Re: [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Michael Peel wrote: > > On 2 Sep 2009, at 12:35, David Goodman wrote: > > > There is sufficient missing material in every Wikipedia, sufficient > > lack of coverage of areas outside the primary language zone and in > > earlier periods, sufficient unsourced materia

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent firing?

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Nathan wrote: > > Gregory Maxwell argues that the Wikimedia Foundation should > voluntarily submit to the type of openness required of government > agencies; I suspect this is a fundamental difference of philosophy, > and relates to why I mentioned "majority share

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikiversity

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Anthony wrote: > What's going on over at Wikiversity? Jimmy Wales has now been threatened > with a block by someone who seems to be an admin in good standing, and he > responds that he has "the full support of the Wikimedia Foundation". Is > this true? What doe

Re: [Foundation-l] Board members positions toward Jimmy's last action

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Noein wrote: > > I'm surprised it is apparently needed to be said, but I'm here too > because I have faith in "universal values". In fact I've been attracted > like a magnet since the day, one year and five months ago, that I wondered: > "In this world rushing int

Re: [Foundation-l] It Has Begun Re: Appropriate surprise (Commons stuff)

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Alec Conroy wrote: > > > Here here. > > 300+ users have ordered the removal of Jimbo's founder powers. Not > some of those powers, not half of those powers, ALL of those powers. > He doesn't get to negotiate his own remedies-- the community wants > doesn't want hi

Re: [Foundation-l] Final thoughts on Jimbo

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Alec Conroy wrote: > On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Adam Cuerden wrote: > > I think it's time to back away from this issue. Jimbo may, > > technically, be able to restore his powers, however, if he decided to > > use them in order to make another controversia

Re: [Foundation-l] Spectrum of views (was Re: Sexual Imagery on Commons: where the discussion is happening)

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Aryeh Gregor > wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Anthony wrote: > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Aryeh Gregor < > > simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com < > simetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com >> > wrote: > >> [[Daniel Pearl]] does not contain an image > >> of

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

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > > Yes, this. > > The list of available languages is a key part of a page, not a > navigation nicety. > > They used to be available at the top of an article by default, until > that started taking up a few inches of screen space across the board

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

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Mark Williamson wrote: >> "change it back if people complain loudly".  It means someone who >> happens to be in charge of making the decision needs to make a >> judgment call, based on all the evidence they have available. > > Aryeh, I was under the (apparently mis

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

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 12:22 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > > (...) > The default should be flipped. There is near-universal agreement on this > point at this point, including from Erik Moeller. I expect this will happen > on Monday. > > And, for those curious, the article with 243 interlanguage links is

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia trade mark misuse

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Tim Landscheidt wrote: > Jiří Hofman wrote: > > > You are aware of [[en:Wiki]] for a history of wikis and > WMF's part in it? > > Tim > In other words, the use of "wiki" predates wikipedia (wikipedia gets its name since it was a encyclopedia using the wiki syste

Re: [Foundation-l] Recent Changes in Real Time

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Yann Forget wrote: > Hello, > > I forward a mail from ThomasV. > This tool as a potential much beyond Wikisource. > > Regards, > > Yann > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: ThomasV > Date: 2010/7/9 > Subject: [Wikisource-l] Recent Changes in Real Ti

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

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:20 AM, praveenp wrote: > Consider Malayalam Language sentense "വിക്കിപീഡിയ ഒരു നല്ല വിജ്ഞാനകോശം ആണ്" > means "Wikipedia is a good encyclopedia". How one can understand if a > translator picks meaning of Malayalam words and create an English > sentence like "wikipedia one

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy, statistics and rankings

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:54 AM, Sebastian Moleski wrote: > Hi all, > > to give a little insight here: about two years ago the German Wikipedia > community reached consensus that, for the page >(...) > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.

Re: [Foundation-l] Privacy policy, statistics and rankings

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Robert Rohde wrote: > I will say though that trying to control the ways that already public > data might be aggregated is pretty unexpected from my American > viewpoint.   It is also seems pretty clear that aggregation of edit > statistics is perfectly acceptable w

Re: [Foundation-l] Does google favour WIkipedia?

