Re: [Foundation-l] Board elections email adding insult to injury
Maybe this is related? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Unable_to_vote_in_trustees_election I don't want to seem rude, as I'm sure it's difficult and I understand the election committee are volunteers, but why is it that things seem to be going wrong this year? -- Alex (User:Majorly) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Upcoming tech hiring: CTO position split
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Domas Mituzas midom.li...@gmail.comwrote: Hi! I have a question on this for the tech team: as a rule, do you have a high turnover of volunteers on the sysadmin ... turn-what? Jens is building a house or something, if that was your question. Domas A high turnover rate would indicate a lot of people joining and leaving, instead of long-term volunteers. -- Alex (User:Majorly) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Ombudsman commission
This is strange - in times past, we have had only 3 ombudsmen at a time, and now we have five. Are they all fairly active? Do they want to continue this role? Have they all been contacted? I notice, for example, that the enwiki based ombudsman, Sam Korn, has made just one edit this month. I think for a role like this, it is necessary to be more active than that. -- Alex (User:Majorly) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Ombudsman commission
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Al Tallymajorly.w...@googlemail.com wrote: I notice, for example, that the enwiki based ombudsman, Sam Korn, has made just one edit this month. I think for a role like this, it is necessary to be more active than that. I wouldn't necessarily define active by edits in this role, but I definitely agree with you that I haven't seen much activity anywhere from the members... -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 Depends. Lack of activity could easily indicate business in real life. -- Alex (User:Majorly) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Information about 2009 Board of Trustees election
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia) newyorkb...@gmail.com wrote: Is an Elections Committee being appointed, or has one been? Newyorkbrad Yes, see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2009/Committee/en#Membership Regards, -- Alex (User:Majorly) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Take a look at the latest rep watches
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Chad innocentkil...@gmail.com wrote: Why would you let this spam through? Someone let it through? -- Alex (User:Majorly) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Non-free content on Commons
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, and it has become policy, going against Wikimedia's free content philosophy. Can people please input on the talk page as soon as possible please, so we can get this reversed. Thanks, -- Alex (User:Majorly) [1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Non-free_content ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Non-free content on Commons
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:59 AM, David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com 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 from Al Tally (with whom my interactions have been uniformly negative). Hey, some people just lack a sense of humour. David Levy is one of them. Happy April 1 everyone else :) -- Alex (User:Majorly) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Brian Salter-Duke b_d...@bigpond.com.auwrote: They know about it because of [[Template:Bulletin/News]] on Simple. As far as I can see the place(s) that this is transcuded are the only places. The question however is how does a Simple WP editor who never normally goes to meta know that s/he has to credential themselves before they can !vote on this proposal? I fail to see how they can easily. Yes, it is on meta somewhere but how would they get to read that? The whole process is not really open to them. It was also announced on Simple talk, the Wikipedia's community page; if an editor does not know that it is usually required to provide a link to a home wiki, they can be asked to provide a link. It's not a problem. I don't know where you get the idea that the process isn't open. -- Alex (User:Majorly) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia
Proposals to close Simple English projects are like the perennial proposals of Wikipedia: not going to happen. As long as a project has an active community, there really is no good reason to close a project. OK, Simple English might not meet current standards for language, but it has an active community, and uprooting that for the sake of some policy seems unproductive. -- Alex (User:Majorly) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Mark Williamson node...@gmail.com wrote: This is wrong; the Siberian Wikipedia had an active userbase but was closed because it was deemed to be in a fake language. As long as a project has an active community, there really is no good reason to close a project. -- Alex (User:Majorly) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Ray Saintonge sainto...@telus.net wrote: A further argument against having this principally discussed on Meta is that those who are best served by Simple do not have the language skills to participate fully in a discussion where there is unlimited use of language. Ec Meta is a multilingual wiki - though English tends to be used as the lingua franca. -- Alex (User:Majorly) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: The question of how such a discussion would be closed is what concerns me the most - I can't see allowing a meta bureaucrat to close such a poll (which is what we would do in en.wp), and since the Foundation would have to make the changes anyway... Would it be interpreted, then, by a developer? Nathan Normally they are closed by Meta-wiki regulars, who all happen to be trusted to some extent on Meta and elsewhere. I'd probably give a discussion like this to a steward to close. Really though, any trusted person who hasn't voted can close it. -- Alex (User:Majorly) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Steward elections: summary, week one
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Ting Chen wing.phil...@gmx.de wrote: I dislike this argument very much... You were expecting good arguments? :) -- Alex (User:Majorly) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Call for participation in Epistemia, a new wiki encyclopedia
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: Your initial announcement was fine. Continuing to spam is not. Fred Agreed, please don't spam here further. -- Alex (User:Majorly) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Call for participation in Epistemia, a new wiki encyclopedia
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Patton 123 patton...@gmail.com wrote: Basically you've just said we're going to be just like wikipdia except we won't let incivlity, personal attacks and other bad stuff like that happen. How will you stop it? Blocking? Then you're just like wikipedia. No, removing uncivil editors will stop incivility. -- Alex (User:Majorly) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Checkuser ombudsmen
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In accordance with the recent board decision to increase the number of ombudsmen from 3 to 5, we have appointed the following users as successor ombudsmen. [[User:Schiste]] from frwiki [[User:PatríciaR]] from commonswiki [[User:Tinz]] from dewiki [[User:Sam Korn]] from enwiki [[User:Shizhao]] from zhwiki Please join me in thanking Rebecca, Mackensen, and Hei ber for their willingness to take on this commitment over the course of the last year. Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation Thanks to the three former ombudsmen, and congratulations of the appointments of these five people. Excellent choices, and I'm pleased to see more of a variety of projects involved, instead of mostly from enwiki. -- Alex (User:Majorly) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
