Re: [Foundation-l] Banners coming down for most logged in users

2010-12-20 Thread KIZU Naoko
Hello, On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > Hi everyone, > > A quick announcement: we are temporarily turning off the fundraising banners > for most logged in users. This will continue most likely through the end of > the year. We did some quick checking and realized t

[Foundation-l] The Signpost – Volume 6, Issu e 51 – 20 December 2010

2010-12-20 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
News and notes: Article Alerts back from the dead, plus news in brief http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-12-20/News_and_notes In the news: Faulty story urges for advertising on Wikipedia; brief news http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-12-20/In

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread David Gerard
On 20 December 2010 22:46, Fred Bauder wrote: > The network effects are massive. Simply wanting doing something better > doesn't work. What does work is Wikia wikis such as Lostpedia that will > draw a small crowd. Yeah. The small, specialist approach is clearly something that can produce tiny

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread Fred Bauder
> On 20 December 2010 19:47, Noein wrote: > >> Is there a general consensus about achieving a monopoly as a good goal. >>  Is this part of some public strategy? Is this the position of WMF? Of >> chapters? >> I thought I heard some weeks ago on that mail list that diversity is >> good. That compe

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread geni
On 20 December 2010 09:35, David Gerard wrote: > On 20 December 2010 02:31, Noein wrote: >> On 19/12/2010 23:07, Fred Bauder wrote: > There can be no viable >>> alternative to Wikipedia. > >> What? > > > This is a perennial thread on wikien-l. There's basically no way at > this stage for som

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread David Gerard
On 20 December 2010 19:47, Noein wrote: > Is there a general consensus about achieving a monopoly as a good goal. >  Is this part of some public strategy? Is this the position of WMF? Of > chapters? > I thought I heard some weeks ago on that mail list that diversity is > good. That competitors ar

[Foundation-l] Banners coming down for most logged in users

2010-12-20 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Hi everyone, A quick announcement: we are temporarily turning off the fundraising banners for most logged in users. This will continue most likely through the end of the year. We did some quick checking and realized that most people who are logged in and intend to give have already given. Th

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread Noein
On 20/12/2010 15:31, David Gerard wrote: > On 20 December 2010 17:15, MZMcBride wrote: >> Marc Riddell wrote: > On 19/12/2010 23:07, Fred Bauder wrote: > There can be no viable alternative to Wikipedia. > >>> This is the type of thinking that sets you up to being blindsided. > >> In th

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread David Gerard
On 20 December 2010 17:15, MZMcBride wrote: > Marc Riddell wrote: On 19/12/2010 23:07, Fred Bauder wrote: >>> There can be no viable alternative to Wikipedia. >> This is the type of thinking that sets you up to being blindsided. > In this case, that sounds like a feature, not a bug. Spec

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread MZMcBride
Marc Riddell wrote: >>> On 19/12/2010 23:07, Fred Bauder wrote: >> There can be no viable alternative to Wikipedia. > > This is the type of thinking that sets you up to being blindsided. In this case, that sounds like a feature, not a bug. MZMcBride

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread Marc Riddell
>> On 19/12/2010 23:07, Fred Bauder wrote: > > There can be no viable alternative to Wikipedia. > This is the type of thinking that sets you up to being blindsided. Marc Riddell ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscr

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread Peter Gervai
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:35, David Gerard wrote: > (Any cases I've missed there?) The madmen. Or is that overlaying both? :) g ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 81, Issue 54

2010-12-20 Thread Ramesh Prasad Kushwaha
Please send me only necessary massege. Thanke, by- yeske group On 12/19/10, foundation-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > Send foundation-l mailing list submissions to > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists

Re: [Foundation-l] Tendrl to Knowino

2010-12-20 Thread David Gerard
On 20 December 2010 02:31, Noein wrote: > On 19/12/2010 23:07, Fred Bauder wrote: >>> There can be no viable >> alternative to Wikipedia. > What? This is a perennial thread on wikien-l. There's basically no way at this stage for someone to be a better Wikipedia than Wikipedia. So anyone else w