Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Board appointment of Executive Director

2016-06-24 Thread Andrew Gray
ffective as of our > resolution dated Thursday, 23 June. Hi Patricio, On a pretty miserable day here in the UK, this is really cheering news. Congratulations to Katherine and well done to the Board for making a clear decision. Andrew. -- - Andrew Gray andr

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

2016-05-09 Thread Andrew Gray
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Disrupting journal publishing

2016-05-08 Thread Andrew Gray
nt than no fees generally. > > Best > James > > On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Andrew Gray > wrote: > >> On 8 May 2016 at 21:51, James Heilman wrote: >> > Yes there are more than 10,000 open access journals. Ours are different >> in >> > that we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Disrupting journal publishing

2016-05-08 Thread Andrew Gray
n fees to authors. (They only represent a minority of articles published - they tend to include the smaller ones). I would agree that there is no shortage of journals in the world. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, g

Re: [Wikimedia-l] election for 2 seats on WMF board of trustees ends May 7...

2016-05-06 Thread Andrew Gray
;> *Voting will end at* 23:59, 7 May 2016 (UTC) >> >> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Dennis Tobar >> wrote: >> >> > Just for ask: the final day to cast a vote, is tonight (May 6 23:59:59 >> UTC) >> > or May 7 23:59:29 UTC? >> > >>

Re: [Wikimedia-l] election for 2 seats on WMF board of trustees ends May 7...

2016-05-06 Thread Andrew Gray
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] election for 2 seats on WMF board of trustees ends May 7...

2016-05-03 Thread Andrew Gray
ree with the first part, but on the second, it's worth noting that "none" is an acceptable vote in this election. For myself I think you'd be hard pressed to find *no* candidates you can support from this round - they seem a pretty good selection - but others no doubt differ :-).

Re: [Wikimedia-l] election for 2 seats on WMF board of trustees ends May 7...

2016-05-03 Thread Andrew Gray
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] election for 2 seats on WMF board of trustees ends May 7...

2016-05-03 Thread Andrew Gray
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Gender gap on "classical" encyclopedias

2016-04-20 Thread Andrew Gray
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open and recorded WMF Board meetings

2016-03-03 Thread Andrew Gray
it state the following day, and circulate them shortly afterwards? It might still take a little while to get them approved and published, but we'd still be a step up on where we are now. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How To Recover From Having Made A Mistake [a reminder]

2016-01-11 Thread Andrew Gray
had: http://wikilovesmonuments.aq/ (September is not a good monument-hunting month, so I think all contributors had given us pictures from their existing collections...) Asaf: wonderful piece as always. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing new Wikimedia Foundation Trustees

2016-01-06 Thread Andrew Gray
hat involve broad strategy - especially but not only to do > with WikiData? Given Denny's long history with Wikimedia and his role in Wikidata, I would be more concerned about influence working the other way around ;-) -- - Andrew Gray

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing new Wikimedia Foundation Trustees

2016-01-06 Thread Andrew Gray
portant that we try to avoid too large a proportion of the board coming from within the SF technology bubble. This feels like a step sideways in that regard, and it's unsettling. (I also agree with his concerns about diversity, but we're not always great at solving that through t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Endowment Discussion

2015-12-02 Thread Andrew Gray
erating costs were a little under $5m at that point and getting a 5% return on endowment was a reasonable expectation. As Anne points out, though, we do a lot more now than we did then! Andrew. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia

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

2015-08-21 Thread Andrew Gray
t attention. Still, nothing ventured! Some projects have restyled the globe logo for special occasions - that might be another approach to consider. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://me

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

2015-08-19 Thread Andrew Gray
ed to return to make the campaign a success, which isn't really a concern for fundraising. We need to make sure that that channel is open and visible in some way when they come back. Andrew. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CAPTCHA issues discouraging new editors

2015-06-19 Thread Andrew Gray
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?

2015-06-17 Thread Andrew Gray
ZMcBride > > > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://list

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Spam] Re: While Election committee counts the votes...

