Re: [Foundation-l] CentralNotice use

On 05/19/2011 10:52 AM, church.of.emacs.ml wrote: > 1. Display it for logged-in users only. This is especially useful for > information concerning active Wikimedians, e.g. Wikimania, POTY, etc. Agreed with this in relation to the Board elections. Just users with accounts are able to vote or to be

Re: [Foundation-l] CentralNotice use

On 05/19/2011 05:42 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: >> On 05/19/2011 10:52 AM, church.of.emacs.ml wrote: >>> 1. Display it for logged-in users only. This is especially useful for >>> information concerning active Wikime

[Foundation-l] Referent list of wikis?

Do we have a referent list of wikis? Although it would be good to have the list of *all* Wikimedia wikis, just the list of content projects wikis would be fine. The page Complete list of Wikimedia projects [1] is not referent at all. It's not about the fact that it is on wiki, but exactly because

[Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

I am preparing document for Wikimania. Presently, I am in process of analyzing data (SIL [1], Ethnologue [2], Wikimedia projects). I am using Ethnologue data for population estimates. Before I started this task, I thought that the situation is not so bad (or good, if it is about possibility for de

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

On 05/22/2011 01:22 PM, Denny Vrandecic wrote: > Can you also provide at least a rough estimate of the number of humans who > don't have Wikipedia in any language they speak reasonably well > (understanding very well that this is a hard problem of definition)? I would say that the number humans

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

On 05/22/2011 01:28 PM, George Herbert wrote: > Good work generally, but regarding this last list... > > Afghanistan has many languages in use (Pashto, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek); > Algeria uses Arabic, Berber, and French; Jordan's official language > is Arabic (though the spoken one is a dialect); an

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

On 05/22/2011 01:37 PM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: > On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 13:15 +0200, Milos Rancic wrote: >> * Jin Chinese, 45M, China >> * Xiang Chinese, 36, China, incubator >> * Min Bei Chinese, 10.3M, China, incubator > > Aren't these languages written with C

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

On 05/22/2011 03:22 PM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: > On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 14:32 +0200, Milos Rancic wrote: >> On 05/22/2011 01:28 PM, George Herbert wrote: >>> Can you break this out by which languages we are missing, not just >> by >>> country, as country isn

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

On 05/22/2011 03:20 PM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: > Yea, but how much is any of these different? They may be practically the > same or possible to be added as a variant of Chinese. I don't know, but the known fact is that even the languages in the closest families, like Slavic languages are, have di

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

On 05/22/2011 04:57 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > > On Sun, 22 May 2011 14:08:14 +0200, Milos Rancic > wrote: >> On 05/22/2011 01:22 PM, Denny Vrandecic wrote: >>> Can you also provide at least a rough estimate of the number of humans >>> who don't hav

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

On 05/22/2011 06:41 PM, Thomas Morton wrote: > An interesting "aside" on this would be... > > What is the quality of the foreign-language Wiki's that currently exist. For > example; the articles in my specific technical topic area have a few foreign > language equivalents. Most are two or three li

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native...

On 05/22/2011 07:39 PM, Andre Engels wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 7:13 PM, wrote: > >> You're missing my point. >> All the Latin languages "share a common writing system" and "only differ in >> the way the language is spoken". >> >> Address the point that the "words" within the system have t

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native...

On 05/23/2011 10:33 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: > This method is still sometimes used to form new characters, for example > 钚 bù "plutonium") is the metal radical 金 jīn plus the phonetic > component 不 bù, described in Chinese as "不 gives sound, 金 gives > meaning". Many

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native...

On 05/23/2011 10:55 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: > On 05/23/2011 10:33 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: >>> In Chinese writing a character shows a word, irrespective of how the >>> word is pronounced. So if we would use a Chinese style writing system, >>> you could write [

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

Here is the article at Strategy wiki: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Missing_Wikipedias Some important ideas have been mentioned during this discussion. Feel free to add them there. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Uns

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native...

