Re: [Wikimedia-l] Carbon footprints on Wikipedia.

Can this whole discussion please be moved to enwiki or at least the enwiki list? Working out details of an article is not really the topic of this list. Am 10.10.2013 12:44 schrieb "Geoff Beacon" : > Thanks James > > ... but that isn't an answer about carbon footprints. Climate change may > be con

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanking anonymous users

On that occasion, do IPs still receive information about messages on their talk page? (Since the orange bar was abolished and they now go through echo notifications all well) Am 10.01.2014 21:29 schrieb "Oliver Keyes" : > For 1: because it'd be impossible to accurately associate notifications > wi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Better thankspam

As a mostly silent reader of this list, I'd like to spammingly +1 this message. There's hardly anything more superfluous than these "Welcome from Wikimedia Schleswig-Holstein as well" mails. Am 13.01.2016 12:12 schrieb "Fæ" : > TL;DR > Can anyone suggest of a better way of publicly logging tha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia.org portal page update!

What happened to the search box "Find Wikipedia in your language"? 2016-03-11 3:27 GMT+01:00 Deborah Tankersley : > Hello! > > I'm very pleased to announce that we've updated the Wikipedia.org > portal page with a brand new search box that is > more prominent and will now

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Maithili Wikipedia surpasses 10k articles

Congratulations. Was this supported by bots? 2017-01-01 8:16 GMT+01:00 Biplab Anand : > Hi, > > I am delighted to share with you that Maithili Wikipedia has reached 10,000 > articles . > > To reach the milestone Maithili Wikimedians has taken a c

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Maithili Wikipedia surpasses 10k articles

others, to reflect on what they do is what made Mr > Trump the next president. My point is that when we are not able to discuss > our issues and remain stuck in our points of view we will not work towards > a model where the manipulations of Mr Trump can be thwarted. > > Happy Ne

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF is shutting down grantmaking for good projects for 3 months for no reason

Sorry if this was already answered and I overlooked it, but will there be something like a special form of "advertising" this campaign in order to attract many requests that propose to do something about the Gender Gap? 2015-01-06 21:11 GMT+01:00 Siko Bouterse : > On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 2:37 AM,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] SUL finalization update (no, for real this time)

Special:Log/renameuser Am 19.03.2015 00:59 schrieb "Dennis During" : > So, for the third time: Will there be a report accessible to normal users > that has the name changes for the most voluminous contributors who have had > a name change so that one can transfer one's experience with a user to th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Priority languages

Actually, currently the requirements are - most-used messages for the first project in a language - continuing translation activity on TWN for all others Am 02.06.2015 02:18 schrieb "Milos Rancic" : > On Jun 2, 2015 02:08, "MZMcBride" wrote: > > > > Milos Rancic wrote: > > >On Jun 2, 2015 00:39,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Voting system (was: Results of 2015 WMF Board elections)

I still think it was a big mistake (of the electcom? I don't remember, but /someone/ pushed it through without discussions) in the 2013 election to abolish the Schulze method. Am 06.06.2015 19:16 schrieb "Milos Rancic" : > Moving this discussion into a separate thread, to leave the main one > for

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

Am 19.08.2015 11:19 schrieb "Andrea Zanni" : > > [sorry for cross-posting] > > Hello everyone. > > Thanks Romaine for bringing up this issue, because it's good to talk these > kind of things together with the whole community. It's a way to improve > collaboration, I hope. > > Yes, this year WLM and

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

Which is Fundraising's point? I haven't seen anything here about why WMF so urgently needs to request Italian donations in September. Am 20.08.2015 07:27 schrieb "Risker" : > I can understand the frustration that members of WMIT are expressing here, > but I also see Fundraising's point. I wonder

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

Did you mean they did /not/ tell you? 2015-08-31 0:16 GMT+02:00 Romaine Wiki : > The most annoying part now is that the fundraising team did tell me thta, > while I ma in change of the banners. > > How is it possible that they do worse and worse each time? > > Romaine > > 2015-08-30 22:20 GMT+02:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost

What a nonsense. With that justification, any random troll who dislikes the Wikimania location selection process (or anything else) can show up and "volunteer the revolution" which must then be implemented (because they said so!!). Am 04.10.2015 22:31 schrieb "Pavel Richter" : > 2015-10-04 21:55 G

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost

Do you really believe the community consists of several 100.000 people? Am 06.10.2015 21:01 schrieb "Joseph Fox" : > On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 at 17:27 Steinsplitter Wiki < > steinsplitter-w...@live.com> > wrote: > > > To be honest: I am not surprised at all. > > > > Wikimedia Foundation is becoming moor

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost

gt; steinsplitter-w...@live.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > A small poll on meta would be enough. > > > > > > > > > From: josephfoxw...@gmail.com > > > > > Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 19:14:59 + > > > > > To: wikimedia-l@lis

