[Foundation-l] COMPLETED: Mailing lists server migration today

2012-01-18 Thread Mark Bergsma
On Jan 13Jan 18, 2012, at 2:54 PM, Mark Bergsma wrote: > Today I will be migrating the mailing lists from a very old server (lily) in > Amsterdam, to a new server (sodium) in our new Ashburn data center. Mailman > will be upgraded to version 2.1.13 along the way. > > Durin

[Foundation-l] CANCELED: Mailing lists server migration today

2012-01-13 Thread Mark Bergsma
On Jan 13, 2012, at 2:54 PM, Mark Bergsma wrote: > Hi, > > Today I will be migrating the mailing lists from a very old server (lily) in > Amsterdam, to a new server (sodium) in our new Ashburn data center. Mailman > will be upgraded to version 2.1.13 along the way. ...and rig

[Foundation-l] Mailing lists server migration today

2012-01-13 Thread Mark Bergsma
know of any new issues, in bugzilla or on IRC (#wikimedia-tech). We don't expect any problems, but as with any software upgrade or migration, this can't be guaranteed... Thanks, -- Mark Bergsma Lead Operations Architect Wikim

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

2012-01-11 Thread Mark
the money-trough, is also a bit unseemly, and doesn't seem to have much to do with "community" to me, unless you take a very bureaucratic view of community. -Mark ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] A fundraiser for editors

2012-01-03 Thread Mark
ating new articles on individual churches that cite that book (the most common road-bump here is that their articles may get tagged as orphans). One possibility could be to rotate subject-specific "how to get started" appeals. Something like: "Interested in architecture? [Pithy

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

2011-12-31 Thread Mark
27;s how things go, and it *does* at least still keep the lights on at *.wikipedia.org, which is what I care about. -Mark ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Fundraising -- use your technical skills to help

2011-12-06 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
32441 Year filtering on Special:FundraiserStatistics broken * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/32536 CentralNotice API Bring your javascript and PHP chops and I'll see you there! Mark. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimed

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-04 Thread Mark
and how the legislation would do so. -Mark ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Blanking a Wikipedia, a very bad idea

2011-10-04 Thread Mark
want to put it back up themselves, perhaps informally agree to have the Wikimedia Foundation restore it without opposing that move. Imo that would be the best action. I don't think it would be helpful to intervene in a heavy-handed manner (certainly no mass-desysopping of an entire

Re: [Foundation-l] List of Wikimedia projects and languages

2011-07-11 Thread Mark Wagner
literature. Many languages have no literary tradition, and the only written material is linguistic studies by outsiders. -- Mark Wagner ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] IRC Bug Triage now

2011-06-28 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
We'll be holding a public IRC bug triage in about 2-3 minutes on #wikimedia-dev for all who are interested. We will be using http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-2011-06 to keep notes as well. See you there! Mark. ___ foundation-l mailing

Re: [Foundation-l] Request: WMF commitment as a long term cultural archive?

2011-06-02 Thread Mark Wagner
storing the backups on tape, remote servers, or magic pixie dust. -- Mark Wagner ___ 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

2011-05-28 Thread Mark
c. would be a significant mission-creep away from things we're actually good at. (All "imo", of course.) -Mark ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] wiki for interwiki

2011-03-22 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
usion and the interlanguage extension > are on Mark Hershberger's, the Bugmesiter, to-do list. He's the one > who bothers the sysadmins to get things done. :-) > > I've CC'd him so he can hopefully chime in. Thanks, Casey. Finally subscribed. I'm trying to find w

Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?

2010-09-20 Thread Mark Williamson
Peter, resorting to ad hominem does nothing to prove your point. It only makes people less likely to listen to what you have to say. -m. On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Peter Damian wrote: > - Original Message - >> I can read a book on the History of the Fourth Crusade, and adds quotes

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco on small languages/dialects Wikipedias (Aristotle article)

2010-09-19 Thread Mark Williamson
Standard Australian English is very easy to understand for me as a North American speaker of English, especially when written because that eliminates the potential problem of different accents. Standard Jamaican English is easy to understand, perhaps you are thinking of Jamaican Creole, which is of

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco on small languages/dialects Wikipedias (Aristotle article)

