Re: [Foundation-l] Welcome Wikimedia Macau

2011-05-11 Thread Samuel Klein
Congratulations and welcome! On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > > May you create and share much knowledge! Now that's a lovely general-purpose cheer :-) SJ ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Welcome Wikimedia Macau

2011-05-11 Thread phoebe ayers
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > I'd like to publicly welcome our colleagues at Wikimedia Macau on being > recognized as a Wikimedia Chapter. congratulations to Macau! > May you create and share much knowledge! :) We need to start collecting wiki-toast

Re: [Foundation-l] happy birthday, Wikipedias

2011-05-11 Thread phoebe ayers
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Marco Chiesa wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:13 AM, phoebe ayers wrote: >> Tomorrow (May 11) is another anniversary date: it's been 10 years >> since the first group of non-English Wikipedias came online. >> Originally with spelled-out names rather than langua

[Foundation-l] Welcome Wikimedia Macau

2011-05-11 Thread Asaf Bartov
Hello, everyone. I'd like to publicly welcome our colleagues at Wikimedia Macau on being recognized as a Wikimedia Chapter. May you create and share much knowledge! Asaf Bartov Head of Global South Relationships Wikimedia Foundation -- Asaf Bartov _

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Re: Do WMF want enwp.org?]

2011-05-11 Thread Nihiltres
(Please pardon my not quoting earlier emails) I think a URL shortener is a great idea if we can make it work right. We do need, however, to sort out our issues, e.g. the following list: *Choice of domain name(s) (or a TLD) **Acquisition of domain name(s) **Registration of TLD (if applicable) **Ma

Re: [Foundation-l] happy birthday, Wikipedias

2011-05-11 Thread Marco Chiesa
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:13 AM, phoebe ayers wrote: > Tomorrow (May 11) is another anniversary date: it's been 10 years > since the first group of non-English Wikipedias came online. > Originally with spelled-out names rather than language codes, these > sites were: > > catalan.wikipedia.com > ch

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Re: Do WMF want enwp.org?]

2011-05-11 Thread Anthony
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:33 AM, Brian J Mingus wrote: > It seems that giving w.net/com/org to the WMF would be in line with his > vision of no corporation controlling a letter. Last I checked, WMF was a corporation. ___ foundation-l mailing list found

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 86, Issue 11

2011-05-11 Thread Анатолій Гончаров
German and Catalan wikis was created on March 2001 2011/5/11 > Happy birthday. > > If you read carefully the mail you are pointing to there it says: > > "Toan and I added 9 new other-language wikis to the mix." > > But in the list there are 11 languages. > > The difference is because it was not

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Re: Do WMF want enwp.org?]

2011-05-11 Thread Nikola Smolenski
On 05/11/2011 12:32 PM, HW wrote: > I think the advantage is that it would allow us to generalize the concept > behind enwp.org, which is that we want short urls for all languages and all > projects. I'm thinking along the lines of http://en.wp.w.org . From that Since I see this popping up repeate

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Re: Do WMF want enwp.org?]

2011-05-11 Thread Neil Harris
On 11/05/11 11:32, HW wrote: > > I think the advantage is that it would allow us to generalize the concept > behind enwp.org, which is that we want short urls for all languages and all > projects. I'm thinking along the lines of http://en.wp.w.org . From that > angle I would say that short urls of

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Re: Do WMF want enwp.org?]

2011-05-11 Thread HW
Just a reminder, zhwp.org is also a shout url for Chinese Wikipedia which maintance by PhiLiP.   HW   On 2011/5/11 (三) 2:02:34 PM On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Brian J Mingus > wrote: > > > > It seems that giving w.net/com/org to

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 86, Issue 11

2011-05-11 Thread Joan Goma
Happy birthday. If you read carefully the mail you are pointing to there it says: "Toan and I added 9 new other-language wikis to the mix." But in the list there are 11 languages. The difference is because it was not the first group of non-English Wikipedias coming online. > Message: 4 > D