ShakataGaNai recently discovered that it appears we are no longer
being syndicated by google news as of september 16. Anyways, thought
i'd mail the list in case people are wondering why we dissapeared off
google news.
The cause appears to be do to changes in mediawiki, giving the
googlebot the noindex flag. See
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20818 .
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Just a reminder about today's office hours with Sue Gardner. Just as a
note, we're planning alternating the Friday 22:30 UTC office hours with
Thursday 16:00 UTC, which is much easier on our European participants.
Cary
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As a result of the success of the Strategy planning office hours and the
recent "meet the board" presentation on the #wikimedia channel on IRC,
we've decided to do regular office hours featuring a Wikimedia
Foundation staff member.
And to kick things off, this Friday, September 25, 2009, between 15:30
and 16:30 PDT (UTC 22:30 to 23:30), Sue Gardner, the Wikimedia
Foundation's Executive Director, will be online to answer your questions
and talk about her role in the Foundation and plans for the future.
The IRC channel that will be hosting Sue's conversation, and all future
WMF staff office hours, will be #wikimedia-office on the Freenode
network. If you do not have an IRC client, you can always access
Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the
nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel.
You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine.
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Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
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Hello all!
As a result of the success of the Strategy planning office hours and the
recent "meet the board" presentation on the #wikimedia channel on IRC,
we've decided to do regular office hours featuring a Wikimedia
Foundation staff member.
And to kick things off, this Friday, September 25, 2009, between 15:30
and 16:30 PDT (UTC 22:30 to 23:30), Sue Gardner, the Wikimedia
Foundation's Executive Director, will be online to answer your questions
and talk about her role in the Foundation and plans for the future.
The IRC channel that will be hosting Sue's conversation, and all future
WMF staff office hours, will be #wikimedia-office on the Freenode
network. If you do not have an IRC client, you can always access
Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the
nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as the channel.
You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine.
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Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
IRC office hours for the strategy plan will be held as usual.... next
office hours will be: 04:00-05:00 UTC, Wednesday 23 September
Local timezones can be checked at http://tiny.cc/kReRZ
It's a big week - the launch of the call for participation will happen
today.
Our office hours are in #wikimedia-strategy.
You can access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net/ and
filling in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-strategy). You
may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine.
____________________
Philippe Beaudette
Facilitator, Strategic Planning
Wikimedia Foundation
philippe(a)wikimedia.org
Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
> From: Casey Brown <lists(a)caseybrown.org>
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 8:56 AM, <brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org> wrote:
> > (Aside: Who are the wikinews-l listmods?)
> You can reach them by wikinews-l-owner [at] lists.wikimedia.org. It
> looks like it's just Chiacomo now, it would probably be good to have
> 1-2 more people (I'm sure it's not much work, but more people is
> always better).
I'd be happy to work listmod here, I assume the most significant part of
the work is zapping spam that has been held for review - with the odd
message asking to unsubscribe to the list instead of doing it online.
Brian.
> Do not open the attachment to the previous email. It contains an operational trojan horse.
Well, I'd say that's fair grounds for a listmod to ban that email
address.
(Aside: Who are the wikinews-l listmods?)
Brian.
IRC office hours for the strategy project are upon us again.... Our
next office hours will be: 20:00-21:00 UTC, Tuesday 15 September.
Local timezones can be checked at http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=15&year=20…
Office hours are on IRC (#wikimedia-strategy at freenode)
You can access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net/ and
filling in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-strategy). You
may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine.
Another option is http://chat.wikizine.org.
For those that haven't been around En.WN today, we hit 20 published articles
in one day (September 12 - UTC)!! This is a fairly major deal for us since
we haven't hit anywhere near this number of published articles in one day in
a long time. In fact I claimed it as a new record high since I didn't
remember the last time we had that many. As it turns out, we've had a few
days better than that, but none of them since we instituted the {{peer
review}} system. So, I think we should still claim it as a record.
For all those that were on today writing/reviewing or just chatting &
helping out - I want to say a big thanks to you all. Especially the last 2
hours when many rear ends were kicked in to over drive to make it to that
nice shiny "20" number.
For my second item of business. I got interested in our article counts
after all the arguing of when the most articles was, so on and so forth, so
I went and did some data grinding. I pulled out the number of articles in
every "Day Category" (EX: [[Category:September 12, 2009]]) and then worked
some Excel magic on them. I posted a bit of interesting data along with
some very pretty pictures (Excel graphs) which I've published for everyone
enjoyment: [[User:ShakataGaNai/Statistics Project]] ( http://enwn.net/5967).
Some highlights:
* We average 8.7 articles per day.
* Since the beginning, we've only had 6 days with 0 articles (Though 4 of
the 6 have been in the last 12 months)
* Most articles ever published was 27, on April 6, 2005
* If you look closely at the "Articles Per Day" graph you can see a
noticeable slow down in article publishing since the introduction of {{peer
review}} (Quality over quantity?)
Enjoy
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Jon
[[User:ShakataGaNai]]
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http://snowulf.imagekind.com/ - Pictures
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From: Samuel J Klein <sj(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:46 PM
Subject: open IRC meeting w/ Wikimedia Trustees: this Friday, 1800 UTC
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
<foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikipedia list
<wikipedia-l(a)wikimedia.org>
Hello,
We wanted to have a more informal forum for discussing Wikimedia
issues with Board members, so the three new Wikimedia Trustees (Arne,
Matt, and myself) are hosting an open meeting on IRC in #wikimedia
this Friday.
Where : #wikimedia
When : Friday September 11, 1800-1900 UTC
(11:00-12:00 PST / 14:00-15:00EST / 20:00-21:00CEST)
Other Board members will hopefully be there as well; we picked a time
when we knew all of the new members could attend. Please join with
any thoughts or questions you have for the Board or about Wikimedia in
general. If you'd like to see something on the agenda, whether or not
you can attend in person, please add it here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_meetings#September_open_meeti…
Since we only have an hour, we will try to keep to the agenda. New
topics brought up after noon UTC the day of the meeting will be
addressed on-wiki if we run out of time.
I'm looking for someone to help moderate the chat. If interested,
please reply offlist. Thanks!
SJ