User talk:Alsee

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--Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 10:54, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Charter of Wikimedia Movement

Hi Alsee. Please support the developement of a Charter of Wikimedia Movement (WMM). I think WMF could be offered some support by the international Community of Individual Volunteers (iCIV) to stay On the Scale of Billions and a couple of tenthousand engaged contributers. I am refering to Answers from Alsee. --84.62.180.179 21:01, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

VE

Hi Alsee, seasons greetings to you. I saw your comment about VE's impact. Was this answer provided in a public place you can link to? If in an email, was it an email with an expectation of privacy -- and if not, could you forward to me? -Pete F (talk) 18:57, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Pete F Holiday magic links appear!

• Main page for 2015 study results: m:Research:VisualEditor's_effect_on_newly_registered_editors/May_2015_study#Results
• Researcher's talk page where I asked for more: m:User_talk:Halfak_(WMF)#VisualEditor_May_2015_study_-_medium_term_results
• Initially it was only 1 week of results. Here's the 3 month results I requested: m:Research_talk:VisualEditor's_effect_on_newly_registered_editors/May_2015_study/Work_log/2015-09-30

Note: Some places he gives statistics values with no text. Anywhere you see a p-value greater than 0.050 that means "no detectable difference, within expected random variation". Alsee (talk) 21:16, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Cross-wiki watchlist

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) 01:07, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

Wrap up Related Pages RFC on enwiki

Hey Alsee, given the feedback and the conclusion here, can we wrap up the RFC on English Wikipedia as well. I didn't volunteer to wrap it up there, since you started it. :-), thanks! --Melamrawy (WMF) (talk) 19:14, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

Melamrawy (WMF), thanx. Done Alsee (talk) 17:40, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

IRC office hour for Wikimedia Foundation copyright strategy

Hi there - thank you for your participation in the copyright strategy discussion so far! In addition to contributing on-wiki, you may be interested in an upcoming IRC office hour the Wikimedia Foundation legal team is holding to discuss the copyright strategy. It will be on September 15 at 14:00 UTC. More information is available on Meta-Wiki. Thanks! Joe Sutherland (WMF) 00:48, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Improved diffs

Hi, Alsee -- I have an update on the improved diffs project, and an apology.

The good news: A WMF developer fixed the diff problem that was identified in the the original proposal.

The problem with that diff was that a small change was made to a very long paragraph, and the diff engine had a limit of 10,000 bytes before it would give up and mark the whole paragraph as changed. This was set as a performance limit, to keep the process of generating the diff from overloading the system. In the new version, the diff engine is estimating the complexity of the diff based on the number of words changed, not on the overall size of the paragraph.

The bad news: We're not going to be able to make any other improvements to the diff view this year. Changing diffs is a high-stress venture -- Max's fix took six months of discussion and testing before it could be released.

Unfortunately, that means that the other examples on the Improved diffs page won't get worked on this year. One thing that I've learned from this first year of Community Wishlist work is that I need to be more careful about determining the scope of a proposal before people vote on it. This wish started with one discrete example that could be fixed, but the concept of "improve the diff compare screen" is much larger, and could include a complete re-imagining of how diffs are displayed.

So I should not have started that Community Tech/Improved diffs page, and I shouldn't have encouraged people to spend time adding to it. You've put time into that, and while I think there's a way to use that work, I misled you into thinking that your examples would get fixed this year. I'm sorry about that; I shouldn't have done it.

We're doing another Wishlist Survey starting in November; it's going to be an annual event. In the next one, we're going to use the proposal period to have people discuss and improve their proposals, before they go to a vote. Part of that is making sure that we don't have any more of these vague "Improve diffs" proposals that means a million different things. So -- I think we could use some of the examples that you've come up with to make a proposal for the next survey, if you're interested in doing that. Let me know what you think, okay? -- DannyH (WMF) (talk) 01:28, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

DannyH (WMF), thanx. I have been following Community Tech work and I had pretty much came to that conclusion already. A little disappointing, but not troublingly so. I was planning to use the Community Tech/Improved diffs examples to write up a good concrete proposal for next Community Tech process. Alsee (talk) 03:15, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Okay, good. Thanks, I'm glad you understand. I just put a notice on that Improved diffs page. -- DannyH (WMF) (talk) 16:40, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey

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)

Who protects 5 pillars

Alsee, I'm writing about the evidences of systemic bias in Farsi language, but I don't have access to some statistics or it is difficult to find them on Wikipedia. If possible please provide me the following information or let me know where should I look for them.

