Re: [Foundation-l] clicking on links

2010-04-22 Thread teun spaans
Glad someone brings this up. There are some longstanding questions that I have about wiki(p/m)edia usage by NON-wiki(p/m)edians (called wikipedians from here on). I regard a wikipedian as someone who is registered and logged in, and a non-wikipedian as someone who is not logged in. That is a choic

[Foundation-l] Flagged Protection update for April 22

2010-04-22 Thread William Pietri
As requested, here's the weekly Flagged Protection update. Now recovered from the developer meeting, we have made further progress, and have only a few known issues between us and release. If you'd like to verify that for yourself, start here: http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Pag

Re: [Foundation-l] Heads up: Wikipedia on Facebook

2010-04-22 Thread Jay Walsh
It's something that I think they'll be interested in sharing, although right now I imagine they're pretty strapped resource-wise implementing the features, but we should certainly ask if they can stay open-minded to that idea. jay On Apr 22, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Wi

Re: [Foundation-l] Heads up: Wikipedia on Facebook

2010-04-22 Thread Steven Walling
In light of my earlier comments (thanks for the reply Kul), I just want to say that any fears I had about Facebook using content for Community Pages have been put to rest. The fairly prominent "View on Wikipedia" and "edit" buttons are nice to see! This could actually be great for Wikipedia. Steve

Re: [Foundation-l] Heads up: Wikipedia on Facebook

2010-04-22 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Will we learn the traffic data from Facebook? Will we be able to do the kind of data analysis that we do on our own traffic data ? Thanks, GerardM On 19 April 2010 21:50, Kul Takanao Wadhwa wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just wanted to let you know about new features Facebook is planning

Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] IPA issues

2010-04-22 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, It is much easier to have sound files that have you listen to it. I had added soundfiles to Jaap de Hoop Scheffer among others on the English WP.. I had an Italian friend do Silvio Berluscone For whatever reason they were removed.. Dutch can be hard language to pronounce .. and as has been sa

Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] IPA issues

2010-04-22 Thread J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov
Enabling a pop-up (for example) for the IPA prononciation would be a big plus as far as I am concerned. I've never quite got my head around it, but can see its usefulness. This is particularly useful when the word is of non-English extraction: I find it an added benefit to see the word in its origi