Re: [Foundation-l] multilingual mailing list

2011-03-09 Thread Alison M. Wheeler
- "David Gerard" wrote: > "Karibu foundation-l. Lugha rasmi hapa ni Kiswahili na Kiingereza." Nini ni lugha ya si Kiklingoni? Ingekuwa kwamba kuwa sawa na haki kwa wote. Au Kiesperanto labda? Alison ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lis

Re: [Foundation-l] Do WMF want enwp.org?

2011-02-18 Thread Alison M. Wheeler
- "Ashar Voultoiz" wrote: > The '140 characters only' blogging platforms could probably implements > their own short syntax to support popular sites. Obviously, yes, however that misses the main point of short links from the pov of the owner of the shortening service. If you control the lin

Re: [Foundation-l] Criticism of employees (was VPAT)

2011-02-17 Thread Alison M. Wheeler
> On 17 February 2011 08:47, Christine Moellenberndt > (and by the way, this is just little me with a cat on her lap > talking, not WMF employee talking) Something which might be worth bearing in mind is that (sfaiaa!) everyone involved with the projects - staff and volunteer alike - use a cons

Re: [Foundation-l] Shorter Url for non-latin languages

2011-02-12 Thread Alison M. Wheeler
I forgot to add, in my belief we should be offering a URL shortening service / route for *all* languages, not just the non-Latin charset ones. AlisonW (ps. my service has been running for over 2 1/2 years and is completely set-and-forget; I never need to look at it!)

Re: [Foundation-l] Shorter Url for non-latin languages

2011-02-12 Thread Alison M. Wheeler
I'm not following exactly who said > > A URL shortener is a very good idea. but I must firmly agree. On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:56 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > It largely depends on what the use-case for having such a short URL is > going to be and how many costs are worth those benefits. The use-case

Re: [Foundation-l] H2G2 "to be disposed of"

2011-01-25 Thread Alison M. Wheeler
- "Thomas Dalton" wrote: > Very doubtful indeed. Wikipedia might, conceivably, be considered a > trusted third party, but there is no way the rest of world would and > we can't accept content that is licensed to Wikipedia only. I would think it likely that as the BBC have already made the de

Re: [Foundation-l] Copyrighted maps and Derived works

2010-04-01 Thread Alison M. Wheeler
This whole thread is striking me as akin to a child going "but why" every five seconds ad infinitem. Let's look at the issues here. 1. Google (and other companies, such as Microsoft and Yahoo) make available satellite / aeroplane images on the net, free at the point of use, for all to view.

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedic OCD

2010-02-19 Thread Alison M. Wheeler
No, you are not alone ;-P Sometimes you can look at my editing history and see what I am watching / listening to 'live' (eg. documentary on Skippy the Bush Kangaroo very recently!) Alison - "Bod Notbod" wrote: > Does anyone else suffer from this problem, whereby you listen to or > watch