Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call for feedback about Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changes and Board candidate rubric

I second that. It always amazed me that the community that has built the entire site does not have the majority in deciding the future of the site, and this seems to make it even less so. On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 2:03 PM Brion Vibber wrote: > From what I've read in the thread above I agree with Y

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Community Tech: New Format for 2020 Wishlist Survey

Gerard, you assume that "my wikipedia" is the only project I participate in? Let me assure you this is not the case. On the contrary, the last few years I mostly contributed to Wikidata and recently - a massive Wiktionary lexeme import, and very little to Wikipedia. That said, I think removing t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Community Tech: New Format for 2020 Wishlist Survey

Ilana, restricting wishlist to non-Wikipedia this year is a very sad news. For many years, wishlist survey was the best way for the community to talk back to the foundation, and to try to influence its direction. WMF mostly ignored these wishes, yet it was still a place to express, discuss, aggreg

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Saint Petersburg User Group

What about Wikimedia NYC? (I'm not sure of its organizational status) On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 6:03 PM Paulo Santos Perneta wrote: > Wales is a whole country complete with it's own language, I don't believe > it compares with a city UG. > > Paulo > > Andy Mabbett escreveu no dia quinta, 3/10/201

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Universal forced HTTPS backdoor in Kazakhstan

I don't think browser vendors will block the ability to install a custom root certificate because some corp clients may use it for exactly the same reason -- creating an HTTPS proxy with fake certs in order to analyze internal traffic (in the name of monitoring/security). Browser vendors could mak

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Heat Maps

dindata.org/about/ > > > > > > James > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 9:37 AM, James Heilman > wrote: > > > > > > > It is all under a CC BY SA 4.0 license. > > > > > > > > You can also download all the data as a csv file. >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Heat Maps

nse. > > You can also download all the data as a csv file. > > James > > On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Yuri Astrakhan > wrote: > > > James, which open license? There is a request pending to allow non cc0 > > licensed data in commons, but

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Heat Maps

James, which open license? There is a request pending to allow non cc0 licensed data in commons, but still waiting for legal. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178210 On Fri, Dec 29, 2017, 11:22 James Heilman wrote: > Our World in Data has created 100s of heat maps with scroll bars for > adjus

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes of 2017!

Denny, thanks for organizing and publishing! You mentioned that the comm-tech team is the one "responsible for investigating and addressing the top 10 wishes". I think the community views WMF as more of a monolith, and I hope these votes have wider impact on foundation priorities. After all, comm

Re: [Wikimedia-l] September 28: Strategy update - Final draft of movement direction and endorsement process (#25)

For a while I have had a strong sensation, possibly unjustly so, of a highly over-complicated result. There are many good words, but I keep not seeing a simple, concise, intuitively understood statement. I feel we are still missing an understandable elevator pitch. If asked, I seriously doubt I w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Hardware donation program

I really wish there was a way to ensure the laptop is safe, regardless of its source. The chances with WMF laptop might be lower [citation needed], but nothing is guaranteed, and a clean reinstall should be done regardless (not a panacea). On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 7:11 PM Risker wrote: > Just not

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Hardware donation program

I wonder if it would make sense to solicit 3rd party laptop donations for this program? E.g. some businesses may be happy to donate their old laptops to Wikipedia volunteers... I am not sure how big of an overhead it would be, but if WMF is already doing it, 20 vs 200 might not be a significant di

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Hardware donation program

Awesome, well done! Does the same program apply to servers? On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 1:20 AM Craig Franklin wrote: > This is a fantastic idea. Well done to everyone involved. > > Cheers, > Craig > > On 17 March 2017 at 15:06, Asaf Bartov wrote: > > > Dear Wikimedians, > > > > The Wikimedia Foun

[Wikimedia-l] Wiki maps news and updates

The quest to bring maps to Wikipedia continues: * Kartographer has launched for WikiVoyage * Julien Girault will help maps with his UI expertise * Talk to us at the FreeNode IRC channel #wikipedia-interactive https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Kartographer Last week we enabled Kartographer exten

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What kind of ED would you like to see?

