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Voting has begun for eligible voters in the 2015 elections for the
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candidates for the Board will continue during the voting.
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is the ultimate governing
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registered in the United States. The Wikimedia Foundation manages many
diverse projects such as Wikipedia and Commons.
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On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Volunteer Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Translations of this message:
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Greetings,
I am pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for the
2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections. This year the Board and the FDC Staff
are looking for a diverse set of candidates from regions and projects that
are traditionally under-represented on the board and in the movement as
well as candidates with experience in technology, product or finance. To
this end they have published letters
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Call_fo…>
describing
what they think is needed and, recognizing that those who know the
community the best are the community themselves, the election
committee is accepting
nominations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015#Informa…>
for
community members you think should run and will reach out to those
nominated to provide them with information about the job and the election
process.
This year, elections are being held for the following roles:
*Board of Trustees*
The Board of Trustees is the decision-making body that is ultimately
responsible for the long term sustainability of the Foundation, so we value
wide input into its selection. There are three positions being filled.
More information about this role can be found at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Board_e….
*Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)*
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) makes recommendations about how to
allocate Wikimedia movement funds to eligible entities. There are five
positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/FDC_ele…
.
*Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) Ombud*
The FDC Ombud receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process,
investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and
summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an
annual basis. One position is being filled. More information about this
role can be found at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/FDC_Omb…
.
The candidacy submission phase lasts from 00:00 UTC April 20 to 23:59 UTC
May 5 for the Board and from 00:00 UTCApril 20 to 23:59 UTC April 30 for
the FDC and FDC Ombudsperson. This year, we are accepting both
self-nominations and nominations of others. More information on this
election and the nomination process can be found at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015.
Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's
village pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the
talk page on Meta, or sent to the election committee's mailing list,
board-elections(a)wikimedia.org
On behalf of the Elections Committee,
-Gregory Varnum (User:Varnent)
Coordinator, 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee
Please participate in the global discussion:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Proposal:_restore_normal_ed…
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[...] What few know is that the mobile sites don't follow the standard
permission system: instead, they override permissions and prevent
unregistered users from editing at all.
I propose to remove this exception to the rule, which was meant to be
temporary and looks now technically unnecessary. Unregistered users will
be allowed to edit on the mobile subdomain for a wiki, if they are
allowed on the main domain. [...]
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The discussion will be open until 2015-03-15. I'll send wider
notifications in few days. In the meanwhile, sorry for the crossposting.
Nemo
Hello,
Plz add me to the Mailing list of the wikiversity !!
*Kind Regards.....
ABHIJEET SINGH
Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel
MSc Agrigenomics
+49 176 867 55085
Hello,
Please join us on the next Wikimedia bug day:
**2014-10-08, 14:00–22:00 UTC** [1] in #wikimedia-tech on Freenode IRC.[2]
We will be triaging bug reports for the Collection extension (Book tool)
in general and PDF export in particular, which were just switched to a
new backend (OCG).[3] We have two immediate goals:
1) recover 100 % of the relevant reports from the defunct PediaPress
tracker;[4]
2) get a clean list of known PDF issues that the new backend didn't fix.
Everyone is welcome to join any time these weeks, and no technical
knowledge is needed! It's an easy way to get involved or to give
something back.
We encourage you to record your activity on the etherpad [4].
This information and more can be found here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/201410
For more information on triaging in general, check out
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage
I look forward to seeing you there. Please distribute further by email,
talk pages etc. (Collection is used on almost 2 thousands wikis!)
Sorry for the crossposting,
Nemo
[1] Timezone converter: http://everytimezone.com/#2014-10-08,120,5x1
[2] See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC for more info on IRC chat
[3] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-July/077867.html
[4] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-Collection
:[
Please help recheck the old bugs listed at
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/BugTriage-mwlib, mostly filed by
Wikisource/Wikibooks users.
Nemo
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Oggetto: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Changes to PDF export; ZIM/EPUB will be
disabled soon
Data: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 19:01:38 -0700
Mittente: Erik Moeller
Rispondi-a: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects
Hi folks,
A change from our legacy PDF export infrastructure to a more
maintainable system has been a long time coming. Thanks to the work of
C. Scott Ananian, Matt Walker, Max Semenik, Brad Jorsch, and the
Parsoid/Services teams, we're close to disabling the old PDF rendering
and enabling the new as default.
The old "mwlib" (Reportlab-based) PDF service will be disabled on
September 29 [1], and the new "ocg" (Parsoid/XeLaTex-based) PDF
service will be enabled on the same date. The output looks very
different (two column LaTeX-generated output) and there are a few more
customization options, as well (visible when you use the "Create a
book" feature). This renderer has much improved rendering of non-latin
scripts and fixes many issues of the old PDF service.
There are still a number of bugs to work through, as well, which we
will do as a low priority. Most noticeably, tables are a mess - and
since we have such a large variety of them, that's a pretty long tail.
This is not a high priority project for us. We're looking for
co-maintainers, and we have some ideas how to improve the architecture
to make it easy for the community to optimize for different outputs --
if you're interested in joining the development effort, let us know
via the new services list (
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/services ), wikitech-l or
on #mediawiki-services on irc.freenode.net.
Please report any bugs against the "OCG" product in Bugzilla.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=OCG
If you want to more quickly test prior to deployment, you can add this
one-liner to your common.js/global.js, which will point the "Download
as PDF" link in the sidebar to the new renderer:
$('#coll-download-as-rl a').each(function() { this.href =
this.href.replace(/([&?]writer=)rl(&|$)/g, "$1rdf2latex$2") });
As part of this change, we will disable ZIM and EPUB export for the
time being. If you're interested in working on ZIM or EPUB support for
the new offline content generator, or other export formats, please let
us know via the above channels.
Thanks,
Erik
[1] See https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments for the
planned deployment window
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi folks.
Who can point me to or suggest a process for a university wishing to engage
Wikimedia projects? By that I mean initial consultation to get advice on
how to consider and formulate an appropriate plan encompasing the alignment
of policy and practices through to the use, development and production of
content. We have ideas on what steps might be good, but I'm wanting
suggestions and pointers from others.
Regards
Leigh
Hello folks,
as far as I know Wikiversity had to be for about 1,5 year in experimental
phase as set by the WMF. But seemingly it took longer than they expected.
English Wikiversity allready did some evaluational and structurilizng
attempts.https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Help:Project_boxes
This summer, we have started to work on it on the Czech Wikiversity. We are
describing its content types and ways to study/research. Then we would like
to make it cleaner, more understandable and usefull. I can report the
results later.
I just would like to know, wether also other Wikiversites needs such
evaluation or if they were already done?
Regards,
Juandev