Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-05 Thread Przykuta
> I think I'd rather a more pedestrian solution of something with a big > fat TEN YEARS or 10TH ANNIVERSARY on it. > > And make it clickable through to a celebration page if clicked on when > already on the home page, maybe? > > Basically, few will know what the old logo represents. I don't even

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-05 Thread HW
Chinese Wikipedia is just planning for change the logo in the mid January. Discussion is going on in VP, and the logo is http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hk/File:10piece-chinese-L_k_2.svg . Chinese Wikipedia is also using JavaScript on common.js to use the logo stored in local but not commons. Some

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-05 Thread phoebe ayers
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Lodewijk wrote: > Hi, > > wouldn't it be nice to change the logo of Wikipedia on January 15th back for > one day to those old logo's? Give people a retro feeling? (would love to see > enwiki go back to the american flag, but perhaps the round text logo would > lead

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-05 Thread M. Williamson
Wikipedia was started on that date, wasn't it? True, other Wikipedias didn't exist yet, but I don't think that makes it any less significant. If you speak a non-English language as your native tongue and wish therefore to not make any fuss about the date, feel free, but I'm certain it won't just be

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-05 Thread MZMcBride
Steven Walling wrote: > "The other Wikipedias weren't started on that date, so they have nothing to > celebrate or commemorate." > > The anniversary is not just about English Wikipedia. If this was just > English Wikipedia's celebration, there certainly wouldn't be more than 100 > events organized

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-05 Thread David Gerard
On 6 January 2011 00:56, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > It may be a bit late to ship t-shirts to Antarctica and, they are likely to > be not warm enough. We're talking about the finest mad scientists of the modern era. No-one goes to Antarctica without being a genuine paid-up mad scientist and proud

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-05 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, It may be a bit late to ship t-shirts to Antarctica and, they are likely to be not warm enough. Thanks, GerardM On 6 January 2011 01:52, David Gerard wrote: > On 6 January 2011 00:45, Steven Walling wrote: > > > The anniversary is not just about English Wikipedia. If this was just >

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-05 Thread David Gerard
On 6 January 2011 00:45, Steven Walling wrote: > The anniversary is not just about English Wikipedia. If this was just > English Wikipedia's celebration, there certainly wouldn't be more than 100 > events organized in dozens of countries and on every continent except > Antarctica. And just WHY

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-05 Thread Steven Walling
"The other Wikipedias weren't started on that date, so they have nothing to celebrate or commemorate." The anniversary is not just about English Wikipedia. If this was just English Wikipedia's celebration, there certainly wouldn't be more than 100 events organized in dozens of countries and on eve

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-05 Thread Lodewijk
Changing it on one date doesn't exclude changing it again on another. I dont know if that is a common concept around the world, but if I can find an excuse to party twice for the same thing, I want to do that! Lodewijk 2011/1/6 MZMcBride > Lodewijk wrote: > > wouldn't it be nice to change the l

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-05 Thread Bod Notbod
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Lodewijk wrote: > wouldn't it be nice to change the logo of Wikipedia on January 15th back for > one day to those old logo's? I think I'd rather a more pedestrian solution of something with a big fat TEN YEARS or 10TH ANNIVERSARY on it. And make it clickable thr

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-05 Thread Mono mium
There's always CSS. On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:24 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Lodewijk wrote: > > wouldn't it be nice to change the logo of Wikipedia on January 15th back > for > > one day to those old logo's? Give people a retro feeling? (would love to > see > > enwiki go back to the american flag, bu

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-05 Thread MZMcBride
Lodewijk wrote: > wouldn't it be nice to change the logo of Wikipedia on January 15th back for > one day to those old logo's? Give people a retro feeling? (would love to see > enwiki go back to the american flag, but perhaps the round text logo would > lead to less overload of the OTRS queues) How

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-05 Thread Mono mium
or the wikix logo On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Lodewijk wrote: > Hi, > > wouldn't it be nice to change the logo of Wikipedia on January 15th back > for > one day to those old logo's? Give people a retro feeling? (would love to > see > enwiki go back to the american flag, but perhaps the round

[Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-05 Thread Lodewijk
Hi, wouldn't it be nice to change the logo of Wikipedia on January 15th back for one day to those old logo's? Give people a retro feeling? (would love to see enwiki go back to the american flag, but perhaps the round text logo would lead to less overload of the OTRS queues) How can these logo's be

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for assistance

2011-01-05 Thread David Gerard
On 5 January 2011 21:51, Virgilio A. P. Machado wrote: > Is this supposed to be funny? > Time to address this matter to the list moderators. I would say that posting about an RFA on Meta is not specifically off-topic for here, but I wouldn't like it to happen for *every* RFA. It is entirely to

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for assistance

2011-01-05 Thread George Herbert
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Virgilio A. P. Machado wrote: > Is this supposed to be funny? > > Time to address this matter to the list moderators. > > Sincerely, > > Virgilio A. P. Machado Neither of these was funny; both were backhanded insults to you. That said - I am not sure what role yo

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for assistance

2011-01-05 Thread Virgilio A. P. Machado
Is this supposed to be funny? Time to address this matter to the list moderators. Sincerely, Virgilio A. P. Machado On Wed, January 5, 2011 8:31 pm, Huib Laurens wrote: > Thnks for posting that Peter is running for admin... Will support right > away. > > Huib > > 2011/1/5 M. Williamson > >> V