Greg, agree 100%, but that's not how I understood the question and the results of the staff survey. It seemed the staff expected the vision from the ED/Management. On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 3:31 AM, Greg Grossmeier wrote: > > > Subbu, one of the chief complains I heard about Lila was that she did

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What kind of ED would you like to see?

Subbu, one of the chief complains I heard about Lila was that she did not provide a clear vision. Yet, if we choose stewardship over leadership, that, at least in my mind, implies more of a mediator than a leader, without providing any clear vision themselves. So is vision no longer a requirement

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lawrence Lessig for ... WMF

to the same exact shape > > with a > > > different keystone, let's take a breath and think. > > > > > > > > First we should make sure we understand what, more or less, failed. > It > > > was not just Lila. Second, we should talk about what options w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lawrence Lessig for ... WMF

t; what criteria we should use to evaluate those options. > > > > We can be patient. We have reaffirmed our respect for each other and we > trust each other enough to share ideas, emotions, and proposals. This is > our foundation, and it hasn't collapsed. > > > > Ori

[Wikimedia-l] Lawrence Lessig for ... WMF

I would like to continue the discussion of who, in an ideal case, would be a good fit for the ED position. This person has to fit culturally, share movement's values, and be a trusted figure in the time of rebuilding. Lawrence Lessig seems to have a very strong support in the community, and even

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are we too rigid?

Guillaume, the idea may come from anywhere, shouldn't we post the process on meta? Or is this WMF specific, e.g. "I want my favorite cereal in the cafeteria" proposal? :) ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are we too rigid?

other writers might be able to help with their writing prowess. My main point is that we should have a well understood "idea path" - from inception to getting feedback, and well known resources to rely on. On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:53 AM, Oliver Keyes wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 201

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are we too rigid?

Oliver, thanks! > In other words, the litmus test for me is: what happens when the socially and politically weakest person in the organisation has an idea? If we speak of a "product" idea, we have two groups of people - those who can implement the idea, and those who would need to convince others

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are we too rigid?

Does it make sense to have an "Incubator team" ("Bell Labs" if you will), whose core competency is to nurture small projects? When projects are mature and need to switch into maintenance mode, they move under the umbrella of a different team. On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:06 AM, Brion Vibber wrote:

[Wikimedia-l] Are we too rigid?

Something in Oliver's departure email caught my eye: * "Because we are scared and in pain and hindered by structural biases and hierarchy, we are worse at our jobs." (quoted with Oliver's permission)* And that got me thinking. WMF, an organization that was built with the open and community-driv

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Powerful on-wiki art visualization

Risker wrote: > > > > > This is really cool, Yuri! Thank you for sharing this. > > > > > > Risker > > > > > > On 22 February 2016 at 22:15, Yuri Astrakhan > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > First complex interactiv

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Powerful on-wiki art visualization

> so? > > > > *Edward Saperia* > > Founder Newspeak House <http://www.nwspk.com/> > > Conference Director Wikimania 2014 <http://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org> > > email • facebook < > http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> > > • > >

[Wikimedia-l] Powerful on-wiki art visualization

First complex interactive graph in Wikipedia explores the most expensive paintings in history. Move the mouse around to view images, click the period or artist to highlight their work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_paintings#Interactive_graph Thank you Jane [[user:Jhoffswel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [discovery] USA elections in real time - as viewed by Wikipedia users

the graph, e.g. (number of minutes), to let graph extension update cache expiry. On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:04 PM, Gergo Tisza wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Yuri Astrakhan > wrote: > > > It will be updated whenever the page containing the template is > > re-gen

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [discovery] USA elections in real time - as viewed by Wikipedia users

y > Product Manager, Discovery > Wikimedia Foundation > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Yuri Astrakhan > wrote: > >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/US_Politics_Real_Time >> >> Thanks Dario Taraborelli for the idea. >> >> _

