On 31 July 2012 21:26, Anivar Aravind ani...@movingrepublic.org wrote:
Dear Barry,
Just a question .
What will happen to Wikimedia India Programme Trust[1]
I Think it need to be answered in FAQ[2].
In my observation, the registration of a third entity , at a safe
distance from Wikimedia
On 30 July 2012 16:18, Barry Newstead (WMF) bnewst...@wikimedia.org wrote:
As a follow up to Hisham's message, I would like to thank Hisham for his
efforts in support of Wikimedia in India. He has been a great partner to the
Wikimedia Foundation team and has worked tirelessly to build the
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
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 09:35:49AM +0300, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
Hello,
There are many projects in small languages. People want to develop
them, but are often not sure what should they do. Even something basic
like improve existing pages and write new ones may not be obvious.
Is there
FT2 wrote:
A bot that can be given a list of the important templates, or categories of
templates, would be good for starting a new project. Once articles exist,
at least some meaning comes through and it's more likely people will edit
them.
Maybe.
People should be _extremely_ cautious when
Hello,
Conflict of Interest (CoI) is a much bigger issue than paid editing.
I have seen several serious CoI within Wikipedia where the editors are
not strictly paid because they edit WP, nevertheless they do not
respect the basic NPOV rules: allowing other opinions to be heard,
balancing sources
On 29 July 2012 07:11, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
Let's use the page we used to use to discuss plans and budgets:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_budget
I thought this was implicit, but apparently not: can someone from the
WMF please answer the questions that are on
2012/7/28 Anthony wikim...@inbox.org:
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27/07/12 09:46, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
An excellent list :) I'd like to add: you sneak in the stadium without
paying the ticket. IOC can do nothing.
Seriously, if IOC decides to
Yann Forget, 01/08/2012 13:13:
I have suggested some basic rules about this on the French WP, but not
only they were blankly rejected, but I was barred from mentioning the
whole subject. The first step against CoI is making the editors
conscious that, because of their profession, background,
MZMcBride, 01/08/2012 03:10:
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BOTOVERUSE#History has most of the
history, though I could swear a project or two has been restarted due to
bots over-running the site. Does anyone have a citation for that?
A citation for what? Anyway, the section seems correct
On 8/1/12 1:51 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Yann Forget, 01/08/2012 13:13:
I have suggested some basic rules about this on the French WP, but not
only they were blankly rejected, but I was barred from mentioning the
whole subject. The first step against CoI is making the editors
conscious
[this was also posted to translators-l last week, but we want to spread the
word even further]
Hi all,
The translation committee on Meta has been dormant for some time
(individual members have been active, but the committee as such has not
been active), but it is time to revive it to ensure that
I checked the page a couple of days ago and didn't see any questions: maybe
I was looking at the wrong page?
I'll ask Tilman via this mail to help coordinate getting answers from the
appropriate people.
Separately/additionally: I thought the Signpost coverage was pretty good.
It wasn't
On 1 August 2012 17:36, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I checked the page a couple of days ago and didn't see any questions: maybe
I was looking at the wrong page?
The questions are on the page SJ suggested using:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_budget
News and notes: Wikimedians and London 2012; WMF budget - staffing,
engineering, editor retention effort, and the global South; Telegraph's
cheap shot at WP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-07-30/News_and_notes
Recent research: Conflict dynamics, collaboration and
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Nikola Smolenski smole...@eunet.rs wrote:
On 28/07/12 19:44, birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote:
2.2 By applying for, purchasing, holding or using a Ticket, a Ticket
Holder agrees that he or she shall comply with these Terms and Conditions.
On 1 August 2012 09:47, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
On 1 August 2012 17:36, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I checked the page a couple of days ago and didn't see any questions: maybe
I was looking at the wrong page?
The questions are on the page SJ suggested using:
Hi all,
The July edition of the Fellowship News is now available:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fellowship_News
Topics covered include all current fellowship projects:
*Fellowship Program updates
*Dispute Resolution
*Gender Gap
*Help Page Redesign
*Small-Wiki Editor Engagement
*Teahouse
Hi, folks.
I've also tried to address the (truly confusing) use of the word grants
across the plan. See here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_budget#Wikimedia_Grants_budget
Cheers,
Asaf
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 1 August
There has been discussion about this in the past.
