Just to you nowEdit

Hey Asaf, just to you now Requests for comment/Bad usage of money in Brazil, I opened a RFC, about a usage of money here, because can't sit here and see all this money goes to I do not know where. I tried the quiet way, but one of the staffs make fun of me and give no data, and now I'm blocked there, so no quiet way is possible. Thanks for your time, and sorry about that. Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton m 07:04, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Message/Invitation for India Community Consultation 2014 on w:mrEdit

Hello,

Thank you very much for your message on my talk page on w:mr. I think this is a *great* initiative and much will be gained by the participants to take back to their home projects.

I will be thrilled to be at such a meeting and provide my two cents about working on a relatively smaller wikipedia for more than a decade. I have self-nominated myself at the moment. I will also initiate a discussion on w:mr to see if there are more and/or better candidates to represent w:mr.

I would love to know logistics details so I can start adjusting my other commitments in order to attend this important event.

Thank you again.

Abhay Natu Admin, 'crat, w:mr

Dear Abhay: I'm thrilled to hear you're interested in attending. Following your on-wiki discussion, please add the nominated names (no more than 3 or 4 please) to the nominated delegates list. The meeting is to start Oct 4th in the morning, so we will be flying delegates to Bangalore on the 3rd; accommodation will be provided. In the coming few days, we'll get started booking flights, and will share more information with the confirmed delegate list. Asaf Bartov (WMF Grants) talk 23:51, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

New messageEdit

Here User_talk:Asaf_(WMF)#WhisperToMe_10_years --TitoDutta 13:04, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

help plsEdit

Hi, Can you help?

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Global#Unblock_for_212.156.67.30

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Merchandise nominationEdit

I am interested to nominate your name for a Merchandise T-shirt Merchandise giveaways/Nominations. In 2012-2013 I was nominating people directly, there I saw a discussion where a group of people told they would not like to be nominated there. Since then I am asking permission before nominating.
BTW, we Wikipedians nominated Jimbo Wales too. Someone nominated a bot too. Regards. --TitoDutta 11:09, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Oh, thank you, Tito, but I'd rather you didn't. There are plenty of volunteers it is more important to recognize than me. I also already have quite a few Wikipedia/Wikimedia T-shirts, from many events I had participated in, and many volunteers do not have any. Ijon (talk) 00:08, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

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Indonesian Wikipedian interviewEdit

Hi Asav Bartov, sorry contacting you here, can I get the complete list possible time for the interview?--AldNonymousBicara? 12:11, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

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Thanks for GLAMifyEdit

Hi Asaf, thanks for the GLAMify report for ta wiki. I have notified the community about this report and we have started working on this. You can track progress through the tick marks against each list item. --Ravi (talk) 19:21, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

You are very welcome, Ravi! :) And of course, that was just one interesting report (being the "best" of Commons), but it's likely the Tamil community has particular categories of more immediate interest, and you are very welcome to use the tool to generate different reports for your use. Ijon (talk) 16:23, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
Sure, we will get this done first and request the next report :)--Ravi (talk) 12:54, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for contributing to Let's Talk Diversity Campaign!Edit

  The Learning & Evaluation Barnstar
Hi Ijon, we are happy to award you a Learning and Evaluation barnstar, for your efforts in contributing to the ongoing conversation on Let's Talk Diversity!

We hope to see you around, sharing what you know on the Learning Pattern Library. I'll get in touch soon with some ideas as to where you can contribute. Cheers, María (talk) 21:21, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Tell me this is notableEdit

PLEASE PRETTY PLEASE [1] Victorgrigas (talk) 05:16, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

eh, it probably is, by ENWP standards. It would benefit from a couple of more substantive sources, some more information about its history (ownership, construction, special events), and a photo or two. Ijon (talk) 05:39, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Requests for comments on Wikimedia user groups approval process and agreementsEdit

This is an update from the Wikimedia Affiliations Committee. Translations are available.

