Re: [Foundation-l] Introducing the Grant Advisory Committee

2011-06-03 Thread phoebe ayers
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > To those of you not (yet) following the Wikimedia Blog, let me point your > attention to my (first) blog post, introducing the Grant Advisory Committee: > > http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/06/03/gac-it-up-introducing-the-gran

[Foundation-l] Reminder: IRC general meeting today

2011-06-04 Thread phoebe ayers
Reminder: general meeting today in a couple hours (1800 UTC). Bring your agenda items and topics for discussion with others, etc. (see below for the original idea). Casual, moderated by Mono and myself. freenode#wikimedia best, Phoebe On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:40 PM, phoebe ayers wrote: >

Re: [Foundation-l] Global ban - poetlister?

2011-06-04 Thread phoebe ayers
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 8:30 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 4 June 2011 15:42, MZMcBride wrote: > >> I think it's a fairly dangerous precedent to have the Wikimedia Foundation >> involved in making individual decisions about who can and can't edit. > > > They certainly can determine who can and can'

Re: [Foundation-l] Global ban - poetlister?

2011-06-05 Thread phoebe ayers
Hi Andrew! Can you put the proposal on meta without including the details about the case? cheers, Phoebe On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Billinghurst wrote: > I also believe that there are special cases where there should be a policy > decision made > by the body that has the responsibility for

[Foundation-l] List Syndication Service reboot

2008-11-16 Thread phoebe ayers
Hi ya'll, You may remember way that back in mid-2006 user:Improv started up the List Syndication Service: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS This was an ongoing weekly summary of the mailing lists, particularly Foundation-L. It was carried on for a good while by Improv and was then taken on by Bi

Re: [Foundation-l] List Syndication Service reboot

2008-11-16 Thread phoebe ayers
kimedia.org/wiki/LSS/wikiEN-l-archives/2008_11_01-15 This is probably as far back in the archives as I'll go, but I'll try to keep up with it in future. -- Phoebe On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:14 AM, phoebe ayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi ya'll, > > You may remember wa

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: One Laptop per Child (OLPC) and wiki

2008-11-18 Thread phoebe ayers
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Michael Bimmler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > forwarded message. As always, I'm grateful if this is *not* quoted as > "Michael Bimmler wrote", irrespective of whether I agree with the > email. > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: RJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: One Laptop per Child (OLPC) and wiki

2008-11-18 Thread phoebe ayers
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:16 AM, phoebe ayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Michael Bimmler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> forwarded message. As always, I'm grateful if this is *not* quoted as >> "Michael Bimmler wrote"

Re: [Foundation-l] mo.wikipedia.org

2008-11-19 Thread phoebe ayers
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Gerard Meijssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hoi, > All projects are started with consent of the board. I take it that the board > has the final say on blocking / removing projects. I can imagine that the > WMF office / organisation takes this decision on there own

[Foundation-l] List summaries

2008-11-30 Thread phoebe ayers
New mailing list summaries: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/foundation-l-archives/2008_November_16-30 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/wikiEN-l-archives/2008_11_16-30 (I won't do this every time one is posted, but just in case people missed the last note about the list summary service reboot.

Re: [Foundation-l] Moving towards a more usable MediaWiki

2008-12-02 Thread phoebe ayers
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Brion Vibber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [snip] > > We're already aware of the UNICEF study & extensions and will be > reviewing them alongside other ongoing usability testing and development > projects throughout

Re: [Foundation-l] What is a page in wikipedia?

2008-12-04 Thread phoebe ayers
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:01 AM, K.Siva Senthil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I was trying to find out what is the difference between an article and page > in wiki's terminology? > > I found this article which talks about article - > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ARTICLE > > Howev

Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [Commons-l] Making Wikimedia Commons less frightening

2008-12-08 Thread phoebe ayers
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 1:00 PM, David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I speak as a big fan of and participant in Wikimedia Commons. > > But: Is it time to deprecate Commons as a WMF service project? It's > clearly failing and the local "community" is actively hostile to > contributors from othe

[Foundation-l] new list summaries

2008-12-14 Thread phoebe ayers
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://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LSS/wikiEN-l-archives/2008_12_1-15 * and sp

[Foundation-l] Fwd: WikiSym 2009 Call for Papers (Submissions)

2009-01-02 Thread phoebe ayers
, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA, Doctoral Symposium Chair * Claus Atzenbeck, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark, Posters Chair * Phoebe Ayers, University of California at Davis, Wikimedia Liason * Robert Biddle, Carleton University, Experience Reports Chair * Martin Cleaver, Blended Pe

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