[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcome Lindsey Smith - Mobile UI/UX Contractor
Hi everyone, I'm pleased to welcome a new member of to the mobile engineering team. Lindsey Smith started this week as our new Mobile UI/UX contractor. She'll working with us in San Francisco helping us flush out the look, feel, and experience across all of our mobile projects. This fits a critical need of the mobile team which has grown steadily over the last couple of months in development capacity but has not grown enough in design capacity. With the addition of Lindsey we'll have some keen eyes on such key projects as our new navigational system, image uploads, and numerous future projects. Lindsey joins us as a mobile designer from Dallas, Texas who's recently moved to the bay area with her husband and 2 border collies. She's worked for Semaphore Mobile on a range of client applications from restaurant review service Zagat to custom remote control interfaces for Traxxas cars[1]. Her educational background is in Software Engineering but she found her passion to be in UI/UX. Welcome Lindsey! [1] http://lsmith.me/projects --tomasz ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects. For more information about Foundation-L: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Error message
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > 2011/11/28 Dirk Franke : > > Seriously: Could we please create something like the Twitter Fail Whale? > > Maybe a Sad Jimbo? Could help fundraising as well.. > > Scattered pieces of the puzzle globe. We've talked this exact idea at length in the office .. I'd love to see it happen. --tomasz ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Wikis and the direction hardware is taking
Totally, Getting the platform in place is step one. Next we get to prioritize surfacing more reading features vs. adding more editing features. I'll add a calendar of what the current discussions have looked like so that everyone can easily see them. --tomasz On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Strainu wrote: > 2011/6/14 Tomasz Finc : >> As always .. come by to our mobile project pages on meta at >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects and let us know how we >> can best iterate and improve. > > I see no mention there of a roadmap for mobile editing, which I think > was the main issue BirgitteSB raised. Do you have a plan for that in > the future? > > Thanks, > Strainu > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Wikis and the direction hardware is taking
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > James - Wiki Edit is pretty nice. Is this a one-man project by Don Kosak? > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 7:14 PM, wrote: >> Yes I eventually found that app. And it is much superior to editing from >> the browser. But it doesn't support ProofreadPage extension. Still between >> the app and browser it is definitely workable with two edits. My concern is >> much more that the reading/navigation experience seems to be driving people >> to these apps which strip out all of the editing and maybe even WMF >> messaging. And these people must be genuinely interested in Wikipedia to >> download a special app for it. Probably people who are decent candidates to >> convert to editors. > > This is definitely a problem. New readership is growing much faster > on mobile and tablet devices, and we don't have a single channel for > them to participate in the edting/reading/communicating community, as > you say. +1 And this is something that I think about A LOT. This is why were laying down the engineering work right now to make it much simpler to build out browser based community, editing, and reading features. Our current setup of the Ruby gateway has scaled much better then we could have ever expected but its also complicated our operations setup, required extra time to port any features over to ruby, and generally required a whole separate development cycle to build out anything mobile related. Over the last two months we've hired a dedicated mobile engineer, ported the gateway, reached out to community members, and ran an intensive research study to help us where we should be focusing our resources. The community has also been busy working on mobile. We've seen both and Android and iOS app show up for uploading images to commons. I fully believe that mobile development is a key strategic area for us to reach new contributors and I'm super happy that were taking it seriously. It's going to mean experimenting and trying lots of new and old things to see what works best. Looking at apps vs browser I'm really eager to reach as many people as possible and these days there is nothing as ubiquitous and standards compliant as a web browser. Most phones have them and even if their a pain in the ass to develop for they've allowed us to reach so many people. That being said, apps provide a very interesting place to experiment with different ways of both presenting and interacting with content. As others have pointed out on this thread there are a number of really novel approaches to visualizing Wikipedia content and I think we can learn a lot from them. Not all of them are collaborative and thus won't fit into our strategy but ones like WikEdit do and i'd love to see more examples like them. Were going to learn a lot from their approaches and vice versa. It's going to take working with both ends to really understand what works best and I'm eager to see it. As always .. come by to our mobile project pages on meta at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects and let us know how we can best iterate and improve. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Open and transparency or not
