Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Tragedy: videos and slides from presentations Wikimanias (lately 2011 in Haifa)

2011-09-06 Thread Brion Vibber
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > > The code exists and has been revamped a few times in response to reviews, > > but I'm not sure whether there are actually any assigned resources for > > p

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Tragedy: videos and slides from presentations Wikimanias (lately 2011 in Haifa)

2011-09-06 Thread Brion Vibber
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 1:49 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 4 September 2011 21:44, Michael Dale wrote: > > > It will be a lot easier to import from YouTube once Timed media handler > adds support for webm to commons. If you check out the wikivideo-l and > commons lists for some recent example YouT

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] YouTube and Creative Commons

2011-06-03 Thread Brion Vibber
(I'm not sure offhand if I'm set up to cross-post to Foundation-l; if this doesn't make it, somebody please CC a mention if necessary. Thanks!) On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:42 PM, aude wrote: > Aside from the very real privacy issue, YouTube videos can disappear at any > time. I would much rather w

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Big problem to solve: good WYSIWYG on WMF wikis

2010-12-29 Thread Brion Vibber
ant to being able to tell which part of your document is which. And heck, even if not everything gets fixed along that kind of path, just being able to *have* pages and other resource types that *are* well-structured mixed into the system is going to be hugely useful for the non-Wikipedia projects

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Big problem to solve: good WYSIWYG on WMF wikis

2010-12-28 Thread Brion Vibber
My current thoughts are to concentrate on a few areas: 1) create a widget/gadget/template/extension/plugin model built around embedding blocks of information within a larger context... 2) ...where the data and rendering can be reasonably separate... (eg, not having to pull tricks where y

[Foundation-l] List moderation

2009-11-08 Thread Brion Vibber
I'm taking the liberty of putting foundation-l on temporary moderation. Seriously, guys -- take the "who's a bigger jerk" threads offlist. The regular list mods may reconfigure any way they like once they wake up. -- brion vibbe

Re: [Foundation-l] Charity Navigator rates WMF

2009-10-09 Thread Brion Vibber
On 10/9/09 11:33 AM, Gregory Kohs wrote: > Brion says: > > ++ > > A few thousand dollars in rent for the Usability Initiative's space... > > ++ > > It may be equally accurate to say that I have earned "a few thousand > dollars" this year, or in my lifetime, or that comprises the bud

Re: [Foundation-l] Charity Navigator rates WMF

2009-10-09 Thread Brion Vibber
On 10/8/09 7:27 PM, Gregory Kohs wrote: > Erik, > > How much of WMF's expenses went to Wikia, Inc. this year so far? A few thousand dollars in rent for the Usability Initiative's space, which will end soon thanks to Wikimedia getting larger office space of their own. You might perhaps remember

Re: [Foundation-l] LiquidThreads in Beta testing at labs.wikimedia.org

2009-10-05 Thread Brion Vibber
On 10/2/09 11:45 AM, Steven Walling wrote: > Andrew, do you think LiquidThreads is stable enough for production > deployment on a much smaller wiki, such as like less than 1,000 pages? > The Portland WikiWednesday has a small MediaWiki install, and a couple years > ago we had David demo LiquidThrea

Re: [Foundation-l] Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet

2009-10-05 Thread Brion Vibber
On 10/2/09 1:21 AM, Aphaia wrote: > Brion, > > congrats on your new opportunity and project and I'm bit on a relief > to hear you would like to stay on our community, and I still remember > the days you was a volunteer developer with great devotion (in those > days e sta

Re: [Foundation-l] Status of flagged protection (flagged revisions) for English Wikipedia.

2009-09-28 Thread Brion Vibber
On 9/28/09 5:27 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/9/29 Brion Vibber: >> It seems to work just fine, actually. The extension is on, the >> configuration is being loaded for the right database, and things seem to >> function when I test them. >> >> Quick steps to try i

Re: [Foundation-l] Status of flagged protection (flagged revisions) for English Wikipedia.

