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

2012-03-13 Thread emijrp
2012/3/13 Samuel Klein > "Today our digital database is much larger than what we can fit in the > print set. And it is up to date because we can revise it within > minutes anytime we need to, and we do it many times each day." > > Wow, they update the encyclopedia many times each day. ___

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

2012-03-10 Thread emijrp
2012/3/10 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

Re: [Foundation-l] "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" English Wikipedia's featured article today

2012-02-07 Thread emijrp
2012/2/7 HaeB > 2012/2/7 Svip : > > On 7 February 2012 04:49, MZMcBride wrote: > > > >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#Bad_choice_of_featured_article > >> is pretty good reading. > > > > The complaints usually sums as 'hey, great work on that article, > > unfortunately, I am a bi

Re: [Foundation-l] "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" English Wikipedia's featured article today

2012-02-07 Thread emijrp
Oh, that discussion again. Try harder, German style http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_%E2%80%93_Die_freie_Enzyklop%C3%A4die_1269203954464.png http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_Diskussion:Hauptseite/alt3&diff=prev&oldid=72174091 2012/2/7 MZMcBride > https://en.wi

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA

2012-01-17 Thread emijrp
The Italian bill was not removed, the vote was just delayed. So, if any, I see a poor effect here after compromising our goals. 2012/1/17 Samuel Klein > 2012/1/17 Delphine Ménard > > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Liam Wyatt wrote: > > > Thanks for this announcement Jay, and everyone invol

Re: [Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions Shutting Down

2012-01-16 Thread emijrp
2012/1/16 David Gerard > On 16 January 2012 20:21, emijrp wrote: > > > But I know what I have to do the next time I see a dangerous cultural > > situation that need help. I won't give a damn. > > > If you post about it in a manner that doesn't come across

Re: [Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions Shutting Down

2012-01-16 Thread emijrp
2012/1/16 David Gerard > On 16 January 2012 18:40, emijrp wrote: > > > If I write that post, I will post it on my blog. Making WMF work is not > my > > interest. My interest is to remark the biased behaviour of them and post > > some suggestions. > > >

Re: [Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions Shutting Down

2012-01-16 Thread emijrp
2012/1/16 David Gerard > On 16 January 2012 17:31, emijrp wrote: > > > WMF reply to this thread > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Field_cricket_Gryllus_pennsylvanicus.ogg > > Step 1 was not taken yet. > > > As I noted, you want it to happen, you wou

Re: [Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions Shutting Down

2012-01-16 Thread emijrp
2012/1/7 emijrp > 2012/1/7 David Gerard > >> On 7 January 2012 20:12, emijrp wrote: >> >> > The Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina holds 400,000 artifacts. >> > Any National Cultural Institution closing is a disaster. >> >> Yes, it is. S

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

2012-01-16 Thread emijrp
2011/10/28 Tim Starling > On 28/10/11 01:43, emijrp wrote: > > Obvious sarcasm is obvious. But people think you are serious. > > > > I'm not sure who is more dangerous, stupid politicians speaking about > > closing sites or stupid wikipedians closing Wikipedia si

[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia is considering going dark to protest SOPA and PIPA

2012-01-13 Thread emijrp
Forwarding an alarming e-mail for your interest. -- Forwarded message -- From: Wade Mollison Date: 2012/1/13 Subject: Wikipedia To: "\"emijrp\"" Emily, Quick request: Wikipedia is considering going dark to protest SOPA and PIPA, the Internet censorship

Re: [Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions Shutting Down

2012-01-07 Thread emijrp
2012/1/7 David Gerard > On 7 January 2012 20:12, emijrp wrote: > > > The Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina holds 400,000 artifacts. > > Any National Cultural Institution closing is a disaster. > > Yes, it is. So what's the game plan? > > I'm n

Re: [Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions Shutting Down

2012-01-07 Thread emijrp
2012/1/7 geni > On 7 January 2012 16:53, emijrp wrote: > > It is sure that LOC is in the top priorities for Americans, and the BNL > for > > Serbians, don't you think so? Thanks for showing your patent chauvinism. > > Never ever imply that I am American again. >

