I would like to thank Farah, as well as Itzik and others, for their
messages and the explanation of their contexts.
I don't think further open-ended discussion on wikimedia-l would be
productive for this topic.
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 11:03 AM James Heilman wrote:
I'd like to share my experiment with using ChapGPT to help write an article
on English Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artwork_title
You can see an explanation of the process here, your comments are welcome:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Artwork_title#Use_of_ChatGPT
Thanks,
Richar
I wanted to share the page for Black WikiHistory Month events by Afrocrowd
and others, to mark Black History Month in the US (it is marked differently
in other countries):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Black_WikiHistory_Month#February_2022
I'm sure there are more edit-a-thons and other
Meta-Wiki is marking *20* years on Friday, 19 November 2021.
Let's use it as an opportunity to celebrate and revisualization our
best/worst project!
*RSVP here:* https://meta.wiki20.org
With virtual hosting support by WikiConference North America on their Hopin
account.
- Time: 15:00 UTC
You're invited to the Wikispore Day Unconference on Wednesday, July 28,
marking the second anniversary of our initiative to germinate more
Wikimedia wikis in new genres that have been left out of the free knowledge
ecosystem:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wikispore-day-unconference-tickets-16438778
I would like to echo Bodhisattwa's concern, and add that there is a great
ambiguity here.
What is the definition of "affiliate board member" being used here? A large
number of affiliates are small and do not have a board, but are more
informally organized.
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
On Fri, M
I want to thank everyone at the Wikimedia Foundation (and beyond) who has
helped to set up this initiative on such quick notice. I'm sure it was
quite difficult to define and to implement on a crisis basis, and so glad
to see something happening for our volunteers in India.
Not all of these forms
Thanks Bodhi and Tito, do you perhaps have some models of non-profits that
have done something similar? It's a bit hard to picture what would be the
appropriate criteria and scope of such a support program.
Best,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 1:57 PM টিটো দত্ত Tito Dutta
wrote:
I wanted to share the availability of Wikispore for the purpose, under the
Fact Spore or perhaps a new concept:
https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Fact_Spore
Here is some broader information on how the world of Wikispore works:
https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/FAQ
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos
Hi Lisa and all,
Thanks for your responses and thoughts. This is an important area, and key
to get right with a consensus-driven approach.
Are we going to announce the process for giving grants to organisations
outside the movement, including the process for community involvement, in
the spirit o
Join us today as we revisit Wikimania 2006 and the state of the movement
that year, as part of the Wiki 20 Countdown!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMwvfN8x5hc
Livestream is Sunday October 4 at 3pm New York / 9pm Berlin / 1900 UTC, or
15 hours after this email was senr.
A project of the Wikipe
I wanted to share the Wiki 20 Countdown, a series of community livestreamed
events that started last month and will go through January, next up is our
Wikimania Boston retrospective on Sept 13:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_20_Countdown
Thanks,
Richard
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On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at
/Wikispore
And you can share your input and possible support here, as well as on the
talk page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikispore#Discussion
And follow some updates here: https://twitter.com/wikispore
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 9:30 PM Pharos wrote:
>
An oral history and discussion of the world of Wikimedia from 2005 to the
present, seen through the lens of the annual Wikimania conference. A
roundtable of panelists engage in a live video discussion (using YouTube,
Facebook, Twitter, Twitch). The audience is invited to share their views
and exper
The event is Sunday July 19, hosted on Wikipedia Weekly Network.
Time in select zones:
1:00–3:00 pm (New York City time)
17:00–19:00 UTC/GMT
19:00–21:00 Berlin time
https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Wikispore_Day
You can participate on the Youtube livestream here, and text chat with the
present
Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects should reflect the scientific
consensus, whether that be on climate, vaccines, or the concept of
biological "races".
The latter concept is deeply tied to 19th-century pseudoscience, and is
very different from modern genetic science. Genetic traits have various
,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 10:50 AM Pharos
wrote:
> I would like to share our experience earlier this week with the WikiSeder,
> a secular celebration of wiki wisdom and free culture for the age of the
> quarantini.
