On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> I'd be interested to see your positive, assume-good-faith list of
> suggestions.
>
One of my favorite suggestions, from Erik, is that we use IdeaTorrent (
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ ) in order to provide a single place for users
to engage
Brian, along with your long list of negatively-phrased questions, I'd be
interested to see your positive, assume-good-faith list of suggestions.
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2009/7/2 Erik Moeller :
> All,
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Ford Foundation has awarded a
> $300,000 grant to the Wikimedia Foundation to improve our interfaces
> and workflows for multimedia uploading. Press release here:
This looks very good - congratulations! It sounds like we'll get
All,
I'm very happy to announce that the Ford Foundation has awarded a
$300,000 grant to the Wikimedia Foundation to improve our interfaces
and workflows for multimedia uploading. Press release here:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Ford_Foundation_Grant_July_2009
For
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Brian wrote: > Is the assumption that all of
the members of the community who are > knowledgeable and interested have
already signed up to the relevant mailing > lists and all that is needed is
to send out a quick 'ping' and get their > thoughts? Yes, IMO (as a
volun
Hoi,
The answer seems obvious: "in the same way it has always been done". There
are a few things that are quite obvious, the community will not be asked
when things need to be changed because they are broken. There have been
indications that the template stuff has been broken and as it is now clear
2009/7/1 Robert Rohde :
> An idea that has been toyed with a couple of other places is to allow
> defined blocks and references to them in article text. For example:
>
> An article might start:
>
>
> Thomas Jefferson was the third president...
This is a marvellous idea, and presumably a lot of
I of course cannot speak for the Foundation. I only
write this in the view of a volunteer dev, like many
others.
That statement was written a long time ago when
Mediawiki was simply the software that runs Wikipedia.
It's now 2009, and Mediawiki is still the software that
runs Wikipedia. That being
