Unfortunately, I didn't make it onto the Wikimedia Foundation board, you
can see the full results.
In the first round I was behind by ~280 votes, which is pretty close
considering nearly 6,000 votes were cast!
I already said it, but I'm really thankful to everyone who supported me,
whether you campaigned for me or just cast a vote. If there's anything
I can do to help you out, you know how to find me :-)
What's next? First, it's time for me to get back to work, I only have a 4-month backlog of bugs and patches to get through. And then continuing to agitate for change to make the WMF and Wikimedia a better place.
P.S. I'm also planning to be much more involved with the awesome people in Wikimedia New York City in the coming year.
Originally posted on mastodon.technology.
For two straight weeks 9 out of 10 of the top 10 viewed articles on Wikipedia were about the British Royal family. The 10th article was a newly released Bollywood film lmao.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2022-09-30/Traffic_report
Originally posted on mastodon.technology.
My #Debian firmware GR vote is 6437215.
In order of preference:
- Amend the Social Contract to allow for non-free firmware in installers.
- Have a installer w/ non-free firmware next to the fully free one.
- None of the above
- Have only a non-free installer OR status quo, the installer w/ non-free firmware is not part of Debian.
Originally posted on mastodon.technology.
$ rpm-ostree override remove firefox
$ flatpak install flathub org.mozilla.firefox
The future is here!
Originally posted on mastodon.technology.
I ported https://apt-browser.toolforge.org/ from Python/Flask to #Rust/Rocket
It's already faster and I didn't even finish all the performance improvements on it (e.g lazy_static for regexes).
While we're waiting for the results (September 21st at the earliest),
I want to thank everyone who helped with my WMF Board candidacy.
From the people who initially gave me the confidence to run,
to the people who helped me get through the Affiliate round,
and then the people who ran Get Out The Vote efforts for the community voting period or even just told me that they were supporting me: thank you.
A very special set of people were there every stage of the way, I can't
really express in words how much I appreciate each of you. <3
Globally, voter turnout was down: only 5,955 votes this year compared to last
year's 6,873. Yet, in each group of users we tracked, turnout was solidly up:
| Group |
2021 |
2022 |
Diff |
| Stewards |
47.37% |
63.16% |
15.79 points |
| mediawiki.org admins |
44.26% |
67.74% |
23.48 points |
| en.wikipedia.org admins |
22.35% |
26.41% |
4.07 points |
| NYC meetup list |
26.92% |
33.33% |
6.41 points |
| Signers of NPP letter |
29.82% |
46.35% |
16.52 points |
| [[Category:Wikipedians who use Discord (software)]] |
14.45% |
29.24% |
14.79 points |
| [[Category:Wikipedians who use Internet Relay Chat]] |
16.94% |
31.40% |
14.47 points |
Pretty incredible. Now it's at least two more weeks of anxious waiting and hopefully
some time for actual wiki editing!
