Re: [Foundation-l] Usability: Is our vocabulary SNAFU?

2008-12-09 Thread the wub
gt;>> * For non native speakers of English: SNAFU, dude >>> >> On the English Wikipedia, and occasionally Commons, I'd put >> Wikipedia-policy acronyms above all those in both frequency of use and >> likelihood of confusing or putting off newbies. > > At le

Re: [Foundation-l] Annual Fundraiser 2008 update

2008-12-09 Thread the wub
is evident and it's paying off. I've spent far too long the past few months being bombarded with various companies' expensive, fancy, glossy recruiting brochures - and I have to say that WMF's Annual Report looks better than all of them! Great work Rand, and everyone else involved. th

Re: [Foundation-l] EN Wikipedia Editing Statistics

2008-12-01 Thread the wub
n I think these are all in Florida. They are not split into clusters like the database servers AFAICT. * There are squids - caching servers - located in Florida, Korea and Amsterdam (these are not the same as the toolserver machines). So in other words the whole wikitext for all wikis is not b