On 05/23/2011 03:04 PM, M. Williamson wrote: > When words are from the same root, the same character is generally > used regardless of modern pronunciation. In Traditional Chinese, > phonetic elements are mostly based on older pronunciations which might > not make sense in all modern Sinitic langua

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

More data. This is about all living languages, just to get a clue about what is reasonable to do and what is not. Number of languages and number of speakers for languages categorized by number of speakers (you can get more nice wikitable at [1]): category: number of languages, total number of spe

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

On 05/24/2011 03:03 PM, Ilario Valdelli wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: >> I am preparing document for Wikimania. Presently, I am in process of >> analyzing data (SIL [1], Ethnologue [2], Wikimedia projects). I am using >> Ethnologue data for

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

On 05/25/2011 01:12 PM, Tim Starling wrote: > On 25/05/11 18:14, Thomas Morton wrote: >> IRC was flooded with people who didn't understand what was going on. And >> many didn't believe/understand that it was maintenance... so this is >> definitely an area worth improving. > > Maybe we can replace

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

On 05/26/2011 10:09 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Milos Rancic, 26/05/2011 09:57: >> Site notice for a week before the maintenance would be useful, too. We >> communicate with our users via web site, not via emails. > > A week of pain to signal (and not avoid) an hour

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

On 05/26/2011 10:18 AM, Theo10011 wrote: > There was, it ran for a day. ( > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralNotice)- Generic maintenance > notice. So, then it should just last a bit longer (maybe three days if not a week?) and we would avoid the most of complains. _

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

On 05/23/2011 12:58 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > Here is the article at Strategy wiki: > http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Missing_Wikipedias > > Some important ideas have been mentioned during this discussion. Feel > free to add them there. > Copied from [1] I've started

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

On 05/26/2011 07:30 PM, M. Williamson wrote: > Having a test project doesn't necessarily mean community interest; > having a test project with dozens of articles might indicate that. In > many cases, users with no relation to the language (in particular, > User:Jose77) have started test wikis with

Re: [Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

On 05/28/2011 05:02 PM, Mark wrote: > On 5/26/11 3:05 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: >> * If literacy is low and there are no efforts to improve it, efforts >> should go that way. >> * Is it about the language without writing system? If yes, efforts >> should go that way

[Foundation-l] Thumbs up for WM UK

I just want to say that I've found the next sentence on WM UK website: Для української мови Вікіпедії ласка, відвідайте http://uk.wikipedia.org; для Вікімедіа Україна відвідайте http://ua.wikimedia.org It would be good to have such messages more often. For example, Serbian Wikipedia should have s

Re: [Foundation-l] The Wikipedia-Ready Essay

On 06/01/2011 02:58 AM, Virgilio A. P. Machado wrote: > Now that my attention has been drawn to that section, I wonder if > that explains why the academic projects were not welcome and their > contributions are being vandalized, almost systematically, at the > Brazilian Wikipedia. If you refer

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions on controversial content and images of identifiable people

"Wikimedia projects are curated and edited collections, according to certain principles: namely, we host only content that is both free and educational in nature." So Board said that Wikinews is out of scope. Its nature is informational, not educational. __

[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Language committee report - May 2011

It seems that this wasn't forwarded from announcements list. Original Message Subject:[Wikimedia Announcements] Language committee report - May 2011 Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:30:18 +0200 From: Robin Pepermans Reply-To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org To: in

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions on controversial content and images of identifiable people

On 06/01/2011 11:05 PM, Michael Snow wrote: > On 6/1/2011 2:03 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: >> "Wikimedia projects are curated and edited collections, according to >> certain principles: namely, we host only content that is both free and >> educational in nature." >&

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions on controversial content and images of identifiable people

On 06/01/2011 11:11 PM, FT2 wrote: > Information is educational. When I read Wikinews, it educates me as to > significant matters going on in the world, and provides other related > resources. I fully agree with you. Any information is educational; it just depends of particular project scope would

Re: [Foundation-l] LangCom meeting report

On 06/01/2011 11:44 PM, Ziko van Dijk wrote: > Hello, > > So, we are 10 days (or more) further. :-) > > Kind regards > Ziko > >> >>> If I interpret it right, Germans can come to the incubator and build >>> up a Wikipedia in Simple German? With a reasonable chance to become >>> later recognized?