2015-06-03 Thread Andrew Gray
ic information? It certainly was in 2013; digging through old emails turns up a link to https://vote.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/list/290 which seems to be the voter list from that election. Andrew. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New financing model for editations

2015-03-19 Thread Andrew Gray
they were cost-neutral - but the cost of running editathons is, in my experience, not high. There are probably easier savings to be made by WMF. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2015 Strategy/Community consultation on the "Wikipedia for children" idea

2015-03-19 Thread Andrew Gray
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] UTC in politics, editors threaten, or how rev history made the news

2015-03-02 Thread Andrew Gray
ther than just "xx.xx UTC". Related point: if we adapt the way history timestamps are displayed, eg by adding 'UTC', we should be consistent and apply the same approach to the "old revisions" view of a page, and the "This page was last modified on..." foote

Re: [Wikimedia-l] UTC in politics, editors threaten, or how rev history made the news

2015-03-02 Thread Andrew Gray
top of the page. It's very easy for someone to not notice a general message, especially if they're looking at more than the first two entries in the history. If we want to be clever, we could always get JS trickery to display something like "xx.xx UTC ($localtimezone +5.00)" rathe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] A "Listen" Button

2015-01-25 Thread Andrew Gray
>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > -- > Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz > http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek > http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ > http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz > ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Spam] Re: Become a Digital object identifier (DOI) registarnt

2015-01-23 Thread Andrew Gray
idata transclusions then :-) Andrew. On 23 January 2015 at 16:09, Petr Kadlec wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Andrew Gray > wrote: > >> The oldid. At the moment, I trust our long-term viability more than a >> 2014 web-archiving startup, even one with p

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Spam] Re: Become a Digital object identifier (DOI) registarnt

2015-01-21 Thread Andrew Gray
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Become a Digital object identifier (DOI) registarnt

2014-12-31 Thread Andrew Gray
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Spam] Re: Fwd: Our final email

2014-12-19 Thread Andrew Gray
;s over six _years_ >>> that the projects could continue operating before needing to ask for money >>> again. Contrast with e-mails and in-site donation advertising that >>> suggest that the lights will go off soon if readers don't donate today. >> Please add my name to t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "edited mercilessly"

2014-12-03 Thread Andrew Gray
ace.” – T. Moore‬ >> > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med

2014-11-13 Thread Andrew Gray
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow or not to Flow

2014-09-10 Thread Andrew Gray
parallel discussions (not a very frequent issue, but a messy one when needed; Pine notes this below) The more nebulous one that has great promise is using Flow for workflows/processes (which falls out naturally from the integration of discussions) - this is what Erik describes below as

Re: [Wikimedia-l] slow death of "anyone can edit" concept (was: "let's elect people to serve on the wikimedia engineering "community" team!" (brainstorming))

2014-08-09 Thread Andrew Gray
s/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bitcoin now accepted, but there are privacy concerns

2014-07-30 Thread Andrew Gray
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community RfCs about MediaViewer

2014-07-14 Thread Andrew Gray
ing list, guidelines at: >> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Number of volunteers. (Was: How many volunteers (not editors) ...?)

2014-07-04 Thread Andrew Gray
#x27;s duties was essentially "everything else"; when he was hired there were ten other staff, and by the time he left there were still only a few dozen. http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Staff_and_contractors&oldid=19911 This may explain why "volunteer coordina

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please

2014-07-04 Thread Andrew Gray
erwards. And, finally - the more you argue for this tangential idea, the more people are going to ignore any other (reasonable) suggestion you make. I hope this (sadly lengthy) email constitutes bringing some minor objections to your attention. Andrew. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Spam] Re: 24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please

2014-07-03 Thread Andrew Gray
option. I haven't been following this case, but I would think saying "let's figure out what you want to do before we spend a thousand dollars on it" would be an eminently reasonable position for Marc to take. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The tragedy of Commons

2014-06-17 Thread Andrew Gray
g to compare this with the way we handle Commons material.) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] On relationship gossip and appropriate conversation

2014-06-15 Thread Andrew Gray
erating fruitless discussions. Agree entirely with this. Not really sure what the original post was intended to achieve, but it doesn't seem to be doing it... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: http

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Child Protection Policy

2014-05-23 Thread Andrew Gray
ters for that, so people understand the usual responses, was a net > positive. > > > -george william herbert > george.herb...@gmail.com > > Sent from Kangphone > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://met