2009-09-28 Thread Brion Vibber
On 9/28/09 5:23 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: >> It seems to work just fine, actually. The extension is on, the >> configuration is being loaded for the right database, and things seem to >> function when I test them. > > Holy crap! > > In my defense: > It's pretty clear that no one was aware that it

Re: [Foundation-l] lots of people please test this :-)

2009-09-28 Thread Brion Vibber
On 9/28/09 5:19 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote: > Brion Vibber wrote: >> On 9/28/09 5:15 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote: >>> I also forwarded this to the English Wikipedia mailing list... >> >> Yay! :) >> >> Also added on the tech blog: >> >> http://techblog.

Re: [Foundation-l] lots of people please test this :-)

2009-09-28 Thread Brion Vibber
On 9/28/09 5:15 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote: > I also forwarded this to the English Wikipedia mailing list... Yay! :) Also added on the tech blog: http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/09/flaggedrevs-test-wiki-awaits-you/ -- brion ___ foundation-l mailing lis

Re: [Foundation-l] Status of flagged protection (flagged revisions) for English Wikipedia.

2009-09-28 Thread Brion Vibber
On 9/28/09 4:57 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > Switching it in for thie page to "The stable revision; if not present, > then the current/draft one", I now see the little 'sighted' box on the > article page and have the review interface at the bottom (though some of > th

Re: [Foundation-l] Status of flagged protection (flagged revisions) for English Wikipedia.

2009-09-28 Thread Brion Vibber
On 9/28/09 4:57 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > 3) "This page does not have a stable version; page stability settings > can be configured."<- click this link [ideally that next form will be > better integrated into the protection form in future] > > http://flaggedrevs.la

Re: [Foundation-l] Status of flagged protection (flagged revisions) for English Wikipedia.

2009-09-28 Thread Brion Vibber
On 9/28/09 4:18 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > On 9/28/09 1:04 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: >> [snip] >>> plan, and Brion is hoping to invest some of his remaining time with it >>> in helping to get the extension

Re: [Foundation-l] Status of flagged protection (flagged revisions) for English Wikipedia.

2009-09-28 Thread Brion Vibber
On 9/28/09 1:04 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > [snip] >> plan, and Brion is hoping to invest some of his remaining time with it >> in helping to get the extension ready for en.wp. It's not trivial: The >> scalability concerns at that size are a

Re: [Foundation-l] Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet

2009-09-28 Thread Brion Vibber
On 9/28/09 2:23 PM, Domas Mituzas wrote: > Hi! > >> And you'll still have commit access, so I >> hope to keep seeing "Revert rXXX, totally broken" > > Don't be so harsh on Brion, not every commit of his has been totally > broken :-) *reverts domas* :) -- brion ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet

2009-09-28 Thread Brion Vibber
On 9/28/09 12:56 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Thomas Daltonwrote: > >> I was really looking forward to you handing over the >> administrative part of your job and concentrating on coding, great >> things would have happened, I'm sure! > > > No reason he can't keep coding.

Re: [Foundation-l] Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet

2009-09-28 Thread Brion Vibber
On 9/28/09 12:53 PM, Sage Ross wrote: > As Kat Walsh alluded to on ... Facebook?!?... free/libre real-time > services are more important than a lot of Wikimedians think (because > we've spent so long pushing back against "merely" social uses of our > wikis?). In the grand scheme of the things we c

[Foundation-l] Announce: Brion moving to StatusNet

2009-09-28 Thread Brion Vibber
ct for WMF tech management issues starting October 12, until the new CTO is hired. I'll support the hiring process as much as I can, and we're hoping to have a candidate in the door by the end of the year. -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) CTO, Wikimedia Foundation San Francisco _

Re: [Foundation-l] EN Wikizine - Year: 2009 Week: 37 Number: 118

2009-09-25 Thread Brion Vibber
On 9/24/09 6:40 PM, Az1568 wrote: > [LocalisationUpdate deployment delayed] - The deployment of > LocalisationUpdate, an extension meant to keep the localized messages > as up to date as possible, was delayed after it killed the entire > site. You don't have to be a tech to interpret the blog post

Re: [Foundation-l] new list summary (and RSS question)

2009-09-16 Thread Brion Vibber
On 9/16/09 11:33 AM, phoebe ayers wrote: > LSS2RSS is srs bsns! > > A blog could work; in the meantime, I started an identi.ca account: > http://identi.ca/listsummaryservice/ > Feel free to follow it or its feed > (http://identi.ca/listsummaryservice/all/rss) for all your rss needs. Spiffy! Here'

