Re: [Foundation-l] Questions about new Fellow

2011-01-26 Thread Arun Ramarathnam
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 4:10 PM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > Hi all, > As an active wikimedian from India, I am just sharing my personal take on > the whole thing > > Firstly, my apologize for my late response to this thread, due to my other pre-occupations. I needed to catch up with the thread b

Re: [Foundation-l] Slowness, error messages, and being logged out, since around January 15

2011-01-26 Thread Marc Riddell
on 1/26/11 7:09 PM, SlimVirgin at slimvir...@gmail.com wrote: > A few editors on the English Wikipedia have been noticing a problem since > around January 15 of "connection timed out" messages, very slow performance, > and being logged out. > > Preview is getting hard to use because so slow, or f

[Foundation-l] Slowness, error messages, and being logged out, since around January 15

2011-01-26 Thread SlimVirgin
A few editors on the English Wikipedia have been noticing a problem since around January 15 of "connection timed out" messages, very slow performance, and being logged out. Preview is getting hard to use because so slow, or failing entirely, and some edits are not being saved. Some discussion here

Re: [Foundation-l] Questions about new Fellow

2011-01-26 Thread David Gerard
On 26 January 2011 22:54, MZMcBride wrote: > Jimmy has previously made way too many off-the-cuff remarks that have gotten > him into hot water to repeat that mistake again, surely. *cough*Sarah Palin*cough* - d. ___ foundation-l mailing list founda

Re: [Foundation-l] Questions about new Fellow

2011-01-26 Thread MZMcBride
David Gerard wrote: > On 26 January 2011 07:24, Jimmy Wales wrote: >> On 1/21/11 5:46 PM, David Gerard wrote: >>> No-one is in fact obliged to respond to you on foundation-l, indeed >>> many WMF employees and WMF and chapter volunteers don't read it, >>> referring instead to it as troll-l. It woul

Re: [Foundation-l] Questions about new Fellow

2011-01-26 Thread David Gerard
On 26 January 2011 07:24, Jimmy Wales wrote: > On 1/21/11 5:46 PM, David Gerard wrote: >> No-one is in fact obliged to respond to you on foundation-l, indeed >> many WMF employees and WMF and chapter volunteers don't read it, >> referring instead to it as troll-l. It would be nice if this weren't

Re: [Foundation-l] Questions about new Fellow

2011-01-26 Thread Jimmy Wales
On 1/21/11 5:46 PM, David Gerard wrote: > No-one is in fact obliged to respond to you on foundation-l, indeed > many WMF employees and WMF and chapter volunteers don't read it, > referring instead to it as troll-l. It would be nice if this weren't > the case. I know a good way to help achieve that

[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 million edits milestone

2011-01-26 Thread Jyothis Edathoot
FYI. Regards, Jyothis. http://www.Jyothis.net http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis I am the first customer of http://www.netdotnet.com woods are lovely dark and deep, but i have promises to keep and miles to go before i sleep and lines to go befo

Re: [Foundation-l] IRC general meetings

2011-01-26 Thread Samuel Klein
We should definitely do this more often. Once a month sounds like a good start. On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Lodewijk wrote: > > Moderation would be very helpful, especially when the idea becomes a > success. +1 This was helpful in the past. SJ -- Samuel Klein          identi.ca:sj   

Re: [Foundation-l] IRC general meetings

2011-01-26 Thread Lodewijk
sounds like a great idea, allowing people to be involved in discussions when they dont want to read this mailing list all the time. I also hope that this will be an opportunity for board members and staff members to be involved in discussion with the community, and test the water for some ideas (an

[Foundation-l] Call for help to negociate Presidency of Argentina partnership

2011-01-26 Thread Teofilo
Our previous agreement with the Presidency of Argentina has entered a grey zone where we don't know exactly what we are allowed to do with their media. So this agreement needs a new negociation for renewal or the best termination terms. Could anyone help ? We need someone with a good knowledge o

[Foundation-l] Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary: Jimmy Wales' Interview

2011-01-26 Thread Abbas Mahmoud
Hi, The following link is Jimmy Wales' interview at AlJazeera's Frost Over the World regarding 10 years of Wikipedia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMStbt0eqVU Cheers, Abbas. -- Feel free to contact me: Abbas Mahmood Tel: +254722215101 Facebook