That we had the highest-ever votes in a Wikimedia Foundation board election
- and participation from many more wikis.
Cheers
Bishakha
On 5 Jun 2015 13:01, "Gerard Meijssen" wrote:
> Hoi,
> Jura1 created a list using the latest software by Magnus of people who died
> in Brazil this year. Magnus a
Hoi,
Jura1 created a list using the latest software by Magnus of people who died
in Brazil this year. Magnus added functionality to the template so that it
is really easy to add images that are missing. This list makes use of
Wikidata and it gets updated by a bot. It may live on any Wikipedia.
Than
I am AWFULLY biased about this, but I'll be shameless anyway; please slap
me if I overstep the self-promotion.
I did a Wikipedia editing workshop in the University of South Africa in
Pretoria yesterday. As far as I know, it was the first one ever that
focused on using the recently enabled ContentT
On Jun 4, 2015 11:21 PM, "Dan Rosenthal" wrote:
>
> l That the WMF is one of the charities in this week's Humble Bundle (along
> with MSF and charity:water)
That's a wonderful charity trio to be part of! Thanks for sharing.
(Phoebe, great idea :)
I discovered there is a remaining of stock of 20
"What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is
happening in the Wikimedia world?"
That the WMF is one of the charities in this week's Humble Bundle (along
with MSF and charity:water) -- and it's actually a pretty good bundle.
https://www.humblebundle.com/
Dan Rosenthal
On T
FWIW, Community Engagement will be doing something similar (mix of
positive-serious with positive-fun) in metrics meeting every month. You
can see the first iteration during last month's metrics meeting:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/2015-05
Luis
On Thu,
On Jun 5, 2015 03:01, "phoebe ayers" wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:
> > Huh, I didn't have intention to make anyone depressive.
>
> You didn't! I was thinking of other unrelated things. :)
Glad to hear that :) I mean, at least I am not the cause...
> > Languages
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:
> Huh, I didn't have intention to make anyone depressive.
You didn't! I was thinking of other unrelated things. :)
>
> Languages list suddenly revived. And during one day we've learned for three
> separate initiatives for building Wikipedia art
Huh, I didn't have intention to make anyone depressive. It's been call to
action and you've just made one :)
Before I give one very nice report from languages list, I want to make one
point...
It is very easy to change the culture. It's easier than to make a good
software and definitely much easi
Hi,
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 9:01 PM, David Cuenca Tudela
wrote:
>
> I am looking for a space where I can set up projects like:
>
> - clean up a wiki category
>
> - set up book scanning tasks
>
> - track a survey stages (planning, translation, ad, analysis, etc)
>
> Is phabricator a good place for
Hi Luis, Aaron and all,
Here's a list of possible metrics that we could use for measuring community
health.
Introductory notes:
* I emphasized the number of unique contributors rather than number of
contributions.
* All of these metrics can be calculated over a variety of time-frames,
although I
Ps Fabrice sent the blog roundup while I was writing this! Those are all
cool things. Would love to learn about more as well.
Phoebe
On Jun 4, 2015 2:41 PM, "phoebe ayers" wrote:
> I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos'
> observation that discussion here is fall
I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos'
observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an
open discussion thread about things going right.
What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is
happening in the Wikimedia world?
My
Hi folks,
Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog:
• How Wikipedia covered Caitlyn Jenner’s transition
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/03/caitlyn-jenner-wikipedia/
• How the Odia Wikimedia community is enriching Wikipedia with character
encoding technology
https
Milos, thanks for your long email because it highlights some problems I
mentioned already in another long email ("Building a we in the wikimedia
movement"). It is in fact hard to deal with social systems, but
nevertheless important if we want the movement to survive to itself. The
greatest enemy ar
David,
I don't know of any specific rules about what's allowed in Phabricator. I
*do* know that a number of teams at the WMF use Phabricator for non-coding
tasks—for example, see T89355 [1], T97004 [2], T100918 [3], and T101207 [4].
I speak only for myself, but I really like the idea of community
Great question. I'd love a structured task manager for such things, also.
