Re: [Foundation-l] Usability wiki

2011-01-29 Thread Chad
want to really underline this point. If it's MediaWiki related, it belongs on mediawiki.org. Moving things elsewhere fragments discussion and planning. I'm also lazy and don't want to look at other wikis ;-) -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing li

Re: [Foundation-l] Translatewiki illustrates how low internationalisation is in the priorities of the Wikimedia Foundation

2011-01-27 Thread Chad
he MediaWiki namespace. That has never changed. -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-12 Thread Chad
2011/1/12 Delphine Ménard : > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDT4s6yLwvg > > :D > > This was hilarious. > Obligatory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFxWhzJWJ4U -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Future donation drive suggestion

2011-01-02 Thread Chad
seems fairly drastic. However, because this may be a common > misconception, clarification should be made *somewhere*. > A blog post on the subject was posted back in early December. http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/12/09/what’s-in-a-name-in-the-case-of-‘wiki’-lots

Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-14 Thread Chad
0th anniversary. One of my favorite early edits: "This is the new WikiPedia! The idea here is to write a complete encyclopedia from scratch, without peer review process, etc. Some people think that this may be a hopeless endeavor, that the result will necessarily suck. We aren&#x

Re: [Foundation-l] Moderation (was: should not web server logs (of requests) be published?)

2010-11-30 Thread Chad
alled a troll." I'm also pretty sure I'm speaking for a not-insignificant number of people who are subscribed but who rarely (if ever) post. -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Anti-vandalism bot census

2010-11-30 Thread Chad
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Chad wrote: > MartinBot is missing, but it's was a clone of VoABot III, not sure how > you want to list that. > > There was another anti-vandal bot I remember someone running back > in '05 or so when I joined, but I can't remember th

Re: [Foundation-l] Anti-vandalism bot census

2010-11-30 Thread Chad
. > MartinBot is missing, but it's was a clone of VoABot III, not sure how you want to list that. There was another anti-vandal bot I remember someone running back in '05 or so when I joined, but I can't remember the name of it to save my life. -Chad _

Re: [Foundation-l] should not web server logs (of requests) be published?

2010-11-29 Thread Chad
d it doesn't need a board resolution at all :D -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] wikimedia fundraiser

2010-11-15 Thread Chad
wn once a year to having Viagra sit in the sidebar all year long :) -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Should we offer to host citizendium?

2010-11-12 Thread Chad
re is no reason that site shouldn't run on a moderately priced VPS. I'm talking in the $100/mo range, or less, even. -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] preferences statistics

2010-11-09 Thread Chad
old user_options column and into the user_props table, it makes it a w hole lot easier to measure these things. So we can do things like change defaults. Or even better, remove crappy preferences that most nobody uses \o/ -Chad ___ foundation-

Re: [Foundation-l] Ban and moderate

2010-10-22 Thread Chad
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Anthony wrote: > I would think the people who think this list is useless have already > unsubscribed. > I'm still here. I stay subscribed for the lulz. -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing lis

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

2010-10-20 Thread Chad
#wikimedia-roles, see the >> announcement on Foundation-l earlier). > > For Christ's sake, another channel? > Of course! It was pointed out earlier today that we probably need #wikimedia-irc-channels to coordinate the creation of new channels ;-) -Chad

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-19 Thread Chad
absolutely *nothing* to the vast majority of people out there. -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Free culture?

2010-10-19 Thread Chad
coverage > 10% pointless digressions > 10% snarky comments > 10% trolling Only 10% for trolling and pointless digressions? Sir, you give this list far too much credit. -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubs

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

2010-10-04 Thread Chad
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:02 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 4 October 2010 13:54, Chad wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Mariano Cecowski >> wrote: > >>> Would it be possible to change the source for editing and then back to be >>> stored? I can th

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation-l word cloud

2010-10-04 Thread Chad
copyright and ownership does apply to emails. > > > Not even within Commons level of copyright paranoia is a word count > chart encumbered. > I'm sure we can find somebody to debate it, if you'd like to go down that road ;-) Nemo: This is really cool! -Chad __

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

2010-10-04 Thread Chad
d > that should keep everyone happy, right? > Possible? Maybe...would need work. I guess it comes down to whether it's deemed to be worth the work or not. -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.or

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

2010-09-07 Thread Chad
n by all means do so. But don't sit here and make accusations that none of this was ever announced. That is simply not true. As Tim said, this feature was in development for years, and was no secret. The time for commenting has since passed, and I

Re: [Foundation-l] A proposal of partnership between Wikimedia Foundation and Internet Archive

