Re: [Foundation-l] Wikipedia iPhone app goes v2.0

2010-05-02 Thread Tomasz Finc
It certainly is and if you would like to help us hack at it check out http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile for details. We should have a tech blog post going out about it this week :) --tomasz On May 1, 2010, at 8:40 PM, Jyothis E wrote: > Is that application open source? > > Regards, > Jyo

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Ryan Kaldari joins Wikimedia

2010-05-24 Thread Tomasz Finc
se join me in welcoming Ryan to the Wikimedia team! We'll be setting up his email as his start day gets closer but until then, you can reach him at . -- Tomasz Finc Engineering Program Manger - Fundraising, Mobile, & Offline ___ Please note: a

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Arthur Richards joins Wikimedia

2010-06-26 Thread Tomasz Finc
media team! We'll be setting up his email as his start day gets closer but until then, you can reach him at awjricha...@gmail.com. -- Tomasz Finc Engineering Program Manager - Fundraising, Mobile, & Offline ___ Please note: all replies sent

[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcome Lindsey Smith - Mobile UI/UX Contractor

2012-03-01 Thread Tomasz Finc
Hi everyone, I'm pleased to welcome a new member of to the mobile engineering team. Lindsey Smith started this week as our new Mobile UI/UX contractor. She'll working with us in San Francisco helping us flush out the look, feel, and experience across all of our mobile projects. This fits a critica

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

2011-06-13 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Samuel Klein wrote: > James - Wiki Edit is pretty nice.  Is this a one-man project by Don Kosak? > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 7:14 PM,   wrote: >> Yes I eventually found that app.  And it is much superior to editing from >> the browser. But it doesn't support Proof

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

2011-06-20 Thread Tomasz Finc
32 AM, Strainu wrote: > 2011/6/14 Tomasz Finc : >> As always .. come by to our mobile project pages on meta at >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects and let us know how we >> can best iterate and improve. > > I see no mention there of a roadmap for mobile editi

Re: [Foundation-l] Error message

2011-11-28 Thread Tomasz Finc
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > 2011/11/28 Dirk Franke : > > Seriously: Could we please create something like the Twitter Fail Whale? > > Maybe a Sad Jimbo? Could help fundraising as well.. > > Scattered pieces of the puzzle globe. We've

Re: [Foundation-l] Congratulations to Gdansk!

2009-05-07 Thread Tomasz Finc
Tomasz Ganicz wrote: > 2009/5/7 Dedalus : >> Congratulations to the Poland team for winning the Wikimania 2010 bid! >> > > Thank you :-) Actually we are all very happy but also shocked in > Poland. Now, we feel great responsibility to organize Wikimania as > well as we are able or even better :-)

Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Community vs. centralized development

2010-09-13 Thread Tomasz Finc
> Also, I think that we need to start mirroring Wiki[mp]edia dumps to other > servers around the globe, as the common GNU/Linux ISOs mirrors do. Also, > Library of Congress said some time ago that they are going to save a copy of > all the tweets sent to Twitter.[6] When are they going to save a c

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

2010-11-13 Thread Tomasz Finc
Let me jump in since I was the one who moved it. At the end of the 2009 Fundraiser we were getting hit by a significant amount of fraudulent transactions. It got so bad that the WMF had to dedicate full time staff members to respond to the massive amount of email and phone calls we were gettin