LOL - we have a self-proclaimed April Fool who is not so happy about being
made a fool of ^_^
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Mark Williamson wrote:
> Not only that, but I didn't find it funny at all. Absolutely devoid of
> humor. Distorting truth does not automatically make it humorous. I
> bel
Folks, lighten up. For a community to be a community, vibrant and open, it
can't be all serious all the time. So, at the risk of using culturally
imperialistic idiom... chill out!
Nathan
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Not only that, but I didn't find it funny at all. Absolutely devoid of
humor. Distorting truth does not automatically make it humorous. I
believed it at first, actually, until I realized what today is. I feel
that this was completely pointless and a waste of my time.
Mark
2009/4/1 Marcus Buck :
>
Aryeh Gregor hett schreven:
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Marcus Buck wrote:
>
>> Harsh critic, isn't it? There are two interpretations possible now: a)
>> All those critics are dicks. b) You did something that is indeed critizable.
>>
>
> "All those critics" being you and . . . who el
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Marcus Buck wrote:
> Harsh critic, isn't it? There are two interpretations possible now: a)
> All those critics are dicks. b) You did something that is indeed critizable.
"All those critics" being you and . . . who else, again?
Part of being on an international li
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
> I am sceptical about automatic conversion. As you said, it is mainly a
> solution for reading, but not for writing, because the source text is in one
> specific spelling or character system.
Why couldn't that be converted on the fly as well?
2009/4/1 Ryan Kaldari :
> Yes, but how many of them let you opt out? If we could opt out of the
> Great Firewall of China, I imagine we would :)
Most of these national firewalls limit the number of ISPs people can
access through. Blocking them or forcing to https would not present
too great a chal
Yes, but how many of them let you opt out? If we could opt out of the
Great Firewall of China, I imagine we would :)
Ryan Kaldari
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:58 PM, geni wrote:
> 2009/4/1 David Gerard :
>> http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2009/03/22/open-letter-call-for-major-websites-to-opt-out-of-p
Cary Bass wrote:
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> David Levy wrote:
>
>> Pedro Sanchez wrote:
>>
>>> Of course, wasting resources on april 1st is very sensical.
>>>
>>> And who cares about purported reach to the whole world and all
>>> that fancy words let's bother them
May I point out that Alex, also known as majorly or Al Tally, is a respected
member of the British Wikimedia crowd and not just a one off prankster using
a made up e-mail address. Also, this made me laugh and I would have thought
that a prank with cultural significance (due to the date), that is
re
2009/4/1 David Gerard :
> http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2009/03/22/open-letter-call-for-major-websites-to-opt-out-of-phorm/
>
> Should we say "er, no, not our data either" or ignore them?
>
> (This has been discussed on internal lists as well, with all
> commenting saying "HELL YES." The question
HELL PERHAPS.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
> On a serious note, however, I would say HELL YES.
>
> Ryan Kaldari
>
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
> > At this point I would suggest that we go ahead and block access to
> > Wikipedia from the UK entirel
I've just finished coding up Non-Free Content Bot which spiders Google
Images and uploads 10 per second to commons with no license information. I
wrote the bot using MediaWiki's turing complete template language. Given
that Google Images has 916,000,000 images I anticipate it will take
2.90269084 y
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David Levy wrote:
> Pedro Sanchez wrote:
>> Of course, wasting resources on april 1st is very sensical.
>>
>> And who cares about purported reach to the whole world and all
>> that fancy words let's bother them with our idiotic pranks
>> becuase we are
--- On Wed, 4/1/09, Marcus Buck wrote:
> From: Marcus Buck
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Non-free content on Commons
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
> Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 10:16 AM
> Birgitte SB hett schreven:
> > Right, it obviously "the pompous English majority"
> cons
On a serious note, however, I would say HELL YES.
Ryan Kaldari
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
> At this point I would suggest that we go ahead and block access to
> Wikipedia from the UK entirely. Wikipedia isn't compatible with their
> censorship, libel, copyright, or priva
At this point I would suggest that we go ahead and block access to
Wikipedia from the UK entirely. Wikipedia isn't compatible with their
censorship, libel, copyright, or privacy policies.
Ryan Kaldari
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:33 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2009/03/22
The best solution to this problem is clearly a clean wipe of the Wikipedia
namespace!