Re: [Foundation-l] Moderate this list

2009-09-11 Thread Brion Vibber
On 9/11/09 12:45 PM, Pavlo Shevelo wrote: >> Isn't temporarily blocking such a user a way to calm him/her down? I > Yes it might be the way, but far not universal way. > And it should be the last (ultimate) in moderator toolkit, far not the > first to be used. The fundamental mechanism of moderati

Re: [Foundation-l] Report to the Board of Trustees June 2009-

2009-09-11 Thread Brion Vibber
May I respectfully suggest that further discussion on this thread be taken offlist until new arguments come to light which have not already been posted? -- brion ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

2009-09-10 Thread Brion Vibber
On 9/9/09 9:41 AM, David Gerard wrote: > As Erik points out, at a certain point we have to actually write new > code to support new ideas. Else "projects we could do at Wikimedia" > becomes "projects we can do with a wiki engine." IMO we need to do that for the projects we already have before we t

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

2009-09-08 Thread Brion Vibber
On 9/8/09 3:56 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/9/8 Pedro Sanchez: >> Geographical/atlas/map kind ofproject >> >> granted, there's wikimapia and other external equivalents >> but we (Wikimedia) are lacking it > > Is there any point us doing something that already exists? What would > be better about

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF seeking to sub-lease office space?

2009-09-04 Thread Brion Vibber
On 9/4/09 3:27 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Tim Starlingwrote: >> >> Chad's analysis was correct. The SF staff have been looking for a new >> office for some time, and last I heard they were in the process of >> negotiating a lease on a prospective space. Subletting the old

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] Thank you!

2009-09-04 Thread Brion Vibber
On 9/4/09 1:01 AM, Bod Notbod wrote: > 2. On many videos, if not most, it is impossible to see the content of > the slides. Could videos be uploaded in higher resolution? Obvious > downsides: larger file size, more bandwidth required. Or maybe all > presenters could be encouraged to upload their pr

Re: [Foundation-l] Frequency of Seeing Bad Versions - now with traffic data

2009-08-29 Thread Brion Vibber
On 8/28/09 2:49 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > > >> Robert, is it possible to share the source for generating the >> revert-based stats with other folks who may be interested in pursuing >> further work on the su

Re: [Foundation-l] Omidyar Network Commits $2 Million Grant to Wikimedia Foundation

2009-08-27 Thread Brion Vibber
er hand is good. It seems to > be better received by the community when WMF fulfills a modest > expectation than when it reveals a wonderful surprise. Under promise, over deliver. :) -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) CTO & Senior Software Architect, Wikimedia Foundation ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Frequency of Seeing Bad Versions - now with traffic data

2009-08-27 Thread Brion Vibber
pedia already? Robert, is it possible to share the source for generating the revert-based stats with other folks who may be interested in pursuing further work on the subject? Thanks! -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) CTO & Senior Software Architect, Wikimedia Foundation _

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Question to post...

2009-08-13 Thread Brion Vibber
On 8/13/09 5:28 PM, Angela wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: >> "So— I tried 20 random words, and the WP result was lower in four of >> them, the same in the rest." >> "No pattern really... We still have the problem with "article at funny name; >> redirect from comm

Re: [Foundation-l] Question to post...

2009-08-13 Thread Brion Vibber
On 8/13/09 12:23 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > (I went on, on IRC, to point some examples of the behavioural change > that happened towards the end of 2007 (per my cruddy memory) where > non-widely-linked redirects basically fell out of the google index... > search terms like "Jesus bug" or many oth

Re: [Foundation-l] Why hasn't the LocalisationUpdate extension been enabled?

2009-08-13 Thread Brion Vibber
On 8/13/09 11:43 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > Because we haven't had a chance to finish final review& fixups on it. > Should be done in the next few days. (Why are there like 500 replies to > this from people we've already talked to directly and know what's up?) Quick st

Re: [Foundation-l] Why hasn't the LocalisationUpdate extension been enabled?

