Re: [Foundation-l] William Pietri: Where is FlaggedRevisions?

2010-03-01 Thread Brian J Mingus
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Anthony wrote: > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Anthony wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:23 AM, William Pietri >wrote: > > > >> On 02/28/2010 09:36 PM, Mike.lifeguard wrote: > >> > On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, William Pietri wrote: > >> > > >> >> I've reported w

Re: [Foundation-l] The name "Old Wikisource"

2010-03-01 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 08:20, Milos Rancic wrote: > (Please, continue to discuss at foundation-l.) > > I think that the term "Old Wikisource" and wiki abbreviation > "oldwikisource" is really bad for the purpose of Wikisource (hosting > "the rest" of material). Something like "Multilingual Wikiso

Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardner, Erik Möller , Will iam Pietri: Where is FlaggedRevisions?

2010-03-01 Thread David Gerard
On 1 March 2010 06:51, William Pietri wrote: > And in the future people want to know about something, just drop me a > note off list and say, "Hey, William! I was wondering about X, and I'd > bet other people are too." I'm entirely happy to keep people apprised on > pretty much anything, but I do

Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardner, Erik Möller , Wi lliam Pietri: Where is FlaggedRevisions?

2010-03-01 Thread Steven Walling
I'm not really interested in debating about how well the implementation of Flagged Revisions has gone/is going. But I would like to say that I was pleasantly surprised to see the project using PivotalTracker. It's been easy for me to keep updated on the work being done since I started checking on i

Re: [Foundation-l] �lliam Pietri: Where is Flagge dRevisions?

2010-03-01 Thread Casey Brown
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Aphaia wrote: > Not a sarcasm, but I would like to point out SUL, single user login > took years to implement to the project wikis, and we even called once > it "Godot". FlaggedRevs implementation also - it took years to > realize. Months are relatively shorter, a

Re: [Foundation-l] Werner Icking Music Archive may be closing

2010-03-01 Thread Andrew Gray
On 1 March 2010 00:06, church.of.emacs.ml wrote: > Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work out. I sent Christian Mondrup > an Email asking for more details and he responded that he had already > contacted Wikimedia. As the majority of the works cannot be licensed > under a Creative Commons licens

Re: [Foundation-l] �lliam Pietri: Where is Flagge dRevisions?

2010-03-01 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, One of the things developers are not necessarily good at is communication as in keeping everyone up to date. With the many channels secret and not so secret. With the ferocity that many say typify the mailing lists, it is no wonder that we hear few if any updates. In my opinion the reason why

Re: [Foundation-l] Werner Icking Music Archive may be closing

2010-03-01 Thread David Gerard
On 1 March 2010 12:52, Andrew Gray wrote: > Judging from (an older version of?) the website, it's a general > non-commercial license on all submissions: > ::: The archive contains "free" sheet music, free for non-commercial usage. > This > ::: means that you may download the files and print pape

Re: [Foundation-l] The name "Old Wikisource"

2010-03-01 Thread Pharos
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 08:20, Milos Rancic wrote: > >> (Please, continue to discuss at foundation-l.) >> >> I think that the term "Old Wikisource" and wiki abbreviation >> "oldwikisource" is really bad for the purpose of Wikisource (hosting

Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardner, Erik Möller , Will iam Pietri: Where is FlaggedRevisions?

2010-03-01 Thread Austin Hair
MZMcBride, You raise a legitimate point, and I don't mean to silence discussion on the topic—I'm curious to know, myself—but please keep a civil tongue. As we've seen from the various replies, your approach is making for a hostile thread; this is not only unpleasant, but also extremely unproducti

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikinews-l] Discussion about proposal for multilingual Wikinews

2010-03-01 Thread Aphaia
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:59 AM, gopher65 wrote: > You know, I've actually been recently considering an idea for combining all > of the Wikinews language editions into a single project. However, the code > required to accomplish this in a reasonable fashion does not currently > exist, and I don't

[Foundation-l] Strategic Planning Office Hours

2010-03-01 Thread Philippe Beaudette
> Hi everyone, > > The next strategic planning office hours are: > > Wednesday, 04:00-05:00 UTC, which is: > -Tuesday (8-9pm PST) > -Tuesday (11pm-12am EST) > > Office hours will be a great opportunity to discuss the work that's > happened as well as the work to come. > > As always, you can acce

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikinews-l] Discussion about proposal for multilingual Wikinews

2010-03-01 Thread J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov
Whilst the idea of having a truly multi-lingual Wikinews with articles published in numerous languages is a good one, I fear that the practicalities make this somewhat idealistic. I think infact we should actually be rather proud that we manage to get so many articles published in so many articles

Re: [Foundation-l] �lliam Pietri: Where is Flagge dRevisions?