The Wikimedia Affiliations Committee is requesting comments on the approval process and agreements for Wikimedia user groups.

Wikimedia user groups are groups of Wikimedia users who support and promote the Wikimedia projects in the offline world by organizing meetups and other projects. The Wikimedia Affiliations Committee's responsibilities include approval of new Wikimedia user groups.

The committee will seek community input until Friday, May 1, 2015. The committee will then review the community's input, and publish the new process and agreements on Meta-Wiki. The committee will again seek community input approximately six months after any changes are adopted to gauge effectiveness and if any additional changes are necessary.

Please see the RFC page on Meta-Wiki for more information and to provide feedback.

Thank you - Wikimedia Affiliations Committee

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numbers in tableEdit

Hello Asaf, I do not understand why you made this edit. According to the history of the article is was created on May 2nd. It should therefor be "05-02" (Number of the month: 05 -which is May- and Number of the Day: 2) and not 04-10, because your article was not written on April 10th or was it? Now all of your dates are not on line with the dates of the other contributors, as you can see. Best regards, Magalhães (talk) 07:09, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

Indeed, I wrote it today. I have developed a lag of about 20 days due to intensive travel and other difficulties. So I have failed the challenge of an-article-a-day-no-matter-what. :( But I'm still interested in the challenge of 100 articles in 100 days, i.e. I'm hoping to close this gap and write more than one article on some days, so that I gradually catch up. That's why I'm noting the articles with the date they were supposed to be written on. While that does put my lines out of sync with the lines surrounding it, if you sort the table by date in the future you would be able to see my 100 articles in order. In other words, I still want to finish the challenge on time, which is why I'm not labeling today's article as today, when it's supposed to be 59, not 39. I hope that's clear. Ijon (talk) 07:21, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the explanation. I was somewhat confused, but now I understand. Sorry to bother you. Magalhães (talk) 09:54, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

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Wiki Loves PrideEdit

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!

  • What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
  • When? June 2015
  • How can you help?
    1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here
    2.) Upload photographs or other media related to LGBT culture and history, including pride events, and add images to relevant Wikipedia articles; feel free to create a subpage with a gallery of your images (see examples from last year)
    3.) Contribute to an LGBT-related task force at another Wikimedia project (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikivoyage, etc.)

Or, view or update the current list of Tasks. This campaign is supported by the Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group, an officially recognized affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation. Visit the group's page at Meta-Wiki for more information, or follow Wikimedia LGBT+ on Facebook. Remember, Wiki Loves Pride is about creating and improving LGBT-related content at Wikimedia projects, and content should have a neutral point of view. One does not need to identify as LGBT or any other gender or sexual minority to participate. This campaign is about adding accurate, reliable information to Wikipedia, plain and simple, and all are welcome!

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the campaign's main talk page.


Thanks, and happy editing!

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Latin script articles in the Konkani WikipediaEdit

Hi Asaf Bartov, I feel that the Konkani Wikipedia, which has been approved by LangCom, should inclue the Latin script articles as well. The only reason I've seen put forward to exclude the Latin script articles is that Devanagari is the official script. I've left a comment to this effect at the request discussion, please could you also share your thoughts about this there? Regards, The Discoverer (talk) 05:13, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

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thank you very much!Edit

 
Tiles. 17 Dudaieva Street, Lviv. WLM 2015 in Ukraine

it was fun   --アンタナナ 02:08, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

have a nice morning/day/evening/night  

p.s. that's the stamp of “Bracia Mund Lwów”, a company producing tiles. The company was founded in 1898

WMCNEdit

Hi Asaf, as the acronyms "CN" assigned by AffCom on Wikimedia movement affiliates, I think we can use WMCN to represent Wikimedia User Group China.--AddisWang (talk) 04:34, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Addis: No, I'm afraid you can't. CN is fine as an abbreviation for the PRC, but the WM prefix is reserved for chapters, and it would be misleading to use WMCN in writing. You can use either the full name or the abbreviation "UG CN". Ijon (talk) 08:37, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

Introducing the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing listEdit

This is an update from the Wikimedia Affiliations Committee. Translations are available.

