Re: [Foundation-l] open wikis for chapters....?

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Geoffrey Plourde wrote: > There are some pages that should legally be restricted, like the bylaws. i do > believe that most pages should be open to public editing because of the risk > of some non member Aussie thinking of a better way to do something and being

Re: [Foundation-l] advertising craigslist

May I ask why that message appears to be not following out standard template and having a image as the background? all the others I've seen only have the logo's in them Images like that just make them even more distracting and disliked. -Peachey ___

Re: [Foundation-l] advertising craigslist

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Peter Gervai wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 14:42, Domas Mituzas wrote: >>> The Craig Newmark banner is currently running at 20% on the English >>> Wikipedia. >> >> How much known is Craigslist outside of US, in other English speaking >> countries, or countrie

Re: [Foundation-l] video presentation on explicit images on WMF projects

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:39 AM, John Vandenberg wrote: > iirc, there is already a mediawiki capability for images to be > completely removed from the servers. > > I can't see this capability in the sysop tools, so maybe I only imagined it. > > Is that capability still available?  Which users hav

Re: [Foundation-l] sell wikipedia

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Chad wrote: > Last I heard, all the dumps were coming in at fairly regular intervals, > barring > the enwiki full-history-all-namespaces dump. Image dumps are needed, yes. > The OP said he just needs the text anyway :) > > -Chad Image dumps aren't really needed s

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 3:54 PM, The Cunctator wrote: > Yes. This is idiotic. The logo contest followed the same rules as all other > submissions to Wikipedia -- they were submitted under the GFDL. Yes, but not everyone knows that and any tom, dick or harry that randomly finds them doesn't know th

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-l] Please HELP save Wikipedia history ! (urgent)

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote: > K. Peachey wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 3:54 PM, The Cunctator wrote: >> >>> Yes. This is idiotic. The logo contest followed the same rules as all other >>> submissions to Wikipedia -- they were sub

Re: [Foundation-l] �lliam Pietri: Where is Flagge dRevisions?

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Alex wrote: > The English Wikipedia isn't asking for a total rewrite of the extension. > FlaggedRevs was always (at least since it was first deployed) highly > customizable. I believe the "Flagged Protection" feature was able to be > implemented, or very close to it

Re: [Foundation-l] FlaggedRevisions status (March 2010)

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Chad wrote: > I'm curious as to whether there's anything official behind this poll[1] on > en.wikipedia to "simply turn on flagged revs in the form that the Germans > use it" until the proposed enwiki changes are ready. > > -Chad > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wik

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia is fun

The main page is generally generated with templates, so there are little to none direct edits to the page. -Peachey ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Swedish Wikipedians removes Wikimedia logos

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:06 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > Cary Bass wrote: >> It's amazing that Swedish Wikipedia is fighting tooth and nail to get >> rid of the Wikipedia logo, while the English Wikipedia is having the >> same battle over keeping the Goatse.cx image (which is receiving 800 >> hits a da

Re: [Foundation-l] Hello world. Update from Berlin.

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Michael Peel wrote: > > I'm glad to see that the resolved bugs include this one: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23223 > > Hope you all manage to escape Germany sooner rather than later. > > Mike Clearly not FIXED they are still in Berlin :p It's a

Re: [Foundation-l] Hello world. Update from Berlin.

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Keegan Peterzell wrote: > Seriously, help Americans find Iceland.  Donating to Wikimedia can do that. >  Not a joke. > > *I can't find the source, but that is a true survey. > -- > ~Keegan The miss {world/america} thing when the contestant made the comment about t

Re: [Foundation-l] Vandalize wikipedia day on facebook

The more time you spend trying to shutdown the pages/groups/whatever else, the more it encourages users to do it, So just pay no attention to them. -Peachey ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikime

Re: [Foundation-l] Statement on appropriate educational content

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Sue Gardner wrote: > Kim, the board (and I) have been talking about this for the past > couple of days, and we'll continue to talk about it over the next > couple of weeks.  I think it's fairly likely there will be some kind > of statement or statements at the end

Re: [Foundation-l] Statement on appropriate educational content

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 3:58 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: > ...snip... > Instead of deleting pornographic content that we deem "important" to > the projects, we can tag those images in a uniform manner and emit > POWDER ICRA labelling[1] or similar.  The filters can then scale with > us. > 1. http://

