Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

2009-11-02 Thread Waldir Pimenta
Nikola Smolenski wrote: > Magnus Manske wrote: > >> One bug: I got a graph of Imran Khan's bowling statistics rather than > >> his portrait... > > > > And if you give me code to identify a person's image, I'll be happy to > > implement it, as would the NSA. As it stands, I chose a random article >

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

2009-11-02 Thread Nikola Smolenski
Magnus Manske wrote: >> One bug: I got a graph of Imran Khan's bowling statistics rather than >> his portrait... > > And if you give me code to identify a person's image, I'll be happy to > implement it, as would the NSA. As it stands, I chose a random article Google image search has it, so it's

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Strategic Planning Office Hours

2009-11-02 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Strategic Planning office hours are tomorrow, Tuesday, November 3, from 20:00-21:00 UTC. We meet in #wikimedia-strategy on the freenode network. You can access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net/ and filling in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be promp

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread wjhonson
And I never said it is about *me* stop trying to make this personal. I am not directing my remarks at *you*, so stop directing yours at *me*. There are many people on this very list who have said essentially the exact same thing. You should re-read the thread again to make that apparent, if you'

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, It is not about you.. it is about US ... and some of us are not like you, do not agree with you and have a different outlook on this... Please get it that most people do not have the time to waste on so many e-mails. There is also the fact that most threads including this one do not stay on t

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread wjhonson
That's a bit of an extreme remark Tim. There are millions of computer programmers in the world, who do not know or care to try to learn how to operate AOL. Not every programmers is a Windows programmer. Myopic view of "understanding computers". I could just as well opine, that people who d

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread wjhonson
Personally, I process about two or three hundred emails per day (yes per day), so the small amount of noise the Foundation list creates is negligible to me. If someone is so annoyed by a thread, that they can't even bother to DWR (delete without reading) based merely on the subject title, I woul

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread Tim Starling
wjhon...@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 11/2/2009 10:59:23 AM Pacific Standard Time, > thomas.dal...@gmail.com writes: > > >> Why can't people use email clients that don't break threads? ;) >>> > > AOL = Satan > They are out to destroy all life and light. Last time I checked, you could u

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread Samuel Klein
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Anthony wrote: > > I fail to see how this is contrary to the mission of the Wikimedia > Foundation to "empower and engage people around the world to collect > and develop educational content under a free license or in the public > domain, and to disseminate it effe

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Dan Collins wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Anthony wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Thomas Dalton >> wrote: >> > Yes, you can delete the archives on the WMF site. That does make much >> > difference. It will still be in everyone's inboxes and

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 11/2/2009 10:59:23 AM Pacific Standard Time, thomas.dal...@gmail.com writes: > Why can't people use email clients that don't break threads? ;) >>> AOL = Satan They are out to destroy all life and light. Will ___ foundation-l mail

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/11/2 : > In a message dated 11/2/2009 8:31:15 AM Pacific Standard Time, > effeietsand...@gmail.com writes: > > >> Why can't people learn when a discussion is irritating other people, why >> can't people learn which discussions are most useful to have, why can't >> people learn that they might

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread WJhonson
In a message dated 11/2/2009 8:31:15 AM Pacific Standard Time, effeietsand...@gmail.com writes: > Why can't people learn when a discussion is irritating other people, why > can't people learn which discussions are most useful to have, why can't > people learn that they might frustrate the very r

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

2009-11-02 Thread Olli
suggestions: 1 =You should add option to select what country (what wikipedia (fi, en, sv...)) 2 = Calendr should be like right calendar 3 = Other languages (translation possiblity) Olli 2009/11/2 Andrew Gray > 2009/11/2 Magnus Manske : > > >> One bug: I got a graph of Imran Khan's bowling sta

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

2009-11-02 Thread Andrew Gray
2009/11/2 Magnus Manske : >> One bug: I got a graph of Imran Khan's bowling statistics rather than >> his portrait... > > And if you give me code to identify a person's image, I'll be happy to > implement it, as would the NSA. As it stands, I chose a random article > from e.g. [[November 2]], then

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

2009-11-02 Thread Magnus Manske
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/11/2 Magnus Manske : >>> I think a human selected calendar would be better for actually >>> publishing, but that's certainly a fun script. Can you add an option >>> to choose a category so we can have a calendar of Britons, or French, >>>

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

2009-11-02 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/11/2 Magnus Manske : >> I think a human selected calendar would be better for actually >> publishing, but that's certainly a fun script. Can you add an option >> to choose a category so we can have a calendar of Britons, or French, >> or mathematicians, or military people, etc.? > > I could li

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

2009-11-02 Thread Magnus Manske
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/11/2 Magnus Manske : >> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote: >>> Olli wrote: Date: 2009/10/31 Subject: Wikipedia christmas calendar? What about a wikipedia christmas calendar? It can maybe preview som

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

2009-11-02 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/11/2 Magnus Manske : > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote: >> Olli wrote: >>> Date: 2009/10/31 >>> Subject: Wikipedia christmas calendar? >>> >>> What about a wikipedia christmas calendar? It can maybe preview some >>> articles or something similar. Then it can be multilingu

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/11/2 effe iets anders : > 2009/11/2 Thomas Dalton > >> >> >> >> I'm happy arguing about this. No-one is forcing you to do so. If you >> want to start another thread about the colour of the sky, go right >> ahead. >> >> Why can't people on this list learn how to ignore threads? It is very >> e

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread effe iets anders
2009/11/2 Thomas Dalton > > > > I'm happy arguing about this. No-one is forcing you to do so. If you > want to start another thread about the colour of the sky, go right > ahead. > > Why can't people on this list learn how to ignore threads? It is very > easy to do. You just don't click on them w

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/11/2 Chad : > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote: >> Pharos wrote: >>> I can think of approximately 500,000 other issues that it would >>> perhaps be more productive for us to argue about on this list. >>> >> >> So just because you have a personal dislike for a comment you wa

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/11/2 Dan Collins : > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Anthony wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Thomas Dalton >> wrote: >> > Yes, you can delete the archives on the WMF site. That does make much >> > difference. It will still be in everyone's inboxes and on various >> > other archiv

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread Pharos
FYI my comment was on the whole thread, not about any particular response. Hence the "[general comment]" disclaimer. Thanks, Pharos On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:28 AM, Chad wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote: >> Pharos wrote: >>> I can think of approximately 500,000 other

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

2009-11-02 Thread Magnus Manske
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote: > Olli wrote: >> Date: 2009/10/31 >> Subject: Wikipedia christmas calendar? >> >> What about a wikipedia christmas calendar? It can maybe preview some >> articles or something similar. Then it can be multilingual. >> >> > Not necessarily just C

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread Chad
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote: > Pharos wrote: >> I can think of approximately 500,000 other issues that it would >> perhaps be more productive for us to argue about on this list. >> > > So just because you have a personal dislike for a comment you want to > call it arguing.