Re: [Wikimedia-l] So now the Wikipedia comes in handy to 'vouch' for 419 scams

Sure sure, very credible. Am 02.06.2014 12:58 schrieb "Rui Correia" : > I expect to see an increase in these once the idea spreads > > Rui > > -- > > *From:* Jourdan Hilaire > > *Sent:* Thursday, May 29, 2014 1:00 AM > > *To:* Jourdan Hilaire > > *Subject:* Grants > > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Multilingual office hours

How do you envision the bilingual office hours to be set up? Should there be someone who translates everything that is being said? It seems to me that having office hours in simply a different language than English, if enough informed staffers are able to speak it, would be more feasible. Am 04.08.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

Your mail is embarrassing. If you think the foundation is like the parent of the community, you don't understand anything about the foundation nor the community. Am 11.08.2014 00:05 schrieb "John Lewis" : > The people who were actually responsible were the community. Erik was > acting in a prevent

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

Oh sorry, that was totally not the intention. It must be the strange beer here at the Thistle Barbecue hotel. Am 11.08.2014 00:54 schrieb "Richard Symonds" < richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk>: > MF-Warburg, that came across as a bit rude... > On 11 Aug 2014 00:29, "MF-

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Next steps regarding WMF<->community disputes about deployments

What the heck is a "design community" at all, and why does their opinion count, when WMF uses every opportunity to claim it is super-unfair to claim that "the community" wants anything? 2014-08-27 6:49 GMT+02:00 geni : > On 27 August 2014 05:16, Erik Moeller wrote: > > > > > And the design comm

Re: [Wikimedia-l] To Flow or not to Flow

Am 10.09.2014 09:56 schrieb "Gerard Meijssen" : > > Hoi, > I expected that it was obvious... Arguments that are based on desktop > experiences are futile because the desktop experience is the lesser of two > evils. The desktop experience is already bad, the experience on mobiles and > tablets is m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to beta-test HHVM

Why should he give himself credit for your insufficient testing? Am 19.09.2014 12:19 schrieb "Ori Livneh" : > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:14 AM, Anders Wennersten < > m...@anderswennersten.se > > wrote: > > > Thanks!, glad you could sort this out and file a bug > > > > But really, I understand from

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Damon Sicore joins WMF as Vice President of Engineering

Can we get to know his username(s)? :) Am 29.09.2014 19:38 schrieb "Lila Tretikov" : > Dear all, > > We are excited to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation now has a Vice > President of Engineering. Damon Sicore will be filling this vital role. > Please join us in welcoming him to the team. > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Finance Fellows to develop first-ever movement-wide financial report and metrics

Could you please also add the names of your normal (aka volunteer) accounts? :) Am 30.10.2014 00:16 schrieb "Michael Guss" : > Hi folks, > > We are the Finance Fellows, a multicultural team consisting of 4 young > professionals. We are happy to introduce a 6-month movement-wide project > that focu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediauk-l] Using list moderation as censorship

Looks like Extension:MoodBar aka FeedbackDashboard, which was enabled on enwiki for some time. Am 24.11.2014 22:26 schrieb "svetlana" : > Think I can run an instance of https://github.com/mozilla/fjord on Labs > and have various Wikimedia projects (Wikis and Chapters) point to it in > their sideba

[Wikimedia-l] Language committee report, July 2012

The Language Committee (Langcom) report for July 2012 was published. The Langcom reports used to be published on this list too for some time, but that has stopped and they were only put on Meta. I would now like to resume putting the monthly report here. See the wiki version on https://meta.wikime

[Wikimedia-l] Language committee report, August 2012

Please find below the Language committee report for August, or read the wiki version at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Reports/2012-08 ===Committee=== *Please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cooperation_between_Wikimedia_and_Endangered_Languages_Projectfor the cooperation w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage project launch/migration update

2012/11/12 Federico Leva (Nemo) > Roland Unger, 12/11/2012 07:46: > > Hi folks, >> >> the Wikivoyage e.V. got the xml files of more language versions, I >> think also for es, fi, hu, ja, pl, pt, ro and zh from user Wrh2. >> > > Where are they? Again, please publish them. > >> I can only underlin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] WMIT bulletin no. 44: January 23, 2013

I have just done this. The place to request changes in it is https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Www.wikipedia.org_template btw :) 2013/1/25 Richard Symonds > So, now that Wikimedia Italiano is over 1,000,000 articles, who's going to > update the page at http://www.wikipedia.org/ to match? > >

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

2013/4/28 Pavel Richter > 2013/4/28 Sue Gardner > > > If edits on meta, mediawiki, outreach, etc., qualify, and we were to > lower > > the edit count requirement, then I think that would be inclusive of > > most/all contributors. Would something like that make sense? > > > > Yes, that would be a