Re: [Foundation-l] breaking English Wikipedia apart

2011-03-19 Thread Ray Saintonge
On 03/15/11 5:41 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > --- On Tue, 15/3/11, Ray Saintonge wrote: >> From: Ray Saintonge >> On 03/14/11 5:41 AM, Andreas Kolbe >> wrote: >>> So that would mean exporting all BLPs to a completely >> separate project, like >>> Commons, which hosts and edits these BLPs, which are

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011-03-19 Thread Delphine Ménard
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Theo10011 wrote: > It seems to be a personalized search feature, not directly related to > Wikipedia visibility in search results. Two things: 1) before you actually come to this "feature", you'd have to go to the Wikipedia page, and then back to Google. It does

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy and translations

2011-03-19 Thread KIZU Naoko
Thank you, guys :) On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: > 2011/3/19 Casey Brown : >> I think she's referring to the link on here: >> . >> >> I thought I remembered seeing another similar pdf "updated version" >> uploaded, but can't see

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011-03-19 Thread Theo10011
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa wrote: > On 3/19/11 1:56 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > > 2011/3/19 Erik Moeller : > >> Looks like it's one of their small percentage experiments. Haven't > >> been able to reproduce it myself. Not clear whether it's just > >> wikipedia.org or other/a

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011-03-19 Thread Bence Damokos
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa wrote: > On 3/19/11 1:56 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > > 2011/3/19 Erik Moeller : > >> Looks like it's one of their small percentage experiments. Haven't > >> been able to reproduce it myself. Not clear whether it's just > >> wikipedia.org or other/

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011-03-19 Thread Kul Takanao Wadhwa
On 3/19/11 1:56 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > 2011/3/19 Erik Moeller : >> Looks like it's one of their small percentage experiments. Haven't >> been able to reproduce it myself. Not clear whether it's just >> wikipedia.org or other/all sites. > Bence pointed to this explanation: > http://googleblog.blo

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011-03-19 Thread Erik Moeller
2011/3/19 Erik Moeller : > Looks like it's one of their small percentage experiments. Haven't > been able to reproduce it myself. Not clear whether it's just > wikipedia.org or other/all sites. Bence pointed to this explanation: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/hide-sites-to-find-more-of-wha

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011-03-19 Thread Erik Moeller
2011/3/19 Kul Takanao Wadhwa : > Somebody just contacted me to let me know that he thinks Google is > experimenting with their search result options: one option is to allow > users to block Wikipedia articles from showing up in Google's search > results. Sometimes this option comes up and sometimes

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google allowing users to block Wikipedia?

2011-03-19 Thread Kul Takanao Wadhwa
Somebody just contacted me to let me know that he thinks Google is experimenting with their search result options: one option is to allow users to block Wikipedia articles from showing up in Google's search results. Sometimes this option comes up and sometimes is doesn't. Has anyone else seen this?

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy and translations

2011-03-19 Thread Erik Moeller
2011/3/19 Casey Brown : > I think she's referring to the link on here: > . > > I thought I remembered seeing another similar pdf "updated version" > uploaded, but can't seem to remember if I actually saw it or where it > was. I see no reason why this p

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy and translations

2011-03-19 Thread Casey Brown
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > I'm not seeing either a PDF or a link to one. Can you give me steps to find > it? I think she's referring to the link on here: . I thought I remembered seeing another similar pdf "updated versio

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy and translations

2011-03-19 Thread Erik Moeller
2011/3/19 KIZU Naoko : > Hi, > > I noticed Wikimedia privacy policy on wmf site replaced with pdf > version and have no link to > other (informal) language versions. I'm not seeing either a PDF or a link to one. Can you give me steps to find it? Thanks, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikim

[Foundation-l] Privacy policy and translations

2011-03-19 Thread KIZU Naoko
Hi, I noticed Wikimedia privacy policy on wmf site replaced with pdf version and have no link to other (informal) language versions. There is no suggestion users may consult informal translations, if any, now dead links on the wmf site without links from the original or on meta as translating draf

[Foundation-l] New projects

2011-03-19 Thread Milos Rancic
I am glad that I am the first woke up member of LangCom today, so I am able announce that our family is richer for six new projects. Of those, we've got two new Wikipedias, which means that we have two languages. Presently, there are 269 active editions (281 in total) of Wikipedia, which should be

[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Foundation Report, February 2011

2011-03-19 Thread Erik Moeller
[FYI] -- Forwarded message -- From: Erik Moeller Date: 2011/3/19 Subject: Wikimedia Foundation Report, February 2011 To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org As always, you can find the formatted version on Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_F