2009/9/8 Gregory Maxwell :
> As such, it's time to try something different.
What do you suggest? Are there models from other mailing list
communities that we should experiment with to create a healthier, more
productive discussion culture? What, based on your own experience of
this list, would you
2009/9/8 Michael Peel :
> What could be the cause of this recent dearth of new projects?
Certainly the process for getting a new project underway is so complex
and exhausting that it's not something that many people will be likely
to engage in - especially considering that project ideas are often
2009/9/8 Brian :
> Some of us feel
> that the foundation has become out of our reach. That no matter how much we
> discuss and try to reach consensus it will just be too hard, or there will
> be a lack of interest in our consensus at the foundation, for any real
> change to happen. You practically
2009/9/16 Samuel Klein :
> Putting aside the unnecessary bad faith and challenges to the
> foundation's integrity: I find this all exciting - planning for
> significant tech budget support, possible major sponsorships (I've
> always hoped we would one day find multiple sources for long-term
> in-
2009/9/16 Sue Gardner :
> 2009/9/16 Thomas Dalton :
>> 2009/9/17 Daniel Phelps :
>>> We look forward to the future in our new location and hope that we get
>>> a chance to have you all visit us. We will do our best to post photos
>>> as we settle in so that people can imagine us all in our new set
2009/9/16 George Herbert :
> I have a specific question regarding the CTO role which has been
> floating around not yet completely defined. Brion announced the
> impending opening a while ago now and the formal definition of the job
> role (and possibly title, I suggest it's more of a CIO role tha
Thank you, Brion. Through your many years of volunteering and then
staff work, you've secured your place in Wikimedia history. It's been
a pleasure to work with you over the years, and I'm glad you'll
continue to be involved. As I said privately, I'm happy you've found a
great open source company t
Hi Greg,
a quick note on Sue's behalf since we're all quite swamped right now.
On the tech side of things we're planning for the CTO transition right
now, as well as building up our capacity; those are core
foundation-building priorities that have to be higher than any
specific deployment, particu
2009/9/28 Gregory Maxwell :
> Of course. But I wasn't expecting a turn up on English Wikipedia yet.
> I'm asking why the 25 lines of configuration that EnWP specified have
> not yet been added to the test wiki at
> http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
I'll review the current state
2009/9/28 Gregory Maxwell :
> "Bad faith" — I don't think those words means what you think they mean.
If it was our intention to not implement Flagged Protection, then we
(WMF) wouldn't have said the opposite publicly. Instead, we would be
communicating about why we're not implementing it. Our onl
2009/9/28 Jimmy Wales :
> If the Foundation is bottlenecked at the moment (understandable) then
> how can I help, how can we the community help, to take some of the
> burden off of them to get done what we need to get done for the sake of
> our mission? :-)
The process going forward is pretty cle
2009/9/28 Brion Vibber :
> It seems to work just fine, actually. The extension is on, the
> configuration is being loaded for the right database, and things seem to
> function when I test them.
Thanks for looking into it, Brion.
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2009/10/8 Michael Snow :
> We do pay attention to the efficiency of operations and how funds are
> spent, not merely for the sake of appearances but as something valuable
> in its own right. With that in mind, it's more useful to look directly
> at ways of achieving greater efficiency than to debat
Erik Zachte, Data Analyst for the Wikimedia Foundation, has just
released the first official public version of the Wikimedia
Foundation's monthly report card on key program metrics. If you
haven't seen it, his blog post about it is here:
http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/10/the-wikimedia-report-card/
2009/10/13 Steven Walling :
> From the demo video TechCrunch did, it looks like they are doing filtering
> which you can turn on selectively.
My understanding is that it's a simple keyword filter, so I wouldn't
expect too much from it.
We've played with the product during its development and conn
This is just a quick update that we've completed our office move to
149 New Montgomery in San Francisco, which also means that the
usability team is now integrated into the same location. This week
we've had two days of tech meetings and two and a half days of
all-staff meetings in the new space, w
Blog post by Jay is now up:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/10/27/wikimedia-finds-a-new-home/
First photos here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Foundation_149_New_Montgomery
More pics will come with time for those who can't get enough of seeing
office environments. ;-)
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The fundraising banners went live yesterday, but in spite of efforts
to test them, there were serious issues with their basic functionality
and IE6 and IE7. My apologies; it's an inexcusable screw-up on our
part, and we won't go live again until we've resolved this. (We're
looking into the feedback
Just as a bit of general background for this thread:
The Craig Newmark banner is currently running at 20% on the English
Wikipedia. It's a pilot to see how our audience responds to
endorsements and testimonials by third parties. (So far, it is doing
reasonably well, but not fantastically so; we wi
Hello all,
I'm very pleased to welcome Priyanka Dhanda to the Wikimedia
Foundation as Code Maintenance Engineer. Priyanka joins us from
SourceForge Inc., where she worked since 2002 as a software developer
and also was involved in operations, working on most pieces of the
infrastructure, and integ
This is not news for people who've been watching closely, but I
thought it deserved a "re-post" to give it some additional visibility.
