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

2010-10-01 Thread Peter Damian
- Original Message - From: "David Gerard" To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 9:43 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005? > I predict Wikipedia's biology articles will far outshine its > philosophy articles for the simple f

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

2010-10-01 Thread David Gerard
On 28 September 2010 12:38, David Gerard wrote: > You can hardly move on Wikipedia without tripping over experts in > whatever topic you're editing. Why are there any experts on Wikipedia? I predict Wikipedia's biology articles will far outshine its philosophy articles for the simple fact that

[Foundation-l] Controversial Content Study part 3

2010-10-01 Thread R M Harris
Just to let you know that Part 3 of the Study on Controversial content is now up on its own Meta page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2010_Wikimedia_Study_of_Controversial_Content:_Part_Three. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the discussion so far -- it has been expectedly passionate,

Re: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes development update: September 27

2010-10-01 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Bonjour, Le vendredi 01 octobre 2010 à 11:10 +1000, John Vandenberg a écrit : > > Have the software changes in the last 12 months addressed the issues > raised by French Wikipedia? > > http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Sondage/Flagged_revisions > > If so, maybe they would like to do a

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Kosovo Chapter? Re: Fwd: SFK100 Press Release

2010-10-01 Thread Austin Hair
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > Plus to convince voting ChapCom members enough that it is good idea to > convince WM Serbia that it is a good idea. > > As a non-voting member of ChapCom and Board member of WM RS I can > confirm that the harder task is to convince ChapCom. A

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Kosovo Chapter? Re: Fwd: SFK100 Press Release

2010-10-01 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 30 September 2010 20:31, Nathan wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Thomas Dalton > wrote: >> On 29 September 2010 17:57, Nathan wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Thomas Dalton >>> wrote: Actually, I'm quite the pragmatist. You are being an idealist by assum

[Foundation-l] Movement roles

2010-10-01 Thread Austin Hair
For those who haven't been following the movement roles work on meta[0], I wanted to take a minute for blatant self-promotion. Of particular note is the initial proposal[1], which we're trying to wrap up before the WMF Board meeting in just over a week. Those of you thinking that this is happenin