It's interesting that you chose spellchecking as your example. On the
English Wikipedia, I tend to see that as an activity that some people
actually do find fun (or relaxing). Plus, spelling errors (or perceived
spelling errors[1]) are something that unregistered users really like
fixing. But ma
Hello John,
I thought about it too, in a slightly different angle, and maybe it is really
not a bad idea.
What I thought was more for people who are here for a while (maybe those who
have been around for 2+ years, 5000 edits, whatever). More of a motivation for
the older worn out contributors.
Both in Wikipedia and other parts of the Wikimedia-universe there are
a lot of jobs that should be done, but are not so popular. Because
they are not done, people get tired and backs away from whatever they
are doing.
I could give several examples, but lets say spellchecking. It is not
fun doing s
Horrifying!
Is there anything we can do from our side, e.g. include some Javascript
which can detect and disable the malware banner?
[[mw:Adamw]]
On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 10:11 AM Paulo Santos Perneta <
paulospern...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I seem to recall some OTRS tickets recently sent wa
Hi,
I seem to recall some OTRS tickets recently sent warning about it. Should
they be forward to any address in particular, in case they keep coming in?
Paulo
John Bennett escreveu no dia quinta, 24/01/2019
à(s) 14:02:
> Hello,
>
> In order to keep the community informed of threats against Wik
Hello,
In order to keep the community informed of threats against Wikimedia
projects and users, the Wikimedia Security team has some information to
share.
Malware installed via pirated contented downloaded from sites such as the
Pirate Bay can cause web browsers compromised by the malware to crea
Il giorno mer, 23/01/2019 alle 11.37 -0500, Lane Rasberry ha scritto:
> [...] Likely entities to answer this could be the WMF board, because
> they recently granted voting rights to user groups
Actually there is no change in the board selection process so far: the
change is on the agenda of a boar