Re: [Foundation-l] A Board member's perspective

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Stuart West wrote: > ...snip... > - We were hosting material that was unambiguously not > relevant to our educational mission and it needed to go. Its presence on > our projects/servers alienated people (users, potential new volunteers, > educators, others) who we n

Re: [Foundation-l] Statement on appropriate educational content

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Andrew Garrett wrote: > It is *NOT* *OUR* *ROLE* to decide what is and is not "appropriate" > for children to view on our website. That role is to be discharged > solely by parents and supervisors of those children. > > The *ONLY* rating and classification system t

Re: [Foundation-l] [OT] Am I the only one...

I do to, depending on how they are applied, for example I would much prefer on a case by case basis compared to everyone, since a few people are bring active and decent discussion where as some people are just trolling/omg censorship is bad type stuff. -Peachey ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

I've read most of the replies in this thread, And i think I should point out a few things out: * The "omg tagging for any reason is censorship" mentality is a needless, Yes we tag things presently *shock horror* look at the currently category system. * Omg adding this to Mediawiki will destroy Wi

Re: [Foundation-l] A Board member's perspective

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Stuart West wrote: > ...snip... > Jimmy acknowledged this wasn't right and I respect his apology. > ...snip... > - stu You mean his little smug little reply that it was a press stunt?[1][2] and saying that it was a urgent matter[3] (yes! because starting a huge del

Re: [Foundation-l] Towards actual clean-up...

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > Any contemporary MediaWiki installation can use Commons as an external > repository. I am using Commons as an external repository whenever I > install MediaWiki. (Or I am missing some point?) There is no way for us to see if any external sour

Re: [Foundation-l] Towards actual clean-up...

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Guillaume Paumier wrote: > Exactly; and it only works for MediaWiki websites. I'm sure it wouldn't be hard for other platforms to "hack"/modify it and get it working with their platforms, just no one has probably tried so we havn't seen any such results. -Peachey

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

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > I have to say that I have been eagerly awaiting this day since I saw the > first designs come out of the UX team's work (about a year ago?) > > To anyone, volunteer or Foundation employee, who made the impending switch > to Vector a possibil

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Visual impairment

since i forgot to reply to all and only did the reply on to wikitech-l. -Peachey -- Forwarded message -- From: K. Peachey Date: Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:14 PM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Visual impairment To: Wikimedia developers I believe reCaptcha has it implemented as part of

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Visual impairment

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > In theory, yes.  Someone needs to provide the code, though.  For now, > people who want to sign up and can't solve a captcha can request that > an admin make an account for them, like people whose IP addresses are > blocked.  I think enwiki h

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: SignWriting Encyclopedia Projects...new SignWriting Wiki

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > ...snip... > Given all the technical issues, I am of the opinion that a requirement for > localisation can be waved. Sign languages with SignWriting would introduce > the writing in lanes ie top to bottom with characters moving slightly to

Re: [Foundation-l] Subscription to the Wikimedia Announcements list for foundation-l

@Sue: Announce would be a restricted list most likley, so it probably bounced, hence why you didn't see it. @James: Do we really need this? Announce is/should be apparently set to forward any announcements as necessary already via the MM admin interface, although when the previous announcements wer

Re: [Foundation-l] Subscription to the Wikimedia Announcements list for foundation-l

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Casey Brown wrote: > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:23 AM, James Alexander wrote: >> I'm not sure if it is in the mailing list settings or if it's >> gmail but I do not get a copy of an email I sent out and if I remember >> correctly there was a mailing list option for

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

Listing some? they did not get delivered at all. -Peachey ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Foundation-l

He is also a "bit" miffed about you forwarding the message to the list, as you are probably aware, emails are still copyrighted. -Peachey ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/lis

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy etc - merging data

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Lodewijk wrote: > > I am assuming that people will be warned and asked for permission in advance > to combine these databases? I for one would definitely have strong > objections against merging donation and edit data. Donations are real life, > edits are wikipedi

Re: [Foundation-l] Banner ads in sitenotice

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Ryan Kaldari wrote: > Apparently long-time Wikimedia contributors are also far more sensitive > to Foundation imposition of /less/ visual clutter as well, judging by > the reaction to the Vector rollout. Perhaps we could just say that > long-term Wikimedia contribut