To second Philippe's comment: A uniform process makes sense. In practice,
most of the advocacy or policy positions of the WMF have for years taken
the form of amicus briefs. And positions the WMF takes on behalf of
promoting, preserving, or
On 8/2/12 7:51 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
And I would love to see
the foundation practice delegating some of this bureaucracy and
responsibility to non-staff groups. We have no shortage of energy, talent,
and experience there in the community.
In addition, there's a fairly well-organized set of
David Gerard wrote:
On 2 August 2012 05:13, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
This appears to be an unprecedented power-grab by the office of the General
Counsel.
Um ... that's a bizarre perception.
Is it?
I read through the page at Meta-Wiki and couldn't help but notice that every
Hi,
The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in July 2012 is
now available.
Wiki version:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2012/July
Blog version:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/08/02/engineering-july-2012-report/
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Hello,
Please allow me to send a link to my 'Washington diary' about
Wikimania in Washington; it is mostly about the proceedings of the
Wikimedia Chapters Association.
Kind regards
Ziko
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ziko/Washington_diary
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On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:45 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2 August 2012 05:13, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
This appears to be an unprecedented power-grab by the office of the
General
Counsel.
Um ... that's a bizarre perception.
Well, just look at the number of
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:52 AM, Brandon Harris bhar...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
This is inserting a conspiracy theory where one does not exist.
The English Wikipedia community voted on the blackout and directed
it into existence, not the Foundation. We merely facilitated.
There's a fallacy going on here - ie a term with two subtly different
meanings.
The community - who are the ones ultimately making the gift do so
altruistically, in the sense of not seeking *compensation*, but that's not
the same as not expecting *consideration*. We do expect consideration.
Seriously stop hijacking this thread. Let MZMcBride have a chance at some
discussion on his question.
This below is just not cool. Have some respect for MZMcBride. He didn't write
out his thoughts or concerns with idea that the first reply would turn it all
into snip fodder. That seems beyond
On 2 August 2012 21:07, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Brandon Harris wrote:
On Aug 2, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:11 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
What type of action was the SOPA blackout in January?
You mean,
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
The line between what constitutes a community initiative and what's
considered a request from an outside group still isn't clear to me
Ah, interesting point. My read of this was that the guideline would
consider an
Hi everybody,
Wikimedia Deutschland's monthly report for July 2012 in online now! In
order to find our about
- our experiences at Wikimania
2012https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2012
- news about the German Wikipedians in
I am afraid that is not how it feels at all. It's more like organising a
giant volunteer effort to provide a market stall handing out free sweets
and cakes for anyone who wants some. The stall is very popular, and many
people chip in, bringing in cakes they've baked and candy they've made. And
bhar...@wikimedia.org wrote:
This is inserting a conspiracy theory where one does not exist.
The English Wikipedia community voted on the blackout and directed it
into existence, not the Foundation. We merely facilitated.
The proposal was floated by Jimmy Wales on the
It looks like a direct scrape, even to the extent of having some
internal links being broken because they didn't update them (e.g. the
link to Wikimedia Commons at the end of the article). I believe it's
just one of the (many) unauthorized mirrors that don't properly credit
the source of their
Hi,
Man, what a talent for story telling! But I don't think you story
represents anything close to WP. First comparing copying digital
content illegally with stealing cakes is a very bad analogy. That's
what the industry wants us to believe, and you falled by the trick.
Then I don't think people
on the copyright page they say that the content is mostly cc-by-sa
http://en.goldenmap.com/stylesheets/terms.php
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Delirium delir...@hackish.org wrote:
It looks like a direct scrape, even to the extent of having some internal
links being broken because they didn't
Thanks Mark and Mike
Mike, well done on finding the About! I looked for it and could not find
it.
But surely saying that Most of the contents are licensed under
CC-BY-SAhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
is not a licence to copy the entire Wikipedia wholesale, without as much as
a
(warning, tl;dr!)
**
*@Andreas - *I understand your sentiment, but in a reasoning way, I find I
don't agree with that assessment. For what it's worth, I edit a lot on law
- one of my GAs is a Supreme Court case, numerous others worked on, it's an
area I like, and I tend to read full rulings like
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 5:14 AM, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
bhar...@wikimedia.org wrote:
This is inserting a conspiracy theory where one does not exist.
The English Wikipedia community voted on the blackout and directed it
into existence, not the Foundation. We merely
Long as it's getting top-posted anyway...