>
> As we pass through our current plague, w
I would like to share our experience earlier this week with the WikiSeder,
a secular celebration of wiki wisdom and free culture for the age of the
quarantini.
As we pass through our current plague, we came together from our lockdowns
to retell stories of liberation and crisis overcome through fel
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 8:49 AM Samuel Klein wrote:
> Phase V confirmed! -- I hope this means related features (a calendar +
> forum :) are getting included in mediawiki propre...
>
> 🌍🌏🌎🌑
>
Indeed, it has been a mistake to keep spinning off new discussion
platforms, in the hope that the next on
/Category:World_AIDS_Day_2019
Thanks,
Pharos
On Sun, Dec 1, 2019 at 8:39 AM Pharos wrote:
> I'd like to share our current events page collaboration, covering Word
> AIDS Day, which is today, December 1,with a compendium of events worldwide :
>
> https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Event:World_AI
I'd like to share our current events page collaboration, covering Word AIDS
Day, which is today, December 1,with a compendium of events worldwide :
https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Event:World_AIDS_Day_2019
I encourage anyone interested to edit and expand and update this page, and
to make it mo
us know if you could use assistance adapting anything to your
language Wikipedia.
Thanks,
Pharos
-- Forwarded message -
From: Wexelbaum, Rachel S.
Date: Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 5:48 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-US-MN] Wiki Loves Pride--Extended to July 31!
To: wikimedia-us
I was very glad to meet several of those involved at Wikimania Cape Town,
and am very pleased to congratulate them on their long work on Wikimedia
Korea coming to fruition.
Thank you to AffCom and the BoT, and let's hope this is not the last new
chapter / thematic org of 2019!
Thanks,
Richard
(Us
hat corporate
rebranding around our most popular product is a good thing to do at this
stage in the evolution of our movement.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 2:01 PM Paulo Santos Perneta <
paulospern...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I joined Wikimedia in 2009 I also tried WikiNews, wh
-like interface
tied to SUL) might provide a good path forward, though I imagine it would
require significant investment.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 10:38 AM, Quim Gil wrote:
> Hi Sylvain!
>
> (Let me add the disclaimer that opinions are mine and don't represent the
> v
:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Met_Open_Access_Artworks_
Challenge/Participants
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I think it all depends on the level of engagement of the human translator.
When the tool is used in the right way, it is a fantastic tool.
Maybe we can find better methods to nudge people toward taking their time
and really doing work on their translations.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Tue, May 2, 2017
The Wikipedia aspect was highlighted on the BBC and other sites in earlier
stories, before the other events happened.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Pine W wrote:
> Now on the front page of the New York Times website:
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/30/world/europe/
ed by open public meeting on April 13, 2016."
I think it might be best to make that whole section publicly viewable.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Andrew Gray
wrote:
> Yes, for clarity, this is what I meant - a public list of who has
> voted so far (or who hasn't
c_articles/Art_of_the_Middle_East
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Pharos
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ral of the newer
candidates have received endorsements from other chapters as well (even
before our public vote).
Thanks,
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Wikimedia NYC
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 6:19 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
> Thanks Pharos for making this offer and for outlining what your chapter
> voting process will b
Congratulations, Katherine!
She is an excellent choice to navigate us through for this difficult time.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 9:55 PM, Patricio Lorente <
patricio.lore...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I’m happy to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation lead
On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Pharos
wrote:
> Hi fellow Wikimedians,
>
> Wikimedia NYC is interested in opening up and diversifying the Wikimedia
> Foundation board nominations process (beyond the typical chapter-affiliated
> candidates), so interested parties are welcomed
'WikiWednesday' public meeting, to be determined by an open vote of
attendees at that meeting.
We also commit to having a vote at our public meeting in April or May to
make our chapter's decision for the actual elections.
Feel free to write to us beforehand if you have questions.
Thanks,
P
gy project)
Should the WMF BoT devolve aspects related to Wikimania and related
regional meetings?