Re: [Wikimedia-l] MET allows free image download for 390, 000+ works already in the pubic domain

2014-05-22 Thread Andrew Gray
e for reading (and usually in fairly constrained circumstances). Direct reuse doesn't enter into it. "Open access" is a very multifaceted term. :-) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: ht

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Non-renewal of Wikimedia UK fundraiser agreement

2014-05-21 Thread Andrew Gray
on since then. Of course, Wikimedia as a whole had a lot less money in 2005 and we were all somewhat unclear on what a chapter could actually do ;-) So it seems a little weird, to me, to create a second charity to do the job that the first one was created

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Request for comments: How to deal with open datasets?

2014-05-15 Thread Andrew Gray
rs and from within the Wikimedia community. I've seen vague "it's data, it'll go on Wikidata" a few times, which is a bit like saying "it's text, it'll go on Wikipedia" ;-) Andrew. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons' frontpage probably shouldn't prominently feature a decontextualised stack of corpses.

2014-05-13 Thread Andrew Gray
ttle actually done. The resolution is still out there, though... Andrew. * today's surprising fact: a particularly odd contributor tried to argue for this, at great length, in ~2005. I forget which article on enwiki it was. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Affiliation in username

2014-05-10 Thread Andrew Gray
e this circle - encourage renaming from User:Jane_Smith to User:Jane_Smith_(Megacorp) then back to User:Jane_Smith, in order to accomodate changes over time. Of course, this would have other side-effects - the rename-to-vanish or rename-for-privacy method we currently use would be impossibl

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Metrics - accuracy of Wikipedia articles

2014-05-08 Thread Andrew Gray
other reference works) and randomly select from within *those*, but of course you would still have the fundamental issue that you're essentially reviewing a selected portion of the project. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Israel been accepted to the Google Grants program

2014-05-05 Thread Andrew Gray
g > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sponsorship/donations to other organizations

2014-04-17 Thread Andrew Gray
stment in these open source products, not ensuring a critical piece of > our toolkit survives. > > Steven > _______ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mobile Operator IP Drift Tracking and Remediation

2014-04-16 Thread Andrew Gray
Hi Adam, One thought: you don't really need the date/time data at any detailed resolution, do you? If what you're wanting it for is to track major changes ("last month it all switched to this IP") and to purge old data ("delete anything older than 10 March"), you could simply log day rather than d

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Our next strategy plan-Paid editing

2014-03-27 Thread Andrew Gray
; Do we have a way of indicating that something was graded at a given date ? > Thanks, > GerardM > > > On 26 March 2014 22:35, Andrew Gray wrote: > >> The WP 1.0 model is pretty good (at least across a sample of a hundred or >> so articles) but it's quite lab

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Our next strategy plan-Paid editing

2014-03-26 Thread Andrew Gray
onal - is not a viable option for next five years >> > > >> > > Anders >> > > >> > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/Paid_ >> > > contributions_amendment >> > > _______ >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] draft revised volunteer community survey

2014-03-17 Thread Andrew Gray
he world's charities and redirect all their funds to researching asteroid deflection... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listi

[Wikimedia-l] My choice for ED

2014-02-03 Thread Andrew Gray
a-l mailing list > > > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > > __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] RfC: Should we support MP4 Video on our sites?

2014-01-16 Thread Andrew Gray
dia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___

Re: [Wikimedia-l] RfC: Should we support MP4 Video on our sites?

2014-01-16 Thread Andrew Gray
on is a definite advance - and if it's a firm no, and we remain in the status quo, we'll have a firm basis for that in future rather than a sort of decision-by-inertia. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanking anonymous users

2014-01-13 Thread Andrew Gray
ia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid editing v. paid advocacy (editing)

2014-01-12 Thread Andrew Gray
dia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2014 scholarship now accepting application

2014-01-08 Thread Andrew Gray
t; ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

2013-12-19 Thread Andrew Gray
ubscribe> > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Commons-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

2013-12-16 Thread Andrew Gray
Remember that while US caselaw is clear on this point, it is less clear-cut elsewhere. We at WM tend to take a clear line that 2D reproductions are ineligible, but it's not a guaranteed absolute truth, particularly in the UK! We can predict how a court might rule... but they haven't yet, and claimi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Commons-l] The British Library releases 1 million images