The Wikimedia Affiliations Committee is pleased to introduce the launch of the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing list, which is basically a place for all the affiliates (chapters, thematic organizations, user groups) to discuss issues related to affiliates, make announcements to other affiliates, and collaborate on activities and community-wide events. The idea is to help facilitate the dialogue affiliates across our movement, plus collaborative discussions like community-wide activities, joint edit-a-thons, regional conferences, blog/report posts, or other communications from affiliates.

Each Wikimedia movement affiliate is allocated three spots on the mailing list. All affiliates may contact the Affiliations Committee to request additional spots if needed.

Please find a bit more information on Meta-Wiki and do not hesitate to contact the Affiliations Committee if you have further questions.

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2015 Affiliations Committee call for candidatesEdit

This is an update from the Wikimedia Affiliations Committee. Translations are available.

The Affiliations Committee – the committee responsible for guiding volunteers in establishing Wikimedia chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups – is looking for new members!

The main role of the Affiliations Committee is to guide groups of volunteers that are interested in forming Wikimedia affiliates. We review applications from new groups, answer questions and provide advice about the different Wikimedia affiliation models and processes, review affiliate bylaws for compliance with requirements and best practices, and advise the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees on issues connected to chapters, thematic organizations and Wikimedia user groups.

The committee consists of twelve members, six of whom are selected every twelve months for staggered two-year terms.

Key skills

Being a part of the Affiliations Committee requires communication with volunteers all over the world, negotiating skills, cultural sensitivity, and the ability to understand legal texts. We try to get a healthy mix of different skill sets in our members. The key skills and experience that we look for in candidates are:

  • Excitement by the challenge of helping to empower groups of volunteers worldwide.
  • Willingness to process applications through a set, perhaps bureaucratic process.
  • Readiness to participate in political discussions on the role and future of affiliates, models of affiliations, and similar questions.
  • Availability of up to 5 hours per week, and the time to participate in a monthly ~2 hour voice/video meeting.
  • International orientation.
  • Very good communication skills in English.
  • Ability to work and communicate with other languages and cultures.
  • Strong understanding of the structure and work of affiliates and the WMF.
  • Knowledge of different legal systems and experience in community building and organising are a plus.
  • Effective communication skills in other languages are a major plus.
  • Experience with or in an active affiliate is a major plus.
  • Willingness to use one's real name in committee activities (including contacts with current and potential affiliates) when appropriate.

We are looking for people who are not afraid of the workload and are motivated by helping other volunteers to get organized and form communities that further our mission around the world.

Selection process

As a reflection of our commitment to openness, transparency, and bilateral engagement with the Wikimedia community, the 2015 member selection process will include a public review and comment period. All applications received by the committee will be posted on Meta (at Affiliations Committee/Candidates/2015), and the community will be invited to provide comments and feedback about each candidate.

At the end of the public comment period, the applications will be voted on by the members of the committee who are not seeking re-election, taking into account comments put forward by the committee's members, advisors, WMF staff and board liaisons, and the community. A final decision will be made by mid-January 2016, with new members expected to join later that month.

How to apply

If you are interested in joining the committee, please send an application to affcom@lists.wikimedia.org by 31 December 2015. You will get a confirmation that your application was received.

Your application should include the following:

  • Your full name
  • Your contact information (including e-mail address and username)
  • A statement describing your relevant experience, skills, and motivation for joining the committee.

Your statement will be published for community review and feedback, so please do not include any information that you are not comfortable sharing.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email me and/or the committee as a whole. We are happy to chat or have a phone call with anyone about our work if this helps them decide to apply. Please distribute this call among your networks, and do apply if you are interested!

