Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: WikiLeaks inspired "New media haven" proposal passes Parliament

2010-06-16 Thread James Alexander
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Tim Starling wrote: > On 17/06/10 06:55, Michael Snow wrote: > > If it's in the US, wouldn't it be a data center? (I'm mildly > > disappointed to discover that the Meta pages on the "guerilla UK > > spelling campaign" and the "gorilla US spelling campaign" were de

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia trade mark misuse

2010-06-16 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 16 June 2010 08:52, Ray Saintonge wrote: > >> Thomas Dalton wrote: >> >>> On 15 June 2010 00:17, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: >>> >>> Tardises are antiquated visual whatchamacallits, but not even remotely "trademarks". >>> Now y

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: WikiLeaks inspired "New media haven" proposal passes Parliament

2010-06-16 Thread Tim Starling
On 17/06/10 06:55, Michael Snow wrote: > If it's in the US, wouldn't it be a data center? (I'm mildly > disappointed to discover that the Meta pages on the "guerilla UK > spelling campaign" and the "gorilla US spelling campaign" were deleted > some time ago. Though honestly, Noah Webster should

Re: [Foundation-l] encouraging women's participation

2010-06-16 Thread George Herbert
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:26 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: > There's been discussion of the gender gap among Wikimedia editors on > and off for many years now, and it's a focus of the strategic planning > process. This is a part of a larger issue of how to get members of > underrepresented groups to edi

Re: [Foundation-l] encouraging women's participation

2010-06-16 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:26 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: > There's been discussion of the gender gap among Wikimedia editors on > and off for many years now, and it's a focus of the strategic planning > process. This is a part of a larger issue of how to get members of > underrepresented groups to edi

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: WikiLeaks inspired "New media haven"proposalpasses Parliament

2010-06-16 Thread susanpgardner
Ha! You know, I remember that when I first arrived at Wikimedia, Jimmy sent me a couple of gentle little e-mails, pointing out where I had used Canadian spellings, and telling me that Americans spelled those words differently. It made me laugh out loud. Because I thought, only an American (albei

[Foundation-l] encouraging women's participation

2010-06-16 Thread phoebe ayers
There's been discussion of the gender gap among Wikimedia editors on and off for many years now, and it's a focus of the strategic planning process. This is a part of a larger issue of how to get members of underrepresented groups to edit more, to combat system bias on all fronts. (Or, simply how t

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: WikiLeaks inspired "New media haven" proposalpasses Parliament

2010-06-16 Thread Samuel Klein
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Michael Snow wrote: > If it's in the US, wouldn't it be a data center? (I'm mildly > disappointed to discover that the Meta pages on the "guerilla UK > spelling campaign" and the "gorilla US spelling campaign" were deleted > some time ago... We still have their le

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: WikiLeaks inspired "New media haven" proposalpasses Parliament

2010-06-16 Thread Michael Snow
If it's in the US, wouldn't it be a data center? (I'm mildly disappointed to discover that the Meta pages on the "guerilla UK spelling campaign" and the "gorilla US spelling campaign" were deleted some time ago. Though honestly, Noah Webster should have finished the job and made it "campain".)

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: WikiLeaks inspired "New media haven" proposalpasses Parliament

2010-06-16 Thread susanpgardner
Hi Liam, We're not (looking to set up a new data centre in Europe). We're planning a second US data centre, likely in Virginia. Mark Bergsma's in the office this week, leaving to scout out possibilities with Danese, tonight. They, or someone else involved with tech, can probably talk more abo

[Foundation-l] Fwd: WikiLeaks inspired "New media haven" proposal passes Parliament

2010-06-16 Thread Liam Wyatt
Thought people here might be interested in this. We should be at that conference (last bullet point) IMO. Are we looking to set up a new data-centre in Europe? -Liam [[witty lama]] wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata -- Forwarded message -- From: Julian Assange Date: 16 J

[Foundation-l] Open Wikimedia meeting on IRC: Thursday, 1700 UTC in #wikimedia

2010-06-16 Thread Samuel Klein
There will be another open meeting tomorrow on IRC. For those who are available, please join us in #wikimedia at 1700 UTC. (There's a link to a web-based client you can use.) All are welcome to add discussion topics. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_meetings#June_17.2C_2010 I also clea

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia trade mark misuse

2010-06-16 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 16 June 2010 08:52, Ray Saintonge wrote: > Thomas Dalton wrote: >> On 15 June 2010 00:17, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: >> >>> Tardises are antiquated visual whatchamacallits, but not >>> even remotely "trademarks". >>> >> Now you are just embarrassing yourself. Check your facts: >> http://news.

Re: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes launched on English Wikipedia

2010-06-16 Thread Judson Dunn
Yes, it's really amazing to see the difference in coverage for pretty much the exact same feature press was reporting on months ago, in the exact opposite way. I feel like this could be a case study for PR. Great job! -- Judson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cohesion _

Re: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes launched on English Wikipedia

2010-06-16 Thread William Pietri
On 06/16/2010 05:44 AM, Mike.lifeguard wrote: > On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, William Pietri wrote: > >> > >> > http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikipedia_to_loosen_controls_tonight.php >> > Wow, they used the right title! :D > > So did the BBC article[1]: "Wikipedia unlocks divisive pages

Re: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes launched on English Wikipedia

2010-06-16 Thread Mike.lifeguard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, William Pietri wrote: > http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikipedia_to_loosen_controls_tonight.php Wow, they used the right title! :D So did the BBC article[1]: "Wikipedia unlocks divisive pages for editing" - -Mike [1] ht

Re: [Foundation-l] Creating articles in small wikipedias based on user requirement

2010-06-16 Thread Bence Damokos
There is http://www.google.com/insights/search/#geo=MY&cmpt=q where you have to play with the parameters (time interval, subcategories, regions) but you can probably get useful data out of it. Best, Bence On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Excirial wrote: > *STOP* > > Two-third of this thread is

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia trade mark misuse

2010-06-16 Thread Ray Saintonge
Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 15 June 2010 00:17, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > >> Tardises are antiquated visual whatchamacallits, but not >> even remotely "trademarks". >> > Now you are just embarrassing yourself. Check your facts: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2352743.stm >