Well, I'm thrilled about this, especially after having had a look
through
https://www.slideshare.net/lucidworks/searching-for-better-code-presented-b…
Honestly, though, it's only the third best thing that happened this
week after Valerie Plame entering politics and the UC system divesting
from fossil fuels.
Grant, welcome! My advice is to set make a long list of concrete KPIs
for contributor (e.g. editor) support, reach, and cloud support, in a
way that can be used for fundraising. The fundraising messaging has
been stuck for years on this thing about, "if everyone reading this
contributed the cost of a cup of coffee, then _some goal here_," which
is okay, but could be so much better flipped with the KPIs as the ask,
e.g., "Each $CURRENCY you donate will pay to support N additional
$CONTENTS," where the wikipedias can use ops measurements of the
resources typical to, e.g., take an article from Start to B class, for
example, or how much time, server electricity including idle time, and
other resource it takes to get a new word added to Wiktionary to some
level of proficiency. If these units relate to the potential donor's
language or geography, all the better. People geolocated in the
developed world using languages with highly developed wikipedias and
wiktionaries can be told how much it would cost to, for example,
eliminate units of the various WP:BACKLOG items you find suitable in
multivariate e.g. Latin squares donation message testing. (Or add new
technology projects like an intelligibility- and natural spoken
feedback version of
https://www.speechace.co/api_sample/ hint
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166929#5473028 hint.)
Also please take Curecoin instead of Bitcoin, even if that means
paying the extra transaction fee before converting the Curecoin to
cash. It is the height of folly to be as close to endorsing wasted
electricity-based cryptocurrency as we already do, when alternatives
with a benefit are less commonly known. The only other blockchain
thing I like is that long-term state-sponsored censorship mitigation
program can be based on copying the dumps to IPFS, but please also
support the CDN efforts like Encrypted-SNI:
https://twitter.com/jsalsman/status/1142172682751864832
https://twitter.com/jsalsman/status/1142940652851695616
https://twitter.com/jsalsman/status/1053786384463355905
Please let me know your thoughts.
Best regards,
Jim
On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 12:31 PM Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 17:55, Katherine Maher <kmaher(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I’m excited to officially welcome Grant Ingersoll
as our Chief Technology
Officer! Grant
It is UTTERLY OUTRAGEOUS of Katherine to post this...
In Grant’s own words
We're adjusting to the empty nest life with
our dog Allie (a
black lab mix).
...without linking to at least one cute pic of Allie ;-)
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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