Thanks Kate for the update!
Il 30/04/21 02:08, Kate Zimmerman ha scritto:
> [...] active editors increased 18 percent, not 36 percent[3,5]. [...]
> [3] December 2020 content interactions and active editor data from
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:December_2020_Wikimedia_movement_me… [...]
> [5] December 2015 active editor data from an internal query across all
> Wikimedia sites, showing 79,420 active editors
What kind of internal query? You can't compare active editor numbers
calculated with different methods. For instance, you need to have the same:
* content pages selection,
* user activity thresholds,
* global users aggregation/deduplication,
* exclusion of bots,
* seasonality corrections,
* and crucially, distance from the observed period.
December 2020 data is less than 4 months old, so the active editor
figures for the month will keep decreasing for a while until deletion
activity is mostly done for the period. If you want to compare it to
December 2015 data, you'd need to use the same method and run it against
a snapshot of the data taken in April 2016.
Best regards,
Federico
CLDR 26 released: "Many new language names in English, mostly for use by
Microsoft or translatewiki.net" (etc. etc.)
http://cldr.unicode.org/index/downloads/cldr-26
Federico Leva (Nemo), 05/06/2014 17:53:
>>
>> Instructions are kept up to date at
>> <https://translatewiki.net/wiki/CLDR#Contribute_to_an_existing_locale>.
>
> And now we're at 30 new translators, 18 of whom made 5812 "edits"!
> They're all amusing. :)
And the total reached some 11k translations. In one round Wikimedia went
from 0 to about 10 % of total active translators and perhaps 7 % of
translations. :)
Totals
submitters: 239
new submitted items: 312,418
new data: 135,045
changed data: 20,528
>
> We're notably missing, among our languages' "top 10": activity for
> Spanish, German, Russian; any translator for French, Portuguese,
> Chinese; and in top 20, Turkish, Swedish, Arabic, Czech, Indonesian,
> Ukrainian, Persian.
If you speak any of these languages or know someone who does: volunteers
for the next round of CLDR are very welcome, please see instructions at
<https://translatewiki.net/wiki/CLDR#Contribute_to_an_existing_locale>
There are already patches for updates to 26:
* https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/161912/
* https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62346#c16
so this work has a quick and big impact on our wikis.
Nemo
Steven Walling, 23/05/2013 19:48:
>
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
> <nemowiki(a)gmail.com <mailto:nemowiki@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> 2) removed any UI path to the advanced search and to the search for
> free/CC images, so that now you can find them only on the advanced
> search, by knowing its URL: http://www.flickr.com/search/__advanced/
> <http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/> ;
>
>
> That's not true. Advanced search is still available just below the
> search box, every time you make a search. Cf.
> http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=dogs
True. It wasn't there when I wrote my message (I found out reading some
questions on flickr groups), it seems they also fixed some other bugs.
I'm glad that wasn't a design decision.
>
> They're probably doing this because they assume that you probably only
> need advanced search if you didn't find what you wanted on regular
> search. Seems like a pretty safe assumption from a UX perspetive.
> Obviously that doesn't account for the use case of Commons people
> hunting for photos, but that's hardly the majority of their users.
The flickr user I mentioned above was surely not a Wikimedia Commons
user. :)
Nemo
Thank you, I voted and left a comment:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Abstract_Wikipedia/Wiki_o…>
Thad Guidry, 06/11/20 00:10:
> but doesn't actually state the order of preference !
I agree it could be specified in the instructions that the order is from
left to right, from preferred to least preferred, with no option for
ties. (I assume the gadget has been tested for RTL languages. It seems
the same used for a recent MediaWikiWiki vote.)
Federico
I've been surprised by the success of this 7 min animation on Dewey
codes, from the Finnish libraries (kirjastokaista.fi):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF342znnAsM
It's been on the front page of YouTube in Finland for several days now,
even as top 1 trending video. It reached 200k views and counting.
As far as I know, no "serious" video on Wikipedia or other Wikimedia
projects has reached such a virality. (Although I see a Stephen Colbert
and an alltime10s video with 1M views each.) Maybe we can learn
something from it?
The video is part of a series by this Tuomas Toivainen:
http://www.kirjastokaista.fi/kallen-ja-keijon-kirjastoluokat-animaatiot/https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuomas_Toivainen
Federico
Siebrand Mazeland, 08/07/2018 18:23:
> A few months ago we had a huge influx of bot subscriptions on the
> mailing lists. One of the patterns matched your email address. When I
> cleaned up, I must have accidentally also cleaned up your subscription.
> My apologies. I'll subscribe you again.
Thanks Siebrand for the housekeeping!
Federico
Samuel Klein, 21/06/20 04:29:
> Kelson weighed in there, highlighting that it isn't clear everyone working
> on this is aware of the existing kiwix pipeline. Seemed worth mentioning
> here.
Thanks. I've read this task a couple weeks ago when Kelson commented but
then I stopped looking because it was too depressing. I see that there
were some answers on technicalities but nothing on the basics i.e. what
they're trying to achieve.
It sounds like yet another project doomed to fail, because it's doing
everything in the reverse. Personally I only hope it doesn't do lasting
damage (apart from burning dollars). But maybe there's still a small
chance that the team is allowed to do a better a job by learning the
best practices from their colleagues, some of which were condensed in:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Product_Guidance>
Federico
Kathleen DeLaurenti, 21/02/2015 00:25:
> Federico, this is SO COOL! Please do let us know when this is up and
> available live!!!
Sure! Most of the work is done by Zotero, which you can easily install:
https://www.zotero.org/download/
If you are specifically interested in improvements for Primo instances
and in populating the "language" field of cite templates, you can
benefit from our version, which can be installed most easily by opening
and authorising this URL in Firefox:
http://koti.kapsi.fi/~federico/tmp/zotero-4.0.26.1-beic.xpi (clearly
temporary method).
It's not yet decided whether I'll work on the importers from ExLibris
Digitool and to Commons/cite templates of other languages: it will
depend on what we import and where. If you have ideas on what's most
worthwhile doing, please comment on one of our project pages.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18152337
Nemo at BEIC
I've been surprised by the success of this 7 min animation on Dewey
codes, from the Finnish libraries (kirjastokaista.fi):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF342znnAsM
It's been on the front page of YouTube in Finland for several days now,
even as top 1 trending video. It reached 200k views and counting.
As far as I know, no "serious" video on Wikipedia or other Wikimedia
projects has reached such a virality. (Although I see a Stephen Colbert
and an alltime10s video with 1M views each.) Maybe we can learn
something from it?
The video is part of a series by this Tuomas Toivainen:
http://www.kirjastokaista.fi/kallen-ja-keijon-kirjastoluokat-animaatiot/https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuomas_Toivainen
Federico