Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Building a new Legal and Community Advocacy Department & Promotion of Philippe Beaudette

2012-02-09 Thread Casey Brown
he broader group to the rest of the organization and bring up issues that they want dealt with. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia

2012-02-08 Thread Casey Brown
s are done, even if it's not officially stamped 'policy'". However, the process is described on-wiki already: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requesting_wiki_configuration_changes> -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mai

Re: [Foundation-l] Image file referendum Banners

2011-08-16 Thread Casey Brown
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Theo10011 wrote: > it is affecting local geo-tagged banners on a lot of projects. No, it's not, actually. It used to be kicking the WikiConference India banner out, but we tweaked it so that it's sharing space with it. -- Casey Bro

Re: [Foundation-l] The problem with Incubator: An interactive journey

2011-08-12 Thread Casey Brown
r how the interwiki bots would handle this... Let's just hope we get the Interlanguage extension up and running, and it'll be a moot point. ;-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsub

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2011 video on Commons?

2011-08-12 Thread Casey Brown
VDs) and mail it to the datacenter by snail mail. But RobH > can > tell you more about that option, should you need it. ...and just generally, if you have questions or need help while doing it, Roan's a really nice, approachable guy, so feel free to ask him offlis

Re: [Foundation-l] The problem with Incubator: An interactive journey

2011-08-08 Thread Casey Brown
what the article has to say, and then they see the link at the bottom and click on it. Much fewer steps, and at least a bit clearer/more logical. (This is actually what we do with many of the languages, at least on enwiki. See French for example: <http://en.wikipedia.org/w

Re: [Foundation-l] Question: Guidelines with regard to topics suitable for Geonotices

2011-07-30 Thread Casey Brown
something run by the English Wikipedia community. It's not related to CentralNotice or the Wikimedia Foundation, so they don't really determine the guidelines for its use -- enwiki's community does. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ fo

Re: [Foundation-l] Greg Kohs and Peter Damian

2011-07-23 Thread Casey Brown
illa.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25231> -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Question: Elmer Fudd Wikipedia?

2011-07-11 Thread Casey Brown
and they're looking into it. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] CDPedia

2011-07-02 Thread Casey Brown
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 9:42 AM, emijrp wrote: > Please, can you add CDPedia[1] (Spanish Wikipedia) to [2]? > I think these things are usually requested on Bugzilla so that the people who have the power to do it can find the request. -- Casey Brown Cbro

Re: [Foundation-l] No tail-lights. What do we do now? (was Call for referendum)

2011-07-02 Thread Casey Brown
They > observably don't - they want a source they can quickly look up > something in that they can reasonably trust to be useful. They only go > to multiple sources if that one starts sucking. As a reader, this is exactly my subconscious opinion. I'm glad you nailed ou

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

2011-06-19 Thread Casey Brown
ow protected: <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Cite_arxiv&action=history> -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

2011-06-19 Thread Casey Brown
changes page just for templates included in that article. Hope this helps! -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Election results?

2011-06-17 Thread Casey Brown
s in the current hands, but it did also point out others it > likes, and we should be sure to keep engaging them at the > movement-wide strategy level. Most of these people are already involved in the foundation and meta-level, which is why they ran for the board in the first place.

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections email

2011-06-14 Thread Casey Brown
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Andrew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Casey Brown wrote: >> It would be a good idea for someone to make a list of things that need >> to be done/were done to make your job easier in the future. >> Pathoschild, do you reme

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections email

2011-06-14 Thread Casey Brown
ks to Andrew for doing the e-mail!) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia at events

2011-06-02 Thread Casey Brown
ify what the difference is, if any. Then again, maybe it's okay if the two overlap. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] OTRS

2011-06-02 Thread Casey Brown
under pretty much all circumstances. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language (Milos Rancic)

2011-05-27 Thread Casey Brown
y first, and then allow the user to slowly bootstrap their > language sophistication from there? I think Wikiversity would love a English literacy course, if they don't have one already. :-) Their general discussion page is here: <http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Colloquium&

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native...

2011-05-22 Thread Casey Brown
se same characters for other words and meanings. Indeed, it doesn't mean that necessarily. However, your analogy doesn't apply in this situation and Nikola was right. Many of the Chinese languages share a common writing system and only differ in th

Re: [Foundation-l] Referent list of wikis?

