Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Stopping the presses: Britannica to stop printing books

2012-03-14 Thread Domas Mituzas
> did you use print encyclopedias as a kid? Oh yes. I especially loved #6 of Lithuanian Soviet Encyclopedia http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaizdas:Lietuviskoji_tarybine_enciklopedija_resize.jpg - L* had airplanes and M* had automobiles ;) B* had whales (hence my obsession with Exploding Whale art

[Foundation-l] Wikimedia domains, SOPA, Godaddy and MarkMonitor

2012-03-10 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! I hereby congratulate Wikimedia Foundation switching domains from pro-SOPA Godaddy to MarkMonitor. Not that many people know, but MarkMonitor is ahead of the industry in anti-piracy fight: * They have systems to do real-time content filtering for ISPs, that stop peer-to-peer piracy. * They p

Re: [Foundation-l] Blink tag jokes are now obsolete.

2012-01-03 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! [...] > I'd say (nearly?) everyone was pretty surprised when I sort of hemmed [...] Mark wrote it very much the way I feel about it - I talk to lots of people, and they've been donating in early days or few years ago, but they stopped donating lately - and they are still reading our annual

[Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?

2011-10-27 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! we recently did some practice on italian wikipedia, are we going to protest IP legislation in US by taking down English Wikipedia? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/disastrous-ip-legislation-back-%E2%80%93-and-it%E2%80%99s-worse-ever Domas ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Is random article truly random

2011-10-18 Thread Domas Mituzas
Short answer: no Long answer: we have uneven chances for different pages to show up. It is based on the idea that every page gets inserted into discreetly random position in a certain linear space, so you end up with [[Poisson distribution]], which from a distance seems to return stuff randoml

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-05 Thread Domas Mituzas
> The only thing we truly could do is restore read access. But if the > it.wikipedia community really wants to strike, there's very little we > can do to stop them. :) I sure agree with that. There're plenty of ways to inflict pain without terminating the service entirely. Editor strike means no

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-05 Thread Domas Mituzas
> Regardless, what's done is done, for > the moment. Except that WMF as steward of the open information can roll any of that blackout crap back. Primary mission is spreading the knowledge, and now it.wikipedia obviously fails at it. Domas ___ foundat

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

2011-09-12 Thread Domas Mituzas
> For starters, they weren't happy with the server maintenance by WMF. They > couldn't get essential components deployed for 2 years or so. for every wikinews pageview there're 1600 english wikipedia pageviews. oh, and 60% of wikinews pageviews come from bots (wikipedias are at around 10% bot t

Re: [Foundation-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave

2011-08-16 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > Here's the conclusion I've come to though. We need to get the software > good enough, and simple enough, that it is firmly in the background. OK! > Mediawiki is like an old DOS computer that constantly drags you into > programing mode, particularly if you fork. Yes, especially if you actu

Re: [Foundation-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave

2011-08-15 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > That technical staff have effective power to decide whether a fork is > justified is reason enough. If you tried reading more of the message than just From: header, you wouldn't write this bullshit. The whole topic is about ease of forking, and: a) Member of technical staff did not alle

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

2011-06-18 Thread Domas Mituzas
> What was it that lasted only a minute, Chris? Vandalism, probably. I've read an article that vandalism lasts about a minute! Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] Election results?

2011-06-17 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > I'm told volunteers are capable of editing wiki pages and posting to mailing > lists. I haven't been able to independently verify this, though. I'm told that some volunteers can be extremely obnoxious too. Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list fou

Re: [Foundation-l] Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects ...