2009-08-13 Thread Brion Vibber
Because we haven't had a chance to finish final review & fixups on it. Should be done in the next few days. (Why are there like 500 replies to this from people we've already talked to directly and know what's up?) -- brion ___ foundation-l mailing lis

Re: [Foundation-l] Election Results

2009-08-12 Thread Brion Vibber
On 8/12/09 1:48 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > Let me clarify: I'm not actually arguing that anything is wrong with the > election system, the results, or having old hands on the Board. On the > contrary. I'm just wondering if this election (even if it's not unusual) > might be conflated with the PARC

Re: [Foundation-l] GLAM-WIKI report

2009-08-12 Thread Brion Vibber
On 8/12/09 6:18 AM, Chad wrote: > Just thinking aloud here, but as to methods for accessing the content: > > A) Extends FileRepo to work with their data, however they happen to give > us access to it > B) Provide something similar to Special:Import, that will go retrieve their > data and import it

Re: [Foundation-l] Election Results

2009-08-12 Thread Brion Vibber
On 8/12/09 12:07 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > While I personally am very pleased with the results, I wonder how the > election results will be perceived outside Wikimedia. > With numerous media outlets reacting to PARC's research about the state of > the community, I fear this endorsement of seeming

Re: [Foundation-l] Positive mention of Wikimedia sites in a web privacy study:

2009-08-11 Thread Brion Vibber
On 8/11/09 2:13 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > Kudos to the WMF for avoiding gratuitous reader tracking. Other > people *are* paying attention to the privacy implications of this kind > of user-invisible behavior. Yay! Quick note: the only sort of user tracking that we would be interested in doin

Re: [Foundation-l] Upcoming tech hiring: CTO position split

2009-08-09 Thread Brion Vibber
On 8/7/09 5:43 PM, George Herbert wrote: > I suspect you're going to have to be prepared to do a lot of internal > discovery and discovery with potential hires to show them the web ops > side - it's not well documented now (I keep meaning to find out more > about the ops team and finding I have no

Re: [Foundation-l] Upcoming tech hiring: CTO position split

2009-08-07 Thread Brion Vibber
On 8/7/09 3:39 PM, James Forrester wrote: > 2009/8/7 Brion Vibber: >> On 8/7/09 3:06 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: >>> It's not just about resumes, it's also about being taken seriously >>> when communicating with others. A "Head Software Architect" w

Re: [Foundation-l] Upcoming tech hiring: CTO position split

2009-08-07 Thread Brion Vibber
On 8/7/09 2:35 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > By containing the magic words "senior" and "architect" the proposed > "Senior Software Architect" is, in my experience, not inconsistent > with industry naming practice for the most important tech guru who > isn't primarily a manager. > > It's not a bad t

Re: [Foundation-l] Upcoming tech hiring: CTO position split

2009-08-07 Thread Brion Vibber
On 8/7/09 3:06 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > It's not just about resumes, it's also about being taken seriously > when communicating with others. A "Head Software Architect" will > probably be taken more seriously than a "Senior Software Architect", > since the former shows you are the boss, that latt

Re: [Foundation-l] Upcoming tech hiring: CTO position split

2009-08-07 Thread Brion Vibber
On 8/7/09 11:12 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > I think this is a fantastic idea. I think the biggest problem the tech > side of the WMF has had over the last year or two has been > prioritisation and splitting the job like this should help that no > end. > > I'm curious - would the Senior Software Arch

Re: [Foundation-l] Voluntary self-regulation of multimedia service providers

2009-08-07 Thread Brion Vibber
On 8/7/09 12:25 AM, private musings wrote: > actually - might a WMF 'code of conduct' for projects be a good idea? (as in > something perhaps a dollop more pragmatic than 'comply with our mission > statement'!) - sounds like an idea for the strategy wiki... :-) I'd say yes, but that a "code of con

[Foundation-l] Upcoming tech hiring: CTO position split

2009-08-07 Thread Brion Vibber
idate to fill the CTO position (full job description will go up soon), at which point I'll be freed up to concentrate on being a full-time Senior Software Architect. (Yes, I'll review your patch!) I will of course continue to work closely with our eventual CTO... the idea is to find some

Re: [Foundation-l] mo.wikipedia is not yet renamed to mo-cyrill as it was promised !!

