[Foundation-l] Using updates in one language version of a project to prompt updates in another - was interwiki links

2011-03-31 Thread WereSpielChequers
In reply to Yaroslav's suggestion about using the interwiki links and bots to help keep articles maintained and spread new information across Wikipedia; Yes absolutely that is what the Death anomalies project does, and now that we've proved that the concept works it is worth expanding on. Merlissi

Re: [Foundation-l] Vector, a year after

2011-03-31 Thread Erik Moeller
2011/3/31 Amir E. Aharoni : > The Vector skin, the main product of the Usability Initiative, was > deployed on Wikimedia projects in April 2010. > > Quoting usability.wikimedia.org: "The goal of this initiative is to > measurably increase the usability of Wikipedia for new contributors by > improvi

Re: [Foundation-l] Vector, a year after

2011-03-31 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 31 March 2011 22:35, Lodewijk wrote: > I did a preliminary measure, and it actually showed a decline, starting the > exact week it was implemented on nlwiki :( However, this preliminary measure > was unscientific, not precise and would need better testing/measuring. An immeadiate decline isn't

Re: [Foundation-l] Vector, a year after

2011-03-31 Thread Lodewijk
I did a preliminary measure, and it actually showed a decline, starting the exact week it was implemented on nlwiki :( However, this preliminary measure was unscientific, not precise and would need better testing/measuring. Lodewijk 2011/3/31 Amir E. Aharoni > The Vector skin, the main product

Re: [Foundation-l] Dario Taraborelli joins Wikimedia Foundation

2011-03-31 Thread George Herbert
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: > Dear all, > > it is my pleasure to announce that Dario Taraborelli (User:DarTar) is > joining the Wikimedia Foundation as Senior Research Analyst, Strategy, > reporting to me. As of this week, Dario is based in San Francisco, > having relocate

Re: [Foundation-l] Dario Taraborelli joins Wikimedia Foundation

2011-03-31 Thread Mayo FM
Welcome Dario! Impressive CV. Congrats WMF, Mayo 2011/3/31 Erik Moeller > Dear all, > > it is my pleasure to announce that Dario Taraborelli (User:DarTar) is > joining the Wikimedia Foundation as Senior Research Analyst, Strategy, > reporting to me. As of this week, Dario is based in San Francis

[Foundation-l] Vector, a year after

2011-03-31 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
The Vector skin, the main product of the Usability Initiative, was deployed on Wikimedia projects in April 2010. Quoting usability.wikimedia.org: "The goal of this initiative is to measurably increase the usability of Wikipedia for new contributors by improving the underlying software on the basis

[Foundation-l] Dario Taraborelli joins Wikimedia Foundation

2011-03-31 Thread Erik Moeller
Dear all, it is my pleasure to announce that Dario Taraborelli (User:DarTar) is joining the Wikimedia Foundation as Senior Research Analyst, Strategy, reporting to me. As of this week, Dario is based in San Francisco, having relocated from the UK. Dario joins Howie Fung and me as part of the Wikim

Re: [Foundation-l] IRC office hours tomorrow with Sue Gardner about editor retention

2011-03-31 Thread Steven Walling
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > Hi everyone, > > So following up on the results of the Editor Trends Study and the > announcements about the topic of editor retention, I wanted to invite you > all to an IRC office hours on the 31st at 17:00 UTC. > > On St. Patrick's Day we

Re: [Foundation-l] interwiki links

2011-03-31 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:02:22 +0200, "Amir E. Aharoni" wrote: > 2011/3/23 WereSpielChequers : >> But how would this process handle situations such as the EN wiki >> article [[David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount Linley]] having an interwiki >> link to the DE article on his late mother? Currently this c

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia, The Book

2011-03-31 Thread Lodewijk
This is already somewhat outdated - at least 2009. I wonder how it would look like nowadays. Lodewijk 2011/3/31 David Richfield > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 7:42 AM, teun spaans > wrote: > > If i interpret the link correctly, these are only featured articles? > > Exactly: I was asking how big it

Re: [Foundation-l] multilingual mailing list

2011-03-31 Thread Milos Rancic
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 05:08, Waldir Pimenta wrote: > Milos, > > Basque is not spoken on that list. I haven't heard of any interest in > creating a Basque chapter (and I've recently been in contact with a few > people from the Basque Wikipedia, for a chapter-like activity, so I believe > I would