2011-05-25 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > Domas your responses are not helpful at all. You are simply stirring the > pot to no point. Please stop. You forgot to tell if all of my responses or just some, and if there's really no point at all, or there might be some. Anyway, thanks for this helpful contribution! Domas ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects on May 24

2011-05-25 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > Domas, why so defensive? I'm contrarian in this case :) > unfeasible because of the work involved, but you can probably say that > without all the combative snark. Well, as with every downtime, there are way more issues* that end up uncovered and have to be looked at, and yet largest em

Re: [Foundation-l] Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects on May 24

2011-05-25 Thread Domas Mituzas
> Wikipedia going down without a temporary explanation page is roughly of the > same scale as apple.com going down with no explanation, google.com going > down with no explanation, microsoft.com going down with no explanation, and > so on. WHOAH THERE IS QUITE SOME SELF ENTITLEMENT THERE. Microso

Re: [Foundation-l] Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects on May 24

2011-05-25 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > That's... completely missing the point. Yes the specific errors faced were > unexpected or unforseen, BUT they were a* direct result* of the maintenance > between 13:00 and 14:00. I am simply passing on the feeling of our > readership; which was that the situation was badly communicated to t

Re: [Foundation-l] Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects on May 24

2011-05-25 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > The maintenance was planned, downtime was noted as possible. An error > message that reflects that seems, frankly, a good idea. There're lots of great ideas around the world, feeding the hungry and curing the cancer among them. > The response to what I thought to be a helpful suggestion

Re: [Foundation-l] Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects on May 24

2011-05-25 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > Huh? The downtime was expected during 13:00 and 14:00 UTC, or at least there > was an email warning of such things the day before... hardly unplanned or > unknown. there's a bit of a difference between maintenance window and expected downtime during it. Domas _

Re: [Foundation-l] Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects on May 24

2011-05-25 Thread Domas Mituzas
> > As you can see it refers to some unknown error. In this case the > maintentance was known and* pre-planned* for several days. technically this was unknown problem :) > A lot of people were confused by the outage and the error page was unhelpful > to them. This could have been mitigated simp

Re: [Foundation-l] Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects on May 24

2011-05-25 Thread Domas Mituzas
> priority task being to get the site working again. Maybe at some time > in the future, we will have enough 24/7 sysadmin manpower that we can > respond to any unplanned downtime in the way you suggest. But we don't > have that capability just yet. In future we will have five nines availability

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation has been prosecution in HK / 維基媒體基金會在香港被起訴

2011-03-25 Thread Domas Mituzas
> For all we know we have servers in Hong Kong. not that I'm aware of :) Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Announce] Brion Vibber to rejoin Wikimedia Foundation

2011-03-09 Thread Domas Mituzas
> if this is true, then we should > implement a better solution for foundation-level discussions in other > major language families. I nominate SJ to translate all emails. I saw him do that before, he's good! Brion would suggest Esperanto though. You two will have to fight it out. Domas ___

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

2011-02-18 Thread Domas Mituzas
> The '140 characters only' blogging platforms could probably implements > their own short syntax to support popular sites. 140 character blogging platforms could allow more characters. at wikipedia we support larger pages than 140 bytes, for example. Domas _

Re: [Foundation-l] fundraiser suggestion

2011-01-04 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > I don't think any of the fundraising banners that ran made it > substantially harder to access the information that people were coming try reading text when you got subversively blinking banner at the top of it. :-) Domas ___ foundation-l maili

Re: [Foundation-l] fundraiser suggestion

2011-01-03 Thread Domas Mituzas
Erik, > happy new year to you and to everyone! :-) Thanks for greetings, and even more thanks for such an effort in trying to address the concerns. > Asking a reader to make a donation is by definition a distraction from > what they came to do. Well, there's a single "maybe he will consider

Re: [Foundation-l] fundraiser suggestion

2011-01-01 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > I need not imply that the WMF depends on money. Or rather, "certain parts of WMF depends on certain amounts of money". > It's kind of obvious, isn't it? It is not obvious how much money is "urgent", more urgent than the need to read the article. It is not obvious how much money is s

[Foundation-l] fundraiser suggestion

2010-12-30 Thread Domas Mituzas
now that we have blinking banners, I'm sure we should try out how full-screen banners work, with "click to go to wikipedia". Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: [Foundation-l] Downtime error message turned into monolingual