2010-03-01 Thread Alex
The English Wikipedia isn't asking for a total rewrite of the extension. FlaggedRevs was always (at least since it was first deployed) highly customizable. I believe the "Flagged Protection" feature was able to be implemented, or very close to it, at the time the proposal was finalized. Supposedly

Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardner, Erik Möller , Wi lliam Pietri: Where is FlaggedRevisions?

2010-03-01 Thread Erik Moeller
Hello all, as a matter of principle, I'm not going to engage in this thread given the toxic tone in which it was started and partially carried on, nor do I expect any other WMF staff or contractors to do so. If there is interest in a civil, reasonable discussion regarding this or any other topic,

Re: [Foundation-l] �lliam Pietri: Where is Flagge dRevisions?

2010-03-01 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Alex wrote: > The English Wikipedia isn't asking for a total rewrite of the extension. > FlaggedRevs was always (at least since it was first deployed) highly > customizable. I believe the "Flagged Protection" feature was able to be > implemented, or very close to it

[Foundation-l] [Announcement] Extension of user experience work

2010-03-01 Thread Erik Moeller
Hello all, our very positive revenue perspective (we have already exceeded our fundraising targets for the fiscal year, and received the additional $2M from Google) allows us to do something we've hoped to be able to do: make our investment in user experience work permanent, as opposed to releasin

Re: [Foundation-l] [Announcement] Extension of user experience work

2010-03-01 Thread Delphine Ménard
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: > Hello all, > > our very positive revenue perspective (we have already exceeded our > fundraising targets for the fiscal year, and received the additional > $2M from Google) allows us to do something we've hoped to be able to > do: make our inve

Re: [Foundation-l] [Announcement] Extension of user experience work

2010-03-01 Thread Aphaia
Great news. Congrats for the team which gets now a broaden opportunity to spread their strength. I'm thrilled to look forward to see this initiative go further, and experience the website renewed by the team, as both an editor and an user. On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: > Hel

[Foundation-l] FlaggedRevisions status (March 2010)

2010-03-01 Thread MZMcBride
Erik Möller -- You're the second-in-command at the Wikimedia Foundation and one of the people most directly responsible for Wikimedia's technology. FlaggedRevisions has been promised on the English Wikipedia for months and months and months. What's the hold-up? MZMcBride _

Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardner, Erik Möller , Wi lliam Pietri: Where is FlaggedRevisions?

2010-03-01 Thread MZMcBride
Erik Moeller wrote: > as a matter of principle, I'm not going to engage in this thread given > the toxic tone in which it was started and partially carried on, nor > do I expect any other WMF staff or contractors to do so. If there is > interest in a civil, reasonable discussion regarding this or a

Re: [Foundation-l] �lliam Pietri: Where is Flagge dRevisions?

2010-03-01 Thread geni
On 1 March 2010 04:18, Aphaia wrote: > Not a sarcasm, but I would like to point out SUL, single user login > took years to implement to the project wikis, and we even called once > it "Godot". FlaggedRevs implementation also - it took years to > realize. Months are relatively shorter, and I hope y

Re: [Foundation-l] Sue Gardner, Erik Möller , Will iam Pietri: Where is FlaggedRevisions?

2010-03-01 Thread Austin Hair
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:18 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > You're up. You're moderated. I gave you fair warning; I even acknowledged that you had a valid point to be made, if you just didn't act like a jerk about it. Even your new thread is plainly hostile, for reasons I don't claim to understand. Onc

Re: [Foundation-l] �lliam Pietri: Where is Flagge dRevisions?

2010-03-01 Thread Mike.lifeguard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Alex wrote: > Why > this wasn't done before it was deployed on dewiki or anywhere else, I > don't know Because only enwiki matters? - -Mike -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuMb5sACg

Re: [Foundation-l] FlaggedRevisions status (March 2010)

2010-03-01 Thread Austin Hair
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:17 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Erik Möller -- > > You're the second-in-command at the Wikimedia Foundation and one of the > people most directly responsible for Wikimedia's technology. > > FlaggedRevisions has been promised on the English Wikipedia for months and > months and m

Re: [Foundation-l] [Announcement] Extension of user experience work

2010-03-01 Thread Mike.lifeguard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is great news! I'm thrilled that this important work can become a permanent priority for the Foundation. The usability work has already been a success, and continuing that work will be a major asset towards achieving Wikimedia's goals. I'm also pa

[Foundation-l] WMF Mid-Year Financial Statements

2010-03-01 Thread Veronique Kessler
Hello Folks, I am pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation Mid-Year Financial Statements (covering the period July 1 through December 31, 2009) are now posted to the WMF website at: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Financial_reports#2009-2010_fiscal_year We have also posted answers t