On 15/08/11 16:30, David Gerard wrote:
> 2011/8/15 David Richfield :
>> It's not just financial collapse. When Sun was acquired by Oracle and
>> they started messing about with OpenOffice, it was not hard to fork
>> the project - take the codebase and run with it. It's not that easy
>> for Wikipe
2011/8/15 David Richfield :
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Tim Starling wrote:
>> On 12/08/11 20:55, David Gerard wrote:
>>> THESIS: Our inadvertent monopoly is *bad*. We need to make it easy to
>>> fork the projects, so as to preserve them.
>> I must have missed the place where you actually
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Tim Starling wrote:
> On 12/08/11 20:55, David Gerard wrote:
>> THESIS: Our inadvertent monopoly is *bad*. We need to make it easy to
>> fork the projects, so as to preserve them.
>
> I must have missed the place where you actually made this case. I
> tried reading
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:43:13 +0400, "Yaroslav M. Blanter"
wrote:
>> == New entities?==
>> James Forrester and his group (sorry, I don't remember who was the
>> official primus inter pares) presented in/before Haifa a list of new
>> kinds of Wikimedia entities:
>> * Chapters not based on national b
> == New entities?==
> James Forrester and his group (sorry, I don't remember who was the
> official primus inter pares) presented in/before Haifa a list of new
> kinds of Wikimedia entities:
> * Chapters not based on national boundaries, but subjects such as
> railways, art, ethnic cultures, mathe
The subject matter "chapters" thing sounds quite a bit like en.wp's
Wikiprojects.
Dan Rosenthal
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On 12/08/11 20:55, David Gerard wrote:
> THESIS: Our inadvertent monopoly is *bad*. We need to make it easy to
> fork the projects, so as to preserve them.
I must have missed the place where you actually made this case. I
tried reading your blog posts but I didn't see it there.
In 2005 you said t
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 16:16, Ziko van Dijk wrote:
[...]
> == Language Contact Person (LCP) ==
> I would like to suggest a small solution to solve a part of the
> problems. Every language version of Wikipedia should designate a
> "Language Contact Person" for relations with the Foundation (and
Let me start by saying that Ziko's "Tell us about your Wikipedia"
project was wonderful and i really expect its second edition. If Ziko
or someone else doesn't beat me to it, i'll probably just create one
myself, with additional questions that interest me ;)
I support the idea of language contact
Hi Ziko
I am not sure if I see the point here. There are 2 issues getting conflated
here, one is representation of languages between national chapters which I
believe, is a much bigger issue. The second issue, where these Language
contact persons serve WMF and the movement in talking about local l
Dear friends,
One element of the discussions on "Movement Roles" was about other /
new entities within our movement, aside the already existing
Foundation and the Chapters, which I prefer to call "national
Wikimedia organizations". I would like to present to you here my idea
of "Language Contact P
As Jay is away for a while, I checked… 381.
pb
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On Aug 12, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Nemo wrote:
> We need Jay Walsh to check the number of subscribers; they're probably
> stil
On 14 August 2011 13:46, Krinkle wrote:
> The thread is about one of the following:
> * .. the ability to clone a MediaWiki install and upload it to your own domain
> to continue making edits, writing articles etc.
> * .. getting better dumps of Wikimedia wikis in particular (ie. Wikipedia)
> * .
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