Shorteners are one way that a large part of the net is going.
Twitter and other microblogging drives that - a full WMF url won't easily
fit so people probably don't include them in many media where they otherwise
might well do so.
Making it clear these are WMF related, and also hosting them and/o
Hi folks,
please find below the Wikimedia Foundation report for January.
As always, you'll find a wikified version on Meta (this one includes a
selection of 10th anniversary photos, so do take a look):
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_January_2011
Edits and feedback a
David Gerard wrote:
> On 11 February 2011 11:30, Mingli Yuan wrote:
>> So I just want to know the possibility that foundation can support it or not?
>> And how should I improve the work to make foundation accept this service?
>
> A URL shortener is a very good idea.
In general, URL shorteners ar
Wael was also instrumental in organising the first openstreetmap
mapping party in cairo in 2008
Glad he is safe and all wikimedians
Congrats,
Katie (@aude)
Ps- Sorry for top post
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 11, 2011, at 6:07 PM, Mohamed Ibrahim
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Of course it's all o
Hello all,
Of course it's all over the news, Mubarak has stepped down
and rebuilding Egypt has just started :)
Wikimedians I'm a aware of is safe and were part of this great revolution,
and we all thank you for your support.
Another note, on Wael Ghonim who was widely credited as one of the main
p
-Messaggio originale-
Da: Riccardo Burdisso [mailto:ricca...@abisys.it]
Inviato: venerdì 11 febbraio 2011 22:19
A: 'Mailing list degli amministratori di it.wiki'
Oggetto: R: [Wikiit-admins-l] Identificazione utenti presso WMF
Chiudo per quanto mi riguarda precisando che ho aperto la discus
Great! Thanks for your input.
First off, you can change anything you want. We'll test it and see what
works best. So if you want to point new users to the WikiProjects, that
perfectly fine. Just start another page, like a subpage to the page I linked
to, and create something that you think will be
Just reminder this is going on now for the next 45 minutes or so.
On Feb 7, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Steven Walling wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> This week Chief Global Development Officer Barry Newstead will be joined by
> Asaf Bartov (Head of Global South Relationships) and Moushira Elamrawy
> (Chapt
Hoi,
Even better then URL shorteners is the presentation of the URL in Unicode.
This will make the URL readable, memorable and guessable. It may be that
this has everything to do with the browser that is used.. It is certainly a
good reason to select one browser over an other.
http://ru.wikipedia.
On 11 February 2011 11:30, Mingli Yuan wrote:
> So I just want to know the possibility that foundation can support it or
> not?
> And how should I improve the work to make foundation accept this service?
A URL shortener is a very good idea.
Even for English, there's http://enwp.org for instanc
Hi Lennart
Would this be related to merely modifying the welcome template or something
a little more encompassing?
One idea that I had was to somehow refer new visitors to WikiProjects or
articles in need of expansion, based on some selection option where they can
select their field of expertise
Hello,
I know that some of you who are reading this have problems editing any other
wiki than your home wiki. It feels foreign. I myself have that problem
sometimes. But now you have the chance to do something remarkable. You just
have to go to the Outreach wiki to do it.
During the next 10 days,
Hi, folks,
About four months ago, I post a message about a url shortening service for
Wikipedias, esp. the non-latin language version.
Yesterday, I moved the service to a new domain http://defn.me , and also
updated related user-scripts in en, ml, ru, ta, he, zh.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us
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