[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] WMF board election - inspiration for candidates

Hi, There are just 3 days left for community members to nominate themselves as candidates in the upcoming Board election. Stu West, who is the Board's Treasurer and has served on the board since April 2008, wrote this piece, belo

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

Hi all, It's been almost a month since the last post in this 'flagged revisions' thread (sincere apologies if I've failed to find discussion which has no doubt been occurring on lists and wikis everywhere!) - I wanted to ask for an update from the folk at the coalface working on getting flagged re

Re: [Foundation-l] A heads up

Hoi, The most important part of the multi lingual problem is not in the description but is in finding a picture of a subject. It means that we have to have a functional and searchable termbase. The key to enabling the use of Commons is help in finding pictures on a subject. This does not need much

Re: [Foundation-l] A heads up

Hoi, Annotating material is important at the same level as providing citations in our text. Annotation provides provenance and why should we believe the "truth" in a picture on Commons. Even the Commons picture of the year has been heavily photoshopped. It is only a credible picture because of the

Re: [Foundation-l] A heads up

2009/7/16 Robert Rohde : > Making many languages available is a good thing, but formatting the > page to highlight a user declared preference would usually also be a > good thing. Agreed. I have recently prepared a simple JS script to hide other languages in the {{Picture of the day}} template. (Y

Re: [Foundation-l] Meadow Mari Wikipedia

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Andre Engels wrote: >> I don't want to spoil the fun, but I still get a "Wiki does not exist" >> message on that URL. > > Ah, bad Tim. He opened it just for me ;) I think that it is a DNS > problem. It is workin

Re: [Foundation-l] Meadow Mari Wikipedia

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Andre Engels wrote: > I don't want to spoil the fun, but I still get a "Wiki does not exist" > message on that URL. Ah, bad Tim. He opened it just for me ;) I think that it is a DNS problem. It is working for me since Tim resolved the bug.

Re: [Foundation-l] A heads up

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Magnus > Manske wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Gerard >> Meijssen wrote: >>> Hoi, >>> OK, there are *many* pictures of a marc'h on Commons... Now pretend that you >>> cannot find what this is in

Re: [Foundation-l] Meadow Mari Wikipedia

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > First, I want to thank to Tim who created the project [1] today. > Tomorrow is the main cultural event for Meadow Maris and they will > have Wikipedia for that day. Because of that, I asked the Board and > WMF tech staff to create the project mo

Re: [Foundation-l] Meadow Mari Wikipedia

I am glad to see that opening of Meadow Mari Wikipedia at right time matters: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AMillosh&diff=1556460&oldid=1540013 I'll ask Sai to write something about their event here. ___ foundation-l mailing li

Re: [Foundation-l] A heads up

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Magnus Manske wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Gerard > Meijssen wrote: >> Hoi, >> OK, there are *many* pictures of a marc'h on Commons... Now pretend that you >> cannot find what this is in English. Try to find it on Commons. > > Noone disputes that this

Re: [Foundation-l] A heads up

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > OK, there are *many* pictures of a marc'h on Commons... Now pretend that you > cannot find what this is in English. Try to find it on Commons. Noone disputes that this is a problem. And if we had an unlimited number of volunteers fl