Let me jump in since I was the one who moved it. At the end of the 2009 Fundraiser we were getting hit by a significant amount of fraudulent transactions. It got so bad that the WMF had to dedicate full time staff members to respond to the massive amount of email and phone calls we were getting from confused card holders. As a result we had to turn off the gateway post fundraiser. Many months later in preparation for the 2010 Fundraiser we started a fraud prevention project since allowing credit card donations provided us significant boost to the annual fundraiser. We publicly posted about it at http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/09/wmf-engineering and came up with a solution that removed almost all of the fraud we were seeing. One of the things that was mentioned to us as we were working on the project was to not give fraudsters the exact recipe of how the system worked. Since we knew that we'd be checking our code into the production svn depots we chose to move the project page to somewhere that was not available to fraudsters. This wasn't done to prevent anyone from participating as we posted on the blog in order to keep everyone updated. As a community that strives on assuming good faith lets focus our efforts on thinking that everyone who genuinely participates at any level of the Wikimedia movement does so because they are trying to help. I think Platonides comment at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/70919#c9972 provides us with the most amount of guidance. He pointed out that the extension is actually able to run on newer python versions and that there were no immediate impediments to its usage. As everyone knows, putting on the annual fundraiser is an enormous amount of work. I'm ridiculously proud of what awjrichards, kaldari, and the tons of community members have been able to pull off in the short amount of time that we've had. That key piece info from Platonides came after our priorities had shifted and we haven't had any breather since. As our priorities shift relative to what the fundraiser requires we'll be working actively to fix this but as a community we shouldn't think of this as a bottleneck. --tomasz On Nov 13, 2010, at 6:17 PM, a b wrote: > Interesting. users/developers comment on the inclusion of reCATCHPA > within the fund-raising[1] code since other projects have been they can't > utilize its services then ~two weeks later (which isn't all that long in wmf > time) its project documentation is moved off wiki (mw wiki) into the > office[2] wiki which is private to WMF staff members only > > I will let everybody think about that. > > [1]. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/70919 > [2]. > http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Payment_Fraud_Prevention&action=historysubmit&diff=349338&oldid=346607 > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing list > wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Community vs. centralized development
> Also, I think that we need to start mirroring Wiki[mp]edia dumps to other > servers around the globe, as the common GNU/Linux ISOs mirrors do. Also, > Library of Congress said some time ago that they are going to save a copy of > all the tweets sent to Twitter.[6] When are they going to save a copy of > Wiki[mp]edia? I hope we have learnt a bit since Library of Alexandria was > destroyed. They've actually just reached out to us to discuss archiving all of the Wikimedia projects :) Discussions are in their early stages but I'll happily update as I know more. --tomasz ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Arthur Richards joins Wikimedia
Greetings, I'm very excited to welcome Arthur Richards to the Wikimedia Foundation as the backend developer for fundraising. Back in the fall 2005, after Hurricane Katrina, Arthur took a leave of absence from Oberlin College to work with a grassroots relief organization in New Orleans, Louisiana. After finding a lot of discarded computer equipment in trash piles during cleanup, he rescued, repaired and rebuilt a handful of machines to open up the Common Ground Community Tech Center in the Upper 9th Ward of New Orleans. Powered by Linux, a jury-rigged solar array and a back-up generator, the Tech Center provided a place for community members to check on loved ones, learn about computers and publish their own media to the web. After finishing school with a degree in History, Arthur headed to the Bay Area to begin a career in software development. There he worked for a few months as a content manager and developer for YouthNoise.org, a forum for young people to become civicly engaged. In 2007, Arthur left YouthNoise to try his hand at contracting. His first gig was with NetAcceleration, maintaining and providing new functionality for a proprietary content management system. Feeling a need to work with open source software and for social good, Arthur left NetAcceleration and co-founded Colingro Labs, a small web consulting company focused on non-profit, green and socially responsible clients where he fell in love with the Drupal content management system. Most recently, Arthur has been in Guadalajara, Mexico