Best regards,
Carlos Colina
Chair, Affiliations Committee

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Problems with the the P1412 Game (The Distributed Game)Edit

Hello,

I hope that you are the right person I should speak. While i am playing the P1412 Game Errors occour (see sceenshot). I hope, this is enough information for the start.

thank you in advance

--DavidMar86hdf (talk) 18:59, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

I am the right person! Thank you for the report, David! I'll look into the error as soon as I can. Can you estimate how often has it been happening? Ijon (talk) 19:16, 8 March 2016 (UTC)


Hello,

thank you for your quick answer. I saw it first time yesterday. Since then, it appears every time I wanted to play (two times).

--DavidMar86hdf (talk) 19:47, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

may another screenshot, an hour later.

--DavidMar86hdf (talk) 19:55, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you again for the report, David. The problem should be fixed now. Ijon (talk) 00:55, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

OAuthEdit

Shalom. Do you still need this approved? Best regards, —MarcoAurelio 09:56, 12 April 2016 (UTC)

Yes, please, I do. Thank you, MarcoAurelio. Ijon (talk) 19:48, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
Done. Best regards, —MarcoAurelio 08:38, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

Cross-wiki watchlistEdit

Hi! You voted for the cross-wiki watchlist as an important suggestions in the community wishlist survey last year. I'm pinging editors who showed interest in that task to tell them we have some suggestions for how things could look, if you'd like to glance at them and give us some feedback. You can find them on the project page on Meta. If you'd like to share any comments, you're very welcome to do so on the talk page. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 01:09, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

Fell down rabbit hole and found you!Edit

Hi Asaf! Just discovered you as I was going through some meta pages and am excited to have found you!

I'm helping organize this year's WikiCon USA/SoCal in San Diego (Oct 7-10) and our local GLAM organizations are very very excited! Balboa Park is an incredible location, with more than 15 GLAM institutions within walking distance from each other. I'll be going to the wiki GLAM workshop in DC next month. Are you part of that? I'm very curious about any tools our GLAM partners could use. We are hoping to trigger a big bump in participation from the beautiful & diverse SoCal region. Many things possible. Your visions, insights and expertise would be very valuable for me to understand if we can schedule a time to talk. DrMel (talk) 23:01, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

CongratsEdit

Hi! Congratulations on finishing the Wiki 100days challenge. Or as we say in Brooklyn, Mazel tov! SeoMac (talk) 17:45, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, SeoMac! :) Ijon (talk) 21:17, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
And from me too! Do you have a list of your articles somewhere? -Pete F (talk) 04:30, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

Content gapEdit

Hi, Following your very interesting content gap comparison a discussion started in the Hebrew wiki village pump. The main discussion was if 17% is reflective of women contribution in history (due to lack of opportunities, etc ...) or is biased writing. Is wikipedia reflective of the sources we use, or is it the actual contribution (since it is consistent in many languages). I wonder what is your take on this. Thanks Golan's mom --אמא של גולן (talk) 10:32, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

WikiConference India 2016 updatesEdit

 
WikiConference India 2016 is here!

Hi,

Thanks for signing up as a volunteer for WikiConference India 2016 (WCI 2016). Here are some updates regarding the event:

  • PEG request for WCI 2016 has been approved. We appreciate WMF PEG team's support and decision in facilitating this. We thank all community members who endorsed and contributed to this initiative. We are excited and look forward to an intensive month planning and executing WCI 2016.
  • Phase 1 filtering of scholarship applications has been done. Among 450+ applications, 200+ applications have been shortlisted for final review. We are expecting to announce the results by July first week.
  • WCI 2016 Call for Participation is open now. Please submit your proposals for paper presentations, lightning talks, and workshops.
  • Please take WCI 2016 Program Survey and help us design the conference based on community's needs.
  • Please initiate and participate in the Punjab edit-a-thon. It is a gift from all Indian language communities for the Punjabi community which is hosting the conference. The community that adds most number of bytes or words will be awarded a trophy.

