Re: [Foundation-l] HR and Recruiting Feed on Identi.ca and Twitter
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 8:18 PM, David Gerard wrote: > If there's an RSS-embedding widget that's up to our standards, it > might be a good thing to put on the relevant WMF wiki page. It may be better to have a bot copy the content into the wiki page instead of only displaying the RSS. That way the history remains on the wiki and you're not relying on a third party to provide a copy of the content. I've found that embedding Twitter feeds in a wiki too often results in timeouts. Angela ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Advisory board update
> However, many people don't see what the Advisory Board does, and in > fact, there have been serious questions about the utility of a Board > that seems to do nothing (useful or otherwise). Can you let us know what > activities the Advisory Board carries out, and give us some indication > of how often they do it? There's no simple answer to this since each person acts individually rather than the board working as a group, except for occasions such as the strategy planning type sessions as previous Wikimanias - the outcomes of which are at http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Advisory_Board. Examples of the sorts of thing people do include being involved in the committee for identifying potential candidates for appointment to the board of trustees, advising Sue on different issues, looking into ways of improving OTRS, or working with the FSF and Creative Commons on the license change. Angela ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Matching donations?
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Renata St wrote: > Hey, are there going to be matching donations this year? (ie. I donate $x > and somebody donates the same $x to match my contribution). Yes, if you're donating more than $100. Details at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/FAQ/en#What_is_the_Omidyar_Network.3F Angela ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Office hours
>> 2130 UTC sounds a little late to me if we want Europeans there. We're >> on daylight saving time for another month (ish), so in Western Europe, >> that is 2330, finishing at 0030. That's pretty late. I thought the idea of having two meetings is that at least one would work, not both. So, the European meeting is on Thursdays at the earlier time. Angela ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Office hours
> 1) Have the Friday office hours one hour earlier (from 21:30-22:30 UTC) > 2) Have the Thursday office hours one hour later (from 17:00-18:00 UTC) > 3) Keep two sets of office hours the same, we cannot please everyone > possible! If you make the Friday one earlier, it becomes more inaccessible to people in Asia and Western Australia who will likely be sleeping through the Thursday one. What about making both of them a couple of hours later? Angela ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] advisory board composition
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:05 AM, phoebe ayers wrote: > It looks like sometime this summer the composition of the Advisory > Board changed, with several of the original members becoming former > members: > http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Advisory_Board&diff=39660&oldid=39327 > > I don't remember an announcement about this. Did I miss it? Is this an > annual sort of advisory board restructuring, or something else? Was it > discussed somewhere? It's helpful to know who the advisory board > members are, and I didn't think they had any specific 'terms of > office' -- do they? Originally people were asked to stay for terms of one year. That lasted rather longer for some as the first expiries happened on June 30, 2009 based on decisions made at the April board of trustees meeting. <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/April_3-5,_2009#Advisory_Board_Update:> Michael Snow sent a letter to all members thanking them for their service, and then some were asked to extend their term on the advisory board until December 31, 2010. The board of trustees will review the list before 2011 and invite some to complete an additional term. Also, others may be added to the list before that time. Sorry that there was not more of an announcement about this. I should probably have made one. There have been two additions to the advisory board in the past year, and there were press releases about these: <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Roger_McNamee_to_Become_Wikimedia_Advisor_January_2009> <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Neeru_Khosla_to_Become_Wikimedia_Advisor_Dec_2008> Angela ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Question to post...
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Cox, Serita wrote: >> Google's new search engine, Caffeine, is supposedly kicking Wikipedia >> entries further down results page. Thoughts? Comments? >> http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39484015,00.htm > [from my comments in #wikimedia-tech the other day] > "So— I tried 20 random words, and the WP result was lower in four of > them, the same in the rest." > "No pattern really... We still have the problem with "article at funny name; > redirect from common name; common name search on google gives squat", > which I consider to be much more major." A simple solution to this is using the canonical tags which all major search engines started supporting earlier this year. <http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/canonical-link-tag/? Wikia's GPL code to add this to MediaWiki is available here: <https://wikia-code.com/wikia/trunk/extensions/wikia/CanonicalHref/CanonicalHref.php? More info on it in Nick's blog post at <http://www.techyouruniverse.com/wikia/google-canonical-href-with-mediawiki> Angela ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] strategic planning IRC office hours
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Mike.lifeguard wrote: > Is it time to close the advisory board wiki like we just closed > quality.wikimedia.org? Yes. The content has been exported to meta. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19855 Angela ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] strategic planning IRC office hours
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > > A related question - I see there was a request to set up a new domain, " > strategy.wikimedia.org" > > What would this new site be for? New single-purpose wikis can flounder > after distracting people with setting up basic infrastructure (userpages, > handy community gathering points) and tend to segment the community in a way > that discourages broad participation. That's a good point. It reminded me of the advisory board wiki, which I just checked and found full of junk and spam with no useful edits in a long time. Any activity there was drowned out by the creation of accounts, user pages, templates (not sure it needed AfD...), and off-topic pages. I've moved the content to meta and I'm guessing that the strategy content would be better off there as well. Angela ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Information about 2009 Board of Trustees election
