Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Video codecs and mobile

2012-03-21 Thread Jürgen Fenn
Am 20. März 2012 18:18 schrieb David Gerard : > This is a drastic policy change that affects all projects, and so > needs wider discussion than just wikitech-l. Thanks for forwarding the discussion. I wonder whether we should rather use our strength in users' demand in order to make pressure on m

Re: [Foundation-l] New Project Process

2012-04-04 Thread Jürgen Fenn
Am 3. April 2012 22:22 schrieb Samuel Klein : > Ziko: >> what would a WMF evaluation of Wikinews or Wikispecies say? Should we shut >> down such >> a project... cease to mention it on Wikipedia main pages... or invest money >> in promoting it? > > Good questions, subtle answers.  Those are not t

Re: [Foundation-l] Software idea: a "Wikipedia Explorer" that lets you browse Wikipedia and more

2011-12-27 Thread Jürgen Fenn
Am 27. Dezember 2011 22:39 schrieb Yao Ziyuan : > Besides social features such as chat, discussions and resource > announcement/retrieval, it could also have personal features such as > bookmarks, ebook creation, etc., so that before the program's user base > becomes large enough for its social fea

Re: [Foundation-l] Software idea: a "Wikipedia Explorer" that lets you browse Wikipedia and more

2011-12-27 Thread Jürgen Fenn
Am 27. Dezember 2011 23:24 schrieb Yao Ziyuan : > In my original message I mentioned "a chat room and a forum for every > Wikipedia article". For chat rooms, yes, an IRC server has to be created > (or use an existing IRC network such as FreeNode). For forums, however, we > don't need a centralized

Re: [Foundation-l] iBooks vs. wBooks?

2012-01-28 Thread Jürgen Fenn
Am 26. Januar 2012 08:47 schrieb Orionist : > In fact Apple took the standard epub format and added their own proprietary > elements, thus creating a new proprietary "ibooks" format. The new format > will only be readable with the iBooks 2 software which is confined to iOS. > The format specs are n