1- Number of reverts and deletions in Farsi Wikipedia in past 6 months in comparison with other countries (like an European, an Asian and an American country). 2- Number of blocked IPs or users in last 6 months in comparison with other countries (like an European, an Asian and an American country). 3- How can I find frequency of an specific reference in the whole articles? ThanksErfan2017 (talk) 02:08, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Erfan2017, to find all pages with a specific reference you can type something like insource:rasanews.ir into the search box. insource: searches the raw wikitext of the page, including inside references.

Regarding "systemic bias", I can't read Farsi so I have no knowledge and no opinion on the articles there. No matter what the articles say, some people aren't going to like it. There is no possibility that the global community will interfere in a local wiki just because you disagree with most other editors. The only way anyone would get involved is if admins are making widespread and blatantly abusive blocks, and comparable other adminitrative abuses, repressing the general editing community.

It takes a while to learn how Wikipedia and the community works, and you've only been editing for two months. You're not blocked, and you haven't indicated any evidence of administrative abuse. It doesn't look like this is going anywhere. In an encyclopedia where anyone can edit, dealing with disagreements is routine.

P.S. I saw your latest edit.[1] The page has a "Remove timed" template on it, and the article may be deleted on March 10. If you believe the article complies with policies and should be kept, you are allowed to simply remove the "Remove timed" template. I see you added some references to the article. I can't judge the quality of those references. They may be good enough for the article to be kept. However if you remove the "Remove timed" template, someone may still start the normal process to discuss whether it should be deleted. Alsee (talk) 03:56, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to Requests for comment/Fair Use on Commons

In response to your comment at NonFreeWiki, I invite you to this: Requests for comment/Fair Use on Commons. (Well... I oppose it for my own reasons.) --George Ho (talk) 10:45, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

George Ho, I had already come across that RFC. Grin. I've only edited a little at commons, and I'm not really sure how much of a difference that proposal would make, so I passed on it. But thanks for the relevant ping. Alsee (talk) 11:09, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

You're welcome. For an update, I revisited the RFC subpage and found it closed, so I struck out the invitation. --George Ho (talk) 16:38, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Help Wikipedia improve Recent Changes!

Hi Alsee,

The Editing Design team at the Wikimedia Foundation is currently seeking Wikipedians for user studies. If you've been using the new Recent Changes filters for edit review beta, we would love to talk with you! The study session will take approximately an hour.

Participants will need access to a stable internet connection, a quiet place to go for a research session, and a desktop/laptop with a microphone and optionally, a camera (it'd be nice to be able to see you during the session, but NOT required!).

If you are interested, please email me (see my userpage) to let me know your availability the next 2 weeks for a research session in Pacific Time (or specify your time zone).

Please let me know if you have any questions, and thank you for helping us improve Recent Changes and Edit Review!

Dchen (WMF) (talk) 21:18, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Interaction Timeline alpha demo is ready for testing

Hello all,

The Interaction Timeline alpha version is ready for testing. The Anti-Harassment Tools team appreciates you spending a few minutes to try out the tool and let us know if there is value in displaying the interactions in a vertical timeline instead of the approach used with the existing interaction analysis tools.

Also we interested in learning about which additional functionality or information we should prioritize developing.

Comments can be left on the discussion page on meta. or you can share your ideas by email.

Thank you,

For the Anti-Harassment Tools Team, SPoore (WMF) (talk) , Community Advocate, Community health initiative (talk) 20:54, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

The Community Wishlist Survey

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.

You can vote from November 16 to November 30. To keep the number of messages at a reasonable level, I won’t send out a separate reminder to you about that. /Johan (WMF) 11:24, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Watchlist Expiry project page

Hello,

During the Community Whishlist survey 2019, you have voted for the Watchlist item Expiration wish.

Community Tech has created the Watchlist Expiry project page to work on this feature, and is looking for your feedback about the open questions they have.

Regards, IFried_(WMF), 15:51, 25 September 2019 (UTC)

Hello, Alsee! The Community Tech team has posted an April update to the Watchlist Expiry project, and we would love your feedback. The update includes new mockups, which show how users can determine watch status when viewing/editing watched pages or the watchlist. In that case, we invite you to check out the update and share your feedback on the project talk page. Thank you! --IFried (WMF) (talk) 17:47, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Well-phrased

Thought I'd drop a thanks for you recent edit - very well put, and much more diplomatic than I! (Which I feel is well warranted - unlike several WMF staff, NKohli has shown good willingness to talk with the Community, but it's almost as if we're now talking past each other). I hadn't considered it before your comment, but it does have the feel that Niharika was told by her boss "right, we're introducing IP masking, go talk to the Community on how to adapt for that) - the discussion about the tools progresses with genuine discussion, but the masking discussion feels like it's taken as an assumed premise. Nosebagbear (talk) 15:52, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Nosebagbear thanks. I've pretty much taken up Foundation-relations as my primary task ever since Superprotect. With a few notable exceptions, they really do have good intentions and they're trying. But they are employees in a conventional top-down authority structure. They are hired to do a job, and they are generally isolated inside the Foundation walls. The wikis are a far away land where generic social-network-users show up and magically do stuff. Anything related to consensus is completely alien. Imagine how culturally-incomprehensible it would be for an employee in any other organisation on earth to go to their boss and say "Some random users on the internet decided you're wrong". Under the new Director they seem to be getting the message that they need to listen and "consult" a lot more, but there is a painfully narrow channel of communication and there is little shared culture and understanding between our two populations.

