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

Looking a bit further into the best way to do this - since mailman doesn't have any sensible export/import features that retain list member settings, we'll probably need to make a full copy of the list on the server, and then remove the members of the old one. I'll ask Daniel to look into that next

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF Engineering org charts

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > What about personal development? Do your managers play an active role > in helping their reports develop with objectives, feedback, training, > etc? Yes, of course. There's a standard $ allotment for each employee in the budget to support tra

Re: [Foundation-l] help.wikimedia.org - Q&A site

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Peter Coombe wrote: > Wasn't there a proposal a while back for a Stack Exchange [1] site > like this? It seems like the ideal software for it. StackExchange and the open source OSQA equivalent are indeed powerful tools and worth experimenting with. Anyone wanting t

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF Engineering org charts

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

[Foundation-l] WMF Engineering org charts

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] A discussion list for Wikimedia (not "Foundation") matters

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:37 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > It's a matter of creating a separate list and importing the members from the > current list (foundation-l), right? Yep. > Will foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > continue to function after April 7 (as a redirect/alias) or will only the > new ad

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

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Nathan wrote: > I think wikimedia-l would work fine and make sense. We probably don't need > an additional list, a lot of the lists we have now are lightly used. Picking this up again .. I'll go ahead and make this change on Saturday 4/7, unless there are strong ob

Re: [Foundation-l] Pages very slow to load since March 21

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: >> Could someone from the Foundation confirm that they're looking into >> it? It's getting to the point where it's quite hard to edit. > Tim's investigating it now. This appears to have been a networking iss

Re: [Foundation-l] Pages very slow to load since March 21

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Sarah wrote: > Could someone from the Foundation confirm that they're looking into > it? It's getting to the point where it's quite hard to edit. Tim's investigating it now. -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Liam Wyatt wrote: > I think it would greatly help if we could have an updated organisation > chart of who is reporting to whom, and what departments they are all in. The static graphics stopped being maintainable. We're exploring a couple of options for data-driv

Re: [Foundation-l] Guidelines for the use of iframes?

HR recently switched to an externally hosted applicant tracking system called Jobvite. It's sadly proprietary, but very feature-rich and used by many tech companies, including e.g. Mozilla. Basically the previous process was for candidates to be dumped in a shared inbox, where recruiters and hiring

Re: [Foundation-l] introduction (community communications for Wikidata)

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Kim Bruning wrote: > http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/Wikidata/ > > I haven't looked at that in a while. > Heh, I wonder what the current status is? Kipcool's the primary maintainer, and I believe it's exclusively used on http://www.ome

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

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > That sounds reasonable.  Most things discussed on this list are not > specially relevant to the Foundation. OK. Any strong objections to changing the list name and scope (the latter being the description at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/

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

Hi all, We currently have this public list for Wikimedia Foundation matters, as well as a private list called "internal-l" which in practice is in large part used for WMF/chapters discussions, because chapter board members are added to it by default. The latter is often used for discussions that i

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Mid-Year Presentation to the Board of Trustees

Hi folks, on February 3, the Wikimedia Foundation senior staff gave a presentation to the Board of Trustees as part of its Board meeting in San Francisco, recapping the fiscal year so far (our year begins July 1) and looking ahead. The slide deck is now available here: https://wikimediafoundation

Re: [Foundation-l] Communicating effectively: Wikimedia needs clear language now

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Tom Morris wrote: > Mostly though, thanks to the Internet and multinational corporations, > godawful business jargon crosses all national borders. Words and > phrases like 'onboarding', 'stakeholders', 'mission statements', > 'platforms', 'proactive', 'sectors' an

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Terry Chay joins WMF as Director of Features Engineering

Hello all, It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing that Terrence (Terry) Chay is joining the Wikimedia Foundation as Director of Features Engineering. Terry comes to us from Automattic, where he helped improve the WordPress.com user experience by implementing an A/B testing framework, improv

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department & Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Theo10011 wrote: > Then my suggestion would be, rename the department. I think the name's pretty spot-on, actually: advocating on behalf of the community. It's the elucidation of that concept that needs to happen to avoid confusion. -- Erik Möller VP of Engineer

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department & Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Casey Brown wrote: > "Advocacy" is a much more general term in this context than people > seem to be taking it as. It does not mean lobbying or fighting for > something controversial with outside organizations. As I understand > it, it's the opposite: advocating to

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation monthly meeting video

Every month, there's a meeting at the Wikimedia Foundation offices (with remote call-in) where we review recent metrics and activities in the different departments for the previous month. Starting with the meeting covering January, which took place on February 2, we are now capturing these meetings

Re: [Foundation-l] Vice President?