First, copying is not and cannot be theft. That's not to say it's
always legally or ethically acceptable, mind you, but it's not theft.
In legal terms, there was a court case over that particular matter,
that ruled someone could not be charged on a
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 6:07 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
My question, more directly, is: if the SOPA action from January 2012
were held in August 2012 (following the implementation of this new statement
from the General Counsel's office), would it be considered a community
Forwarding for info.
Thanks,
Mike
Begin forwarded message:
From: Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk
Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK appoints new Chair
Date: 2 August 2012 14:01:17 PDT
To: Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org
Reply-To: UK Wikimedia
On 3 August 2012 19:12, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com wrote:
I agree that the community retains the authority to reach its own decisions
about future actions of this type. I think the policy should be understood
primarily as something the foundation will adhere to in its operations, not
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Todd Allen toddmal...@gmail.com wrote:
We do everything in our power to prevent
the problem, but it would be absolutely cost prohibitive to do it 100%
with the difference being that fine grained, and this law gives you
the right to shut us down if we can't hit
2012/8/3 Rui Correia correia@gmail.com:
Dear All
I came across a site called Golden Map, which has an encyclopaedic
collection of articles that are the same as in the Wikipedia, but I don't
see anywhere any information expalining what the association/ permission
is. Is there an agreement
How come these concerns weren't brought up months ago when the reflection
about the blackout was posted to meta?
It seems that right now Andreas, you are the main opponent of something that
already happened and no one can change.
I'd just post your concerns to meta and stop this talking in
Sarah,
Well, for one I was not aware that there was a reflection about the
blackout posted on Meta. A link would be appreciated. Thanks.
Secondly, four or five months ago I would not have been aware of various
events on the timeline that preceded the blackout.
Third, this is an ongoing
Hi -
Actually, it looks like there are a few places where people can share
their thoughts, etc. about SOPA/Blackoutness:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout
and other things related but not:
Michael Snow writes:
Perhaps worth adding, I think it's fair to say that these reviews did
take place with respect to the use of Wikimedia Foundation resources in
the context of the January SOPA protest. They didn't necessarily follow
the form of the current policy, since it didn't exist yet,
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
Tilman Bayer, 29/07/2012 18:28:
Regarding the normal levels, I suppose you haven't yet had a chance
to look at http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/active_editors ?
Yes and it shows that there's still an
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 8:07 PM, aude aude.w...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Tilman Bayer tba...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Hi all,
the Wikimedia Foundation's 2012-13 Annual Plan has just been published at
Stephen LaPorte wrote:
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 6:07 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
My question, more directly, is: if the SOPA action from January 2012
were held in August 2012 (following the implementation of this new statement
from the General Counsel's office), would it be
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Hi,
In the 2012-13 WMF plan document I saw an interesting thing:
We’ve hosted key community stakeholders such as English Wikipedia’s
ArbCom and Portuguese Wikipedia’s top contributors, in an effort to
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:38 PM, ??? wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
On 03/08/2012 16:24, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 5:14 AM, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk
wrote:
The proposal was floated by Jimmy Wales on the 10th of december, 1
day after a Creative Commons Board meeting,
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:12 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Why are there so many various levels and steps if it's not a determination
about principles and about whether a particular cause meets Wikimedia's
mission? This is what's confusing me.
People on the talk page at Meta-Wiki
Andreas makes a really important point below. Now that I read it from his
perspective, it seems like what we're dealing with here is a surreptitious
attempt by the General Counsel to hijack the Wikimedia Foundation and its
projects to serve their covert corporate masters. Obviously the Bilderberg
On 3 August 2012 22:00, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
lots of stuff
Andreas, I'm sorry, but you've been involved in Wikimedia projects for
quite a while now. What in heaven's name would ever give you the idea that
the WMF could possibly get itself organized enough to co-ordinate
Message: 2
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 15:02:51 -0700
From: Tilman Bayer tba...@wikimedia.org
To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2012-13 Annual
Plan of the Wikimedia Foundation
Message-ID:
On 04/08/2012 00:44, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:38 PM, ??? wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk wrote:
On 03/08/2012 16:24, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 5:14 AM, wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk
wrote:
The proposal was floated by Jimmy Wales on the 10th of december, 1
Hello,
I repeat my proposal that every wiki-website (project) should
install a (international) contact person, and these contact persons
should be following a mailing list with specified information for
them. They inform the wiki-website-community about important issues on
the village pump or via
Thank you for the links, Tilman!
