[Wikitech-l] Flagged revisions test wiki?

2011-02-11 Thread Strainu
Hi there, Is there a WMF test wiki where I could play around with Flagged Revisions without breaking anything? I'm interested in especially in the configurations used on the major Wikipedias. Alternatively, is there someplace where the configurations used are are explained? My understanding is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Gender preference

2011-02-11 Thread Lars Aronsson
On 02/11/2011 12:24 AM, Platonides wrote: And many don't even perform one edit. As I don't believe so many people create them just to change their preferences, it is a mistery for me why do they do so. Becoming an active wikipedian is a process in many steps, each involving a large amount of

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Foundation-l] Data Summit Streaming

2011-02-11 Thread Andrew Dunbar
It doesn't work for me )-: Your input can't be opened: VLC is unable to open the MRL 'http://transcode1.wikimedia.org:8080'. Check the log for details. Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail) ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Gender preference

2011-02-11 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I blogged about the practical ways we can support gender in our user interface. I believe that when we address women properly we will gain respect as well as more buy in. As I describe practical things that will enhance the experience of women, I am really eager to learn to what extend we

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Foundation-l] Data Summit Streaming

2011-02-11 Thread Chad
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Andrew Dunbar hippytr...@gmail.com wrote: It doesn't work for me )-: Your input can't be opened: VLC is unable to open the MRL 'http://transcode1.wikimedia.org:8080'. Check the log for details. It was a stream. It's not streaming anything right now. Dunno if

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Gender preference

2011-02-11 Thread Alex Brollo
There's a parallel talk into it chapter about gender gap. This gap is part of a larger gap involving software development in general; there are few programmer women. I presume, that this highlights a similarity between wiki and a software development environment; and really many from most

[Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Fwd: Gender preference

2011-02-11 Thread paolo massa
I posted this on [Gendergap] mailing list at wikipedia but maybe this mailing list is more relevant for technical details. I posted on my blog the table about percentages of men/women on different wikipedias. See

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Fwd: Gender preference

2011-02-11 Thread Daniel ~ Leinad
Amir left a comment saying that the User: namespace in Russian is translated into the equivalent of User_male: (I guess if the user set male in the preferences as gender) and User_female: (if female in the preferences). Do you know if this happens in other wikipedia as well? Polish, Czech,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Flagged revisions test wiki?

2011-02-11 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/2/11 Strainu strain...@gmail.com: Hi there, Is there a WMF test wiki where I could play around with Flagged Revisions without breaking anything? I'm interested in especially in the configurations used on the major Wikipedias. Alternatively, is there someplace where the configurations

Re: [Wikitech-l] Flagged revisions test wiki?

2011-02-11 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:54 AM, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wr Hi there, Is there a WMF test wiki where I could play around with Flagged Revisions without breaking anything? http://en.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Gender preference

2011-02-11 Thread Lars Aronsson
On 02/09/2011 11:18 PM, DaB. wrote: sure. I asked the toolserver-database: en.wikipedia: Male: 233312 Femaile: 46973 All user: 13959842 One thing that could be interesting is to trace the career of users: When they register, how frequent they edit, if the frequency varies over time, and if

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Gender preference

2011-02-11 Thread Sage Ross
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: One thing that could be interesting is to trace the career of users: When they register, how frequent they edit, if the frequency varies over time, and if these patterns differ between men and women and the

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Foundation-l] Data Summit Streaming

2011-02-11 Thread Andrew Dunbar
On 11 February 2011 22:18, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Andrew Dunbar hippytr...@gmail.com wrote: It doesn't work for me )-: Your input can't be opened: VLC is unable to open the MRL 'http://transcode1.wikimedia.org:8080'. Check the log for details.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Gender preference

2011-02-11 Thread Birgitte SB
On 02/11/2011 12:24 AM, Platonides wrote: And many don't even perform one edit. As I don't believe so many people create them just to change their preferences, it is a mistery for me why do they do so. Creating an account also allows you to dismiss banners. My first step when I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Gender preference

2011-02-11 Thread Birgitte SB
There's a parallel talk into it chapter about gender gap. This gap is part of a larger gap involving software development in general; there are few programmer women. I presume, that this highlights a similarity between wiki and a software development environment; and really many from

Re: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Gender preference

2011-02-11 Thread cpolish
Lars Aronsson wrote: Platonides wrote: And many don't even perform one edit. As I don't believe so many people create them just to change their preferences, it is a mistery for me why do they do so. Becoming an active wikipedian is a process in many steps, each involving a large amount