[Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Reflecting on my listening tour

2023-04-14 Thread Brian Wolff
difference to the end user, and the fragility of that ecosystem is a form of technical debt that is often overlooked. So i guess it all depends on what is meant by "technical debt" -- Brian On Friday, April 14, 2023, Andre Klapper wrote: > On Thu, 2023-04-13 at 20:06 -0700, bawolf

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Opportunities open for the Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee

2023-03-20 Thread Brian Choo
port team, Brian Choo IP and Litigation Case Specialist Wikimedia Foundation [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety/Case_Review_Committee [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Legal_department/Announcement/2023_OC_and_CRC_appointments_process [3] h

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Foundation-l] Improving search in Wikipedia through quality and concept discovery

2022-09-10 Thread Brian Mingus
Your the search guy? Why did you marginalize my work? On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:15 AM Robert Stojnic wrote: > > Hi Brian, > > I'm not sure this is foundation-l type of discussion, but let me give a > couple of comments. > I took the liberty of re-running your sample query &qu

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Call for applicants: Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee

2022-02-25 Thread Brian Choo
Hi everyone! The call for applicants for the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee is now open until 4 March 2022. Please see the below email for details (or here < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety/Case_Review_Committee/Call_for_applicants >). Best, Brian Choo F

[Wikimedia-l] Call for applicants: Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee

2022-02-09 Thread Brian Choo
and_Safety/Case_Review_Committee/Charter [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety/Case_Review_Committee/Monthly_reports -- Brian Choo Facilitator for the Interim Trust & Safety Case Review Committee Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wik

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians of Chicago 2019-20 report submitted

2021-01-10 Thread Brian Choo
Hello everyone, The Wikimedians of Chicago User Group has submitted its 2019-20 activities report: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Chicago_User_Group/2019-2020_Activities_Report Warm regards, Brian Choo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list

[Wikimedia-l] Announcement of new Foundation office action appeals process

2020-09-29 Thread Brian Choo
for or about the committee, please put them on the CRC talk page on Meta or email me at bchoo-ctr[at]wikimedia.org.[4] The Meta talk page also contains questions that have already been asked and answered. I will find answers to your questions and post responses on the Meta talk page. On behalf of the comm

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] New Developers Quarterly Report's first edition

2017-10-18 Thread Brian Wolff
Fae wrote: >Does the minus symbol in "-60.0%" mean anything? Being a retention >percentage, I do not understand how it can be negative unless >potential volunteers are getting rejected at the door before they can >sign-up. Could that be corrected? My understanding is that this means that the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] New Developers Quarterly Report's first edition

2017-10-18 Thread Brian Wolff
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Srishti Sethi wrote: > Hello everyone, > > > I would like to share the first edition of the New Developers Quarterly > Report that the Developer Relations team has produced. This report covers > metrics, survey analysis and lessons learned

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] IRC office hours: Shared hosting

2015-12-20 Thread Brian Wolff
On 12/20/15, James Salsman wrote: > Were there any objections to my request below? > Yes. As MaxSem said earlier[1], its basically being ignored as being totally irrelevant to the topic at hand. (To be clear: Third-party does not mean people who are doing work on Wikimedia

[Wikimedia-l] Changes in Engineering leadership

2015-07-03 Thread Brian Wolff
Another thought: perhaps more investment could be made in providing career development support for our volunteers of all kinds. It's relatively common in the United States for organizations with lots of volunteers to put some investment explicitly into helping the volunteers develop skills snd

[Wikimedia-l] Unsolicieted email from wikimedia research

2015-06-27 Thread Brian Wolff
So as part of https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Increasing_article_coverage , it appears that unsolicited emails have been sent out encouraging people to translated articles into needed languages. I am all for improving article coverage, etc, but I'm concerned about the use of user

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS

2015-06-14 Thread Brian Wolff
I should also mention that while we try to be as transparent as possible in all our work (including holding community consultations around all major legal policies and providing frequent updates on our work), there are very limited situations where public discussions could actually hurt free

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS

2015-06-12 Thread Brian Wolff
To be truly free, access to knowledge must be secure and uncensored. At the Wikimedia Foundation, we believe that you should be able to use Wikipedia and the Wikimedia sites without sacrificing privacy or safety. Today, we’re happy to announce that we are in the process of implementing HTTPS

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: A new structure for WMF Engineering.

2015-04-21 Thread Brian Wolff
In particular, I wanted to share more about the plans for the Community Tech team. The creation of this team is a direct response to community requests for more technical support. Their mission is to understand and support the technical needs of core contributors, including improved support

[Wikimedia-l] Announcing: The Wikipedia Prize!

2015-03-30 Thread Brian
identify. A full bitcoin if you take a selfie with them. Let the games begin! Brian Mingus ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Types of allowed projects for grant funding (renamed)

2015-02-21 Thread Brian Wolff
On 2/21/15, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: (Now continuing this discussion on Wikimedia-l also, since we are discussing grant policies.) For what it's worth, I repeatedly advocated for allowing IEG to support a broader range of tech projects when I was on IEGCom. I had the impression that