Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] flagged revisions

2009-06-19 Thread Samuel Klein
I agree this is important, to the projects and to the progress of flagged revs as a concept (which is still one step of a long journey). It is worth a quick thread on f-l for that reason if not for general interest. Sj samuel klein. s...@laptop.org. +1 617 529 4266 On Jun 19, 2009 6:47 PM, "p

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] flagged revisions

2009-06-19 Thread private musings
Hi all, It's been 10 days since the last note on flagged revisions, which is sufficiently important to warrant a follow up at this point in my view. I'll try and focus the questions a bit in order not to pester, but with the intention of helping things forward; see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/sh

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Commons: Service project or not?

2009-06-19 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Ilario Valdelli wrote: > * Commons (like repository) with sysops elected by other projects > which will use it like repository (and in this case the policies are > decided by these projects) > * another project (wikialbum???) which helps Commons to improve the > q

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Commons: Service project or not?

2009-06-19 Thread Mike.lifeguard
Yes, that's a very good idea. That's the main reason I got involved there, and the main reason I continue to be. The fact of the matter is that if you want Commons to provide service to your project, the best people to do that is... people from that project. Commons isn't a closed community - you'r

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Commons: Service project or not?

2009-06-19 Thread Ilario Valdelli
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > some of them in languages I have no idea of like Japanese. This is of > course a meta issue and somebody (me for instance) could take an > initiative and create a project alerting other wikipedias of new image > arrivals (I vaguely remem

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Commons: Service project or not?

2009-06-19 Thread Luna
Someone (I believe David?) suggested actively encouraging some of your editors/admins to become more active on Commons. I think this is good advice for any project that finds itself using or depending on the services Commons provides. Just as the Commons community will become more aware of your nee