2010-08-31 Thread Chad
oach that will take care of 90+% of the problem? > > Ryan Kaldari > Why once a year? We already get a successful externallinks dump every dump cycle. Even the enwiki one is only half a month old[0]. If someone wants to work with Internet Archive or anyone else on this, the data i

Re: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes update for July 28

2010-07-28 Thread Chad
discussion period wouldn't hurt--and would give people a chance to do some last-minute evaluation if they're on the fence. -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2010-07-16 Thread Chad
ut what they > are to do. > > The current talking TO them is not polite and will not lead to positive > results. +1 -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] 2010-11 Annual Plan Now Posted to FoundationWebsite

2010-07-01 Thread Chad
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:52 PM, geni wrote: > On 1 July 2010 09:58, John Vandenberg wrote: > >> Who is WMF competing with? >> > > Hudong > Or maybe Knol. Anyone remember Knol? -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list found

Re: [Foundation-l] Self-determination of language versions in questions of skin?

2010-06-30 Thread Chad
Modern, and issues in either get fixed rather quickly. It's only the old skins (Chic, Simple, CologneBlue) that have been forgotten. And that's hardly the WMF's fault...they're ignored by volunteer developers as well. -Chad ___ foun

Re: [Foundation-l] Gmail - List messages flagged as spam

2010-06-18 Thread Chad
oundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > A few of us noticed this several days back. If you check some of the blacklists, lists.wikimedia.org seems to have some people's naughty li

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

2010-06-13 Thread Chad
e else on the list, please allow me to thank you for bringing up this useless argument for the Nth time on this list. Bravo, truly. -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Community, collaboration, and cognitive biases

2010-06-11 Thread Chad
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:25 PM, wrote: > Chad, I'm hesitant to reply to your note, because I feel like "defending the > staff against the community" is a bad role for me: it tends to polarize and > divide, rather than helping us all work together well.  And I think I

Re: [Foundation-l] Community, collaboration, and cognitive biases

2010-06-11 Thread Chad
d there's absolutely no reason to sugarcoat it. If someone can't take public criticism, then quite frankly they probably shouldn't be working on open source software. -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

2010-06-07 Thread Chad
post can only being seen as an example of "agressive disrespect of other > cultures" by people who think happening to be born in the USA is an agressive > disrespect of other cultures.  Americans are people too! > > Birgitte SB > > This post can be seen as furthering an OT

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

2010-06-05 Thread Chad
good job of judging and implementing community consensus, and saying that some things aren't negotiable sets a bad precedence. Of course I don't suggest we start a revert war in SVN over it, but I do think that Trevor's revert should be backed out and the full list restored until a be

Re: [Foundation-l] Archivage down?

2010-06-05 Thread Chad
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Yann Forget wrote: > Hello, > > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-June/ > Why is there no message after Thu Jun 3 06:59:53 UTC 2010? > > Thanks, > > Yann > See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikip

Re: [Foundation-l] Renaming "Flagged Protections"

2010-05-23 Thread Chad
Oh why not? We end up with great features like the Spam Blacklist ;-) -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Renaming "Flagged Protections"

2010-05-22 Thread Chad
> As a third party, I would love to see both of you stick to this and follow the bet through to payout, one way or the other. :) -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] FlaggedRevs - Do you forget about other projects?

2010-05-21 Thread Chad
years are vastly different, and trying to reuse aspects of one in the other (especially messages!) will just confuse people already happily using FR. -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] FlaggedRevs - Do you forget about other projects?

2010-05-21 Thread Chad
e between the meaning of "sighted" and "checked" or "review" and "approved." These differences may be subtle, but they do matter. And it should not fall on the communities to "fix" translations that have worked just fine for quit

Re: [Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

2010-05-20 Thread Chad
7;t know). In any case, I think Mike knows how to do his own job. He is the lawyer after all, and the overwhelming majority of us are not. -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Visual impairment

2010-05-16 Thread Chad
n third party servers. > > Yes, reCaptcha does. However iirc it has been rejected in the past because > of both the reliance on 3rd party servers and not all the code is open. > - Chris > Yes, and I think that makes it pretty much a non-starter for both reasons. No

Re: [Foundation-l] Motives?

2010-05-12 Thread Chad
Adam: You've been repeating yourself for days and haven't added anything new to the conversation. Until you can come up with something worthwhile to say, please stop posting to foundation-l on the subject. -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list found

[Foundation-l] [OT] Am I the only one...