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
>
> NK: Yes, first results confirmed that new Wikipedia users find it very
> difficult to link to the already existing community, to fit in and to learn
> th
Ziko van Dijk hett schreven:
> Ziko
>
> who is culture-imperialistic, spamming garbage, confusing the newbies,
> making jokes about real dangers, making jokes about disabled people, and
> unwitty (see how some Wikipedians react to a April fools day joke...)
>
>
Harsh critic, isn't it? There are
Thank you for your kind words, SJ. I will tell Ms. Kimura when I will see
her (only in my imagination, the name is a mixture from a German friend of
mine who has a Japanese mother, Marko Naoki Something, and a Japanese friend
of mine who has a German mother, Mr. Kimura).
Thanks to Naoko Komura who
The Cunctator wrote:
> A lovely article. The only pity is it doesn't note how much of this social
> theory of wikis owes to Sunir Shah's pioneering work on MeatballWiki.
>
>
A nostalgically memorable moment for me was sitting at a table full of
beer just listening to Sunir Shah and Ward Cunnin
Pedro Sanchez wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>
>> This is a (predominantly) English-language mailing list, so using
>> those traditions used in the English-speaking world seems to make
>> sense to me.
>>
> Of course, wasting resources on april 1st is very sen
Thank you Ziko. I always enjoy the unfiltered news exacerbated by the
Kurier... you should broadcast your work more than once a year. And
Ms. Kimura is clearly a crack dictator, she should be miked up
regularly. SJ
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
> Hello,
> A couple of da
Milos, thank you for the very comprehensive presentation of the problem.
There are other cases that could be mentioned, it is indeed a problem
touching most of the language editions.
I am sceptical about automatic conversion. As you said, it is mainly a
solution for reading, but not for writing, be
Birgitte SB hett schreven:
> Right, it obviously "the pompous English majority" conspiring here because
> you received a prank from every English speaker on the list.
>
> If the list were in Spanish so every immature youth in Latin America with too
> much time on their hands could access it witho
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2009/03/22/open-letter-call-for-major-websites-to-opt-out-of-phorm/
Should we say "er, no, not our data either" or ignore them?
(This has been discussed on internal lists as well, with all
commenting saying "HELL YES." The question then is whether, by some
obscure l
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Tim Starling wrote:
> Private keys can be compromised by anyone with a whim and a few
> thousand dollars, either physically by compromise of the device, or
> remotely by social engineering or zero-day exploit. Key signing
> parties are premised on the idea that priv
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
> It sounds like a good project for a directed grant. Have you tried
> contacting potential grant-making organisations? I imagine some
> awesome things could be done with as little as $100K.
First, sorry for forgetting you. You were the only per
2009/3/31 DaB. :
> Hello all,
>
> I think that when such a number of people come together it would be nice to
> have a key-signing in Berlin. If you have no idea, what a key-signing is, look
> at the wikipedia-article [[en:Key_signing_party]].
> If you don't own a pgp-key yet and are an linux-user
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Ting Chen wrote:
> As far as I know, you can define escapes globally for the whole article.
> This would make an escape in every sentence unnecessary. Take as example
> the following example:
> http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%AF%E6%B4%9B%E5%8D%9A%E4%B8%B9%C2%B7%
DaB. wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I think that when such a number of people come together it would be nice to
> have a key-signing in Berlin. If you have no idea, what a key-signing is,
> look
> at the wikipedia-article [[en:Key_signing_party]].
Private keys can be compromised by anyone with a whim
Milos Rancic wrote:
> Chinese is a little bit more complex because there are a number of
> characters. However, AFAIK, Simplified and Traditional scripts share a
> number of characters and some of others may be guessed form context.
>
>
Well, Chinese is not that simple, especially for the differ
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Birgitte SB wrote:
>
> I am afraid this one is serious.
>
> Asking Foundation staff to overrule a community decision is not going find
> support here. However vaguely you phrase it. Sort it out on en.WP.
>
> Birgitte SB
>
>
>
>
>
Well, it is serious, and your co
> == What do we need? ==
>
> Actually, we don't need a lot to solve this problem. I have the
> solution for the most important part of the problem, the linguistic
> one. Even if I don't have enough of time to deal with all cases, I am
> able to find students or professors of linguists who are will
I believe a careful reading of the FAQ, while a buzzkill, casts doubt on
Encarta's content being released:
"Microsoft's vision is that everyone around the world needs to have access
to quality education, and *we believe that we can use what we’ve learned and
assets we’ve accrued with offerings like
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