Re: [Wikimedia-l] REMINDER: Invitation to upcoming office hours with WMF interim Executive Director

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 7:04 AM, Brill Lyle wrote: > > 2. Session notes were done live in Wiki Markup format on the etherpad which > resulted in a truly great cooperative effort to list detailed minutes. It > allowed a super quick publish to Wiki which was ideal. > For

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] REMINDER: Invitation to upcoming office hours with WMF interim Executive Director

Hi there, Thanks for the feedback, and a few thoughts: 1. This is the first time we've done a video office hours and we have some things to learn about how to produce them effectively. I'm sorry the audio on the YouTube recording wasn't great - we can make that a priority in the future. I know I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] March 2016 minutes of the Board of Trustees

Thank you! On May 12, 2016 2:52 PM, "Stephen LaPorte" wrote: > Hi all, > > The Board of Trustees has published minutes from the Board meeting on > March 21, 2016. You can find the Board's minutes on the Foundation Wiki: >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] REMINDER: Invitation to upcoming office hours with WMF interim Executive Director

Brill Lyle wrote: > 1. The sound quality was fine from what I saw and heard. I was on a desktop > computer using the Blue Jeans thing (which had the YouTube video playing) > and IRC chat -- and etherpad > […] I listened in on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XazXyL-Ybjo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliate Selected Board Seats - Result

Congratulations for all candidates! Thank you to our Election Facilitators team: Chris Keating, Lorenzo Losa, Lane Rasberry! Good luck for Christophe and Nataliia regards, 2016-05-11 23:06 GMT+07:00 Biplab Anand : > Congratulations Christophe and Nataliia! > > Regards >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [WikimediaMobile] Fwd: "Among mobile sites, Wikipedia reigns in terms of popularity"

Since you brought up this example the BBC news site used to have a mobile and desktop site... just like we did. Eventually, they got their mobile site to a good state, removed the desktop site and used the mobile site: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31966686 It's worth pointing out we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ArticlePlaceholder now live on first 4 Wikipedias

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] "Among mobile sites, Wikipedia reigns in terms of popularity"

Inline. On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 1:28 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > Steven Walling wrote: > >It's really great to see Wikipedia highlighted as a source for news and > >current events. It's rare that people fully recognize the degree to which > >the "encyclopedia" is actually very

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Florida Librarians of Wikipedia

Welcome! And congratulations :) P.S. Are all members of the UG already subscribed to this list? The page says that the talk page [1] is the best place to contact the group. Maybe we need to post welcomes there, as Lane did :) [1]

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] ArticlePlaceholder now live on first 4 Wikipedias

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 1:38 PM Jo wrote: > Hi Lucie, > > Thank you for implementing this. I have some more suggestions. > > When I go to this article: > > https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciala%C4%B5o:AboutTopic?entityid=Q22393235 > > I can't go back the Wikidata entry. > I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Florida Librarians of Wikipedia

Congratulations to this new user group! Hope it's okay -- I added a link to this meta page to the Wikipedia:Meetup namespace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup#Projects_.26_initiatives Please reach out if any of us local Wikipedia chapters can be of assistance. To the best of our

Re: [Wikimedia-l] REMINDER: Invitation to upcoming office hours with WMF interim Executive Director

1. The sound quality was fine from what I saw and heard. I was on a desktop computer using the Blue Jeans thing (which had the YouTube video playing) and IRC chat -- and etherpad 2. Session notes were done live in Wiki Markup format on the etherpad which resulted in a truly great cooperative

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] ArticlePlaceholder now live on first 4 Wikipedias

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Lydia Pintscher < lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Last year Lucie started working on the ArticlePlaceholder ( > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder) in order to > fullfill Wikidata's promise of supporting especially the smaller >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] REMINDER: Invitation to upcoming office hours with WMF interim Executive Director

Thanks for the link. Handful of quick points: 1. The sound quality is poor, to a level where I find it quite hard to work out what is being said half the time especially as the speech is quite rapid. It would be worth investing in a bit of better audio kit for these videoed discussions. If the

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Florida Librarians of Wikipedia

Dear all, It is my pleasure, on behalf of the Affiliations Committee, to announce the recognition of a new WIkimedia User Group: Florida Librarians of Wikipedia [1] As their name implies, they are librarians, and they want to focus on training other librarians on how to contribute to the