Re: [Foundation-l] the use of foundation-l

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 5:13 AM, wrote: > Is there a way to create a chart showing how many messages each poster has > posted to the list?  Also Gerard I think if you're going to use an argument > about the value of those people who *aren't* posting, we need to know who > they are.  Perhaps we do

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

late articles or you're a curious polyglot. -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

phasize the > last—a person may be able to recognize the word for his language in > another random language, but he probably won't recognize the word for > "language" itself. Maybe we should support the "Language Icon" idea: http://languageicon.org/index-icon.php --

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

or "language". >The only relevant mental > association that comes to mind is "robot tongue". Then it is quite intuitive. :P Anyway, I prefer to have the language list as before. -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

/bookmark" star on the button "watch." -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] hiding interlanguage links by default is a Bad Idea, part 2

org/foundation/feed-icon-guidelines/ Share icon: www.openshareicons.com/ Geotag icon: http://www.geotagicons.com/ OPML icon: http://opmlicons.com/ I think it's a good idea to use an icon for language. -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Gmail - List messages flagged as spam

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 3:00 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Google is evil. "Due to a filter you created, this message was not sent to Spam." -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google translation is good for Wikipedias?

, but can help to start new ones in smaller wikipedias. If we want to use machine translation we should try with a free project like Apertium: http://www.apertium.org/ http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Main_Page irc://irc.freenode.net/apertium -- Fajro ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Is Google translation is good for Wikipedias?

s, it learns translation skills as you gradually translate > articles by hand. Later, this can be used to automate translation.) Another issue: The resulting translation memory is not free. -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@list

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

Wikipedia this would be different. Maybe... or maybe they will be namespaces that hardly anyone knows about because no one linked them in visible places. And the "In the news" section of the Main Page of Wikipedia should be a Wikinews one. -- Fajro __

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections email

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > Election committee did what is in their power to increase participation. That's sad. :( -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscrib

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections email

2011/6/11 Béria Lima : > why try to increase participation is sad, Fajro? The lousy performance of the committee is sad. -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listi

Re: [Foundation-l] en.wp HACKED?

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Chris Lee wrote: > Umm, what just happened to wikipedia? Seems normal to me. -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundat

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for referendum

This remind me of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbi2i_Y7gSE and http://www.thefilterbubble.com/ I don't like filter bubbles. -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for referendum

may not want to > see? yes, but you still would be in a bubble. -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Merge wikis

eir own wiki as opposed to being projects within meta. I second that. -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Merge wikis

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Ziko van Dijk wrote: > About the sister projects such as Wiktionary and Wikisource: there is > ALS.WP doing that already, maybe knowing that it would be hard to > create thoses sister projects in ALS (Alemannic). In general I would > like to see more bounds between

Re: [Foundation-l] The problem with Incubator: An interactive journey

8. All the "test wikis" share one single Recent Changes page. -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] The problem with Incubator: An interactive journey

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 2:52 AM, Hydriz Wikipedia wrote: > > No, they don't share the same Recent Changes. It is separated now. Where? http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list f

Re: [Foundation-l] The problem with Incubator: An interactive journey

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Fajro wrote: > On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 2:52 AM, Hydriz Wikipedia wrote: >> >> No, they don't share the same Recent Changes. It is separated now. Found it! Still too complicated. Four clicks and writing the iso code. The link from the test-w

Re: [Foundation-l] The systematic and codified bias against non-Western articles on Wikinews

have been a nightmare for them. On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Tom Morris wrote: > non-Western topics: see http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Category:Chile Chile non-western? Fixed! http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chile&diff=prev&oldi

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

. The users of Wikimedia projects should see "The Sum of Human Knowledge" and not just "the knowledge that I like". -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Hypothetical project rebranding Wikimedia

as for the Wikimedia brand: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-December/063014.html -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Hypothetical project rebranding Wikimedia

f Wikimedia somewhere more visible and having "Wikimedia accounts". We don't need to hire designers for that. Did you read my proposal? :-/ -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wiki

Re: [Foundation-l] On curiosity, cats and scapegoats

n.org/wiki/Mission_statement -- Fajro ___ 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

rk, but many specialized forks based > on just such changes in emphasis. This is what I wanted to address with my proposal in StrategyWiki... 2 years ago: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Recognize_that_Wikipedia_is_more_than_an_en

Re: [Foundation-l] IRC office hours with Sue Gardner, Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 17:00 UTC

tdown on the office hours page. Maybe this? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Countdown -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter - Gender?