Re: [Foundation-l] Board resolutions on controversial content and images of identifiable people

On 06/01/2011 11:56 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: > We meant what is stated there: that Wikimedia project content should > be at a minimum both free and educational in nature. (In general, you > can assume that language in resolutions like this is intentional). > However, you can also safely assume that

[Foundation-l] Language committee observers

Language committee got the first observers today: Samuel Klein and Mark Williamson. If you want to be LangCom observer, please send email to any of LangCom members and after 7 day discussion you will get the answer. As I said before, it is likely that any highly involved Wikimedian would pass with

Re: [Foundation-l] Request: WMF commitment as a long term cultural archive?

On 06/02/2011 02:27 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 2 June 2011 13:24, Ziko van Dijk wrote: >> There should be no explicit statement because the WMF holds it >> self-evident to preserve. The bigger problem might be the project >> scope. I don't know what kind of images your academic partners wishes >

[Foundation-l] New Language proposal policy draft and first change

During the next month or two Language committee will work on new Language proposal policy [1]. You can watch the changes. If you have your own ideas, please use talk page [2], not the new policy draft. The first change agreed among all LangCom members is about allowing projects in macrolanguages o

Re: [Foundation-l] Board candidates look like Bre¸nev

On 06/05/2011 02:24 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: >> >> Italian intermezzo with a point (I hope). >> Sorry, I couldn't resist. >> >> Nemo > > Yeltsin-like candidates are not present so not much hot air and few >

Re: [Foundation-l] Incubator improvements

On 06/07/2011 09:34 PM, Robin Pepermans wrote: > Milos Rancic said that I should announce this on foundation-l, so here it > is: > > I had written a MediaWiki extension specifically for Wikimedia Incubator. > It's now enabled, so users can set their test wiki preference,

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

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 8:42 PM, geni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/13 Dan Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> How can people manage to be this grumpy about something this petty. >> Suggesting that a country is full of criminals simply because they use >> a different writing system is disgusting

[Foundation-l] Explanation related to the license migration needed

I am making now one site (about pseudoscience) which I want to double-license, so materials may be used in the future at Wikipedia. As it is my site, I may make whichever, partial licensing, but I realized that there is one very stupid problem for which I think that answer exists, but I would like

Re: [Foundation-l] Explanation related to the license migration needed

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Thomas Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since you could delete the GFDL-only version and remake it as a dual > licensed version after the switchover (assuming we do switchover), I > can't see how there could a problem. (Assuming you are the only person > to modif

Re: [Foundation-l] Explanation related to the license migration needed

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 6:05 PM, David Claughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Milos Rancic wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Thomas Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Since you could delete the GFDL-only version and remake it as a dual >>>

Re: [Foundation-l] Explanation related to the license migration needed

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Thomas Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> BTW, I am not the only person who is working on the site, but it is a >> very small group of people and editing is not open to the world. > > In that case, you can just get explicit permission from each of them > to do wha

[Foundation-l] List statistics for Novemeber

Here are foundation-l list statistics for the end of November. (Sorry for HTML email, it was the only way known to me to format stats well for all.) Statistics are at the bottom. == Good news == * If we get one more new participant at foundation-l, we will at the highest level of new participants

Re: [Foundation-l] List statistics for Novemeber

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Thomas Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * At last, we are communicating and the most of discussions are > > constructive. Lower amount of emails for 10-20% is reasonable if quality of > > discussion is higher. > > That's not a statistic, that's an opinion...

