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Philippe Beaudette
Facilitator, Strategy Project
Wikimedia Foundation
philippe(a)wikimedia.org
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Dear all,
I am pleased to announce (a day late) the members of the jury for the
2011 Wikimania bids. The complete page with links can be found at
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2011/Jury>:
Voting members of the jury
* Delphine Ménard (Wikimania 2005, 2006 & 2008 organisation, chapters,
Wikimédia France)
* Austin Hair (Wikimania 2005 & 2006 organisation, chapters)
* Mariano Cecowski (Wikimania 2009 organisation, Wikimedia Argentina)
* Joseph Seddon (Wikimedia UK & Wikimania 2010 Oxford bid team)
* James Owen (Wikimedia Foundation Executive assistant to Sue Gardner &
Wikimania 2010 planning)
* Stuart West (Wikimedia Foundation Board)
* Teemu Leinonen (Advisory Board)
* Benjamin Mako Hill (Advisory Board)
Advisors
* Michael Snow (Wikimedia Foundation Board Chairperson)
* Sue Gardner (Wikimedia Foundation - executive)
Moderator
Note that Moderators are neutral aides and will not act as representatives.
* James Forrester (Perennial Wikimania attendee)
* Phoebe Ayers (Programme and Wikimania 2006 organisation)
Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi all,
With the Foundation's support, I've spent the last few months churning
away at LiquidThreads [1], a new discussion system that is proposed for
use on Wikimedia projects.
Essentially, it's an attempt to marry the radical openness of the wiki
paradigm with the usability and practicality of a forum-like system. As
the name implies, LiquidThreads is designed to allow any user to easily
refactor discussions while maintaining edit history, to edit other
users' comments, and to collaborate on a summary of an ongoing
discussion. LiquidThreads also brings many standard communication
features lacking from wiki discussion pages, such as watching and
protecting individual discussion threads, RSS feeds of comments in a
discussion or on a discussion page. In the world of online
communication, its approach is entirely unique.
LiquidThreads has been in alpha testing on Wikimedia Labs [2] for
several months, and, more recently, it's been used in a production
context on the strategy wiki, where it has been quite well-received.
It's been easy to run these smaller trials, as the extension allows the
activation and deactivation of LiquidThreads discussions on individual
pages with a simple parser function.
While there are still some issues remaining before wider trials, I
believe I can resolve most of them quite quickly (within a few weeks
when my vacation finishes at the end of next month), and I'd like to get
the ball rolling in proposing small-scale trials on some of the larger
wikis, so that a full discussion can be had, and so that adjustments can
be made on the basis of ongoing feedback. I'd especially like to see
LiquidThreads used on some of the higher-traffic discussion pages on
English Wikipedia (such as the technical village pump), and progressive
rollout on some of our mid to large sized wikis.
So, I'd like to encourage you to have a play with LiquidThreads, either
on the strategy wiki or on the test site (which generally runs a newer
version). Tell me what you like about it, and (far more importantly)
what improvements you think it needs before we can expand our trials to
wider parts of the Wikimedia Universe, and perhaps move towards a full
rollout of this very exciting technology.
I should give the following caveats about LiquidThreads as it stands.
These are all issues that I intend to address before any trial expansion
occurs.
* Presently the system is somewhat vulnerable to abuse. I intend to make
changes to the way signatures work, and improve tracking and listing of
thread actions by specific users.
* While LiquidThreads allows for thread summaries and discussion
headers, the system does not currently have support for
collaboratively-edited posts which are unsigned or signed by a group of
people. These are a key piece of any decision-making framework, and I
intend to make adjustments to make this possible.
* There is no support for embedding LiquidThreads discussion pages on
other pages.
* There are plenty of minor interface issues which I intend to clean up.
Feedback is best directed to the dedicated Feedback page [3], or,
alternatively, to bugzilla [4] (although before filing a bug, you should
check the list of existing LiquidThreads bugs [5]).
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LiquidThreads
[2] http://liquidthreads.labs.wikimedia.org
[3] http://liquidthreads.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feedback
[4]
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions…
[5]
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&c…
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Andrew Garrett
agarrett(a)wikimedia.org
http://werdn.us
On Wed Nov 26 01:04:12 UTC 2008 a strategy about subdomains rename was made
public
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-November/047554.html
But to our regret, nothing happened until now, just to make sure you do not
forget, I want to reiterate how *IMPORTANT that you rename that
mo.wikipedia.org -> mo-cyrl.wikipedia.org domain.*
If you have IT staff shortage, *I **volunteer* to rename the subdomains dns
entries.
And better, just remove it altogether this bullshit since this is just
romanian written with cyrillic alphabet, search on google for latin to
cyrillic transliteration, and stop wasting your database space and time.
Happy holidays to you.
David Gerard says:
+++++++++++++
2009/12/15 Steven Walling <steven.walling at gmail.com
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l>>:
>* Have you added your new blog to Open Wiki Blog Planet and the Wikimedia
*>* aggregator?
*
The en:wp arbcom have started messing with the Open Wiki Blog Planet,
on the pretext that if the control page is on en:wp then they must own
it. Suggest moving control page to Meta.
- d.
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David, could you please provide more detail to your characterization that
ArbCom is "messing with" this aggregator?
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Gregory Kohs
Hello Wikimedians,
Austin and I thought it might be fun to have a Secret Santa New Year's
drawing among Wikimedia friends! We're basing it on the MetaFilter
community Secret Santa drawing, which has 256 participants and uses a
website called Elfster.
Totally optional of course, but totally fun to get random things in
the mail from other community members.
Here's the link to sign up and join the group, if you want to participate:
http://www.elfster.com/apps/exchange/Join.aspx?euid=D78EF055-CF27-4E8F-8E29…
How it works:
* Sign up at Elfster by Saturday, December 19 if you want to
participate. This part is important -- we'll do the automagical
drawing that day. Don't forget to add your address! (address settings
are under "you" on the site; only the person who draws your name will
be able to see your mailing address. But do remember that if you want
to participate, you'll have to make your postal address available to
at least one other person. The name you register with is visible to
other group members, but not email.)
* Elfster sends you the name of your secret santa recipient (from
"santa(a)elfster.com")
* buy, make or find a gift -- price guideline $10ish or less
(+postage); it's just a guideline but don't go crazy. Small gifts are
fine.
* the deadline to get your present to your recipient is Saturday,
January 16th (since we're starting so late -- and yes, the
international mail will have delays).
Happy New Years!
-- Phoebe and Austin
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 integrating third party software with the
SourceForge platform (including MediaWiki). Priyanka holds a Master's
Degree in Computer Science from the University of Toledo, Ohio, and a
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the
Pondicherry Engineering College in India.
She is starting today and will work in the San Francisco office.
Priyanka will be a key interface between software developers and the
operations team, helping us to catch up with our code and bug review
backlog, to mentor new developers, to push projects to completion, and
to improve testing and automation. Please don't swamp her immediately
with requests as she'll need some time to get more deeply oriented in
the MediaWiki codebase. :-) You'll be seeing her in the IRC channels,
on SVN, Code Review, BugZilla, wikitech-l, and so forth.
Please join me in welcoming Priyanka to the Wikimedia team! :-)
All best,
Erik
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Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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