Re: [Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered

2010-12-15 Thread Tim Starling
ger', 'JimboWales' => 'Jimbo Wales', 'WikiPedia' => 'Wikipedia', 'UnitedStates' => 'United States', I'm not sure how many links were changed in this way, but it seems to have been a hand-constructed list. -- Tim Star

Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia, the Pedia that used to be a Wiki

2011-01-04 Thread Tim Starling
e written by some Wikipedia user and not reviewed by anyone. If you don't like the quality of it, you shouldn't link to it from the geo templates. -- Tim Starling ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Foundation-l] Is the WMF spending its (our or our donors) money irrationally?

2011-03-04 Thread Tim Starling
centre is in Florida, which is one of the safest states in the US for earthquakes. Only the office is in San Francisco. -- Tim Starling ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] wiki for interwiki (was: Foundation too passive)

2011-03-22 Thread Tim Starling
anguage extension can be rewritten to be integrated with it. -- Tim Starling ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] wiki for interwiki (was: Foundation too passive)

2011-03-23 Thread Tim Starling
On 24/03/11 02:19, Nikola Smolenski wrote: > On 03/23/2011 07:58 AM, Tim Starling wrote: >> I think it would be nice to have a special extension for this, rather >> than use interwiki transclusion, since that would make it easy to >> implement nicer formatting of language link

Re: [Foundation-l] A designer? (was: Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications)

2011-04-19 Thread Tim Starling
But, then I've realized that we don't have a designer. By "designer" I > mean a person who is employed by WMF and who is constantly working on > improving MediaWiki look and feel. Actually we have two: Brandon Harris and Parul Vora. -- Tim Starling

Re: [Foundation-l] A designer? (was: Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications)

2011-04-25 Thread Tim Starling
ared to the other things that editors have to download in the course of their work. -- Tim Starling ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

[Foundation-l] User talk page email notification

2011-05-14 Thread Tim Starling
Email notification for user talk page changes is now enabled on all wikis. The issue came up at the MediaWiki developer meeting here in Berlin. A few ops people were sitting together, we couldn't think of any reason why it wasn't enabled yet, so we just did it on the spot. - Ti

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

2011-05-25 Thread Tim Starling
to community impact and communication. But since the downtime in this case was only half an hour, there was not enough time for this to happen. -- Tim Starling ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikime

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

2011-05-25 Thread Tim Starling
g again. Maybe at some time in the future, we will have enough 24/7 sysadmin manpower that we can respond to any unplanned downtime in the way you suggest. But we don't have that capability just yet. -- Tim Starling ___ foundation-l mailing l

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

2011-05-25 Thread Tim Starling
message with a link to the WatchMouse page (status.wikimedia.org). That would reduce the IRC flood. -- Tim Starling ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2011-05-25 Thread Tim Starling
On 25/05/11 21:19, MZMcBride wrote: > Tim Starling wrote: >> Maybe we can replace the IRC link in the Squid error message with a >> link to the WatchMouse page (status.wikimedia.org). That would reduce >> the IRC flood. > > * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show

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

2011-05-25 Thread Tim Starling
em may have lasted much longer. Then there would have been plenty of time for messaging and maybe we wouldn't be having this conversation. -- Tim Starling ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

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

2011-05-25 Thread Tim Starling
place the body with some other text, presumably with the original text embedded somehow for debugging purposes. But I don't think Squid has such a feature, and we have very little development time to spend on this sort of thing. -- Tim Starling ___ f

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

2011-05-25 Thread Tim Starling
e & changes. > > It's about time I refreshed my Squid knowledge :) No, it's private. I can give it to you if you want it, just give me your assurance offlist that it'll be worth my time to clean any private data out of it and tar it up. -- Tim Starling _

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

2011-05-26 Thread Tim Starling
On 26/05/11 17:57, Milos Rancic wrote: > 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 mainte

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

2008-12-02 Thread Tim Starling
heir own language. So how many words (or other unit of information) do we have in each language, and what do you get when you multiply that by the number of speakers of the language and sum over all projects? The result could be compared to older methods of information transfer, such as li

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

2008-12-06 Thread Tim Starling
he relevant parts of the parser can quite easily be ported to JavaScript. That's well within the reach of a project on this scale and it will certainly be considered. Non-technical users seem to be put off by syntax of any kind, simple or complex. -- Tim Starling

Re: [Foundation-l] "wiki (usability) summer" - like google summer of code?

2008-12-11 Thread Tim Starling
collection of remote workers paid by the line of code might sound nice to an online community member, but I'm beginning to think that it's risky at best. A software development team working in an office together might be old-school, but at least the management prac

Re: [Foundation-l] "wiki (usability) summer" - like google summer of code?

2008-12-11 Thread Tim Starling
uld have done it anyway. I said that new developers are poorly integrated, he wasn't a new developer. I do count David McCabe's project LiquidThreads among those that have not been useful for Wikimedia. -- Tim Starling ___ foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Britannica became free

2008-12-21 Thread Tim Starling
oolbar and click it to get rid of the annoying box. It doesn't come back until you go to another page. -- Tim Starling ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Britannica became free

2008-12-22 Thread Tim Starling
g.userDataConfig.annoywareConfig); The company responsible would be: var mboxCopyright = "Copyright 2004-2007 Offermatica (tm) Corporation"; a.k.a. http://www.omniture.com/ -- Tim Starling ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wi

Re: [Foundation-l] Don't know how linked we still are with wikia...

2009-01-04 Thread Tim Starling
mailing lists or Answers.com. What Wikimedia's volunteers do outside of Wikimedia is their own business. -- Tim Starling ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Don't know how linked we still are with wikia...

2009-01-06 Thread Tim Starling
Delirium wrote: > Tim Starling wrote: >> Brock Weller wrote: >> >>> Don't know how linked we still are with wikia... >>> >> What do you mean "still"? Wikimedia has never been linked with Wikia to >> the extent where this topic

Re: [Foundation-l] Don't know how linked we still are with wikia...

2009-01-06 Thread Tim Starling
Delirium wrote: > Tim Starling wrote: >> I'm not seeing anything in that rant that contradicts the point I was >> making. They might be different to Wikitravel in other ways, but they are >> the same in terms of the lack of relevance of a content-related co

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