On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Damon, Luis and members of their teams will need to weigh in on this,
and will want to think through the implications for their respective
areas, but it's a good conversation to have -- keeping in mind that
Luis is just
Dear all,
The Affiliations Committee is glad to announce the recognition [1] of
Shared Knowledge as a Wikimedia User Group [2]. They have been around
for almost a year, and their main interest is to develop free knowledge
and make it more accessible, especially in the Macedonian language.
Hoi,
I alone have contributed millions of edits thanks to Magnus's tools. The
whole GLAM phenomenon relies on our volunteers and on the GLAM-wiki
toolset. When you consider their proven importance it is difficult, if not
impossible, to understand why all such tools have been given the Cinderella
Dear Rodrigo,
The requirements for WUGs are very simple and the Affiliation Committee
has been working recently on making the process of renewing the
recognition of WUGs as straighforward as possible, since it is something
relatively new and we have seen there is plenty of room for
But, my initial point was: Am I missing something? Would there be any
reason why such grammar would have sense without ND clause?
Milos,
Could we not import these works onto Wikisource in original format,
where they would be preserved without permitting altering from the
original?
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:23 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
But, my initial point was: Am I missing something? Would there be any
reason why such grammar would have sense without ND clause?
Milos,
Could we not import these works onto Wikisource in original format,
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Another example from the Free software world is TeX, which can be relevant
here: It is released under a Free license, and modification is allowed, but
modified versions cannot be called TeX. See
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:46 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
But since Milos asked: In Wikisource changing the original is indeed
vandalism, but somebody must notice that it's vandalism. AFAIK
Wikisource
doesn't have a proper way to authenticate that the document is
But since Milos asked: In Wikisource changing the original is indeed
vandalism, but somebody must notice that it's vandalism. AFAIK
Wikisource
doesn't have a proper way to authenticate that the document is in its
original form.
Could you elaborate on this? If you open the links in my
and Wikisource projects typically have *revision* patrolling enabled
to help catch incorrect changes.
Revision patrolling is less bulletproof than a checksum, but if it is
enough for the people who care about this normative grammar's integrity,
it's certainly enough for me.
How could
Hello Carlos,
Thanks by all information regarding the new Affcom's decisions for an
user group renewal.
Only to clarify, my question was based on the Wikimedia User Group
Agreement where is specified that an User Group and its agents must
submit a written activity report in English to the
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/thanks
I have now set up a monthly report of the top 10 thankers /
thankees with an index to the different project reports on the above
link. These have been generated retrospectively for 2014 and I will
shortly set this up on WMF labs to run at the
Congratulations, Astrid and Wikimedia Norge!
Astrid, you have been a wonderful colleague over the last year plus. I
wish you well in the new role, and I look forward to working together
more closely.
Warmly,
Katy
On Feb 23, 2015, at 3:15 AM, Tanweer Morshed wiki.tanw...@gmail.com wrote:
Nope, it was not.
Sadly you'll have to buy me some drinks in Berlin... schade.
--
Christophe
On 23 February 2015 at 10:58, Nicole Ebber nicole.eb...@wikimedia.de
wrote:
Dear Astrid and Erlend,
On behalf of Wikimedia Deutschland, congratulations Astrid for your
new role in our movement. :)
Hi,
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 10:04 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
WereSpielChequers wrote:
One of the areas that I would like to see the foundation putting in money
is for the running and maintenance of wanted orphan bots.
I think specific examples might help here.
... and
When was odder put on moderation, and what for?
On 24 Feb 2015 14:49, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
John Mark Vandenberg, 23/02/2015 21:59:
Which email ? the crowdfunding email?
Yes, because odder is in moderation (like many others, it seems).
Nemo
After thinking about John's response, I've realized that those works should
go into public domain (actually, under CC-BY, as Serbian laws don't
recognize PD outside strictly defined works not created by author in the
sense of laws and other similar works; it's been explicitly stated that
moral
Re:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/thanks
I am glad the tables are useful, hopefully stimulating more positive
use of the thanks notifier by contributors.