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:54 AM, philippe wrote: > The reason not to have it in two weeks is that it generally takes > longer than that to effectively translate both the policy pages and > the candidate statements to allow as many people to participate in as > many languages as possible. Two weeks would almost guarantee a > primarily english-centric election. In the past we've had no problem > getting the votes counted/confirmed in two days; we did it last year. I believe the suggestion is to have the vote lasting for 2 weeks, not starting in 2 weeks from now. Voting last for 3 weeks in past elections. Angela ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] We're not quite at Google's level
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:34 AM, John Vandenberg wrote: > Do we have per-page pageview stats on Wikinews ? Here: http://wikistics.falsikon.de/latest/wikinews/en/ They're used in http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Template:Popular_articles Angela ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: >> Nope. Not as long as the deletion button continues to exist. > > We already make deletion logs visible to everyone; is there any reason > why we shouldn't do the same with contribution histories other than > the occasional case where they include information that shouldn't be > publicly viewable? A permalink to the history would be really useful. If it was just the author list and not potentially problematic edit summaries, it's not too likely to cause problems. (Problem usernames can be hidden already). Right now there's no link to the history's permalink even for non-deleted pages. But it is possible, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=276617393&action=history will always link to the history of the page that is at [[x]] now even if x is moved and [[x]] becomes a totally different article. Angela ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Report a problem link
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Robert Rohde wrote: > I'm breaking this specific idea out of the main thread, in order to focus on > it. > > There seems to be considerable support for adding some kind of "Report > a problem" link to pages, (probably not necessarily) to the sidebar. Problem Reports are used quite successfully on Wikia. The GPL code for it is available at <https://svn.wikia-code.com/wikia/trunk/extensions/wikia/ProblemReports/> Basically, readers report problems using the link at the end of each article. Anyone can view and comment on the reports as you can see at http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Special:ProblemReports - click the magnifying glasses for details. Admins can reply to the reporter by email (if they gave an email address) and can flag the report as "fixed", "closed", "needs staff help", or "pending". Boilerplate responses can be added via the MediaWiki namespace. Reports are logged in Special:Log/pr_rep_log. You can get reports by email or RSS if you want to. Angela ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] mirroring a portion of the wikipedia
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:47 PM, basedrop wrote: > I don't have a particular need to have the art history portion of the wiki > editable for my users at my domain. I have the specialized users at my > site, I'd like to take advantage of that aggregation of specialized users > to the benefit of the wiki.If you guys don't have an API for me, I'm > o.k. with that. There is an API which lets you edit pages. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Edit_-_Create%26Edit_pages The mailing list for this is at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api Angela ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Nokia, licensing agreement and cellphones
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:41 AM, John at Darkstar wrote: > What is the present status on licensing of «Wikipedia» and exactly what > does the current agreement with Nokia cover? It seems like ZDNet > Australia and Angela Beesley isn't talking about quite the same, and I > would like an clarification. I never said the new platform would be licensed to Nokia at all. As far as I know, they have nothing to do with it whatsoever, but one journalist makes this up and all the rest (including Wikipedia Signpost) just blindly copy the error. Angela ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Regarding the one million dollar usability grant and already extant but unused extensions
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Angela wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: >>> > http://trac.wikia-code.com/browser/wikia/branches/wysiwyg will be >>> Is it a MediaWiki fork or just an extension? If it is a fork, up to >>> which extent it is compatible with the main MediaWiki? If it is an >>> extension, where is the root of the extension? >> >> It's an extension plus some changes to the parser. > > Do you (and Brion! and other MW developers) have the idea is it hard > to implement it into WMF projects? We're hoping to get parser changes into the core to make that easy. (Sorry for being off-topic on this list - please contact me offlist for any more questions on this). Angela ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Regarding the one million dollar usability grant and already extant but unused extensions
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Milos Rancic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://trac.wikia-code.com/browser/wikia/branches/wysiwyg will be > Is it a MediaWiki fork or just an extension? If it is a fork, up to > which extent it is compatible with the main MediaWiki? If it is an > extension, where is the root of the extension? It's an extension plus some changes to the parser. <http://trac.wikia-code.com/browser/wikia/branches/wysiwyg/extensions/wikia/Wysiwyg> Angela ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Regarding the one million dollar usability grant and already extant but unused extensions
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Thomas Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2008/12/7 Gerard Meijssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Hoi,
>> When so many people are turned off by syntax of any kind, it makes sense to
>> prevent them to see such syntax. It should be there however for those who do
>> not consider it a turn off.
>
> Yeah, that's where WYSIWYG gets tricky - the complicated bits can only
> really be done in code, so what do you do when someone using the
> WYSISYG interface tries to edit a page which includes complicated
> bits? I'm sure it can be done, but not easily.
Templates and complicated parts can easily be hidden. See
<http://robotech.wikia.com/index.php?title=Sandbox&action=edit> for
example to see what happens to the {{sandbox}} template. Wikia has
been working on WYSIWYG for a long time now, and I hope the code that
is available at
http://trac.wikia-code.com/browser/wikia/branches/wysiwyg will be
useful to Wikimedia in improving usability.
Angela
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