Re: [Foundation-l] Don't know how linked we still are with wikia...

Tim Starling wrote: > Brock Weller wrote: > >> Don't know how linked we still are with wikia... >> > > What do you mean "still"? Wikimedia has never been linked with Wikia to > the extent where this topic might be relevant on foundation-l. It's no > more relevant than Wikitravel, Jimmy's ob

Re: [Foundation-l] Don't know how linked we still are with wikia...

Brion Vibber wrote: > The relationship between WMF and Wikia is basically on the order of > "some of the same people are involved" [many fewer now than before], > "much of the same technology is involved" [still true], and "because of > the above, occasionally both companies find it convenient t

[Foundation-l] Call for Volunteers, Wikimania scholarship committees

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone! Cross posting this to several lists, forgive me if you get it a number of times. Wikimania 2009 requires will be requiring a number of volunteers to handle the scholarship applications. Details of the Volunteer commitments are at

[Foundation-l] (no subject)

Creating a universal online language should include cross references like music and photography. Is it possible to provide links within wiki pages written in moribund languages to established blog topics within whichever given country the user wishes to view? _

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikistats is back

On 12/24/08 3:31 PM, Brian wrote: > I am still quite shocked at the amount of time the english wikipedia takes > to dump, especially since we seem to have close links to folks who work at > mysql. To me it seems that one of two things must be the case: > > 1. Wikipedia has outgrown mysql, in the se

Re: [Foundation-l] Don't know how linked we still are with wikia...

On 1/4/09 5:19 PM, effe iets anders wrote: > But was that connection close enough (even in the old days) to > complain here about copyright violations there? I think Tim had a good > point here :P *nod* The Wikimedia Foundation is not, and has never been, involved with Wikia in a capacity which

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia meets goal

Good job! http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090102/ap_on_hi_te/wikipedia_fundraising Jon ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Victims pf Soviet... Memorial

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Folks, I know we heard some opinions on that project proposal, I just want to remind everyone who did comment on the list, to go make it count by commenting at the actual proposal page on Meta. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Victims_of_Soviet_Re

Re: [Foundation-l] Ombudsman commission

Michael Snow wrote: > Eia wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> A few days ago, the term for the ombudsman commission expired. >> Unfortunately, I missed an announcement about the commission for 2009. Could >> someone clarify who will be the 2009 members, and where the announcement >> (will be/is) made? >>

Re: [Foundation-l] What to do with moribund languages?

2009/1/5 Milos Rancic : > 3. A language with ~1-10M speakers from Sub-Saharan Africa. Such > language probably has a written form made by some missionaries during > the past centuries (or a very similar language has a written form > which may be used). However, the most of the population probably d