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > Many organizations have dozens or hundreds of vice presidents, like Vice > President of Vending Machines and Vice President of Pencil Sharpeners. Heh. I've certainly been in the VP of Odds and Ends role before. :) A little bit of context. As

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing Howie Fung as Director of Product Development

Hello all, It’s with great pleasure that I announce the promotion of Howie Fung to the position of Director of Product Development at the Wikimedia Foundation, effective February 1. Howie joined us in October 2009 as a consultant for usability projects, and became a permanent staff member in May

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Official Wikipedia Android App Released

In case you missed our blog post or reports in the tech media: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/26/announcing-the-official-wikipedia-android-app/ https://market.android.com/details?id=org.wikipedia We recently released the first version of a Wikipedia smartphone app for Android phones. It's base

Re: [Foundation-l] FW: [Wikitech-l] proposed tech conference anti-harassment policy

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 2:57 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > I think it'd be difficult to have a > discussion about Wikimedia Commons with a rule like this. Right now, the policy is pretty much framed around technical events like hackathons, because that was what motivated its creation. In that context, e

Re: [Foundation-l] Discussion duration and the SOPA shutdown

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Mono wrote: > I do agree that this kind of action must be severely limited. We cannot go > on like this; we've used up our shutdown for about five years. The shutdown > makes waves, but its effect will diminish with overuse. This is the kind of > thing we should no

Re: [Foundation-l] mobile website

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 1:09 AM, David Gerard wrote: > Only bots (I think) and some WMF people can edit en:wp today. Stewards and staff. No bots. -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate __

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout notice errors (English Wikipedia)

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:35 PM, David Levy wrote: > internet -> Internet > zip code -> ZIP code Should be fixed. -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate __

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

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] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Fabrice Florin joins Wikimedia

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Bod Notbod wrote: > < holds up big WELCOME sign > > > If I say that this sounds like a hugely important role the rest of the > office will fold their arms and  rightly harumph at me for the implied > negation of their value, so I won't say that. But you can't kee

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

On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > It got worse. They changed it to "Wikimedia Executive Director" At the risk of reviving this thread, I find it worth noting that the German chapter apparently used very similar banners this year to these banners you criticized last year: h

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Fabrice Florin joins Wikimedia

Hello all, I’m really happy to announce that Fabrice Florin is joining the Wikimedia Foundation as Product Manager for New Editor Engagement. In this position, Fabrice will take the lead in articulating and refining, in partnership with the community and the engineering team, the requirements for

Re: [Foundation-l] A fundraiser for editors

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:53 AM, James Heilman wrote: > The fundraiser for money has been working exceedingly well with our > number of donors increasing 10 fold since 2008. What we need now is a > fundraiser for editors. I meet well educated professionals who use > Wikipedia but have no ideas that

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

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Domas Mituzas wrote: > This year pictures at top left, blinking banners, etc - are becoming a norm. This is simply untrue hyperbole. The fader was used in the same way as last year, at the same time. (In fact, I think last year they used the word "urgent", which I

[Foundation-l] Celebrating the 2011 campaign

Hello all, I just want to send a note to celebrate the enormous success of the 2011 fundraiser. It used to be the case that I was pretty involved in the annual campaign. For the last two fundraiser, Zack Exley's been running the show, and I'm enormously impressed by and proud of what he and his te

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

On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 12:59 AM, geni wrote: > We appear to have actual blinking ads. Unfortunate. Still I suppose > the occasion should be marked. You're a year late to mark it. The year-end fader banner was first used in 2010, e.g.: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTem

Re: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool 5 testing deployment

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote: > One thing I'd like to ask (which may be in the on-wiki documentation, sorry > if you've > already answered there) is what is going to happen to the other articles that > are not > part of this new test group? Hi Liam, this is the first time

Re: [Foundation-l] The Mediawiki 1.18 image rotation bug on Commons and on all Wikimedia projects

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 9:52 PM, David Richfield wrote: > What effect would a less aggressive tone have had?  Would you have > been more likely to convince your audience?  less likely to alienate > people? It's a fair point. I think part of the problem is that people are feeling that reasonable,

Re: [Foundation-l] The Mediawiki 1.18 image rotation bug on Commons and on all Wikimedia projects

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > The best place for further discussion of this issue is: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Rotation And, lots more discussions here as well: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bots/Work_re

Re: [Foundation-l] The Mediawiki 1.18 image rotation bug on Commons and on all Wikimedia projects

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:12 PM, David Gerard wrote: > What was messed up was the > presentation of images that were already displayed correctly. Well, technically, they were displayed incorrectly. ;-) The image told the software "Please rotate me", and the software didn't. But the image would

Re: [Foundation-l] The Mediawiki 1.18 image rotation bug on Commons and on all Wikimedia projects

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 7:55 AM, David Gerard wrote: > * How many existing uploads, used on the wikis, were previously > wrongly rotated and were fixed by the feature? > * How many existing uploads, used on the wikis, were previously > correctly rotated and were messed up by the feature? As far a

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising is for men

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Nathan wrote: Hey Nathan, a bit OT from the thread title, but just clarifying a couple of points: > * The WMF spends over $2 million on fundraising alone In FY 2010-11, WMF raised $23M in contributions, not counting $ restricted to future time periods. In the s

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:21 AM, David Gerard wrote: > Unfortunately, the issue is not dead. That's correct; nobody from WMF has said otherwise. What's dead is the idea of a category-based image filter, not the idea of giving additional options to readers to reversibly collapse images they may f

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Program Trust

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:04 PM, rupert THURNER wrote: > to get a feeling about the size, the number of readers, contributors, and a > trend in it, i tried to find the india country statistics on editing and > reading: The major program initiative undertaken by Hisham's team so far is the India

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Program Trust

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Bishakha Datta wrote: > My personal view is that there is enough work ahead for not just one, or > two, but numerous entities, formal and informal, to enter the fray and > actualize this potential. Already, there are many more requests for > collaboration within In

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Program Trust

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Hisham wrote: > Announcement of Wikimedia India Program Trust Congratulations, Hisham. I know this has been a lot of work for you and the team over the last few months. I look forward to seeing the programs that the trust and the chapter develop together. There's

Re: [Foundation-l] Ideas for newbie recruitment

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > Would it be overwhelmingly hard to program a pop-up dialogue which > would first ask which type of source the editor is citing from, which > would lead to a form with labeled textboxes for the > various elements of a reference citatio

Re: [Foundation-l] Community consensus for software changes (Re: Show community consensus for Wikilove)

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Nathan wrote: > That's a pretty bold statement for the WMF to make - "If you don't > trust the WMF, don't contribute to WMF projects." Are you sure that's > what you meant? Hi Nathan, let me try to clarify what I mean by trust in this context. We can, indeed mus

Re: [Foundation-l] Community consensus for software changes (Re: Show community consensus for Wikilove)

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Michael Snow wrote: > If I understand correctly, the English Wikipedia is the main test > deployment for this as an experimental feature. While the feature > remains experimental, additional deployments to other wikis would only > happen if requested by community

[Foundation-l] Community consensus for software changes (Re: Show community consensus for Wikilove)

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Nathan wrote: > I see Brandon replied to this thread several times; did anyone notice > if the question in the OP (if community consensus is required for > implementation, where was it demonstrated for en.wp) was answered? As a matter of general practice, the Wiki

Re: [Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:14 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > A user preference or some other way of disabling the use of WikiLove on a > per-user basis might be nice. Absolutely, disabling it on the recipient side (so that a sending user gets a disabled icon saying "This user prefers more personal notes

Re: [Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered, foolish software initiatives backed by WMF