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

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:48 PM, geni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is Tswana for mass spectrometry (looking at the translations for > that term across European languages is mildly amusing) ? There are > large areas where if you don't speak english you can't operate in that > area. There is no

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

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:25 AM, geni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Serbian isn't a launguage. It's a dialect of the Central South Slavic > diasystem and one of the projects I had in mind when I brought up > smaller languages becoming POV forks. Saying that something is not a language is a strong cl

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

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Nikola Smolenski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 01 December 2008 02:25:10 geni wrote: >> 2008/12/1 Milos Rancic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > So, if you are able to make an internet pidgin-English project, it >> > could

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

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Milos - you wrote: "To be honest, I was thinking that the most useful > Wikimedian project in Serbia is English Wikipedia, but I was wrong. Serbian > Wikipedia is the most useful project, even it has ~30 times less articles > than

Re: [Foundation-l] GFDL 1.3 Release

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Erik Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/3 Erik Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> More information will follow later this month as we develop the >> re-licensing proposal. Let me know if you have any immediate >> questions. > > A brief update - Mike drafted an

[Foundation-l] The new iteration

Anybody alive? The iteration goes like: * I start to talk about low activity on the list. * Erik mentions that new step toward license migration has been happened. * Others get some idea to talk about. * The new iteration of discussion begins. So, let's try: This list became dead once again! ___

Re: [Foundation-l] The new iteration

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Milos Rancic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anybody alive? > > The iteration goes like: > * I start to talk about low activity on the list. > * Erik mentions that new step toward license migration has been happened. > * Others get some idea to

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual images of questionable provenance

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Ting Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually I don't care if the image has sexual content or not. There are > some points we should consider: > > At first I don't trust all the claims on flickr. > Second there may be content that violate personality or other lega

Re: [Foundation-l] Sexual images of questionable provenance

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Andrew Whitworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:22 AM, David Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I don't think it's helpful or useful to classify images that aren't >> currently being used in an article somewhere as second class, or more >>

Re: [Foundation-l] Regarding the one million dollar usability grant and already extant but unused extensions

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Angela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > example to see what happens to the {{sandbox}} template. Wikia has > been working on WYSIWYG for a long time now, and I hope the code that > is available at > http://trac.wikia-code.com/browser/wikia/branches/wysiwyg will be > use

Re: [Foundation-l] Regarding the one million dollar usability grant and already extant but unused extensions

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Angela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:15 AM, Milos Rancic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > http://trac.wikia-code.com/browser/wikia/branches/wysiwyg will be >> Is it a MediaWiki fork or just an extension? I

Re: [Foundation-l] Regarding the one million dollar usability grant and already extant but unused extensions

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Gerard Meijssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is a question in the wrong order, the first question should be do you > think that the WMF projects will benefit from this. The second question > would be what does it take to make this happen. Wikia has had much more

Re: [Foundation-l] Usability: Is our vocabulary SNAFU?

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Platonides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It surprised me that the jargon didn't mention the really wikimedian > terms: AGF, RFA, NPV, NOR, NLT, BLP, NPA, AFD, db... > > After IAR and BOLD, you're blocked for NPA and NLT on a BLP article > where you didn't follow NPV

Re: [Foundation-l] GFDL 1.3 Release

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2008/12/3 Milos Rancic : >> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: >>> 2008/11/3 Erik Moeller : >>>> More information will follow later this month as we develop the >>>> re-licen

Re: [Foundation-l] Yale's Access to Knowledge program

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Mike Godwin wrote: > Yale has contacted me seeking ideas for student research projects > relating to their Access to Knowledge program (it's affiliated with > the Yale Information Society Project). I thought I'd pass that > request on to you -- I figured many of y

Re: [Foundation-l] Licensing update: Questions and Answers

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: > This is intended to be an iterative process, so please add questions > directly to the page, if you want. Two questions related to non-WMF projects added. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] new list summaries