2013-12-15 Thread Andrew Gray
pping us harvesting them individually, of course, but I think adding a million unidentified images and saying "the community will sort them out" would be a very quick road to my getting beaten up ;-) Andrew. On 15 December 2013 17:37, Jens Best wrote: > Just discovered a short note o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising mysteries

2013-11-29 Thread Andrew Gray
regards, >> > James Salsman >> > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising mysteries

2013-11-25 Thread Andrew Gray
> Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monobook was optimised for editors, Vector is more balanced between readers and edtors

2013-11-24 Thread Andrew Gray
ikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright infringement - The real elephant in the room

2013-11-19 Thread Andrew Gray
a bot to scan every edit; it just can't use AbuseFilter > tags. > > Matt Flaschen > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Education] How to force to enable Visual Editor

2013-10-16 Thread Andrew Gray
ia.org >> > > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > > >> > > > ___ >> > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list >>

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Education] How to force to enable Visual Editor

2013-10-15 Thread Andrew Gray
wledge – >> > > > > > >> www.wikimedia.ch >> > > > > > >> Skype: charles.andres.wmch >> > > > > > >> IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch >> > > > > > >> >> > > > > > >> __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Radiological images

2013-09-17 Thread Andrew Gray
__ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Radiological images

2013-09-17 Thread Andrew Gray
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Radiological images

2013-09-17 Thread Andrew Gray
Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia blog moving to WordPress.com

2013-09-08 Thread Andrew Gray
intained, and Flow is barely started. > > > - d. > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@list

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia blog moving to WordPress.com

2013-09-05 Thread Andrew Gray
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[Wikimedia-l] Visual Editor "temporary" opt-out

2013-08-06 Thread Andrew Gray
ve that we need a visual editor and an > active group of people are trying to develop one (however haphazardly). > Rather than simply attack and banish them, I think we should instead focus > on ways to make it better or make it easier to get it out of the way of > those who don't

Re: [Wikimedia-l] a compromise proposal for visual editor dogfooding

2013-08-03 Thread Andrew Gray
On 3 August 2013 18:50, David Gerard wrote: > On 3 August 2013 18:46, Andrew Gray wrote: > >> I wonder sometimes if maintaining help/documentation pages would be a >> sensible thing for WMF to have a (part?) time staffer working on, but >> I guess this gets into the mudd

Re: [Wikimedia-l] a compromise proposal for visual editor dogfooding

2013-08-03 Thread Andrew Gray
yle, with 135 word (!) notice at the top about VE I wonder sometimes if maintaining help/documentation pages would be a sensible thing for WMF to have a (part?) time staffer working on, but I guess this gets into the muddy area of "paying people for volunteer ta

Re: [Wikimedia-l] a compromise proposal for visual editor dogfooding

2013-08-03 Thread Andrew Gray
#x27;d need to test an integrated environment. Where people aren't going to consult help pages (say, the login page) it's much simpler. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubsc

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Picturing Canada: historic Canadian photography now on Commons

2013-07-06 Thread Andrew Gray
ot; tag on all uploads. The relative rarity of problematic captions meant that I thought a more explicit disclaimer was probably overkill, compared to (say) the Bundesarchiv caveats. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l ma

[Wikimedia-l] Picturing Canada: historic Canadian photography now on Commons

2013-07-01 Thread Andrew Gray
imedia UK and the Eccles Centre for American Studies for funding this, and to Phil Hatfield at the British Library for championing the collection! Andrew. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to WMF May 2013 Metrics and Activities Meeting: Thursday, June 6, 18:00 UTC

2013-06-06 Thread Andrew Gray
__ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >> > > > > -- > Nicole Ebber > International Affairs > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 109

[Wikimedia-l] UK.Gov passes Instagram Act

2013-05-03 Thread Andrew Gray
ll, and in ten years time we can say - look, the sky didn't fall, the principle is now accepted, how about we refine the process? -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing lis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Single User Login finalisation: some accounts will be renamed

2013-04-30 Thread Andrew Gray
svwiktionary”. I was wondering if this would ever finally happen! One ide-effect of centralised renaming: a lot less work for individual projects and a lot less confusion over where and how names can be used/usurped, in which order, etc... -- -

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why not everyone have the right to vote in the Board & FDC elections?