2010-09-19 Thread Mark Williamson
"desirable" is an own decision of the speaker. -m. On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 4:42 AM, Ilario Valdelli wrote: >  On 19.09.2010 13:01, Marcus Buck wrote: >>    An'n 19.09.2010 11:32, hett Mark Williamson schreven: >>> We have heard this type of criticism befo

Re: [Foundation-l] Umberto Eco on small languages/dialects Wikipedias (Aristotle article)

2010-09-19 Thread Mark Williamson
We have heard this type of criticism before, that lower-prestige varieties or languages that are not "official" or "national" languages are somehow intrinsically incapable or unsuited to encyclopedic writing. Article quality on a Wiki is not high or low due to some intrinsic characteristic or trait

Re: [Foundation-l] [Language committee] Transparency

2010-09-16 Thread Mark Williamson
Thank you to everybody who had a part in bringing about this increased transparency. It is a breath of fresh air for me and hopefully for everybody else who follows language-related developments on Wikimedia. -m. On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > As Karen fixed her anonymity

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

2010-08-27 Thread Mark Williamson
I hope nobody gets the impression that I'm just an American sniping at Europeans. I wouldn't be much happier if it was half Americans and half Europeans, or even all Americans. The majority of the world's non-endangered languages are spoken in Asia and Africa, so on a committee that deals with lang

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

2010-08-27 Thread Mark Williamson
Two of the biggest remaining problems (of which there are, naturally, many many many others): 1) Transparency. Maybe some experts fear retaliation - okay, use pseudonyms or contribute anonymously. Just have someone summarize your opinion for public archives. Does Gerard fear retaliation? From whom

Re: [Foundation-l] Farsi wikipedia has reached 100 K article

2010-08-25 Thread Mark Williamson
Take a look at some of the new football-related articles on the Ewe Wikipedia. I don't think this is cause for celebration at all: http://ee.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Beckham http://ee.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naohiro_Takahara http://ee.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruud_van_Nistelrooy I don't see a single word of

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

2010-08-25 Thread Mark Williamson
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Michael Peel wrote: > Erm ... huh? > > 1) If you're interested in helping, and have experience/knowledge of > languages, then get involved with the committee. I have wanted to be part of the committee since before its inception, but back then I felt I would proba

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

2010-08-25 Thread Mark Williamson
I think it has been proven many times over now that the Language Committee works in mysterious ways with little or no community oversight or input, essentially a self-appointed committee of "experts", mostly from similar linguistic backgrounds, handing down judgements about the rest of the world's

Re: [Foundation-l] [Language committee] New member

2010-08-13 Thread Mark Williamson
Interesting to note the geographic distribution of members of the committee... hmm... -m. On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > Our new member is Huib Laurens (meta:User:Huib). His main role is to > help us in keeping up to date archives of our mailing list [1] and > other techn

Re: [Foundation-l] Parallel text alignment (was: Push translation)

2010-08-08 Thread Mark Williamson
iency. -m. On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > --- On Sun, 8/8/10, Mark Williamson wrote: >> > You won't find many professional >> translators using GTTK for their work. >> >> [citation needed] > > Professional translators and transla

Re: [Foundation-l] Parallel text alignment (was: Push translation)

2010-08-08 Thread Mark Williamson
> You won't find many professional translators using GTTK for their work. [citation needed] -m. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-08-06 Thread Mark Williamson
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Mark Williamson wrote: > >> > 2) Implement spelling and punctuation check automatically within GTTK >> before >> > posting of the articles. >> > >> > There is spell check in Translator Toolkit, although it's no

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-08-05 Thread Mark Williamson
> 2) Implement spelling and punctuation check automatically within GTTK before > posting of the articles. > > There is spell check in Translator Toolkit, although it's not available for > all languages.  We don't have any punctuation checks today and I doubt that > we can release this anytime soon.

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google translation is good for Wikipedias?

2010-07-29 Thread Mark Williamson
od articles in our > languages, that often means that we do not translate 1:1 but shorten > and customize. But Google wants 1:1 translations for its Translation > memory. And, of course, its the big numbers Google is interested in to > achieve better automatic translations in the end. &g

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google translation is good for Wikipedias?