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:35 AM, phoebe ayers wrote: > Well, Milos, I wouldn't worry about the lists going dead -- there was > lots of activity this month so far :) > > Summaries: > * Foundation-l: > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2008_December_1-15 > * Wiki-en-l: http://

[Foundation-l] Britannica became free

If I understood well, the content of the online edition of Britannica became free (as in "free beer", of course). They are putting some irritating screen with recommendation to buy access to their edition every 10 seconds (or so), but, in fact, it is possible to copy-paste the content somewhere els

[Foundation-l] Emphasis on "edit"

Many times we raised the issue that many (maybe majority of) users of Wikimedia content don't realize that it is possible to edit pages on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Last time I was talking about it a couple of days ago, during the conference in Belgrade, with a Polish Wikimedian, Marc

Re: [Foundation-l] Britannica became free

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Tim Starling wrote: > The following Firefox bookmarklet may be useful: > > javascript:(function(){Darwin.Upsell.deactivate();})() > > Put it in a bookmark in your toolbar and click it to get rid of the > annoying box. It doesn't come back until you go to another pa

Re: [Foundation-l] Britannica became free

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > 2008/12/22 Milos Rancic : >> If I understood well, the content of the online edition of Britannica >> became free (as in "free beer", of course). They are putting some >> irritating screen with recommendation

Re: [Foundation-l] Britannica became free

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 9:17 PM, David Gerard wrote: > 2008/12/22 Milos Rancic : >> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Tim Starling >> wrote: > >>> The following Firefox bookmarklet may be useful: >>> javascript:(function(){Darwin.Upsell.deactivate();})() >

[Foundation-l] Europeana

Europeana (http://www.europeana.eu/) is working again. I think that it has a lot of useful (PD) materials. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] Lecture of prof. Miran Hladnik at conference in Belgrade

You may find it at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Slovene_student_projects_in_Wikipedia_and_Wikisource ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] $6M passed

In some time zones, it was done before 2009. And this is the most successful fundraising. I think that we have two conclusions from this fundraising: * Jimmy should make appeal earlier as WMF will need more money the next year + people will have less money because of the whole year of recession. *

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

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Christiano Moreschi wrote: > Lol, global recession and people give MORE to charity? It's a funny old > world. That said, despite this general trend we definitely upgraded the sex > appeal of the banner for this year's run... Actually, no. 2008 was the first year

[Foundation-l] What to do with moribund languages?

I realized that at Requests for new languages [1] we have a number of proposals for projects in moribund languages [2]. In brief, when roughly less than 1000 dominantly older persons speak one language, this language will be dead when those speakers die. Even some larger languages [than mentioned o

Re: [Foundation-l] What to do with moribund languages?

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > The notion of redundancy of articles in minority languages coming from you > Milos is painful. There is typically an article of a majority language that > arguably covers the subject best. All other articles are redundant because > you can u

Re: [Foundation-l] What to do with moribund languages?

I wasn't precise while describing my intention, so I'll try to do it now with responses to the previous emails. * About moribund languages: It is not a precise term, but it is possible to make some description and to realize where are the borders of the term. For example, a language with ~15.000 s

Re: [Foundation-l] What to do with moribund languages?

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Ting Chen wrote: > Well, I remember I read some very interesting articles, mainly from > ethnologists in Scientific American about language conservation. > Personally I think that language conservation is something that is > meaningful and should be done. But I have

[Foundation-l] Who The Hell Writes Wikipedia, Anyway?

A friend of mine put my attention to this blog post [1]. I didn't read it as it is too late now (I just heard friend's description of the article), but I think that there is no sense to wait tomorrow for sharing it. The issue is important enough to be analyzed. [1] - http://www.alleyinsider.com/20

Re: [Foundation-l] GFDL Q&A update and question

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: > Mike & I have made some updates to the Q&A today: I saw your answer. Thanks. "Transition period" began at the time of announcing license migration up to the license migration; so, we are in the transition period. Conservatively speaking, Wikim

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