Regards,

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2016 Community Wishlist SurveyEdit

Hi,

You’re getting this message because you participated in the 2015 Community Wishlist Survey and we want to make sure you don't miss it this year – or at least can make the conscious choice to ignore if it you want to. The 2015 survey decided what the Community Tech team should work on during 2016. It was also the focus of Wikimedia hackathons and work by other developers. You can see the status of wishes from the 2015 wishlist at 2015 Community Wishlist Survey/Results.

The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey is now open for wishes. You can create proposals until November 20. You will be able to vote on which wishes you think are best or most important between November 28 and December 12. /Johan (WMF) (talk) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:17, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

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Training modules: Can you help us with translation?Edit

Hello Ijon, hope all is well! As you may know, we at the Wikimedia Foundation's Support and Safety team are developing new training materials to help contributors deal with online harassment situations, and with problems at real life events. The final English version is now finished!

I'm wondering if you would be willing to help us translate content for these Training Modules into your language. We are targeting a minimum of ten languages for these modules, including the English original.

If the answer is yes, please let me know with a ping, or just get stuck in - either way, we would really appreciate your support! Joe Sutherland (Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 18:12, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

We're on Twitter!Edit

WikiLGBT is on Twitter!
Hello Ijon!
Follow the Wikimedia LGBT user group on Twitter at @wikilgbt for news, photos, and other topics of interest to LGBT Wikipedans and allies. Use #wikiLGBT to share any Wiki Loves Pride stuff that you would like to share (whether this month or any day of the year) or to alert folks to things that the LGBT Wikipedan community should know. RachelWex (talk)

RachelWex (talk) 23:40, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

Bug in wikiEdit

Hi, Asaf!

How are you? It's nicki from Chernihiv-Kyiv, Ukraine.

I need you help. I found a little bug in the article. But I can't find the place where this bug is. Can you help? Or may be you can tell me, where am I write about it? I wrote there. Is it OK? Thanks! --Nickispeaki (talk) 20:16, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

We fixed it! ^-^ --Nickispeaki (talk) 20:34, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
All's well that ends well. :) Ijon (talk) 02:50, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

GLAMify has completed a report for you! :)Edit

Hullo!

GLAMify has just completed a report you asked for, with suggestions for integrating media from commons:Category:Images from Wiki Loves Earth 2017 in France.

The report is waiting for you here. :) Please note that the report pages may get deleted after 60 days, so if you'd like to keep these results around, copy them somewhere else.

Your faithful servant,

Ijonbot (talk) 19:02, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

GLAMify has completed a report for you! :)Edit

Hullo!

GLAMify has just completed a report you asked for, with suggestions for integrating media from commons:Category:Images from Wiki Loves Earth 2014 in India.

The report is waiting for you here. :) Please note that the report pages may get deleted after 60 days, so if you'd like to keep these results around, copy them somewhere else.

Your faithful servant,

Ijonbot (talk) 19:02, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

HelloEdit

This is my last account which is non vandalism account and will be fully behaved signed --Benzygs9404 (talk) 11:57, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

words pronunciation in hebrewEdit

Hi, I saw you wrote this tool pronuncify, and used it to upload recordings of words in Hebrew to commons. There is a project 'Lingua-Libre' - a web site where people can record a big amount of words Lingua-Libre , the site is [2] , (works only on firefox for me). I used it to record some words. Then I wrote a script link_words_recording.py that adds each record to the definition in the Hebrew Wiktionary if it exist. (I run it under Dafna3.bot) Shavtay (talk) 16:41, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi, Shavtay. It's good to see more interest in facilitating easier recording of pronunciation files. I took a quick look at Lingua-Libre, and it looks promising, though it would definitely need an English interface to be more globally useful (Personally I managed to use it in French, but I guess not everyone would). Another thing I'm looking for is a good way of organizing the workload and easing the distribution of it, i.e. easy ways to create large backlogs of words-to-be-recorded, and then ensuring no duplication of effort, perhaps by letting users 'claim' blocks of (say) 100 words at a time. Are you in touch with the LL team? Do you know if they're planning such a feature? That would have been my next effort in developing Pronuncify, if I had any time to devote to it (which unfortunately I currently don't). Ijon (talk) 15:54, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Come join Wikimedia CEE Spring 2018/CEE Women again! <3Edit

 
Get a postcard from one of the countries in red :)

Hello, Asaf! You receive this message because last year you took part in the CEE Women challenge. This year the challenge repeats, and it will take longer: from now until the end of May (about 10 weeks).

