Re: [Foundation-l] excluding Wikipedia clones from searching

2010-12-08 Thread Andrew Gray
there are many > more than 32 sites that clone Wikipedia, so this trick is also becoming > useless. As noted above you can use -wikipedia; alternately, keywords common on mirrors, such as -mediawiki, -gfdl could be worth trying. -- - Andrew Gray

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Executive Director?

2010-12-09 Thread Andrew Gray
e idea of "a normal user" across much better than having the "right" terminology would. (Many of us have seen seen cases where someone's heard "editor of Wikipedia" and got drastically the wrong impression...) -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Executive Director?

2010-12-10 Thread Andrew Gray
ocal chapter, where relevant, without changing the text - like WMAU have, here. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Re: [Wikizh-l] About WM priv ate policy

2010-12-24 Thread Andrew Gray
ocked (those people are stopped from editing without usernames). Createpage is just a version of the same idea... -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Since Egypt has shutdown internet, should we too?

2011-01-29 Thread Andrew Gray
s like they've been doing this since mid-2006: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Ag%C3%AAncia_Brasil&action=history -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia

Re: [Foundation-l] "share in Facebook/Twitter/etc" icon

2011-02-07 Thread Andrew Gray
traditional user-facing content. (An elegant trick would be to have the "share" function for images resolve to the Commons page rather than the local one, where appropriate.) -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Planned 1.17 deployment on February 8]

2011-02-08 Thread Andrew Gray
ing to forced-compatibility mode seemed to solve the problem, and it seems to display okay in other browsers. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we even know if there is a Gender Gap

2011-02-21 Thread Andrew Gray
te in many details, but with the figure widely quoted of about 10-15% of editors being female ... well, most people seem to have nodded and said "yes, that seems about right". It's not widely dissimilar to earlier estimates, and it fits with a lot of anecdotal observations of (and

Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)

2011-02-25 Thread Andrew Gray
icle/talk edits of a new user, and then send a list of suitable projects based on the way those pages were categorised or project-tagged. (I have no idea how easy this would be to implement...) -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)

2011-02-26 Thread Andrew Gray
y. I was surprised to see the pagecount figures on en.wikibooks! Is this no new pages being created, or is it page creation being approximately equal to the rate of deleting old pages? -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l ma

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia "Storyteller" job opening

2011-03-01 Thread Andrew Gray
with the All Wales, All The Time approach which was, to say the least, not universally loved - will hopefully mean the next donation campaign annoys fewer people. That doesn't seem too unreasonable, to me. (The actual job description did make my eyes roll a bit,

Re: [Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

2011-03-07 Thread Andrew Gray
s, but I'm sure there was *some* kind of "close" option. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

2011-03-08 Thread Andrew Gray
believe we currently sign things to say people are doing valid research, there's no reason we couldn't start doing so. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

2011-03-08 Thread Andrew Gray
e working on it! CiviCRM, incidentally, is the main software WMF uses for internal donations management. -- - Andrew Gray   andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] breaking English Wikipedia apart

2011-03-14 Thread Andrew Gray
; info-en-q@ will put it directly there. (There are other shortcut addresses for vandalism reports, copyright issues, etc, working in the same way). The main benefit of using info@ is that it's easier for people to remember once we've given it to them! -- - Andrew Gray   andrew

Re: [Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)

2011-03-15 Thread Andrew Gray
about how enthralling it was! There seems to be a vague consensus that a certain degree of testing is appropriate, but tying it too closely to processes isn't. I'll put something up just now and try to see what can be organised... -- - A

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread Andrew Gray
se goes out and everyone's happy - but it does mean that the response data categorised by queue is often fairly inaccurate. For meaningful data on any particular class of tickets, you'd probably have to sample. Apologies for the length, but hopefully that's of some use! -- - Andre

Re: [Foundation-l] Site notice suggestion needed.

2008-12-05 Thread Andrew Gray
> the left side (in place of the 250 million visitors/11 million > articles). Right now there is strictly a data/numerical piece, but it > can better. Is there going to be something on the right-hand side? -- - Andrew Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Site notice suggestion needed.

2008-12-05 Thread Andrew Gray
ould be fun; probably ~500,000,000 for all wikis put together. (A total aggregate edit counter for all wikis, updating on the fly, would be delightful to watch. But perhaps logistically impractical...) -- - Andrew Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ foun

Re: [Foundation-l] Annual Fundraiser 2008 update

2008-12-08 Thread Andrew Gray
orpions? ;-D At least one this morning - "Re Scorpions: I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. (Voltaire on censorship)" It'd be interesting to see if this whole nonsense helped at all. -- - Andrew Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Commons-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening

2008-12-17 Thread Andrew Gray
a useful method is to have a subpage of your userspace, link to every article you care about, and keep an eye on Special:Recentchangeslinked. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikim

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