Re: [Foundation-l] "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" English Wikipedia's featured article today

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: > Casting aside the infantile slogan, "Wikipedia is not censored", I think > having the pilot of South Park on the Main Page is quite appropriate; the > subject is significant. > > Fred Really, It's not that much different than the Simpson episo

Re: [Foundation-l] Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Brandon Harris wrote: >        Let's be clear about our (admittedly informal) policy here: What is informal about our process? * Community gains consenus for feature to be activated (and the desired config if required) * Bug gets filled in BugZilla * Extension is

Re: [Foundation-l] Guidelines for the use of iframes?

That should be reverted right now per our privacy policy and any others on site. No different than share button usage. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] help.wikimedia.org - Q&A site

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Jan Kučera wrote: > new projects suck, because there are (close to) none Well propose a non sucky one then? TBH I don't class a Q&A site really as a new project. Since that bug (if memory serves correctly) is just about setting one up for questions about using/edi

Re: [Foundation-l] We need to make it easy to fork and leave

Just a point: WMF projects have spilt out before, for example was the September 11 remembrance wiki (sep11.wikipedia) although the fork is now offline, also one of the other "plain" language specific projects (Spanish Wikipedia comes to mind but I can't confirm) but as far as I'm aware never really

Re: [Foundation-l] Tragedy: videos and slides from presentations Wikimanias (lately 2011 in Haifa)

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2011/9/3 Béria Lima : > That would seem to be a problem. If you are making separate bugzilla > requests for each video, you need to come up with a better process. > Either make one request for all the videos, or make a request to be > given th

Re: [Foundation-l] A Wikimedia project has forked

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: > > But let's take other completed extensions as examples. > > 1) WikiLove has been enabled on Swedish, Malayalam, Hungarian, Hebrew, > Arabic, and Hindi Wikipedia, as well as Commons, all on request of the > respective project communities. Ahem

Re: [Foundation-l] Fw: [[Paul Rooney Partnership]]

If you are trying to imply the article should be deleted, Then nominate it for deletion at [[WP:AFD]][1], instead of canvassing on the mailing list. -Peachey [1]. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@li

Re: [Foundation-l] Meta main page

I wonder if the Page Translation[1] feature of the Translate extension[2] would make it easier to manage this, It appears to (but not written), that when the main translation (en for example) is "touched" that it will mark the other ones for needing updates. [1]. http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Tran

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Account Creation

I believe there was someone working some ajax (extension possibly?, maybe some core work?) to improve that on the sign up page, No idea what ever happened to that… ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.

Re: [Foundation-l] The Mediawiki 1.18 image rotation bug on Commons and on all Wikimedia projects

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Teofilo wrote: > 1 - Bug or feature ? It is a bug. > ... snip ... > It is somehow intentional, because it seems that the devs have > suddenly decided that the exif orientation tag should be taken into > account, while in the past users used had to use other ways t

[Foundation-l] Stewards keeping editing rights on en.wiki for "emergency edits"... yeah...

Can someone remind me, Which ones of these are emergency edits? (Plain text format: ) N19:15 User:Leinad/common.js‎ (diff | hist) . . (+37) . . Leinad (talk | contribs) (←Created page with 'function insertBanner(a) { return; }')

Re: [Foundation-l] Murdoch Company Claims Copyright on Wikipedia Video

On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 5:38 PM, wrote: > PS: Commons was not used due to file size restrictions. If you get the files to the foundation staff in some method (USB Drive/DVD/Hosted on a server somewhere they can download them) they can get them uploaded to commons without worrying about the upload

Re: [Foundation-l] Alternating sitenotices is kinda confusing

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Casey Brown wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Brianna Laugher > wrote: >> Could we please have both at once > > We now have a combined notice running.  Hopefully, this is a better > way of doing it (even though it's not as pretty). > > -- > Casey Brown >

Re: [Foundation-l] Raising the profile of the privacy policy

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 12:58 AM, geni wrote: > It might be worth seeing if we can get the EFF to add our privacy policy to > http://www.tosback.org/timeline.php > In order to raise the profile of any changes. > > -- > geni On their TOSBACK about page [1], it gives a email address where you can req

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia article traffic statistics - copyright?

