FWIW, Community Engagement will be doing something similar (mix of positive-serious with positive-fun) in metrics meeting every month. You can see the first iteration during last month's metrics meeting: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/2015-05 Luis On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:44 PM, phoebe ayers &lt;phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Milos' an infiltrating -- Luis Villa Sr. Director of Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation *Working towards a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Milos Rancic &lt;millosh(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: You didn't! I was thinking of other unrelated things. :)

> Languages list suddenly revived. And during one day we've learned for

> separate initiatives for building Wikipedia articles in a number of

> American native languages. That reminded me that there are a lot of

Very cool! Which languages?

I am AWFULLY biased about this, but I'll be shameless anyway; please slap me if I overstep the self-promotion. I did a Wikipedia editing workshop in the University of South Africa in Pretoria yesterday. As far as I know, it was the first one ever that focused on using the recently enabled ContentTranslation beta feature. It was six hours long and had nine participants, only two of whom had any editing experience. It produced *fourteen* complete articles in Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Tswana, Afrikaans and French. Except the latter two, the Wikipedias in these languages are barely active. I conducted dozens of editing workshops, and this one was, by far, the most productive ever by the amount of content created, considering the time and the participants' experience. Time will tell how well can it be replicated and improved upon and how many participants will stick, but I'm optimistic. I'll write a more detailed post later today. בתאריך 5 ביוני 2015 00:41,‏ "phoebe ayers" &lt;phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com&gt; כתב: _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

please slap me if I overstep the self-promotion.

Pretoria yesterday.

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96378 (33 hackathon events) Experiment with video.js was basically a one-person-three-day [TheDJ

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:41 PM, phoebe ayers &lt;phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Six months ago, the average time it took to save a page was 6.1 seconds. It's now 1.4 seconds. The performance team is in the process figuring out our goals for the next quarter and we think we can get to sub-second page saves by September. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

As of writing, Danish Wikipedia is now 32 articles from reaching 200,000. It's midnight in Denmark now, so it will at some point tomorrow, CET. //Johan Jönsson -- 2015-06-04 14:41 GMT-07:00 phoebe ayers &lt;phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com&gt;om>: _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

If we take the reasonable guess that enwiki is about the same text volume as all other Wikipedias put together, then we're probably just about to overtake them...