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for assistance

2011-01-05 Thread Virgilio A. P. Machado
What does your answer has to do with my request for assistance? As far as I'm concerned you are more then welcome to vote for whomever you want and any way you want. It's none of my business or the business of any of this list members. There seems to be some abuse of your privileges as a member of

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for assistance

2011-01-05 Thread Béria Lima
Sra. Lima, em facto senhorita Lima. XD But your portuguese is almost perfect. _ *Béria Lima (Beh) (351) 925 171 484* 2011/1/5 M. Williamson > Muito obrigado Sr. Lima, peço desculpas pelo meu "portunhol". > > Hope this new year is a good one for you and everybody else. > > -m > > 2011/1/5 B

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for assistance

2011-01-05 Thread M. Williamson
Muito obrigado Sr. Lima, peço desculpas pelo meu "portunhol". Hope this new year is a good one for you and everybody else. -m 2011/1/5 Béria Lima : > Correction in your portuguese phrase: > > "Depois de avaliar a*s* evidência*s* apresentada*s*, votei a favor da > proposta d*e* concessão de poder

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for assistance

2011-01-05 Thread Béria Lima
Correction in your portuguese phrase: "Depois de avaliar a*s* evidência*s* apresentada*s*, votei a favor da proposta d*e* concessão de poderes administrativos a Peter Symonds *no*Meta." *Béria Lima (Beh) * 2011/1/5 M. Williamson > Virgilio: > > Many thanks for the information. I have, aft

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for assistance

2011-01-05 Thread Huib Laurens
Thnks for posting that Peter is running for admin... Will support right away. Huib 2011/1/5 M. Williamson > Virgilio: > > Many thanks for the information. I have, after reviewing the evidence > you presented, casted my vote in support of Peter Symonds' adminship > on Meta. > > Muito obrigado pe

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for assistance

2011-01-05 Thread M. Williamson
Virgilio: Many thanks for the information. I have, after reviewing the evidence you presented, casted my vote in support of Peter Symonds' adminship on Meta. Muito obrigado pela informação. Depois de avaliar a evidência apresentada, votei a favor da proposta da concessão de poderes administrativo

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for assistance

2011-01-05 Thread Nathan
Thanks for the pointer. +1 for PeterSymonds. ~Nathan ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia, the Pedia that used to be a Wiki

2011-01-05 Thread Виктория
Theo, I don't know why you are seeing an indeterminedly old version, you may try to clean up your cache (=purge in the web address of your browser). May be I didn't make myself clear enough: Flagged Revvs doesn't require to wait for anything, you can only see the patrolling interface because you a

[Foundation-l] Request for assistance

2011-01-05 Thread Virgilio A. P. Machado
To all women and men of good faith who are members of this mailing list, please check the following pages: 1) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Requests_for_adminship/PeterSymonds 2) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta_talk:Requests_for_adminship/PeterSymonds 3) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia, the Pedia that used to be a Wiki

2011-01-05 Thread Nathan
2011/1/5 Kropotkine_113 : > Le mercredi 05 janvier 2011 à 18:31 +0200, Teofilo a écrit : >> I think this is what Wikimedia is looking >> like with the so-called "flagged revisions" software : the USSR. > > > J'hésite entre rire et pleurer mais, là, tu as atteint un véritable > sommet. > > Je ne te

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia, the Pedia that used to be a Wiki

2011-01-05 Thread Kropotkine_113
Le mercredi 05 janvier 2011 à 18:31 +0200, Teofilo a écrit : > I think this is what Wikimedia is looking > like with the so-called "flagged revisions" software : the USSR. J'hésite entre rire et pleurer mais, là, tu as atteint un véritable sommet. Je ne te comprends pas. Tu es de façon évident

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia, the Pedia that used to be a Wiki

2011-01-05 Thread Teofilo
2011/1/4, Виктория : > it had been patrolled = [отпатрулированная версия] anyway. What about the message "Стабильная версия была проверена 28 сентября 2010. 1 изменение ожидает проверки." which is written now at the top of the history tab (1), and google-translates into English as "Stable version

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia, the Pedia that used to be a Wiki

2011-01-05 Thread Teofilo
2011/1/5, Tim Starling : > On 05/01/11 00:33, Teofilo wrote: >> We are more or less 24 hours (19 hours, exactly) after I corrected the >> mistake, but the toolserver.org/~kolossos/openlayers is still wrong. >> This is not what a wiki is supposed to be. > > You seem to be getting confused between a

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia, the Pedia that used to be a Wiki

2011-01-05 Thread Teofilo
2011/1/4, Виктория : > it had been patrolled = [отпатрулированная версия] anyway. Thanks! ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Big problem to solve: good WYSIWYG on WMF wikis

2011-01-05 Thread Juliana da Costa José
2011/1/5, Erik Moeller wrote: > Their own editor still appears to be under active development at this > point. I didn't see any pointers to either a code repository or a demo > yet. Yes, this is correct. The status is in development. Releasedata estimated Cebit 2011. * http://www.wiki4enterpris