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

2012-01-07 Thread emijrp
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-01-04/tech/30586955_1_zynga-sopa-paypal 2011/12/12 emijrp > ANDDD HERE WE GO > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Request_for_Comment:_SOPA_and_a_strike > > > 2011/10/27 Domas Mituzas > >> Hi! &g

Re: [Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions Shutting Down

2012-01-07 Thread emijrp
care about all human knowledge when we give priority to cases depending on our birthplace. 2012/1/7 geni > On 7 January 2012 13:01, emijrp wrote: > > Dear all; > > > > Bosnia's top cultural institutions[1] (National Museum, Historical > Museum, > > National Gall

[Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions Shutting Down

2012-01-07 Thread emijrp
ost in the Wikimedia blog. Are you so worried and biased with the US bills? Imagine the WMF reaction if Library of Congress closes. Regards, emijrp [1] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=144755322 ___ foundation-l mailing list fo

Re: [Foundation-l] Spanish website blocking law implemented

2012-01-04 Thread emijrp
http://gigaom.com/2012/01/04/how-spains-version-of-sopa-is-setting-the-web-on-fire/ 2012/1/4 Federico Leva (Nemo) > emijrp, 04/01/2012 18:59: > > With this law, a special team in the Ministry of Culture of Spain can > block > > any (for-profit or non-profit) website, from

Re: [Foundation-l] Spanish website blocking law implemented

2012-01-04 Thread emijrp
With this law, a special team in the Ministry of Culture of Spain can block any (for-profit or non-profit) website, from Spain or overseas, that _links_ to copyrighted works. Including Google, Wikipedia or whatever. Without a judge. For further details, search for an analysis. 2012/1/4 Lodewijk

Re: [Foundation-l] Spanish website blocking law implemented

2012-01-03 Thread emijrp
Yes, the Great United States of America is a POV pusher country which is lobbying to create new laws to protect its IP industry overseas. 2012/1/3 Kim Bruning > > Looks like .us is pushing other countries to implement similar laws, eg. > .es : > > > http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/03/0241248

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2011 videos - mission complete!

2011-12-23 Thread emijrp
Those who want to download all the videos, can use this script[1] and run this in a Unix console: python youtube-dl -t -i -c http://www.youtube.com/user/WikimediaIL [1] http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/ 2011/11/29 Itzik Edri > Hi, > > *I happy to announce that all the videos from Wikimania 201

Re: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

2011-12-18 Thread emijrp
Hi; Yes, please, go global. We can use the sitenotice (only for registered users) to ask for help in every country. Or only those countries with a chapter are allowed? Regards, emijrp 2011/12/18 Tomasz Kozłowski > Hello everyone, > > As you may have heard, a little while ago some o

Re: [Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia

2011-12-17 Thread emijrp
lativism, after the WikiLeaks one. Do you remember the Egypt Internet blackout? USA bills are protest worthy, Internet blackouts in other countries are statistical case studies.[1] Cheers from Egypt[2]. You really know when and how to protect Internet liberties. You are heroes. Regards, e

Re: [Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia

2011-12-14 Thread emijrp
censorship? No. WMF did nothing. Well, Wikipedia community wrote this disclaimer "WikiLeaks is not affiliated with Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation"[1] on the top, and turned a blind eye. Now it is your turn. Enjoy. Regards, emijrp [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks 2011/1

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

2011-12-12 Thread emijrp
ANDDD HERE WE GO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Request_for_Comment:_SOPA_and_a_strike 2011/10/27 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? > > > ht

Re: [Foundation-l] [Gendergap] Fundraising is for men

2011-12-01 Thread emijrp
2011/12/1 Carol Moore > On 11/29/2011 5:19 PM, emijrp wrote: > > > > > > So, the first step would be to try and figure out if women are > > visiting the site and not editing or just not visiting at all, before > > saying nonsense about sexism and Wikipedia comm

