Re: [Foundation-l] Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet

Brion's announcement is a big one and I'm sure many of us would like to get his thoughts, ideas and memories on many things. To that end, in a couple of days I'll be interviewing Brion for the next edition of the WikipediaWeekly podcast. The interview will be publishe

Re: [Foundation-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures with the Frenc...

-Original Message- From: wiki-li...@phizz.demon.co.uk To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Sent: Tue, Sep 29, 2009 5:31 pm Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures with the Frenc... David Gerard wrote: > 2009/9/28 : > >> From the earlier pos

Re: [Foundation-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures with the Frenc...

David Gerard wrote: > 2009/9/28 : > >> From the earlier poster Teofilo: >>I disagree. I think the priority is to have the full >>resolution pictures of Public Domain works. >> That seems to be a demand to have the highest resolution copies possible. > > > That sets it out as a goal, no

Re: [Foundation-l] a heads-up on Wikimedia France's adventures with the Frenc...

But they have not changed the license to the pictures. What they have only done is changed the rights to part of the documentation: the basic info needed to say what it is is CC-BY-SA, which is very good, the long explanation and provenance information is NC, which is acceptable. I fail to see how

Re: [Foundation-l] Priorities and opportunities

Samuel Klein wrote: > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > >> On Sep 26, 2009, at 9:32 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: >> >>> Do you think we will be in a position to run a second usability >>> project of similar scope, two years from now, entirely from within the >>> commu

Re: [Foundation-l] Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet

Дана Monday 28 September 2009 20:32:43 Brion Vibber написа: > I'd like to share some exciting news with you all... After four awesome > years working for the Wikimedia Foundation full-time, next month I'm > going to be starting a new position at StatusNet, leading development on > the open-source m

Re: [Foundation-l] Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet

Shame to see you go Brion, but good luck in your new job! Walter > I'd like to share some exciting news with you all... After four awesome > years working for the Wikimedia Foundation full-time, next month I'm > going to be starting a new position at StatusNet, leading development on > the open-s

Re: [Foundation-l] Status of flagged protection (flagged revisions) for English Wikipedia.

Andrew Gray wrote: > > > I believe that "scalable" here refers to putting it on pages which > recieve the kind of traffic and editing (or editing attempts) that > very high-profile page on enwiki do, rather than "scalable to being > applied to three million pages". > > At the time Michael Jackson's

Re: [Foundation-l] Office hours

2009/9/29 Angela : >>> 2130 UTC sounds a little late to me if we want Europeans there. We're >>> on daylight saving time for another month (ish), so in Western Europe, >>> that is 2330, finishing at 0030. That's pretty late. > > I thought the idea of having two meetings is that at least one would >

Re: [Foundation-l] Status of flagged protection (flagged revisions) for English Wikipedia.

2009/9/29 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen : > Absolutely commendable. >>> c) ensure that the extension is fully scalable to en.wp traffic volume; >>> > Why on earth would we like to ensure that, particularly > *before* point d) ? (...) >>> d) deploy on en.wp as per proposal (potentially, per c, initially

Re: [Foundation-l] Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet

teun spaans wrote: > Brion, > > congratulations on your new job, and you sound excited and happy with it, so > that is good :-) > > But I must admit that I am sorry to see you go - your commitment to > wikimedia has always been over 100%, if such a thing is possible, and your > personality has alwa

Re: [Foundation-l] Status of flagged protection (flagged revisions) for English Wikipedia.

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen < cimonav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> c) ensure that the extension is fully scalable to en.wp traffic volume; > >> > Why on earth would we like to ensure that, particularly > *before* point d) ? > In theory admins could choose to flag-protect

Re: [Foundation-l] Status of flagged protection (flagged revisions) for English Wikipedia.

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: >> Erik Moeller wrote: >>> 2009/9/28 Jimmy Wales : >>> If the Foundation is bottlenecked at the moment (understandable) then how can I help, how can we the community help, to take some of the >>

Re: [Foundation-l] Status of flagged protection (flagged revisions) for English Wikipedia.

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > Erik Moeller wrote: >> 2009/9/28 Jimmy Wales : >> >>> If the Foundation is bottlenecked at the moment (understandable) then >>> how can I help, how can we the community help, to take some of the >>> burden off of them to get done what we need to get done for the sa

Re: [Foundation-l] Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > I'd like to share some exciting news with you all... After four awesome > years working for the Wikimedia Foundation full-time, next month I'm > going to be starting a new position at StatusNet, leading development on > the open-source microb

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Laboratories

Hi Gerard, Its a test wiki to testwiki used to test extensions unlike the test.wiki this one is running on a copy of the English Wikibooks database. Currently there are 4 extensions there, you could read more on http://en.labs.wikimedia.org Best regards, Huib Laurens -- Http://commons.wikimedi