Re: [Foundation-l] "Wikipedia" localization

2009-10-04 Thread Jon Harald Søby
aokomoriuta > jawp: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ao_komoriuta > mixi: http://mixi.jp/show_friend.pl?id=19926155 > > > ___________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https:/

Re: [Foundation-l] Office move completed

2009-10-27 Thread Jon Harald Søby
lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > Oh, that one looks awesome. Merchandise idea - having that 3D logo as a wall lamp would be legen(wait for it)dary. ;-) -- Jon Harald Søby http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Along with Vector, a new look for changes to the Wikipedia identity

2010-05-14 Thread Jon Harald Søby
___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > That's looking much better! Fantastic. The only small thing I would change is the darkne

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

2010-06-04 Thread Jon Harald Søby
Wikipedia? When you are monolingual and are already on your native language Wikipedia there isn't really a lot of use in going to another language. For multilingual people, though, that is not true at all. So assuming that I understood the reason behind it correctly, it isn't really a v

Re: [Foundation-l] Creating articles in small wikipedias based on user requirement

2010-06-14 Thread Jon Harald Søby
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > Tell me, how is top-posting worse than derailing a productive thread with an off-topic rant? -- Jon Harald Søby http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] "The problem with Wikipedia..."

2010-06-17 Thread Jon Harald Søby
l knowledge. Help us make it a reality! > > > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > > > ___ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimed

Re: [Foundation-l] Announcing new "Signpost" issues on this list

2010-08-04 Thread Jon Harald Søby
(see accompanying posting for >> the current >> issue). We hope that this will provide valuable and >> on-topic >> information for people interested in the kind of topics >> that are being >> discussed here, and perhaps it could also help to get more >> people >> involved in providing reader-

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections email

2011-06-10 Thread Jon Harald Søby
, though, it's a certainty that the software is > inviting multiple alternate/sock accounts to vote. And there's no way > of knowing what the percentage is. So the cost/benefit can't be > addressed, because we have no figures. > > Sarah > > __

Re: [Foundation-l] Election results?

2011-06-17 Thread Jon Harald Søby
t up a post-mortem page on Meta soon, and all feedback is very welcome. -- mvh Jon Harald Søby <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by> ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Board Elections: post mortem

2011-06-19 Thread Jon Harald Søby
how can it be approved), etc. As always, all input is appreciated, just add it to the page. :-) -- mvh Jon Harald Søby <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by> ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsub

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Announcement: WMF engineering promotions and role changes

2011-06-21 Thread Jon Harald Søby
wledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > > > -- > Erik Möller > Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation > > Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate > > ___ > foundation-l mail

Re: [Foundation-l] Movement Roles: my suggestion of "Language Contact Persons"

2011-08-23 Thread Jon Harald Søby
th the LCP > getting a higher status or more tasks, or even becoming the nucleus of > language based formal Wikimedia organizations. > Maybe the LCP experiences can be of value with regard to Wikimedia > projects such as Wikisource, Wikibooks etc. > > Please let me know what you thi

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Account Creation

2011-12-04 Thread Jon Harald Søby
t; Fred > > > > OK, here is a tool: http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/sulinfo > > > > This gives user info from every Wikimedia wiki. "SUL Info > > > > This script gives a list of every account using a specified name on WMF > > wikis, and displays SUL

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-11 Thread Jon Harald Søby
mo-cyrl.wikipedia.org, as was stated in > > november last year, an important issue for us. > > For whom? > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni > Non-Transnistrian Moldovans. -- Jon Harald Søby http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-17 Thread Jon Harald Søby
ing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Jon Harald Søby http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by ___ foundation-l mailing list

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2009-01-17 Thread Jon Harald Søby
ks > Mark > > 2009/1/17 Jon Harald Søby : > > This isuue is about to be voted upon on nowiki; Kjetil is a bit too eager > > here. > > > > 2009/1/17 Kjetil Lenes > > > >> I have added a bug report, 17047 > >> https://bugzilla.wi

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikipedia-l] vro

2009-01-23 Thread Jon Harald Søby
.se) > Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se > This is a gross misrepresentation, and the summary is very biased. I suggest you read the entire debate on nowp. -- Jon Harald Søby http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] RfC: License update proposal

2009-01-24 Thread Jon Harald Søby
_ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Jon Harald Søby http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by _

Re: [Foundation-l] Delete "moldovan" Wikipedia

2009-02-05 Thread Jon Harald Søby
ot unreasonable approach. > > -- > geni > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Jon Harald Søby http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Free edition of Norways national encyklopedia Store Norske Leksikon

2009-02-25 Thread Jon Harald Søby
> > > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > > _______ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/found

Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia

2009-02-25 Thread Jon Harald Søby
> > > > >> > > > > >> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> ___ > > > > >> foundation-l mailing list > > > > >&g

Re: [Foundation-l] Donations in a non-existent currency

2009-04-21 Thread Jon Harald Søby
50k, in a currency > that doesn't seem to exist ("STO"). Does anyone know what that is > supposed to mean? > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mail

Re: [Foundation-l] RE; Announcing Philippe Beaudette as the Strategy Project Facilitator