2010-07-28 Thread Mark Williamson
I'm not sure that's exactly the question. Rather, by using GTTK, people are contributing to building [[Translation memory]] for Google, which they can in turn use to build their statistical models. It's not that we're using non-free software, but rather that we're contributing to it. -m. On Wed,

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google translation is good for Wikipedias?

2010-07-28 Thread Mark Williamson
n Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Ziko van Dijk wrote: > Mark Williamson: >> GTTK can be used as a force of good if someone puts in the appropriate >> time and effort; when used _properly_ by a careful, knowledgeable > >> It is my thought that the huge problem here is lack

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-07-28 Thread Mark Williamson
rs are supposed to love reading them, but > it looks like i'm stuck here... > > 2010/7/27 Mark Williamson > >> Aphaia, Shiju Alex and I are referring to Google Translator Toolkit, >> not Google Translate. If the person using the Toolkit uses it as it >> was _meant

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-07-28 Thread Mark Williamson
or your target language, but not for mine. Thanks. > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Casey Brown wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Mark Williamson wrote: >>> Aphaia, Shiju Alex and I are referring to Google Translator Toolkit, >>> not Google Translate.

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google translation is good for Wikipedias?

2010-07-28 Thread Mark Williamson
Ziko, again, we are not talking about machine translations; Google doesn't have machine translation for Bangla, Malayalam, Tamil etc. yet. This is about translation memory. One of the things about MAT, whose use in the professional translator community is still debated but most popular for transla

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-07-27 Thread Mark Williamson
years ago - but craps are > still craps and I don't want to spend my hours for the for-profit > giant. > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Mark Williamson wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Shiju Alex >> wrote: >>>   1. Ban the project of Google as d

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-07-27 Thread Mark Williamson
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Shiju Alex wrote: >   1. Ban the project of Google as done by the Bengali wiki community (Bad >   solution, and I am personally against this solution) >   2. Ask Google to engage wiki community (As happened in the case of Tamil) >   to find out a working solution.

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-07-26 Thread Mark Williamson
criticism of 'imperial encyclopedism.' - really? It's a) not >> particularly well-written, mostly and b) referenced overwhelmingly to >> English-language sources, most of which are, you guessed it.. Western in >> nature. >> >> On Mon, Jul 26, 20

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google translation is good for Wikipedias?

2010-07-25 Thread Mark Williamson
Well - this seems a bit confusing. I think Shiju Alex was talking about the toolkit, but I got the impression you're referring to Google Translate, which I agree is always unsuitable to produce usable articles. -m. On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Przykuta wrote: > about google translation, I th

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google translation is good for Wikipedias?

2010-07-25 Thread Mark Williamson
Can we clarify here, are we talking about Google Translate or Google Translator Toolkit? -m. On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Przykuta wrote: >> I've seen several requests, both on meta and on language projects,  to >> delete this kind of bad quality "translation" which people think >> better to

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google translation is good for Wikipedias?

2010-07-25 Thread Mark Williamson
lish > Western language Wikipedia some amount of translations (1/3 IIRC) are > not related to English. > > If you think it works for you, it's fine, but please be aware it might > not work for non-English speakers as well as for you. > > Cheers, > > On Sun, Jul 25, 20

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google translation is good for Wikipedias?

2010-07-25 Thread Mark Williamson
Aphaia, a great deal of confusion has been created with regards to this project. I hope you'll allow me to attempt to clear it up. These are NOT articles that were translated directly by Google Translate. Rather, they were created using Google Translator Toolkit, which requires human intervention

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google translation is good for Wikipedias?

2010-07-25 Thread Mark Williamson
Two things: 1) Please define "junk articles". Do you mean articles that you think nobody in your community wants to read (like, say, an article about an American singer or actor, for example [[Lady Gaga]]), or do you mean articles that are written in such a way as to be incomprehensible, or are fi

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-07-25 Thread Mark Williamson
I would like to add to this that I think the worst part of this idea is the assumption that other languages should take articles from en.wp. I would be in favor of an international, language-free Wikipedia if/when perfect (or 99.99% accurate) MT software exists, but that is not currently the case.