> Facts aren't usually copyrightable and I doubt database rights apply > (I don't know much about them, though), so it's just the presentation > of the data in a chart that could potentially be protected. If you > take the numbers and produce your own chart you'll be absolutely fine. > I'm not sure

Re: [Foundation-l] Google CC Search

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Tris Thomas wrote: > > Could be useful? > > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/find-creative-commons-images-with-image.html > The creative commons search engine[1] allows searching on multiple different sites at once, so that might be a better tool to recommen

[Foundation-l] [Slashdot] Why the Photos On Wikipedia Are So Bad

Why the Photos On Wikipedia Are So Bad --- "The NY Times has an article investigating why, unlike the articles on Wikipedia which in theory are improved, fact checked, footnoted, and generally enhanced over time, the photos that go with Wi

Re: [Foundation-l] presentations and marketing @ events

> Hopefully the bookshelf project will come up with some shiny fliers > etc. that can be used for events, but in the meantime we *really* need > a nice-looking one page overview about the projects to hand out -- any > graphic designers up for this? And of course a new press kit too > (there must be

Re: [Foundation-l] Commons reaches 5 million files

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Mathias Schindler wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Hay (Husky) wrote: >> Around 11:46 UTC we reached 5 million files on Commons! Not quite sure >> which file is the 5th million, but this is one of the candidates: >> >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:

Re: [Foundation-l] Korean Wikinews created

Just a heads up, We have a list for notifications on new projects (https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/newprojects) -Peachey ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [Foundation-l] HR and Recruiting Feed on Identi.ca and Twitter

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Daniel Phelps wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Recently we've been having some internal conversations regarding transparency > for our hiring, recruiting and contracting. In efforts to be more proactive > about sharing this information we're moving to a system of twe

Re: [Foundation-l] HR and Recruiting Feed on Identi.ca and Twitter

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > I don't think that was constructive criticism. Personally I think that > Foundation staff should be applauded for trying to be more transparent about > hiring, even if you disagree with what they might be experimenting with. > > Steven Wallin

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Teofilo wrote: > During the past few years, the new softwares of the Wikimedia > Foundations have been developped in a too much anarchic way. > > * They are sometimes implemented as a whim of a few WMF big wheels, > without consulting the user communities. > > * We

Re: [Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Teofilo wrote: > This is not proactive. Giving more power to the admins is a > constitutional change. Usually a constitutional change requires a > referendum beforehand (An amendment to the United States Constitution > must be ratified by 3/4 of the state legislatur

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

May one ask why private personal stuff is even being discussed on this list? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote: > English Wikiquote? Once the decision is made, then it falls to the > developers to actually flip the switch or say the magic words, or do > whatever it is they do to close the project. > > Philippe It has already been closed and added to

Re: [Foundation-l] Foundation-l word cloud

Although I don't have a issue with it, but you may wish to double check the licensing you have attached to those uploads, since from understanding is that copyright and ownership does apply to emails. -Peachey ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@l

Re: [Foundation-l] cross posted emails

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Casey Brown, 06/10/2010 04:13: >> It changes for me with like every e-mail, Philippe's most recent >> e-mail got "Wikiversity-l" for me. :-) > > It's always Wikiquote-l for me. That would be the one you receive first then.

Re: [Foundation-l] Ban and moderate

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Virgilio A. P. Machado wrote: > Three days after the announcement made by Austin Hair on behalf of > this list administrators, which also includes Ral315 and > AlexandrDmitri, that Greg Kohs was banned and Peter Damian moderated, > this much has been accomplished

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Mike Godwin leaves the Wikimedia Foundation

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Sue Gardner wrote: > Hi folks, > > I want to let you know that as of this Friday, October 22, 2010, Mike > Godwin will be leaving his role as General Counsel for the Wikimedia > Foundation. > ...snip... > The search for his successor will begin immediately. It's be

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Foundation switching to Google Apps?

