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339: 120: 110: 36: 130: 90: 140: 100: 271:: Communications manager Fabrice Florin announced this week that he is soon to leave the Foundation "to spend more time with my family, focus on personal art projects and consult part-time on worthy causes". As the manager of the Wikimedia blog, Fabrice has served as an important community contact person at large at the Foundation. 511:
Regarding Fabrice Florin's departure from the WMF: his stewardship of the Wikimedia blog is only his most recent role; before that, he was product manager for the notifications feature ("Echo") and the Media Viewer, among (I believe) a number of other products.
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Wikipedias both touched 200,000 articles this week. In the spirit of things, both have temporarily uploaded their own variants of the Knowledge (XXG) globe logo to celebrate the fact.
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after a massive database corruption implosion on June 17. The WMF's operations team restored it to working order with a backup made on June 9. The outage delayed the
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have published a batch of three quarterly reviews meant to "reflect on the work they’ve done ... to share these accomplishments and goals with our stakeholders."
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Labs outage kills tools, self; news in brief: A more than usually severe outage Wikimedia Labs occurred after a massive database corruption implosion on June 17.
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has new database accounts available, donated by database companies for use by Knowledge (XXG) editors. The new English-language databases include the
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extension: though still in beta for the foreseeable future the tool has made good progress so far, with over 5,000 translations completed to date.
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placed on the account of Damon Sicore, the WMF's vice president of engineering, who we are told is on two weeks' leave.
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that have engaged in paid editing on behalf of their clients. (More coverage forthcoming on our blog.) -
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occurred on the foundation-l mailing list this week regarding whether or not Knowledge (XXG)'s use of
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of the WMF's "Learning and Evaluation" team (part of the Community Engagement department) and
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with an update on the sizable progress that has been made with the recently published
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publication, among other functions. For more details see this week's
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discouraged contributions from new editors. Another
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Wikimedia Conference 2015
Many of the photos from the event
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