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraising is for men

2011-11-29 Thread emijrp
2011/11/29 Thomas Dalton > On 29 November 2011 21:51, emijrp wrote: > > Dear all; > > > > We have heard many times that most Wikipedians are male, but have you > heard > > about gender and fundraising? Some data from a 2010 study[1] and a 2011 > > German st

[Foundation-l] Fundraising is for men

2011-11-29 Thread emijrp
neither are interested on editing nor funding free knowledge. Is WMF working to increase female donors just like female editors? Regards, emijrp [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2010FR_Donor_survey_report.pdf [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Detailed_results.pdf

[Foundation-l] Google Knol is closing

2011-11-23 Thread emijrp
Efnet. Regards, emijrp [1] http://knol.google.com/k [2] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/more-spring-cleaning-out-of-season.html [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinkSearch&target=http%3A%2F%2Fknol.google.com [4] http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=

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

2011-10-31 Thread emijrp
Additional reasons to shut down English Wikipedia as protest ASAP http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/u-s-cuts-funding-for-unesco-after-palestinian-vote-1.392996 2011/10/27 Domas Mituzas > Hi! > > we recently did some practice on italian wikipedia, are we going to > protest IP legislat

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

2011-10-27 Thread emijrp
Obvious sarcasm is obvious. But people think you are serious. I'm not sure who is more dangerous, stupid politicians speaking about closing sites or stupid wikipedians closing Wikipedia sites when politicians speak about closing sites. Damn. 2011/10/27 Domas Mituzas > Hi! > > we recently did s

Re: [Foundation-l] New Version of PROTECT IP Bill May Target Legal Sites

2011-10-26 Thread emijrp
Or in a micronation, in international waters, or into orbit.[1] [1] http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-parties-plan-to-shoot-torrent-site-into-orbit-101020/ 2011/10/26 Etienne Beaule > Or Canada, as proposed for april fools! > > > On 11-10-26 4:16 PM, "Yaroslav M. Blanter" wrote: > > > On Wed, 26

[Foundation-l] Europeana and public domain

2011-10-25 Thread emijrp
tisaton?[2]) is a project partner.[3] Regards, emijrp [1] http://www.version1.europeana.eu/web/europeana-project/publications [2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-September/068980.html [3] http://www.version1.europeana.eu/web/europeana-project/p

Re: [Foundation-l] Given that we have won, can we turn Italian Wikipedia back on now?

2011-10-23 Thread emijrp
So, the law was finally rejected or it was not voted yet? 2011/10/6 Chris Keating > > > > Not so easy. Yesterday an amendment has been officially proposed, not > > approved. It will be discussed into the parliament camera, then into the > > parliament senate. Only if both will accept it without

Re: [Foundation-l] News from Germany: White Bags and thinking about a fork

2011-10-22 Thread emijrp
So, we are going to have virtually two cloned German Wikipedias, one with image filter extension enabled and other disabled. Not very useful, but it is your choice. I hope you enable the Semantic MediaWiki extension in the new fork. Good luck. 2011/10/22 Dirk Franke > Dear Mailinglists, > > th

Re: [Foundation-l] all images on/off function

2011-10-07 Thread emijrp
The image hide feature is useful, but the same feature to hide tables would be great. In mobile mode, infobox tables fill the whole screen width and you have to scroll a lot to read the article, which in my case, is what I want to see. 2011/9/13 Liam Wyatt > One of the side points about the rece

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-05 Thread emijrp
2011/10/5 Michael Snow > On 10/5/2011 9:45 AM, emijrp wrote: > > 2011/10/5 Michael Snow > >> On 10/5/2011 7:03 AM, Domas Mituzas wrote: > >>> Editor strike means not editing, it doesn't mean full service downtime. > >> When labor unions go on st

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-05 Thread emijrp
2011/10/5 Michael Snow > On 10/5/2011 7:03 AM, Domas Mituzas wrote: > >> 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

