[Wikimedia-l] Re: Who is the editor with the longest editing streak? Find out!

Hi, On 7/28/23 12:42, F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l wrote: Is there any available tool to precisely count how many days in a row a Wikimedian from a specifif project has been editing? The sourcethat is linked in the Diffs page 

[Wikimedia-l] wikimedia.social (was Re: Re: Mozilla's social media pledge)

On 7/17/23 11:53, Anusha A wrote: I wanted to update you that the Wikimedia Foundation has launched a Mastodon instance. You can follow us at: wikimedia.social/@wikimediafoundation . Awesome, this is really great to see happen! As far as I can

[Wikimedia-l] Mastodon and Wikimedia

Thanks to Taavi who led the technical development and all the other people who provided input during the process[2]. On 4/13/23 03:11, Kunal Mehta wrote: In any case, I'm primarily writing this email to let people know that we have started a community-run Wikipedia Mastodon account, which y

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2022 Picture of the Year Results

Dear Wikimedians, The 2022 Picture of the Year competition has ended and we are pleased to announce the results: In both rounds, people voted for their favorite pictures. * In the first round, there were 1102 candidate images. * In the second round, people voted for the 56 finalists (the

[Wikimedia-l] Final round of voting open in the seventeenth annual Picture of the Year contest

Hi all, The final round of voting to determine the seventeenth annual Picture of the Year is now open! Please cast your vote at and then share with your communities. This round of voting will be open for 2 weeks. Thank you to the 2,407 voters who cast more than 118,000

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Voting open in the seventeenth annual Picture of the Year contest

Hi all, Voting is now open in the seventeenth annual Picture of the Year contest: - please vote! The first round of voting will be open for 2 weeks. There are over 1,100 pictures being considered this year and several new categories. Any user with more than 75 edits

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

Hi, On 4/7/23 18:17, Dan Szymborski wrote: It doesn't make sense to even talk about actually getting involved without discussing *which* of the multitude of Mastodon instances to "join," There's a lot of legwork to be done first, as opposed to the simpler task of signing up for, say, an

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

Hi, On 3/20/23 19:42, Todd Allen wrote: Also, who are these three new members and the seven existing ones? Quoting from : "For their safety, committee members are anonymous, though their real identities

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

Hi, On 12/20/22 16:16, David Gerard wrote: Legoktm runs https://wikis.world which a small number of Wikimedians and WIkimedia groups are already on. Thanks for promoting us! To clarify, this is absolutely a group effort, with Taavi, Lucas Werkmeister, and Nemo_bis being some of the main

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Voting open in the sixteenth annual Picture of the Year contest

Hi all, Voting is now open in the second round of the Picture of the Year contest to pick the winner out of 57 gorgeous finalists: . It'll be open for 2 weeks, closing on December 15. If you have any questions, please see the help page: . Thanks, --

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Voting open in the sixteenth annual Picture of the Year contest

Hi all, Voting is now open in the sixteenth annual Picture of the Year contest: - please vote! The first round of voting will be open for 2 weeks. Any user with more than 75 edits before Jan. 1, 2022 is eligible to vote; if you're not sure the voting tool will

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Presenting about transparency in Wikimedia's technical spaces

Hi, On 7/22/22 22:07, Kunal Mehta wrote: Tomorrow at the HOPE 2022 conference, I'm giving a talk titled, "How to Run a Top-10 Website, Publicly and Transparently", discussing the impact of transparency in Wikimedia's technical spaces. A number of people have expressed interest i

[Wikimedia-l] Re: The new Signpost issue (Aug. 1) is out

Hi everyone, On 8/2/22 07:01, Andreas Kolbe wrote: July has ended and a new Signpost issue is out – complete with an Election Guide that includes op-eds by all six shortlisted candidates for the WMF Board, and candidates' answers to community questions on the associated talk pages. I want

[Wikimedia-l] Presenting about transparency in Wikimedia's technical spaces - July 23, 17:00 UTC

Hi, Tomorrow at the HOPE 2022 conference, I'm giving a talk titled, "How to Run a Top-10 Website, Publicly and Transparently", discussing the impact of transparency in Wikimedia's technical spaces. A number of people have expressed interest in watching, including non-technical users, so I'm

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month: We are back in 2022!

