On 15 June 2010 00:25, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> I'm not suggesting we should claim a trademark on the word "wiki" (it
> wouldn't stand up). I'm suggesting that "wiki" when used as the name
> of an encyclopaedia is sufficiently similar to "Wikipedia" to cause
> confusion in the market (which is what
Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 15 June 2010 00:17, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
>
>> I happen to know there is an English phrase "Doctor, heal
>> thyself."
>>
>> You probably ANAL. But that doesn't stop you from FUDDing.
>>
>
> I'm an anal non-lawyer, at that! I may be spreading uncertainty and
On 15 June 2010 00:20, David Gerard wrote:
> On 15 June 2010 00:17, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
>
>> You are claiming the law is complicated. But the facts are
>> plain and simple, and no amount of FUDD is going to support
>> a view that there is any reasonable justification (by moral
>> or juri
On 15 June 2010 00:17, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
> I happen to know there is an English phrase "Doctor, heal
> thyself."
>
> You probably ANAL. But that doesn't stop you from FUDDing.
I'm an anal non-lawyer, at that! I may be spreading uncertainty and
doubt and something that is very uncertain
On 15 June 2010 00:17, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
> You are claiming the law is complicated. But the facts are
> plain and simple, and no amount of FUDD is going to support
> a view that there is any reasonable justification (by moral
> or juridifical standards) to claim WMF is the body to appl
Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 13 June 2010 23:33, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
>
>> If there is any party with dibs on "Wiki", that would
>> be Ward Cunningham, not the WMF.
>>
>
> Trademark law does not include an automatic right to "dibs" on a mark
> to the first person to use it. (At least,
We developed clicktracking to see what buttons were being used on our
toolbar. It was enabled for all Wikimedia projects that had the
usability toolbar and only gave us information of the type that "a user
who has an edit count of 3 just clicked the 'bold' button". Collecting
such data for int
It is actually gratifying to notice that you actually
do know how to remove parts of a message you are
replying to, which aren't necessary for comprehension.
Thank you very much.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
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Hoi,
I agree, I replied and made my point, You either accept it or you don't.
Thanks,
GerardM
PS I get it.
On 14 June 2010 22:21, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
> Mark Williamson wrote:
> > I'm very disappointed that this discussion has continued at the
> > expense of one that I find to b
Mark Williamson wrote:
> I'm very disappointed that this discussion has continued at the
> expense of one that I find to be much more important to our projects.
> Can all of us go back over there and stop talking about this? Kthx.
I agree. I made my point. You either get it, or you don't.
Yours,
I'm very disappointed that this discussion has continued at the
expense of one that I find to be much more important to our projects.
Can all of us go back over there and stop talking about this? Kthx.
m.
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Domas Mituzas wrote:
> kthx
>
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at
kthx
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:
> Hoi,
> An important thread has been derailed by an off topic comment. For your
> information, and for the somanyth time, top posting comes easy when you use
> a modern tool like GMAIL. It automatically hides whatever came before. Thi
Thank Platonides.
The bug link is here:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23958
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On 06/14/2010 04:44 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> For your
> information, and for the somanyth time, top posting comes easy when you use
> a modern tool like GMAIL. It automatically hides whatever came before. This
> whole notion has no relevance to me as a consequence. I get hundreds of
> mails an
Wilfredo Rodriguez wrote:
> Sincerely wikimedia team.
>
> I have a simple question. I would like to make a proposal to add an
> application (link) wikipedia offline here:
>
> http://dumps.wikimedia.org/dvd.html
>
> Who should I contact?
>
> The project that I want to add is called Kiwix and is
Michael Peel wrote:
> [...]
> Of course, any way that people reply always leaves duplicate and unnecessary
> text in the email, which can be a pain when you're catching up with a large
> number of emails in a thread. That's just one of the downsides of the mailing
> list format, with a setup t
Sorry for going off-topic again in an off-topic thread of a really
interesting on-topic thread..
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
>
>
> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kthx
> Time: 1 s?
>
> If you don't count the probability that one gets stuck on Wikipedia for
hours on
Sincerely wikimedia team.
I have a simple question. I would like to make a proposal to add an
application (link) wikipedia offline here:
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/dvd.html
Who should I contact?
The project that I want to add is called Kiwix and is free:
http://www.kiwix.org
Thank you very mu
Gerard Meijssen, 14/06/2010 13:44:
> For me KTHX is
> one such, the top rated result makes it a radio station and it took me some
> time to find that it is likely to mean "Ok, thanks".
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kthx
Time: 1 s?
Nemo
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Hoi,
An important thread has been derailed by an off topic comment. For your
information, and for the somanyth time, top posting comes easy when you use
a modern tool like GMAIL. It automatically hides whatever came before. This
whole notion has no relevance to me as a consequence. I get hundreds
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Casey Brown wrote:
> Actually, I think Jussi-Ville's comment was very useful
>
For the record, I was talking about the point behind Jussi-Ville's
post and not about his colorful characterization of "top-posters,"
which was really not helpful at all.
However, you
On Monday 14 June 2010 02:52 PM, Jon Harald Søby wrote:
> Tell me, how is top-posting worse than derailing a productive thread with an
> off-topic rant?
>
>
Thanks.
praveenp
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On 14 Jun 2010, at 10:22, Jon Harald Søby wrote:
> Tell me, how is top-posting worse than derailing a productive thread
> with an
> off-topic rant?
:-)
How true.
AGK
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On 14 Jun 2010, at 09:05, Michael Peel wrote:
> Is it just me, then, that finds it easier and quicker to read top
> post replies than to search through large amounts of text to find
> the response? Inline posting makes sense if you're replying to an
> email that makes its point in the space
2010/6/13 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
> Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> > Hoi,
> > This is not a problem. We use the numbers that we have. We could ask
> Google
> > for such numbers.. They might even be willing to share them with us.
> > Thanks,
> >GerardM
> >
>
> This is not only directed at you Gera
Is it just me, then, that finds it easier and quicker to read top post replies
than to search through large amounts of text to find the response? Inline
posting makes sense if you're replying to an email that makes its point in the
space of a few lines, but otherwise it seems easier to me to top
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