Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-18 Thread Cool Hand Luke
This isn't why Peter was moderated, is it? Frank On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Fred Bauder wrote: > Peter Damian, it turns out has a blog, "Beyond Necessity" and has > commented on our banning and moderating activities: > > http://ocham.blogspot.com/2010/10/free-culture.html > > Surely he

Re: [Foundation-l] Page views

2010-10-18 Thread Ryan Kaldari
This may be related to the deployment of the new CentralNotice banner loader. An RT ticket has been opened to investigate. If so, we may need to filter those requests from the page view stats. Ryan Kaldari On 10/18/10 6:16 PM, Erik Zachte wrote: > For those of you who want to follow this closel

Re: [Foundation-l] Greg Kohs and Peter Damian

2010-10-18 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: > This list is for people who support the project, not those who are > actively opposing it or criticizing in public forums in exaggerated ways. > Nothing constructive or helpful is likely to be added by thekohster Wow, I don't know. On the on

[Foundation-l] Page views

2010-10-18 Thread Erik Zachte
Oops, again with shortened url’s, and text only format For those of you who want to follow this closely: The following two charts show daily page views as counted by our squid log post-processing server. Same data, with different time scales,  one of 13, one for 34 months. http://tinyurl.com/2w9

[Foundation-l] Page views

2010-10-18 Thread Erik Zachte
For those of you who want to follow this closely: The following two charts show daily page views as counted by our squid log post-processing server. Same data, with different time scales, one of 13, one for 34 months.

[Foundation-l] The Signpost – Volume 6 Issue 4 2 – 18 October 2010

2010-10-18 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
News and notes: Wikipedia fundraiser event, Frankfurt book fair, news in brief http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-10-18/News_and_notes WikiProject report: Show Me the Money: WikiProject Numismatics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-10-18/Wik

[Foundation-l] RecentChangesCamp 2011: Boston and Canberra, Australia

2010-10-18 Thread Laura Hale
Hi! We've set the date for RecentChangesCamp Canberra. It will be held from January 28 to January 30. More details are available at http://recentchangescamp.org/wiki/Canberra . We're working on setting the venue and date for Boston and are looking at March. Recent Changes Camp was born from th

Re: [Foundation-l] Russian police probe Wikipedia for extremism

2010-10-18 Thread David Gerard
On 18 October 2010 20:38, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Fred Bauder, 18/10/2010 21:10: >>>From RT: >> http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-10-18/russian-police-probe-wikipedia.html > «the Russian nonprofit organization Wikipedia.ru»: uh? > Yet another domain name to recover... Presumably they meant htt

Re: [Foundation-l] Russian police probe Wikipedia for extremism

2010-10-18 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Milos Rancic, 18/10/2010 21:59: > I have to admit that cyber-squatters have become more inventive. They > are making NPOs for squatting domains of other NPOs. wikipedia.it squatter has incorporated "Wikipedia Italy Association" in 2004 (before the first chapter)... Nemo

Re: [Foundation-l] Russian police probe Wikipedia for extremism

2010-10-18 Thread Milos Rancic
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 21:38, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Fred Bauder, 18/10/2010 21:10: >>>From RT: >> >> http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-10-18/russian-police-probe-wikipedia.html > > «the Russian nonprofit organization Wikipedia.ru»: uh? > Yet another domain name to recover... > > Nemo > > __

Re: [Foundation-l] Page views

2010-10-18 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Joan Goma wrote: > Is there any explanation for the extraordinary jump in page views this > month? > > http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm Hi Joan, We're currently investigating. We'll update here as more info becomes available: https://bugz

Re: [Foundation-l] Russian police probe Wikipedia for extremism

2010-10-18 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Fred Bauder, 18/10/2010 21:10: >>From RT: > > http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-10-18/russian-police-probe-wikipedia.html «the Russian nonprofit organization Wikipedia.ru»: uh? Yet another domain name to recover... Nemo ___ foundation-l mailing list foundat

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-18 Thread Ryan Kaldari
I don't think we're in danger of outlawing sharp criticism on Foundation-l. If I had to give a guesstimate of the content breakdown of Foundation-l traffic, it would look something like: 10% news/events/media coverage 10% pointless digressions 10% snarky comments 10% trolling 10% uncritical disc

[Foundation-l] Russian police probe Wikipedia for extremism

2010-10-18 Thread Fred Bauder
>From RT: http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-10-18/russian-police-probe-wikipedia.html Fred ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Page views

2010-10-18 Thread Andrew Gray
On 18 October 2010 20:05, Mathias Schindler wrote: >> If it is not a bug[1], I think it is newsworthy > > What was the day again when Google switched on the "Instant" feature? Google Instant began to be rolled out on 8 September, and I think was broadly "arrived" for most users by a week or so l

Re: [Foundation-l] Page views

2010-10-18 Thread Mathias Schindler
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Przykuta wrote: >> Is there any explanation for the extraordinary jump in page views this >> month? >> >> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm >> > > If it is not a bug[1], I think it is newsworthy What was the day again when Google switched o

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-18 Thread Fred Bauder
> Funny how Peter's blog complaining about moderation is itself moderated > by Peter. > > Ryan Kaldari That is not significant. The kind of stuff random vandals post has to be moderated. The question is whether sharp criticism is approved for posting. Fred __

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-18 Thread Ryan Kaldari
Funny how Peter's blog complaining about moderation is itself moderated by Peter. Ryan Kaldari On 10/18/10 9:37 AM, Fred Bauder wrote: > Peter Damian, it turns out has a blog, "Beyond Necessity" and has > commented on our banning and moderating activities: > > http://ocham.blogspot.com/2010/10/f

Re: [Foundation-l] Greg Kohs and Peter Damian

2010-10-18 Thread Nathan
If it pleases the moderators, might we know on what basis Greg was banned and Peter indefinitely muzzled? Nathan ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-18 Thread Fred Bauder
Peter Damian, it turns out has a blog, "Beyond Necessity" and has commented on our banning and moderating activities: http://ocham.blogspot.com/2010/10/free-culture.html Surely he exaggerates, and mere "negative comments" would not cause his posts to be withheld. I don't think we gain anything b

Re: [Foundation-l] Four new language editions of Wikimedia projects

2010-10-18 Thread Daniel ~ Leinad
Pssst... Tech-staff forgot about the oldest request - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24928 :-) -- Leinad 2010/10/18 Jesse (Pathoschild) : > Hello, > > Four new language editions of Wikimedia projects have been approved > and created: the Banjar Wikipedia at

Re: [Foundation-l] Page views

2010-10-18 Thread Joan Goma
What worries me is that in Catalan Wikipedia we were expecting to beat the page views record this month with around from 18MM to 19 MM. We have a press release ready to be launched as soon as the final results of the month are known. But if the data is not reliable we don’t dare to spread that p

Re: [Foundation-l] Conservative collaboration and the Wikipedia model

2010-10-18 Thread Peter Damian
- Original Message - From: "Fred Bauder" To: Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 9:38 PM Subject: [Foundation-l] Conservative collaboration and the Wikipedia model >A serious analysis of Conservapedia: > > http://www.yalelawtech.org/wikipedia/conservative-collaboration-and-the-wikipedia-mod