In the last year, the Wikimedia movement has developed some very
important content partnerships with cultural institutions such as
museums and archives to bring va
Hello all,
as a matter of principle, I'm not going to engage in this thread given
the toxic tone in which it was started and partially carried on, nor
do I expect any other WMF staff or contractors to do so. If there is
interest in a civil, reasonable discussion regarding this or any other
topic,
Hello all,
our very positive revenue perspective (we have already exceeded our
fundraising targets for the fiscal year, and received the additional
$2M from Google) allows us to do something we've hoped to be able to
do: make our investment in user experience work permanent, as opposed
to releasin
2010/3/1 Austin Hair :
> I think it would be great if someone
> on the project could put the initial tone aside, turn the other cheek,
> and let everyone interested (and I know there are several) know what's
> going on.
Hi Austin et al.,
William has already posted extensively on this topic, so I'
2010/3/18 Anthony :
> For what it's worth, I think it's probably a good idea to shut down
> Wikiversity. Wikiversity hasn't to my knowledge achieved anything of note.
To be fair, I don't think that's equally true for all language
editions. The German Wikiversity, from what I can see, seems to be
2010/3/18 Jon :
> Is the Credo donation open to all Wikipedia project editors, or just the
> English Wikipedia project editors. Thank you for your help.
It's open to editors from all Wikimedia projects who meet the
requirements (6 months participation and 600 edits in a project). I've
put it on e
2010/3/30 John Vandenberg :
> I would prefer that Sv.Wp make an exception for WMF logos being used
> in conjunction with interwiki links, such as on
> sv:template:wikisource. To me, those uses are part of the UI of the
> project, and fall under fair use of the trademark.
>
> However, I've seen thi
2010/3/31 Petr Kadlec :
> On 31 March 2010 04:28, Erik Moeller wrote:
>> I'll note that the licensing policy passed by the Wikimedia Foundation
>> Board of Trustees (
>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Licensing_policy )
>> specifically permit
FYI.
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2010/6/3 Fajro :
> Maybe we should support the "Language Icon" idea:
>
> http://languageicon.org/index-icon.php
That icon seems about as intuitive as the name "Hyperion
Frobnosticating Endoswitch" for FlaggedRevs. The only relevant mental
association that comes to mind is "robot tongue".
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2010/6/3 Austin Hair :
> Last night I was discussing this with Finne (henna), and she proposed
> that we might show a default list based on the user's most likely
> language(s), while still keeping the others collapsed by default.
Yes, we discussed this internally as well as a better path to expos
The original intent of the UX team, as I understand it, was to help
readers find essential (frequently clicked) elements in the navigation
more easily by collapsing less essential ones.
It has been legitimately argued that the language links are essential
for many users, even if the click rate is
Hello all,
the massive thread regarding the default sidebar language link
expansion state has surfaced a number of fundamental and significant
questions regarding the working relationship between the Wikimedia
Foundation and the larger Wikimedia volunteer community. This message
represents my snap
I reached out to Google about this, and they tell me it should be
fixed later today, at least for misclassified listserv messages.
According to our contact there, the misclassification happened because
spammers have included images from Wikimedia projects in spam
messages. Let me know offlist if yo
Hello all,
I regret to inform you that Rand Montoya will be leaving the Wikimedia
Foundation. His last day with us will be September 30, 2010.
Rand has generously agreed to support and advise us for the next three
months as we're gearing up for the 2010 fundraiser while he looks for
opportunities
2010/6/28 Tim Starling :
> In this case, I would recommend a process of negotiation. Detail your
> concerns in Bugzilla, and give the developers time to respond to them.
This is good advice. I want to add that there's something very unusual
about the work that's been done over the last year, relat
Hello all,
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for volunteers who would like to
support the management of relationships between Wikimedia communities
and the broader communities of researchers who study Wikimedia
projects. We hope to create a committee with volunteers from both
groups with a rich
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
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
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
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.
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Terry comes to us from Automattic, where he helped improve the
WordPress.com user experience by implementing an A/B testing framework,
improv
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
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
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
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/
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
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
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
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.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
FYI :-)
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I’m pleased to announce the following promotions and role changes in
engineering
Welcome HaeB! Great to have you on-board. :-) I've been waiting for
this announcement -- lots of stuff to do!
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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
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
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.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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