The reports are updating *slowly*, currently at April 2014... This is
in part because of the WMFlabs outage yesterday, though in
Excellent!!
Great initiative, congratulations!
Thank you for answering my request for inclusion of pt.wikipedia!
Best regards
Rodrigo Padula
2015-02-23 12:57 GMT-03:00, Fæ fae...@gmail.com:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/thanks
I have now set up a monthly report of the top 10
On 15-02-25 09:37 AM, Edward Saperia wrote:
if they hit their
fundraising target [...]
Your idea is provocative, and intriguing, but I think that - at least in
this form - it is doomed to fail because it actually steps around what
makes kickstarter-like crowdfunding work.
(a) people put
This reminds me of a slightly heretical idea I had a while ago while
thinking about crowdfunding and WMF fundraising...
Currently the WMF raises money via site banners, and spends these on
programmes and disburses them via grants, which go to all kinds of projects
- education, outreach,
I'm pretty concerned that the systematic biases in the wikimedia movement
would be continued if there was no organized effort to do a comprehensive
review of all proposals to see where we are lacking diversity. I'm in favor
of having more focused funding calls like the Inspire Gender Gap campaign.
Of course you're very correct that there are many projects sitting around
asking for scrutiny - the difference here is the (potential of) funding
would be default yes instead of default no, with the discussion just around
the priority. I expect that would attract a lot more attention very quickly
Hi everyone,
it is my pleasure to announce the release of the 2014 annual report on
Wikimedia's OTRS and specifically the Volunteer Response Team's
activities. Please find it at
https://tools.wmflabs.org/otrsreports/annual/2014
If you have any questions or comments, please leave them at
Wow! Fantastic news.
All the best to Bengali Wikipedians.
-RK
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Hasive, Nurunnaby nhas...@wikimedia.org.bd
wrote:
Dear All,
We're happy to share with you that Bengali Wikipedia has completed it's 10
year journey a few months back. To celebrate this historic
I'm not sure you've understood correctly. In my proposed system, people
propose projects and these projects are advertised on the centralnotice
banners. When clicked on, readers are taken to the individual project pages
and donate to them directly, rather than donating into a central pot.
(a)
In your scheme, items would not get moved up to be considered if they are
not popular enough, right? From my experience working on wikimedia global
committees, it would be likely that the volume of requests would be much
larger than the capacity of the wikimedia movement to evaluate them. People
This is terrific news- congrats!
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Katy Love kl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Congratulations to you and the Bengali community on the 10 year
anniversary!
Katy
On Feb 25, 2015, at 7:52 AM, RadhaKrishna Arvapally
arkris...@wikimedia.in wrote:
Wow! Fantastic
Il 25/02/2015 10:49, Andy Mabbett ha scritto:
On 25 February 2015 at 07:27, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org wrote:
I'd rather suggest a global JavaScript gadget to replace those URLs with
plain Special:Diff links, since the {{diff}} template does not work in
every
wiki.
Great; let
Well, you could create a guideline that said In the interest of
innovation, we should try and fund a diversity of projects and then with
the community hash out what dimensions you care about for diversity in this
context, and how far from equality you are happy to go without artificial
Greetings!
Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog:
• Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/23/strategy-consultation/
• Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps
Dear Wikimedians,
The Wikimedia TTT-2015, a four day residential training workshop to
groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia volunteer community,
will begin tomorrow. This is curated and run by CIS-A2K [1] with the
help of Wikimedia volunteers. About 30 Wikimedians from across 12
On 15-02-25 11:15 AM, Edward Saperia wrote:
I'm not sure you've understood correctly. In my proposed system, people
propose projects and these projects are advertised on the centralnotice
banners.