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Jon Davis wrote: > Howdy, > As a quick introduction, I'm Jon Davis[1], one of the Office IT guys in the > SF office. Since the Google Apps migrations is one of my major projects, > I'll try to answer your questions the best I can. Replies in line. > ...snip... So

Re: [Foundation-l] preferences statistics

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > Are there statistics about users' preferences on Wikimedia sites? > > For example, a statistic that would say things like how many users use every > skin and how many users have "Show preview before edit box" disabled. > > Correct me if i'm

Re: [Foundation-l] New projects

Me points people towards: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/newprojects (archives: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/newprojects/). -Peachey ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia

Re: [Foundation-l] Open and transparency or not

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Tomasz Finc wrote: > ...snip... > One of the things that was mentioned to us as we were working on the project > was to not give fraudsters the exact recipe of how the system worked. Since > we knew that we'd be checking our code into the production svn depots we

Re: [Foundation-l] WikiMedia Technical Help Desk

Try out http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_Desk and our IRC channel (#mediawiki on freenode) -Peachey ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Executive Director?

I'm not going to debate the whole wording thing, but I will point out, It is a crime to receive property/goods under false pretenses in Australia which is what advertising a person with the incorrect job title would be. Don't forget it isn't only the foundation handling the donations this year, the

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia Executive Director?

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Michael Snow wrote: > No, K. Peachey avoided citing actions by not "debating the whole wording > thing" that would establish what the action entailed, offering instead a > generic description of criminal law that would encourage people, in &

Re: [Foundation-l] How to contact the foundation's legal department?

WMF Legal has a email assigned to it, so you can email it via the wiki interface if you would like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/WMF_Legal ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimed

Re: [Foundation-l] fundraiser suggestion

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Domas Mituzas wrote: > now that we have blinking banners, > Domas Oh! Oh! can we have marquees as well... and those flashy "under construction" gifs?? -Peachey ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.

Re: [Foundation-l] fundraiser suggestion

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > The recent extended unavailability of database dumps is an example of > serious failure, but failures like this happen when an organization is > understaffed/underresourced and only able to focus on the immediate, > not the longer term. And whe

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability wiki

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > The main page of the Usability wiki ( http://usability.wikimedia.org ) says > that it's discontinued and the whole wiki appears to be locked for editing. > I don't remember this being discussed, although i may have missed it. That was deci

Re: [Foundation-l] New two-part schedule for 1.17 deployment

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > First window > This first deployment window will be to a limited set of wikis: > ... > http://usability.wikimedia.org/ (usabilitywiki) Um, usability is closed and no longer used... Perhaps mediawiki wiki would be a better choice instead?

Re: [Foundation-l] Criticism of employees (was VPAT)

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Christine Moellenberndt wrote: > I am loathe to dive in here, since it was my post that kind of > kick-started this whole thing and I certainly don't want to draw any > more fire to be honest. Don't worry you didn't kick start anything, It's been started for a long

Re: [Foundation-l] help on usability initiative sandbox wiki

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > http://prototype.wikimedia.org/sandbox.4/Special:Contributions/213.5.64.179 > > I don't know why SUL doens't work there > I can't find the proper database suffix on > http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/all.dblist > Therefore I can't grant me sysop

Re: [Foundation-l] Switching mailing list moderators?

Post a request in Bugzilla under Wikimedia/Mailing Lists for the admin password to be reset. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [cultural-partners] Aggregator

Sounds like the cron job isn't fully working, expanded bug 28516 to cover ES as well. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] CentralNotice use

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 6:52 PM, church.of.emacs.ml wrote: > Hi all, > > Do we have any guidelines limiting the use of CentralNotices? I noticed > there are a lot lately (fundraising, wikimania and most recently board > elections and commons POTY), some of which are not of much interest to > the a

Re: [Foundation-l] Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects on May 24

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Theo10011 wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:31 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > >> Theo10011 wrote: >> > Instead of diverting users to IRC, how about an outage/error page with a >> > twitter/identi.ca feed with updates from the tech team, or at least a >> page >> > with c

Re: [Foundation-l] Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects on May 24

We already get spammed enough with notices, which is one of the reasons many people hide them permanently via css so they never intrude again, which would make them pointless for the more established users, also overkill for what was meant to be (from my understanding) only a few minutes of downtim

Re: [Foundation-l] deleting old versions of fair-use files

"The two main points that support the deletion are that it saves space on the server" No, it does not, The file is just moved elsewhere on the server where it isn't directly accessible. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsu

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikis and the direction hardware is taking

Why couldn't you edit it with the normal web browser in the ipad? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l