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [discovery] USA elections in real time - as viewed by Wikipedia users

Max, it seems Vermin Supreme is no longer running :) On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 8:30 AM, Max Semenik wrote: > W00t! I had to add an important candidate though: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?diff=15358086 ;) > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 8:48 PM, Yuri Astrakhan > wr

[Wikimedia-l] USA elections in real time - as viewed by Wikipedia users

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/US_Politics_Real_Time Thanks Dario Taraborelli for the idea. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.or

[Wikimedia-l] State of Wikipedia Maps

The Discovery's maps team would like to share the progress we have been making, and our future goals. * Kartographer extension is getting closer to being deployed. It will allow editors to insert a map and add article specific data into wiki pages. Kartographer has a neat Visual Editor interface t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

> > #3. Central global repository for templates, gadgets and Lua modules (87) > I would love to participate in this - I feel it would bring different language communities much closer together. And great for Graphs & Maps. > #7. Pageview Stats tool (70) > We could even do it on-wiki like here

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mailing list maintenance

I'm still getting substantial number of spam mail as a maps-l admin. Is there a way to simply disable/delete/reject all mail from non-members? On Sep 18, 2015 20:12, "Daniel Zahn" wrote: > This is now over. > > -- > > Happy to announce that the mailman migration is over. We are now on version > 2

Re: [Wikimedia-l] GRAPH extension is now live everywhere!

mediate use for this on the en.wikipedia. > > On May 5, 2015 4:25 PM, "Yuri Astrakhan" > wrote: > > > > > Starting today, editors can use ** tag to include complex graphs > > and > > > maps inside articles. > > > > > > *Demo:*

[Wikimedia-l] GRAPH extension is now live everywhere!

Starting today, editors can use ** tag to include complex graphs and maps inside articles. *Demo:* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Demo *Vega's demo:* http://trifacta.github.io/vega/editor/?spec=scatter_matrix *Extension info:* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph *Vega's

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

ges? It's UTC unless the > user explicitly changes it, and if they explicitly change it that's > known in the database (and already referenced to decide how to convert > the UTC timestamp when the page is displayed). It's a perfectly > sensible UI change that makes sen

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

A few days ago, a well known Russian politician Boris Nemtsov was assassinated near the Kremlin. This murder had a huge political resonance, and conspiracy theories flourished. Yet, one of the theories was due to Wikipedia's representation of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mobile starting page design for Zero users

seen: Enjoy Browsing Wikipedia for free with Free Wikipedia access by Free Wikipedia access provided by Free Wikipedia from Wikipedia @ ZERO CHARGE from Wikipedia access offered by On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Tobias wrote: > On 12/06/2013 11:44 PM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > >>

[Wikimedia-l] Mobile starting page design for Zero users

Zero team would like to be more involved with the community, and discuss the functionality of the Zero starting page. For Zero users, when visiting m.wikipedia.org, we have to show a custom start page tailored to the specific mobile provider. A

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [WikimediaMobile] Where to redirect m.wikipedia.org?

Ok, so it seems the redirect to WWW would be better than language auto-detect. Before I switch it from the English mobile (current) to WWW, we have to make sure that WWW is ready - as that would affect all mobile users. Jon, how much work do you think that would be? On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:50 P

[Wikimedia-l] Where to redirect m.wikipedia.org?

http://m.wikipedia.org used to be a hard-coded redirect to English en.m.wikipedia.org, except for the users in the Zero program. We now have an ability to have complex redirection for that domain. How do you think m.wikipedia.org should behave? We could redirect m. to ... * the current www.wikiped

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanks for all the fish!

Milos, lets call it an extended sabbatical instead! You never know when you might come back, and you are always welcome :) On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Marc A. Pelletier wrote: > On 06/07/2013 12:32 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > > I thought to leave it quietly, with just a > > bit more than a fe