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote: > I'm always interested in demographics and culture specifics when it comes to > surveys, etc. We should have a WikiSurveys project. -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list f

Re: [Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > Thoughts? > I am against anything that validates the image filter. I still believe that the filter is against the mission of the foundation. -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list founda

Re: [Foundation-l] Image filter

f all knowledge" remember? -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia domains at GoDaddy

policy/news/2011/12/godaddy-faces-december-29-boycott-over-sopa-support.ars -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikisource-l] Fwd: ACTA analysis?

So.. There is a wiki page about this? [[Wikipedia:ACTA_initiative]] ?? What about the TPP? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trans-Pacific_Strategic_Economic_Partnership_Agreement https://www.eff.org/pages/trans-pacific-partnership-agreement -- Fajro

Re: [Foundation-l] One Wikipedia Per Person (regarding the distribution of and the ability to read Wikipedia)

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Brian wrote: > Given currently existing technology, and technology that we can reasonably > assume to be available within the next decade, how can the WMF best achieve > its goal of giving every person free access to our current best summary of > all human knowled

Re: [Foundation-l] funraising thru celebrity endorsements?

How about NBA players? -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Fundraiser statistics

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Robert Stojnic wrote: > Don't know if anyone posted it before, but the current banner made it > into "popular culture": > > http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1811041 http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/please-read-a-personal-appeal

Re: [Foundation-l] Wiki[p/m]edia

Nonsense. Wikimedia is a Great Brand, the problem is that it was never promoted properly. In fact, the brand / logo is hidden at the bottom of the footer in every page!! No wonder why people don't know what Wikimedia is! See the login page of Wikipedia: http://www.flickr.com/photos/

Re: [Foundation-l] Translatewiki illustrates how low internationalisation is in the priorities of the Wikimedia Foundation

The free encyclopedia that anyone can translate? I find Translatewiki.net very "user-unfriendly". WMF could use more than one site for the translations. For example, I would prefer to use Transifex : http://www.transifex.net/ -- Fajro ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Vector, a year after

I'd like a vector-monobook hybrid. I miss the boxes in the sidebar, the size and color of the old logo and the footer of Monobook. I hate the star as watch icon, it should be an eye. -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list foundat

Re: [Foundation-l] LiquidThreads redesign?

n on a day like today.. We are an international community, not everybody celebrates aprils fools. -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation vs. charity

/en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foundation http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/charity It's not exactly the same to me. -- Fajro Also, I dislike the concept of charity and agree with the views of this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpAMbpQ8J7g __

Re: [Foundation-l] Incubator improvements

Thanks! This was really needed! -- Fajro ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] 80% of our projects are failing

Wow, just wow... I feel really sick after reading some of the messages of this tread. Maybe the promotion of minority languages is not directly a goal of WMF but it's a must. -- △ ℱajro △ IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lernu! - http://www.lernu.net Wikimedia Argentina - http://www.wikimedia.org.ar _

Re: [Foundation-l] 80% of our projects are failing

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:08 PM, geni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No. You can argue for the tolerance of minority languages but actively > promoting them conflicts with Wikimedia's stated objectives. How? Do you edit wikipedia to give "Free Access To All Human Knowledge" only to the educated el

Re: [Foundation-l] 80% of our projects are failing

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:19 PM, geni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/12/1 Fajro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:08 PM, geni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> No. You can argue for the tolerance of minority languages but actively

Re: [Foundation-l] 80% of our projects are failing

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Jimmy Wales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Dalton wrote: >> It doesn't seem that anyone does... > > > I should add at the same time that I think that it is a good thing for > people to try to learn a relevant global language in addition to their > local languag