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF blog post on Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-05 Thread emijrp
When people reuse content in other websites/blogs/etc, they have to copy the article text and link to Italian Wikipedia where you can check the entire history and authors. That is how attribution is given. It is explained here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reusing_Wikipedia_content Now, m

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF blog post on Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-05 Thread emijrp
Of course. I'm not speaking about the right to mirror, but the need of mirrors. By the way, our free licenses also need to show the text authors. Thousand people re-use the contents and link to the Wikipedia page. As far as I know, no history is available now at Italian Wikipedia to look up. CC-BY

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF blog post on Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-05 Thread emijrp
A good moment to remember this. *Permit mirror sites.* When information is available on the web only at one site, its availability is vulnerable. A local problem—a computer crash, an earthquake or flood, a budget cut, a change in policy of the school administration—could cut off access for everyo

Re: [Foundation-l] WMF blog post on Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-05 Thread emijrp
"The Wikimedia Foundation supports the rights of all people to access our free knowledge content everywhere in the world" The Wikimedia Foundation supports a damn. Now, all Wikipedias know that it is allowed to blank the entire site when community doesn't like things. For example, the image filte

Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia

2011-10-05 Thread emijrp
You heard about consensus and anti-censorship actions: all is allowed with community polls as seen in Italian Wikipedia yesterday. German Wikipedia, go ahead and blank your wiki is WMF try to force the image filtering on you. The same for other Wikipedias that don't agree with the filter. Enjoy th

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

2011-10-04 Thread emijrp
make me more concerned about the missing updated, secure and trustworthy mirrors of Wikipedia content. Fortunately, you still can read the mobile version, but it is "limited".[5] (Please, spread the word about this) Regards, emijrp [1] http://it.wikipedia.org [2] http://it.wikipedi

Re: [Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls

2011-10-02 Thread emijrp
n request for free, so everyone who needs can get the > data. It's the best way for our interest to keep the criticized text > in an appropriate level, avoid any corruption." There' a lot of this > kind anecdotes, I guess? > > Be relaxed, you have not to be so hostile,

Re: [Foundation-l] Berlios.de is shutting down

2011-09-30 Thread emijrp
This is work for ARCHIVE TEAM http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=BerliOS 2011/9/30 David Gerard > http://www.berlios.de/ > > Is there anything we could do to help? Is this too far outside our area? > > I recall how useful and helpful BerliOS was back in the olden days > when it was Wikipedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls

2011-09-27 Thread emijrp
Looks like you don't know the meaning of "common" word. I also know how to paste cool links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan_and_copyright_issues 2011/9/27 Anthony > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 6:57 PM, emijrp wrote: > > OMG ISRAEL IS OUT OF USA? REALLY? > >

Re: [Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls

2011-09-26 Thread emijrp
OMG ISRAEL IS OUT OF USA? REALLY? Come on. The point here is that originality is a common requirement for claiming copyright. 2011/9/27 Anthony > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Ray Saintonge > wrote: > > On 09/26/11 12:27 PM, emijrp wrote: > >> If originals don't h

Re: [Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls

2011-09-26 Thread emijrp
; originals... > > On 26/09/2011 19:58, emijrp wrote: > > Hi all; > > > > Finally, the Dead Sea Scrolls[1] have copyright[2]. Courtesy of The > Israel > > Museum. Congratulations. > > > > By they way: Hi Wikimedia Israel. > > > > Regards, &g

[Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls

2011-09-26 Thread emijrp
Hi all; Finally, the Dead Sea Scrolls[1] have copyright[2]. Courtesy of The Israel Museum. Congratulations. By they way: Hi Wikimedia Israel. Regards, emijrp [1] http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/ [2] http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/terms_pg

Re: [Foundation-l] There is a deadline

2011-09-22 Thread emijrp
Thanks for your kind words and fixes : ) 2011/9/22 Delphine Ménard > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:43 PM, emijrp wrote: > > Hi all; > > > > I have written an essay (my first one)[1] about the idea "There is a > > deadline". It is opposite to the old essay (fro

[Foundation-l] There is a deadline

2011-09-22 Thread emijrp
#x27;m not very fluent in English. Thanks. Regards, emijrp [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:There_is_a_deadline ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Internet Archive: Volunteer - Help us get 200, 000 books on Sunday!