2009-07-08 Thread Brion Vibber
else needs cleaning up in recent changes channels, interwiki links, or other output. -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) Cetateanu Moldovanu wrote: > *Hi, I want to remind you that on 26 Nov 2008 > **http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-November/047554.html** >

Re: [Foundation-l] No default codec for and in HTML5

2009-07-02 Thread Brion Vibber
Hay (Husky) wrote: > http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-June/020620.html > > Unfortunately OGG Theora didn't make it as the default codec for the > HTML5 element in the spec. Until one of the two major formats > (Theora and H264) is clearly the major format the HTML5 spec wi

Re: [Foundation-l] Google Chrome to support Ogg Theora video natively

2009-05-28 Thread Brion Vibber
El 5/28/09 1:56 PM, Kat Walsh escribió: > Another step towards an open web -- Google's Chrome browser is going > to support Theora video natively with the HTML5 video tag: > http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/05/google-chrome-3-adds-html5.html > http://codereview.chromium.org/115625/diff/1/2

Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

2009-05-15 Thread Brion Vibber
El 5/14/09 3:16 PM, private musings escribió: > - Commons currently hosts many pictures, taken in a public place, without > the apparent permission of the subject, of various folk in various states > of > undress (think topless women at the beach as the best example) - I think > th

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

2009-05-15 Thread Brion Vibber
ntent for children. > > -Mike > > On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 10:29 -0700, Brion Vibber wrote: > >> Slippery-slope arguments aside, it seems unfortunate that as creators of >> "educational resources" we don't actually have anything that's being >> cr

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

2009-05-14 Thread Brion Vibber
El 5/14/09 11:50 PM, David Gerard escribió: > 2009/5/14 Oldak Quill: > >> I post the suggestion above about tagging articles that may be >> considered inappropriate by some, because it is better to give people >> tools to block content if they choose to, than to delete content on >> that basis. > >

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

2009-05-14 Thread Brion Vibber
El 5/14/09 7:31 PM, Thomas Dalton escribió: > 2009/5/14 Robert Rohde: >> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Thomas Dalton >> wrote: >>> 2009/5/14 Fred Bauder: I suggest that Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not include Wikipedia is not a manual of sexual practices. It could be phrased Wikipedi

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability Study Results (Sneak Preview)

2009-05-08 Thread Brion Vibber
El 5/8/09 9:21 PM, phoebe ayers escribió: > About this: on en:wp, at least, under user preferences/gadgets, users > can turn this on themselves by clicking the "Add an [edit] link for > the lead section of a page" box. Is there any particular reason not to > turn this on by default for everyone? Co

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability Study Results (Sneak Preview)

2009-05-08 Thread Brion Vibber
El 5/7/09 5:36 PM, geni escribió: > 2009/5/8 Brian: >> This usability study is so tiny. I want MediaWiki to be really, really good. >> Please tell me you guys hope to go large scale with the remote testing >> setup. > > Nit just mediawiki. Looks like we need to improve the paths through > the help

Re: [Foundation-l] Congratulations to Gdansk!

2009-05-07 Thread Brion Vibber
was stuck so long making their decision! :) Here's holding out for 2011 and 2012... -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) CTO, Wikimedia Foundation San Francisco ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] site notice not accessible to users with disabilities

2009-04-27 Thread Brion Vibber
f our visitors without causing problems for others. If you have technical suggestions for alternate implementations, they're welcome in a more relevant channel such as wikitech-l. -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) CTO, Wikimedia Foundation San Francisco _

[Foundation-l] [Fwd: Phorm opt-out for Wikipedia.org and related domains]

2009-04-16 Thread Brion Vibber
03/22/open-letter-call-for-major-websites-to-opt-out-of-phorm/ -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) Original Message Subject: Phorm opt-out for Wikipedia.org and related domains Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:28:11 -0700 From: Brion Vibber To: website-exclus...@webwise.com

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Should WMF opt out of Phorm?