2011-05-22 Thread Casey Brown
ered to remove it. I'm pretty sure Swiss German merged all of its projects into Wikipedia, not just Wikinews. They requested the closure of the other domains (e.g. als.wiktionary.org, als.wikibooks.org) and merged them back into als.wikipedia.org because that worked better for their commu

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

2011-05-17 Thread Casey Brown
nds." :-) It already redirects there, though we don't want to advertise that we have a "link shortener" because the 404 page redirects. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubs

Re: [Foundation-l] User talk page email notification

2011-05-14 Thread Casey Brown
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Orionist wrote: > What is the default position by the way? I checked my preferences on enwiki and the box was checked, so I would assume the default is for it to be checked. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundatio

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

2011-05-09 Thread Casey Brown
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Huib Laurens wrote: > 2011/5/9 Casey Brown : >> I believe it's Rob Halsell.  I forwarded Thomas's original e-mail to >> him yesterday to see if he could do anything to help; we'll see what >> he says. :-) > > But we are st

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

2011-05-09 Thread Casey Brown
n registration at the WMF? > I believe it's Rob Halsell. I forwarded Thomas's original e-mail to him yesterday to see if he could do anything to help; we'll see what he says. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing

Re: [Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

2011-04-09 Thread Casey Brown
ers avoid because it's not part of the WMF matrix (i.e., SUL doesn't > apply).  With that in mind, I wonder if there can be a place where projects > discuss what has helped and not helped, located somewhere on Meta. Since when does SUL not apply on strategy

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for moderation of Dan Rosenthal and Andrew Garrett

2011-04-04 Thread Casey Brown
me an e-mail, Sun, 3 Apr 2011 05:26, [snip] And he has since stopped after nearly all of the other list members who responded disagreed with his comments, so there's no need to bring it up again and try to cause more problems. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] LiquidThreads redesign?

2011-04-01 Thread Casey Brown
I asked Brandon Harris, one of the Foundation developers working on this, and here's what he said: -- Forwarded message -- From: Brandon Harris Date: Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 3:42 PM Subject: Re: Fwd: [Foundation-l] LiquidThreads redesign? To: Casey Brown        I

Re: [Foundation-l] keeping localization in mind

2011-03-23 Thread Casey Brown
We might end up choosing one tool for one request, a different tool for another request, etc. A major step is getting the extension reviewed first, though. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Uns

Re: [Foundation-l] please announce translations earlier

2011-03-23 Thread Casey Brown
ight be hard for you to find two hours in a row to actually do it right away. We do try to give as much time as possible. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Editors survey and gender

2011-03-23 Thread Casey Brown
igh priority. It wasn't "mislabeled", why would you think that it was? The nouns in many languages have genders, and the default for that case is almost always male. It's not very fair, but females are used to it. :-) It certainly wasn't &quo

Re: [Foundation-l] Editors survey and gender

2011-03-22 Thread Casey Brown
ommunity translations manager to see if they have any way to support that type of feature. It's important to remember, though, that we don't really have any easy way of getting their gender from the wiki they're on. Even if this were enabled i

Re: [Foundation-l] wiki for interwiki (was: Foundation too passive)

2011-03-21 Thread Casey Brown
list. If not, the rest of the thread can be read here: <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/51883> -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy and translations

2011-03-19 Thread Casey Brown
r similar pdf "updated version" uploaded, but can't seem to remember if I actually saw it or where it was. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Job openings - Bugmeister

2011-03-15 Thread Casey Brown
it was. I'm CCing him if you have any questions. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] About the catastrophy in Japan

2011-03-11 Thread Casey Brown
t 08:00 JST, so I expect most of them to be coming online and giving updates soon. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] multilingual mailing list

2011-03-08 Thread Casey Brown
er than saying "Victor, speak English or stfu." :-) You use it to get a basic idea of what was said and then respond based on that. In the few times that we've tried it, it hasn't been that much of an issue. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] multilingual mailing list

2011-03-08 Thread Casey Brown
uot;moderar". <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moderar> That seems to be the translate that mailman uses too. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] multilingual mailing list

2011-03-08 Thread Casey Brown
Translate to figure out what each other was saying and then we responded in our own language. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Steward election issues

2011-03-08 Thread Casey Brown
hat you still don't have a global account. ;-) That would really make everything so much easier! -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Steward election issues

2011-03-07 Thread Casey Brown
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Victor Vasiliev wrote: > Can we keep the election open while using the SecurePoll? I'm not sure, but do we need to keep it open? IIRC, there was some opposition to using open voting during this last election. -- Casey Brown Cb

Re: [Foundation-l] Steward election issues

2011-03-07 Thread Casey Brown
the SecurePoll extension that is used for board elections and enwiki ArbCom elections. The extension would bar people who did not meet the requirements from voting at all. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists