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-07-25 Thread Mark Williamson
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Casey Brown wrote: > On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Mark Williamson wrote: >> Wikipedias are not for _cultures_, they are for languages. If I and > > I'm surprised to hear that coming from someone who I thought to be a > student of

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-07-24 Thread Mark Williamson
Bence, that's a different topic - MAT (Machine Aided Translation), and in the case of Bengali, I believe simply the use of a translation memory system. Some of the comments on that page seem to be quite misinformed, ranging from people who thought Google was inserting unrevised machine translations

Re: [Foundation-l] Push translation

2010-07-24 Thread Mark Williamson
Wikipedias are not for _cultures_, they are for languages. If I and 1,000 other Americans suddenly learnt French (to the point of native-level fluency) and decided to read and edit the French Wikipedia, it would "belong" to us just as much as to anybody else. This came up recently in the debate abo

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

2010-07-17 Thread Mark Williamson
e rules, some of our pages may break those rules, but all that means is they should be fixed so the rules are applied more consistently. -m On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 5:14 PM, wrote: > Mark Williamson wrote: >> "Wiki-list", the huge glaring difference is that the goatse.cx image

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

2010-07-17 Thread Mark Williamson
Don't censor except when "you" do? That's one of the problems with this thread, it seems everything's been made personal. I don't censor anything. I was not involved in the debate about deleting the goatse image, nor have I been much involved in the Muhammad debate, but I am a firm believer in non-

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

2010-07-17 Thread Mark Williamson
article. On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 11:01 AM, wrote: > Excirial wrote: >> *There is no general Christian prohibition on depicting Christ. In fact it >> is a generally accepted practice. Generally Muslims don't, and consider it a >> mark of disrespect to do so. Why offend?

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

2010-07-17 Thread Mark Williamson
rticle > does not actually show the goatse image. > > > > Mark Williamson wrote: >> Have you seen [[Piss Christ]]? How is that different? >> >> >> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 4:40 AM,   wrote: >>> John Vandenberg wrote: >>>> in the article ab

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

2010-07-17 Thread Mark Williamson
Have you seen [[Piss Christ]]? How is that different? On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 4:40 AM, wrote: > John Vandenberg wrote: >> in the article about Jesus. >> >> If you haven't noticed, the images of Muhammad on the core articles >> relating to Islam are not created by someone who had a bit too much

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

2010-07-17 Thread Mark Williamson
I was raised areligious and I see a clear difference there. On the one hand, you're talking about portraying a religious figure on a sex toy; on the other hand you're just talking about portraying a religious figure. Just on the grounds of being offensive, I don't think either should be excluded fr

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

2010-07-16 Thread Mark Williamson
+1. While I think there are many good arguments against inclusion of images of Muhammad in Wikipedia, the "false" or "unreliable" does not seem to be such an argument. We have plenty of images of Jesus and lots of other famous people of whom we have no photographic or _primary_ artistic sources...

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

2010-07-16 Thread Mark Williamson
Because I felt like it? I understand this may be a disturbing issue for some, but that seemed unnecessarily hostile. -m On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Andre Engels wrote: > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Mark Williamson wrote: >> Andre, I personally don't have a problem

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

2010-07-16 Thread Mark Williamson
Andre, I personally don't have a problem with the mere existence of the template. I have a huge problem with it appearing at the top of the mainpage of a Wikipedia. -m skype: node.ue On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Andre Engels wrote: > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:14 PM, David Gerard wrote: >

Re: [Foundation-l] [free A113 poon][click hear!][SPAM!]

2010-07-06 Thread Mark Williamson
I agree... or your think to ideas. skype: node.ue 2010/7/5 MZMcBride : > 基建吉 wrote: >> ΣXD<Nice idea for disscuss saved.And user block framing Jadge. >> '''[NEW!!]The rule of seven elevens.'''(or eleven seven) >> Discuttion to seven article writed one disscuss. >> One day to max 11 disscuss.(one

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

2010-06-30 Thread Mark Williamson
Gerard, I'm not sure such a condescending tone helps anybody. Also, I'm not sure you've understood the intent of Martin's post. I'm under the impression he'd only like to put off implementation of Vector in his community until some problems get worked out, not permanently. Besides, I think the que

