Re: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes development update: September 27

2011-08-02 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2011/8/2 Yaroslav M. Blanter : > Any chance it would be agreed in the future? There are at least three > working versions on big projects, German, Polish, and Russian Wikipedias > (though I believe in Russian Wikipedia it was recently killed by users > trying to set records and consequently reviewi

Re: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes development update: September 27

2011-08-02 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
> It's the problem of the English Wikipedia not knowing what it wanted aside > from knowing it wanted something. Some wanted stable revisions (an > approved > form of an article), others wanted protection but editable, others wanted > enhanced review of content before publishing, etc. Pending cha

Re: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes development update: September 27

2011-08-02 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Dan Rosenthal wrote: > > IMHO it worked just fine, but there were too many restrictions on when it > could be used. So actually…Mono is right, it was doomed to fail from the > beginning, regardless of its merits. > > -Dan > _

Re: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes development update: September 27

2011-08-02 Thread Dan Rosenthal
On Aug 2, 2011, at 8:07 PM, Andre Engels wrote: > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter >> wrote: >>> >>> Did the idea of the second trial get any momentum in the end of the day? >>> As a en.wp newbie, I could only find

Re: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes development update: September 27

2011-08-02 Thread Andre Engels
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter >wrote: > > > > Did the idea of the second trial get any momentum in the end of the day? > > As a en.wp newbie, I could only find the poll that the trial has been > > discontinued, but n

Re: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes development update: September 27

2011-08-02 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 11:06:10 -0500, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > > Nope. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Pending_changes/Request_for_Comment_February_2011&oldid=428618051#Closure I think I have seen this one, but I will have a closer look. Thanks for the link. Cheers Y

Re: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes development update: September 27

2011-08-02 Thread Mono mium
Look, Pending Changes was and still is doomed. On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter >wrote: > > > > Did the idea of the second trial get any momentum in the end of the day? > > As a en.wp newbie, I could only find the poll

Re: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes development update: September 27

2011-08-02 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > > Did the idea of the second trial get any momentum in the end of the day? > As a en.wp newbie, I could only find the poll that the trial has been > discontinued, but nothing after that. > > Cheers > Yaroslav > >

Re: [Foundation-l] SEOs :((((

2011-08-02 Thread Kirill Lokshin
And why would we want to do something like that? We're not here to make life easier for the SEO industry. Kirill On Tuesday, August 2, 2011, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > Well, Peter, it's got over 2,000 in-bound links, from user and user talk pages: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_

Re: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes development update: September 27

2011-08-02 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:41:28 -0400, Risker wrote: > Yes it is, and it's an important one. Several of us had already been > working on a plan for the second trial, and those of us discussing had > widely agreed that it would be much more likely to be successful if more of > the recommendations on

Re: [Foundation-l] SEOs :((((

2011-08-02 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Well, Peter, it's got over 2,000 in-bound links, from user and user talk pages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-08-01/In_the_news We should really look at making such links nofollow; only mainspace links should be dofollow, and that should exclude nav templates and t

[Foundation-l] The Signpost – Volume 7, Issue 31 – 01 August 2011

2011-08-02 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
News and notes: Wikimania; why Board of Trustees elections attract few votes; brief news http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-08-01/News_and_notes In the news: Consensus of Wikipedia authors questioned about Shakespeare authorship; 10 biggest edit wars on Wikipedia; brief