2011-09-22 Thread emijrp
I'm not subscribed there. Please, forward the message. 2011/9/21 Steven Walling > On Sep 21, 2011 12:52 AM, "emijrp" wrote: > > > > Hi all; > > > > Who lives in San Francisco? Who works there (WMF staff ; )) ? > > > > This may

Re: [Foundation-l] Three short films about Wikipedia

2011-09-21 Thread emijrp
Hey Lennart, they are great videos! Please, create a wikipage on meta:, and I will add the Spanish translation. Regards, emijrp 2011/9/21 Lennart Guldbrandsson > Hello, > > (Sorry for cross-posting this.) > > In just two days, Wikimedia Sverige is once again going to parti

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

2011-09-21 Thread emijrp
that Internet Archive saves XML dumps quarterly or so, but no official announcement. Also, I heard about Library of Congress wanting to mirror the dumps, but not news since a long time. L'Encyclopédie has an "uptime"[4] of 260 years[5] and growing. Will Wiki[pm]edia projects reach th

[Foundation-l] Internet Archive: Volunteer - Help us get 200, 000 books on Sunday!

2011-09-21 Thread emijrp
Hi all; Who lives in San Francisco? Who works there (WMF staff ; )) ? This may be a good choice to get involved with Internet Archive. http://blog.archive.org/2011/09/20/volunteer-help-us-get-20-books-on-sunday/ Regards, emijrp ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] robots.txt and archive.org

2011-09-18 Thread emijrp
removed pages, but the first edits use to be in the Main Page). English Wikipedia "lost" some of the first edits during the upgrading in the first MediaWiki versions, but they were later found by Tim Starling in a very old backup. Regards, emijrp 2011/9/18 Milos Rancic > On Sun, Se

Re: [Foundation-l] "All human knowledge", by Jimmy Wales (?)

2011-09-16 Thread emijrp
public domain books,[2] how many of them are available at WikiSource? This project compile images for every square kilometre in Britain.[3] We can use this idea for Commons, and take thousands of millions of photos of all the world. : ) Regards, emijrp [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp

Re: [Foundation-l] "All human knowledge", by Jimmy Wales (?)

2011-09-16 Thread emijrp
I think that the phrase meaning refered to Wikipedia is "the sum of all human knowledge which is notable and encyclopedic". Not ALL, ALL, ALL human knowledge. MySpace discarded. 2011/9/16 Ziko van Dijk > Hello, > > Today I read on a WMDE driven website: > > "»Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in

Re: [Foundation-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

2011-09-16 Thread emijrp
b Strainu: > > Not really, no. What does german law have to do with reading or > > editing some website in Tampa or Virginia from somewhere in Asia? I > > can understand that german nationals cannot use that image, but > > whatabout other germen speakers? > > > >

Re: [Foundation-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

2011-09-16 Thread emijrp
2011/9/16 Tobias Oelgarte > That is an legal issue. We do that to comply with the law, since that > image isn't in public domain under German jurisdiction. > Who is "we"? And, why does German jurisdiction matter here? ___ foundation-l mailing list foun

Re: [Foundation-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

2011-09-16 Thread emijrp
filter to improve the rights of readers of German Wikipedia. Very cool, right? ; ) Regards, emijrp [1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bildrechte#Wikipedia_richtet_sich_nach_DACH-Recht [2] http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Knox&oldid=81377280 [3] http://de.wiki

Re: [Foundation-l] Minor projects withering and dying? Really?

