Re: [Foundation-l] New projects opened

2009-08-19 Thread Robert Rohde
Personally, I think the 2 articles in the Bengali Wikipedia serving a speaking community of 230 million is an even better example of failure. -Robert Rohde On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote: > Andrew Gray wrote: > >> For those curious as to overall statistics, that's about

[Foundation-l] Fwd: Talis Incubator for Open Education funding available

2009-08-19 Thread Samuel Klein
This seems like an amazing chance for WikiProjects in almost any area. Describe how your work supports open education, set a project with milestones and metrics for success, and submit a grant request: http://blogs.talis.com/education/incubator/guidelines/ SJ -- Forwarded message

Re: [Foundation-l] New projects opened

2009-08-19 Thread Lars Aronsson
Andrew Gray wrote: > For those curious as to overall statistics, that's about 270 language > editions of Wikipedia, now. (The various lists seem to disagree > slightly, and it's a little lower if we omit two "empty" projects). I think we need to get away from counting articles and languages, as

[Foundation-l] Donation Button Delay

2009-08-19 Thread Rand Montoya
Wikimedians-- Sadly, due to some technical and planning issues, we are postponing the implementation and testing of the re-designed donation button until after Wikimania. While we had hoped to conduct the test starting Monday, we're just not perfectly happy with the implementation and testing

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing audio of WMF Board candidates

2009-08-19 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/8/19 Ray Saintonge : > Gregory Maxwell wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Nathan wrote: >> [snip] >> >>> certainly see why it would be frustrating for him: he's much more reasonable >>> in voice chat than over text, and if the audio were widely circulated it's >>> possible he would ha

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing audio of WMF Board candidates

2009-08-19 Thread Ray Saintonge
Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Nathan wrote: > [snip] > >> certainly see why it would be frustrating for him: he's much more reasonable >> in voice chat than over text, and if the audio were widely circulated it's >> possible he would have come in a few places higher

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing audio of WMF Board candidates

2009-08-19 Thread David Gerard
2009/8/19 Gregory Maxwell : > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Nathan wrote: >> certainly see why it would be frustrating for him: he's much more reasonable >> in voice chat than over text, and if the audio were widely circulated it's >> possible he would have come in a few places higher in the e

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing audio of WMF Board candidates

2009-08-19 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Nathan wrote: [snip] > certainly see why it would be frustrating for him: he's much more reasonable > in voice chat than over text, and if the audio were widely circulated it's > possible he would have come in a few places higher in the election. Mr. Kohs may have

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing audio of WMF Board candidates

2009-08-19 Thread Nathan
I think Adam's explanation as phrased leaves out a little bit of the reasoning behind not releasing the audio; from conversations on Skype, my understanding is that he refuses to release it to you directly. I believe (and hope) that he is still willing to release it publicly in some way, and I thin

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing audio of WMF Board candidates

2009-08-19 Thread Durova
Greg has a legitimate grievance here; within the last few minutes it's come to my attention just how substantial it is. Something needs to be said in reply (and apologies written to the candidates who participated). What transpired is this: WikiVoices currently has a shortage of reliable audio ed

Re: [Foundation-l] Alphascript Publishing: 1900+ copy&pasted books from Wikipedia

2009-08-19 Thread Peter Jacobi
I want to add another aspect, which makes Alphacript a PITA: Their arbitrary selection of author names. From all those contributors of all articles included in their (usually incompetently compiled) selection, they just pick the "best sounding", i.e. realnamish, on the front and into the amazon sy

[Foundation-l] Multimedia Usability Hiring: Product Manager

2009-08-19 Thread Erik Moeller
As you may have seen we recently received a $300,000 grant to work on multimedia usability. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Ford_Foundation_Grant_July_2009 A critical position for the project is the product manager role. We've just posted the position as we're imagini