On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Klaus Graf wrote:
> I cannot understand why WMF is unable to terminate Wikispecies which
> is a zero quality project. See
>
> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Gnom/Wikispecies (also in English)
>
> Klaus Graf
>
Propose it be closed at Meta then.
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On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Domas Mituzas wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > I have a question on this for the tech team: as a rule, do you have a
> > high turnover of volunteers on the sysadmin ...
>
> turn-what?
> Jens is building a house or something, if that was your question.
>
> Domas
>
A high turnove
Maybe this is related?
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Unable_to_vote_in_trustees_election
I don't want to seem rude, as I'm sure it's difficult and I understand the
election committee are volunteers, but why is it that things seem to be
going wrong this year?
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On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Casey Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Al Tally
> wrote:
> > I notice, for example, that the enwiki
> > based ombudsman, Sam Korn, has made just one edit this month. I think for
> a
> > role like this, it is necessary
This is strange - in times past, we have had only 3 ombudsmen at a time, and
now we have five. Are they all fairly active? Do they want to continue this
role? Have they all been contacted? I notice, for example, that the enwiki
based ombudsman, Sam Korn, has made just one edit this month. I think f
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) <
newyorkb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is an Elections Committee being appointed, or has one been?
>
> Newyorkbrad
>
Yes, see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2009/Committee/en#Membership
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On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Chad wrote:
>
> Why would you let this spam through?
>
Someone let it through?
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On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:59 AM, David Levy wrote:
> > April's fools alredy? *sigh*
>
> Apparently. As I have no desire to have my time wasted by such abuse
> of the mailing list, I've created a filter to delete any future
> e-mails from Al Tally (with whom my inte
Hi all
I just came across this[1] policy on Commons, which states that from today,
non-free content is going to be allowed to be uploaded on Commons. I'm
rather shocked that this was pushed through without any notice here, or
anywhere, and it has become policy, going against Wikimedia's "free cont
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Michael Bimmler wrote:
> That would require a high amount of time for the OTRS admins. Mind
> you, it's not "the foundation's HR department" that does this but
> individual volunteers.
>
Perhaps it's good then that an OTRS related position opened the other day,
so
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:09 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> http://xkcd.com/547/
>
>
> - d.
>
Eh I'm sure this was discussed somewhere already... anyway, it brought a ton
of new editors in, which was both good and bad (we desperately need more
good editors, but not vandals!)
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On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Nathan wrote:
> The question of how such a discussion would be closed is what concerns me
> the most - I can't see allowing a meta bureaucrat to close such a poll
> (which is what we would do in en.wp), and since the Foundation would have
> to
> make the changes a
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
> A further argument against having this principally discussed on Meta is
> that those who are best served by Simple do not have the language skills
> to participate fully in a discussion where there is unlimited use of
> language.
>
> Ec
>
M
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Mark Williamson wrote:
> This is wrong; the Siberian Wikipedia had an active userbase but was
> closed because it was deemed to be in a "fake" language.
>
As long as a project has an active community, there really is no good reason
to close a project.
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Proposals to close Simple English projects are like the perennial proposals
of Wikipedia: not going to happen. As long as a project has an active
community, there really is no good reason to close a project. OK, Simple
English might not meet current standards for language, but it has an active
comm
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
> They know about it because of [[Template:Bulletin/News]] on Simple. As
> far as I can see the place(s) that this is transcuded are the only
> places. The question however is how does a Simple WP editor who never
> normally goes to meta kn
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:05 AM, H wrote:
> Brian,
> It is usually the responsibility of the proposer to notify the
> community. I am very surprised that no one did.
>
Er, the community was notified. Not by the proposer, but by someone else.
They do know about it though. No issue here.
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On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Brian Salter-Duke
wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:31:47 +, Chris Down <
> neuro.wikipe...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > I see no '100 edits at meta' restriction. Am I missing something?
>
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proposals_for_closing_proje
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Casey Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Brian Salter-Duke
> wrote:
> > I am particularly
> > concerned about the suggestion that only meta regulars (with more than
> > 100 edits there) can contribute.
>
> That's not in the policy, where do you see t
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Ting Chen wrote:
> I dislike this argument very much...
You were expecting good arguments? :)
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On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Patton 123 wrote:
> Basically you've just said "we're going to be just like wikipdia except we
> won't let incivlity, personal attacks and other bad stuff like that
> happen".
> How will you stop it? Blocking? Then you're just like wikipedia.
>
No, removing uncivi
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
> Your initial announcement was fine. Continuing to spam is not.
>
> Fred
>
Agreed, please don't spam here further.
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Cary Bass wrote:
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> ombudsmen from 3 to 5, we have appointed the following users as
> successor ombudsmen.
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> [[User:Schiste]] from frwiki
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