2012/8/4 Tilman Bayer tba...@wikimedia.org:
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Hi,
In the 2012-13 WMF plan document I saw an interesting thing:
We’ve hosted key community stakeholders such as English
Hi there,
It looks like Trent Franks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks)
is a fan of wikipedia, but needs some information about how it works.
He quotes Wikipedia, ``One year after the Fort Hood shooting, the
motivations of the perpetrator were not yet established.'', maybe he
needs to
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Tilman Bayer tba...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Of course, here the term high quality does not necessarily mean,
say, featured content (e.g. on the English Wikipedia, featured
articles currently make up less than 0.1% of the total articles), but
instead refers to
There's a very strong selection bias on this list towards those that can read
English, and those that have the time to follow very long, convoluted
discussions. ;-) I think Ziko's talking more about a low-traffic list with key
issues/points concisely described, which is completely different
On Sat, 4 Aug 2012 14:12:08 +0200, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
Hello,
I repeat my proposal that every wiki-website (project) should
install a (international) contact person, and these contact persons
should be following a mailing list with specified information for
them. They inform the
Hi, after crashing an hour or so ago EN Wikipedia has started to come back
but with a really strange appearance - less usable than Vector. Rumour has
it that someone cut through a fibre optic cable in Florida, so far none of
the parties to various incidents on the Dwamah boards have fessed up as
On 6 August 2012 15:52, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, after crashing an hour or so ago EN Wikipedia has started to come back
but with a really strange appearance - less usable than Vector. Rumour has
it that someone cut through a fibre optic cable in Florida, so far
We're back in the UK. I've had a couple of media enquiries too.
The strange appearance was because the stylesheets weren't loading.
Thanks,
Stevie
On 6 August 2012 15:53, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 6 August 2012 15:52, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 8/6/12 4:52 PM, WereSpielChequers wrote:
Hi, after crashing an hour or so ago EN Wikipedia has started to come back
but with a really strange appearance - less usable than Vector.
It's back to normal for me now. Afaict, the servers hosting the static
CSS/JS came back up later than the
Hi
Would this be a EN Wikipedia issue only?
Portuguese is acting funny too - the prompt/ auto-complete in the
search field is not working properly, nor is the search function
itself.
Rui
On 6 August 2012 16:52, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, after crashing an hour or
No, this is all wikis - I believe it was everything with *wikimedia or
*wikipedia. NL was acting up, as well as various WMF-hosted chapter wikis.
The search function will take a while to start working properly, too, for
the same reasons as Delirium states.
Richard Symonds
Wikimedia UK
0207 065
Verify what David said (I'm not technical, but it matches the description
I've been given). Our ops guys and girls are currently poking things, which
is slowing down a larger/more official announcement, but I'll see what I
can do.
On 6 August 2012 17:02, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 6 August 2012 17:46, Oliver Keyes oke...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Verify what David said (I'm not technical, but it matches the description
I've been given). Our ops guys and girls are currently poking things, which
is slowing down a larger/more official announcement, but I'll see what I
can
David, the BBC says you told them the following:
---o0o---
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19148151
*Donations*
Mr Gerard joked that due to the site's limited financial resources, some of
its infrastructure relied on gaffer tape and string.
In an error message posted to the site, the
On 6 August 2012 20:43, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
Could you get back to the BBC, please, David, and tell them that they
somehow seem to have gotten hold of the wrong end of the stick here? And
could you drop the gaffer tape and string jokes next time round?
We operate the fifth
On 6 August 2012 20:43, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
David, the BBC says you told them the following:
See, this is where you part ways with how the media works. These days
I count it as a win if anything in quotes uses words I've ever used in
my life.
- d.
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:54 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 6 August 2012 20:43, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
David, the BBC says you told them the following:
See, this is where you part ways with how the media works. These days
I count it as a win if anything in
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:54 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
On 6 August 2012 20:43, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
David, the BBC says you told them the following:
See, this is where you part ways with how the media works. These days
I count it as a win if anything in
There is now a WMF blog post explaining the initial findings from the
Operations team:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/08/06/wikimedia-site-outage-6-august-2012/
We hope to have a more detailed report soon.
