Re: [Foundation-l] wiki for interwiki (was: Foundation too passive)

2011-03-22 Thread Tim Starling
On 22/03/11 04:59, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > ... So that's another opportunity to mention the request to enable it, > open since September 2008: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15607 > > Are there still any technical barriers to enabling it? I've done a review of the Interwiki ext

Re: [Foundation-l] Editors survey and gender

2011-03-22 Thread MZMcBride
Mani Pande recently wrote: > But it is near impossible to have two versions of the survey in Hebrew due to > technical reasons. Mani Pande previously wrote: > As for Lime Survey, it is a great open source tool that is able to meet all > our needs. These statements seem incompatible. Given the re

Re: [Foundation-l] wiki for interwiki

2011-03-22 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: >> ... So that's another opportunity to mention the request to enable it, >> open since September 2008: >> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15607 >> >> Are there still any technical barriers to enabling it? I opened a new bloc

Re: [Foundation-l] Editors survey and gender

2011-03-22 Thread Casey Brown
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > I guess that if it's really impossible, we'll think about something, > but i'm just curious: What are the technical reasons? Does LimeSurvey > have a limited list of languages? Isn't it open source? Can't anyone > just add another language

Re: [Foundation-l] Editors survey and gender

2011-03-22 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
I guess that if it's really impossible, we'll think about something, but i'm just curious: What are the technical reasons? Does LimeSurvey have a limited list of languages? Isn't it open source? Can't anyone just add another language to the list, saying "Hebrew-feminine"? 2011/3/22 Mani Pande : >

[Foundation-l] CAPTCHA at the Portuguese Wikipedia

2011-03-22 Thread GoEthe.wiki
Dear all, A CAPTCHA system for all anonymous users was activated at the Portuguese Wikipedia in January 2008 to fight off some bot attacks we were facing [1]. The system remained in place since then, even after the bot attacks went away, requiring that every single edit made by anonymous and not

[Foundation-l] board election 2001 - IRC channel

2011-03-22 Thread matanya
Hello all. In order to have a good brainstorm I opened the channel #be2011 on IRC, on freenode network, so we can talk and hear each other about the board election. Please join and help the election committee organize the election. ___ foundation-l mai

Re: [Foundation-l] Editors survey and gender

2011-03-22 Thread Mani Pande
Hi Amir, I understand your concern. As a woman, I would not be happy to answer questions that are addressed to a man. But it is near impossible to have two versions of the survey in Hebrew due to technical reasons. Is it possible to rewrite questions with options for both gender? For example, h

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 84, Issue 79

2011-03-22 Thread Joan Goma
Hi Amir. We used Lime survey in Catalan Wikipedia for our last regular survey. According to the answer to the question about if you are editing Wikipedia or just reading it different sets of questions were deployed. Perhaps this could be used to handle different question spelling according to t

[Foundation-l] Editors survey and gender

2011-03-22 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
What i say here about Hebrew may be useful for many other languages, too. I am translating the Editors survey into Hebrew. The survey is written as a long series of questions in the second person ("you"). In Hebrew the second person is very gender-dependent - the wording is significantly different