Re: [Wikimedia-l] Who are the nicest people on our projects ?

Hi, an outcome of the old milgram experiments suggests that not always nice people do oppress others less: http://m.mic.com/articles/92479/psychologists-have-uncovered-a-troubling-feature-of-people-who-seem-nice-all-the-time Rupert On Feb 25, 2015 8:31 AM, "Ricordisamoa" wrote: > Thanks Fæ, tho

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Hackathon travel sponsorship

A forward for technical and tech-curious people not subscribed to wikitech-l. If you have or want to join a hackathon plan for Lyon (May 23-25), we want to know. Important note: Wikimedia Hackathons are not only for developers, as good software development requires many other profiles, including in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Hackathon travel sponsorship

Quim, Thanks for bringing this up. The subject of non-developers attending hackathons came up in at least one recent off-list conversation. I think it would be interesting to have a sampling of experienced Wikimedians present who may not be developers but who are expert end-users of MediaWiki. The

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New template "URL to diff"

On 25 February 2015 at 07:27, Ricordisamoa wrote: I'd rather suggest a global JavaScript gadget to replace those URLs with plain Special:Diff links, since the {{diff}} template does not work in every wiki. >>> >>> Great; let me know when you've got that working. >>> >> That's

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Who are the nicest people on our projects ?

Excellent!! Great initiative, congratulations! Thank you for answering my request for inclusion of pt.wikipedia! Best regards Rodrigo Padula 2015-02-23 12:57 GMT-03:00, Fæ : > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/thanks > > I have now set up a monthly report of the top 10 "thankers" / >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Who are the nicest people on our projects ?

Re:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/thanks I am glad the tables are useful, hopefully stimulating more positive use of the thanks notifier by contributors. The reports are updating *slowly*, currently at April 2014... This is in part because of the WMFlabs outage yesterday, though in g

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediameta-l] An alternative model for grant funding

This reminds me of a slightly heretical idea I had a while ago while thinking about crowdfunding and WMF fundraising... Currently the WMF raises money via site banners, and spends these on programmes and disburses them via grants, which go to all kinds of projects - education, outreach, developmen

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2015 call for submissions is close to end!

// Sorry for crosspost // Dear all, The deadline for make a proposal for Wikimania 2015 is very near: February 28 at 23:59 UTC. Currently we received many nice proposals but you have less than three days to submit yet! => http://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions Please share this rem

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediameta-l] An alternative model for grant funding

On 15-02-25 09:37 AM, Edward Saperia wrote: if they hit their fundraising target [...] Your idea is provocative, and intriguing, but I think that - at least in this form - it is doomed to fail because it actually steps around what makes kickstarter-like crowdfunding work. (a) people put fo

[Wikimedia-l] 10th anniversary celebration of Bengali Wikipedia

Dear All, We're happy to share with you that Bengali Wikipedia has completed it's 10 year journey a few months back. To celebrate this historic milestone We the poeple from Bengali Wikimedia Community and Wikimedia Bangladesh is going to arrange a Gala event on February 26, 2015 at Radisson Blu Wa

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediameta-l] An alternative model for grant funding

I'm pretty concerned that the systematic biases in the wikimedia movement would be continued if there was no organized effort to do a comprehensive review of all proposals to see where we are lacking diversity. I'm in favor of having more focused funding calls like the Inspire Gender Gap campaign.

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia OTRS Annual Report

Hi everyone, it is my pleasure to announce the release of the 2014 annual report on Wikimedia's OTRS and specifically the Volunteer Response Team's activities. Please find it at https://tools.wmflabs.org/otrsreports/annual/2014 If you have any questions or comments, please leave them at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediameta-l] An alternative model for grant funding

Of course you're very correct that there are many projects sitting around asking for scrutiny - the difference here is the (potential of) funding would be default yes instead of default no, with the discussion just around the priority. I expect that would attract a lot more attention very quickly i

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 10th anniversary celebration of Bengali Wikipedia

Wow! Fantastic news. All the best to Bengali Wikipedians. -RK On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Hasive, Nurunnaby wrote: > Dear All, > > We're happy to share with you that Bengali Wikipedia has completed it's 10 > year journey a few months back. To celebrate this historic milestone We the > po

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediameta-l] An alternative model for grant funding

I'm not sure you've understood correctly. In my proposed system, people propose projects and these projects are advertised on the centralnotice banners. When clicked on, readers are taken to the individual project pages and donate to them directly, rather than donating into a central pot. > (a) p

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediameta-l] An alternative model for grant funding