Re: [Foundation-l] 2006-2011: Mexican, Argentinian, Brazilian governments distance themselves from freedomdefined 1.0

2011-03-06 Thread Casey Brown
vito a subscribirse a la lista de correo de Wikipedia en español: <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikies-l> ¡Espero que esto ayude! Casey -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubs

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF 2015 strategic plan and multilingualism

2011-03-05 Thread Casey Brown
e to have people working to make an updated priority list that they think we should use. :-) The metrics that Mark suggests are a great idea. Number of speakers, number of monolingual (or native) speakers, and size of the editing community would be great things to consider. -- Casey Brown Cbrown10

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF 2015 strategic plan and multilingualism

2011-03-05 Thread Casey Brown
#x27;d rather you translate into X", especially if we hadn't really researched how to make those priority lists? If you translate something into Hopi, Kunama, Irish, or Pirahã, it'll get published just as quickly as if you translate something into

Re: [Foundation-l] An agenda for the meeting of the language committee

2011-02-23 Thread Casey Brown
t none of them are in the "administrative committee" at this time. At least that's how I remember it being explained many threads ago. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] VPAT

2011-02-16 Thread Casey Brown
t to respond on the list so that everyone can see the answer -- sharing wisdom and making sure everyone learns things is good. :-) Christine probably didn't think the whole list would be interested in it and decided to respond off-list, which is fine... but based on the responses that she r

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

2011-02-16 Thread Casey Brown
hat is owned by Thomas, is enwp.org. :-) Thomas is just offering something that's already being used actively so that the Foundation can ensure it's up for a long time. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@li

Re: [Foundation-l] Ombudsman Commission

2011-01-30 Thread Casey Brown
ait. We also need to switch out the mailing list subscribers and update [[m:Ombudsman commission]]. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Questions about new Fellow

2011-01-21 Thread Casey Brown
Just as *any* community member is also an advisor to the Wikimedia > Foundation staff. Thank you, Florence. Other people did have the same question: <http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/#comment-6230>, so it's definitely a valid question and I'm glad we got t

Re: [Foundation-l] Central Notice is still not up?

2011-01-11 Thread Casey Brown
the system, but the banners aren't live yet. They should go live soon after they're done being built. Since the translations are all loaded in the system, the only thing we're waiting on is the banners themselves. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Again: January 15 retro?

2011-01-11 Thread Casey Brown
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Strainu wrote: > Doesn't replacing File:Wiki.png work on every wiki? > I don't think so, I think most of the logo paths are pointing to the v2 logo on Commons right now. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] Again: January 15 retro?

2011-01-11 Thread Casey Brown
g like this to the wiki's Common.js: #p-logo a { background: url(path) 35% 50% no-repeat !important; } -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-11 Thread Casey Brown
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Liam Wyatt wrote: >> Which one was it that was sung at the party in Alexandria? > > If memory serves it was "I will revise" to the tune of "I will survive". Yep: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/I_Will_

Re: [Foundation-l] How to contact the foundation's legal department?

2010-12-18 Thread Casey Brown
and how to make the best use of both the legal team and the interim GC's times. However, I wanted to make it clear that neither of them is really "wrong" or calling each other a liar. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

2010-10-12 Thread Casey Brown
ough (or it could've been silently automatically discarded...). The best way to see if your message made it through to the list is to ask the list owner or someone on the list (e.g. Stu, stu at wikimedia dot org). -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___

Re: [Foundation-l] cross posted emails

2010-10-05 Thread Casey Brown
eeing is the one you received first, or maybe gmail just randomly picks one. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

2010-10-04 Thread Casey Brown
em... so now we're just waiting on a sysadmin to sit down and do them all. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Sakha Wikipedia passed 7000 articles

2010-08-27 Thread Casey Brown
me to think of it, it would be a great idea for the Language committee to reach out to Wikimedian experts from Asia/India, Africa, and South America and get them included. Membership drive, maybe? :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ founda

[Foundation-l] New mailing list: newprojects

2010-08-22 Thread Casey Brown
o are just interested in knowing about new wikis are welcomed to subscribe too. :-) [1]https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/newprojects [2]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix [3]http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Add_a_wiki -- Casey Brown

Re: [Foundation-l] Korean Wikinews created

2010-08-20 Thread Casey Brown
could it be because the language code is three letters (frr) and not two like all of the other projects that have been created recently? Or can you think of any other reason that it wouldn't work? Was this project created differently at all? --

Re: [Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011

2010-08-11 Thread Casey Brown
tice to ar wikis and other wikis to selected IPs? (Does GeoIP > work?) Not at the moment, but Tomasz and Ryan at the Foundation are working on getting this working. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lis

Re: [Foundation-l] Partecipation in Wikimania 2011

2010-08-11 Thread Casey Brown
ikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Passport_stamping> -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Why should Wikimedians meet?