Please, feel invited to visit the page Wikimedia CEE Spring 2018/CEE Women and join the challenge again. Help have more notable women from Central and Eastern Europe in more language versions globally, including Hebrew. We again have a list of ideas for biographic articles of women from all over the CEE.

What is different this year is that now you can set your own minimal number of articles as a measure of your challenge (i don't advise you to challenge yourself with more than 70 ;) 10-20 is perfect!). Also, you can receive as a prize a postcard not only from Bulgaria (as in 2017), but also from a list of countries from CEE and around the world. Apart of being a receiver, you can also opt to be a sender of postcards from your country to some of the other participants! That would also be awesome!

Thank you in advance for any contribution you make to CEE Women, and for spreading the word in your local wiki community! Love, Vassia / Spiritia 18:37, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

Rivonia TrialEdit

Dear Ijon, I heard from User:Discott that you would try to get official permission from the Mandela Foundation to include the Rivonia Diary files into Wikimedia Commons (again). As you know, prolific users like Josve05a and JuTa were quick to get rid of all the files, despite warnings by others. If you need any help with contacting the Mandela Foundation, please let me know. Vysotsky (talk) 09:44, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

Done already. I should have looked better. Thanx! Vysotsky (talk) 09:51, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for offering, anyway! :) Ijon (talk) 19:34, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Wiki Loves AfricaEdit

Hi Asaf

I propose to use the natural traffic that goes to the Commons WLA main page to host a "call to action" page using Glamify. You may see a draft here : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2017/Call_to_action

what do you think ?

I'd like your help to make your tool as easy as possible to use in that call :)

From our currents stats, most language sources we can use are English, French and Arabic (this is where most of the images are currently used). I'd like to propose by default a set of languages target... English, French, Arabic, Portuguese and the African languages (that's roughly a dozen, see here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/16_African_Women_Translate-a-thon. Apparently, Glamify only take one line at a time (not 7...) and I'd like a regular update (maybe once a week ?). Also, the output of your tool can not be directly reused on Commons in copy paste mode because the links are set up for meta. So... do you think that by any chance you might consider giving the call a little bit of help with some tweaking that would fix that ? For example with an automatic update of a bunch of pre-defined queries once a week, with an output directly suitable for Commons ?

Thanks

Anthere (talk) 10:46, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

Bonjour Anthere! These are good ideas! I'm afraid I probably won't have time to improve GLAMify in time for WLA (assuming it starts in October? I couldn't find definite information re 2018.) If anyone else would like to offer patches (pull requests), I'm happy to review them and merge them. If no one else is available, you can perhaps ping me in two weeks to see if I might find some time to make these improvements. Ijon (talk) 19:02, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
there will be no WLA in (October) 2018. We agreed to push it a little bit later so as to better accommodate the schedule of WLM and WLE. So we are rather looking for organisation of the contest in January-February 2019. That is... if we find some funding. So for 2019 (providing 2019 happens), this leaves some free time to actually improve the system !
In any cases, I set up the system to operate now for the former WLAs (2014-2017). I can do some soft updates from time to time by hand. By no means perfect, but can work. I will be making a call for volunteers to help you. If can not find them, will ping you back.
Cheers Anthere (talk) 18:09, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Country and city attribution of geolocated itemEdit

I am trying to make use of GeoData API to perform aforementioned task.

