[Foundation-l] Applications for list moderator position

2010-09-15 Thread Ryan Lomonaco
We're looking to add one more list moderator for foundation-l. On foundation-l, the main role of a moderator is to approve posts made by moderated users and users who are not subscribed to the list. Occasionally, a list moderator has to step in and control discussion when it gets out-of-hand, but

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Fellowship program

2010-09-15 Thread Michael Snow
On 9/15/2010 2:12 PM, Guillaume Paumier wrote: > Hi, > > Le mercredi 15 septembre 2010 à 14:09 -0700, Philippe Beaudette a > écrit : >> Please see the Wikimedia Blog (http://blog.wikimedia.org/ ) for an >> exciting announcement about the Wikimedia Foundation Fellowship >> program, and the first r

[Foundation-l] [Language committee] Transparency

2010-09-15 Thread Milos Rancic
As Karen fixed her anonymity issue, archives of the Language committee will be public by default starting from September 12th, 2010. We will continue to use the same method for the list archives, as it allows us to talk about confidential (mostly personal) issues. Previous emails will stay as they

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia mirrors

2010-09-15 Thread Osama Khalid
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:52:25AM +1000, John Vandenberg wrote: > We would need to mirror the database dumps available from > > http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html The main issue is that they are not being updated as frequently as they should be. > The toolserver (run by the German cha

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia mirrors

2010-09-15 Thread John Vandenberg
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Osama Khalid wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:00:38AM +1000, John Vandenberg wrote: >> A mirror system would be great; that is how project gutenberg, linux >> and sf.net do disaster recovery.  It is simple, cheap and effective. > > What about history data and o

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia mirrors

2010-09-15 Thread Osama Khalid
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:00:38AM +1000, John Vandenberg wrote: > A mirror system would be great; that is how project gutenberg, linux > and sf.net do disaster recovery. It is simple, cheap and effective. What about history data and other logs? I'm afraid that mirrors may not be the best way to

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia mirrors

2010-09-15 Thread John Vandenberg
(subject was: Cyn Skyberg joins Wikimedia as CTCO!) On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:03 AM, Bod Notbod wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Liam Wyatt wrote: > >> I've always >> thought that if for some reason all of the Wikimedia projects suddenly >> disappeared (and no one had any backups) we wo

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Fellowship program

2010-09-15 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi, Le mercredi 15 septembre 2010 à 14:09 -0700, Philippe Beaudette a écrit : > > Please see the Wikimedia Blog (http://blog.wikimedia.org/ ) for an > exciting announcement about the Wikimedia Foundation Fellowship > program, and the first recipient of a Fellowship, Steven Walling. Specific,

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation Fellowship program

2010-09-15 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Hi all, Please see the Wikimedia Blog (http://blog.wikimedia.org/ ) for an exciting announcement about the Wikimedia Foundation Fellowship program, and the first recipient of a Fellowship, Steven Walling. Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Founda

[Foundation-l] Bodnot bod unable to access...

2010-09-15 Thread Philippe Beaudette
There are some DNS issues in Europe :) Tech team is actively working. Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation phili...@wikimedia.org ofc: +1 415 839 6885 (x 643) mobile: 918 200 WIKI (9454) Imagine a world in which every human being ca

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Cyn Skyberg joins Wikimedia as CTCO!

2010-09-15 Thread Bod Notbod
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Liam Wyatt wrote: > I've always > thought that if for some reason all of the Wikimedia projects suddenly > disappeared (and no one had any backups) we would be upset about it for a > couple of days but then we would just start again O RLY!? There is no way I am

Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

2010-09-15 Thread emijrp
Hey guys whats going on in this thread 2010/9/15 Phil Nash > Ryan Kaldari wrote: > > I thought you were awarding the post a score of 0 :) > > It would be all too cheap a jibe to attribute to a self-proclaimed > philosopher an ignorance of scientific method and assert that blind > adoption > of t

[Foundation-l] How far off-topic can a thread go Was: Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

2010-09-15 Thread Birgitte SB
Obviously the original e-mail belonged on wiki-en-l and was off-topic for foundation-l. But I can't understand why so many different people think it is a good idea to respond to off-topic posts in kind. Please stop participating in the off-topic contests. Birgitte SB --- On Tue, 9/14/10, Phi

[Foundation-l] Six more weeks for the current "most often used" messages

2010-09-15 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Now that the Usability Initiative software has been rolled out to all Wikimedia projects, the composition of the "most often used" messages has changed. It is expected that a new list of messages will be created in six weeks time. Thanks, GerardM http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/201