Re: [Wikimedia-l] New WMF initiative: Community Capacity Development

2015-08-25 Thread Kerry Raymond
Obviously discussions on these six topics are not new as they are frequently discussed on a number of Wikimedia mailing lists and forums. Ideas are often put forward that attract some who say it will work wonderfully, while others doubt if it will work at all, while a third group think it will do h

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New WMF initiative: Community Capacity Development

2015-08-25 Thread Kerry Raymond
Asaf This is a very interesting initiative. But can I get some clarification as to the scope of "communities" under discussion here? Having read through the material, I see "Sign up below if you are interested in implementing this in your local community" appears on all 6 pages and there is mentio

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New WMF initiative: Community Capacity Development

2015-08-25 Thread Asaf Bartov
Thanks for the feedback, Romaine! To your question, we have indeed observed this in some communities, and have heard in interviews about the value and motivating force of "editing as a group". We gave this some expression in the "Off wiki events" section[1], and is indeed something that seems to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New WMF initiative: Community Capacity Development

2015-08-25 Thread Romaine Wiki
Hi Asaf, It sounds interesting, but I do not have a clear idea how to proceed. Like Capacity 4: New contributor engagement and growth. We organise a lot of edit-a-thons and workshops with new contributors and one of the things we sense is that the new users are willing to continue after the works

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New WMF initiative: Community Capacity Development

2015-08-25 Thread Asaf Bartov
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > ==Details== > This is a new way of partnering with WMF: through two way conversations > (rather than top-down planning), WMF will work with specific > Permit me a quick clarification. The above sentence is infelicitous: I did not mean by the

[Wikimedia-l] New WMF initiative: Community Capacity Development

2015-08-25 Thread Asaf Bartov
Dear Wikimedians, {{Nutshell|WMF Community Engagement Team is allocating staff time and funding to deliberate capacity-development projects with interested communities in six capacity areas: community governance; conflict management; on-wiki technical skills; new contributor engagement and growth;

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Imminent block of access to Wikipedia in Russia

2015-08-25 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
2015-08-24 17:24 GMT+02:00 Yaroslav M. Blanter : Today, the Russian Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications instructed all Russian internet providers to block all user access to Wikipedia. All involved parties are aware of the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

2015-08-25 Thread Hong, Yongmin
Sitenotice depends on the project, not country of users. So, users in Italy who is browsing ko.wikipedia.org will not see the banner if it is displayed in sitenotice, which is not the case for CentralNotice. -- Revi https://revi.me -- Sent from Android -- 2015. 8. 25. 오전 2:29에 "Strainu" 님이 작성: >