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Teofilo wrote: > Now we are seeing the appearance of a feedback tool on the English > Wikipedia ? How long are the non-English Wikipedias going to be free > from this new stupid tool which has nothing to do with writing an > encyclopaedia ? In addition to English

Re: [Foundation-l] Office Hours on the article feedback tool

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Oliver Keyes wrote: > To be clear, we're not talking about junking the idea; we will still have an > "Article Feedback Tool" that lets readers provide feedback to editors. The > goal is more to move away from a subjective rating system, and towards > something the

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: > Isn't that the same as putting some images inside the category > "inappropriate content"? Will it not leave the impression to the reader > that "we" think that this is something not anybody should see? Can it be > easily used by providers t

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 2:56 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 22 October 2011 22:51, Tobias Oelgarte > And, in detail, why is a hide/show all solution inadequate? What is > the use case this does not serve? Clearly Hebrew and Arabic Wikipedia found a "show/hide all" solution inadequate. Are folks fro

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: > What approaches do you have in mind, that would empower the editors and > the readers, aside from an hide/show all solution? 1) Add a "collapsible" [*] parameter to the File: syntax, e.g. [[File:Lemonparty.jpg|collapsible]]. 2) When presen

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: > No one said it would be evil. But since we already have working > solutions for this projects, why do we need another, now global, > solution, based on categories? Thats when it becomes hairy. The Board of Trustees didn't pass a resolution

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > There has always been a consensus that what you are > proposing is evil and against what we as a non-profit free content > site stand for. What am I proposing, Jussi-Ville? So far, the only material proposal I've made as part of this

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 1:16 PM, David Gerard wrote: > This would appear to indicate the opposition is to *any* personal > image filter per the Board resolution, and the category-based proposal > additionally as an example of such rather than as the main topic of > the vote. I think that says "sho

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Dirk Franke wrote: > And people who talked privately about a fork for some time, start to think > and say it loud. Thanks for the update, Dirk. I think it's good that people are seriously discussing what it would mean to fork and how it would be done. Forking the

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

Hello all, please find below the WMF report for September, in plain text. As always, the editable and formatted version is on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_September_2011 The reports are posted on the Wikimedia blog, too: http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/corpora

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Domas Mituzas wrote: > Except that WMF as steward of the open information can roll any of that > blackout crap back. The only thing we truly could do is restore read access. But if the it.wikipedia community really wants to strike, there's very little we can do to

Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:45 PM, David Gerard wrote: > The complete absence of mentioning the de:wp poll that was 85% against > any imposed filter is just *weird*. The intro and footer of Sue's post say: "The purpose of this post is not to talk specifically about the referendum results or the im

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:26 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > My point is that without specific focus, these > other sites languish and slowly die. A software package that was built for > an encyclopedia can't work for a dictionary. It doesn't work for a > dictionary. It also can't and doesn't work for a nu

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 4:45 PM, K. Peachey wrote: > Ahem, The first of those were Hindi, and that was basically only after > a B# fight in the bug report that there shouldn't be any restriction > to installing it on the non en.wikipedia project With any feature there are normal considerations ab

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:24 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > The current reality is that nearly any > project besides the English Wikipedia has almost no technical support. That's a misunderstanding of what's happening. I would characterize WMF's prioritization as an "A rising tide lifts all boats" polic

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Tempodivalse wrote: > I thought the Wikimedia community should know that a large portion > of WIkinews' contributor base has forked into its own project > (http://theopenglobe.org) Congratulations to the successful launch of the fork and good luck! Hopefully this

Re: [Foundation-l] Very sad news

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:52 PM, emijrp wrote: > Michael S. Hart has died http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart :-( A terrible loss. A beautiful legacy. Erik ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Tragedy: videos and slides from presentations Wikimanias (lately 2011 in Haifa)

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > The code exists and has been revamped a few times in response to reviews, > but I'm not sure whether there are actually any assigned resources for > pushing it to production at this time. Yes, there are. Ian and Neil are scheduled to do a cod

Re: [Foundation-l] Start "questions and answers" site within Wikimedia

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Oliver Moran wrote: > The issues you raise about open-source vs. proprietary software, that's an > open-source vs. proprietary software debate - and one that sounds like it is > on the ideological edge of that arena. As a software engineer who develops > proprietar

