User talk:Jalexander-WMF

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Contribution team IRC meeting

Greetings! We will be having a meeting of the Contribution and Social Media teams tomorrow in #wikimedia-SM on IRC. Feel free to rebroadcast on social media and invite interested guests. The meeting will be at 11/11 19:00/7pm UTC (2pm Eastern Standard Time, 11am Pacific.) We hope to see you there! ⇒DanRosenthal ^{Wikipedia Contribution Team} 19:33, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Contribution Team

Hi there! This is a message sent to all members of the Contribution Team. We're letting you know that there has been a rather major update - you can read more about it at Wikipedia talk:Contribution Team#Backlog Drive Update And Other News. Kind regards, Panyd and Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 23:25, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Common.css

Hi. Please fix your broken code at MediaWiki:Common.css. If you don't understand what I mean, please fully revert your changes and use the talk page like everybody else. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:11, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Aye was already looking at it, thanks for the heads up. Jalexander--WMF 20:18, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Feeling Curious

Hi Jalexander. Just out of interest, what is an Associate Community Officer? --Physics is all gnomes (talk) 23:08, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey :) Sure, Associate Community Officer (or sometimes Community Associate though my business cards say officer) Was the title I had during the fundraiser when I was working as a temporary staff member for the foundation (you know all those annoying Jimmy banners? The banners and the landing pages were a big part of my job :) ). Right now I'm transitioning into a little bit of a different job that will be doing both this study, some fundraising stuff (and more fundraising stuff later when the study as done as we ramp up for next year) as well as helping out with other projects or issues that pop up but for at least the next month the Associate Community Officer title is probably best. The best way to think about it is a bit of a "all purpose" position within the community department (which includes both community development stuff, fundraising etc). I hope that answered some of it... but if you have any other questions or want more let me know! Jalexander--WMF 00:07, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Cool, sounds like an interesting job.--Physics is all gnomes (talk) 22:05, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Discussion locations

Would it be possible to start discussions like the one at the administrators' noticeboard at more general places, like the village pump, and leave notices at places like AN if you want to get input from administrators and others who follow that noticeboard? I closed the discussion with this edit, but then undid it when I realised that you are an Associate Community Officer with the WMF. I do still think the discussion is in the wrong place, but will leave it at suggesting that you could change the venue yourself to get more feedback. Carcharoth (talk) 17:39, 6 February 2011 (UTC) PS. I've twigged who you are now - I hadn't recognised the name!

Aye, To be totally honest a discussion was not what I was originally intending to take place (though I did sort of let it roll) It was meant as more of an announcement and pointer to the main project page and discussion area (I also posted on VP and some project pages, The VP had some discussion but far less then AN ended up having). I'm setting up some more graphs about what people have been discussing. I'll try to pull everyone away by pointing them off in 20 minutes or so once those are set. Jalexander--WMF 21:45, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. I confess I had missed that you had posted to the VP already. It is difficult to predict where a discussion will take off, and very difficult to drag people away from the places they frequent to the places where discussion should take place. The graphs are interesting - I will try and add my thoughts at some point as well. Carcharoth (talk) 00:03, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Multiple sub-pages on your Wiki Guides project?

First I must thank you for heading up the Wikipedia:Wiki Guides project. Thank you. There are a number of issues being raised on the talk page. I am inclined towards action while discussing these issues, so I am going to start a number of draft RfCs. I was going to draft these in my userspace, but I thought you may want to have them under the WP:Wiki Guides page. So I thought I would ask you first. Would you like draft RfCs started under the WP:Wiki Guides page? Best regards. - Hydroxonium (H₃O⁺) 00:06, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

I'm really glad to see some of the discussion that are happening already and it would be great to draft up some RfCs and ideas. Where you want to do it is totally up to you but I think it would be great to do them under the Wiki Guides page (and advertise them for others if you want on the talk page). Especially if you want others feedback I think people can sometimes get scared away from something in "User space" since they see it as private. Thanks again for taking the initiative to start up some of these and please let me know if you need any help, I'll keep an eye on them of course ;) Jalexander--WMF 00:14, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Thank you - Sounds good. - Hydroxonium (H₃O⁺) 00:21, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Question related to Wiki Guides project

I can look at this graph File:ENnewEditors.jpg and the WP:Wiki Guides project and infer this → "the decline in users over the last several years is a major concern to the WMF". Is that a true and accurate statement in regards to the Foundation's position? If yes, is something like that statement written down somewhere in a place that I can read it? Thanks very much. - Hydroxonium (H₃O⁺) 00:28, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

I would say that is a relatively accurate statement. I think it's been "said" (mailing list emails etc) multiple times and it is probably in the 5 year strategic plan and elsewhere. Let me poke around and get links for you when everyone wakes up in the morning (including me who shouldn't be up but is up because of the tech changes). Jalexander--WMF 10:09, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Wiki Guides email stuff

Hi Jalexander, is there something wrong with my email or something? Because on the Wiki Guides page, it says that my email has not been recieved yet.WIERDGREENMAN (talk) 16:49, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Hm, Let me look into it and see if it got lost. Did you receive the email I sent out to everyone last night? Jalexander--WMF 21:02, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

No. :(WIERDGREENMAN (talk) 22:07, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Should I email my email to you?WIERDGREENMAN (talk) 22:27, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, do you mind sending me another one? I'm looking but not finding it sadly :( Jalexander--WMF 22:29, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Ok, I sent it to Jalexander@wikimedia.org.WIERDGREENMAN (talk) 22:52, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Received :) I'll be sending you the welcome and last night's email soon. Jalexander--WMF 22:58, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Anne Aghion

Hi James. I previously contacted you at User talk:Jamesofur/Archives8#User talk:Jamesofur/Archives6#Anne Aghion and I am contacting you on the talk page of this account since you're more active here.

