Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

2009-11-01 Thread Dan Collins
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Thomas Dalton > wrote: > > Yes, you can delete the archives on the WMF site. That does make much > > difference. It will still be in everyone's inboxes and on various > > other archive sites. > > So, what, don't do

Re: [Foundation-l] Is random article truly random

2011-10-19 Thread Dan Collins
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:37 AM, ??? wrote: > So how many times is the button pressed each day? If it gets pressed 4 > million times a day, and there is only one porn page, then at least one > person will have recieved porn. If there are 100 porn pages then 100 > people will receive porn each day.

Re: [Foundation-l] c6e7b72d1e1d565603d3d7b0a77e00ba17a7d306

2011-12-01 Thread Dan Collins
The sum total of human knowledge, and we can't find a decent spam filter. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] WIKEXPERIENCE, project of University for experience knowledge, call for contributions

2011-12-31 Thread Dan Collins
Don't worry - we got your message and if you're reading this, you are subscribed. If you aren't reading this, make sure you clicked the link in the subscription confirmation email! Oh and thanks for the new year's greetings, but check your calendar! On Dec 31, 2011 9:49 AM, "Marie-Antoine Rieu"

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

2012-01-16 Thread Dan Collins
Hey guys, http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/204167-sopa-shelved-until-consensus-is-found The House decided they're going to stop bothering with this bill for a while, so while we should continue to think about what we will do when the time comes to protest this, that time is not

Re: [Foundation-l] About that "sue and be damned" to the NationalPortrait Gallery ...

2009-07-12 Thread Dan Collins
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Robert Rohde wrote: > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Tom Maaswinkel > wrote: >> The part I am talking about is the part where they say that they want to >> talk to the Wikimedia Fundation to have a discussion about making >> low-resolution images of paintings in

Re: [Foundation-l] A designer? (was: Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications)

2011-04-25 Thread Dan Collins
On Apr 19, 2011 8:20 AM, "Tim Starling" wrote: > > On 19/04/11 19:38, Milos Rancic wrote: > > MZMcBride's email about emails reminded me that every automated email > > from Wikimedia servers looks like a bunch of programming code. > > > > The first idea was that it would be better to have some bet

Re: [Foundation-l] Interesting legal action

2011-05-22 Thread Dan Collins
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Thomas Morton wrote: > Also; hard to see anyone suing you for communicating the info for the > purposes of supressing it :-) > > Tom Morton A few years ago, I would have said the same about communicating the info for the purposes of free press. --Dan ___

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikipedia-l] mo.wikipedia.org when will you stop making joke of us ?

2008-11-13 Thread Dan Collins
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Cetateanu Moldovanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The argument for this project is that in Transnistria >> there are people who still use Cyrillic to write their language. > > Then please rename mo. to another thing, MO means MOLDOVAN, and in MOLDOVA > we write OUR

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikipedia-l] mo.wikipedia.org when will you stop making joke of us ?

2008-11-13 Thread Dan Collins
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Cetateanu Moldovanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By leaving mo. domain like this you continue to support and agree to "soviet > union" politics they did to us(russification, cultural changes, > discrimination).. > Really very painful to see this still going until th

Re: [Foundation-l] and what if...

2008-12-12 Thread Dan Collins
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Tomasz Ganicz wrote: > Well, the story with IWF have shown that the current system of > blocking vandals by their IP has to be changed ASAP. In fact it is > causing a lot of problems even without action of IWF and other similar > wachdogs. There are more and more I

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimmy Wales donation appeal

2008-12-22 Thread Dan Collins
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Casey Brown wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Chad wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:12 PM, geni wrote: > >> 2008/12/23 Robert Rohde : > >> > Looks like the new appeal is working well. > >> > > >> > We seem to be on pace to have the best single day of