Re: [Foundation-l] How bureaucracy works: the example

2010-09-26 Thread Peter Damian
- Original Message - From: "Gerard Meijssen" To: ; "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 10:35 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] How bureaucracy works: the example > [...] Wikipedia is one of the > biggest websites in the world. Obviously that is not how t

Re: [Foundation-l] How bureaucracy works: the example

2010-09-26 Thread Fred Bauder
> - Original Message - > From: "Gerard Meijssen" > To: ; "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" > > Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 10:35 PM > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] How bureaucracy works: the example > >> [...] Wikipedia is one of the >> biggest websites in the world. Obviously that

Re: [Foundation-l] Increasing the number of new accounts who actually edit

2010-09-26 Thread emijrp
Hi all; I think we can compare our retention rate with other communities like Wikia. If its retention rate is higher, we can learn from them, otherwise they can learn from us. Also, some months ago I read about a Facebook study which said that "Facebook users who edit their profiles in the first

Re: [Foundation-l] How bureaucracy works: the example

2010-09-26 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, When you look at developments in the MediaWiki software, you find that usability is considered to be of prime importance. The software to make it easy to upload to Commons is in the finishing stages. There is a project waiting in the wings to make the creation of a user account much simpler.

Re: [Foundation-l] How bureaucracy works: the example

2010-09-26 Thread Marc Riddell
>> - Original Message - >> From: "Gerard Meijssen" >> To: ; "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" >> >> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 10:35 PM >> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] How bureaucracy works: the example >> >>> [...] Wikipedia is one of the >>> biggest websites in the world. Obv

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Kosovo Chapter? Re: Fwd: SFK100 Press Release

2010-09-26 Thread Kim Bruning
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 07:55:39PM +0200, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Question: People are interested in- and asking me about- how to found a wikimedia chapter in Kosovo. I'm not an expert on setting up a chapter. Who are the experts on this? sincerely, Kim Bruning -- [Non

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Kosovo Chapter? Re: Fwd: SFK100 Press Release

2010-09-26 Thread Daniel ~ Leinad
Look here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Step-by-step_chapter_creation_guide and here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Local_chapter_FAQ. -- Leinad 2010/9/26 Kim Bruning : > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 07:55:39PM +0200, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com > wrote: > > > Question: People are interested in

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Kosovo Chapter? Re: Fwd: SFK100 Press Release

2010-09-26 Thread Milos Rancic
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 14:58, Daniel ~ Leinad wrote: > Look here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Step-by-step_chapter_creation_guide > and here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Local_chapter_FAQ. Plus to convince voting ChapCom members enough that it is good idea to convince WM Serbia that it is a

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Kosovo Chapter? Re: Fwd: SFK100 Press Release

2010-09-26 Thread Kim Bruning
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 06:29:42PM +0200, Milos Rancic wrote: > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 14:58, Daniel ~ Leinad wrote: > > Look here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Step-by-step_chapter_creation_guide > > and here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Local_chapter_FAQ. > > Plus to convince voting ChapCom

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [Wikimedia Foundation Blog] Article feedback pilot goes live

2010-09-26 Thread phoebe ayers
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > 2010/9/22 Guillaume Paumier : >> Link to the original article: >> >> http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/09/22/article-feedback-pilot-goes-live/ >> >> As recently announced on the tech blog and in the Signpost, we're >> launching an experi