In your scheme, items would not get moved up to be considered if they are not popular enough, right? From my experience working on wikimedia global committees, it would be likely that the volume of requests would be much larger than the capacity of the wikimedia movement to evaluate them. People j

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 10th anniversary celebration of Bengali Wikipedia

Congratulations to you and the Bengali community on the 10 year anniversary! Katy On Feb 25, 2015, at 7:52 AM, RadhaKrishna Arvapally wrote: > Wow! Fantastic news. > All the best to Bengali Wikipedians. > > > -RK > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Hasive, Nurunnaby > wrote: > >> Dear All, >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediameta-l] An alternative model for grant funding

Well, you could create a guideline that said "In the interest of innovation, we should try and fund a diversity of projects" and then with the community hash out what dimensions you care about for diversity in this context, and how far from equality you are happy to go without artificial interferen

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New template "URL to diff"

Il 25/02/2015 10:49, Andy Mabbett ha scritto: On 25 February 2015 at 07:27, Ricordisamoa wrote: I'd rather suggest a global JavaScript gadget to replace those URLs with plain Special:Diff links, since the {{diff}} template does not work in every wiki. Great; let me know when you've got that w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 10th anniversary celebration of Bengali Wikipedia

This is terrific news- congrats! On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Katy Love wrote: > Congratulations to you and the Bengali community on the 10 year > anniversary! > > Katy > > On Feb 25, 2015, at 7:52 AM, RadhaKrishna Arvapally > wrote: > > > Wow! Fantastic news. > > All the best to Bengali Wi

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This week on the Wikimedia Blog

Greetings! Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog: • Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/23/strategy-consultation/ • Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/24

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediameta-l] An alternative model for grant funding

On 15-02-25 11:15 AM, Edward Saperia wrote: I'm not sure you've understood correctly. In my proposed system, people propose projects and these projects are advertised on the centralnotice banners. Ah, I indeed hadn't. My understanding was that you wanted to substitute for the grants process(e

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Train the Trainer Program-India

Dear Wikimedians, The Wikimedia TTT-2015, a four day residential training workshop to groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia volunteer community, will begin tomorrow. This is curated and run by CIS-A2K [1] with the help of Wikimedia volunteers. About 30 Wikimedians from across 12 I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia OTRS Annual Report

Thank you for this fascinating report, and this is another opportunity to thank all OTRS agents across the movement, for their tireless and largely-unsung work. I, for one, make it a point to mention and advocate for OTRS. I am curious in my volunteer capacity about the prominence of the commons-

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia OTRS Annual Report

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > Thank you for this fascinating report, and this is another opportunity to > thank all OTRS agents across the movement, for their tireless and > largely-unsung work. I, for one, make it a point to mention and advocate > for OTRS. +1! The OTRS

[Wikimedia-l] User Group Brazil Activities Report

The Wikimedia Community User Group Brasil just published its descriptive report regarding to the activities developed since January 2014. This report summarizes the activities developed as part of the effort to consolidate the Group in Brazil and to empower the Wikimedia projects in the country.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] User Group Brazil Activities Report

Interestingly to see on the report that even under so much criticism, the Brazilian Catalyst Program, coordinated by Oona Castro through a partnership between the Wikimedia Foundation and Ação Educativa was crucial in creating and supporting great part of the activities listed by the user group, si

Re: [Wikimedia-l] User Group Brazil Activities Report

Nobody ever said that the Catalyst was a total failure. It had indeed good points. The thing is that I am not the only one with the opinion that the results were clearly not good enough for what was expected from all money invested and it is quite not fair to compare them with a volunteer effort wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] User Group Brazil Activities Report

Good! You just confirmed my point of view!! Probably the cost / benefit of the Brazilian Catalyst Program was not the best one, but the program ended fulfilling its catalytic role of the Brazilian community, supporting the creation of networking, partnerships and activities. Best regards Rodrigo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia OTRS Annual Report

Patrik and everyone else involved in this -- this is pretty amazing work. Thanks for everything you do, and thank you for documenting it so clearly. -- Erik Möller VP of Product & Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Who are the nicest people on our projects ?

Fæ wrote: >Re: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/thanks > >I am glad the tables are useful, hopefully stimulating more positive >use of the thanks notifier by contributors. > >The reports are updating *slowly*, currently at April 2014... This is >in part because of the WMFlabs outage yest

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia OTRS Annual Report

Hi. Re: https://tools.wmflabs.org/otrsreports/annual/2014 phoebe ayers wrote: >p.s. The report layout/webpage is lovely! could it be used for other >reports? I'm curious about this as well. I see that source code is mentioned at , but I didn't se