File:Anne Aghion- Photo.jpg remains deleted and Indiejilly (talk · contribs) has uploaded more pictures (File:Anne Aghion.jpg, File:MNMK Woman.jpg, and File:Mnmk poster pk.jpg). Because you have been in contact with Indiejilly before (who appears to own the copyrights to several images related to Anne Aghion), I ask you to contact Indiejilly again about the images. It would be a shame for the images to be redeleted for want of licensing information. Thank you. Cunard (talk) 02:18, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Hey Cunard, I'm happy to send her an email though I think at some level we already have the information required. Given that she is verified to work for Anne I think that "own work" can probably be taken at face value? Jalexander--WMF 02:38, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Ahh no license, Yes I'll give her an email. Jalexander--WMF 02:49, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the poke. We just sent out an email to her asking for her help trying to get the licence stuff set. I also want to try and get her hooked up with you on here if possible so that you guys can work together. Jalexander--WMF 03:25, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for contacting Indiejilly. I will be happy to work with her on improving the article. By the way, did File:Anne Aghion- Photo.jpg have a license, and is it a duplicate of File:Anne Aghion.jpg? Cunard (talk) 06:48, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

It looks like the problem there was just "not enough info" That actually had a license (Self/CC-by-sa-3.0 and GNU dual ) Jalexander--WMF 06:58, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

I think the "not enough info" rationale for deletion is related to whether the uploader (Indiejilly) had the right to release the image. Because Indiejilly is verified as having the right to release the text/images under the relevant licenses, would you undelete File:Anne Aghion- Photo.jpg?

And is File:Anne Aghion- Photo.jpg a duplicate of File:Anne Aghion.jpg, or are they different images? Cunard (talk) 07:04, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Ahh sorry I didn't answer that one, The two are different images but I'll get someone to undelete the other one. Jalexander--WMF 07:15, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

No worries. Thank you for your help. Cunard (talk) 07:21, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

WikiGuide/B7

see User:Buster7/WikiGuide happy-happy...Buster Seven Talk 14:35, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Oh very nice! I like! :) Jalexander--WMF 19:57, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

20px....Lightbulb!!! Ms Peppler is the only active noob from My10/1. Another editor has posted on her talk, in a very friendly manner, to discuss things about an article they have in common (Peppler's first edits). Which caused me to think to maybe contact the other editor, merely as a courtesy to both, and perhaps as a selling tool to advertise the WikiGuide project. Getting other editors aware and maybe involved seems like a good thing. The contact with the other editor would be informative only...not a sales pitch. A very important part of the project should be to "change the conversation" that WE (Wikipedia Editors) ALL have with newbies'. A part of the guides responsibilities may be; to run interference for the newbie, like a blocking lineman in American football, to remind other editors to nurture rather than chastize the newbie, to not necessarily hold the hands of the noob while crossing the street but letting them know where it may be better (and safer) to cross. Let me know what you think. Buster Seven Talk 19:26, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

I agree, and sometimes the best thing you can do for a 'guidie' (we need to come up with a better name...) is to find them someone who can answer more specific questions for subjects/articles etc. There is always room for multiple people to help as you reach in and answer questions and generally be friendly. It's great to make sure everyone see's what's happening. I mentioned it on the note you just left on the Project talk page but I think we're off to a great start. It's not a big surprise that most people have only gotten 1-2 responses so far (if that) I think we'll get a couple more and in general 10 is a small number (and this is why I hope to ramp it up with more and originally thought of 50 or so, people will drop off ;) ) Jalexander--WMF 19:32, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Changes to Wiki Guides

Hi

I have made a few changes to the main project page and moved others off the talk page.

All links are there, either through the edit summaries or through the infobox I have put on the main page.

Chaosdruid (talk) 04:40, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

I mentioned it on the project page but I like the changes, I'm going to start poking at it too to try and get some tabs going. Jalexander--WMF 19:28, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Ah, sorry ! only just saw this, I think I got carried away lol...

Anyway, they are pretty straightforwards, the nested ones were a bit of a pain on the Emails tab, but seems ok now :¬)

Any thoughts on renaming any/further uses needed ? (I am just renaming "Guides" to "Guides (members)"Chaosdruid (talk)

Don't feel sorry! Never bad for someone else to dive in either instead or as well :) I'll take a look! Jalexander--WMF 22:44, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

(ec) Trying to add tabs on it now, if the talk page disappears, it did not work properly!

I thought it was broken for a moment then, but it was just an ec on here lol - PHEW! Chaosdruid (talk) 22:48, 28 February 2011 (UTC)