Masking is only one of a half dozen big issues at the moment. The community needs to hear them, and the Foundation needs to hear what the community has to say. I'm trying to gear up to make some big changes, starting with a new page at EnWiki village dedicated to Foundation-related matters. Alsee (talk) 08:19, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

That all seems reasonable. Perhaps we should suggest organising something between new joiners (at the San Fran office) and the local Chapter - if the first contact is going to random people from the internet screaming at you for trying to do your job and you can't see why they think they should be deciding, then that's never going to be wildly successful. Having it as part of onboarding/induction might help bed it in better. Nosebagbear (talk) 10:43, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Flow

At least Wikidata and Chinese Wikipedia do not reject it, and Flow is still actively used there. The result of consultation does not include explicitly uninstall Flow from all wikis without regard of local community consensus.--GZWDer (talk) 04:51, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

3rd test, placed above other tests

Comment. Alsee (talk) 06:33, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Reply 1 Alsee (talk) 06:33, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Reply 2 Alsee (talk) 06:33, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Reply 3 Alsee (talk) 06:34, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Reply 4 Alsee (talk) 06:34, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Reply to reply 1 Alsee (talk) 06:35, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Testing. This should be red. This should NOT be red. Alsee (talk) 05:33, 10 September 2020 (UTC) A reply. Alsee (talk) 05:33, 10 September 2020 (UTC) This should be red 2. This should NOT be red 2. Alsee (talk) 05:34, 10 September 2020 (UTC) Reply 2. Alsee (talk) 05:34, 10 September 2020 (UTC) Wikitext corruption confirmed. Does this line also become red? Alsee (talk) 05:36, 10 September 2020 (UTC) Test section 2 Second test. Alsee (talk) 05:35, 10 September 2020 (UTC) A table I grabbed from an article: A simple reply. Alsee (talk) 05:48, 10 September 2020 (UTC) {| class="wikitable" style="float: right; clear: right; margin-left: 2em;" :|+ Chemical composition of the crust :!rowspan="2"|Compound :!rowspan="2"|Formula :!colspan="2"|Composition :|- :!style="font-size: smaller;"|Continental :!style="font-size: smaller;"|Oceanic :|- :|silica :|style="text-align: center;"|SiO2 :|style="text-align: right;"|60.2% :|style="text-align: right;"|48.6% :|- :|alumina :|style="text-align: center;"|Al2O3 :|style="text-align: right;"|15.2% :|style="text-align: right;"|16.5% :|- :|lime :|style="text-align: center;"|CaO :|style="text-align: right;"|5.5% :|style="text-align: right;"|12.3% :|- :|magnesia :|style="text-align: center;"|MgO :|style="text-align: right;"|3.1% :|style="text-align: right;"|6.8% :|- :|iron(II) oxide :|style="text-align: center;"|FeO :|style="text-align: right;"|3.8% :|style="text-align: right;"|6.2% :|- :|sodium oxide :|style="text-align: center;"|Na2O :|style="text-align: right;"|3.0% :|style="text-align: right;"|2.6% :|- :|potassium oxide :|style="text-align: center;"|K2O :|style="text-align: right;"|2.8% :|style="text-align: right;"|0.4% :|- :|iron(III) oxide :|style="text-align: center;"|Fe2O3 :|style="text-align: right;"|2.5% :|style="text-align: right;"|2.3% :|- :|water :|style="text-align: center;"|H2O :|style="text-align: right;"|1.4% :|style="text-align: right;"|1.1% :|- :|carbon dioxide :|style="text-align: center;"|CO2 :|style="text-align: right;"|1.2% :|style="text-align: right;"|1.4% :|- :|titanium dioxide :|style="text-align: center;"|TiO2 :|style="text-align: right;"|0.7% :|style="text-align: right;"|1.4% :|- :|phosphorus pentoxide :|style="text-align: center;"|P2O5 :|style="text-align: right;"|0.2% :|style="text-align: right;"|0.3% :|- :!colspan="2"|Total :!style="text-align: right;"|99.6% :!style="text-align: right;"|99.9% :|} Alsee (talk) 05:48, 10 September 2020 (UTC) Corruption confirmed. Does this reply corrupt it more? Alsee (talk) 05:52, 10 September 2020 (UTC)