Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-04 Thread Fajro
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Jürgen Fenn wrote: > Am 3. April 2012 22:22 schrieb Samuel Klein : > > I would like to add another option: Who not merge all projects into > Wikipedia proper? The lack in participation in the sister projects is > largely due to the fact that hardly anyone knows abou

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-04 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, The WikiData project is at first very much technical. Software is developed and as the software gains a certain level of maturity, a community will start to grow. This community will slowly but surely become integrated with other Wikimedia projects. At this stage all eyes are on Wikipedia but

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF Engineering org charts

2012-04-04 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 5 April 2012 02:05, Erik Moeller wrote: > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:45 PM, George Herbert > wrote: >> Has this been an observed issue within the WMF? > > In some areas. In my view, a well-functioning agile team is > self-organizing and self-managed, and it's a manager's job to > primarily set

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-04 Thread John Vandenberg
The policies of each project are different for a very good reason. e.g. If English Wikiquote was merged into English Wikipedia, the vast majority of the quote pages would be deleted very quickly, for good or ill. I know I would be the first to get out the sickle. :P On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:22 P

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-04 Thread Carlos Felipe Antonorsi
Hi everyone, I'm "new" on the list and this is my fist email, but I've been reading for a while(I'm from es.wiki). I support what Jürgen said, Most of the Wikimedia projects are not very popular (with the exception of Wikipedia and maybe commons). I talk about what I've read and listened to people

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF Engineering org charts

2012-04-04 Thread George Herbert
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:45 PM, George Herbert > wrote: >> Has this been an observed issue within the WMF? > > In some areas. In my view, a well-functioning agile team is > self-organizing and self-managed, and it's a manager's job to > prima

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process (James Heilman)

2012-04-04 Thread James Heilman
I would love to see two specific proposals taken up. One is "The Wikipedia Journal" as discussed here http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Journal_%28A_peer-review_journal_to_allow/encourage_academics_to_write_Wikipedia_articles%29 Currently working on corporate partners for this. And the

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-04 Thread Pharos
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Lodewijk wrote: > I totally second SJ's poke for more new projects! Although our flagship > project is highly successful, it would be good if we try to keep creating > new communities. I have been sad for quite a while now that we don't create > new projects any mo

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF Engineering org charts

2012-04-04 Thread Erik Moeller
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:45 PM, George Herbert wrote: > Has this been an observed issue within the WMF? In some areas. In my view, a well-functioning agile team is self-organizing and self-managed, and it's a manager's job to primarily set that team up for success, hire the right people, replace

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF Engineering org charts

2012-04-04 Thread George Herbert
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > Hi folks, > > as I mentioned in a response to Liam the other day, we've been working > on having org charts generated in a more automatic, scalable form. >... Thank you for that. On a meta-question that raises - there are a lot of direct repo

[Foundation-l] WMF Engineering org charts

2012-04-04 Thread Erik Moeller
Hi folks, as I mentioned in a response to Liam the other day, we've been working on having org charts generated in a more automatic, scalable form. A contractor, Mark Holmquist, has been working on an open source tool for this the last few weeks to do this. It's still highly experimental. In part

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-04 Thread Jürgen Fenn
Am 3. April 2012 22:22 schrieb Samuel Klein : > Ziko: >> what would a WMF evaluation of Wikinews or Wikispecies say? Should we shut >> down such >> a project... cease to mention it on Wikipedia main pages... or invest money >> in promoting it? > > Good questions, subtle answers.  Those are not t

Re: [Foundation-l] first Wikidata office hour on IRC

2012-04-04 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Hey :) just a quick reminder that the english one will be in about 23 hours. Cheers Lydia On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Hi everyone! > > Next week the Wikidata team will be complete and start working at full > speed. Finally! \o/  I will be holding the first round

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-04 Thread Lodewijk
I totally second SJ's poke for more new projects! Although our flagship project is highly successful, it would be good if we try to keep creating new communities. I have been sad for quite a while now that we don't create new projects any more. It would be great to see one new project every year :)

Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not "Foundation") matters

2012-04-04 Thread Thehelpfulone
On 3 April 2012 07:04, Erik Moeller wrote: > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:37 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > > > Will the archives be permanently split? > > Probably -- advanced mailman surgeries carry a high risk of fatal > mistakes (e.g. we have a fancy pipermail URL alias, but the archive > rebuild is ca

Re: [Foundation-l] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not "Foundation") matters

2012-04-04 Thread Lodewijk
I don't know if this makes sense, so I beg your patience for my ignorance. But would it be an option to duplicate the archive? Then both the old and the new links will work. It would be a Great Pity if the new list would not contain the archive of the old list. Best, Lodewijk No dia 4 de Abril de