2010-07-31 Thread Casey Brown
Days&oldid=7240> * <http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hacking_days> * <http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hacking_days> * <http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Days> -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l ma

Re: [Foundation-l] Banner ads in sitenotice

2010-07-29 Thread Casey Brown
be proficient in English to work at the Foundation. However, the notice can be translated into whatever language anyone wants, because it's not really nice to have a big notice at the top of your wiki in a different language... it's rude and sticks out like a sore thumb. :-)

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-07-27 Thread Casey Brown
ause they've been reviewed and corrected by a human. But if the program were being used by a human who speaks the language, wouldn't it be *pull* translation and not *push* translation? -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mai

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-07-24 Thread Casey Brown
some try to tackle the subject scholarly, some probably don't focus on blame (see the article's commentary on Japanese/Spanish views of accidental events), etc. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-07-24 Thread Casey Brown
attempt of "push" translation will be almost the disaster... > ...and we need to remember that most articles are *not* translations of the English article, but are home-grown on the wiki and use their own sources in their own language. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 __

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiktionary-l] Adopting OmegaWiki as Wikimedia project

2010-07-19 Thread Casey Brown
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > (Just poking foundation-l, please continue with discussion at > wiktionary-l, or, better, at Meta [1]) > Can you make sure that you leave a note on most Wiktionaries notifying them of this discussion too? -- Casey Brown C

Re: [Foundation-l] Boycott in a...@wiki

2010-07-18 Thread Casey Brown
to mention that that was after an edit war and the blocking of a few stewards and global sysops. *That's* why they were desysoped, not because they had a view conflicting with ours. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundatio

Re: [Foundation-l] small Wikipedia projects - follow-up to Jimmy Wales' talk

2010-07-18 Thread Casey Brown
nk's job description (he's "Head of Public Outreach" for the Wikimedia Foundation), so maybe he can help provide some other examples and general tips for people doing this type of think. (CC'd) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Money, politics and corruption

2010-07-14 Thread Casey Brown
ve a > timeline for when her talk will be available for viewing? It was streamed while the conference was going on, but if you missed that, the presentations should be imported to Commons by either Rob or Roan within the next few weeks. (It's a ton of content. Last I heard

Re: [Foundation-l] Money, politics and corruption

2010-07-14 Thread Casey Brown
#x27;m sure she was mentioning it in spirit -- basically "you can see we're interested in whistleblowers and have this protection/policy already in place for our employees; anyone else should feel free to report any issues they think exi

Re: [Foundation-l] Money, politics and corruption

2010-07-14 Thread Casey Brown
riority and often does. <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Reports_to_the_Board> Anyway, I'm not sure you understood the meaning behind that e-mail quote. Gerard was just pointing out something, he wasn't criticizing anyone for not reporting.

Re: [Foundation-l] Country portals

2010-06-18 Thread Casey Brown
write them down. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Country portals

2010-06-17 Thread Casey Brown
iki/Country_portals> and I'd appreciate it if you made sure that your local portal is on there. If you know anything about portals, please add to the page. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Serbia billboard campaign

2010-06-17 Thread Casey Brown
Serbia. They wanted to incorporate their art project into > Wikimedia Serbia projects and we've found that it is a great idea. The > project's site is likilink.org [2][3][4]. > Just want to say that this is very cool and awesome. :-) The simplistic site is also very co

Re: [Foundation-l] Floating a notion: permanent Wikimania committee?

2010-06-17 Thread Casey Brown
r 2011. I know that the Haifa team is definitely interested in this. Last I heard, they were actively reaching out to previous organizers so that they could meet them in Gdansk and get feedback/tips. (They've also been setting up planning information on the existing wikimaniateamwiki.) -- Ca

Re: [Foundation-l] Creating articles in small wikipedias based on user requirement

2010-06-14 Thread Casey Brown
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Casey Brown wrote: > Actually, I think Jussi-Ville's comment was very useful > For the record, I was talking about the point behind Jussi-Ville's post and not about his colorful characterization of "top-posters," which was really no

Re: [Foundation-l] Creating articles in small wikipedias based on user requirement

2010-06-13 Thread Casey Brown
ntly have no idea exactly what Gerard is replying to and it would be useful if he at least snipped everything but what he was responding to. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://li

Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] Fwd: Are Wikimedia websites a proper venue for an artistic contest ?