2011-09-13 Thread emijrp
I prefer WMF caring about the currently hosted sister projects, instead of adding more. 2011/9/13 David Gerard > 2011/9/13 David Richfield : > > >> It's possible. The interface part is even quite easy. > >> The hard part is defining a data model to contain all the words in all > >> languages, wi

Re: [Foundation-l] On Wikinews

2011-09-13 Thread emijrp
I agree with this analysis. 2011/9/13 > English Wikinews is in a market with many, many professional > competitors. Competitors with a paid staff that steadily create > reliable news output quick and in most cases _for free_. While good > encyclopedias were still sold for thousands of dollars in

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

2011-09-12 Thread emijrp
Interesting link, but a bit focused on software. No mention to content communities. Wiki[pm]edia suffered other forks previously, like Enciclopedia Libre. 2011/9/12 Jon Davis > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_fork#Forking_free_and_open_source_software > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 14:32,

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] Summary of findings from WMF Summer of Research program now available

2011-09-10 Thread emijrp
The interesting thing here is, 4.8M unique red links in 2009, and unique 5.6M red links in 2011. *The more articles are created, the more articles are missing*. 2011/9/6 Steven Walling > Greetings everyone, > > Now that the the WMF summer research program in the Community Department > has come t

[Foundation-l] Very sad news

2011-09-07 Thread emijrp
Michael S. Hart has died http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Forkability, its problems and our problems

2011-08-16 Thread emijrp
Here is a bigger problem. Wikimedia Foundation wants to increase the participation and readers numbers just because the capitalist mind of forcing steady growing. They don't know how to reach that, just want to do it, and the participation growing is flat since 2007. They tried to improve usabilit

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

2011-08-16 Thread emijrp
icane, maybe a faulty RAID. Did you hear about the RAID problem some months ago? Regards, emijrp > - d. > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listin

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

2011-08-15 Thread emijrp
e land of earthquakes). Making fun of Wikipedia is so 2007. Playing with Wikipedia is so 2001. Losing knowledge is so 48 BC. This is the most important mission human race has ever achieve. Regards, emijrp -- > Krinkle > ___ > Wikitech-l mailing

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

2011-08-13 Thread emijrp
Yes, that tool looks similar to the idea I wrote. Other approaches may be possible too. 2011/8/13 John Vandenberg > On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 4:53 AM, emijrp wrote: > > Man, Gerard is thinking about new methods to fork (in an easy way) single > > articles, sets of articles or comp

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2011 video on Commons?

2011-08-12 Thread emijrp
You can upload them to Internet Archive. 2011/8/12 Itzik Edri > Each files is about 2GB size... As commons allow us to upload only 100MB > per > file, we will need later to resize them and upload them via the > sys-admins.. > Now we trying to finish working on the original files so they could be

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

2011-08-12 Thread emijrp
Man, Gerard is thinking about new methods to fork (in an easy way) single articles, sets of articles or complete wikipedias, and people reply about setting up servers/mediawiki/importing_databases and other geeky weekend parties. That is why there is no successful forks. Forking Wikipedia is _hard_

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

2011-07-11 Thread emijrp
2011/7/11 Milos Rancic > > Note that estimates from the past (and likely from the present) count > that no language with less than 1M of speakers would survive 2050. > > If Wikimedia projects and WMF leave to die 90% (or 80%, or 70%, or 60%) of current languages in the next 40 years (we will be a

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

2011-07-11 Thread emijrp
2011/7/11 Amir E. Aharoni > I'll never lose hope that we'll have a full-blown encyclopedia in each > of the 7,000 languages, but even if we won't, it's still very much in > the scope of Wikimedia's mission to have full collections of free > texts in all of them - folk tales, religious texts, any

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

2011-07-11 Thread emijrp
2011/7/11 Thomas Goldammer > 2011/7/11 emijrp : > > @Thomas and @Andre: I know that it is very hard to mantain a Wikipedia in > > 'remote' or 'almost extinct' languages, but, if we don't save as much as > we > > can of them (including word