Ah, I indeed hadn't. My understanding was that you wanted to substitute
for the grants
Messaggio inoltrato
Oggetto: [Commons-l] Help fund a macro lens for a Commons contributor
Data: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 12:26:05 +
Mittente: Tomasz W. Kozłowski twkozlow...@gmail.com
Rispondi-a: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List
common...@lists.wikimedia.org
A:
I am a dev and am willing to replace a tool when it dies. I have a fairly
large infrastructure of code that makes it fairly easy
On Sunday, February 22, 2015, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com
wrote:
One of the areas that I would like to see the foundation putting in money
is for
Hey Daniela,
I saw that the prices on the Hotel website are cheaper (78 euro). Would you
advise to book directly trough them?
*Regards,Itzik Edri*
Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel
+972-(0)-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share
Hey Daniela,
I saw that the prices on the Hotel website are cheaper (78 euro). Would you
advise to book directly trough them?
*Regards,Itzik Edri*
Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel
+972-(0)-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely
Brian Wolff wrote:
Maybe the grant includes funds for hiring code review resources (ie
non-wmf people with +2. We exist!).
For what it's worth, you're exactly the type of person I would like to have
working at the Wikimedia Foundation. I love your posts here; thank you for
taking the time to
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 4:19 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Erik seems to be pushing toward a model that favors using OAuth and the
MediaWiki API over deep integration that comes with a MediaWiki
extension. He recently mentioned this here:
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
Dear Anasuya,
Loved working together - it was a real pleasure.
Apart from everything you did to drive grantmaking, a big thumbs up to you
for dreaming up and organizing the community consultation in India last
October.
Hope you're back on your feet soon!
Bishakha
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 8:23
Hi Luis,
Thank you for agreeing to consider grant funding for software projects.
It sounds like you also plan a broader review of funding for community
needs and growth. I have a list of requests for changes, which boil down to
removing policy barriers and greatly improving communications and
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Luis,
Thank you for agreeing to consider grant funding for software projects.
It sounds like you also plan a broader review of funding for community
needs and growth.
Yes. The timeline is still somewhat up in the air,
WereSpielChequers wrote:
One of the areas that I would like to see the foundation putting in money
is for the running and maintenance of wanted orphan bots.
I think specific examples might help here. If we're talking about category
renaming bots or talk page archiving bots, I wouldn't mind if
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear Wikimedians,
Among the WMF’s top priorities for 2015 is strengthening our engagement with
Wikimedia editors and volunteers. Today we are taking the first step by
bringing together the people who know our
As some of you know, we are working on the project [1] with Matica
srpska [2]. Basically, that opens numerous possibilities and here is
one of them.
My professor, a Board member of Matica srpska and one of two
co-authors of the Normative Grammar of Serbian Language wants to open
the Grammar.
Hoi,
I had a read and I would like to know how much time and effort is involved
in the reporting requirement. I honestly believe that the point of
reporting can be many things. There has to be a balance though between what
you ask for and what it costs to produce this information.
Has this
Dear all,
We are glad to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognised
[1] Wikimedia Community User Group Georgia [2] as a Wikimedia User
Group. They have been around for some time, working on disseminating
free knowledge in Georgia, but they have decided to join forces. Among
On Sunday, 22 February 2015, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
As some of you know, we are working on the project [1] with Matica
srpska [2]. Basically, that opens numerous possibilities and here is
one of them.
My professor, a Board member of Matica srpska and one of two
co-authors of
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Oliver Keyes ironho...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm finding this a bit difficult to parse; am I interpreting it correctly
if I read it as: because the project is to produce a prescriptive,
normative grammar, there's a desired No Derivatives element of any adopted
Dear friends in the Wikimedia movement,
With much gratitude and anticipation, the Board of WMNO this week named
Astrid Carlsen, Executive Director of Wikimedia Norway!
Many of you already know Astrid as a dedicated, energetic, and knowledgable
colleague, and we are pleased that Astrid excepted
Just a short note before I think about this: Dictionaries are free and
there is a lot of sense having them under a free license (will be CC-BY). I
am talking about Normative Grammar of Serbian Language here.
On Feb 23, 2015 9:31 AM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 23,
Hi Erlend and Astrid,
On behalf of Wikimedia France, congratulations Astrid for your new role in
the movement.
