Re: [Foundation-l] deleting old versions of fair-use files

2011-05-30 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/5/31 Michael Snow : > On 5/30/2011 2:32 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: >> Hello, >> >> There's a bit of discussion about deleting old versions of fair-use >> files in the Hebrew Wikipedia and it may be interesting to other >> projects as well. >> >> The main questions is: Should old versions of fa

Re: [Foundation-l] deleting old versions of fair-use files

2011-05-30 Thread Michael Snow
On 5/30/2011 2:32 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > Hello, > > There's a bit of discussion about deleting old versions of fair-use > files in the Hebrew Wikipedia and it may be interesting to other > projects as well. > > The main questions is: Should old versions of fair-use files be > deleted? The two

Re: [Foundation-l] deleting old versions of fair-use files

2011-05-30 Thread K. Peachey
"The two main points that support the deletion are that it saves space on the server" No, it does not, The file is just moved elsewhere on the server where it isn't directly accessible. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsu

[Foundation-l] deleting old versions of fair-use files

2011-05-30 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hello, There's a bit of discussion about deleting old versions of fair-use files in the Hebrew Wikipedia and it may be interesting to other projects as well. The main questions is: Should old versions of fair-use files be deleted? The two main points that support the deletion are that it saves sp

Re: [Foundation-l] IRC general meetings

2011-05-30 Thread phoebe ayers
Hi all! We have not had an open IRC meeting in a while... but next Saturday, June 4 is the first Saturday in June, and it would be good to have a revival! I've suggested meeting at 18:00 UTC. Sign up, discuss topics and meeting times on Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_meetings#June_

Re: [Foundation-l] readership draft for feedback

2011-05-30 Thread Rodan Bury
Hi, I think the most important question is: how do we act upon the results of these surveys? There have been several surveys already, as well as usability studies. While it can't hurt to do some more of them, I have the feeling that we already have the most important data. What about the actual pl

Re: [Foundation-l] readership draft for feedback

2011-05-30 Thread Mani Pande
Hi Samuel, We have not discussed these ideas, but I think they sound wonderful and are all interesting, and we can look into it to see how easy or difficult it is to do a survey for sister projects or have a year-round survey. Mani On 5/29/11 11:09 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: > Thanks for the upda

[Foundation-l] The Wikipedia-Ready Essay

2011-05-30 Thread Fred Bauder
An interesting technique: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2011/30/c8623.html Fred ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects on May 24

2011-05-30 Thread Guillaume Paumier
Hi, The maintenance was scheduled on Monday, for the day after that. We had only a few hours to plan for it and communicate about it, and I think we did a pretty good job given the time we had. The maintenance banner was up for a few hours (not a day) prior to the maintenance window to give reade