Thank you guys. I knew you wouldn't let me down.
You outdid yourselves. On this illustrious
mailing list where from «you know who» all the
way to the neighborhood young kid posts, I made
an apparent innocuous statement that included:
"if someone, under the false pretenses of helping
you can t
We already get spammed enough with notices, which is one of the
reasons many people hide them permanently via css so they never
intrude again, which would make them pointless for the more
established users, also overkill for what was meant to be (from my
understanding) only a few minutes of downtim
On 26/05/11 17:57, Milos Rancic wrote:
> On 05/25/2011 01:12 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
>> On 25/05/11 18:14, Thomas Morton wrote:
>>> IRC was flooded with people who didn't understand what was going on. And
>>> many didn't believe/understand that it was maintenance... so this is
>>> definitely an are
On 05/26/2011 07:30 PM, M. Williamson wrote:
> Having a test project doesn't necessarily mean community interest;
> having a test project with dozens of articles might indicate that. In
> many cases, users with no relation to the language (in particular,
> User:Jose77) have started test wikis with
Having a test project doesn't necessarily mean community interest;
having a test project with dozens of articles might indicate that. In
many cases, users with no relation to the language (in particular,
User:Jose77) have started test wikis with text all in English for
hundreds of languages. So the
Just a note that this is happening at 17:00 UTC.
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From: Steven Walling
Date: Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:33 PM
Subject: IRC office hours with Sue Gardner, this Thursday at 17:00 UTC
To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Hi everyone,
Just wanted to give some pri
On 05/23/2011 12:58 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:
> Here is the article at Strategy wiki:
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Missing_Wikipedias
>
> Some important ideas have been mentioned during this discussion. Feel
> free to add them there.
>
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I've started to categorize languages
On 05/26/2011 10:18 AM, Theo10011 wrote:
> There was, it ran for a day. (
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralNotice)- Generic maintenance
> notice.
So, then it should just last a bit longer (maybe three days if not a
week?) and we would avoid the most of complains.
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Thomas Morton, 26/05/2011 10:11:
> I'm pretty sure there was a site notice; I recall seeing one anyway :)
For a day: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralNotice
Nemo
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There was, it ran for a day. (
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralNotice)- Generic maintenance
notice.
Theo
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Thomas Morton wrote:
> I'm pretty sure there was a site notice; I recall seeing one anyway :)
>
> Tom
>
> On 26 May 2011 09:09, Federico Leva
On 05/26/2011 10:09 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
> Milos Rancic, 26/05/2011 09:57:
>> Site notice for a week before the maintenance would be useful, too. We
>> communicate with our users via web site, not via emails.
>
> A week of pain to signal (and not avoid) an hour of pain? Doesn't look
> l
I'm pretty sure there was a site notice; I recall seeing one anyway :)
Tom
On 26 May 2011 09:09, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
> Milos Rancic, 26/05/2011 09:57:
> > Site notice for a week before the maintenance would be useful, too. We
> > communicate with our users via web site, not via emails.
Milos Rancic, 26/05/2011 09:57:
> Site notice for a week before the maintenance would be useful, too. We
> communicate with our users via web site, not via emails.
A week of pain to signal (and not avoid) an hour of pain? Doesn't look
like a gain.
Nemo
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On 05/25/2011 01:12 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
> On 25/05/11 18:14, Thomas Morton wrote:
>> IRC was flooded with people who didn't understand what was going on. And
>> many didn't believe/understand that it was maintenance... so this is
>> definitely an area worth improving.
>
> Maybe we can replace
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