I hope we'll see you in Berlin in May!
All the best,
Christophe HENNER | Président
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On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
Which, actually, reminds me that we definitely need a non-free
repository. For example, we could get that grammar to be quoted in
whole, but there is no sense to change it.
But, my initial point was: Am I missing
Thank you for the announcement, Erlend.
Congratulations, Astrid. I hope that we can connect at the Wikimedia
Conference in Berlin.
Pine
(Executive Director for Cascadia Wikimedians User Group)
On Feb 23, 2015 12:28 AM, Erlend Bjørtvedt erl...@wikimedia.no wrote:
Dear friends in the Wikimedia
On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 09:27:43 +0100
Erlend Bjørtvedt erl...@wikimedia.no wrote:
Dear friends in the Wikimedia movement,
With much gratitude and anticipation, the Board of WMNO this week named
Astrid Carlsen, Executive Director of Wikimedia Norway!
congratulations to Astrid and good luck!
Dear Astrid and Erlend,
On behalf of Wikimedia Deutschland, congratulations Astrid for your
new role in our movement. :)
I hope we will be welcoming you in Berlin in May.
Best regards,
Nicole
(Sorry, Christophe, for copying your text. I suppose it was freely
licensed anyway, right? :D)
On
On 24 February 2015 at 09:40, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Philippe Beaudette wrote:
Five years ago, I was part of the work on a strategic plan for the
Wikimedia movement. Much has changed since then. Now, I’m back...and
we’re working on strategic direction again. :-)
Hi.
I
I think it is great that this is organised this way. To me it sounds a good
idea to have periodical this kind of consultations. It is a dialogue with
the community.
Romaine
2015-02-24 1:56 GMT+01:00 Maggie Dennis mden...@wikimedia.org:
You could be on to something there, Craig. :) I think it's
You could be on to something there, Craig. :) I think it's fair to say that
somebody might change his mind in five years for all kinds of reasons -
including being asked nicely. This process is obviously geared to differ
widely from the last. Hopefully it will be a good approach for everyone.
In
Many congratulations, Astrid and WMNO!
Wishing you all many more successes.
Best,
Vishnu
On 02/23/2015 10:10 PM, Katy Love wrote:
Congratulations, Astrid and Wikimedia Norge!
Astrid, you have been a wonderful colleague over the last year plus. I
wish you well in the new role, and I look
Hello,
On English Wikipedia I have met with resistance in documenting crowdfunding
projects. I would like clarity on the extent to which the Wikimedia
community feels that it is acceptable to discuss crowdfunding in Wikimedia
community information channels.
I posted about this on the talk page
On 24 February 2015 at 01:25, ido ivri idoi...@gmail.com wrote:
Today, we're kicking-off a two-week community consultation about the future
of Wikimedia.
Why only these two questions? And why only two weeks? I fear this is not
really a consultation but a survey.
+1. With a two week window
On 24 February 2015 at 13:55, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like the answer to this question too.
Could there be some transparency please? I believe it would be a good
time for the list mods to publicly decide how appeals to moderation or
list-bans should work in a way that is credibly
Maggie Dennis wrote:
You could be on to something there, Craig. :) I think it's fair to say
that somebody might change his mind in five years for all kinds of
reasons - including being asked nicely. This process is obviously geared
to differ widely from the last. Hopefully it will be a good
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 3:59 PM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com
wrote:
Which email ? the crowdfunding email?
Austin, do the list admins have another perspective to justify their
action?
--
John Vandenberg
I'd like the answer to this question too.
I largely agree with Risker.
I was not involved in the last consultation. I'm taking a wait and see
approach with this one.
