Re: [Wikimedia-l] Khalid Mahmood is gone

I had a chance to meet him during Wikimania 2015. Sorry to hear the news. Truly a huge loss for Western Punjabi Wikipedia. Bodhisattwa On 1 Nov 2015 10:23, "Anna Stillwell" wrote: > Thank you for letting us know, Asaf. Rest in peace, Khalid. > /a > > On Sat, Oct 31,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WLM Brasil 2015 - Winners / Numbers

On 31 October 2015 at 17:43, Ilario Valdelli wrote: ... > Rodrigo reports: > > Pictures uploaded: 4.443 > Uploaders: 411 > New users registered on Commons: 325 > New users engagement: 79% > Pictures user on Wikipedia: 86 (2%) > > Are the goals reached? Basically yes. When the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Khalid Mahmood is gone

Sad news. :( I agree with Bodhisattwa that it is a huge loss. 1. His English Wikipedia userpage is fully protected (WP:DECEASED guideline #1) 2. His name is added here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deceased_Wikipedians/2015 Thanks. On 1 November 2015 at 16:16, Shlomi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Khalid Mahmood is gone

On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 21:14:11 -0700 Asaf Bartov wrote: > Dear friends, > > Our colleague User:Khalid Mahmood, the most prolific contributor to the > Western Punjabi Wikipedia[1], has died earlier this month, after long > illness. > sorry to hear about that. My

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Khalid Mahmood is gone

Thank you Asaf. A huge loss. Condolences to all who were close. sent from mobile. please excuse typos. On Nov 1, 2015 4:47 AM, "Tito Dutta" wrote: > Sad news. :( > I agree with Bodhisattwa that it is a huge loss. > > >1. His English Wikipedia userpage is fully protected

[Wikimedia-l] Announcement: English Wikipedia has passed 5 million articles

English Wikipedia has passed 5 million articles. The community has written an open letter (which includes video): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_million_articles Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Khalid Mahmood is gone

Condolences to friends and family and dear ones of Khalid. That it definitely a irreparable loss. Regards, Tanweer Morshed Wikimedia Bangladesh On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Lila Tretikov wrote: > Thank you Asaf. A huge loss. Condolences to all who were close. > > sent

[Wikimedia-l] Looking for Wikipedians in the Balkans, Caucasus and Turkey for project with Osservatorio Balcani-Caucaso

Dear Wikimedians, Wikimedia Italia has started since this month a project with "Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso" (Balcan and Caucasus Observatory, ). Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso (OBC) is a research institute focused on South-East Europe, Turkey and the Caucasus

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Agenda for the November 7-8, 2015 Board Meeting

Glad to see long term planning and endowment discussion on the Board agenda. Will the subjects of the long term planning discussion at the Board meeting be more or less the same as the discussion scheduled for Metrics on Thursday? Thanks, Pine On Nov 1, 2015 5:16 PM, "Stephen LaPorte"

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: English Wikipedia has passed 5 million articles

The Community Letter is included in this week's Signpost issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-10-28/Community_letter And there is a separate short write-up in News and Notes, which notes Wikidata's third birthday as well:

[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to Wikimania 2016 Scholarship Committee

Dear Wikimaniacs,we are now calling for a scholarship review committee.This year, we additionally want a scholarship ambassador for each major geography or language, including a representative from each entity which pays for additional scholarships; the ambassadors will be committee

[Wikimedia-l] Train-a-Wikipedian (TAW): New initiative

Hello, I want to inform you about a new project “Train-a-Wikipedian” (TAW), powered by CIS-A2K. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian You may know of the English Wikipedia program Adopt-a-user . We wanted to start