Re: [Foundation-l] three-letter language codes

2010-06-30 Thread Mark Williamson
Amir, I think this is a good idea. For the sake of consistency, we should choose a single standard to follow rather than a hodge-podge of newer standards, older (although still valid) standards, and ad hoc codes we made up on the spot (als, nrm) and custom codes (bat-smg, roa-tara, roa-rup, fiu-vr

Re: [Foundation-l] Reconsidering the policy "one language - one Wikipedia"

2010-06-25 Thread Mark Williamson
n 25, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Mark Williamson wrote: >> Phoebe, in my humble opinion, this project is a bit different. I think >> when we are talking about child development and creating a project for >> children, there's no room to screw around or create some amateurish >>

Re: [Foundation-l] Reconsidering the policy "one language - one Wikipedia"

2010-06-25 Thread Mark Williamson
Phoebe, in my humble opinion, this project is a bit different. I think when we are talking about child development and creating a project for children, there's no room to screw around or create some amateurish product. This is something that, if done wrong, could potentially have a bigger negative

Re: [Foundation-l] Reconsidering the policy "one language - one Wikipedia"

2010-06-24 Thread Mark Williamson
licy "one language - one >> Wikipedia" >> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" >> Date: Thursday, June 24, 2010, 6:06 PM >> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:26 AM, >> Mark Williamson >> wrote: >> > as if we were dumb. I have heard (

Re: [Foundation-l] Reconsidering the policy "one language - one Wikipedia"

2010-06-24 Thread Mark Williamson
were reading the article on [[Earth]] that Ting's quoted and did not understand what "terrestrial planet" meant... well, there's a link right there to help me out. Again, young != stupid. -m. On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Mark Williamson wrote: > Miloš, > > I am i

Re: [Foundation-l] Reconsidering the policy "one language - one Wikipedia"

2010-06-24 Thread Mark Williamson
Miloš, I am inclined to agree with you. As someone who is not so far removed from his own adolescence, I can attest that I've always found "Children's writing" to be incredibly condescending and even demeaning. Perhaps I was not a typical child, but ever since about 7 years of age I really hated t

Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

2010-06-22 Thread Mark Williamson
>> If we consider >> that current English native speakers mostly already have internet and those >> without internet are likelier than not to be non-English speakers I would >> be >> careful to advocate the unilateral use of English. > > > As would I, though I don't think you mean what you said. W

Re: [Foundation-l] English language dominationism is striking again

2010-06-22 Thread Mark Williamson
In addition, I have a feeling that article overstates the English abilities of the average non-native internet user. Yes, lots of people have a very (very!) basic command of English, but that is not the same as functional bilingualism. A user may happen to know the name for a horse, but what are th

Re: [Foundation-l] Top posting

2010-06-14 Thread Mark Williamson
I'm very disappointed that this discussion has continued at the expense of one that I find to be much more important to our projects. Can all of us go back over there and stop talking about this? Kthx. m. On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Domas Mituzas wrote: > kthx > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at

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

2010-06-11 Thread Mark Williamson
 the English wiki articles about all the american > pop stars (For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga). Now the > issue is, we don't have such list to give to Google/Google employees. > > > > > > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Mark Williamson wrote: > &g

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

2010-06-11 Thread Mark Williamson
+1. This would be a SUPER useful tool for all Wikis. -m. On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 3:54 AM, Shiju Alex wrote: > Recently I had a discussion with one of my fellow Malayalam wikipedian ( > http://ml.wikipedia.org) about the creation of new articles in small > wikipedias like ours. He is one the few u

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

2010-06-07 Thread Mark Williamson
One major problem I have with this entire initiative, at least as I understand it, is that data was only collected from en.wp and mostly from native English speakers. Wikipedia is not monolingual, although many of our users are... and it's important to remember that many of these people are monolin

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

2010-06-06 Thread Mark Williamson
> "change it back if people complain loudly".  It means someone who > happens to be in charge of making the decision needs to make a > judgment call, based on all the evidence they have available. Aryeh, I was under the (apparently mistaken?) impression that at Wikipedia, the community makes the d