Thanks,
Pharos
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Emmanuel Engelhart
wrote:
> On 28.02.2016 15:53, Brion Vibber wrote:
> > I just want to split out a concept that came up in the big threads
This classic science fiction novel comes to mind...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz
And a shout-out to User:Daniel The Monk, our resident NYC Monastapedian :)
Thanks,
Pharos
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 3:51 AM, Ed Saperia wrote:
> A Wikimedia monastery! ^_^
>
>
Mazel tov, y'all!
Looking forward to more continental wiki-campaigns with this dynamic
Atlanta-based group.
Thanks,
Pharos
Wikimedia NYC
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Keegan Peterzell
wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Carlos M. Colina >
> wrote:
>
> >
ffer in San Francisco and Berlin.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Denny Vrandecic
wrote:
> Thanks to all the answers to my response. I am still reading them, and I
> probably will not be able to answer to all in a timely manner (I have to
> work, after all), but I w
0
> > > people in a small region of a city. And a smaller fraction of money
> > spent
> > > goes towards jet fuel.
> > >
> > > For this reason, the same pool of scholarship funds would go farther.
> > >
> > > Finally, I don't
Thanks, Ellie and Chris, this historical experience should be very helpful
for future discussions!
Best,
Pharos
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Chris Schilling
wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> Ellie has put together a summarized budget including revenue and expenses
> from Wikimania 2014
,
Pharos
On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Lodewijk
wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> We all realize how sensitive a subject this is. Not only because of the
> reasons you give, but also for the obvious reason that this is a highly
> influential and well known work we're talking a
sco indeed shouldn't be conflated with funding of US
volunteer-based activities.
If anyone else is interested in organizing regionally in any part of the US
/ North America, feel free to get in touch; Wikimedia NYC and others would
be very glad to help you :)
Thanks,
Pharos
On Wed, Feb 10, 2
I think an analysis of the past Wikimedia community election results, with
a variety of different voting (and counting) methods, could show the best
path toward achieving diversity in elected seats, without necesarilly
resorting to quotas or separate contests.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Sun, Jan 31, 2016
ecting_to_the_WMF_site
> >
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Michael Peel wrote:
>
> > Also Commons, and anything else at *.wikimedia.org. Apparently, "Bad
> > deployment, being reverted currently."
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mike
> >
https://meta.wikimedia.org/
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Pharos
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make community assembly have been published by Pharos:
> >
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_Council_Compact
>
>
>
> I think it is a good idea to have a sort of community council. To give
> credit, Guy Kawasaki just recently proposed something along t
Let us have our movement new year's resolution be for an acronym-free 2016!
Thanks,
Pharos
On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote:
> NDA = Non-Disclosure Agreement[1]
>
> (and while we're at it, the acronym IEP opaquely deployed by Pine in the
> other thread w
Looks wonderful, this is a model to build upon in future.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Wes Moran wrote:
> Great work and a nice process.
>
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Danny Horn wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm happy to anno
e than us?
Would our comparable metric be the % of bigoted comments per article, per
talk page discussion, per time that an editor spends at the project? I
would think that encountering bigoted comments on 1 in 50 discussions would
still be pretty significant.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Sun, Nov 15, 2015
I'm here to confirm that I've seen the same issue in over almost every
wiki-workshop.
Part of the problem is the lack of prominence of the notice, and also the
CAPTCHA often being hidden "below the fold".
I would not be averse to experiment in just turning it off for a bit.
I agree that we should welcome a broad range of collaborative communities
to the local Wiknics, especially other free/open projects like
OpenStreetMap.
Start a Wiknic for your city, in your local park!
Thanks,
Pharos
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Rob Schnautz
wrote:
> I am not say
Nominations are now being accepted for the July 2015 MCOTM :)
(With apologies to the hard work of the WMF elections committee!)
Thanks,
Pharos
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it is not yet in Unicode, and also that it
is written vertically rather than horizontally, but progress has been made
on this with a MediaWiki software extension by the SignWriting community.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Andrew Lih wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 7:32 AM,
,
Pharos
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Pharos
wrote:
> My fellow Wikimedians,
>
> I started this as a way to improve important meta pages that have eroded
> in usefulness over the years - vote for one or more of them for the June
> 2015 collaboration, and feel free t
/Meta_Collaboration_of_the_Month
(Truly the most important electoral decision facing our movement currently.)
