Wasn't there a proposal a while back for a Stack Exchange [1] site
like this? It seems like the ideal software for it.
Although IMO if MediaWiki discussions are too confusing for new users,
we should be concentrating on fixing that (*cough* LiquidThreads
*cough*) rather than going to a different p
On 11 January 2012 04:48, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Erik Moeller wrote:
>>
>> This is not a criticism of WM-DE: We used that language last year, and
>> I felt much of the criticism of it was unreasonable, especially yours.
>> I find it interesting, though, in
Using a geotargeted CentralNotice would be clever, but I believe it
would be trivial to get around by disabling Javascript. Currently
it.wikipedia is using JS to redirect to their message, but beyond that
all page contents are also being hidden with CSS (yes, you can bypass
that too, but it's proba
On 17 September 2011 15:06, MZMcBride wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
>> On 17 September 2011 10:16, John Vandenberg wrote:
>>> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 7:11 PM, David Gerard wrote:
>>
We need people to try the technical basics of a fork, i.e. taking an
en:wp dump, an images dump, ..
>>
>>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-08-01/In_the_news
is already the 5th result when I Google that title, without any SEO
effort whatsoever :-)
Pete / the wub
On 1 August 2011 21:52, Chris Keating wrote:
> How about a Wikipedia: namespace essay with the same title? Am
On 11 July 2011 04:26, Fred Bauder wrote:
Most of us have agendas, and this is the only major outlet most of us
have access to.
>>
>> As a sort of aside-- everyone comes with agendas, and sometimes
>> people act neutrally, sometimes people act like advocates for their
>> agenda.
>>
>> I
On 28 June 2011 08:35, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Hoi,
> I have read the replies that are against social networking functionality. In
> my opinion you are all missing the point. Our projects are crowd sourced
> projects and we do not support collaboration, we do not support special
> projects. We ne
On 3 June 2011 09:17, Scott MacDonald wrote:
> What does it take for a global ban?
>
>
>
> Do you remember "Poetlister"? Aka Cato, aka Runcorn, aka Quillercouch, aka
> British Civil servant with various anti-social problems. Multiple
> sockpuppeting, manipulation, lies, harassment, identity theft
Dror, this is not about "anti-" or "pro-" whoever camps. But you have
made a serious allegation on a public and archived mailing list. It's
only fair that Supreme Deliciousness is informed and allowed a right
of reply.
Pete / the wub
On 22 May 2011 14:40, Dror Kamir wrote:
> Tom, since you did
On 16 April 2011 01:48, Dan Rosenthal wrote:
> It might be easier if you look at it as a numerical scale where "native
> speaker" is a quality level at or near the top, and someone who speaks none
> of or only a handful of words in the language is at the bottom. From Jay's
> clarification:
>
>
On 18 February 2011 23:24, aude wrote:
> Heather Ford, a former Wikimedia advisory board member and researcher/writer
> in South Africa has written an essay, "The Missing Wikipedians" about
> systematic bias on English Wikipedia (especially) against new users and
> topics pertinent to Africa and o
Latest word is that 1.17 deployment is postponed until at least
tomorrow, whilst the remaining issues are tackled.
http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/02/1-17-deployment-postponed/
Pete / the wub
On 8 February 2011 17:35, Guillaume Paumier wrote:
> Le mardi 08 février 2011 à 22:48 +0530, Barto
1.17 has just been rolled out again, but there still seem to be load
issues: see http://ganglia.wikimedia.org/?r=day&s=descending&c=
Pete / the wub
On 8 February 2011 16:46, Bartol Flint wrote:
> I don't know what you mean Stephanie. Wikipedia is still not working for me
> right? anyone else h
On 28 January 2011 13:56, David Gerard wrote:
> On 28 January 2011 13:28, SlimVirgin wrote:
>
>> I think there's a sense of annoyance among writers whose work is being
>> copied that the books are so expensive -- sometimes around $50 for a
>> 10,000-word article -- and that the ads for them on Am
On 25 January 2011 08:50, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 25 January 2011 07:11, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
>> It is a question however if per
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/help/entry_faqs#copyright and
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/terms/#4 "In certain circumstance the BBC may also
>> share your contribution wi
That's fantastic news, and just in time for the 10th anniversary too,
when I'm sure the early days of Wikipedia will be in the limelight.
Great find Tim!
Would it be at all possible to import these into the current system? I
know someone was importing edits from the Nostalgia wiki. It would be
won
On 10 December 2010 00:47, Peter Coombe wrote:
> On 9 December 2010 23:50, MZMcBride wrote:
>> KIZU Naoko wrote:
>>> I've got an error message in trying to access Japanese Wikipedia. It
>>> seems long, but it's not my topic.
>>> IIRC the message fro
On 9 December 2010 23:50, MZMcBride wrote:
> KIZU Naoko wrote:
>> I've got an error message in trying to access Japanese Wikipedia. It
>> seems long, but it's not my topic.
>> IIRC the message from server was multilingualized years ago and we
>> have offered the message with links to other lang
>>
Gmane being one example: http://gmane.org/find.php?list=wikimedia
Lets you view as a newsgroup or an RSS feed too. Clever stuff.