2010-12-13 Thread Domas Mituzas
> > I think that's the only possible error response that you can deliver > from a Squid ACL. But a deny_info could be useful. Maybe Domas didn't > get up to the deny_info section in the manual ;) Would make a good joke, eh?! :) Domas ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Downtime error message turned into monolingual

2010-12-10 Thread Domas Mituzas
> Like you say, though, it's definitely a technical issue to be taken up > elsewhere. Where you will be told that this is 'working as intended'. & is usually sent in URLs by broken clients, so we block them as early as possible. Domas ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] the only site in the top X sites that doesn't sell you anything

2010-12-09 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > Much less people notice that among the most popular Wikipedia is the only > one that doesn't sell them anything We don't sell, we just hold reference material at ransom. Don't be too ecstatic, it comes with a cost. As for Alexa, it has the list polluted by multiple mega-company propertie

Re: [Foundation-l] excluding Wikipedia clones from searching

2010-12-09 Thread Domas Mituzas
On Dec 8, 2010, at 6:21 PM, Mike Dupont wrote: > Sounds like we need to have a notable search engine that includes only > "approved and allowed" sources, that would be nice to have. Sounds like a great community project, Wiki Search! Domas ___ founda

Re: [Foundation-l] Shopping-enabled Wikipedia pages

2010-12-04 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > But, should we care at all if Amazon hosts 1:1 content mirror and > gives to us some money? Maybe. It is probably first time our content is dumped into internet by internet property that has high(er?) search engine rankings, so users may be sent to different experience than one we try t

Re: [Foundation-l] Shopping-enabled Wikipedia pages

2010-12-04 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > Personally, I think that this is a good opportunity to get money from > payed ads. It is not even on Wikimedia servers. I don't think that any ads-supported 1:1 content mirror (I don't see much added value atm, we have some kind of book source support already) is any good opportunity to g

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

2010-11-29 Thread Domas Mituzas
> Those with the passwords do whatever they feel like > and are accountable to no one? yup! Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2010-11-29 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > It's isn't my policy, it's our policy. Who is 'we', whom do you represent? :-) > If you don't know to what I refer, then perhaps you can read up on it. You didn't tell what you represent and what policy you talk about, I don't know where to read about it. > As far as citing the archiv

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

2010-11-29 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > Go on record, then I'll cite you. > An email list is not a citable source, per our policy. Why would I care about your policy? Which policy is 'our' policy? Why does it apply to anything here? > However a page on the server is citable. > So put your reputation up for view, then you'll be

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

2010-11-29 Thread Domas Mituzas
> Humans are not citable sources, per our policy. This isn't Wikipedia, this is Wikimedia. You can cite me, if you want. Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/f

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

2010-11-29 Thread Domas Mituzas
> The sampled 1/1000 squid logs can be used for statistical purposes, such as > page view stats. Someone more techy can answer that better than I can, if > the samples include IP addresses that could be used w/ geoip for geographic > analysis. (I think perhaps not) we do aggregations on full samp

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

2010-11-29 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > There aren't any raw logs? Closest to raw log we may have is 1/1000 sample, that we keep sometimes for noticing obvious things like DDoS or software feature gone mad. Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscr

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

2010-11-29 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > Each web server, of which the WMF has a few, collects details on the > behaviour of IPs, in logs. Those logs can be and probably have been > requested by > certain government officials, most likely for the purpose of tracking down > who is behind a certain "Bad" posting to a BLP. We lo

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

2010-11-28 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > you have mentioned that provider can give logs to government, probably > also wikipedia must give its logs to government, if requested, is not > it? Wikipedia cannot give logs to government, as it has none. > users cannot request in provider's official web forum to make dynamic > ip or nat

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

2010-11-28 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hello, > should not web server logs (of requests) be published? which intelligence service are you representing? there are hourly page view statistics somewhere out there, so most of data is already out, drilling in more would mean violating privacy. and no, I don't see this as a per-project

