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From: Praveena Maharaj <pmaharaj(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:16 AM
Subject: *** DATE CHANGE *** Invitation to WMF December 2012 Metrics and
Activities Meeting: Thursday, Jan. 10, 19:00 UTC
To: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Dear all,
The next WMF metrics and activities will take place on Thursday,
January 10, 2013 at 7:00 PM UTC (11 AM PST). Please note that on this
occasion we are holding this meeting on the second Thursday of
January, but we will resume holding the meetings on the first Thursday
of each month thereafter.
The IRC channel is #wikimedia-office* *on irc.freenode.net and the
meeting will be broadcast as a live YouTube stream.
The current structure of the meeting is:
* Review of key metrics including the monthly report card, but also
specialized reports and analytics* Review of financials* Welcoming
recent hires* Brief presentations on recent projects, with a focus on
highest priority initiatives* Update and Q&A with the Executive
Director, if available
Please review https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings
for further information about how to participate.
We'll post IRC logs and the video recording publicly after the meeting.
Thank you,
Praveena
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hi,
as the telenor cooperation now runs nearly for one year, are there
already any experiences out of it? is it a reality meanwhile, how many
users benefitted from the offer, are there any other learnings?
here for example serbia, and india are not listed:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mobile_Partnerships_Q_and_A
best regards, and a late happy new year,
rupert.
Please, see bellow the message of Joris. Since he is not subscrived,
his e-mail returned.
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Joris Pekel <joris.pekel(a)okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> we have used Transifex to translate the document and the source text can be
> found there.
> https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/NC-License
> I have just set up a Portugese translation which people can join. Other
> languages can be added to.
>
> Best,
>
> Joris
>
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useful than a life spent doing nothing."
Dear all,
Wikimedia Deutschland's monthly report for December 2012 comes to you with
warm wishes for the new year.
Highlights this month:
* updates about the *annual fundraising campaign* where we focused on
personal appeals by Wikipedians and donors, as well as a special video
appeal
* WMDE sent out the first *election questionnaire* for 2013. Since there
will be three state elections and a federal election in Germany this year,
this questionnaire is the start of a series.
* a short review of the* OTRS team meeting* which took place in December
You can find the report here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Deutsch…
Best wishes,
Katja
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On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 04:48:57PM -0800, George Herbert wrote:
> > I almost wonder if having a "warning flag" for highly sensitive or
> > contentious article, encouraging editors without some threshold of
> > edits (500? ... some number) to ask about contributions on the
> > article talk page first, rather than going directly to editing the
> > actual article...
>
>
> Note: Adds a threshold, thus negatively influences editor retention.
>
>
> sincerely,
> Kim Bruning
>
> <scratches head> Maybe we need some sort of course/book "wiki-process
> design for
> dummies".
>
>
> Yes a blanket edit notice that simply tried to deter edits would most
likely simply deter some goodfaith edits, focussing it at newbies would
seem to me to be institutionalised newby biting. Targeted bespoke edit
notices however are I hope a different kettle of fish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editnotice It is also possible to
add a hidden comment that only editors see. For example "Please don't
change this person's religion unless you have evidence that they have
identified themselves as belonging to that particular religion - please see
the talkpage for past discussions about this person's alleged religion".
At their crudest such edit notices can bring people's attention to policies
that regularly get contravened on this page - "this article uses a
non-american version of English" or that this article is part of a
controversial area with special rules such as Israel/ Palestine. They can
also alert people that one aspect of an article is settled and unlikely to
change without debate whilst other aspects are subject to normal editing.
It would be good to see some research into the effectiveness of these edit
notices and comments, my limited experience of them is that they are very
useful and I believe a good way to alert people to very specific things
that are contentious. My suspicion is that some may be being misused by
those who WP:Own an article. Perhaps if someone wants to run an editor
engagement experiment they could revisit a bunch of these templates and add
a closing phrase such as "You are very welcome to expand and improve other
aspects of this article in the same way that you may edit any normal
article on Wikipedia". Then see if the articles subsequently get edited
more frequently than under the previous notice.
WereSpielChequers
Steven,
Thanks for this information, but I'm having trouble with one of the details. https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2012-12-01 says that Samuel Klein was "missing" from the meeting. But https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Vote:Minutes_approval_December_1,_2012 says that Samuel voted to approve the minutes from the meeting. How could Samuel vote to approve the minutes if he wasn't at the meeting? Even if the minutes were approved at a separate meeting or by email, Samuel would have no first-hand knowledge of what occurred at the December 1 meeting. Is there a typo on one of these pages or did something else happen to cause this situation?
Thanks,
Pine
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From: Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:49 PM
Subject: Wikimedia/mapping event in Europe early next year?
To: maps-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi folks,
it's been a long time coming, but we're finally gearing up for putting
some development effort into an OSM tileservice running in production
to serve Wikimedia sites. This is being driven by the mobile team but
obviously has lots of non-mobile use cases as well, including the
recent Wikivoyage addition to the Wikimedia familiy. This work will
probably not kick off before January/February 2013; before then, the
mobile team is working to finish up the GeoData extension (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Geodata ).
To get broader community involvement and sync up with existing
volunteer efforts in this area, it'd IMO be useful to plan a
face-to-face meetup/hackfest just focused on geodata/mapping related
development work sometime around Feb/March 2013.
WMF is not going to organize this, but we can help sponsor travel and
bring the key developers from our side who will work on this. Are
there any takers for supporting a 20-30 people development event in
Europe focused on mapping/geodata? I'm suggesting Europe because I
know quite a few of the relevant folks are there, but am open to other
options as well.
Cheers,
Erik
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Hello all,
The minutes of the WMF Board meeting on December 1, 2012, have been
ratified and published here:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2012-12-01
Best,
Stephen
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Foundation. This means I may not give legal advice to or serve as a lawyer
for community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal
capacity.*