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Fred Bauder wrote: >> The answer, evidently, is "not as much as Bing" - >> http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2161910/Bing-Not-Google-Favors-Wikipedia-More-Often-in-Search-Results-Study >> >> Thought people might find it interesting :) > > No question that we ar

Re: [Foundation-l] Dead Sea Scrolls

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote: > ASK THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. > > Damn. Joke fail. > > -Sarah > Emijrp has a valid point. We routinely dismiss this kind of bogus claims of copyright from museums -- Pedro Sánchez http://drini.mx @combinatorica _

Re: [Foundation-l] Frustration with WMF = WP

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Kul Wadhwa wrote: > 2) A conspiracy to push Wikipedia at the expense of the sister projects > > In regards to #1, although I'm somewhat aware of the discussions > around the image filter, this is not affecting how we are approaching > this Initiative. Not at all.

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia's secret wikis

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Jan Kučera, 31/12/2011 01:52: >> I see following wikis hold secred information: >> >> http://internal.wikimedia.org >> http://office.wikimedia.org >> http://board.wikimedia.org > > Try harder: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia's secret wikis

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Patricio Molina wrote: > On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Pedro Sanchez wrote: >> That page seems to be incomplete. I know for sure of some private >> wikis not listed > > Are you talking about http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/priv

Re: [Foundation-l] Politico: "Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa"

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Kim Bruning wrote: > Wikimedia foundation hires lobbyists on sopa, pipa >        http://www.politico.com/morningtech/0112/morningtech377.html > > Interesting. Any details? > > sincerely, >        Kim Bruning > > -- I'm worried that we may be getting in trouble. I

Re: [Foundation-l] transparency or translucency?

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 3:39 PM, James Rigg wrote: > But the problem is that Wikipedia is *today* proudly portrayed to the > general public as being transparent and non-hierarchical, when it is > semi-transparent and hierarchical. > > Obviously, this thread is not going anywhere, so I guess we'll

[Foundation-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] second-class wikis

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Can someone please explain why this is ? > Thanks, > GerardM > > Also, some of the (to use the same language as the poster) "first class wikis" (top 10 on article count, on numbr of visits, wikipedia.org main page etc) are also

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for Help: Spanish Betawiki Localization

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > I am afraid you do not appreciate the importance of localisation. Yes, there > are thousands of messages and it is possible to have them all translated. > Tagalog is proof that a full localisation is possible. It was done in a > rela

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for Help: Spanish Betawiki Localization

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > it will add an > important part to the Spanish language projects; the ability for people who > do not speak English to understand what is being asked of them in the User > Interface. The UI does not only consist of the core messages. > Than

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for Help: Spanish Betawiki Localization

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Mark Williamson wrote: > Of course they will, but I feel that Gerard's message was a bit > misleading. What percentage of the untranslated messages would > actually help the usability of the Spanish Wikipedia, vs. non-WM > projects? > > skype: node.ue > > Yes, tha

[Foundation-l] phishing with wikipedia?

Should someone handle this? http://www.blackwikipedia.org/ BlackWikipedia is a nonprofit private organization to support WMF, the Foundation working to maintain and develop the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Wikipedia is constantly looking for donors as you can see in the banner top of eac

Re: [Foundation-l] phishing with wikipedia?

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 3:18 AM, Mohamed Magdy wrote: > Assuming their good faith, they will change the domain name (and the logo) > into something else if someone approached them.  I don't see a problem here > except that they should clarify that they aren't affiliated with the WMF > (nothing tha

Re: [Foundation-l] phishing with wikipedia?

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Andrew Gray wrote: > > Is this clearly phishing? It looks like what we've always wondered > about, a functioning mirror carrying advertising... > > -- > - Andrew Gray >  andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk > > ___ > foundation-l ma

Re: [Foundation-l] Considerations for museums and archives to gain their cooperation

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > I am not sure I understand the issue. > > If we are talking about PD material, whether it is hosted on Flickr, on > the website of the museum or elsewhere, we can still use it and upload on > Commons (possibly by a bot). Example: Finnis

Re: [Foundation-l] Non-free content on Commons

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Al Tally wrote: > Hi all > > I just came across this[1] policy on Commons, which states that from today, > non-free content is going to be allowed to be uploaded on Commons. I'm > rather shocked that this was pushed through without any notice here, or > anywhere, a