I found GeoData API very clean, simple and user friendly in retrieving various data according to geo location of the item. But there are difficulties with retrieving country/city affiliation of the item. While country can theoretically be get in a single request (also not always but only if being specified and not in name format but rather by its alphabetic designation), the city is possible to be get only for items which are cities by themselves. Let's imagine I want to determine in one request providing the coordinates of the Sagrada Familia temple the name of the item and that it is located in Barcelona, Spain. As far as I understood there is no way to do that. From the second hand this information does exist for every geo tagged item and is available for example through WikiData SPARQL query service. But then I'll need to perform a second request to WikiData which I would have liked to avoid by all means.

Looking on advice on the optimal strategy to perform the desired. If not is it possible to add the country/city attributes to GeoData list=geosearch attributes? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Chainastole (talk)

@Chainastole: I'm afraid I don't know the GeoData API myself, and am not sure I quite understood your question. I suggest you ask in the #mediawiki or #wikimedia-tech channels on IRC if you can, or on one of the technical mailing lists, where you would have access to many more minds and background than just my own on this talk page. Ijon (talk) 18:56, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
@Chainastole: there is also experimental dev support forum if you are not comfortable with IRC. --Papuass (talk) 11:34, 17 September 2018 (UTC)

The Community Wishlist SurveyEdit

Hi,

You get this message because you’ve previously participated in the Community Wishlist Survey. I just wanted to let you know that this year’s survey is now open for proposals. You can suggest technical changes until 11 November: Community Wishlist Survey 2019.

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Public SpeakersEdit

This is not a page maintained by the WMF, so you have no business there. It's a page where anyone who is a speaker can create an entry. Other users have no say in this, just as they can't overrule an entry of someone coming to a wikimeet. Cheers, Guido den Broeder (talk) 22:52, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Hello, Guido. I have rolled back your edit based on the controversy mentioned in the talk page. Your aggressive response here -- ignoring the fact I am a longtime Wikipedia volunteer quite apart of, and long before, my job at the Foundation -- suggests you are uncollaborative and leads me to give credence to The Banner's concerns, and to support Nemo's rejection of your edit. Nonetheless, this remains only my opinion, as one volunteer, not WMF's opinion or a WMF action, and other Meta contributors are welcome to weigh in, as always.
I have made these edits, and am making this response, as a volunteer contributing to Meta, and nothing else. Your undoing of my edit that stated facts about that page -- that it is unmaintained, that the roles mentioned in it are not current -- also smacks of an insistence on controlling the narrative that is inappropriate on a wiki. I encourage you to undo yourself at once. Ijon (talk) 23:28, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
I am indeed controlling the page, as representative of the speakers. Your qualification of the list as largely outdated was totally unacceptable. Don't do this again. Ijon, if you think the page needs maintenance, contact the individual speakers on the list. No status is needed for that. Guido den Broeder (talk) 23:45, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
For Nemo and TheBanner, these are just revenge edits, not their true opinions. They're not really interested in this page. They both tried to bully me before, lost, and have been stalking me since. Nemo is a total embarassment with his deliberate copyright violations spanning more than a decade. TheBanner changes to a new account whenever he feels he got blocked too often. The list, meanwhile, is explicitly defined as self-generated. This means that removing a speaker without their consent is not allowed. Guido den Broeder (talk) 00:01, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
Well, no, you are most definitely not "controlling the page". No single user is, and your assertion to the contrary again shows a fundamental failure to embrace wiki collaborative values. So is your presumption to represent "the speakers", implicitly excluding me. I dare guess I have done more public speaking about Wikipedia than you have, in fact. (Even though I never added myself to that page).
Your presumption to determine what is and isn't other people's "true opinions" does not merit a response.
To your baseless claim I am mistaken in calling the page outdated, especially in terms of roles and positions held, I will offer this refutation:
  1. Eloquence is no longer WMF staff
  2. Frank Schulenburg is no longer WMF staff
  3. Piotrus has been living in Korea for years now
  4. Steven Walling is no longer WMF staff
  5. Stu West is no longer a WMF board member
These are five out of date listings in just the US section of the list. QED. Ijon (talk) 09:23, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
The page should just be marked historical at this point, and further disruption by Guido should be reported at Meta:Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat. Nihlus 09:31, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
Ijon, have you contacted them to ask them to update their entry? Guido den Broeder (talk) 16:32, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
Nice try moving the goalposts! I said it was out of date; you said that's untrue; I proved it is true; you change the question, instead of admitting you were wrong and apologizing. Your level of intellectual honesty is clear. Ijon (talk) 19:31, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
I take that as a 'no'. Guido den Broeder (talk) 20:09, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
There are seventy-three entries and you found a few details in need of an update. There were four major updates in 2018 alone. That doesn't qualify as 'It is not actively maintained, and is significantly out of date, with most roles and positions mentioned only correct as of 2010-2011 or earlier.' Guido den Broeder (talk) 20:27, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