Thanks,
Pharos
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I can attest that there are indeed many cases where $50 or $75 in bus or
gas money can make a big difference for volunteers, even in the United
States.
There is long way between intercontinental plane tickets and offering no
financial assistance at all.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10
For those unfamiliar with the glories of the United States Postal Service,
a "P.O. Box" is simply a rented mail slot in a public post office.
Thanks,
Pharos
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel <
it...@wikimedia.org.il> wrote:
>
> "Wikimedia Founda
be
actually testable.
Could the WMF or someone else look into user-testing how the MediaViewer
(and variations on it) affects the average reader's perception and
consciousness of the licensing information?
Thanks,
Pharos
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at American Wiknic
(or an international variant), for July 6 or another date!
And we now have this shortcut domain:
http://wiknic.org
Thanks,
Pharos
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 4:37 PM, R W wrote:
> Brilliant idea !!
>
> Therefore we organize also a Wicnik in the south of Netherlands, so also
>
on first, as it has a really simple
answer.
There were exactly 0 employees on the organizing committee, and exactly 0
employees who did the preparation.
This was an entirely volunteer-run conference.
Thanks,
Pharos
>
> On 07/06/2014, MZMcBride wrote:
> > Craig Franklin wrote:
> >&
Maybe a simple solution to this is just having more process for which still
frame to use for any MOTD video.
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Benjamin Lees wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Kevin Gorman wrote:
>
> > Can anyone articulate a valid reason wh
I am very pleased to announce that WikiConference USA is less than 30 days
away! Over the last few months, Wikimedia NYC and Wikimedia DC have been
collecting curated submissions on a diversity of wiki and free/open
knowledge-related topics (with tracks on Community, Tech, Outreach, GLAM,
Educatio
join us and help us spread the word!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki
/File:WikiCon_USA_2014_Press_Release_v1.pdf
Thanks,
Richard (User:Pharos)
Wikimedia NYC
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Pharos wrote:
> I am very pleased to announce that Wikimedia NYC and Wikimedia DC are
>
Certainly, in the last 2 years and before, a handful of Wikimedia
volunteer groups have been quite as active and organized as those
currently being classified as User Groups - only the option of being
recognized as User Groups did not exist for them at the time of their
founding.
And it is a good
I am very pleased to announce that Wikimedia NYC and Wikimedia DC are
working in collaboration to host the first national Wikimedia conference in
the United States!
Here are the details for the conference:
Dates: Friday, May 30, 2014 - Sunday, June 1, 2014
Location: New York Law School (185 West
I am very pleased to announce that Wikimedia NYC and Wikimedia DC are
working in collaboration to host the first national Wikimedia conference in
the United States!
Here are the details for the conference:
Dates: Friday, May 30, 2014 - Sunday, June 1, 2014
Location: New York Law School (185 West
A reminder that there's still some time to for cross-fertilization of "cool
name" ideas, for the artist formerly known as the WCA:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Quest_for_the_Cool_Name
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Markus Glaser
w
I see your point, and I agree that proposing to modify the bylaws
would not be a practical option for us now.
Perhaps, though, we might come up with some "informal" processes for
broader pan-chapter input before then...
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Fae wrote:
>
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Nathan wrote:
> That means the only votes belong to those on the Council; this could
> be easily resolved by other chapters becoming members, as has been
> said, but presumably some who have refused so far... do so because
> they have to accept the "rights, duties
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
> 2013/2/25 Nathan :
>> That's one way of looking at it. Another is that the WCA is an
>> activity chapters can choose to participate in, or choose not to. To
>> the extent the WCA intends to "represent" its members, that
>> representation sho
Hi Wikimedians,
If you're anywhere in the United States around June 23, we would like
to invite you to join the 2nd annual Great American Wiknic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiknic
Now in 17 cities (add yours today!):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiknic#2012_Wiknic
Thanks,
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