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcome Tilman Bayer to the Wikimedia Foundation

Welcome HaeB! Great to have you on-board. :-) I've been waiting for this announcement -- lots of stuff to do! -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-l mai

[Foundation-l] Fwd: Announcement: WMF engineering promotions and role changes

FYI :-) -- Forwarded message -- From: Erik Moeller Date: Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:58 PM Subject: Announcement: WMF engineering promotions and role changes To: Wikimedia developers Hi folks, I’m pleased to announce the following promotions and role changes in engineering

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Elections 2009 ( 2011 ? ) & Bots

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Andrew Garrett wrote: > In this case, the bot qualified on Norwegian Wikipedia. > > It's looking like global bots which aren't flagged everywhere are an > edge case that should be addressed next time around. I for one welcome our new interwiki bot overlords. Than

Re: [Foundation-l] CentralNotice use

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 2:48 AM, church.of.emacs.ml wrote: > Are there any devs on your proposal? Or is development planned in this > area? (If these are two noes, it might be an idea for WMDE's community > project budget) I hope we can get some of the annoy-me-not stuff with CentralNotice fixed

Re: [Foundation-l] CentralNotice use

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:52 AM, church.of.emacs.ml wrote: > There are several ways of minimizing negative effects: > 1. Display it for logged-in users only. This is especially useful for > information concerning active Wikimedians, e.g. Wikimania, POTY, etc. > 2. Reduce weight - don't display a b

Re: [Foundation-l] Very slow load time for the last few days

[Also posting to Bugzilla] According to the ops team, there are a number of separate and unrelated ops issues that have come up in the last few days: 1) Not all users are experiencing slowness, but a subset of users are. There's no definite smoking gun, but the most likely cause are ongoing issue

Re: [Foundation-l] Very slow load time for the last few days

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Sarah wrote: > Could someone from the Foundation or one of the developers say whether this > is being looked into? I've requested an assessment of the current situation and will post more to this thread when I hear back, unless someone beats me to it. -- Erik Möl

Re: [Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications

2011/4/18 MZMcBride : > Even on some Wikimedia wikis, it's the e-mail notifications that get me to > go back to the site. I only ever visit strategy.wikimedia.org when someone > edits my talk page, as it triggers an e-mail notification to me. The smaller > sites have had these types of notification

Re: [Foundation-l] Outdated manual

2011/4/9 Milos Rancic : > May someone update manual in which it is written that Wikipedia is the > fifth site by traffic? For the most of 2010 and whole 2011 it has varied > between 6th and 8th place [1]. WMF sites are the fifth popular web property in the world according to comScore, where "web p

[Foundation-l] Fwd: March 2011 Wikimedia Foundation Report

[FYI] -- Forwarded message -- From: Erik Moeller Date: 2011/4/9 Subject: March 2011 Wikimedia Foundation Report To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org As always, the wiki version with images is on Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation too passive, wasting community talent

2011/4/5 David Gerard : > What I see is grants supplying money to get initiatives that have been > long-wanted happening. The near-impossibility of getting even quite > simple things through a bureaucratic kudzu-choked community process > has been noted on this list *many* times. To clarify, the A

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

2011/4/4 Amir E. Aharoni : > For example, in the Hebrew Wikipedia there was a Search and Replace > gadget long before the advent of Vector's Search and Replace dialog. > It was developed due to popular demand, bottom-up, by a volunteer, and > - here's the scariest part - without any grants. It is s

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

2011/4/4 Rodan Bury : > As Erik Möller said the qualitative analysis is the user testing with a few > dozens of users. This user testing was conducted several times during the > development cycle, and it was thorough. The best user testing consist of no > more than 30 users, and I can tell the user

Re: [Foundation-l] LiquidThreads redesign?

