced [1] our first call for proposals to the Wikimedia Research Fund [2]. Our submission deadline was January 3rd. We are now in the exciting phase of reviewing submissions and making recommendations for which proposals to advance to Stage II [3] and we welcome your

[Wikimedia-l] Help us organize for #WikiForHumanRights!

Hello all, We are excited for #WikiForHumanRights -- at the office hours and afterwards community groups throughout the movement have already connected with us about organizing. This year we are going to focus on the "right to a healthy environment" and we need your help! What can you do? If

[Wikimedia-l] Help smaller wiki communities grow their technical capacity!

Hello all, Small Wiki Toolkits (SWT) is an initiative to support small wiki communities by sharing and developing technical skills needed to support, maintain, and grow a language wiki. You can learn more about it here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits As a next step for this

[Wikimedia-l] Help us Communicate #WikiForHumanRights

Hi everyone, Today, since it's International Human Rights day we’re starting some public promotion of the #WikiForHumanRights campaign, and we would appreciate your help in spreading the word! On social media this week, we’re highlighting community edit-a-thons and events, facts about the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help need

Hello James! I just tried to upload photo. Everything is fine. Thank you very much! Best regards, Bojana *Замислите свет у коме свака особа на планети има слободан приступ целокупном људском знању. То је оно на чему ми радимо.* пет, 10. авг 2018. у 23:58 James Forrester је написао/ла: > On

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help need

On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 at 11:31 WМ RepublikaSrpska wrote: > In Republic of Srpska there is a photo-competition Trace of Soul 2018 > (WLE+WLM) > in > progress. Yesterday and today we receive a few e-mails from competitors - > they

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help need

Hi Bojana - a quick note that we have received this message and are looking into the issue. We’ll follow up directly to your email address. -Toby On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 11:31 WМ RepublikaSrpska < wmrepublikasrp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > In Republic of Srpska there is a

[Wikimedia-l] Help need

Hello All, In Republic of Srpska there is a photo-competition Trace of Soul 2018 (WLE+WLM) in progress. Yesterday and today we receive a few e-mails from competitors - they complained that they have a problem with photo upload. We

[Wikimedia-l] Help us build Toolhub

Hello everyone, sorry for cross-posting. What does your participation on the Wikimedia projects look like? Do you edit articles? Upload files? Patrol vandalism? Translate articles? Translate interface messages? Do you organize people, online or offline? Do you train new editors, or new trainers?

[Wikimedia-l] Help requested for finding certain subjects in your local Wikipedia

Hi all, In the Dutch part of Belgium there exists a performing arts database, and they are donating parts of it to Wikidata. Over the past century they have collected the theatre venues and festivals where a Flemish theatre group had its première. For many locations I already found an article in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help! Can't save on any Wikipedia

Hi all, On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 14:28:47 + geni wrote: > On 22 February 2017 at 12:06, Enock Seth Nyamador wrote: > > Am good now :). Thanks all. > > > > Best, > > > > - Enock > > > > this is one of the reasons I keep a secondary browser for wikipedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help! Can't save on any Wikipedia

On 22 February 2017 at 12:06, Enock Seth Nyamador wrote: > Am good now :). Thanks all. > > Best, > > - Enock > this is one of the reasons I keep a secondary browser for wikipedia stuff only. I'd recommend seamonkey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMonkey or Vivaldi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help! Can't save on any Wikipedia

Am good now :). Thanks all. Best, - Enock 2017-02-21 19:29 GMT+00:00 Thibaut P. : > Hello, > > There's a bug affecting recent versions of Firefox, the fix is described > here: . > > Regards, > Thibaut > > On

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help! Can't save on any Wikipedia

Hello, There's a bug affecting recent versions of Firefox, the fix is described here: . Regards, Thibaut On 21.02.2017 20:16, Enock Seth Nyamador wrote: > Hello Wikimedians, > > Saw the message in this image [1] one week ago but didn't take it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help! Can't save on any Wikipedia

I have experienced this as well. For the problem went away when I restarted the browser and logged out then logged in again. I'm not sure if this is a local browser issue or if the session data got messed up server-side, but getting a new session was the only way to solve it for me. Chico

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help! Can't save on any Wikipedia