My hard-earned experience on this mailing list is that an approach of
problem solving rather than stone throwing tends to get more cooperation
and better results. I still
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Cristian Consonni
kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote:
2015-02-24 15:52 GMT+01:00 Lane Rasberry l...@bluerasberry.com:
On English Wikipedia I have met with resistance in documenting crowdfunding
projects. I would like clarity on the extent to which the Wikimedia
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Austin Hair adh...@gmail.com wrote:
With more and more Wikimedians engaging in crowdfunding, I suppose we
can talk about whether the mailing list for Wikimedia movement
organization is the place to advertise in this way. For my part, I
don't think a simple
Thanks for your replies, and for John's very kind offer. As this involves
various inactive and semi inactive bot operators I will give John an off list
response re that.
On MzMcBride's points, I don't know the relative costs of employing programmers
in San Francisco v other parts of the world.
2015-02-24 15:52 GMT+01:00 Lane Rasberry l...@bluerasberry.com:
On English Wikipedia I have met with resistance in documenting crowdfunding
projects. I would like clarity on the extent to which the Wikimedia
community feels that it is acceptable to discuss crowdfunding in Wikimedia
community
Hopefully this was just an error than. When is Nemo being un-moderated?
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
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On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:51 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote:
I would actually say: Is there a point to have a prescriptive work
without ND clause?
Course there is. The text of the CC licenses, for example, is under CC0;
Creative Commons is trademarked and that trademark is used to
Dear Wikimedians,
We would like to refer to our call for registration for the Wikimedia
Conference from February 13, 2015. As we thoroughly hope that a lot of
Wikimedians will come to Berlin to actively participate in the conference,
we would like to point out that the eligibility deadline ends
Hi all,
March is an amazing month for raising awareness, excitement, and initiative
around broadening the presence women in our community and our content.
In that spirit, West Virginia University is hosting a stellar panel through
its Talking Publicly symposium series at WVU Libraries and the
Now the run has been running a bit longer, it can be seen[1] that the
real sink is the logging table from wikidata. Other projects are
pretty quick from a few minutes to Commons taking half an hour.
Wikidata takes 7 hours for each query. It's a big log!
I am testing out separating wikidata from
Hello Fae,
Are you generating json somewhere or thiking to create an API for that
information?
I have some ideas that I started to develop last year, I will ping you in
private.
Best regards and thanks by helping us with the important information.
Rodrigo Padula
2015-02-26 14:01 GMT-03:00 Fæ
Dear all,
I was wondering if anyone, in the Wikimedia movement,
has done editathons and wiki-events with *journalists*.
In April, Wikimedia Italia will host a workshop at the International
Journalism Festival, and we'd welcome tips and suggestions.
Cheers
Aubrey
(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 there was a lot of concern about limited code
Thank you for this fascinating report, and this is another opportunity to
thank all OTRS agents across the movement, for their tireless and
largely-unsung work. I, for one, make it a point to mention and advocate
for OTRS.
I am curious in my volunteer capacity about the prominence of the
Interestingly to see on the report that even under so much criticism,
the Brazilian Catalyst Program, coordinated by Oona Castro through a
partnership between the Wikimedia Foundation and Ação Educativa was
crucial in creating and supporting great part of the activities listed
by the user group,
Nobody ever said that the Catalyst was a total failure. It had indeed good
points. The thing is that I am not the only one with the opinion that the
results were clearly not good enough for what was expected from all money
invested and it is quite not fair to compare them with a volunteer effort
Good! You just confirmed my point of view!!
Probably the cost / benefit of the Brazilian Catalyst Program was not the
best one, but the program ended fulfilling its catalytic role of the
Brazilian community, supporting the creation of networking, partnerships
and activities.
Best regards
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thank you for this fascinating report, and this is another opportunity to
thank all OTRS agents across the movement, for their tireless and
largely-unsung work. I, for one, make it a point to mention and advocate
for
Fæ wrote:
Re: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/thanks
I am glad the tables are useful, hopefully stimulating more positive
use of the thanks notifier by contributors.
The reports are updating *slowly*, currently at April 2014... This is
in part because of the WMFlabs outage yesterday,
Patrik and everyone else involved in this -- this is pretty amazing work.
Thanks for everything you do, and thank you for documenting it so clearly.
--
Erik Möller
VP of Product Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi.