Re: [Foundation-l] Non-free content on Commons

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Al Tally wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:59 AM, David Levy wrote: > > > > April's fools alredy? *sigh* > > > > Apparently. As I have no desire to have my time wasted by such abuse > > of the mailing list, I've created a filter to delete any future > > e-mails f

Re: [Foundation-l] Non-free content on Commons

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/4/1 Pedro Sanchez : > > you'd be annoyed if you started getting lots of bogus messages and silly > > jokes on december 28 > > Yes, because December 28 isn't the traditional day for such things. As >

Re: [Foundation-l] Non-free content on Commons

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > > > This is a (predominantly) English-language mailing list, so using > those traditions used in the English-speaking world seems to make > sense to me. > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundat

Re: [Foundation-l] Compulsory policies for all Wikipedias

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Jaska Zedlik wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 21:27, Milos Rancic wrote: > > > > The question was about a list which should exist somewhere (at Meta). > > > > Thank you, but not obligatory a list. I meant any form, even a number > of rules written on this mailing l

Re: [Foundation-l] Cross-wiki articles

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Yoni Weiden wrote: > The Hebrew Wikipedia community decided that Southpark episode named "Chef > Aid" is not worthy of an article, not because of it's content, but because > it is an unimportant episode. In spanish wikipedia we soemtimes delete articles found in

Re: [Foundation-l] Cross-wiki articles

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Robert Rohde wrote: > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Yoni Weiden wrote: > > The question is - shouldn't there be one set of standards for all > > Wikipedias? I think it is "unfair" that I can read about Simpsons > episodes > > in the English Wikipedia, while tho

Re: [Foundation-l] bureaucrats - best practices?

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Lodewijk wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to invite the interested people to submit some best practices from > their communities about the bureaucrat procedures. Please let me know what > works well and what not. Appointment, removal, rules of use of the bit. > > Than

Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:16 PM, private musings wrote: > > I believe that this is an example of principle overriding pragmatism in a > way that has great potential to cause the project harm - both in reputation > and utility. If you're reading this and are a bit confuddled about the > parameters

Re: [Foundation-l] [Commons-l] commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:06 PM, private musings wrote: > Re : Pedro - heh... I take your point - doesn't mean we shouldn't talk > about > the merits of the point at hand, though, no? If there's an improvement to > be > made, that's gonna be a good thing regardless of the opinion that it's also >

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Tim 'avatar' Bartel < wikipe...@computerkultur.org> wrote: > Hi, > > recently the report of the KnowPrivacy [1] study - a research project > by the School of Information from University of California in Berkeley > - hit the German media [2]. > The case of vlswiki i

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia tracks user behaviour via third party companies #2

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Tisza Gergő wrote: > Mark (Markie writes: > > > I still fail to see how, at this point (not before when there was no > policy) > > this can be considered to be acceptable. IP information etc is still > being > > passed to an external server, regardless of who it

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Commons: Service project or not?

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Huib Laurens wrote: > effe iets anders schreef: > > Hi Huib, > > > > yes, that seems to be an accurate description of the current situation. > > However, what would you /want/ it to be, and /why/ ? :) > > > > Thanks, > > > > eia > > > > 2009/6/16 Huib Laurens > >

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Commons: Service project or not?

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Geoffrey Plourde wrote: > Just because people put things into a filing cabinet does not endow the > filing cabinet with any special powers. I also am not disputing the relative > importance of free content repositories. > > > You're talking about the wikipedia cabi

[Foundation-l] GFDL-only + OTRS

With the license move... do we still accept GFDL-only material? I've seen OTRSer today accepting and tagging entries released as GFDL only. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/l

Re: [Foundation-l] GFDL-only + OTRS

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:57 AM, David Gerard wrote: > 2009/6/24 Pedro Sanchez : > > > With the license move... > > do we still accept GFDL-only material? > > I've seen OTRSer today accepting and tagging entries released as GFDL > only. > > > Is this i

Re: [Foundation-l] GFDL-only + OTRS

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Pharos wrote: > > Of course, there are and always have been a wide range of free content > licenses used for images on Commons, not just GFDL and CC. > > Thanks, > Pharos > OTRS doesn't handle only commons. This meant wikipedia's text __

Re: [Foundation-l] mo.wikipedia is not yet renamed to mo-cyrill as it was promised !!

