That we had the highest-ever votes in a Wikimedia Foundation board election - and participation from many more wikis.
Cheers Bishakha On 5 Jun 2015 13:01, "Gerard Meijssen" <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hoi, > Jura1 created a list using the latest software by Magnus of people who died > in Brazil this year. Magnus added functionality to the template so that it > is really easy to add images that are missing. This list makes use of > Wikidata and it gets updated by a bot. It may live on any Wikipedia. > Thanks, > GerardM > > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/Recent_deaths_in_Brazil > > On 5 June 2015 at 07:55, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> > wrote: > > > I am AWFULLY biased about this, but I'll be shameless anyway; please slap > > me if I overstep the self-promotion. > > > > I did a Wikipedia editing workshop in the University of South Africa in > > Pretoria yesterday. As far as I know, it was the first one ever that > > focused on using the recently enabled ContentTranslation beta feature. It > > was six hours long and had nine participants, only two of whom had any > > editing experience. It produced *fourteen* complete articles in Zulu, > > Xhosa, Sotho, Tswana, Afrikaans and French. Except the latter two, the > > Wikipedias in these languages are barely active. > > > > I conducted dozens of editing workshops, and this one was, by far, the > most > > productive ever by the amount of content created, considering the time > and > > the participants' experience. Time will tell how well can it be > replicated > > and improved upon and how many participants will stick, but I'm > optimistic. > > > > I'll write a more detailed post later today. > > בתאריך 5 ביוני 2015 00:41, "phoebe ayers" <phoebe.w...@gmail.com> כתב: > > > > > I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per > Milos' > > > observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an > > > open discussion thread about things going right. > > > > > > What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is > > > happening in the Wikimedia world? > > > > > > My contribution: the SF Wikimedia list just had an announcement about > an > > > edit-a-thon (organized by Jake Orlowitz at the wmf office) that is > > > happening during the American Libraries Conference, which is in SF this > > > year. 30,000 librarians attend ALA! I'm super pleased we are > infiltrating > > > library conferences :) > > > > > > What's happening over in your part of the project? > > > > > > Phoebe > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
