Re: [Foundation-l] It Is not Us

Hoi, Recently research showed that the majority of our editors is multi lingual and edits on multiple projects. This is without considering Commons ... I have a user on 491 projects and I am certainly not the only one who has many many profiles. As we did not know the extend to which we generally

[Foundation-l] IRC Bug Triage now

We'll be holding a public IRC bug triage in about 2-3 minutes on #wikimedia-dev for all who are interested. We will be using http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-2011-06 to keep notes as well. See you there! Mark. ___ foundation-l mailing list fou

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia dumps downloader

emijrp wrote: > I didn't mean security problems. I meant just deleted files by weird > terms of service. Commons hosts a lot of images which can be > problematic, like nudes or copyrighted materials in some jurisdictions. > They can deleted what they want and close every account they want, and > we

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia dumps downloader

2011/6/28 Platonides > emijrp wrote: > >> Hi; >> >> @Derrick: I don't trust Amazon. >> > > I disagree. Note that we only need them to keep a redundant copy of a file. > If they tried to tamper the file we could detect it with the hashes (which > should be properly secured, that's no problem). > >

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia dumps downloader

emijrp wrote: > Hi; > > @Derrick: I don't trust Amazon. I disagree. Note that we only need them to keep a redundant copy of a file. If they tried to tamper the file we could detect it with the hashes (which should be properly secured, that's no problem). I'd like having the hashes for the xml d

Re: [Foundation-l] BDS (hopefully) FUD?

Talking about that: Wikimania has a "official hasgtag"? _ *Béria Lima* (351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer

Re: [Foundation-l] BDS (hopefully) FUD?

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 08:06:43PM +0200, Huib Laurens wrote: > When you use Wikimania and Isreal or Wiki(M/P)edia with the word > Isreal there will be 3 bots telling you not to go :-( Which bots are they? can you link to their twitter pages? sincerely, Kim Bruning -- [Non-pgp mail clie

Re: [Foundation-l] BDS (hopefully) FUD?

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:13:54PM +0200, Kim Bruning wrote: > > To be able to actively counter this claim, can we confirm that all > palestinian wikimedians who want to come are indeed coming? I've since done a little more research. I'm moving this question to wikimania-l, in a better focussed

Re: [Foundation-l] BDS (hopefully) FUD?

When you use Wikimania and Isreal or Wiki(M/P)edia with the word Isreal there will be 3 bots telling you not to go :-( 2011/6/28, Kim Bruning : > > At least 1 BDS Activist has been running around on twitter telling people > not to go to wikimania. > http://twitter.com/_C > > Our article

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia dumps downloader

On 06/28/2011 07:21 PM, emijrp wrote: > @Milos: Instead of spliting image dump using the first letter of filenames, > I thought about spliting using the upload date (-MM-DD). So, first > chunks (2005-01-01) will be tiny, and recent ones of several GB (a single > day). That would be better, ind

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia dumps downloader

Hi; @Derrick: I don't trust Amazon. Really, I don't trust Wikimedia Foundation either. They can't and/or they don't want to provide image dumps (what is worst?). Community donates images to Commons, community donates money every year, and now community needs to develop a software to extract all th

[Foundation-l] BDS (hopefully) FUD?

At least 1 BDS Activist has been running around on twitter telling people not to go to wikimania. http://twitter.com/_C Our article on BDS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott,_Divestment_and_Sanctions BDS view and action on wikimania: http://www.alternativenews.or

Re: [Foundation-l] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

You don't have to have an account on LinkedIn to receive these emails. We were getting them sent to OTRS email addresses all the time before I asked LinkedIn to block emails to the addresses. Had to go through customer service because they don't provide an opt-out link in the emails they send. We

Re: [Foundation-l] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

I have added in a filter which should stop these from going to the list. User:AlexandrDmitri on all Wikimedia Projects 2011/6/28 Lodewijk > Perhaps one of the list admins could at least build in a filter for the > linked in emails :) Possibly file a request with LinkedIn for change of the > a

Re: [Foundation-l] [Xmldatadumps-l] Wikipedia dumps downloader

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:12, Milos Rancic wrote: > On 06/27/2011 01:07 PM, emijrp wrote: > If you create a way to sync images partially (let's say, the base > letters inside of the directory structure), a couple of dozens of > Wikimedians could create a couple of dozens of backups. I could host

Re: [Foundation-l] It Is not Us

On 28 June 2011 08:35, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > I have read the replies that are against social networking functionality. In > my opinion you are all missing the point. Our projects are crowd sourced > projects and we do not support collaboration, we do not support special > projects. We ne

Re: [Foundation-l] It Is not Us

> Hoi, > I have read the replies that are against social networking functionality. > In > my opinion you are all missing the point. Our projects are crowd sourced > projects and we do not support collaboration, we do not support special > projects. We need to. > > Social networking in our context w

Re: [Foundation-l] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

Perhaps one of the list admins could at least build in a filter for the linked in emails :) Possibly file a request with LinkedIn for change of the account details too? Best, Lodewijk 2011/6/28 Mohamed Ibrahim > basically, how can someone register on linkedIn with foundation-l address? > it wa

Re: [Foundation-l] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

basically, how can someone register on linkedIn with foundation-l address? it was a linked account that caused this problem On 28 June 2011 11:42, Tanvir Rahman wrote: > > > > #mega #Fail dunno why the list is saved as a contact with that name > > > > Can we add something like "Invitation to con

Re: [Foundation-l] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

> > #mega #Fail dunno why the list is saved as a contact with that name > Can we add something like "Invitation to connect on LinkedIn" in the filter so this kind of e-mail will be automatically discarded? Regards, -- Tanvir Rahman [[User:Wikitanvir]] On Wikimedia Projects __

Re: [Foundation-l] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

#mega #Fail dunno why the list is saved as a contact with that name please ignore :) On 28 June 2011 11:24, Mohamed Ibrahim via LinkedIn wrote: > LinkedIn > > > > > >Mohamed Ibrahim requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: > > -- >

[Foundation-l] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

LinkedIn Mohamed Ibrahim requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: -- Srikant, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Mohamed Accept invitation from Mohamed Ibrahim http://www.linkedin.com/e/-t9tct-gp

Re: [Foundation-l] [Xmldatadumps-l] Wikipedia dumps downloader

On 06/27/2011 01:07 PM, emijrp wrote: > Yes, a distributed project would be probably the best solution, but it is > not easy to develop, unless you use a library like bittorrent, or similar > and you have many peers. Althought most of the people don't seed the files > long time, so sometimes is bet

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia dumps downloader

Can you share your script with us? 2011/6/27 Platonides > emijrp wrote: > >> Hi SJ; >> >> You know that that is an old item in our TODO list ; ) >> >> I heard that Platonides developed a script for that task long time ago. >> >> Platonides, are you there? >> >> Regards, >> emijrp >> > > Yes, I a

Re: [Foundation-l] It Is not Us

Hoi, I have read the replies that are against social networking functionality. In my opinion you are all missing the point. Our projects are crowd sourced projects and we do not support collaboration, we do not support special projects. We need to. Social networking in our context will not be a Fa