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

2011-07-11 Thread emijrp
@Thomas and @Andre: I know that it is very hard to mantain a Wikipedia in 'remote' or 'almost extinct' languages, but, if we don't save as much as we can of them (including words, grammar, culture, social values), how are we going to offer 'all human knowledge' ? How are we going to offer knowledg

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

2011-07-11 Thread emijrp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_language "It is believed that 90% of the circa 7,000 languages currently spoken in the world will have become extinct by 2050, as the world's language system has reached a crisis and is dramatically restructuring." How is Wikipedia going to affect this languag

[Foundation-l] CDPedia

2011-07-02 Thread emijrp
Hi; Please, can you add CDPedia[1] (Spanish Wikipedia) to [2]? Thanks, emijrp [1] http://python.org.ar/pyar/Proyectos/CDPedia [2] http://dumps.wikimedia.org/dvd.html ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia dumps downloader

2011-06-28 Thread emijrp
2011/6/28 Platonides > emijrp wrote: > >> Hi; >> >> @Derrick: I don't trust Amazon. >> > > I disagree. Note that we only need them to keep a redundant copy of a file. > If they tried to tamper the file we could detect it with the hashes (which >

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia dumps downloader

2011-06-28 Thread emijrp
nes of several GB (a single day). Regards, emijrp 2011/6/28 Derrick Coetzee > As a Commons admin I've thought a lot about the problem of > distributing Commons dumps. As for distribution, I believe BitTorrent > is absolutely the way to go, but the Torrent will require a small

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia dumps downloader

2011-06-28 Thread emijrp
Can you share your script with us? 2011/6/27 Platonides > emijrp wrote: > >> Hi SJ; >> >> You know that that is an old item in our TODO list ; ) >> >> I heard that Platonides developed a script for that task long time ago. >> >> Platonides, are y

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wiki-research-l] Wikipedia dumps downloader

2011-06-27 Thread emijrp
Hi SJ; You know that that is an old item in our TODO list ; ) I heard that Platonides developed a script for that task long time ago. Platonides, are you there? Regards, emijrp 2011/6/27 Samuel Klein > Thank you, Emijrp! > > What about the dump of Commons images? [for those wit

Re: [Foundation-l] [Xmldatadumps-l] Wikipedia dumps downloader

2011-06-27 Thread emijrp
itted persons than a big but ephemeral crowd. Regards, emijrp 2011/6/26 Richard Farmbrough > ** > It would be useful to have an archive of archives. I have to delete my > old data dumps as time passes, for space reasons, however a team could, > between them, maintain multiple cop

[Foundation-l] Wikipedia dumps downloader

2011-06-26 Thread emijrp
100GB to download all the 7z files. Save our memory. Regards, emijrp [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_libraries [2] http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/source/browse/trunk/wikipediadownloader.py ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcement: Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD released

2011-06-12 Thread emijrp
I'm interested in uploading these CDs ISOs to Internet Archive. Are you OK with this? Your server is a bit slow, so, you will have a mirror an a bit faster. 2011/6/11 Jyothis E > Dear fellow Wikimedians, > > With great pleasure, Malayalam Wikimedia Community announced its 2011 CD > project "Sele

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikis around Europe!

2011-06-12 Thread emijrp
On the left sidebar on the map you have two links "Ratings" and "Comments". I have left a comment asking about how to add new wikis. Can you drop a line with the wikis you want to add? Regards. 2011/6/11 Juliana da Costa José > Wow, very interesting. But there are not allready all Wikis inside.

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcement: Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD released

2011-06-11 Thread emijrp
Creating an offline version of a wiki project is a hard work. Keep up the good work! Congratulations! : ) P.D.: downloading... 2011/6/11 Jyothis E > Dear fellow Wikimedians, > > With great pleasure, Malayalam Wikimedia Community announced its 2011 CD > project "Selected Books from Malayalam Wik

[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikis around Europe!

