Re: [Foundation-l] Blink tag jokes are now obsolete.

2012-01-12 Thread Erik Moeller
Dear Till, thanks for the clarifications and comments. I wasn't referring here to any other aspect of the campaign than the specific set of banner choices, and like I said, WMF made the same choices in the previous campaign. > Wikimedia CEO: Yes, we titled Pavel as Wikimedia CEO in the thank you

Re: [Foundation-l] 30 min. reminder: IRC office hours this week with Sue Gardner

2012-01-12 Thread Steven Walling
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Abbas Mahmood wrote: > Hi Steven, > > Could you please post the logs? > > Thanks, > Abbas. > Done: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2012-01-12 Sorry for the wait. Steven ___ foundation-l m

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Report, December 2011

2012-01-12 Thread Tilman Bayer
Hi all, please find below the WMF report for December, in plain text. As always, the editable and formatted version is on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_December_2011 and the reports are posted on the Wikimedia blog, too: https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/corporate

Re: [Foundation-l] 30 min. reminder: IRC office hours this week with Sue Gardner

2012-01-12 Thread Abbas Mahmood
Hi Steven, Could you please post the logs? Thanks, Abbas. > From: swall...@wikimedia.org > Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:58:10 -0800 > To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: [Foundation-l] 30 min. reminder: IRC office hours this week with > Sue Gardner > > This is happening in about 3

Re: [Foundation-l] Page view stats

2012-01-12 Thread User:Matthewrbowker
If his source code is available, I'd be more than happy to set it up on my Toolserver Account. Matthew Bowker On Jan 12, 2012, at 13:36, James Heilman wrote: > We seem to be missing the states from Dec of 2011 here > http://toolserver.org/~alexz/pop/view.php and not sure why > > Also Mr.Z-man

Re: [Foundation-l] Page view stats

2012-01-12 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
James Heilman, 12/01/2012 21:36: > We seem to be missing the states from Dec of 2011 here > http://toolserver.org/~alexz/pop/view.php and not sure why > > Also Mr.Z-man seems to have gone inactive for more than a month now. Not > sure if there is anyone to take over this tool? Hopefully he shall re

[Foundation-l] 30 min. reminder: IRC office hours this week with Sue Gardner

2012-01-12 Thread Steven Walling
This is happening in about 30 minutes in #wikimedia-office. -- Forwarded message -- From: Steven Walling Date: Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:07 AM Subject: IRC office hours this week with Sue Gardner To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Hi everyone, This is just a note that on Thurs

[Foundation-l] Page view stats

2012-01-12 Thread James Heilman
We seem to be missing the states from Dec of 2011 here http://toolserver.org/~alexz/pop/view.php and not sure why Also Mr.Z-man seems to have gone inactive for more than a month now. Not sure if there is anyone to take over this tool? Hopefully he shall return. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wiki

[Foundation-l] Updates on our template work at WMF

2012-01-12 Thread Steven Walling
Hey all, Maryana Pinchuk and I wanted to spread the word that, similar to the fundraiser, we will be collecting the results from all our experiments with various communities on Meta. We're currently testing new user talk templates with community members from English, Portuguese, and German, have

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2013 - Announcement of Jury and invitation to bid

2012-01-12 Thread James Forrester
On 12 January 2012 20:03, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 12 January 2012 19:52, James Forrester wrote: >> To re-iterate my comment in November, I'm sure the whole Wikimedia >> community would love to see as many good bids as possible. There are >> already a few bids[2] on Meta, but if you or your loca

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2013 - Announcement of Jury and invitation to bid

2012-01-12 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 12 January 2012 19:52, James Forrester wrote: > To re-iterate my comment in November, I'm sure the whole Wikimedia > community would love to see as many good bids as possible. There are > already a few bids[2] on Meta, but if you or your local community are > thinking about putting one in, you

[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2013 - Announcement of Jury and invitation to bid

2012-01-12 Thread James Forrester
Dear all, As promised, for Wikimania 2013[0] I hereby announce the Jury[1] to select the winning bid, and invite everyone to consider putting a bid[2] together: == Jury == * [[User:80686|Manuel Schneider]] * [[User:Beria|Béria Lima]] * [[User:Deror avi|Deror Avi]] * [[User:Effeietsanders|Lodewijk

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Poland to start a travelling POTY pictures exhibition in Warsaw (an announcement)

2012-01-12 Thread Johannes Rohr
Cześć, Tomasz! is the exhibition already in use in April/Mai? There might be an occasion, where we at WMDE would like to display it at a very central location in Berlin. Pozdrawiam, Johannes 2011/11/24 Tomasz Kozłowski : > [I am crossposting this announcement to two mailing lists, feel free to

[Foundation-l] semi-OT: Goodbye Google Maps, hello OSM

2012-01-12 Thread David Gerard
https://plus.google.com/u/0/118383351194421484817/posts/foj5A1fURGt About a business moving from Google Maps on its site to doing their own from the available free content. "$200,000 to $300,000 a year is, at the very least, the same as hiring a very good engineer for a year (and paying all the t

Re: [Foundation-l] Questions about most viewed articles in 2011

2012-01-12 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Frédéric Schütz wrote in gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation: >On 11.01.2012 22:04, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: >> So the numbers are rather rough and won't really tell you anything you >> did not already know (Sex> Astrobiology, no surprise there), and you >> can't really say Steve Jobs> Justin Bieber

Re: [Foundation-l] Blink tag jokes are now obsolete.

2012-01-12 Thread Till Mletzko
Erik, I would like to intervene here since I often read that WMDE ran an agressive campaign this year (and that being one of the major reason for its success). In my opinion that is not true. Duration of the campaign: we started Nov. 14th and ended Jan. 5th. I think every other chapter and even

Re: [Foundation-l] Questions about most viewed articles in 2011

2012-01-12 Thread Frédéric Schütz
On 11.01.2012 22:04, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > * Frédéric Schütz wrote: >> So, why would "404 error" and "File:Hardy_boys_cover_09.jpg" be ranked >> so high ? "404 error" is constant through the year (it may be a link >>from a 404 page on a web server, but I'd be still surprised that it is >> click