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

2010-06-05 Thread Mark Williamson
+1. I must admit I have been a bit surprised/shocked/irritated by the tone of the comments from some of those involved with the usability initiative. I always thought that Wikimedia valued community decision-making, but now I'm being told that my "feedback" is greatly appreciated and will be taken

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

2010-06-04 Thread Mark Williamson
> Or you could simply restore the one-line code modification that > provided the default behavior requested by the community (pending > evidence that an alternative setup is beneficial). Seconded. Just bring them back already. This is an imaginary problem you've come up with here. The community is

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

2010-06-04 Thread Mark Williamson
That's not good enough. First of all, people who don't speak a language won't recognize the text "see other languages", or even "languages". Could you pick the word "ენები" out of a page full of text in a foreign language and understand that clicking it would lead you to a link to the English versi

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

2010-06-04 Thread Mark Williamson
at rather than any of the other words on the page that to you probably appear little more than gibberish? (assuming you don't read Georgian - if I'm wrong, substitute it for any language that you don't know) Mark On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Wed, Jun

Re: [Foundation-l] deployment of Vector to other languages -

2010-05-20 Thread Mark Williamson
ry time. This new "feature" is potentially extremely harmful to many non-English Wikipedias. Mark On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > I have a few questions about the deployment of Vector in Wikipedias in > other languages. > > 1. When does the Foundation p

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

2010-05-20 Thread Mark Wagner
loyees. Everyone else, no matter what on-site title they have, is simply a user of the site. -- Mark [[User:Carnildo]] ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

2010-05-08 Thread Mark Wagner
effectively scuttled any real progress on reducing the amount of non-educational sexual material on Commons. If similar incidents elsewhere are anything to go by, it'll be two to three years before serious discussion of the subject will be possible. -- Mark [[User:Carnildo]] __

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

2010-05-08 Thread Mark Ryan
ion that he can in fact do whatever he likes. He cannot. When he created the Foundation and later stepped down as Chair of the Board, he effectively gave up the right to intervene on his own whim. I think the right thing for him to do now would be to voluntarily turn off the founder flag, and partici

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimbo's Sexual Image Deletions

2010-05-07 Thread Mark Wagner
x27;s a whack across the head with a spiked club, by someone who doesn't have good aim. -- Mark [[en:User:Carnildo]] ___ 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 Mark Williamson
I think there are two options: Meta and pt.wp itself. My personal opinion is that it does not need to be bilingual, but that is of course up to you. On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Virgilio A. P. Machado wrote: > Thanks Chad. I know that, but what kind of page (what title)? Where? > Would it be

[Foundation-l] Fwd: Pt-Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-03-21 Thread Mark Williamson
skype: node.ue -- Forwarded message -- From: Manuel Coutinho Date: Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:28 AM Subject: Pt-Portuguese Wikipedia To: node...@gmail.com Dear Node, It has come to my attention quite some time ago that the Portuguese version of wikipedia is being overrun with arti

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2010-01-16 Thread Mark Williamson
compared to any other in Kenya, but it is quite a bit more surprising that Korean, Romanian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Iranian, etc. users prefer the English Wikipedia. Mark On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 2:25 AM, Ziko van Dijk wrote: > Dear Erik, > > Maybe there is a dirty Polish word looked u

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2010-01-15 Thread Mark Williamson
29.2% > Brazil 8.5% > Argentina 4.8% > Mexico 3.9% > Germany 3.3% > France 2.1% > Venezuela 1.9% > Chile 1.4% > Costa Rica 1.4% > Italy 1.4% > Uruguay 1.2% > Colombia1.2% > Portugal1.1% > > ---

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

2010-01-14 Thread Mark Williamson
a does not mean that the Arabic Wikipedia is of poor quality, it just means that users feel that the English Wikipedia is a more reliable or complete resource in some way. Mark On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Andre Engels wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Erik Zachte > wrote: &

Re: [Foundation-l] Where do our readers come from?