2011-06-11 Thread emijrp
Hi. I forward this e-mail, I hope there are people interested on this map. -- Forwarded message -- From: emijrp Date: 2011/6/11 Subject: Wikis around Europe! To: wikiteam-disc...@googlegroups.com Hi all; A friend of mine has sent me this link about wikis (locapedias) around

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] YouTube and Creative Commons

2011-06-04 Thread emijrp
A nice script to download YouTube videos is youtube-dl[1]. Link that with a flv/mp4 -> ogg converter and an uploader to Commons is trivial. [1] http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/ 2011/6/4 Michael Dale > Comments inline: > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > > > (I'm not sure

Re: [Foundation-l] Archiving wikis

2011-04-18 Thread emijrp
persons are going to care about enable it and publishing backups. 2011/4/14, Federico Leva (Nemo) : > emijrp, 14/04/2011 12:52: >> We know that websites are fragile and that broken links are common. >> Wikimedia (and other communities like Wikia) publish dumps of their wikis, >

[Foundation-l] Archiving wikis

2011-04-14 Thread emijrp
is and research them. Regards, emijrp [1] http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/ [2] http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/downloads/list?can=1 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Is the WMF spending its (our or our donors) money irrationally?

2011-03-04 Thread emijrp
What about hurricanes? ; ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Florida_hurricane_%28pre-1900%29_tracks.jpg 2011/3/4 Tim Starling > On 05/03/11 01:47, WereSpielChequers wrote: > > As for the big financial decisions, I tend to the view that locating > > our sole data centre in a state known for its

[Foundation-l] Time capsule

2011-01-13 Thread emijrp
Hi all; Please, read this interesting idea http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideas#buy_Time_Capsules Any suggestion? Regards, emijrp ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Foundation-l] Again: January 15 retro?

2011-01-11 Thread emijrp
Yes, readers may be interested in local meet-ups. A link to the Ten Wiki would be great. Come on! Involve readers in this! 2011/1/11 HW > I perfer a global notice for all project as soon as possible since some > activity > is going on before 15 January. > It should be link to tenwiki or local pa

Re: [Foundation-l] Again: January 15 retro?

2011-01-11 Thread emijrp
I prefer a global notice for all projects, similar to the fundraising banners, only for January 15, where we explain in a line that it is the 10 anniversary, and offer a link to expand information. 2011/1/11 Lodewijk > so... to conclude the discussion on this topic, which went rather sideways, >

Re: [Foundation-l] January 15 retro?

2011-01-10 Thread emijrp
We need a Free Knowledge Song, similar to the Free Software Song[1][2]. It is cool to sing it in these events. [1] http://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.html [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sJUDx7iEJw 2011/1/8 Lodewijk > can't we just rename Breakfast to Wikipedia Party Breakfast? :P

Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-14 Thread emijrp
Is there any database backup of Nupedia? Or the articles were posted as HTML pages? 2010/12/15 ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) > And here is the first http://wikipedia.com archive link available at web > archive. > > http://web.archive.org/web/20010727112808/http://www.wikipedia.org/ > > > 2010/12/15 Vi

Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-14 Thread emijrp
2010/12/14 Mike Dupont > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Tim Starling > wrote: > > HomePage > > * WikiPedia > > * PhilosophyAndLogic > > * UnitedStates > > * PopularMusic > > * SportS > > * MathematicsAndStatistics > > * CountriesOfTheWorld > > * AaA > > * AfghanistaN > > * UuU > > * Technolog

Re: [Foundation-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-14 Thread emijrp
Hi; Thanks Tim. Congratulations. Is Wikipedia:UuU[1] now out-of-date? Regards, emijrp [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:UuU 2010/12/14 Tim Starling > I was looking through some old files in our SourceForge project. I > opened a file called wiki.tar.gz, and inside were

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation-L Mirrors

2010-12-09 Thread emijrp
I think that this list is re-posted in other newsgroup compilations websites. Also, the tar.gz archives sorted by month are available in the mailing list site. 2010/12/8 > What is the perceived limitation(s) on mirroring this email list ? > > That is, making copies of it, on other sites. > _

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