"Who Wrote That" project updateEdit

Hello. I'm reaching out to you as you participated in the 2017 Community Wishlist proposal for "Who Wrote That" project (previously known as "Blame Tool"). The Community Tech team is kicking things off on the project and we have an early-stage mockup available for you to look at. I invite you to follow that project page, where I will be posting periodic status updates for the project. You are also welcome to provide your thoughts on the talk page. Thank you. -- NKohli (WMF) (talk) 22:57, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

The Affiliate-selected Board seats process welcomes your supportEdit

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Wordpile has completed a report for you! :)Edit

Hullo!

Wordpile has just completed a report you asked for, with word-counts for pages from PagePile #24929.

The report is waiting for you here. :) Please note that the report pages may get deleted after 60 days, so if you'd like to keep these results around, copy them somewhere else.

Your faithful servant,

Ijonbot (talk) 20:59, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

Wordpile has completed a report for you! :)Edit

Hullo!

Wordpile has just completed a report you asked for, with word-counts for pages from PagePile #24928.

The report is waiting for you here. :) Please note that the report pages may get deleted after 60 days, so if you'd like to keep these results around, copy them somewhere else.

Your faithful servant,

Ijonbot (talk) 21:12, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

Wordpile has completed a report for you! :)Edit

Hullo!

Wordpile has just completed a report you asked for, with word-counts for pages from PagePile #24932.

The report is waiting for you here. :) Please note that the report pages may get deleted after 60 days, so if you'd like to keep these results around, copy them somewhere else.

Your faithful servant,

Ijonbot (talk) 21:12, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

Grants wikiEdit

Wikimedia_wikis#Private_Wikis lists "grantswiki" as "defunct; to merge back into meta + internal can be done w/ a short review". In July 2013, you wrote "I am happy to do this review." Did anything come of that? Should the wiki be marked as merged in the list?

Thanks. --Yair rand (talk) 02:19, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

I had, yes. I found nothing of use or relevance. It's mostly some drafts of ancient (very small) grant proposals the Foundation was applying for from other funders. I think it can be merged into Meta, or even deleted. Ijon (talk) 09:37, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

twitter WikiClassicsEdit

Hi, don't forget to ask the other two members of UG to give you the twitter credential there in Sweden. Bye. (User:Epìdosis FYI I ping you)--Alexmar983 (talk) 21:04, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Is GLAMify still running?Edit

Hi, I made some requests to GLAMify last week but I see that it has been over a year since it has made any reports. Is the tool still active? Thank you, Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 21:52, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

@Rachel Helps (BYU): Thanks for letting me know! Some underlying library the tool relies out became outdated and the tool stopped working. Fixed now! Ijon (talk) 23:37, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
thank you very much! We'll be adding images to other-language Wikipedias based on that output. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 20:41, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
Wonderful! :) Ijon (talk) 21:52, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

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Final Call for Candidates for AffCom - June 2021Edit

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GlamifyEdit

Hello Asaf... so... I wanted to use Glamify for the WPWP campaign. I was able to do properly a few queries. And then... after a few normal ones... Glamify started pouring only zero results. I am very sad :((( Do you think the issue could be one you could magically fix easily ? I'd love to see it back up ! Anthere (talk)
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