[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation chosen #1 global NGO of 100 by The Global Journal

2012-01-23 Thread Jay Walsh
Today we were pleased to be notified that the Wikimedia Foundation was chosen #1 among a list of 100 global NGOs. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/23/wikimedia-foundation-voted-1-global-ngo-by-the-global-journal/ >From their press release on the announcement: "Recognizing the significant role o

[Foundation-l] REMINDER: Wikimania 2013 - invitation to bid

2012-01-23 Thread Thomas Goldammer
Dear all, I want to remind everyone to officially start a bid for the locale of Wikimania 2013. All bids made so far are *unofficial* and cannot be considered, as long as they are not in the list of official bids on this page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids The possibility

[Foundation-l] Carl Malamud on digitising everything

2012-01-23 Thread David Gerard
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/23/1725231/carl-malamud-answers-goading-the-government-to-make-public-data-public - d. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundati

Re: [Foundation-l] List moderation (WAS: Politico...)

2012-01-23 Thread J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov
When I was brought on board as a list admin/moderator, I was told that it was very much a case of a hands-off approach. This does not mean, however, that anything goes. Usually a reminder, whether one or one or by a post to the list, suffices. Moderation is very much the last step, and has only bee

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-23 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 23 January 2012 18:09, Yao Ziyuan wrote: > Since it's unlikely the foundation mailing list will agree to enable > such a comment section on every Wikipedia article (although enabling > it is quite easy: just choose a "comment" extension from > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_Matrix/AllE

[Foundation-l] List moderation (WAS: Politico...)

2012-01-23 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 23 January 2012 14:53, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > On the surface this is a very frivolous post. Funnily enough I have > a serious point I have been nursing along for a while. Any > list moderators listening? There are times when the mailing > list itself can be a source of infighting and in

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-23 Thread Yao Ziyuan
Since it's unlikely the foundation mailing list will agree to enable such a comment section on every Wikipedia article (although enabling it is quite easy: just choose a "comment" extension from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_Matrix/AllExtensions and enable it on Wikipedia), maybe we can t

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-23 Thread Oliver Keyes
Note that we are adding a sorta-quasi-comments section, just not on the articles; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5 On 23 January 2012 17:31, Svip wrote: > On 23 January 2012 18:16, Yao Ziyuan wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Gerard Me

Re: [Foundation-l] Decentralized data center Was: Politico: "Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa"

2012-01-23 Thread cyrano
Le 23/01/2012 05:08, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen a écrit : > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:13 AM, cyrano wrote: >> What about sharing the whole databases among the millions of users, in >> some p2p net with a lot of redundancies?, something like a dense, cloudy >> internet of databases who remains whole eve

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-23 Thread Svip
On 23 January 2012 18:16, Yao Ziyuan wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Gerard Meijssen > wrote: > >> Having comments in your face at the bottom to me is not only something I >> would resent, it would also add more clutter that I have to download every >> time I read an article. > > I se

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-23 Thread Yao Ziyuan
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > A comment section under every Wikipedia article seems to be a very bad > idea. You read a Wikipedia article to learn about the subject at hand, you > can read comments on the talk page. Reading the talk page only makes sense > when

Re: [Foundation-l] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article

2012-01-23 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, A comment section under every Wikipedia article seems to be a very bad idea. You read a Wikipedia article to learn about the subject at hand, you can read comments on the talk page. Reading the talk page only makes sense when you are interested in learning more about what people have to say ab

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: "Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa"

2012-01-23 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Nathan wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:17 AM, cyrano wrote: > >> Mike, I don't know how's the political landscape is in the USA, but you >> would say that there is few significative corruption and collusion? >> >> >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_b

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: "Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa"

2012-01-23 Thread Nathan
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:17 AM, cyrano wrote: > Mike, I don't know how's the political landscape is in the USA, but you > would say that there is few significative corruption and collusion? > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_by_country#Rankings The U.S. is below most of Europe, and

Re: [Foundation-l] new idea new feature

2012-01-23 Thread keisuke koyanagi
> > >People can subscribe and set their preferences to not receive any emails, > then they can email the list with no problems. > > > this way ,we can slove personal problem. > But we can not slove public problem. To slove that. Separate article 1 by 1. Then people who want to read article,serch

Re: [Foundation-l] new idea new feature

2012-01-23 Thread keisuke koyanagi
This problem can not slove be >People can subscribe and set their preferences to not receive any emails, then they can email the list with no problems. Only do this . People who wants to 2012/1/23 Thomas Dalton > People can subscribe and set their preferences to not receive any emails, > then th

Re: [Foundation-l] Decentralized data center Was: Politico: "Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa"

2012-01-23 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:13 AM, cyrano wrote: > What about sharing the whole databases among the millions of users, in > some p2p net with a lot of redundancies?, something like a dense, cloudy > internet of databases who remains whole even if it looses part of > itself? Does it sound unwordly?