[Foundation-l] on fundraiser :)

2010-11-27 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hello, I did an analysis of advertisement space used on Google, Facebook and Wikipedia. I measured banners first - Wikipedia had 250k pixels (okok, my screen is large :), Google had 60k pixels, Facebook had 40k. I applied a multiplier of 2 for Wikipedia image, because it's ability to scan your

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

2010-11-16 Thread Domas Mituzas
> We did that with Uncyclopedia. Wikimedia hosted it until Wikia was formed. what? Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy, statistics and rankings

2010-08-03 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi, wiki-list! > No ethics here then. Excuse me, what is your complaint? I don't really get the point you are trying to make. There are few simple things, but apparently you have problems to grasp them :) 1. Your readership data is not revealed to third parties. Your point "if a UK ISP pub

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy, statistics and rankings

2010-08-03 Thread Domas Mituzas
> The issue is when someone aggregates the data and associates with an > individual, and then makes publishes it. Or uses that data to make > public statements about a user. we don't associate data with individual, we associate data with pseudonym. otoh, whatever people talk here about aggreg

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy, statistics and rankings

2010-08-03 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > The privacy policy is clear. Your number of edits is public. And it can be > published in aggregated forms by other uses. And if you edit Wikipedia, you > accept the Privacy Policy. Also, on the top of the Privacy Policy page you > can read: Foundation privacy policy is what kind of informa

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

2010-07-16 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > Only wanted to notify you that the Acehnese Wikipedia > have plans about boycotting Wikipedia Thats ACE! Domas ___ 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 Foundation Website

2010-06-30 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > I hope you mean "Vox" rather than "Fox." I don't think "Fox" currently has > any connection to "Deus." Tell that to Rupert Murdoch Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mai

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

2010-06-30 Thread Domas Mituzas
> > I welcome many members of the Wikimedia staff joining us in Gdansk but > PLEASE do not hide in a VIP environment like happened on previous > Wikimanias. I hereby find this grossly insulting. Not spending time with Gerard does not mean that someone is hiding from everyone else. I found staf

Re: [Foundation-l] Did you say "usability" ?

2010-06-15 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > What a pity they are not similar to old sewing machines, old vacuum > cleaners, old electric ovens, or old tables or old chairs. I'm sorry that I have to say that (I really feel sorry!), but you sir are an idiot, and that explains your old PC problem too, a bit, in a way. I'm sorry if you a

Re: [Foundation-l] Did you say "usability" ?

2010-06-15 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > Yes. So the topic for a talk on the foundation list would be : should > Wikipedia stop to support older computers or older web browsers like > Internet Explorer 6 ? Older web browsers - maybe, if the cost to maintain becomes too high. In many cases definite answers are quite difficult, as t

Re: [Foundation-l] Did you say "usability" ?

2010-06-15 Thread Domas Mituzas
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Teofilo wrote: > What would you think about an automobile repair shop, when you > discover after you try the car again that you can no longer remove the > key and stop the engine ? that perpetuum mobile exists, I'd be grateful for it. there're some better ways to

Re: [Foundation-l] Top posting

2010-06-14 Thread Domas Mituzas
kthx On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > An important thread has been derailed by an off topic comment. For your > information, and for the somanyth time, top posting comes easy when you use > a modern tool like GMAIL. It automatically hides whatever came before. Thi

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcement - Public Policy Initiative Team joins WMF

2010-06-10 Thread Domas Mituzas
> Why is the team chosen to target specifically the US? I am not sure I am > comfortable with this choice. Because in Russia team targets you :) Oh wait, this isn't slashdot. Let's hope this is like usability project, where US-based operations are being expanded onto other cultures/nations/count

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

2010-03-31 Thread Domas Mituzas
yup, especially John Doe! On Mar 31, 2010, at 2:34 AM, Mike.lifeguard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, John Doe wrote: >> I agree top posting tends to be the most effective method for handling >> mailing lists >> >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:5