Hi, On 2/23/22 21:58, 4nn1l2 wrote: This is a legitimate concern as several users have dared to ask questions as you can see at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ukraine%27s_Cultural_Diplomacy_Month We need more

[Wikimedia-l] Re: board accountability [was Re: Re: Board statement endorsing community voting on the enforcement guidelines for Universal code of Conduct (UCoC)]

Hi, On 1/30/22 21:14, Luis Villa wrote: (2) What mechanisms was/is the board using to measure organizational health? For example, in 2015 we did an employee engagement survey only when morale had already plummeted over a cliff; the board never asked for one. Should it have? If not, what

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Luis Bitencourt-Emilio Joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

On 1/13/22 08:50, Steven Walling wrote: If we are having trouble retaining CTOs and CPOs, the first people for the Board and CEO to ask about why are *not* outside tech execs from venture-backed companies. It’s the tech employees of the Foundation (those past leaders in those roles and their

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

Hi, On 1/1/22 12:10, Asaf Bartov wrote: It seems to me there are *very few* people who could change status quo, not much more than a handful: the Foundation's executive leadership (in its annual planning work, coming up this first quarter of 2022), and the Board of Trustees. If the goal is

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Upload for large files is broken

Hi, On 10/29/21 7:17 AM, Alexandros Kosiaris wrote: For what it's worth, we have found a regression today that when addressed, I expect will fix at least some of these issues. More in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275752 Following up, this was fixed on Oct. 29 and most large file uploads

[Wikimedia-l] Locking mailing list threads

Hi, On 10/26/21 4:41 PM, Risker wrote: It is unfortunate that the software doesn't permit locking of threads. It does :) A list admin can set a header filter of "Subject" matching whatever thread's subject, and choose either to hold for moderation, discard (no notification), or reject (with

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming María Sefidari as a Foundation consultant. :)

Hi, On 6/25/21 12:58 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: Some precedents: ~ As Florence noted, in 2007, Erik made a similar transition.  (A bit contentious; there was a long internal-l thread). And on Foundation-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Test Mailman3 in production

Hi, On 3/25/21 11:45 PM, Pankaj Jangid wrote: One question. I subscribe to this list via the NNTP bridge hosted at gmane.io. Will the change make any difference at that end? I mean do the administrators of Gmane require any change? My understanding is that Gmane is subscribed to our mailing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Authorities in Myanmar blocks all languages of Wikipedia, says internet freedom watchdog = Qiuwen

Hi, On 2/19/21 1:08 PM, 《求闻》编译组／Qiuwen WMCug wrote: Netblocks provided additional information in a picture attached to the tweet, suggests that they have tested the connectivity of Wikipedia in English and French, Wikidata, and wikimedia.org, with none of them accessible. This may intimate that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Surveys using third party tools on Wikimedia projects

Hi, On 2/14/21 5:08 PM, Łukasz Garczewski wrote: *So here's a constructive alternative idea:* * Let's gather the needs and use cases for tools used by WMF and affiliates, * Let's build a list of potential open source replacements and map what features are missing, * Let's put the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Moderation notice

Hi, On 2020-09-10 04:34, Asaf Bartov wrote: > On Thu, 10 Sep 2020, 14:05 Fæ wrote: >> Who are the list mods? > > The current list admins are John Vandenberg, Shani Evenstein, and I. > >> Unfortunately, this is not made clear at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid API?

Hi, On 2020-07-09 13:15, Dan Garry (Deskana) wrote: > Which cloud provider would you recommend? Wikimedia Cloud Services, which incidentally, has the fastest network connection to Wikimedia sites by virtue of it being hosted *inside* the cluster. -- Legoktm signature.asc Description:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] June 4 1800 Maggie Dennis office hour (with a twist)

Hi Pine, On 2020-06-05 00:29, Pine W wrote: > I don't know what all was going on inside of WMF, but I would have > wanted an outsider -- that is, not someone inside of WMF -- to review > the actions of the staff, similar to how police departments are > sometimes reviewed by outside agencies after

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amazon Echo' use of Wikipedia; CC license compliance?

Hi, On 04/04/2018 08:36 PM, Anthony Cole wrote: > I'm curious also. I release my articles under "attribution, share alike" > and rely on WMF to preserve those rights. Why are you relying on the WMF? Wikipedia contributors (like yourself) are the ones who own copyright to the articles - the WMF

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Tool to help reaching community consensus

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, On 12/07/2017 04:51 AM, mathieu stumpf guntz wrote: > Loomio offers free use for community cases. But it's non-free > software, as far as I can see, but I didn't made deep inquiry. So I > wondered if anyone was aware of a free software