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:01 PM, David Cuenca Tudela
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a space where I can set up projects like:
>
> - clean up a wiki category
>
> - set up book scanning tasks
>
> - track a survey stages (
Looking into the numbers and having in mind events of those times, I
don't think that the main reason for less traffic here is because of
moderation for this particular drop, from April to May this year. Drop
from quite regular ~300kB of gzipped file to ~160kB says that
something extraordinary happ
On 2015-06-04 20:48, James Alexander wrote:
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:27 AM, phoebe ayers
wrote:
Small point -- because this is the first election we've done using SUL
(hooray!!) the wiki listed is whatever someone's "home" wiki is
according to SUL (I think) and not, as in past years, the wi
Hi,
I am looking for a space where I can set up projects like:
- clean up a wiki category
- set up book scanning tasks
- track a survey stages (planning, translation, ad, analysis, etc)
Is phabricator a good place for that? I guess that with appropriate
project/subproject separation then the t
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:27 AM, phoebe ayers wrote:
>
> Small point -- because this is the first election we've done using SUL
> (hooray!!) the wiki listed is whatever someone's "home" wiki is
> according to SUL (I think) and not, as in past years, the wiki where
> you actually clicked the vote
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
> On 2015-06-03 17:42, Raymond Leonard wrote:
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> At the link, you can find
>> List votes: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Elections 2015
>> https://vote.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/list/512
>>
>> Yours,
>>
As Richard says, there's no way to get a quick count from the admin
interface. It certainly isn't "most" of the 1510 subscribed addresses,
despite all new subscriptions being moderated by default.
Looking at my archived messages for this week, it appears that we
average 2-3 held messages per day,
I don't know of a way to list who is on moderation from the admin
interface..
I did a bit of a sample:
There are just over 1500 'members' of the the list (some have mail
disabled).
I looked at a sample of 239, of these 13 were on moderation.
Regards, Richard.
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 3:17 AM
A provocative theory. Could a kindly list mod share how many people are on
moderation on wm-l?
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From: "Federico Leva (Nemo)"
Date: Jun 4, 2015 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Community health (retitled thread)
To: "Research into Wikimedia content and
Hello
You are kindly invited to give your opinion on the selection of the Wiki
Loves Africa 2015 theme.
Please take a minute to come and vote here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa/2015_theme_ideas
Bonjour
Vous êtes cordialement invité à donner votre o
Dear colleagues:
The deadline for the Letter of Intent for the next round of proposals in
2015-2016 Round 1 is 1 July 2015. We have reached out to organizations that
have already expressed interest in applying, but we also wanted to share
this news more broadly, to make sure that all Wikimedia org
On Jun 4, 2015 15:20, "Tomasz Ganicz" wrote:
>
> ... and in Ukrainian
> Wikipedia - if you calculate it in similar way the effective tournover is
> close to 90% !!! (170 100+ editors and 163 votes).
This is very good point! It would be good if we'd have election turnout
numbers split into the ne
Actully is probably much higher in terms of currently acrive editors. For
example - in Polish WIkipedia there are currently around 250 - 100+ editors
- and there was 171 votes (if I calculated it properly) - and in Ukrainian
Wikipedia - if you calculate it in similar way the effective tournover is
In the UK lists of voters marked with who did and did not vote are called
"marked registers". They are available to political parties and can be used to
check that no-one has voted on behalf of people who don't vote for religious or
other reasons.
In a system where there are no ID checks on vot
Hoi,
I am giving notice that I will no longer maintain the people who are known
to have died on Wikidata. There are a few reasons:
- I do not have the same amount of time I used to have
- My time is better spend on other things. Linking people through
associations is more relevant
- I
Hello all,
Could we keep this discussion on one mailing list (or at least on all of
them consistently if possible please? I'm missing out on parts of the
conversation :-)
Richard Symonds
Wikimedia UK
0207 065 0992
Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and
Wales, Re
Hoi,
I am not championing Sparkle and other wonderful tools. I am adding data
and i do no longer have the time. While I applaud your work it does not
bring new data like the date of death into Wikidata. It works on the back
of the work of the drones like me who add data. Your work while important
i
Hoi,
Agreement that they may.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 4 June 2015 at 09:36, Pine W wrote:
> Sounds like a reasonable idea to me. Another open source advocate in
> Seattle has encouraged cooperation between Wikipedia and DBpedia. What
> would it take to make Gerard's suggestion come to life?
>
>
Sounds like a reasonable idea to me. Another open source advocate in
Seattle has encouraged cooperation between Wikipedia and DBpedia. What
would it take to make Gerard's suggestion come to life?
Pine
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 12:26 AM, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:
> Hoi,
> An argument rages about the
Thanks very much for this announcement, Hasive.
I'd like to take a moment to refresh our collective memory from June of
last year. The Wikimedians who organized the Wikimedia Bangladesh
Foundation made extraordinary efforts to found their chapter, and the
chapter's approval under the Societies Reg
Hoi,
An argument rages about the significance of the English WIkipedia using
Wikidata for person data, things like date of death.
DBpedia does a better job than Wikidata does and it does it because they
not only use dumps to update their information but they also use
information from RSS. Therefor
Hi All,
We're happy to share another good news from Bengali Wikipedia Community.
You already know that Bengali Wikipedia has reached It's 10 year journey.
We celebrate a program on last February 10 and Jimmy Wales joined with us
as Chief Guest.
After that recently (May 30) we again successfully co
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