Re: [Foundation-l] Movement roles letter, Feb 2012

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Bishakha Datta wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Florence Devouard >wrote: > > > > > One benefit I can identify from this decision is that we could push > > forward that > > * partner organizations are ONLY recognized by Wikimedia Foundation > > * whilst c

Re: [Foundation-l] My public aplogies to Jan-Bart (was Movement roles letter, Feb 2012)

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Sue Gardner wrote: > While we're on the topic, here's a public service announcement. It's > Bishakha Datta, not Bishaka Datta. The single most-frequently > misspelled name on our lists, AFAICT. Also, Erik Moeller or Erik > Möller with umlaut. Never Erik Moller wit

Re: [Foundation-l] My public aplogies to Jan-Bart (was Movement roles letter, Feb 2012)

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote: > If we're discussing this; my name is correctly pronounced "Oliver Keyes, > God of Delphi, Sol, and all Ethereal Planes Known and As-Yet Undiscovered" Olly olly oxen free! (with a silent G) Theo _

Re: [Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > If you search for "devoirs" (= homework) or "vacances" (= holiday) on > French Wikipedia, you're presented with a porn video in which a man and a > woman engage in sex acts (cunnilingus and fellatio) with a dog. > > > http://fr.wikipedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Draft charter of the Wikimedia Chapters Association

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Nathan wrote: > So a group of chapters, reacting against a perceived effort to centralize > the movement, create a brand new central body with an extensive (and > apparently, expensive) bureaucracy? Are there really a lot of people that > think this is a good idea

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 6:35 AM, wrote: > This strikes me as a very oddly articulated concern about a crowd-sourcing > project. The basic premise underlying the whole model is increasing the > quantity of contributors increases the quality of the content. Is this > really disputed? An astute o

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 7:36 AM, John Vandenberg wrote: > That sounds like a great idea for projects where the readership and/or > editorship is low. On those projects, it is very likely that a reader > with even a tiny interest in editing can be converted to a good > editor, and they are worth

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 5:10 AM, wrote: > > > > > On Mar 21, 2012, at 10:07 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > > > birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote: > >> On Mar 21, 2012, at 8:53 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > >>> Sue Gardner wrote: > Everybody knows that reversing stagnating/declining participation > in Wik

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

Thanks for this email Birgitte. I greatly enjoyed reading it, it gives insight in not just your own motivation, but mine and several others who I have come to know. I apologize for my following lengthy response as well. This is a well-articulated, reasoned response, that should stand apart from the

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolutions from March 30th 2012

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Michael Peel wrote: > On voting transparency: this is a great step forward. However, I would > encourage the WMF to take a further step, and to explain why trustees voted > approve/abstain/against. This could potentially be done by (for examples) > adding notes ne

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco on small languages/dialects Wikipedias (Aristotle article)

There is however a direct correlation between poverty and internet access. Regardless of the linguistic diversity, its an issue of usage, the highest read, reviewed and edited articles would have the highest merits in terms of quality and length. It is an issue of reflexivity, lots of contributors

Re: [Foundation-l] Attack pages at Encyc. Dramatica

Like Steven said ED is in it for the lulz. So please don't feed the trolls (I know a few editors from en:wp that are on ED). In terms of legal standing, US has much less plaintiff-friendly Defamation laws than most European Countries, and most differ widely from state to state. I don't think you w

Re: [Foundation-l] A question for American Wikimedians

Well why only African American Wikimedians, I think the issue might be the same with other Racial Minorities in the US. How about Hispanic American or Asian American Wikimedians. Apart from social issues inherent to minorities, I think there might be something worth looking into, I doubt there woul

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Executive Director?

I didn't like the assumption of bad faith earlier on part of the team, the fundraising team [1] as you would note, consists of Community members from different locations and backgrounds. I am from India, Moushirah is from Egypt, Dan and James are community members who also work remotely, all of us

Re: [Foundation-l] Making wikimediafoundation.org more open to contributions

Great Work, MZ. One small point, the buttons on foundation wiki redirect to a the page we get on FWF page on Meta, the edit page has a newly created header that includes "Wikimedia is not associated with Wikileaks". I think the confusion with Wikileaks issue is ephemeral and is not as common anymo

[Foundation-l] New York Times - Gender gap on Wikipedia.

Hi I saw this article in the New York Times today. In case other's missed it, here's a link. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html?ref=media Regards User:Theo10011 Salmaan Haroon ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@li

Re: [Foundation-l] Changes to the identification policies and procedures

Steven,The Meta page for OTRS was updated to reflect the changes from Feb 1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=OTRS/volunteering/Header&diff=prev&oldid=2341291 http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/inde

Re: [Foundation-l] New General Counsel!: Geoffrey Brigham

Hi Geoff, {{welcome}} Welcome !!! Regards Theo On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > Welcome to Wikimedia, Geoff! May you find both challenges and > inspiration on our legal frontiers. > > SJ > > > Sue writes: > > Hey folks, > > > > I'm delighted to tell you that the Wiki

Re: [Foundation-l] "share in Facebook/Twitter/etc" icon

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Jon Davis wrote: > > If you're interested in borrowing the Wikinews "share" links, the template > > in question is: > > > > http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Template:Social_bookmarks > > > > strategy.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] How should we greet newcomers?

Hi Lennart Would this be related to merely modifying the welcome template or something a little more encompassing? One idea that I had was to somehow refer new visitors to WikiProjects or articles in need of expansion, based on some selection option where they can select their field of expertise

Re: [Foundation-l] Shorter Url for non-latin languages

I thought the biggest reason to get a url shortener was suggested as links in and from non-latin languages, the issue was character encoding for non-latin scripts. But if we're considering top level domains already, how about our own tld for all the projects. The foundation already has hundreds of

Re: [Foundation-l] The matrix, reloaded (movement roles, or who does what in Wikimedia?)

