[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group

2014-09-13 Thread Kirill Lokshin
Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2]. The group is focused on developing the community of LGBT Wikimedians and LGBT content within Wikimedia projects, and plans to be active around the worl

[Wikimedia-l] Cascadia Wikimedians

2014-09-13 Thread Kirill Lokshin
Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized Cascadia Wikimedians [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2]. The group is based in the Northwestern United States, and plans to focus on organizational outreach and supporting the education program in their region. Le

[Wikimedia-l] The reader, who doesn't exist

2014-09-13 Thread Tim Davenport
> Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: >> First, let's make one thing clear: the reader doesn't exist; it's just a >> rhetorical trick, and a very dangerous one. For more: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stupidity_of_the_reader = While I think we may have broadly similar views of the WikiWorld,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow or not to Flow

2014-09-13 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On 11.09.2014 10:53, Peter Southwood wrote: Exactly what I was thinking. Doesn’t mean it would necessarily work, but you are not alone... Cheers, Peter Actually, if I get it correctly, Wikinews uses three pages per item (news, talk, and smth else). Cheers Yaroslav -Original Message---

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The reader, who doesn't exist

2014-09-13 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
MZMcBride, 24/08/2014 23:57: > Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: >> First, let's make one thing clear: the reader doesn't exist; it's just a >> rhetorical trick, and a very dangerous one. For more: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stupidity_of_the_reader > > This essay looks fascinating. I hope to rea

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upload Wizard work (was Re: Next steps regarding WMF<->community disputes about deployments)

2014-09-13 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Erik Moeller, 06/09/2014 08:44: > - The multimedia dev team has spent a fair bit of time doing some > initial UploadWizard refactoring and code cleanup. We've also > contracted Neil Kandalgaonkar, the original UploadWizard developer > (who left WMF a while ago), to help out a bit and provide some h