2011/4/1 Casey Brown : >        LQT has been put on hold.  It is now a "Frontier" project. To clarify: Frontier Projects are investment areas that could help us make leaps towards our strategic goals, but which come with some risk and complexity. These are areas toward which the Wikimedia Foundat

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

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

[Foundation-l] Dario Taraborelli joins Wikimedia Foundation

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] please announce translations earlier

2011/3/23 Casey Brown : > I definitely think that the letter was way too rushed, but that is not > the norm.  I can also understand the desire to try to be transparent > and post notifications as soon as possible, so that's a different > case. I'm not convinced that frontloading a waiting period a

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011/3/19 Erik Moeller : > Looks like it's one of their small percentage experiments. Haven't > been able to reproduce it myself. Not clear whether it's just > wikipedia.org or other/all sites. Bence pointed to this explanation: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/hi

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011/3/19 Kul Takanao Wadhwa : > Somebody just contacted me to let me know that he thinks Google is > experimenting with their search result options: one option is to allow > users to block Wikipedia articles from showing up in Google's search > results. Sometimes this option comes up and sometimes

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy and translations

2011/3/19 Casey Brown : > I think she's referring to the link on here: > . > > I thought I remembered seeing another similar pdf "updated version" > uploaded, but can't seem to remember if I actually saw it or where it > was. I see no reason why this p

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy and translations

2011/3/19 KIZU Naoko : > Hi, > > I noticed Wikimedia privacy policy on wmf site replaced with pdf > version and have no link to > other (informal) language versions. I'm not seeing either a PDF or a link to one. Can you give me steps to find it? Thanks, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikim

[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Foundation Report, February 2011

[FYI] -- Forwarded message -- From: Erik Moeller Date: 2011/3/19 Subject: Wikimedia Foundation Report, February 2011 To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org As always, you can find the formatted version on Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report

Re: [Foundation-l] Not working as an WMFR employee anymore

2011/3/17 Bastien Guerry : > it's now official: I'm no longer working as an employee of Wikimédia > France. Thanks for the note, Bastien! The GLAM event was great, and I really enjoyed meeting you in Paris. Sorry to hear you're leaving the chapter as an employee, but hope to see you around :-) Be

Re: [Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)

2011/3/15 SlimVirgin : > I'd be willing to help organize the names. It's just a question of > coming up with some sensible criteria, so I'll restart the discussion > about that on the previous talk page. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Credo_accounts Thanks Sarah. It looks like the d

Re: [Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)

2011/3/15 SlimVirgin : > Speaking of the CREDO accounts, several people have asked that their > accounts be reassigned, but they don't know how to do it. Could Erik > advise? See here -- > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Credo_accounts#I_gave_up_my_account_in_June As per my earlier mes

Re: [Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

2011/3/4 church.of.emacs.ml : > In that regard, I believe we have to think about how we can ensure that > we're being friendly and respectful towards our readers and donors, > raise enough money, define what 'enough money' is and how all that > affects our mission. Yes, I think we're all in agreem

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia "Storyteller" job opening

Stories are absolutely essential to any non-profit's ability to persuade new people to support or join its cause. Sometimes we tell our stories well, sometimes we tell them poorly. Telling a story well is a very specific skillset that few people possess. Even for those who are good writers (and of

Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)

2011/2/22 Michel Vuijlsteke : > One interaction I encountered recently is typical. Michiel Hendryckx, one of > Belgium's best-known photographers, started uploading fairly > high-resolution, good quality images to Wikipedia (well, Commons) on 3 July > 2010. Stuff like this 1983 Chet Baker portrait:

Re: [Foundation-l] FAQ: Consultant for National Programs, India

2011/2/15 MZMcBride : > The purpose of the strategy wiki was to create a > five-year plan. That purpose has been served, so it's now time to move any > remaining content to Meta-Wiki and move on. That's a legitimate viewpoint, but not the one that's informing StrategyWiki's current use by WMF. Ou

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Report, January 2011

ce. Howie Fung, Diederik van Liere and Erik Moeller continued review of first data from the Editor Trends Study [6] conducted by Diederik van Liere. The study is an in-depth quantitative analysis of major trends in Wikipedia editing communities, and will be published on StrategyWiki in February. Howi

Re: [Foundation-l] Making wikimediafoundation.org more open to contributions

2011/1/29 phoebe ayers : > Having many wikis is an ongoing source of irritation for many, and it > would be great to resolve this issue. Are there good arguments *for* > having separate sites? Yes, and I think most people generally underestimate the complexity of the issue. The reasons for WMF to

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