2009-04-16 Thread Brion Vibber
On 4/16/09 7:21 AM, Magnus Manske wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:03 PM, geni wrote: >> 2009/4/1 Ryan Kaldari: >>> Yes, but how many of them let you opt out? If we could opt out of the >>> Great Firewall of China, I imagine we would :) >> Most of these national firewalls limit the number of ISP

Re: [Foundation-l] WikiSym 2009 in Orlando: Call for Papers - posters deadline April 24

2009-04-09 Thread Brion Vibber
l experience) proposals. [snip] > For more information, see the Call for Papers: > http://www.wikisym.org/ws2009/tiki-index.php?page=Call+for+Papers Just a reminder to all that the CfP is still open for posters, demonstrations, and WikiFest proposals -- the final deadline for these is April 24

Re: [Foundation-l] mo.wikipedia is not yet renamed to mo-cyrill as it was promised !

2009-04-08 Thread Brion Vibber
On 4/6/09 3:28 PM, Casey Brown wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Cetateanu Moldovanu > wrote: >> * you have promised that subdomain name mo will become mo-cyrl, it's april >> now and mo is still not yet renamed.* > > None of the wikis have been moved yet, it's not that this situation is >

[Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planning to tighten TorBlock settings]

2009-04-03 Thread Brion Vibber
Soliciting feedback on Tor blocking settings... Please comment on wikitech-l or the tech blog if possible to centralize discussion but we'll keep an eye out on these lists too. :) http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/04/planning-to-tighten-torblock-restrictions/ -- brion

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiktionary-l] Divergent Wiktionary logos

2009-03-27 Thread Brion Vibber
On 3/25/09 10:51 PM, Michael Snow wrote: > Cary Bass wrote: >> While the English Wiktionary community may or may not be satisfied >> with the logo as-is, in the interest of maintaining a visual identity, >> one logo has to be used across projects > My impression is that the current split is a natur

[Foundation-l] Tech updates: code updates going live to Wikimedia sites

2009-03-25 Thread Brion Vibber
w what we're working on and give feedback before we push things out: * http://techblog.wikimedia.org/ I'd very much like to make sure that we've got regular contacts among the various project communities who can help coordinate with us on features, bugs, and general thoughts whi

[Foundation-l] Welcome to Fred Vassard!

2009-03-23 Thread Brion Vibber
the beasts that run Wikipedia and her sister projects... He'll be helping us out with operations, monitoring, and documentation of our servers, making sure everything's running smoothly and improving our responses to and anticipation of problems. Welcome aboard, Fred! --

Re: [Foundation-l] dumps

2009-02-24 Thread Brion Vibber
On 2/23/09 5:31 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > Copying the Commons list. > > I am interested in hosting (and running some scripts on) copies of the > commons media dump on offline regional servers for offline-reading > purposes. This is difficult without an image dump. Awesome -- can you work with an

Re: [Foundation-l] dumps

2009-02-24 Thread Brion Vibber
On 2/22/09 4:49 AM, River Tarnell wrote: > currently the dump process is a bit broken. what is the Foundation's position > on this? Well, you could have just asked me. :) http://leuksman.com/log/2009/02/24/wikimedia-data-dump-update/ -- brion ___ fou

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikia leasing office space to WMF

2009-01-23 Thread Brion Vibber
On 1/23/09 11:49 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: >> Could we have more detail, please, on the note that "Wikia matched the best >> offer"? Were the other ten higher bidders also given the opportunity to >> match the best offer? Why was Wikia chosen on a "second and adjusted offer" >> basis, rather than

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia hiring Linux system administrator

2009-01-16 Thread Brion Vibber
e, and a lot of service data that needs to be monitored and digested... if you think you've got the chops for it, send us your CV by the end of January! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/System_Administrator -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) CTO,

Re: [Foundation-l] Why is the software out of reach of the community?

2009-01-16 Thread Brion Vibber
On 1/15/09 11:19 AM, Brian wrote: > Chad, > > What more would you like me to do, specifically? The first things that would help would be: 1) Stop looking to blame someone for past wrongs 2) Think of something that *would* actually help, and do that When a discussion starts in a negative directio

[Foundation-l] Now hiring for Wikipedia Usability Initiative

2009-01-08 Thread Brion Vibber
provements into the live Wikipedia environment and general MediaWiki releases over the course of the project. -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org) CTO, Wikimedia Foundation San Francisco ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikistats is back

2009-01-05 Thread Brion Vibber
On 12/24/08 3:31 PM, Brian wrote: > I am still quite shocked at the amount of time the english wikipedia takes > to dump, especially since we seem to have close links to folks who work at > mysql. To me it seems that one of two things must be the case: > > 1. Wikipedia has outgrown mysql, in the se

Re: [Foundation-l] Don't know how linked we still are with wikia...