This happened lately to a lot of Wikipedians, including myself. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151770 for the technical details. Briefly, if you delete all your cookies and log back in to Wikipedia, then this should work. (Deleting your cookies will cause you to get logged out of all your

[Wikimedia-l] Help! Can't save on any Wikipedia

Hello Wikimedians, Saw the message in this image [1] one week ago but didn't take it serious. Now it seems to be real. I can't Save. The screenshot [1] show messages from frwp and enwp when I tried to save my changes. Yes, I've tried logging in and out several times. Best, 1.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] help, how much money goes to volunteers?

hi fae, i do not think the level of detail you describe below will be of any help, it might cause only work without benefit. IMO it would be sufficient if every organization tells open how much money goes to volunteers. for a starter, how much was IEG in 2015 ? rupert On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] help, how much money goes to volunteers?

I cannot answer your question, but I am unsure if numbers would mean much unless large changes (like more than 20%) are indicated. Here's why - The key problem with working out how much of a volunteer fund goes to volunteers, is that reports rarely separate out the money that is nominally spent

Re: [Wikimedia-l] help, how much money goes to volunteers?

On 14/04/16 10:48, rupert THURNER wrote: > can somebody please chime in here with better guesses, or real > numbers, maybe directly at [1]? On the other hand, has anybody considered the value of the total volunteer effort towards the development of Wikipedia, Commons and related projects? That is

[Wikimedia-l] help, how much money goes to volunteers?

hi, on the question how much money will go to volunteers next year, katherine stated that the 2016 grants budget is 5.8 mio, out of 63 mio [1]. my guess was that between 1 and 2 mio would go to volunteers. i have a little difficulty to calculate the number. i saw the 2016 fdc numbers [2], 5.5

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help a Wikipedia & Commons volunteer raise funds for a new computer.

He deserves all help that we give to him, thanks for sharing this Mardetanha On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska < natalia.szaf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all > > You probably know Jacek Halicki[1]. And even if you don't - you probably > have seen his pictures. Jacek has

[Wikimedia-l] Help a Wikipedia & Commons volunteer raise funds for a new computer.

Hi all You probably know Jacek Halicki[1]. And even if you don't - you probably have seen his pictures. Jacek has contributed about 9000 photographs to Wikimedia Commons (many of them are Quality, Featured or Good Images). It was not easy for him - Jacek has a severe mobility impairment and is

[Wikimedia-l] Help us keep #1lib1ref energized through January 23!

Hi Wikimedians! The Wikipedia Library is really excited about the #1lib1ref campaign taking off -- we seem to have found a concept that will excite the global libraries community to talk more with us, about our common mission: helping the world get access to reliable knowledge. Please explore

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help decide Future IdeaLab Campaigns!

Hi Jethro, Two questions: (1) How are the results looking from the Gender Gap campaign in IdeaLab? (2) If WMF does this again, will the campaign be designed and resourced in a way that doesn't disrupt the other grants process flows? I have painful memories of what happened in the PEG process

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help decide Future IdeaLab Campaigns!

Hi Pine, Some quick answers to your questions: 1. The initial results of the Inspire Campaign themselves were largely very good (see: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/28/what-we-learned-from-the-inspire-campaign/). As for the projects funded as a result of the campaign, though, they're still

[Wikimedia-l] Help decide Future IdeaLab Campaigns!

Hey everyone, I invite you to help decide what topics should be considered for future IdeaLab campaigns, which generate novel proposals for improving and addressing community needs on the Wikimedia projects to which you contribute:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help on Yoruba Wikipedia Project

Dear all, I don't know if it is appropriate to discuss this here but I believe I can get a useful advice here. The Nigerian language Wikipedia projects (Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo) need urgent attention. English language is the official language in Nigeria but the Yoruba language constitutes one of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help on Yoruba Wikipedia Project

> The Content translation tool is currently unsupported by Yoruba Language. Had it been its working, I would have translate hundreds of English Wikipedia contents. Actually, it is supported in Yoruba, and in all the languages in which there is a Wikipedia. It doesn't yet have support for machine

[Wikimedia-l] Help

Hello Wikimedian Colleagues, I tried to send a mail to affiliates-own...@lists.wikimedia.org but all to no avail. It seems the e-mail address is currently not working. Any help? Olatunde Isaac. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile. -Original Message- From:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help