2010-05-09 Thread Chad
...who hopes posting limits will be enforced this month? -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo Wales acting outside his remit

2010-05-08 Thread Chad
t least an eye-witness report >>published in a reliable source. The image could, of course, be used >>appropriately to illustrate an article on caricatures or something about >>anti-catholicism. > >>Fred Bauder > Adam can you please stop starting a new thre

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible project

2010-04-29 Thread Chad
27;ve seen used is trying to get the Foundation to "adopt" some existing project. This also tends to fail as people get caught up over specifics (licensing, etc) and then lose interest. Or it gets said that Wikimedia is not a "host*" for projects. I'm curious to know, how

Re: [Foundation-l] How to reply to a mailing list thread

2010-03-30 Thread Chad
/ it would produce a bunch of "I agree"s and "I'll post how I want"s and go nowhere useful at all. Lame. -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia e-mail

2010-03-28 Thread Chad
re they'll be just as trustworthy as that prince in Nigeria I've been forwarding my bank details to. -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Pt-Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-03-24 Thread Chad
s > this problem which have been kept from seeing the > light of day, for untold reasons. > > It might be worthwhile to open a page where the > discussion could be centralized.» > > Like Chad pointed out, even within this > discussion, there have been posts suggesting > se

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Pt-Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-03-23 Thread Chad
n-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > It requires you to take initiative to start the page and try to draw others into a discussion. You don't need anyone's permission to do that

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is fun

2010-03-07 Thread Chad
ng list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > Some revisions from a long time ago don't exist anymore. Such is life. -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] FlaggedRevisions status (March 2010)

2010-03-04 Thread Chad
Even better is [1], since it includes commits to FlaggedRevs other than Aaron's. -Chad [1] http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki?path=/trunk/extensions/FlaggedRevs On Mar 4, 2010 1:20 PM, "William Pietri" wrote: On 03/04/2010 09:59 AM, David Gerard wrote: > Wil

Re: [Foundation-l] FlaggedRevisions status (March 2010)

2010-03-04 Thread Chad
] > http://usability.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resources#Interaction_testing_automation > -- > Erik Möller > Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > ___ > fo

Re: [Foundation-l] Texas Instruments signing key controversy

2010-03-03 Thread Chad
looking on the other sites that seem to be posting it. I don't see how posting their signing keys helps anyone trying to learn about the company. This sounds like a new case of "we want to post it because they don't want it posted" -Chad ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-21 Thread Chad
ide to handling copyright questions" together? It would probably help a lot of people who are unclear on some points, as well as help remove some grey areas (like the scenario that brought us here now). This may be a terrible idea, but I'm just throwing it out there. -Chad

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

2010-02-19 Thread Chad
are creations by Wikimedians, then hopefully they are under a free license. They should be uploaded to Commons and organized, if so! -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedic OCD

2010-02-19 Thread Chad
; thought becomes overwhelming. > > I just wonder if I'm alone. > > User:Bodnotbod > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/founda

Re: [Foundation-l] sell wikipedia

2010-01-21 Thread Chad
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Peter Gervai wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 14:01, Chad wrote: > >> I can second the WikiReader! But yes: we do not charge for access to >> our content. Both the sites and the database dumps are usable without >> any charges, and have

Re: [Foundation-l] sell wikipedia

2010-01-21 Thread Chad
: we do not charge for access to our content. Both the sites and the database dumps are usable without any charges, and have been since inception. If people want to do things with that content--download, analyze, sell, create a business model around it--they're all certainly allowed to do that, as lon

Re: [Foundation-l] WSJ on Wikipedia

2009-11-26 Thread Chad
We had that. They called themselves the "Association of Member's Advocates." They were disbanded because everyone saw them as a huge waste of time with 0 net benefit. -Chad On Nov 26, 2009 8:56 PM, wrote: I already pointed out that you cannot impose "friendliness".

Re: [Foundation-l] WSJ on Wikipedia

2009-11-23 Thread Chad
__ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > The topic is about the WSJ's writings about Wikipedian participation. That is all. -Chad ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-02 Thread Chad
or not the sky is blue sounds like a better debate, even. -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Font support for our domains

2009-10-30 Thread Chad
ion-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@li

Re: [Foundation-l] Office move completed

2009-10-27 Thread Chad
___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > We can manage to create 3d copies of the globe but we can't manage to fix the logo? For shame ;-) In all seriousness, new offi

Re: [Foundation-l] Improving foundation-l

2009-10-01 Thread Chad
ced nothing else in the last 4 years, it's that Wikimedians have very short attention spans when it comes to these sorts of things. We all talk about our bright and shiny ideal future and throw around a few ideas. Someone starts a page (or an entire wiki) to discussing the issue. People edit