2010-06-12 Thread Casey Brown
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 11:51 AM, geni wrote: > see: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Valued_images Oops, *this* is what I meant when I was talking about Quality Images. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mai

Re: [Foundation-l] Are Wikimedia websites a proper venue for an artistic contest ?

2010-06-12 Thread Casey Brown
There are also other things, like "quality images" <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:QI>, which look more at how valuable the image subject is, rather than how good the picture itself is. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundat

Re: [Foundation-l] Subscription to the Wikimedia Announcements list for foundation-l

2010-06-03 Thread Casey Brown
; remember correctly though :). > There *is* a mailing list setting (something like "receive my own posts"), but some e-mail servers (like gmail) won't let you see your own messages even with that set. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 _

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Updating strings for FlaggedRevs for the Flagged Protection/Pending Revisions/Double Check launch

2010-05-22 Thread Casey Brown
follow it now. :-) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2010: Call for Participation Extended

2010-05-22 Thread Casey Brown
. (Pacific Time) See the Call for Participation for more details: http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/CFP Thank you for helping make Wikimania 2010 a successful event. :-) See you in Gdansk, July 9-11! With best regards, Wikimania Team -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023

Re: [Foundation-l] Along with Vector, a new look for changes to the Wikipedia identity

2010-05-14 Thread Casey Brown
d be localizing anymore until we figure out if the logo is going to be updated to include the suggested changes (which I think it will be). -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://list

Re: [Foundation-l] On Wikimania locations

2010-05-12 Thread Casey Brown
; foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Statement on appropriate educational content

2010-05-08 Thread Casey Brown
technically simple. > I definitely agree that this would be the best solution. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] What the board is responsible of (was Re: Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions)

2010-05-08 Thread Casey Brown
might be useful here: <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_member> -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Statement on appropriate educational content

2010-05-08 Thread Casey Brown
uot;Sex, Penis, Vagina, etc." categories. If you're a Muslim, you can check a box so you don't see images in Category:Muhammad. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Threading

2010-05-08 Thread Casey Brown
x27;re replying to and put that as the subject for the new e-mail you create. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Time to reset the 'founder' flag-- Jimbo is no longer a viable king.

2010-05-08 Thread Casey Brown
could make decisions on tough issues and ask others to do, but those others would be able to review and confirm things for themselves before taking sudden, unilateral actions. You also wouldn't have to worry about Jimmy desyopping you if blocked him for wheel-warring, for instance.

Re: [Foundation-l] Statement on appropriate educational content

2010-05-08 Thread Casey Brown
Huh? You're against giving people the choice to self-censor things that they don't want to see? =/ -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Time to reset the 'founder' flag-- Jimbo is no longer a viable king.

2010-05-08 Thread Casey Brown
cision out himself? With the position of "godking", he can just ask a local user or steward to carry out the decision instead of doing it himself with a founder flag. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lis

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] 2011 delay

2010-04-25 Thread Casey Brown
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 1:22 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: > someone asked me about wikimania 2011 and I realized I only sent this > to wikimania-l -- sorry. > a.k.a. Sign up for Wikimania-l, foundation-lers! :P -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ fou

Re: [Foundation-l] Hello world. Update from Berlin.

2010-04-21 Thread Casey Brown
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:44 PM, K. Peachey wrote: > The miss {world/america} thing when the contestant made the comment > about the maps a few years ago? > Haha, looks like we have an Amazing Race watcher here. :P <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitlin_Upton#Infamous_response>

Re: [Foundation-l] Update on outreach projects

2010-04-14 Thread Casey Brown
ep, Marlita left. <http://wikimediafoundation.org/?diff=next&oldid=45549> I think she's now working as a "Technical Project Manager" at UC Berkeley. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] list o' image donations?

2010-03-16 Thread Casey Brown
not updated. <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Commons_partnerships> (That's the category, also see the first page in it.) -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.

Re: [Foundation-l] �lliam Pietri: Where is Flagge dRevisions?

2010-03-01 Thread Casey Brown
are relatively shorter, and I hope you guys could wait > for in a less pain. > Yes, but no one was contracted for work on SUL. People are being paid to work on *just* FlaggedRevs, it's not something that the tech team has to fit into their time to dev

Re: [Foundation-l] Werner Icking Music Archive may be closing

2010-02-28 Thread Casey Brown
c there. <http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Sheet_music> -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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