Pete / the wub
On 9 December 2010 16:40, emijrp wrote:
> I think that this list is re-posted in other newsgroup compilations
> websites. Also, the tar.gz archives sort
I believe that the plan is to bring in the "thermometer" showing how
close we are to our target in the later stages of the fundraiser. As
you say, hopefully that will boost donations again.
At the moment we seem to be doing fine. The personal appeal has proved
itself extremely powerful, I think th
This seems limited to messages on individuals' user pages, saying that
they personally will be donating to "Amical" rather than WMF. I don't
think the Foundation should step in on this unless the site notice or
a community page is being messed with, though some form of
clarification from Amical's l
> * Wikimedia Commons becomes first production site to adopt MediaWiki's
> new look and feel
...
> Wikimedia Commons was the first Wikimedia Foundation production wiki
> to adopt the user experience improvements that resulted from the
> Wikimedia Usability Initiative. This first deployment helped s
On 6 November 2010 10:56, Fred Bauder wrote:
>
>> Anyway, here's some analysis of this very question done back in 2006.
>> Estimates for annual revenue from adverts ranged from $42 billion to
>> $100 billion, and that's without accounting for our growth since then.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
On 6 November 2010 03:43, Milos Rancic wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 00:53, Marcus Buck wrote:
>> An'n 05.11.2010 23:44, hett Fred Bauder schreven:
>>> How many billions in potential advertising revenue do we leave on the
>>> table each year?
>>>
>>> Fred
>>
>> According to alexa.com Facebook h
On 20 October 2010 07:07, MZMcBride wrote:
> Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
>> This is obvious to someone who has been using Wikipedia for some time,
>> but not so for newbies. I propose changing the "new messages" notice
>> to something like: "You have new messages on your public talk page
>> (last chang
On 28 September 2010 23:37, James Heilman wrote:
> Decisions at Wikipedia are not based a vote. The majority support
> Pending Changes and insufficient reasons have been put forwards by
> those who wish to see it quashed. I would like to thank Erik Moeller
> for the difficult discussion he has ma
On 6 September 2010 11:33, Teofilo wrote:
>
> * We are never shown specifications defining the goals of the planned
> softwares, which makes me doubt such specifications are ever written.
> With specifications being written and published, problems could be
> talked in a proactive way.
>
Also, I d
On 6 September 2010 11:33, Teofilo wrote:
> * The developpers have enabled for every Admin of the French
> Wikipedia, the possibility to mask (and exert acts of censorship)
> without needing to be an oversighter (1) Which means that the policy
> page at [[:fr:Wikipédia:Masqueur d'adresses IP]] (mo
On 24 August 2010 12:21, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
> Amir E. Aharoni, 24/08/2010 12:22:
>> This is done using Jmol, an
>> LGPL-licensed Java applet, so maybe it can be used in Wikipedia in the
>> future.
>
> There's been some discussion here:
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Visuali
We already remove images of children which are considered to be
illegal under US law, and I see no one arguing that we do otherwise.
The recent kerfuffle has been over the broader category of sexual
images. But if we are take account of all religious and moral
sensitivities, where will it end?
The
On 9 May 2010 21:29, marcos wrote:
> I want to write here a couple of reflections:
>
> First: Not everything what can be known is worth being known
>
> Second: there have to be a few limits in the free knowledge. These limits
> are the Law and the common sense. Though the common sense is the
On 9 May 2010 09:50, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> On 5/8/10 5:38 PM, Mike Godwin wrote:
>> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:24 AM, MZMcBride wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Most of the egregiously bad deletions were quickly overturned, and Jimmy
>>> was
>>> the one re-deleting the images. Now that he has agreed to stop, most
On 3 March 2010 13:26, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:49 AM, David Gerard wrote:
>> On 3 March 2010 12:28, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>>
>>> Wikipedia is not a dumping ground for your copyfight. There is plenty
>>> of reason to exclude this material regardless of the copyright/le
2009/8/17 Jay Litwyn :
> Maybe there should be a [[:category:printed articles]]. It should ignore
> personal and educational use with a note at the top saying "Alphascript
> Publishing used this article in whole or major part for a commercial
> printing of Wikipedia.". It would be nice of them to c
2009/8/6 Jade Harold
> >Trying to press a en.wp policy(especially one as broad and controversial
> as WP:NOT) on anyone else is foolish and likely to be resisted.
>
> Pete, I disagree with you especially in a case that a local project
> try to omit key concepts such as Consensus Policy. WP:NOT#DE
It means global to the English Wikipedia, someone should probably change
that. Different languages and projects are largely independent of each
other, and can have their own policies. The only requirement is that they
follow the founding principles (
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Founding_principl
2009/7/10 geni
> 2009/7/10 David Gerard :
> > 2009/7/9 David Gerard :
> >> 2009/7/9 geni :
> >
> >>> Mention VLC plugin perhaps?
> >
> >> Again, you're making suggestions to create an image of
> >> pseudo-neutrality. The VLC plugin is notoriously problematic in
> >> practice. Your suggestion woul
2009/5/30 Judson Dunn :
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:58 PM, David Gerard wrote:
>>
>> 2009/5/30 Thomas Dalton :
>>
>> > I don't get it... this is just MSN Messenger on steroids. It's a great
>> > idea and if it works it should be really useful, but it isn't
>> > world-changing and certainly isn't g
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