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Cetateanu Moldovanu wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:06 PM, John Doe wrote: > >> ... > > consider that these developers run one of the top ten websites on the > > > I didn't try to underestimate the *importance* of wikipedia. > It just uber-ridicule that a rename

Re: [Foundation-l] Dispute resolution mailing list

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:06 PM, > > Mike.lifeguard wrote: > >> I'm sorry, this is really not something that needs discussion on > >> foundation-l. This concerns English Wikipedia, and not the wider > >> Wikimedia community or the Fou

Re: [Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Jonathan Hall wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 16:31, Yaroslav M. Blanter > wrote: > >> My point is: We don't write for students. Our articles should be on a > > There is some overlap though. I tend to find (certainly on en-wikip) > there are some articles which c

Re: [Foundation-l] British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies sides with NPG

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Mathias Schindler < mathias.schind...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Thomas Dalton > wrote: > > http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=866109 > > > > I am getting timeouts on this server. Does any have copy of their > statement f

Re: [Foundation-l] Election Results

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > While I personally am very pleased with the results, I wonder how the > election results will be perceived outside Wikimedia. > With numerous media outlets reacting to PARC's research about the state of > the community, I fear this endorseme

Re: [Foundation-l] New Wikipedia-like pharmacy website

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Fred Bauder wrote: > > http://www.nursinginpractice.com/default.asp?title=NewWikipedia-likepharmacywebsite&page=article.display&article.id=23508 > > Pharmapedia > > http://www.phip.org/index.php?title=Main_Page > > There's just getting start, but looks promising.

Re: [Foundation-l] Shopping-enabled Wikipedia pages

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Domas Mituzas wrote: > Hi! > >> Personally, I think that this is a good opportunity to get money from >> payed ads. It is not even on Wikimedia servers. > > I don't think that any ads-supported 1:1 content mirror (I don't see much > added value atm, we have some ki

Re: [Foundation-l] Shopping-enabled Wikipedia pages

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 4 December 2010 22:09, Pedro Sanchez wrote: >>> If WMF wanted to spend less money, the fundraiser would have much lower >>> profile, right? :) >>> I somehow want us to think about our users and service as pr

Re: [Foundation-l] Pieter Kuiper

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Virgilio A. P. Machado wrote: > Adam, > > What a timely post. What an opportunity to test the Santa Claus > hierarchical structure. > (...) > If you do succeed in bringing any change to Commons through this > request of yours, I will follow with a similar one of my

Re: [Foundation-l] Comfort Zone

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: > > "By shading his radicalism and collaborating with mainstream outlets, Mr. > Assange created a comfort zone for his partners in journalism. They could > do their jobs and he could do his." > > https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/business/media/

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

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Huib Laurens wrote: > Why are you saying the staff answer is wrong? If staff says use > le...@wikimedia.org why are you changing it? > > Best, > > Huib > > wasn't legal-en@ about english queries? in any case, it makes more sense to have legal@ for a *foundation

Re: [Foundation-l] propuesta de proyectos

2011/1/19 Colombia Pérez Muñoz : > Hola: soy candidata al doctorado en Sociedad del Conocimiento y la > informaciòn de la Universidad Oberta de Catalunya, mi tesis se llama "wikis > para la gestión del conocimiento en la universidad". Trabajo en la > Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia como Dire

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

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Teofilo wrote: > (...) > So users are requested to either > > * Let awkward translations go on being displayed on their language > version of Wikipedia > * Or open an account on a non-Wikimedia project, which means providing > non-Wikimedia managers access to your

[Foundation-l] inquiry about paid prject support by WMF

I just found http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dynamics_of_Online_Interactions_and_Behavior and it repeats a lot it's supported by the Foundation where can I learn more about it, since it says participants will earn money? ___ foundation-l mailing list fo

Re: [Foundation-l] Changes to the identification policies and procedures

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > The discussion has only been going on at the OTRS list sine February 1st. I > know a public announcement is coming because it's standard operating > procedure at the Foundation. Please be patient. at the english otrs list, to be precise ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Changes to the identification policies and procedures

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Christine Moellenberndt wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Yes, there are some changes happening.  We announced it to the OTRS > volunteers as they are the first to be directly impacted by this > change.  Part of being an OTRS volunteer is the agreement that they > would be