2013-04-28 Thread Andrew Gray
ly share in the >> sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! >> https://donate.wikimedia.org >> ___ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The case for supporting open source machine translation

2013-04-24 Thread Andrew Gray
pecies of: fish] [in the: Y family]. It [is found in: Laos, Vietnam]. It [grows to: 20 cm]. (pictures) Wikidata Phase 4, perhaps :-) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias

2013-04-22 Thread Andrew Gray
to answer any questions you might have! >> > >> > Yours, >> > -- >> > James D. Forrester >> > Product Manager, VisualEditor >> > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. >> > >> > jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester >> > >> >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lack of community involvement in WMF budget planning

2013-04-09 Thread Andrew Gray
ke this one: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:FDC_portal/Proposals/2012-2013_round1/Wikimedia_Foundation/Proposal_form (Please feel free to correct me if I've got this wrong!) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] French intelligency agency forces removal of a Wikipedia article

2013-04-08 Thread Andrew Gray
a bit like trying to hide the proverbial elephant...) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The value of Wikipedia for the economy

2013-04-08 Thread Andrew Gray
to other knowledge compendiums, or > even 'the internet'? > > Thanks for any pointers! > > Lodewijk > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-

[Wikimedia-l] GLAM-Wiki 2013 - one month to go!

2013-03-14 Thread Andrew Gray
Looking forward to seeing some of you there, and please do circulate this to anyone who might be interested! -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

2013-03-14 Thread Andrew Gray
ndidates/Questions/1 SJ: definite yes Kat: defer decision, but worth considering Ting: ambivalent So there's a start ;-) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: h

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

2013-03-14 Thread Andrew Gray
ties, but this is less so in Europe; here it's more "traditional charities") I've given a quick outline on the meta page. Building up an endowment sufficient to run WMF would be tricky, of course :-) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mid-Year Financial Statements

2013-03-12 Thread Andrew Gray
On 12 March 2013 13:03, Mathieu Stumpf wrote: > Where are job offers so we can apply? http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.

[Wikimedia-l] Longest living hoax?

2013-03-05 Thread Andrew Gray
sification of it. You can plausibly demonstrate that a contemporary band or ongoing war does not exist without too much trouble; if you draw a blank on a Renaissance painter, you're more likely to assume the digital resources are lacking. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Longest living hoax?

2013-03-05 Thread Andrew Gray
s is the record, apparently, on enwiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/lis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interesting research?

2013-02-19 Thread Andrew Gray
Delightfully, it turns out that someone had done exactly this months ago, and is now running a contest to pick the best: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/19/vote-most-exciting-research-about-wikipedia/ Thanks for the other suggestions, - Andrew. On 18 February 2013 15:10, Andrew Gray wrote

[Wikimedia-l] Interesting research?

2013-02-18 Thread Andrew Gray
hich will cover research about/with WP and other WM projects, and I'm curious to know what people think would be most interesting as examples. I've a few, but the things I find interesting are often unusual :-) Suggestions appreciated! Thanks, -- - Andrew Gray

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2013 scholarship now accepting application

2013-02-18 Thread Andrew Gray
(And perhaps a bonus for "interest in Wikimania" if you make a > good case) So, a new challenge: try and predict the food preferences and prejudices of every member of the Scholarship Committee by Friday. ;-) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _

[Wikimedia-l] Our name in the stars (sort of)

2013-01-31 Thread Andrew Gray
Interesting news: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_belt_asteroid_No._274301_named_Wikipedia -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [Wikimedia-l] OTRS summaries and statistics report, 2012

2013-01-23 Thread Andrew Gray
Bear in mind that this year's figures will be skewed by the absolutely enormous SOPA response - I don't have the final numbers to hand, but I know that at one point that morning OTRS was fielding an email every minute or two about it. It's not clear from the report if these are seperated out or if

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia, top Internet brand in Germany

2013-01-17 Thread Andrew Gray
e/presse/2013/pressemeldung-yougov-topperformer-brandindex-2012/ -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

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