Re: https://tools.wmflabs.org/otrsreports/annual/2014
phoebe ayers wrote:
p.s. The report layout/webpage is lovely! could it be used for other
reports?
I'm curious about this as well. I see that source code is mentioned at
https://tools.wmflabs.org/otrsreports/index.html, but I didn't see a
This is a great report on a truly amazing job!
Thank you Patrik and all OTRS agents across the movement, I'm a fan of
yours.
Kasia
2015-02-26 7:32 GMT+01:00 MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com:
Hi.
Re: https://tools.wmflabs.org/otrsreports/annual/2014
phoebe ayers wrote:
p.s. The report
Congratulations Astrid!
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Vishnu visdav...@gmail.com wrote:
Many congratulations, Astrid and WMNO!
Wishing you all many more successes.
Best,
Vishnu
On 02/23/2015 10:10 PM, Katy Love wrote:
Congratulations, Astrid and Wikimedia Norge!
Astrid, you have
Thanks Fæ, those reports are very interesting from my perspective.
However, even though the number of thanks received may be more reliable
than the usual edit count, none of them could ever measure the
invaluable impact of our contributors :-)
Il 23/02/2015 16:57, Fæ ha scritto:
Congratulations and all the best!
2015-02-25 0:32 GMT-06:00 Edward Galvez egal...@wikimedia.org:
Congratulations Astrid!
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Vishnu visdav...@gmail.com wrote:
Many congratulations, Astrid and WMNO!
Wishing you all many more successes.
Best,
Vishnu
Il 02/01/2015 13:41, Ricordisamoa ha scritto:
Il 02/01/2015 12:45, Andy Mabbett ha scritto:
On 2 January 2015 at 10:46, Ricordisamoa
ricordisa...@openmailbox.org wrote:
Honestly, I don't think it is easier to type {{subst:url to diff}} than
[[Special:Diff]].
It's not a matter of which is
The Affiliations Committee (AffCom) will be releasing more details about
the changes to the Wikimedia User Group (WUG) Renewal Process, but I did
want to share some info in this conversation that has already been posted
on Meta[1] and will be discussed more in an upcoming blog post.
In this
Hello, how are you guys?
Cornelius Kibelka send me the link of this thread, by mistake, in one
discussion on Meta.[1]
And the Carlos Colina's answer is, lets say, wow! It's super freak
weird!!!, because in the WMBR mailing list, one volunteer asked who send
the request and one of the proposal's
On 25 February 2015 at 07:27, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org wrote:
I'd rather suggest a global JavaScript gadget to replace those URLs with
plain Special:Diff links, since the {{diff}} template does not work in
every
wiki.
Great; let me know when you've got that working.
24.02.2015, 18:25, Austin Hair adh...@gmail.com:
I moderated Nemo when, after protesting the fact that Odder was still
moderated (more on that later), he started forwarding messages for
him. Before I had any chance to clear the matter up, he sent that
message and quit in a huff.
I was
Hi, an outcome of the old milgram experiments suggests that not always nice
people do oppress others less:
http://m.mic.com/articles/92479/psychologists-have-uncovered-a-troubling-feature-of-people-who-seem-nice-all-the-time
Rupert
On Feb 25, 2015 8:31 AM, Ricordisamoa
A forward for technical and tech-curious people not subscribed to
wikitech-l. If you have or want to join a hackathon plan for Lyon (May
23-25), we want to know. Important note: Wikimedia Hackathons are not only
for developers, as good software development requires many other profiles,
including
Quim,
Thanks for bringing this up. The subject of non-developers attending
hackathons came up in at least one recent off-list conversation. I think it
would be interesting to have a sampling of experienced Wikimedians present
who may not be developers but who are expert end-users of MediaWiki.
Hello, Andrea:
This sounds like an interesting project!
Here are some examples that popped into my head right away:
*CIS (is planning a workshop for journalists as part of Kannada language
outreach)
*Wikimedia CH (did some work building a network of journalism schools)
*Wikimedia Argentina (did
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