2010-01-14 Thread Mark Williamson
Ethnologue has numbers for all languages although their information is often outdated or not 100% accurate, it is sufficient if you're doing a list with many languages. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: > Erik Zachte wrote: > > Today I released 4 new reports, which all fo

Re: [Foundation-l] advertising craigslist

2009-12-17 Thread Mark Williamson
ge on Craigslist. I think the point Geni was trying to make is that it has indeed raised some interest in Craigslist, rather than just helping WMF. Mark On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:58 AM, William Pietri wrote: > Interesting! If I read that right, the Craigslist page on Wikipedia got > an extra 15k p

Re: [Foundation-l] advertising craigslist

2009-12-15 Thread Mark Williamson
If that's true, I am even more against this... what does that say about us? On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Anthony wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Mark Williamson > wrote: > > > It's certainly free publicity for Craigslist, one way or the other. > >

Re: [Foundation-l] advertising craigslist

2009-12-15 Thread Mark Williamson
Is it really anti-capitalist to be against giving Craigslist free publicity? Mark On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Nathan wrote: > Personally, I'm glad the Foundation doesn't have the reflexively > absolutist anti-capitalist stance that some on this list would like > them to

Re: [Foundation-l] advertising craigslist

2009-12-15 Thread Mark Williamson
igslist is run with a staff of 32 and carries no ads, and Craig founded a non-profit organization, the Craigslist Foundation, to support other non-profits." seems like it is intended to distract the reader from the truth, which is that Craigslist is for profit and owned partly by corporations

Re: [Foundation-l] advertising craigslist

2009-12-14 Thread Mark Williamson
t would not be there. I can certainly understand the reasons for keeping it up and I also don't think this is a terrible situation or anything so I won't argue about this but I wanted to make it known that Geni isn't the only one of the opinion that it's not a good thing. Mark

Re: [Foundation-l] Everything okay?

2009-11-16 Thread Mark Williamson
Half a day? Is that really so bad? I would be worried if there were no posts for a week. Obviously there isn't as much traffic as before but I would personally wait longer before sending out e-mails asking why there are no messages. Mark On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:18 PM, MZMcBride wrote:

Re: [Foundation-l] the use of foundation-l

2009-11-08 Thread Mark Williamson
. To be on the Power Poster list is a bad thing for some, but it is not a shameful thing by itself certainly. If you have a lot of useful things to say, that's not so bad. Mark skype: node.ue On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > If you want statistics, you

Re: [Foundation-l] the use of foundation-l

2009-11-08 Thread Mark Williamson
There is already a statistics page, http://www.infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/ScanMail/Index.html skype: node.ue On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 1:13 AM, wrote: > In a message dated 11/7/2009 11:28:13 PM Pacific Standard Time, > gerard.meijs...@gmail.com writes: > > > > Please read it as an appeal to reply to

Re: [Foundation-l] Improving foundation-l

2009-10-02 Thread Mark Williamson
How do others feel? This is not the first time we've had this discussion. Some people agree with you, many don't. Also, I don't think anyone is surprised that you agree. Mark On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:05 PM, wrote: > >

Re: [Foundation-l] It's not article count, it's editors

2009-09-22 Thread Mark Williamson
Might also be interesting to see views/hour/million speakers. skype: node.ue On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:31 PM, David Gerard wrote: > From Erik Zachte: > > http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/09/partipication-level-a-new-metric/ > > Hmm. Anyone want to change the front page of www.wikipedia.orgaccord

Re: [Foundation-l] Use of moderation

2009-09-13 Thread Mark Williamson
How am I heckling you? I'm just stating the facts. There's no need for this to turn into a fight. On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Mark Williamson wrote: > >> People are complaining to whoever is in charge of the ve

Re: [Foundation-l] Use of moderation

2009-09-13 Thread Mark Williamson
People are complaining to whoever is in charge of the venue. skype: node.ue On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Anthony wrote: > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Austin Hair wrote: >> >> A mailing list, however, is different.  A mailing list is a >> conversation.  Everyone's been in a conversati

Re: [Foundation-l] Moderate this list

2009-09-13 Thread Mark Williamson
r GerardM and 40 for Greg Maxwell. That 20 post difference between you and GerardM is what is making people notice you and I think also one of the reasons people want change on this list. Mark On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Anthony wrote: > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Mark Williamson w

Re: [Foundation-l] Moderate this list

2009-09-13 Thread Mark Williamson
> But please, not on this list.  This list is fine as it is. Says who? Mark ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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