Re: [Foundation-l] Great news! Google gives Wikimedia USD 2 million

2010-02-17 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hello, > The question is, how do we thank the company that has everything? We can thank them by providing better content to everyone. That is both what they and us want. Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

Re: [Foundation-l] At school

2010-02-16 Thread Domas Mituzas
William, > Domas, I am disappointed with the frequent disrespect with which you > treat colleagues, as exemplified by your responses here to Tyler and > Philippe. I respect Philippe - we had lots of great time and discussions in the past - and I hope he remembers that (including all my thought

Re: [Foundation-l] At school

2010-02-16 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hey Philippe, > That's pretty snarky, Domas. There was a legitimate question there. :-) Did community strategy members come up with this conclusion, or you had to involve external consultants?! Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.

Re: [Foundation-l] At school

2010-02-15 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hello, > Kids at my school are criticizing the heck out of your Foundation Good to know you have plenty of people you can talk to. Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/li

Re: [Foundation-l] Mediawiki to C++ , here we go

2010-02-02 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > That is old news, I have stopped working on it, > not because I dont think it was a good idea, but because phc was not > working. They have cancelled the project. Poor you. You wasted your bandwidth on project that was doomed :( > I was looking into roadsend recently, I was too! But they'

Re: [Foundation-l] Mediawiki to C++ , here we go

2010-02-02 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > http://www.phpcompiler.org/lists/phc-general/2009-February/000894.html Great progress! Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Mediawiki to C++ , here we go

2010-02-02 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi, > This is exactly what I was working on : Where can we read more about your work? Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Jimmy on CNN

2010-01-19 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hello dear people, there's something very very very special about the video at http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/01/19/ctw.connector.jimmy.wales.cnn You can definitely see that organization just had a critical shift. :-) Domas P.S. You look great! :) __

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia crosses 10Gbit/sec

2010-01-11 Thread Domas Mituzas
> . This > peak rate was achieved while serving roughly 91,725 requests per > second. I don't think this is good number - as there were around 9000 requests-a-second handled by a separate server (That is not included in request stats). Also the increase in bandwidth could be because were blacklis

Re: [Foundation-l] Boing Boing applauds stats.grok.se!

2010-01-08 Thread Domas Mituzas
On Jan 8, 2010, at 7:02 PM, David Gerard wrote: > http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/07/wikibumps.html Currently we're in talks with WM-DE, so they will provision some storage for long-term archives of raw data, and we will probably add image view statistics then. Good stuff, right? Domas _

Re: [Foundation-l] advertising craigslist

2009-12-15 Thread Domas Mituzas
Erik, > The Craig Newmark banner is currently running at 20% on the English > Wikipedia. How much known is Craigslist outside of US, in other English speaking countries, or countries where English is used as second/primary language on the web? :) Domas ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia and Environment

2009-12-13 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > In cold countries, energy can have two lives : a first life making > calculations in a computer, or transforming matter (ore into metal, > trees into books), and a second life heating homes. One needs to build-out quite static-energy-output datacenters (e.g. deploy 10MW at once, and don't

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia and Environment

2009-12-13 Thread Domas Mituzas
Dude, I need that strong stuff you're having. > Let me sum this up, The basic optimization is this : > You don't need to transfer that new article in every revision to all > users at all times. There's not much difference between transferring every revision and just some 'good' revisions. > T

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia and Environment

2009-12-13 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi!!! > 1. Php is very hard to optimize. No, PHP is much easier to optimize (read - performance oriented refactoring). > 3. Even python is easier to optimize than php. Python's main design idea is readability. What is readable, is easier to refactor too, right? :) > 4. The other questions a

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia meets git

2009-10-23 Thread Domas Mituzas
> A distributed backend is a nice idea anyway - imagine a meteor hitting > the Florida data centres ... give me that stuff you all just had, I want it too. Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.