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

2009-09-29 Thread Chad
gt; foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > I could be very wrong (and Erik feel free to correct if I am), but I think he was referring to scaling in a completely technical sense of the term, no

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

2009-09-28 Thread Chad
t: we can finally put the name confusion to rest ;-) In all seriousness though. Brion: best of luck on the new job and with future endeavors. You will be missed greatly by both devs and Wikimedians alike. And you'll still have commit access, so I hope to keep seeing "Revert

Re: [Foundation-l] CheckUser Abuse

2009-09-27 Thread Chad
ion-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > You've stated this. You've been told to contact the Ombudsmen if there's an issue. No need to re-state yourself (again) on foundation-l. -Chad ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Use of moderation

2009-09-24 Thread Chad
Exactly. Its certainly closer to realization now than it has been in the past. -Chad On Sep 24, 2009 9:11 AM, "Liam Wyatt" wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Chad wrote: > It is in usable conditio... > The current testing of LiquidThreads and tweaking of the interface

Re: [Foundation-l] Use of moderation

2009-09-24 Thread Chad
It is in usable condition ;-) -Chad On Sep 24, 2009 3:37 AM, "David Gerard" wrote: 2009/9/24 Jonathan Kallay : > It seems to me that a new Wikipedia-inspired project could help address > the many civility/noise... > Thoughts? Feature suggestions for LiquidThreads? That&#

Re: [Foundation-l] Expert board members - a suggestion

2009-09-16 Thread Chad
y much every dump was failing. They've got all but one dump for one wiki working, and that's still being worked on too. What more would you ask? -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2009-09-10 Thread Chad
The only part of that budget that makes sense to me is the legal fees, and they're certainly not a back-breaking amount either. -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2009-09-04 Thread Chad
moved all artifacts of alien technology." This part was a joke (I think). Specifically, he was joking about some people's tendencies to find conspiracy theories when none exist. -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2009-09-04 Thread Chad
/lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > I'm guessing this means our inside guys at the DOJ and DOD have done their jobs and can be disposed of now? I'll be on the next plane to Bangkok to meet with our friend about the thing. -Chad ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Akahele: Omidyar venturing out

2009-09-01 Thread Chad
d's e-mail and then find that I should not have bothered. In all seriousness, allow me to echo Brian on this. It may not be your opinion on the matter, but Gregory is certainly allowed to share his and doesn't need to suffer a berating on foundation-l for expressing it. -Chad _

Re: [Foundation-l] 31 august, 20 years of our national holiday "Our romanian language" in Moldova, mo.wikipedia still in cyrillic !

2009-09-01 Thread Chad
razy) there's no reason for the staff not to implement it. The real decision here is for the community. -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] moderate this list

2009-08-28 Thread Chad
> > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > Maybe so, but the threads you have contributed to contain quite a number of posts

Re: [Foundation-l] moderate this list

2009-08-28 Thread Chad
This list has really high traffic (depending on season, it fluctuates a bit) and it can be a bit overwhelming at times. Moderation isn't the answer though. The signal to noise ratio here remains fairly decent, so we wouldn't really gain anything through moderation (except some very tired m

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

2009-08-27 Thread Chad
;diff=310409846&oldid=310396138 > (content > dispute) > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kareli,_Georgia&curid=18661674&diff=310409393&oldid=310348062 > (vandalism, > I think) > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victoria_Justice

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

2009-08-25 Thread Chad
gt; his fork (Omidyar Network). > > -- > Gregory Kohs > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > Wow. Justwow. Wikimedia, this really r

Re: [Foundation-l] Raw data of 2009 Board election ballots

2009-08-25 Thread Chad
man/listinfo/foundation-l > I'm pretty sure the reason it hasn't been released has nothing to do with malice or officially suppressing the record. I think it has more to do with laziness (or lack of time) on part of those who do possess the recording. Unprofessio

Re: [Foundation-l] Closure of projects

2009-08-24 Thread Chad
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/8/24 Chad : >> The only user requirement for this is that a shell user has to >> perform the actual decision. The community makes the decisions >> about opening/closing new projects, and the sysadmins carry &

Re: [Foundation-l] Closure of projects

2009-08-24 Thread Chad
gt; ___ >> > foundation-l mailing list >> > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > >> _

Re: [Foundation-l] New projects opened

2009-08-20 Thread Chad
to clean it up or close it. We tout the "Wikipedia in 270 languages" statistic quite often, and it's something that is seen as an accomplishment. I would rather see how many Wikipedias we have that are successes--measured in terms of growth and a supportive community (of both readers and writers). What good is a Revised-Lower-Eastern-Phoenician Wikipedia if nobody uses it? -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Lack of research on Wikipedia