We are getting emails at it. Try: affiliates-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org - there was an extra p in the address you posted. -greg ___ Sent from my iPhone - a more detailed response may be sent later. > On Oct 15, 2015, at 5:46 PM, reachout2is...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hello Wikimedian

Re: [Wikimedia-l] help needed - Arkansas

I gave Gnangarra a potential contact off-list. On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 6:37 AM, Jane Darnell wrote: > Arkansas is considered one of the "fly-over" states. Good luck locating a > Wikipedian somewhere around there, not to mention a Wikimedian. > > ​Jane, this is so off-base

Re: [Wikimedia-l] help needed - Arkansas

Maybe someone with the Mass Messenger privilege can compile a Arkansas user list & use the Mass Messenger service to post to their talk pages. Yours, Peaceray On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > I gave Gnangarra a potential contact off-list. > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] help needed - Arkansas

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 5:40 AM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > (If you don't have userinfo.js [0] in your global .js, I highly recommend > it) > > 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PleaseStand/userinfo.js IMO this should be a standard gadget available for all wikis. --

Re: [Wikimedia-l] help needed - Arkansas

This is not an especially helpful response. Regards,, Craig On 14 October 2015 at 20:37, Jane Darnell wrote: > Arkansas is considered one of the "fly-over" states. Good luck locating a > Wikipedian somewhere around there, not to mention a Wikimedian. > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015

Re: [Wikimedia-l] help needed - Arkansas

I randomly clicked user pages in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Arkansas and found many 5,000+ currently editing Wikipedians, and one 40,000+ editor. Sounds like hitting user_talk pages might be a better approach to finding suitable Wikipedians. On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] help needed - Arkansas

Arkansas is considered one of the "fly-over" states. Good luck locating a Wikipedian somewhere around there, not to mention a Wikimedian. On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Gnangarra wrote: > G'day > > I have been contacted by an active Wikiproject Spam editor for help >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] help needed - Arkansas

Thanks John missed that option I have gone looked through those, again the only high edit counts arent currently active still looking for someone who can help theres no point spamming people nor asking people have very little experience On 14 October 2015 at 19:13, John Mark Vandenberg

Re: [Wikimedia-l] help needed - Arkansas

Have forwarded on to the GLAM outreach mailing list as there seems to be a public library service behind this. (I would observe that edit count and ability to do outreach don't necessarily correlate that well - someone with a few hundred edits can be a great contact point for a cultural

Re: [Wikimedia-l] help needed - Arkansas

Thanks Chris for forwarding that along, yeah I agree edit count isnt an ideal indicator yet its one measure that can be used from half a world away to indicate experience and given the user I'm trying to help has ruffled community feathers knowledge of and being known by the community is important

[Wikimedia-l] help needed - Arkansas

G'day I have been contacted by an active Wikiproject Spam editor for help (because I've recently been working with an editor here in Perth in a similar situation), to talk to a user who appears to be linked to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas. The user is just adding links to EOA in the external

[Wikimedia-l] Help needed with reading strategy process

Greetings, The reading team has been having a series of meetings as part of the ongoing strategy process,. We documented and clarified as much details as possible, here , in order to empower everyone to become part of the process,

[Wikimedia-l] Help launch the Inspire Grants Campaign in March 2015

Hi all, During March we will be running an Inspire Campaign to proactively source and support new projects aimed at addressing Wikimedia’s gender gap: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire_Grants_%E2%80%93_Gender_gap_campaign Our goals are two-fold: 1. Experiment with running

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help

Hi Jayden, On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:23:08 +0200 Jayden Oerson oersonjay...@gmail.com wrote: Unsubscibe that's not the way to unsubscribe. See at the mailing list's signature: Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l Regards, Shlomi Fish --

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help needed to complete and expand the Wikimedia glossary

On 20 November 2012 18:55, Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, The use of jargon, acronyms and other abbreviations throughout the Wikimedia movement is a major source of communication issues, and barriers to comprehension and involvement. The recent thread on this list about

[Wikimedia-l] Help needed to complete and expand the Wikimedia glossary

Hi, The use of jargon, acronyms and other abbreviations throughout the Wikimedia movement is a major source of communication issues, and barriers to comprehension and involvement. The recent thread on this list about What is Product? is an example of this, as are initialisms that have long been

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help decide about more than $10 million of movement funds in the coming year

Only ten millions? This sounds wrong. Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l