Re: [Foundation-l] Charity Navigator rates WMF

2009-10-08 Thread Domas Mituzas
Dear Gregory, > (2) That Alexa rankings reflect "impact in the world". If you've got > 300,000 living persons checking their biography every day for > defamation, > I'm sure the Alexa rankings are going to notice that. only 11% of English Wikipedia article views are about Living People. You f

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

2009-09-28 Thread Domas Mituzas
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 :-) Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

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

2009-09-16 Thread Domas Mituzas
On Sep 16, 2009, at 6:23 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > Looks like a Nov spike, but such a steady rise in year to year traffic > that the next Jan is already higher... was that similar last year? yes, no, perhaps. always treat those graphs with grain of salt, it could be simply additional objects

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

2009-09-16 Thread Domas Mituzas
> > Cool; what's the best way to observe the high water mark, and how the > systems are holding up? it isn't 2007 or 2006 ;-) http://wiki.wikked.net/wiki/Wikimedia_statistics/Yearly Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

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

2009-09-15 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hello! > And that has proven to be a huge misjudgment. Which didn't entirely depend on us. We're a young organization, we depend on lots of external influences. You going and pointing fingers, without trying to understand, that there were reasons to behave in that way, isn't constructive.

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

2009-09-15 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > Correct me if I'm wrong, but here's what I can gather: Total > spending was > $1.7 million less than budgeted. Tech spending was $1.7 million > less than > budgeted. And $1.7 million was sitting in the bank accounts at the > end of > the fiscal year. We did not spend on hardware, be

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

2009-09-15 Thread Domas Mituzas
Gregory, > Here are at least a dozen for you, Domas: > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22%241.7+million%22+technology+wikimedia+%22sue+gardner%22 Oh wow, I got my chance to read Valleywag, probably that should be the major point of insight for all the efficient non-profit governan

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

2009-09-15 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > I'll believe it when I see it. ;-) > AFAICT, the dumps still don't work, and you > still haven't hired a new CTO. Dumps work better, and there's work done to get a new CTO. > 1.7 How was that budgeted? Which year? Can you point me at that unspent software development budget number? >

Re: [Foundation-l] Security holes in Mediawiki

2009-09-15 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hello Gregory, > I was sort of surprised to learn today that Mediawiki software has > had 37 > security holes identified: Why would you be surprised? It is web software, that allows _most_ flexibility for its users, you can expect most problems because of that, especially in XSS area. On t

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

2009-09-15 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > Right...where can I go to download the full history English > Wikipedia dump? It is being done! > Still doesn't work. And yes, it needs an executive level decision, > and it > needs a kick in the ass from the board to get the executive level to > make > that decision. That work is

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

2009-09-15 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hello, > Given the fact that no candidate for the board seems to have > campaigned prominently for this issue in this year's elec- > tion and it does not even seem to have been mentioned in the > two before, I do not see why the board should have decided > otherwise. You poor souls, always willin

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

2009-09-06 Thread Domas Mituzas
Gerard, > Remember, the Signpost is an en.wp publication. It is not really the > place > to announce such things. it is up for Signpost editors if they want to include it or not. Not your business :) BR, Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundat

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

2009-09-05 Thread Domas Mituzas
> The move itself will be > newsworthy and I'm sure there will be a press release about it, but it > hasn't happened yet. As Wikimedia (or.. Wikipedia!) office address isn't publicly announced or published, the press release would be fantastic: "Wikipedia is moving from undisclosed location off

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

2009-08-09 Thread Domas Mituzas
> A high turnover rate would indicate a lot of people joining and > leaving, > instead of long-term volunteers. ah! that! no, site is operated by same people as five years ago (with brilliant exception of search), few people left during that time, because of various reasons. some volunteers

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

2009-08-09 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > I have a question on this for the tech team: as a rule, do you have a > high turnover of volunteers on the sysadmin ... turn-what? Jens is building a house or something, if that was your question. Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

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

2009-08-08 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > And I have to assume that's primarily due to your > efforts. > > Thanks Brion. Excellent work. Yes, thank you Brion! :) Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listin

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia article traffic statistics - copyright?