Re: [Foundation-l] VPAT

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Christine Moellenberndt wrote: > The answer is, to the best of our knowledge, no. But we'd like to > improve that. > > i took it off-list as it seemed to be a question that was more > Media-Wiki centered, and not as much Foundation centered. > > > -Christine > > --

Re: [Foundation-l] VPAT

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Risker wrote: > While I sympathize that people think this issue should be discussed here, it > is a direct question to the Wikimedia Foundation from a government official, > and it needs to be responded to by the WMF. While the post wound up here > (and for that, I

[Foundation-l] help on usability initiative sandbox wiki

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 bit there to do somethign So... to anyone who actually have rig

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

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:26 AM, K. Peachey wrote: > The prototypes are designed not to be added to SUL, so that won't be > happening. > -Peachey > > ___ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikime

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we even know if there is a Gender Gap

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:49 AM, James Heilman wrote: > We have heard a great deal lately about a "gender gap". Is there really a > gender gap? With 93% of editor not marking there gender known per > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-02-14/News_and_notes >

Re: [Foundation-l] Do we even know if there is a Gender Gap

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > > If you take those numbers as unbiased estimators of sampled > population, you come to the conclusion (from page5, 1st doc) that > Wikipedia has the mindboggling amount of.. 200 thousand readers. And no, I'm not talkin

Re: [Foundation-l] lost in moderation

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: > You make some good points, but err in several respect: We don't, and > can't limit hiring to seasoned Wikipedians, and there are quite a few > seasoned Wikipedians who are behind Sue with respect to this issue. As to > the 9 reasons, they expr

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia presents its five-year strategic plan

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Ting Chen wrote: > Dear Wikimedia community and friends: > > I am very pleased to present the summary report of the Wikimedia > Foundation's five-year strategic plan: our first-ever such plan, > developed through a transparent collaborative process involving more

Re: [Foundation-l] Genisis of WMF Identification policy?

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 9:56 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 27 February 2011 03:55, David Gerard wrote: > >> Expanding the identification policy without a thorough grounding risks >> it turning into worse security theatre - a completely lost purpose.[1] > > > [1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/le/lost_pur

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia "Storyteller" job opening

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:22 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > The part where adding this person leads to better content? Wikimedia's > mission is to educate the world with free content. I'm not sure how a > Propaganda Minister really furthers that goal. There is a very finite amount > of resources for staff

Re: [Foundation-l] 2006-2011: Mexican, Argentinian, Brazilian governments distance themselves from freedomdefined 1.0

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote: >>> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Teofilo  wrote: Mexico switched from PD to CC-BY-NC-ND in 2006 (1) Argentina from CC-BY-SA to CC-BY-NC some time in 2009-2011 (2) Brazil removed CC-BY-SA altogether from the culture ministry

Re: [Foundation-l] [Announce] Brion Vibber to rejoin Wikimedia Foundation

2011/3/8 Huib Laurens : > Lo sentimos, pero el Inglés es el idioma principal en esta lista. :Not only is english the main idioma, dare I say the only one (any thread started on another language would raise complains and quickly turned into english) > __

Re: [Foundation-l] Steward election issues

2011/3/8 Austin Hair : > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:55 PM, MARIA DE LOS ANGELES HERRERA GARCIA > wrote: >>  NO ENTIENDO INGLES . POR FAVOR ESPAÑOL...GRACIAS > > Hola, Maria, > > Hablamos inglés en esta lista. Quizás usted prefiere la lista de la > Wikipedia en español, que se encuentra en > https://

Re: [Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Arthur Richards wrote: > >> As Wikimedia's paid staff continues to grow, the decision to move to San >> Francisco (and its consequences) actually gets amplified, doesn't it? It >> would only be offset by the benefits that Wikimedia gets for being in that >> particul

Re: [Foundation-l] Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Arthur Richards wrote: > >> Yes, that was what we were said several years ago >> >> and I think now there's ample evidence to show it was true, look at >> all the partnerships and support we got > > I presume you meant that sarcastically? > > I don't know much about

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

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Finn Rindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to ecco (is that an eEnglish word..?) Michael Finney here. Most > people who engage them self in a small language wikimedia projects will > sooner or later participate in projects like en:wp and commons as well - and