Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Referendum 2011 mailout — issues

2011-08-20 Thread Risker
On 20 August 2011 23:38, Milos Rancic wrote: > I hold 7 votes, at the end: one real account, five bots and one of my > auxiliary accounts -- not used for years -- have got right to vote. I > have one more account, but I don't think that I made 10 edits with > that one. > > The rules for editors:

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Referendum 2011 mailout — issues

2011-08-20 Thread Milos Rancic
I hold 7 votes, at the end: one real account, five bots and one of my auxiliary accounts -- not used for years -- have got right to vote. I have one more account, but I don't think that I made 10 edits with that one. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundat

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for referendum

2011-08-20 Thread Risker
On 20 August 2011 22:48, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Philippe Beaudette > wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen < > > cimonav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> > >> So why announce ridiculously unrealistic timeframe between the vote >

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for referendum

2011-08-20 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen < > cimonav...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> So why announce ridiculously unrealistic timeframe between the vote >> concluding and the results being announced? >> >> > First, I disagree

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for referendum

2011-08-20 Thread Philippe Beaudette
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen < cimonav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So why announce ridiculously unrealistic timeframe between the vote > concluding and the results being announced? > > First, I disagree that it's "ridiculously unrealistic". Vote checking has already starte

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for referendum

2011-08-20 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Risker wrote: > On 20 August 2011 14:31, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > >> I would like to make tiny procedural point before things go any >> further, if I may, please don't let this stop the philosphical >> distractions going in any way (though perhaps better sui

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for referendum

2011-08-20 Thread Risker
On 20 August 2011 14:31, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > I would like to make tiny procedural point before things go any > further, if I may, please don't let this stop the philosphical > distractions going in any way (though perhaps better suited in their > own thread). > > Since there is going t

Re: [Foundation-l] Mediawiki and a standard template library

2011-08-20 Thread Fred Bauder
> On wikimedia projects that are not Wikipedia (Wikia in specific comes > to mind) I often find myself using templates that have not been > defined on that installation. The English Wikipedia (which I am most > familiar with) has many very usefull templates, especially the > {{citeFoo}} templates,

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for referendum

2011-08-20 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
I would like to make tiny procedural point before things go any further, if I may, please don't let this stop the philosphical distractions going in any way (though perhaps better suited in their own thread). Since there is going to be such a short interval between the vote concluding, and the res

[Foundation-l] Mediawiki and a standard template library

2011-08-20 Thread Martijn Hoekstra
On wikimedia projects that are not Wikipedia (Wikia in specific comes to mind) I often find myself using templates that have not been defined on that installation. The English Wikipedia (which I am most familiar with) has many very usefull templates, especially the {{citeFoo}} templates, but numero

[Foundation-l] Fwd: EN Wikizine - Year: 2011 Week: 34 Number: 124

2011-08-20 Thread Milos Rancic
Wikizine is alive :) -- Forwarded message -- From: EN Wikizine Date: Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 22:47 Subject: EN Wikizine - Year: 2011 Week: 34 Number: 124 To: announc...@lists.wikimedia.org **   __    __ _ _    _     _  / / /\ \ (_) | _(_

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Referendum 2011 mailout — issues

2011-08-20 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Lodewijk, 20/08/2011 12:16: > Maybe we could catch this discussion on wiki - it is an ever returning > issue, and the lessons could be valuable for other campaigns too. Andrew has already produced a very useful summary on https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/SecurePoll#Email_spam Nemo __

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Referendum 2011 mailout — issues

2011-08-20 Thread Lodewijk
Maybe we could catch this discussion on wiki - it is an ever returning issue, and the lessons could be valuable for other campaigns too. Lodewijk 2011/8/20 Milos Rancic > (It seems that mail server is not functioning properly. I've got > "local delivery failed". Trying again or tomorrow.) > > O