2009-07-20 Thread Jon Harald Søby
> conflict of interest resignations should probably be a matter of > course rather than debate or convince. > > -- > geni > I fail to understand how the extension of the candidacy period can pose a possible conflict of interest on Philippe's part at all. Please explain. -- Jo

Re: [Foundation-l] Britain or Ukraine? What UK stands for in Wikimedia jargon

2009-07-22 Thread Jon Harald Søby
ne,_isn%27t_it_> > ? > > > > ___ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > _

Re: [Foundation-l] Meadow Mari Wikipedia

2009-07-28 Thread Jon Harald Søby
> unfortunately. > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Jon Harald Søby http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by ___ fo

Re: [Foundation-l] Board election spamming

2009-08-08 Thread Jon Harald Søby
> > -- > John Vandenberg > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > The list of users who have voted is available at https://wikime

Re: [Foundation-l] [Language committee] Transparency

2010-09-16 Thread Jon Harald Søby
__ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubsc

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

2011-02-07 Thread Jon Harald Søby
. The goal of Twitter & Facebook sharing would be to advertise the content to the public, and the effect would be extremely limited if we would only allow identi.ca sharing. Like it or not, if we want to "advertise" the projects in such a way, allowing Facebook and Twitter (as well as i

[Foundation-l] 2011 Board Elections: Input needed

2011-03-20 Thread Jon Harald Søby
edia.org/wiki/Talk:Board_elections/2011>or to the board elections list, board-electi...@lists.wikimedia.org. We're looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the matter! On behalf of the Election Committee, Jon Harald Søby http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User

Re: [Foundation-l] 2011 Board Elections: Input needed

2011-03-20 Thread Jon Harald Søby
consider if readers may have a say in what matters at the > election. After all they are whom the project and all of our efforts are > aimed at supporting. > > FT2 > > > 2011/3/20 Jon Harald Søby > > > Hello, fellow Wikimedians. > > > > On behal

[Foundation-l] 2011 Board Elections: candidate submissions are open

2011-05-02 Thread Jon Harald Søby
;s mailing list, board-electi...@wikimedia.org. On behalf of the Election Committee, Jon Harald Søby <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by> ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.

[Foundation-l] 2011 Board Elections: voting has started

2011-05-31 Thread Jon Harald Søby
ons to the candidates can be asked at meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2011/Candidates/Questions ; if you have any questions related to the election itself they can be posted on the election's talk page(s). On behalf of the Election Committee, Jon Harald Søby <http://meta.

[Foundation-l] YouTube and Creative Commons

2011-06-03 Thread Jon Harald Søby
? -- mvh Jon Harald Søby <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by> ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] mo.wikipedia.org

2008-11-22 Thread Jon Harald Søby
s well (zh-min-nan → nan, zh-yue → yue, roa-rup → rup, als → gsw, and possibly others; nrm should probably also be moved, but to what I don't know). -- Jon Harald Søby http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by ___ foundation-l mailin

Re: [Foundation-l] Signal languages Wikimedia projects

2008-11-22 Thread Jon Harald Søby
hurt either. The short version of the ASL decision is that we need the technical means to actually make it happen, but once that's in place we're all for it. :-) -- Jon Harald Søby http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by _

Re: [Foundation-l] Signal languages Wikimedia projects

2008-11-22 Thread Jon Harald Søby
and lots of other countries. Another example is that a version of Norwegian Sign Language is actually used on Madagascar (due to Norwegian missionaries setting up the first schools for deaf people there). So setting up a wikiproject on enwiki is not sufficient – though of course, it wouldn't hurt

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2008-11-25 Thread Jon Harald Søby
cial orthography, > from 'be' to 'be-x-old', and re-establishing be.wikipedia.org using the > official state orthography. > > There was later a request to rename 'be-x-old' (using a non-standard > code) to 'be-tarask', a IANA-registered subtag which is r

Re: [Foundation-l] Language codes to rename

2008-11-28 Thread Jon Harald Søby
Some might; personally I would favour it, but I don't know if the community at large would... :/ 2008/11/28 Casey Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2008/11/25 Jon Harald Søby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Don't forget zh-yue → yue and zh-min-nan → nan; these languages hav

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

2008-11-30 Thread Jon Harald Søby
l mailing list > > > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > > ___ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > _ > BigSnapSearch.com - 24 prizes a day, every day - Search Now! > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/117442309/direct/01/ > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Jon Harald Søby http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] List summaries

2008-11-30 Thread Jon Harald Søby
- phoebe > > -- > * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers > gmail.com * > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/l

Re: [Foundation-l] Jimmy Wales donation appeal

2008-12-23 Thread Jon Harald Søby
er browser (FF 3.1b2) on 1280x960. It does not look good. -- Jon Harald Søby http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] $6M passed

2009-01-01 Thread Jon Harald Søby
l people to write appeals is a great idea for next year's fundraiser. -- Jon Harald Søby http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Good news! Fundraiser officially passes 6m mark!

2009-01-01 Thread Jon Harald Søby
15th, to coincide with Wikipedia Day. Or is my memory wrong? A thank you banner will be nice (I've already seen it, so I know ;-) ), and be a nice touch. (Also, is this the first time the fundraiser has reached its goal? AFAIR <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/AFAIR>, it didn't last yea