2009-01-05 Thread Brion Vibber
On 1/4/09 5:19 PM, effe iets anders wrote: > But was that connection close enough (even in the old days) to > complain here about copyright violations there? I think Tim had a good > point here :P *nod* The Wikimedia Foundation is not, and has never been, involved with Wikia in a capacity which

Re: [Foundation-l] Some Ideas About Technical Stuff/Community Relations Improvements

2008-12-11 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brion Vibber wrote: > Please see my reply on wikitech-l. :) Archive link: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2008-December/040611.html (Cross-posting is great for announcements, but trouble for discussions... :D) - -- brion -BE

Re: [Foundation-l] Some Ideas About Technical Stuff/Community Relations Improvements

2008-12-11 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please see my reply on wikitech-l. :) - -- brion -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklBi9kACgkQwRnhpk1wk448zgCglH2kYGVgYK9OH86J1SSLPs0C PrcAoN2WXXns

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Commons-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening

2008-12-08 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Commons provides no benefit except for sharing the same picture to people > who do not read / write English. They cannot possibly find pictures and > consequently for them Commons is useless. That's simply ridiculous.

Re: [Foundation-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening

2008-12-08 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bryan Tong Minh wrote: > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Dennis During <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there not a record of what projects actually link to commons material? If >> not, why not >> > > There is none because nobody made one. > > There

Re: [Foundation-l] Site notice suggestion needed.

2008-12-05 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:52 PM, effe iets anders > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm >> >> More then 10 billion page views per month... (or 3900 page views per second) > > 2

Re: [Foundation-l] Moving towards a more usable MediaWiki

2008-12-02 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [snip] We're already aware of the UNICEF study & extensions and will be reviewing them alongside other ongoing usability testing and development projects throughout 2009. - -- brion -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] FlaggedRevs status/news?

2008-12-02 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dovi Jacobs wrote: > Hi, we've entered December. Has my worry has come true, namely that > interim discussion of localization would send the request to > never-never land? No, localization is not at issue here and never has been. You're in the queue:

Re: [Foundation-l] EN Wikipedia Editing Statistics

2008-12-01 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nathan wrote: > Wow, someone had more than 10,000 edits in February of 2002. That's probably "Conversion script". :) - -- brion -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.or

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2008-11-29 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Do not forget the als.wikipedia.org. It stands for Alsatian, but the als > code is the Tosk language. The "gsw" code is the code that should have been > used. > http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=gsw Addin

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Language codes to rename

2008-11-29 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raimond Spekking wrote: > Another two candidates: > > 1) zh-yue -> yue. See bug 8217 and Names.php: > > 'yue' => '粵語', # Cantonese -- (bug 8217) yue instead of zh-yue, > http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/codes.asp?order=639_3&letter=y > > 2) zh-min

[Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2008-11-25 Thread Brion Vibber
aphy. There was later a request to rename 'be-x-old' (using a non-standard code) to 'be-tarask', a IANA-registered subtag which is rather more descriptive. IMHO this change should not be terribly controversial -- if we're not closing it, we may as well give it its offi

Re: [Foundation-l] Regarding the Fundraising Banner

2008-11-21 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bence Damokos wrote: > What I would like as well, if possible, is support from the technical side > to have detailed as detailed statistics about the different currencies as > there are for US dollar (e.g. the percentage of donations matching exactly

Re: [Foundation-l] Regarding the Fundraising Banner

2008-11-21 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 effe iets anders wrote: > Thank god that we have the Euro now, and don't have to choose between Dutch > Guilder and Belgian Frank for Dutch... (same goes for German etc) > > More of a challange seems Spanish to me nowadays :) > > but, back to french:

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] FlaggedRevs status/news?

2008-11-20 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dovi, you're already in the queue which is being worked through; should be done within the next few days. - -- brion Dovi Jacobs wrote: > Gerard, thank you for your kind comments. I think the system you have > set up at Betawiki is extraordinary, and