2009-06-29 Thread Domas Mituzas
On Jun 30, 2009, at 3:13 AM, Aude wrote: > Henrik's Wikipedia article traffic statistics tool does not indicate > copyright or license status, so it's not clear if I can include a > chart on a > Wikipedia page. Does anyone know the license status for the charts? base data is in public domain

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-08 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > Couldn't the stats job you want run on toolserver? Really, this isn't much of foundation-l issue - we have been collecting and providing detailed article viewership statistics for over a year. People are building various applications on top of that data, like http://wikirank.com/en/Jim

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-07 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > Assuming you're not taking this out of context, please explain the > difference between how it works and my conception of how it works. Sorry, I misread your statement. I took "Volunteer admins" as "Volunteer sysadmins" - my greatest apology. BR, Domas __

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies

2009-06-07 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hello, > If I were to compile a wishlist of stats things: > 1. stats.grok.se data for non-Wikipedia projects the raw data is available, anyone can build anything like that, as long as they have resources. I've suggested Henrik to opensource his software, but probably it suffers from "not nice

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-07 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > I believe there was no such claim, if anything, it was pointed out > that > setting up the stats engine didn't give access to information that > was not > accessible before by the Checkusers (even if logged), and that most > fears of > data being handled by the wrong hands are mitigate

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

2009-06-07 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi! > Are the developers lawyers? IANAL. > A developer claiming something has an > unwanted privacy issue is very different from making claims about > something being a legal issue on the behalf of Foundation. Simply > don't > do it. I failed to phrase what I wanted to write you in a way, tha

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies

2009-06-03 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi, > I think we should stop the current use of Google Analytics ASAP. I'm usually proponent of indefinite bans to people who do this, but there are others who want milder approaches :-) Indeed, this is violation of our privacy policy, and never should be allowed. Thanks for headsup. Do note

Re: [Foundation-l] Google Wave and Wikimedia projects

2009-06-03 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hello, > So let us be realistic.. Even in Wikipedia you will not have > thousands of > people editing *at the same time* in a document. But documents have tens of thousands of revisions, still. > In your reply you mention javascript, is that based on reading > about the "embed" API ?? um, di

Re: [Foundation-l] Google Wave and Wikimedia projects

2009-06-03 Thread Domas Mituzas
Hi, > On a different note, the first code to bring MediaWiki content in a > Wave We should have fun-l@ for conversations like this. First of all, if any of you who are interested in wave-ization of teh internet, go join the wave community and push the standard towards lazy on-demand loadi

Re: [Foundation-l] Google Wave and Wikimedia projects

2009-06-01 Thread Domas Mituzas
> "Google and its affiliates hereby grant to you a perpetual, worldwide, > non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable (except as stated > in this License) patent license for patents necessarily infringed by > implementation of this specification." so, if you want to extend the specificati

Re: [Foundation-l] Google Wave and Wikimedia projects

2009-05-30 Thread Domas Mituzas
> It's a great app, look at it the other way! finally someone implemented LiquidThreads! Cheers, Domas ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Congratulations to Gdansk!

2009-05-07 Thread Domas Mituzas
Tomasz, > To be able bring what captivates me on a daily basis back to the > city I > was born and grew up in makes happy as can be. Heeheee, :-) And I hereby declare my Green Wikimania, I'll carpool to get there! Cheers, -- Domas Mituzas -- http://dammit.lt/ -

[Foundation-l] Green stuff.

2009-05-02 Thread Domas Mituzas
Gregory Kohs is attacking our practices, we should do something". Though, as much as you don't realize what we're doing, you probably won't realize too much of anything else, so... why bother. Go, better travel a bit outside US, then you'll either get some more

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