Re: [Wikimedia-l] Our next strategy plan-Paid editing

Hoi, Do we have a way of indicating that something was graded at a given date ? Thanks, GerardM On 26 March 2014 22:35, Andrew Gray wrote: > The WP 1.0 model is pretty good (at least across a sample of a hundred or > so articles) but it's quite labour-intensive. It's also very easy to give

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Updating the typography on all Wikimedia sites

As someone with "aging" eyesight, I am pleased to find readability changes that make it easier to follow a large screen full of text without having to override font styles in my browser or tablet. I even appreciate tying this in to our tradition of tempting fate by rolling out changes on April Foo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Updating the typography on all Wikimedia sites

On 27 March 2014 01:38, Steven Walling wrote: >2. Non-Wikipedia projects on Tuesday, April 1th. Closer! Getting closer! - d. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Updating the typography on all Wikimedia sites

Beautiful! I can't wait. SJ On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > Hi all, > > I wanted to give people an extra notice that we're updating the default > typography across all Wikimedia sites, for users of the Vector skin. This > was mentioned in the last Tech News edition that

[Wikimedia-l] Updating the typography on all Wikimedia sites

Hi all, I wanted to give people an extra notice that we're updating the default typography across all Wikimedia sites, for users of the Vector skin. This was mentioned in the last Tech News edition that goes out to all local wikis, and also announced by our Release Manager, Greg Grossmeier, as par

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Our next strategy plan-Paid editing

The WP 1.0 model is pretty good (at least across a sample of a hundred or so articles) but it's quite labour-intensive. It's also very easy to give completely misleading answers, because there's no re-review process - in the bulk of cases, articles get rated once and then never looked at again. So

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet rights approved in Brazil

Fair enough, you're right. There is a long path yet ahead. The government is expecting to be able to sanction/sign it during NetMundialmeeting and has invested a lot on negotiations to make it real. Let's wait and see how far it can go. For those interested in regulation r

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Our next strategy plan-Paid editing

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 7:13 AM, Sage Ross wrote: > That part of Amy Roth's research has not been published except > on-wiki.[1] There was also a followup study after the Public Policy > Initiative using the same method, which found found similar > results.[2] > Thanks Sage, [1] is the page I was

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Our next strategy plan-Paid editing

Gryllida, the section is here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Terms_of_use/Paid_contributions_amendment/Archives/2014-03-07 Maggie On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Gryllida wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, at 3:06, Anders Wennersten wrote: > > The discussion on the proposed amendment is now

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Our next strategy plan-Paid editing

MZMcBride, 26/03/2014 01:40: we shouldn't allow a heavily advertised discussion alone sway what we feel is important to focus on I agree. In fact, as said yesterday, the WMF board could well refuse to discuss the ToU amendment if they feel it's not worth it. https://meta.wikimedia.org/?diff=p

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Our next strategy plan-Paid editing

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > I wouldn't know, Pete. But as I recall, it was a manual process, wasn't > it? And therefore quite difficult to scale and/or adapt for some usages? > > > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Pete Forsyth wrote: > >> Philippe, >> >> The P

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2013

Wikimedia Commons has concluded the Picture of the Year contest from the 2013 Commons featured pictures. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:POTY/2013 Congratulations to RitchyBlack (Stefan Krause) from Germany and all of this year's winners. Thanks to all 4000+ voters this year. Also t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] is Wikiquote in decline or just stagnant

As noted, the graph highlights that editors of Wikiquote are stable, while Wikinews (as well known) is dropping. The long-term graphs are at ( to have it functional). Wikiquote keeps e

Re: [Wikimedia-l] is Wikiquote in decline or just stagnant

Hi John, Thanks for these details... On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, at 13:19, John Mark Vandenberg wrote: > See the graphs for 5+ editors here: > > http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikibooks/EN/ChartsWikipediaZZ.htm > http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikiquote/EN/ChartsWikipediaZZ.htm > http://stats.wikimedia.org/wik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Announce] WMMX's assembly and new Board

El martes, 25 de marzo de 2014, Cristian Consonni escribió: > 2014-03-24 8:33 GMT+01:00 Salvador A > >: > > As results of that assembly we have a new board which is definitive and > > will serve two years, that is, till March 2016. > > [...] > > Hahaha. Have you heard the expression "stay with m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Setting ticket prices

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Benjamin Lees wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 6:19 PM, John Mark Vandenberg >wrote: > > > James, > > > > In the past you have supported a hardline position regarding > > publishing of private correspondence, and in circumstances when the > > reasons for publishi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Our next strategy plan-Paid editing

On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, at 3:06, Anders Wennersten wrote: > The discussion on the proposed amendment is now closed [1) I don't see my edit in the final archived version. Namely, the "What to ask to disclose: paid contributions or COI?" section I created. Link provided. I hope someone here can provi