User talk:Mikael Häggström

Hi, it's me! My class and I were wondering about a page like Wikijournal that would be devoted to either Miraheze in particular, or the general idea of a private wikifarm dedicated to academic work. My guess is that it would occupy the namespace Miraheze on this wiki. It has ramifications for WikiJournal because it promotes the writing and collaborating of articles in wikitext before a decision is made as to where to publish. But I am more interested in the idea of students routinely doing their homework and term papers in a private space where eventual publication in student journals would be easily accomplished.

In particular, I want to ensure that the non-profit, open-source, and free-of-charge private wikifarm Miraheze either (a) thrives, or (b) gets replaced by something better.--Guy vandegrift (talk) 17:29, 23 September 2016 (UTC) Reply

Hi! It would indeed be beneficial. It may be difficult to propose a private wiki, since it's rather different from the openness that these projects value. Yet, an "embassy page" for an external project such as Miraheze can help getting people involved. Mikael Häggström (talk) 18:33, 23 September 2016 (UTC) Reply

Hi Mikael, I'm John from Wikimedia UK. I saw your proposal for file conversion to open file formats fromt he Community Wishlist last year. I was wondering if you could tell me whether anything has come out of the proposal? I'm quite interested in how Wikimedia projects could use video better so I'd like to find out what's going on with the work on improving video on Commons. --Jwslubbock (talk) 17:17, 12 August 2018 (UTC) Reply

Hi Jwslubbock. I'm glad you also find interest in this issue! I saw lots of supporting comments on the proposal page, but haven't heard of any actual progress in the matter. Mikael Häggström (talk) 18:04, 12 August 2018 (UTC) Reply

I don't suppose you would like to help me write something about it for our Wikimedia UK blog? We get a few thousand views for every post, so maybe it would be one way to restart the conversation about what to do about Wikimedia's video file type issue. If you're interested I'll give you my email. --Jwslubbock (talk) 11:52, 13 August 2018 (UTC) Reply