On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:
> I am cleaning Requests for new languages [1] at Meta. Some of the
> requests are clearly out of the Language committee scope, and they
> need wider discussion for concluding them.
>
> One of such requests is for multilingual Wikinews [2]. Plea
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:
> I am cleaning Requests for new languages [1] at Meta. Some of the
> requests are clearly out of the Language committee scope, and they
> need wider discussion for concluding them.
>
> One of such requests is for multilingual Wiktionary [2]. Pl
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:
> I am cleaning Requests for new languages [1] at Meta. Some of the
> requests are clearly out of the Language committee scope, and they
> need wider discussion for concluding them.
>
> One of such requests is for multilingual Wikibooks [2]. Ple
I think you're misconstruing who is doing what here. The Foundation is not the
"person" required to send the counter notice, nor do they have the freedom or
the obligation to involve themselves in a copyright dispute between TI and
another user. It's not their determination to make whether the a
Re-sending message, the mail server doesn't like html :(
It has come to my attention that the Wikimedia Foundation through its "Office
actions" policy removed and oversighted the signing keys for Texas Instruments
calculators under a DMCA takedown notice on October 7, 2009. Cary Bass then
over
It has come to my attention that the Wikimedia Foundation through its "Office
actions" policy removed and oversighted the signing keys for Texas Instruments
calculators under a DMCA takedown notice on October 7, 2009. Cary Bass then
oversighted all revisions that had the signing keys. Let me jus
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Peter Gervai wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 21:36, Thomas Dalton
> wrote:
> > I don't think anyone has actually done any objective review of its
> success.
>
> Which does not imply it's been a failure.
No, of course not. What it implies is that a claim that "i
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Peter Gervai wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 18:37, Anthony wrote:
>
> > I hope it gets implemented as soon as possible
> > because once it does maybe people can see its failure and start thinking
> > about some real solutions.
>
> Are you aware of the fact that
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> What about c) people not editing (or not continuing to edit) because
> they don't like their edits not going live immediately? Any data on
> that?
I think this is one of the two main reasons flagged revs h
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Peter Gervai wrote:
> Are you aware of the fact that it's been used in non-English
> wikipedias for years? And it's been quite a successful feature.
>
> YMMV.
> grin
>
>
Are you aware it's been used on enwikibooks too? And ha
On 2 March 2010 13:04, Peter Gervai wrote:
> Which does not imply it's been a failure. But generally my measure would be
> a) bad mood/stress level of the editors doing patrolling (which by my
> educated guess went down), and
> b) the incidents of indecent/unwanted content appearing for the wide
>
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 21:36, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> Are you aware of the fact that it's been used in non-English
>> wikipedias for years? And it's been quite a successful feature.
>
> "Years" is a bit of an exaggeration. German Wikipedia was first and
> that was May 6, 2008. That's a little und
Hoi,
Last week Thursday there was no localisation for the Malayalam wikipedi, it
did not have a mobile main page.. Today it is the first language of India
that has the best support we can offer to mobile telephones. According to
many, the mobile phone will generate much of our future traffic..
I h
On 2 March 2010 12:28, Peter Gervai wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 18:37, Anthony wrote:
>
>> I hope it gets implemented as soon as possible
>> because once it does maybe people can see its failure and start thinking
>> about some real solutions.
>
> Are you aware of the fact that it's been use
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 18:37, Anthony wrote:
> I hope it gets implemented as soon as possible
> because once it does maybe people can see its failure and start thinking
> about some real solutions.
Are you aware of the fact that it's been used in non-English
wikipedias for years? And it's been
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Anthony wrote:
> Yeah, IIRC it was one of the suggestions of the auditors a few years ago.
> How much would you say needs to be saved up before WMF is no longer "living
> hand-to-mouth"?
Very interesting question. Presumably it can be expressed as a
percentage of
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:37 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 2 March 2010 04:37, Gregory Kohs wrote:
>
> > Do you think donors think this is an important mission, to
> > build up the savings account?
>
>
> Yes. Getting out of living hand-to-mouth and building an actual
> ongoing reserve has been a
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:
> Hoi,
> Some will, the ones that don't do a reasonable job may lose their flagging
> capability or get flagged as an appreciation for the quality of their work.
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
> PS Please be a bit more considerate, a bit more posi
On 2 March 2010 04:37, Gregory Kohs wrote:
> Do you think donors think this is an important mission, to
> build up the savings account?
Yes. Getting out of living hand-to-mouth and building an actual
ongoing reserve has been an express goal over the past few years.
- d.
The recent 6-month financial report indicates at the end of 2008,
there was $6.67 million sitting in a savings account. At the end of
2009, it's $12.56 million. Do individual contributors and
organizations who are donating to the Wikimedia Foundation realize
that nearly $6 million of last year's fu
Hoi,
Some will, the ones that don't do a reasonable job may lose their flagging
capability or get flagged as an appreciation for the quality of their work.
Thanks,
GerardM
PS Please be a bit more considerate, a bit more positive ...
On 2 March 2010 17:20, Anthony wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 1, 20
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:18 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
> You know what sounds toxic? The
> claim that a man is "a new resident in the area and a known child
> molester."
> That's been in one of our articles for months and months; the only provided
> source is a dead link that's part of an advocacy site
On 2 March 2010 09:19, Naoko Komura wrote:
> The Stanton usability project is in the final phase, but we are still
> developing one of the most complicated features we worked so far,
> collapsing and form-based templates. We are faced with a lot of challenges,
> but we hope to be able to s
Dear Delphine, Aphaia, Mike and those who congratulated us off the list,
Thank you for your kind words and encouragements. We, the user experience
programs team, are very excited and grateful to be able to continue improving
the usability and user experience of Wikimedia projects.
The Stanto
On 2 Mar 2010, at 01:18, MZMcBride wrote:
> You know what sounds toxic? The
> claim that a man is "a new resident in the area and a known child
> molester."
> That's been in one of our articles for months and months; the only
> provided
> source is a dead link that's part of an advocacy site.
25 matches
Mail list logo