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Austin Hair wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:54 PM, FT2 wrote: > > Apologies for my unusual denseness here, but this matrix makes no sense > to > > me, and lacks any information needed for constructive improvement. > > > > What I'd be looking for is a descripti

Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness: a radical proposal

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Neil Harris wrote: > Thesis: > > The main reason why Wikipedia seems unfriendly to beginners is the > reduction in the assumption of good faith. A lot of this could be > resolved simply by creating large numbers of new admins. This should be > done automatically.

Re: [Foundation-l] Raising funds without being quite so annoying to readers

WereSpielChequers, I believe we either tried or considered all those things and more. I think we established continuing donations sometime half-way through the fundraiser, it mostly depends on the payment intermediaries- Philippe and Megan really worked hard on getting it. From what I recall, Zack

Re: [Foundation-l] Job openings - Bugmeister

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Casey Brown wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Jan Kucera (Kozuch) > wrote: > > what about this job opening? Has it been filled already? > > Mark Hershberger (MAH) is fulfilling the role of Bugmeister and he's > already started cleaning up Bugzilla. Id

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa wrote: > On 3/19/11 1:56 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > > 2011/3/19 Erik Moeller : > >> Looks like it's one of their small percentage experiments. Haven't > >> been able to reproduce it myself. Not clear whether it's just > >> wikipedia.org or other/a

Re: [Foundation-l] 2011 Board Elections: Input needed

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Andre Engels wrote: > Lowering the edit counts sounds good, it does however also have a > downside, in that it makes it easier to vote using sockpuppets or > meatpuppets. > > I agree with voices speaking out against giving voting rights based on > donations; I do

Re: [Foundation-l] Message to community about community decline

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Yann Forget wrote: > Hello, > > 2011/3/29 : > > On 28/03/2011 18:35, Nathan wrote: > >> The bar for contributing is higher. Whether because editing is more > >> technically challenging, or because the rules and standards are more > >> complex, or simply beca

Re: [Foundation-l] Outdated manual

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:50 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > Sue Gardner wrote: > > On 9 April 2011 01:14, Milos Rancic wrote: > >> May someone update manual in which it is written that Wikipedia is the > >> fifth site by traffic? For the most of 2010 and whole 2011 it has varied > >> between 6th and 8th

Re: [Foundation-l] Outdated manual

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:38 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > Theo10011 wrote: > > I don't think Sue said "Wikipedia is the fifth most visited website". Its > > 'Wikimedia Foundation sites' in comScore data. > > I don't think you did your homework. >

Re: [Foundation-l] Very slow load time for the last few days

I had problems with load times and time-outs, ever since the email notification was turned on. I asked the tech team if they were related, they didn't think so. Maybe, its a co-incidence, but did anyone notice if the slowness increased when email notifications were turned on? Theo On Wed, May 18

Re: [Foundation-l] CentralNotice use

I asked Mono to announce POTY centralnotice use on Foundation-l after he made a request on Meta. The only consensus to MZ's RfC on Meta [1] was that Global banners could be used for Non-fundraising reasons after consensus is achieved for the proposal and the banner itself on Meta first. Currently,

Re: [Foundation-l] CentralNotice use

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:11 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Theo10011 wrote: > > Currently, there are no clear guidelines on the community's use of > > central-notice - multiple geo-located, chapter-requested campaigns have > been > > running on central-notice without o

Re: [Foundation-l] Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects on May 24

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Domas Mituzas wrote: > Hi! > > > That's... completely missing the point. Yes the specific errors faced > were > > unexpected or unforseen, BUT they were a* direct result* of the > maintenance > > between 13:00 and 14:00. I am simply passing on the feeling of our >

Re: [Foundation-l] Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects on May 24

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:31 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Theo10011 wrote: > > Instead of diverting users to IRC, how about an outage/error page with a > > twitter/identi.ca feed with updates from the tech team, or at least a > page > > with customized message in case of p

Re: [Foundation-l] Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects on May 24

There was, it ran for a day. ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralNotice)- Generic maintenance notice. Theo On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Thomas Morton wrote: > I'm pretty sure there was a site notice; I recall seeing one anyway :) > > Tom > > On 26 May 2011 09:09, Federico Leva

Re: [Foundation-l] Election results?

Results are out. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2011/Results/en Theo On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Harel Cain wrote: > I only want to rephrase what I said back at the beginning of the thread: > it's perfectly understandable if things run late (huh, Wikimania taught me > thi

Re: [Foundation-l] Projects in simple languages

The last request was a 2 line proposal added by an anon ip[1] in passing, their only edit. I wouldn't call that a community. Theo [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Requests_for_new_languages%2FWikipedia_Simple_German_4&action=historysubmit&diff=2519024&oldid=2087184 On Tue, Jun 21

Re: [Foundation-l] Board letter about fundraising and chapters

Nathan, there is no reason to single out Beria. She at least responded to the questions. There are a lot of people reading this who didn't and have far more authority to comment on the matter than her. Theo On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 2:52 AM, Nathan wrote: > Beria, I don't think your views on trans

Re: [Foundation-l] Like button

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > > Hmm, it'd be a neat extension for Commons. I don't think "like" or "+1" > > should be used, as they're not sufficiently wiki. But something that > > expresses the same sentiment, that allows users to express approval of > good > > pho

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