with Adapting to Scarcity, making a documentary on the effects of urban water usage on communities downstream from Guadalajara and offering digital storytelling workshops to youth in affected communities. Arthur will bring in some well needed drupal skills that will benefit our fundraising efforts with CiviCRM. He'll be working with our staff and the CiviCRM community to develop new features along with integrating our custom developments into the core distribution. He'll also be working extensively with our analytics team to better understand and present the various data sources that we have to both internal teams and the community at large. He'll be starting a three month contract on July 6th and will be working in the San Francisco office. Please join me in welcoming Arthur to the Wikimedia team! We'll be setting up his email as his start day gets closer but until then, you can reach him at awjricha...@gmail.com. -- Tomasz Finc Engineering Program Manager - Fundraising, Mobile, & Offline ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects. For more information about Foundation-L: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Ryan Kaldari joins Wikimedia
Greetings, I'm very excited to welcome Ryan Kaldari to the Wikimedia Foundation as the Front End developer for fundraising. Ryan joins us from MTV Networks: Country Music Television, where he worked as a web developer responsible for several integration and architecture projects. Previous to that he helped develop Sitemason, an enterprise content management system used by numerous businesses, organizations, and colleges. He's a long time Wikimedian who's been editing Wikipedia since 2004 and has been an admin since 2005. Some of you may have met him at the Paris Multimedia conference. You can find what's kept him busy at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kaldari He'll be starting June 1st and will work in the San Francisco office. Ryan will bring in some much needed skills and experience to our fundraising software developments. He'll help us catch up on a lot of our pending fundraising software development projects, develop new tools and improve general infrastructure and will bring more general awesomeness to the team. He'll also work extensivelyto support and improve CiviCRM as our fundraising database platform. Please join me in welcoming Ryan to the Wikimedia team! We'll be setting up his email as his start day gets closer but until then, you can reach him at . -- Tomasz Finc Engineering Program Manger - Fundraising, Mobile, & Offline ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects. For more information about Foundation-L: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia iPhone app goes v2.0
It certainly is and if you would like to help us hack at it check out http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile for details. We should have a tech blog post going out about it this week :) --tomasz On May 1, 2010, at 8:40 PM, Jyothis E wrote: > Is that application open source? > > Regards, > Jyothis. > > http://www.Jyothis.net > > http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis > I am the first customer of http://www.netdotnet.com > > woods are lovely dark and deep, > but i have promises to keep and > miles to go before i sleep and > lines to go before I press sleep > > completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) / resources) > + ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings > > > > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Steven Walling > wrote: > >> I wholeheartedly second Liam. The maps feature is awesome. >> >> Steven Walling >> >> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Liam Wyatt wrote: >> >>> Sorry if this has been posted or announced before or somewhere else, but >> I >>> just noticed it. For anyone out there with an iPhone, the official >>> Wikipedia >>> App has been updated to version 2.0 as of last week: >>> http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/wikipedia-mobile/id324715238?mt=8 >>> As it says in the release notes "now with maps, bookmarks and >> near-complete >>> redesign" >>> >>> Maps!! For me, the killer aspect of Wikipedia+mobile has got to be the >>> ability to find articles that are about things nearby me - so great job >>> getting this standard in the official app. Here's hoping the mobile >>> interface continues to flourish on different platforms, localisations and >>> with ever shinier and faster-loading features :-) >>> >>> Thanks guys, >>> -Liam [[witty lama]] >>> >>> wittylama.com/blog >>> Peace, love & metadata >>> ___ >>> foundation-l mailing list >>> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >>> >> ___ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Congratulations to Gdansk!
Tomasz Ganicz wrote: > 2009/5/7 Dedalus : >> Congratulations to the Poland team for winning the Wikimania 2010 bid! >> > > Thank you :-) Actually we are all very happy but also shocked in > Poland. Now, we feel great responsibility to organize Wikimania as > well as we are able or even better :-) I think all three biding team > deserve congratulation as all of them did great job as well, and > Wikimania could have been be a success in Amsterdam or Oxford. > To be able bring what captivates me on a daily basis back to the city I was born and grew up in makes happy as can be. Thank you for making my worlds collide. --tomasz ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