-Matthew
--
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Wikimedia Foundation
+1.415.839.6885 ext
Andreas,
That idea - my idea - is taken wildly out-of-context, and I feel I have to
step in and defend it. We were all asked to come up with a crazy idea that
could costs about £10k as part of a brainstorming session - the canal boat
idea was my contribution. As you know, I know a fair bit about
Richard, that is fine. But surely you can see that it's inappropriate to
have the BBC imply, on a day when we have an outage, that we're strapped
for cash to keep Wikipedia running, holding the site together with gaffer
tape and string, and need donations, while in fact we have built up
reserves
Who said we are struggling to come up with ideas? The page you link to
hasn't been up long and already has several good ideas on it.
On Aug 6, 2012 9:51 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
Richard, that is fine. But surely you can see that it's inappropriate to
have the BBC imply, on a
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Richard Symonds
richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Thanks for the nice reply, Andreas. You get bonus points for liking barges!
There are some very homey ones here in Cambridge ... with pot plants
(bananas ...) and hanging baskets and everything, and a
Op-ed: The Athena Project: being bold
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-08-06/Op-ed
News and notes: FDC portal launched
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-08-06/News_and_notes
WikiProject report: Summer sports series: WikiProject Martial
Hello everyone,
You're invited to the IRC office hours with the Localisation team[1] at the
Wikimedia Foundation.
Date: 2012-08-15
Time: 16.30 UTC
Venue: #wikimedia-office
Agenda:
1. Universal Language Selector update.
2. Language teams.
3. Q A
For more logistical info and time conversion
Dear Wikimedia friends and colleagues,
It is bittersweet for me to share with all of you that I will be leaving
the Wikimedia Foundation at the end of August to relocate to Australia for
personal reasons.
It is difficult for me to leave Wikimedia and particularly leave the Global
Development
Well, it's certainly a possible starting point for discussion:
http://www.wikipediaredefined.com/
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Yup, i think it's pretty nice. I especially like the 'edit' modus with
the live edit view. And the colored bars on the top of the main page
indicating the number of articles in a certain language.
-- Hay
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Michel Vuijlsteke wikipe...@zog.org wrote:
Well, it's
Hi Barry,
It may not mean much, but I wanted to express my gratitude to you for all the
hard work you've done over the past two years, both for the Foundation and for
the entire Wikimedia movement. When you leave, I think your successor will have
big shoes to fill.
As you know, I'm in
Hi all,
Please disregard my previous correspondence, it was sent in error.
Regards,
Steve Zhang
Community Fellow, Wikimedia Foundation
szh...@wikimedia.org
On 08/08/2012, at 4:41 AM, Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear Wikimedia friends and colleagues,
It is bittersweet
Yes indeed. Cool ideas ... and they look a bit more *professional* than our
effort. ;)
Andreas
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:55 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Michel Vuijlsteke wrote:
Well, it's certainly a possible starting point for discussion:
http://www.wikipediaredefined.com/
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear Wikimedia friends and colleagues,
It is bittersweet for me to share with all of you that I will be leaving the
Wikimedia Foundation at the end of August to relocate to Australia for
personal reasons.
:( We
I wonder what the wikipediaredefined people would think of Brandon Harris'
Athena Project?
cf.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-08-06/Op-ed,
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Athena, etc.
--Ed
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Michel Vuijlsteke wikipe...@zog.org wrote:
Well, it's certainly a possible starting point for discussion:
http://www.wikipediaredefined.com/
Yes, interesting.
I asked them about whether they intend to keep it teling us instead
of discussing it (no email list but
On 8 August 2012 09:06, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
In the Hebrew Wikipedia the View
history tab is called Previous versions, which makes a lot more
sense.)
That would be an *excellent* thing to do in MediaWiki in general.
- d.
Things I would change, I think that all pages have to have the main objective
of the Movement, and a comprehension of the project is part of something
bigger.
And this proposed segmentation is archaic, there are several items that fit
into more than one segment, and knowledge should not be
Dear all,
our department for education and knowledge is looking for a contact
person in Latvia or Lithuania who is active within the field of
Wikipedia and Education. We are planning a Wikipedia workshop with a
German partner organisation there and would be glad to find someone to
share
Labas!
My 2 cents:
Overall the team at http://www.newisnew.lt/lt have some very good ideas to
share, however:
If you are colorblind, the rainbow thing wont make any sense, and I
strongly dislike the idea of burying smaller languages under a mouse. I
think that Lithuanians (this re-design has
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