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

2009-10-10 Thread Happy-melon
-- From: "Gregory Maxwell" Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 12:22 AM To: "Happy-melon" ; "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Status of flagged protection (flagged revisions) for English Wik

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

2009-10-09 Thread Happy-melon
"Jussi-Ville Heiskanen" wrote in message news:4ac226e2.7010...@gmail.com... > Indeed I fully agree that ensuring that using the extension > on massively edited pages is something that works fine, is > entirely prudent; whereas ensuring perfect functionality > for the full force of the extension

Re: [Foundation-l] Charity Navigator rates WMF

2009-10-09 Thread Happy-melon
"Christophe Henner" wrote in message news:84a69b0e0910091333k1bcb1c87o8dc7b5df126df...@mail.gmail.com... > Anyway, soif we want to have the "stars" what's needed is just to put > all the salaries and costs needed to run the servers and improve the > software in programm. So that's the entire '

Re: [Foundation-l] Statistical research on Wikipedia (Godwin inspired)

2009-10-09 Thread Happy-melon
"Gregory Kohs" wrote in message news:14b1e7be0910081856r46863edcqea8c3a44420d2...@mail.gmail.com... > Both of these previous assessments I conducted for free. No more. I > would > actually enjoy (as I've e-mailed you privately) expanding the scope of my > latter study to include perhaps 200 n

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

2009-07-19 Thread Happy-melon
We need to think a little bit outside the box, here; this domain should really be available, and make sense to use, for *all* WMF sites. http://www.wm.org is only occupied by a websquatter at the moment, AFAICT; I think a schema like http://wm.org// or http://wm.org//?oldid= would be cleanest.

Re: [Foundation-l] National Portrait Gallery

2009-07-19 Thread Happy-melon
IANAL, but I don't think I need to be to say the "The Foundation" is not in legal jeopardy here unless it chooses to be. It's protected by a four-thousand-mile moat, a war of independence, several layers of legal code and a US Supreme Court decision. It doesn't have any assets in the UK as fa

Re: [Foundation-l] foundation-l Digest, Vol 63, Issue 39

2009-06-15 Thread Happy-melon
Something tells me that this was put back and forth through a machine translator... :-D --HM "Gerard Meijssen" wrote in message news:41a006820906150349r26bb0335ve99c0dd42130...@mail.gmail.com... > Hoi, > It would be nice if you rephrase this. I do not have a clue what you are > trying to say

Re: [Foundation-l] pt:wiki policies

2009-06-07 Thread Happy-melon
is based on the > likelihood that we would want accommodations made for ourselves if we > needed them. > > > David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG > > > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 5:16 PM, > Happy-melon wrote: >> The Wikimedia

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

2009-06-06 Thread Happy-melon
bug18898 (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18898) is relevant, both in the technical response proposed, which is more appropriate for the parallel wikitech-l thread, and in that the wiki in question is frwiki. The external URL linked (http://pacli.appspot.com/posterstats/tick) see

Re: [Foundation-l] pt:wiki policies

2009-06-05 Thread Happy-melon
The Wikimedia wikis are, ultimately, private websites, owned and operated by the Foundation. That the software they run happens to allow millions of users the ability to make changes to said site is ultimately just fortunate coincidence: the ability to edit Wikimedia wikis is a privilege, not a