2009-08-20 Thread Chad
we've got now. Of course, nobody wants that number to go down--article milestones are great PR. We've just celebrated 3mil, and it would be rough for the community to see 2.8mil tomorrow :) -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Missing audio of WMF Board candidates

2009-08-17 Thread Chad
ta dumps. A private podcast produced by individual volunteers is under zero obligations to meet any sort of deadlines. I don't see what you expect the Foundation or the Election Committee to do about a privately produced podcast. Now, is it ideal? Of course not...it'd be like one of the

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

2009-08-13 Thread Chad
list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > As long as all sites are getting treated equally, it's fine in my book. I only take issue when results are skewed because Google bumps results up/down arbitrarily

Re: [Foundation-l] Election Results

2009-08-12 Thread Chad
___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > Well, the raw data is certainly available, but more involved statistics will take someone with time and a

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

2009-08-12 Thread Chad
_ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > This is a very true point. To people not in the industry, there seems to be little distinction b

Re: [Foundation-l] Election Results

2009-08-12 Thread Chad
ne, perhaps any official announcement about the elections > (i.e. on the Wikimedia blog and in press releases) should address this, even > if only tacitly. > > Steven Walling > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Chad wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Philippe >&g

Re: [Foundation-l] Election Results

2009-08-12 Thread Chad
h this process.  The > committee extends its gratitude and thanks to them > > > For the committee, > Philippe > > > > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > Congrat

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Election vote strikes

2009-08-12 Thread Chad
ectable! >> >> > It's also refreshing to see people who accept their share of > responsibility when something has gone.  Kudos to both of you for such > rare kind of behaviour. > > > Ec > > __

Re: [Foundation-l] GLAM-WIKI report

2009-08-12 Thread Chad
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Chad wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Brianna > Laugher wrote: >> Re GLAM repositories as a MediaWiki repo, I don't know enough on the >> tech side to know if it is even a remotely feasible idea. But on the >> 'social&#x

Re: [Foundation-l] GLAM-WIKI report

2009-08-12 Thread Chad
are certainly feasible with the current code base; it's not going to require some massive re-write of anything. -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2009-08-08 Thread Chad
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > > * ensure that the developers have what they need and are coding smoothly > Personally, I'm just waiting for Mediawiki to become self-aware and start coding itself :) -Chad __

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Policy Interlingual Coordinationn - WP:NOT

2009-08-06 Thread Chad
Then ask him/her about it off list. This has nothing to do with foundation-l. -Chad On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:54 AM, mizusumashi wrote: > Hello, Huib. > > O.K.  I promise to stop this if Jade would declare her/his edit history > or other activity - I think it's very very easy -

[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Downtime due to network maintenance, Friday July 31st 12:00 UTC

2009-07-30 Thread Chad
Fowarding to Foundation-l, just so more people are in the loop and don't swarm #wikimedia-tech with "ZOMG SITE BROKEN!" :) -Chad -- Forwarded message -- From: Mark Bergsma Date: Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:35 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Downtime due to network maintenan

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-24 Thread Chad
> I'm speaking as a volunteer: go away, and take your thread with you. It is /not/ appropriate for foundation-l, period. It is obvious to everyone that this thread exists for solely one reason: for you to bitch and moan when you didn't get what you wanted on your timetabl

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-24 Thread Chad
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:24 PM, stevertigo wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Chad wrote: > >> I don't care who's proposing it, to be honest. My issue is that >> this thread does not belong on foundation-l, which others seem >> to agree since I first

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-24 Thread Chad
> foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > I don't care who's proposing it, to be honest. My issue is that this thread does not belong on foundation-l, which other

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

2009-07-23 Thread Chad
bscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > Not sure what this has to do with foundation-l, can this go back to wikien-l? -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Rest in Peace, Walter Cronkite

2009-07-17 Thread Chad
All, For those of you who have not read the news yet, Walter Cronkite, icon of the CBS Evening News, has passed away. We are the continuation of the media industry that he helped define in many ways. My thoughts are with his family. -Chad

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-17 Thread Chad
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > > On Jul 17, 2009, at 8:25 AM, Chad wrote: > >> Does anyone know the guy who owns enwp.org? >> >> That being said, enwp.org/?oldid=1234 does work :) >> >> -Chad > > > > (Asked whois.pi

Re: [Foundation-l] Attribution on small interactive devices and systems

2009-07-17 Thread Chad
dation-l > Yes it does, enwp.org/?oldid=60372135 should redirect you to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?oldid=60372135 which is a 2006 revision of [[Old-Timers' Day]] (thanks Special:Random). -Chad ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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